Who is this man? 9-11 official story started minutes after.

I have wanted to know who this man was since the beginning. Perhaps some journalist is out there who knows? Maybe someone with facial recognition links to our databases?

This "Harley Davidson" guy as I call him has been a mystery for quite a while.

It is quite obvious this guy is some kind of plant, but by who? FBI, CIA, CFR, or news media trying to make hype?

Perhaps he is employed by Silverstein. Can the We Are Change team help out?

"...come out of nowhere and just ream right into the side of the twin tower, exploding through the other side...and then I witnessed both towers collapse, one first then the second, mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just too intense".

http://www.911blogger.com/node/9045

http://www.911blogger.com/node/6467

http://www.slate.com/?id=2074678

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/conspiracythe...

A & E IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES

How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center.

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"In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a short period of time, the material must have been artificially, exploded outwards," says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and founder of the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

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Mr. Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects, managed to persuade more than 1,000 of his peers to sign a new petition requesting a formal inquiry.

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e is particularly disturbed by Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper, which was not hit by an aircraft, yet came down in "pure free-fall acceleration." He also says that more than 100 first-responders reported explosions and flashes as the towers were falling and cited evidence of "multi-ton steel sections ejected

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FROM INFORMED CONSENT

Europe is the world's largest economy and got there without any recent substantial wars

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the fastest-growing economy for the past nearly 30 years has been China, which spends a fraction on their military of what the US spends on its

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the US has been at war for 19 of the last 47 years (not counting US-backed insurgencies such as 1980s Afghanistan, on which we spent billions) but has not grown faster than the other two economically

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US overspent on its military because Washington mistakenly thought the Soviet economy was twice as big as it actually was, and vastly over-estimated Soviet military capabilities. The bloated military budgets continue now, apparently because of a couple thousand al-Qaeda operatives hiding out in caves in the Hadhramawt and Waziristan.

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US Military Budget 2009: $711 billion
European Union Military Budget 2009: $289 billion

China Military Budget 2009: $122 billion.

US GDP 2009: $14.4 trillion
European Union GDP 2009: $16.5 trillion (PPP)

China GDP 2009: $8.8 trillion (PPP)

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US economic growth 2009: 0.2%
European Union economic growth 2009: -4%

China economic growth 2009: 8.7 %

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The real military-related expenditures of the US are closer to $1 trillion. If the US cut those back to the level of the European Union and spent the money on promoting solar energy and making it inexpensive, America would have a chance of remaining a great power in the 21st century. If it goes on rampaging around the world bankrupting itself by invading and occupying other countries, the Chinese will laugh at us all the way to world dominance.

Ron Paul, Bernanke Testimony

ALL IN A DAYS WORK

I know there are things of which we must not speak and I don't want to be a buzz kill, but it is getting where I cannot read the nets a single day without seeing things appearing more crazed. It reminds me of two movies. Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in Network (1976) and Michael Douglas (Bill Foster) and Robert Duvall (Sergeant Prendergast) Falling Down (1993)

First there is this article, a well known investment website with a lot of its content coming from it's readers. It shows the Share of Nation's Income Gains Going to To 1 Percent at Highest Level Since 1920's.

I know, historically speaking, that when graphs look like this, governments either turn to drastic socialism or to various kinds of totalitarianism

Then there is this madness. In order to explain our predicament, Shawn Hannity is reaching back fifty years to build an absurd narrative which completely overlooks the replacement of a Rooseveltian (Keynesianism) economic system with neoliberalism (laissez-faire Adam Smithism, RICO capitalism) that started with the administration of Jimmy Carter with deregulation and the enshrinement of Milton Friedman monetarists economics via Paul Volcker at the Federal Reserve and continued apace, alarmingly so during the Clinton and the last Bush administration, and arrived where it always arrives - crises of capital accumulation, the falling rate of profit, and the inter-imperial competition.

This narrative is produced by Citizens United, the winner of the latest Supreme Court sweepstakes. The Supreme Court obviously wanted us to hear what Citizens United had to say. They wont have to plot a military coup on a Roosevelt this time, because this time they will make sure he never get in office.

It is not for nothing that Hannity is promoting this narrative. It is a perfect narrative for a population who now builds reality out of their own set of facts and for a rapacious globalized capitalism that gives that population its "facts". It doesn't help that I just completed reading a history of the Spanish Civil War.

And then there is this guy. Even though Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration and is a Friedrich von Hayek disciple he is a darling of the left simply because there is no "organized left" left in this country and right wing libertarianism is all we have. The left doesn't agree with where Paul Craig Roberts ultimately wants to go, but they agree completely with him about where we are.

Roberts recognized Joe Stack as a suicide bomber with legitimate complaints. Roberts says in part

The latest Rasmussen Poll indicates that 79% of Americans are convinced that “their” government is totally unresponsive to them, their concerns, and their needs

Joseph Stack was sane. Like Palestinians. A suicide attack was the only weapon left to him. “Terrorist” is a term the government reserves for Muslims who do not like what Israel does to Palestinians and the U.S. government does to Muslim countries. But Stack experienced the same frustrations and emotions as Muslims who can’t take it any longer and strap on a suicide vest.

Now a former head of the most culpable bank is campaigning to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits in order to pay for the bailout. President Obama has obliged him by creating a “deficit commission.” The “deficit commission” will be used to gut Social Security

Joe Stack has become a hero and a martyr to a very high percentage of that number in the Rasmussen poll. Since there is no "organized left" in the country it is going to shape out to be a battle between the neoconservatives and the right wing libertarians.

JOE STACK, SUICIDE BOMBER

The Joe Stacks are rising up against unresponsive government
By Paul Craig Roberts
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Feb 24, 2010, 00:34

The latest Rasmussen Poll indicates that 79% of Americans are convinced that “their” government is totally unresponsive to them, their concerns, and their needs

the gap “may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century.”

Joseph Stack was sane. Like Palestinians. A suicide attack was the only weapon left to him

“Terrorist” is a term the government reserves for Muslims Israel does to Palestinians and the U.S. government does to Muslim countries

But Stack experienced the same frustrations and emotions as Muslims who can’t take it any longer and strap on a suicide vest.

Terry Hoskins bulldozed his house rather than allow a bank to foreclose on it. online survey, 79 percent of respondents agreed with Hoskins’ action
turning point



The cause of poll, federal government’s bailout of the investment banks. Now a former head of the most culpable bank is campaigning to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits in order to pay for the bailout

President Obama has obliged him by creating a “deficit commission.”

The “deficit commission” will be used to gut Social Security, just as the private insurance health plan is paid for by cutting $500 billion out of Medicare.

It could not be more clear that government represents the interest groups that finance the election campaigns.

WT7 BY DAN RATHER

Major General Albert "Bert" N. Stubblebine: Pentagon NOT hit by a plane

and here

911 JUSTICE

911

Senator Max Cleland - Former member of the 9/11 Commission, resigned in December 2003:
"I, as a member of the [9/11] Commission, cannot look any American in the eye... It is a national scandal... this White House wants to cover [9/11] up."

Senator Mark Dayton - Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services and Homeland Security:
"[NORAD] lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission.. .the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence"

Congressman Ron Paul - Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee:
“The [9/11] investigations that have been done so far are more or less cover-up and no real explanation"

Congressman Curt Weldon:
"[9/11 Commission] there's something very sinister going on here... something desperately wrong... This involved what is right now the covering up of information that led to the deaths of 3,000 people"

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney - Member of the House Armed Services Committee:
“The [9/11] Commission ran up against obstruction by the administration and non-cooperation from government agencies... the errors and omissions immediately jumped out at us"

Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh:
"[9/11 Commission findings] raise serious challenges to the commission's credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the commission historically insignificant itself"

Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, PhD:
"Distinguished national and international scientists and scholars present massive evidence that the 9/11 Commission Report is a hoax and that the 9/11 "terrorist attack" has been manipulated to serve a hegemonic agenda in the Middle East... We know that it is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel columned buildings, to "pancake" at free fall speed. Therefore, it is a non-controversial fact that the official explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false"

Why Propaganda Trumps Truth

I have asked on several occasions and have never had an answer, which does not mean that there isn't one, how millions of pieces of unburnt, uncharred paper can be floating over lower Manhatten from the destruction of the WTC towers when the official explanation of the destruction is fires so hot and evenly distributed that they caused the massive steel structures to weaken and fail simultaneously so that the buildings fell in free fall time just as they would if they had been brought down by controlled demolition.
What is the explanation of fires so hot that steel fails but paper does not combust?
Recently, an international team of scientists, who studied for 18 months dust samples produced by the twin towers' destruction collected from three separate sources, reported their finding of nano-thermite in the dust.

Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire

Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire provides a sharp analysis of historic and current events in the struggle for Palestine—from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its regional role as a watchdog for U.S. interests, to present-day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution.

The book’s narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a necessary introduction to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

JOEL KOVEL: OVERCOMING ZIONISM

Born in 1936 in Brooklyn of Ukrainian Jewish parents, Joel Kovel is the author of 10 books and over 100 articles

Describing himself as an "eco-socialist," in 1998 he was the Green party candidate for Senator from New York

Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism

Overcoming Zionism, advocating "a single democratic state in Israel/Palestine, he demolishes Zionism from historical, political, cultural, environmental, ethical, and psychological perspectives. Zionism seeks "the restoration of tribalism in the guise of a modern, highly militarized and aggressive state. It "fell into the ways of imperialist expansion and militarism, and showed signs of the fascist malignancy
"if you sign on to the idea of a Jewish state, you are taking the particularism that is the potential bane of any state, mixing it with the exceptionalism that is the actual bane of Judaism, and giving racism an objective, enduring, institutionalized and obdurate character

Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite

SPAIN

General Franco imposed by Hitler and Mussolini, Spanish Republic during the years 1936–1939.

possibility, land reform, educational reform, public pension refor, trade unionism

groups opposed to these reforms carried out a military coup. Spain’s popular classes defend the Republic but lack of arms

The West did not lift a finger, afraid reform would “contaminate” their own popular classes

More than 200,000 executed, another 200,000 died in concentration camps 114,266 people, disappeared

until 1978, repression was a constant, apologists such as Juan Linz denied
fascist totalitarian, defined it as authoritarian. It was a nationalism based
on a special race

transition in 1978 carried out on terms favorable to the right-wing led by the king

Amnesty Law, immunity for all. Pact of Silence from all political parties, 114,266 disappeared remained disappeared.

three years ago, the grandchildren started looking. There were people who knew where. in this “model” transition, the right-wing forces still held enormous power

new law, The Law of Historical Memory. socialists have done little, afraid
the monarchy, the Army, and the Church) that insists on Pact of Silence and the Amnesty Law.

Enter Judge Garzon who tried to take General Pinochet to court. Under pressure recovery of historical memory. Pinochet was a boy scout compared with Franco. Judge Garzon called for inquiry. hold tribunals, the repression was even broader and deeper than previously known

reactionary forces mobilized, took Judge Garzon to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court, Judge Varela saw merit in their request. Amnesty Law
gave permanent immunity. Judge Varela’s indictment exposing all the political and judicial systems to the criticism

Judge Varela wants to prevent Judge Garzon, will reveal a pact of silence

The initial work done by Judge Garzon has already proved. United Nations Human Rights Law, Article 15.2 “crimes against humanity” cannot be silenced by
Amnesty Law

And the “official” international media remain silent.

JOE STACK AND PAUL GOODMAN

“When the wealthy fuck up,” writes Stack, “the poor get to die for the mistakes.”

“two interpretations for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us.”

corporate socialism,

Corporations marred by their own stupidity and greed get bail-outs, writes Stack, while healthcare companies plunder the ranks of the sick and the dying for profit

the “vulgar and corrupt” Catholic Church as a “monster of organized religion” that grows inordinately wealthy exploiting religious tax exemptions.

IRS, a gigantic system of wealth transfer that keeps alive a government which ably represents its corporate handlers but coldly calculates the length and breadth of the shaft for its citizens

a government that has allowed bigness oligopolies to take the dominant position in just about every major sector of the economy (in banking, finance, food production, energy, defense, steel, pharmaceuticals, airlines, and media), while institutionalizing unfairness for the small man

echoes of Paul Goodman, the author and anarchist and one of the great unsung thinkers of our time

“one interlocked system of big government, big corporations, big municipalities, big labor, big education, and big communication, in which all of us are pretty regimented and brainwashed, and in which direct initiative and deciding have become difficult or impossible.”

[that] politics is essentially a matter of ‘getting into power,’ and then ‘deciding,’ directing, controlling, coercing, the activities of society”
centralization and bigness remain the norm

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Dwight Eisenhower, "military-industrial complex."

he was telling us that U.S. decisions to fight wars may not be motivated just by defense of the United States

Why does the United States have over 700 military installations around the world (and growing)? Does it have THAT many enemies?

Why are U.S. military expenditures year after year equal to ALL other military expenditures of ALL other nations in the world?

Why has the United States been the number-one arms dealer in the world for the past decades?

military-industrial complex

CPAC AND JUSTIN RAIMUNDO

Wait for it...

...And here it is. Greenwald was first, but he must write on the weekend. Here is the voice of right wing libertarianism in the flesh.

I used to hate these guys. While I don't disagree with their historical analysis, their praxis is only a few steps up the evolutionary ladder from the John Birchers. Now, I root for them.

The first step is rounding up all the neocons war criminals and putting them in a "Nuremberg docket". Hang 12 of them in one night, Limbaugh first.

Then we can fight income distribution with these guys.

• anti-interventionist foreign policy as the key to reining in big government

• Invoking the shade of Robert A. Taft, and wondering aloud how we’re going to pay for our empire

• traced the roots of our dilemma back to Woodrow Wilson

• Paul realizes that the whole kit-n-kaboodle of progressivism culminated in US involvement in the Great War

We didn’t hear Beck own up to the essentially Wilsonian foreign policy of the Bush administration.

It warmed the cockles of my libertarian heart to hear Ron Paul mentioned Eugene Victor Debs raised as a martyr to the cause of individual rights. It was a Republican, Warren G. Harding – who finally freed Debs. Ron truly is the anti-Cheney

Paul’s CPAC victory is a stunning repudiation of the War Party’s (read Neocon) long-standing dominance of the GOP

Let it be so.

ARGHANISTAN'S OUTSOURCED WAR

Here is a great article from Le Monde diplomatique but found at Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Afghanistan’s outsourced war by Marie-Dominique Charlier

A British contractor said recently that the Americans, the British and other armed forces were in Afghanistan to win the war, but for his firm, the more the security situation deteriorated the better


A worrying two-thirds of the Pentagon’s personnel in Afghanistan are private military contractors, unaccountable to military law or ethics, swaggeringly overbearing, and not in any hurry to help improve the poor security situation that assures their firms’ current and future profits

There is a convergence of financial interests between the PMCs and big US industrial conglomerates: most PMCs have been bought up by conglomerates through mergers and acquisitions, many since 2001.

Xe (Blackwater), DynCorp, MPRI (Military Professional Resources Inc) and Kellog Brown and Root (4), are all part of a grouping known as Private Security Companies of Afghanistan. interrogators and interpreters in the Abu Ghraib were recruited CACI International or Titan

This reality is so totally fubar'd, its hard to know where to start.

Mass Casualties:

Thursday 18 February 2010

by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Review
"Mass Casualties": The Dark Underbelly of Occupation, an Army Medic's Account

Thursday 18 February 2010
an insider's scathing testimony of an ongoing illegal and unethical military action in a distant, once-sovereign state, by the US

The late historian and Author Howard Zinn held the book in high regard. "Michael Anthony's memoir is not about the politics of Iraq. Instead it takes us deep inside the war, inside and outside the operation room, the barracks, the talk of the soldiers, the feeling of the situation ... unique and powerful," Zinn wrote.
If for nothing else, "Mass Casualties" gains immense importance in its honest portrayal of a young soldier's vulnerability as he struggles hard to cope with his shattered illusion about the Army

GOLDWATER HAD ONE THING RIGHT

I believe what Barry Goldwater believed in 1994:

When you say "radical right" today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

I stand with Goldwater when he declared:

"Every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."

NOAM CHOMSKY

IT LOOKS LIKE CONTROLLED DEMOLITION

WEALTH DISTRIBUTION - 20's LEVELS

What a time to be an oligarch! All I wanted to do was vomit when I saw this.

Folks, there is no way we can have economic prosperity in this country when the top 1% has all of the money. The middle class is basically being destroyed right in front of our very eyes. Consumption economies die when the consumers have no money to consume!

I see growing signs of desperation and anger as the wealth of this nation continues to get transferred to the elite of this nation.

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

Will announce a decisive milestone today, more than 1,000 worldwide architects and engineers now support the call for a new investigation

The press conference will be held concurrently in 38 cities in 6 countries

We are therefore calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST official

Other disturbing facts
# Complete destruction of both Twin Towers in just 10 to 14 seconds at near free-fall acceleration
# Over 100 first-responder reports of explosions and flashes at onset of destruction
# Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600 ft at 60 mph
# Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking
# 1200-foot-dia. debris field: no "pancaked" floors seen in the debris pile
# Several tons of molten metal found in debris.
# Evidence of advanced explosive nano-thermitic composite material found in the WTC dust by an international team of scientists

The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial

GOVERNMENTS ADMIT THEY CARRY OUT FALSE FLAG ATTACKS

The German people were whipped up into a state of hysteria and fear, because they thought they were under attack by Poles and other "bad guys". The Germans were in shock, and rallied around their "strong" leader (it wasn't just the bad economy). Without first exposing the truth that the attacks were false flag attacks - which were largely the source and root cause of the German people's fears, and which allowed the German parliament and other institutions to hand Hitler total power - the sweeping away of good political causes by the wave of fear could not be stopped.



Moreover, the Nazis might have been derailed and perhaps brought to justice well before the Nuremberg trials if the false flag hoaxes had been exposed at the time. The German people could have been spared from the horrors inflicted on their nation and the world by the Nazis. And sanity and positive political changes might have prevailed in 1940's-era Germany.

ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEER FOR 911 TRUTH

1044 architectural and engineering professionals
and 6673 other supporters including A&E students
have signed the petition demanding of Congress
a truly independent investigation.

GO ASK ALICE, I THINK SHE'LL KNOW

What do all these people have in common?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17688

1. Jason Chafetz, Utah Congressman
2. Bob Graham, Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
3. Patrick Leahy, Democratic U.S. Senator
4. Ron Paul, Republican Congressman
5. Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Congressman
6. Mike Gravel, Former Democratic Senator
7. Lincoln Chaffee, Former Republican Senator
8. Dan Hamburg, Former U.S. Democratic Congressman
9. Curt Weldon, Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee
10. Lee Hamilton, Co-chair 911 Commission
11. Timothy Roemerm 9/11 Commissioner
12. Max Cleland, 9/11 Commissioner
13. Bob Kerrey, 9/11 Commissioner
14. John Farmer, Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission
15. Lynne Larkin, CIA Operations Officer who co-chaired a CIA multi-agency task force coordinating intelligence efforts among many intelligence and law enforcement agencies
16. Daniel Ellsberg, Former military analyst and famed whistleblower
17. Raymond McGovern, 27-year CIA veteran, chaired National Intelligence Estimates, delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush,
18. William Bill Christison, 29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence Officer, former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis
19. David Steele, 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer
20. Robert Baer, decorated 20-year CIA veteran
21. Melvin Goodman, Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs, who served as Senior Analyst from 1966 - 1990. He also served as Professor of International Security at the National War College from 1986 - 2004,
22. Major John M. Newman, PhD, U.S. Army, Professor of History and International Relations, University of Maryland. Former Executive Assistant to the Director of the National Security Agency, former military attaché in China, with a 21-year career in U.S. Army Intelligence
23. General Wesley Clark, U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe
24. Morton Goulder, Former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter,
25. Edward L. Peck, former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism
26. J. Michael Springmann, former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer
27. Lt. Col. Jeff Latas, President of the U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Board, who also served as Pentagon Weapons Requirement Officer and as a member of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review
28. Col. Ronald D. Ray, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan
29. Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI

THE TIPPING POINT

Canada's Permafrost Has Moved North 80 Miles in Past 50 Years
by Matthew McDermott, New York, NY on 02.18.10
Science & Technology (science)

Writing in the journal Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, the scientists also say that permafrost is in an advanced state of deterioration as far north as the 55th parallel.

Stored Methane Emissions Increasing

methane is a more potent greenhouse gas. The fear is that a tipping point will be reached and vast stores of methane will be released in a relatively short time period as the permafrost melting trend continues.

FROM INFORMED CONSENT

Meanwhile, the main strategy of the Israeli and Jewish-American Right to preserve Israeli capacity to continue the colonization and to act belligerently in the region had been the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. That strategem has failed, as I argued in Salon. The Shiite fundamentalists who have taken over Baghdad are pro-Hizbullah and pro-Palestinian. (Hizbullah was in part set up by the Islamic Mission Party, Da'wa, of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and Da'wa supported Hamas in the recent Gaza War). Moreover, Baghdad has ceased helping contain Iran for the Sunni Arab world and the West, and is now a close ally of Tehran. The prospect of a well-armed, 250,000-man Iraqi army now being reconstituted, and riddled with agents of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, must be a matter of consternation for Israelis. Only Jordan separates them from Iraq, now an outpost of the Shiite religious parties allied with Khamenei. The Neoconservatives, such as Richard Perle, David Frum, Paul Wolfowitz, Irv Lewis Libby, Michael Rubin, Douglas Feith, John Bolton, Larry Franklin and others thus not only shot themselves in the foot, but they shot Israel in the chest.

This Iraq strategy, which intended to stop the Rabin peace process and prevent the return of Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians for their state, was laid out by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and other Neoconservatives in a white paper for Bibi Netanyahu in 1996. Many of the authors were subsequently put in high office by Bush-Cheney and pushed for an American war on Iraq with dirty tricks and false propaganda in 2002-2003. They included Canadian gadfly journalist David Frum, who authored Bush's 2002 'Axis of Evil' speech in consultation with Perle. The mostly Jewish Neoconservatives were only one faction in the Bush-Cheney coalition that wanted regime change in Baghdad, which included the Christian Right, Big Oil, and the military-industrial complex. However influential, they were not 'in control' and most Jewish Americans opposed their ideas and policies.

OFFICE OF NET ASSESSMENT

Office of Net Assessment
by TPMmuckraker through the Freedom of Information Act

Pentagon's internal think tank, "20 to 30 years in the future," according to Jan van Tol

15 staffers, work is done by outside contractors, influence vast

Creation in 1973 by Andrew Marshall. Fred Kaplan profiles Marshall, the so-called "Yoda" of the Pentagon

"its informal channels are probably more important
says Paul Bracken

best known for its Cold War work evaluating

More recently Marshall was intimately involved in Donald Rumsfeld's project of "military transformation."

American dominance, earlier this decade ordered, that examined ancient empires to glean lessons

ONA has turned its sights to Asia, focusing obsessively on China as the next
rival power, studies' authors

outside contractors, Hudson Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, or lesser-known firms like Scitor Corporation and IHS International

The Pentagon Office of Net Assessment from the Hudson Institute called "The Great Siberian War of 2025. The US has succeded in cutting of chinese access to oil in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf and china, in desperation, turns toward Siberia, Russia east of the Urals and you get a World War.

The Marshall Plan
For 40 years, the man Pentagon insiders call Yoda has foreseen the future of war - from battlefield bots rolling off radar-proof ships to GIs popping performance pills. And that was before the war on terror.

By Douglas McGray

Today, Marshall - along with his star prot�g�s Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz - is drafting President Bush's plan

We've got to transform the force, next radical change

what drugs the other guys are on.", precision weapons with sensors, ability to coordinate separate elements, robotic devices-UAVs, undersea, smaller device able to crawl through buildings

psychologically influencing, visually impressing the person

The Swedes, three new naval vessels, submarine [running on fuel cells, Visby
no metal other than the engine

neural pharmacology, like natural chemicals inside people, behavior-modifying
performance-enhancing

THE NEW MARSHALL PLAN
The Pentagon's oldest cold warrior has a dubious vision for the future of national defense
By Jason Vest

Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy, adore Marshall for his dire prognostications about an inevitably bellicose and hegemonic China and his advocacy of "Revolution in Military Affairs," a doctrine critics charge is an intellectual cover for spending largess on "precision," Buck Rogers-type weaponry.

"Putting Andy Marshall in charge of this is a ploy to make sure National Missile Defense gets funded,"

Says wars will not be fought up close but from a distance, critical of the Air Force's F-22 fighter program

Regarding cold war, "Until the very end he was a major promoter of the line that 'The Russians are coming and they're ten feet tall.' "

He was one of the quietly forceful hands behind the infamous "Team B", far-right Committee on the Present Danger were given access to CIA data and allowed to histrionically rewrite the National Intelligence Estimate on Soviet Military Intentions.

In the early '80s, Marshall's view, imperative to arm the Afghan muhjahadeen with Stinger missiles, opposed by even the CIA

two close Marshall associates, Fred Ikle and Michael Pillsbury, pushed hard
the Stinger shipments. The missiles were not decisive. Marshall enthusiastic supporter of Star Wars schemes. we really do need someone like that," says Jonathan Pollack, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and one of the leading analysts of the Chinese military

Marshall swoons over high-technology networked sensor systems and "smart" weapons--expensive procurements that are notorious for, well, not working

As Pollack says, "This is going to be a gravy train."

RT; MONUMENTAL AFFRONT

US President Barack Obama met with the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House today, despite Chinas threats to the US if it did not cancel the meeting. Was the meeting worth it? Will China retaliate? According to Webster Tarpley, this is a monumental affront to china.

RT: DALAI LAMA

On Peter Lavelle's Crosstalk, his guests talk about what is behind the Dalai Lama's meeting with Obama. The US speaks nice words about China, but its actions say something different, and China has the means to show its displeasure.

MYTH MAKER

Most people have never heard of Philip D. Zelikow, but he is best known as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission. He basically wrote the 9/11 Commission Report.

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On September 11, 2001, the immediate reports on the ground told the truth. I think most people can see that it was later that the myth-makers retold the myth the way Zelikow scripted it to be remembered

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In 1998, Zelikow actually wrote Catastrophic Terrorism about imagining "the transformative event" three years before 9/11

RAMZY BAROUD

With the dreadful threat of yet another Israeli war in the Middle East looming, Israeli propaganda machine is likely to go into full gear.

It also perhaps represents the last chance of fulfilling the US neoconservative vision - that of "A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" the price of the Israeli-neocon folly should be well known to US media

Israel has greater mastery than the Arabs over fighting media wars? National Information Directorate, the Israeli propaganda center

Israeli spokespersons are icons of articulation and charm, Palestinian retaliations
vile and gruesome. Israeli media blackout. no Arab spokespersons to present a coherent narrative to challenge

But none of these scenarios are convincing. Ehud Barak is as faltering in English, the scope of the tragedy known to all, Palestinian and Arab academics in every major Western city

"whenever Israel is bombing, it is hard to explain our position to the world ... but at least this time everything was ready and in place."

Utter nonsense. I cannot take seriously the media's claims to "objectivity" some things are obvious

First, media's decision to protect Israel's image. Second, Israel has now largely lost the media war thanks to the efforts of independent media groups, intellectuals, citizen journalists, civil society activists, artists, poets, bloggers, ordinary people and those in the media who possess the courage to challenge Israeli hasbara and its devotees.

AND WE'VE GOT FOX NEWS

WHERE IS THE NARRATIVE

This "government" is really starting to loose control. If you are like me and think that Obama was a "put up deal" by the political elites to shut down the liberals and the left, then it has backfired - hugely.

This poor man has almost completely lost control of the US political system and the official narrative. He is starting to make Warren Harding look like a genius. The fact that he is black has backfired and has given a large segment of the population Carte Blanche to revolt. FOX news is working overtime to co opt the tea party revolt, but they have yet to get much traction.

Polls taken in 2006, when Americans generally became aware of WT7 or the third bldg, show that between 30% to 80%, depending on how the question was asked, do not believe the official 911 narrative. That was four years ago and before the proved discovery of nano-thermite in the debris.

The result has been this group. The are a legitimate, scientific group on the verge of becoming a major political movement

Then there is the fact that 80% of the American public oppose the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v The Common Man. The republicans have lost control of the Supreme Court.

Then there is this guy. The corporate news apparatus is furiously trying to write him off as an anti IRS whack, but I don't think that is going to fly. His suicide note is a manifesto. He did have a couple of great lines:

In the "great" depression, bankers jumping out of windows. Now, they just steal from the middle class

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed

Mark Potok, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, writes

“This attack comes amid the absolutely explosive growth of the right-wing militias and the larger antigovernment ‘Patriot’ movement, which includes thousands of so-called tax protesters who believe the federal income tax is illegal. There is a populist rage out there about what is seen as the coddling of rapacious elites, like the mortgage bankers who kept receiving multimillion dollar bonuses, even as working Americans seem to keep losing more and more.”

In my simple minded way, I have been watching US politics for 50 years and, as a potential draftee, Robert McNamara's reports on the evening news really concentrated my mind as I was one of his targets but I have really never seen anything like this. I hope I am wrong. I am afraid that one of my final lessons is going to be that any narrative is better than no narrative.

Maybe I am just having a bad day.

JOE STACKS MANIFESTO

Joe Stacks manifesto is full of anti-government anger, rage over bailouts, the suffering of America's poor, and the pilfering of the middle class by a corrupt economic elite and their government-servants

He says

"great" depression, bankers jumping out of windows. Now, they just steal from the middle class. Elections are a joke

It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants.




The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

From here

“We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was 'no taxation without representation.' I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a 'crackpot,' traitor and worse.”

Mark Potok, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, writes “This attack comes amid the absolutely explosive growth of the right-wing militias and the larger antigovernment ‘Patriot’ movement, which includes thousands of so-called tax protesters who believe the federal income tax is illegal. There is a populist rage out there about what is seen as the coddling of rapacious elites, like the mortgage bankers who kept receiving multimillion dollar bonuses, even as working Americans seem to keep losing more and more.”

JOE STACK AND TERRORISM

Terrorism is the single most meaningless, manipulated word in the political lexicon. Nothing to do with the act, only identity - "a Muslim who fights against or even expresses hostility towards the United States, Israel and their allies."

It is the all-justifying term for anything the U.S. Government does. Invasions, torture, due-process-free detentions, military commissions, drone attacks, warrantless surveillance, obsessive secrecy, and even assassinations of American citizens are all justified by the claim that it's only being done to "Terrorists," who, by definition, have no rights.

Even worse, one becomes a "Terrorist" not through any judicial adjudication or other formal process, but solely by virtue of the untested, unchecked say-so of the Executive Branch.

HAMID GUL

Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul was a military commander in the Pakistani Army in the 1980s, and served as the head of the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989
During
Bush
sought to put Gul on a UN list of international terrorists
blocked by the Chinese
Domestically
opponent of Asif Ali Zardari
Supreme Court to be reinstated
Americans are defeated
their own people are sick and tired
Karzai is no more
They have
end of this year
shoulder the responsibility
civilian casualties
made the Taliban a popular
80 per cent
support
fed up with corruption
sick of
warlords
drug barons
occupation
they stayed on betrays their real intentions
want to prop up and build the Afghan Army
they don't give the money to build
just $140mn
US to
one soldier
$1mn dollars
Americans can't take casualties
started employing security contractors
whoever has more money
employ
mercenaries
latest
offensive
not going to work
political purpose back home
dislodging the civilians
very harsh weather
fields abandoned
Pakistani Taliban

sponsored by the Indian intelligence and the Mossad
Mossad is very active in Pakistan
providing
guidance
to the Indian intelligence
The Americans fear the return of the Supreme Court
could rule that the US drone attacks are violations
US officials have accused you
close ties with
Taliban and al-Qaeda
wrong
al-Qaeda
come up with the evidence for 911
You haven't
charged Osama bin Laden
you don't have hard evidence
full story is yet to come out.
a gimmick, an inside job
Taliban
national spirit of resistance
Americans talk of freedom of speech
my speech hurts them
jihad is our right when a nation is oppressed
national resistance for liberation is a right. We call this a jihad.

Fear is no policy, Surrender is no option
Clash between moral and material, whenever it takes place moral always always win.

SMEAR CAMPAIGN

two-part hit piece in Tablet magazine
machinations of the “Iran lobby”
Lee Smith
former reporter for Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard and a current fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute
first piece
targets Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett
second
Trita Parsi and the National Iranian American Council
Leveretts
underestimating the Green Movement’s prospects of succes
they are
pposed to U.S. military action against Iran
Parsi
continuation
silencing any insufficiently hawkish Iranian voices
that Parsi is thin-skinned
for identifying
antagonists as neoconservatives
from Eli Lake to Michael Rubin to Reuel Marc Gerecht
bases his critique
Commentary
Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Quarterly
Iranians
Hassan Daioleslam
Daioleslam
associate of
Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK)
accuses Parsi and the Leveretts of being Iranian agents,
relyin
on Michael Rubin, a longtime shill for
Ahmed Chalabi
neocon agitprop
Tablet
new breed of Jewish cultural journals
“a new read on Jewish life”
Like its peers Jewcy and Heeb
relentlessly progressive

domestic politics
But foreign policy
conventional and
hawkish
Adam Kirsch, Seth Lipsky, and Michael Weiss

TALKING HEADS ARE LOBBYIST

Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews
"create nuclear power plants."
since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power company. As of March 2009, he also held an estimated $248,299 in Exelon stock
"NBC Military Analyst" Barry McCaffrey told viewers that the war in Afghanistan would require an additional "three- to ten-year effort" and "a lot of money."
granted DynCorp a five-year deal worth an estimated $5.9 billion to aid American forces in Afghanistan
The first year is locked
but
four options are subject
Pentagon's use of former military officers
to get their talking points on television in exchange for access
x-Newsweek writer Richard Wolffe
guest-hosted
working at a large PR firm
"strategies for managing corporate reputation."
covert corporate influence peddling
Since 2007
seventy-five registered lobbyists
have appeared
no disclosure
everyone involved
heavily invested in
current system
except
viewer

Bernard Whitman, president of Whitman Insight Strategies
worked for AIG to "develop, test, launch, and enhance their consumer brand
appeared on Fox
AIG
"Having said that, we need to move beyond anger, frustration and hysteria to really get down to the brass tacks of solving this economy,"

NO MATTER WHAT THE CORPORATE MEDIA TELLS YOU

COMMENT

this small group of mostly Jewish intellectuals had completely captured the Republican Party. In the Reagan and George H.W. Bush years, realist James Baker, Chuck Hagel, Henry Kissinger

Kristol eviscerated realist school in the Republican Party. no realist left
exception is Dick Lugar

same in the House, other than Ron Paul

The 2012 Republicans, hook, line and sinker, Mitt Romney; Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty

Steve Clemons, Rita Hauser, Susan Eisenhower and Lincoln Chafee have all been exiled from the Republican Party

Even prominent Republican realist Brent Scowcroft, James Baker Henry Kissinger
sidelined

Irving Kristol refer to Reagan, as “an appeaser

More amazing, Jewish group of neoconservative intellectuals take over without delivering votes

neoconservatives have taken over the foreign policy apparatus of the Democratic Party

Obama ramped up Afghanistan, increased covert Taliban in fghanistan and Pakistan, increased drone attacks, hasn't closed Guantanamo, sold weapons to Taiwan. Dalai Lama, moratorium on domestic spending, growth in military spending

path on Iran imposing sanctions which is a precursor to attack on Iran, abandoned rhetorical pressure on Israel, condemning the Goldstone Report

neoconservatives own the Democratic Party

Howard Berman and Illeana Ros-Lehtinen in the House on March 4th pass a resolution condemning Turkey for the Armenian Genocide

John Kerry was powerless to stop sanctions bill on Iran’s importation of gasoline

THERAPY

FRUM

I have always been intrigued by the neoconservative network and how it so successfully commandeered the helm of America's national security establishment after having been for many decades mostly a small boutique shop of high octane intellectuals hanging out in Irving Kristol & Gertrude Himmelfarb's apartment.

Frum is pretty far from the current imperial line of original
neoconservatism -- Irving Kristol, Albert Wohlstetter, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Seymour Martin Lipset, and a few others

more heir apparent, Bill Kristol, John Podhoretz, a few of the Kagans
Robert Kagan, who is a genuine intellectual rather than an apparatchik
flame out

surf Tea Party populism and to stay powerful by associating with a growing pugnacious, anti-intellectual movement

Frum may have an opportunity to replace the know-nothing brain of a Republican Party whose blustery, intolerant celebration of an anachronistic "whites dominate" nativism
disaffected neoconservatives

Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Kenneth Adelman. Frum is building, Fukuyama could play. Robert Kagan a writing intellectual

AND THEN TOM FRIEDMAN LAUGHED

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

AUTHENTIC JOURNALISM; NARCO NEWS FLASH

“Repeating things is a good way to make a point.”

1) Tell the truth without resorting to monologues, giving space to other voices which may or may not agree with you. 2) Don’t bore people; only the enemy should suffer, not you.

When a reality is narrated, we are involved in the story we are narrating.
start pointing the cameras and microphones below

corporate media has not been honest with its readers

Authentic Journalism, a journalism that behaves as a community organization
In contrast to activism, which most of the time speaks to whomever wants to listen, Authentic Journalism has to speak to ordinary people
to construct a path towards that which hurts us so much

AFGAN MERRY GO ROUND

Marjah

opening salvo in the plan for escalation of the counterinsurgency war
strategy, McChrystal issued blueprint, transitioning from counterterrorist strategy to a counterinsurgency one

adversary, Quetta Shura Taliban (05T), the Haqqani Network (HQN), and the Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HiG)



last two, Jalaluddin Haqqani and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, respectively lost an old friend Charlie Wilson

It was called Operation Cyclone. Largest Covert Operation in History. The bulk
directed to Hekmatyar and Haqqani

In the first Afghan war of 1979-1992 Wilson referred to Haqqani as "goodness personified

Times of London says, In helping to beat the Soviet menace, Charlie Wilson unleashed a monster. Indian news agency operation that killed seven CIA employees was masterminded by Jalaluddin Haqqani

Wilson's chief partner, Avrakotos controlled more than 70 percent of the money which was "later were used in the fratricidal war in Afghanistan before the Taliban took control.

Hekmatyar, renowned opium smuggler and warlord. another aspect, not only
install the CIA's Mujahideen but extend the war into the Soviet Union

other U.S. officials, William P. Clark who assisted Afghan rebels to Polish rebels to Nicaraguan rebels



Clark and Reagan authorized rebels to cross the Amu Dar’ya River and sabotaged

"Fact: Covert funding for the mujahideen began long before the Soviet invasion, not after.

"Fact: This covert aid was intended to lure the Soviets into the Afghan trap and hold them there, not drive them out, as claimed by Wilson.

provided a secure multibillion-dollar technological training base for Islamic terrorism, and set the stage for a privatized heroin industry of historic proportions.

US meddling began as early as 1973 under president Nixon

July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive

But Wilson's project for a second Vietnam-style war may well be realized. America's second Vietnam.

ONCE AGAIN OSAMA SPEAKS FROM THE GRAVE

Bin Laden audio-tape
Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, the most American friendly Arab state
originated in Pakistan, which has four modern TV stations, but it had to be aired by Al-Jazeera
warned his ‘half-Muslim brother’, Barack Hussein Obama, not to act an Israeli poodle
helped Obama’s anti-Muslim rhetoric by
Mossad-CIA false-flag Nigerian terrorist operation
threat warning given a few hours after
by British
David Miliband
the THREE (Tareq, his wife Michaele Salahis and Carlos Allen) uninvited guest
Could it be a ‘drill’
to create fear and Islamophobia
and
etting the future 9/11B2
Jeff Gates
sraeli planned assassination of Barack Obama
“To assassinate
requires pre-staging
require an Evil Doer
pre-staging is
underway
manipulated impressions become
building blocks
Should he hint
justice
for the Palestinians
shut down the ongoing oligarch-ization
piling on of disabling debt
Senator Fulbright
1973
“Israel controls the U.S. Senate.”