Corporate/Establishment Manipulators Seek to Appropriate and Channel Anti-Establishment Movements into Neoconservative Designs

Whether you are an anti-war Obama 'change' voter, or a Ron Paul Revolution supporter, the establishment wants to channel your passions into their designs. They wish to de-fang any movement which is a threat to them, by incorporating its more gullible elements into accepting an establishment version which fits their fake left vs. right football game, while at the same time in reality changing nothing and supporting the status quo of establishment top down rule.

Read here about how Ron Paul sees his movement as being infiltrated by the neocons.

Read here or more recently here about how Obama supporters find themselves now in the company of neocons as well.

The neocons aren't gone. They still own the stage, the scene, the media, the talking points left and right, because they ARE the establishment's darlings, military, financial and corporate. There might be some distinctions to be made between establishment conservatives like (ex-Iran Contra) Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who some say isn't a neocon, and chickenhawks like Lieberman or Cheney. However, differences like these only represent slightly different shadings of the similar pro-war, pro-empire policies. In the end we are given a fictional choice between rabid pro-war hawks and slightly more cautious establishment brass from the pentagon or elsewhere. Is that a real choice?

Usually evil forces or empires in this world are not defeated outright, but rather during prolonged struggle defeat themselves. This might be the eventual end to the neocon plague as well, the financial ruin mentioned in the post below.

Will Financial Ruin End Neocon Empire? Chinese Talk of Selling U.S. Bonds

Will an empty pocketbook and a broken economy finally put an end to the wars of aggression, to the new 'World War IV' , to the manipulative media, to the loss of our liberties and threats of terror and the militarization of our society on all levels? If it stopped the mighty U.S.S.R. why can't it also stop our corporate masters and power elite in their tracks? Of course the bankers and special interests might find ways of keeping their armed to the teeth mercenary, the USA, fighting on, but some recent articles point to problems ahead for the war plans of the empire builders.

As Eric Margolis points out in an article in the Toronto Sun, "More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into ruin by buying tanks."

He goes on to make comparisons to the dying British Empire: "Besides the late U.S.S.R., the U.S. also increasingly resembles the dying British Empire in 1945, crushed by immense debts incurred to wage the Second World War, unable to continue financing or defending the imperium, yet still imbued with imperial pretensions."

Did you know that China spends only 10% of what we do on defence? Will someone invade China tomorrow? Doubt it. And imagine how much money we would have for the betterment of our society if we slashed our defence spending only in half or even just by a quarter or a third? We would still be spending more then three times what anyone spends on defence. What would end is the murder of countless civilians and soldiers off in the deserts of central asia somewhere for the sake of big money interests and greedy imperial minds like those of Kristol, Cheney, Lieberman, Pearl, Podhoretz, Pipes etc...Anyone who supports an American empire, not for the benefit of ordinary Americans but for the benefit of international bankers, the military-industrial complex, the 'robber class' and the power elite, will obviously need to control our media and our society to keep control of THEIR imperial army, namely the U.S. military.

Though we might not have control of our government, our media, or our military, if our finances collapse, then THEIR empire collapses with it.

A recent article on how Chinese military officers spoke openly about the possibility of retaliation against the U.S. for its recent arms sales to Taiwan through the selling of U.S. Bonds underscores how the greedy empire of the neocons might fall like a house of cards should the Chinese ever not wish to cooperate.

These ideas have been around as this 2008 video of Ron Paul illustrates, who thought then "it's time to end the empire" since "the system here is going to collapse because we can't be maintaining this with our ability to pay for it."

As William Kristol described "All good things must come to an end." Though he was speaking from his warped right/left perspective on the 'conservative' era, his statement equally applies to more then a decade of open lies to the public, invading of foreign countries, undermining of our civil liberties, and creation of massive debt, even as he and his ilk go on to talk of modern conservatism as 'defending liberty with strength and confidence.'

Nuclear Scientists Missing or Dead. A List.

(Updated)

I learned of a recent trend of nuclear scientists gone missing or found dead from Cryptogon.com. Unfortunately I found it easy to add to the list. Some of them have links to the Iran nuclear situation.


1. Ardeshir Hosseinpour

2. Lokanathan Mahalingam -Follow up here, body found.

3. Shahram Amiri

4. Timothy Hampton -Other articles here and here.

5. Antonio Ferrigno

6. Masoud Ali Mohammadi

7. Lachlan Cranswick

According to this article in the Telegraph, it is public knowledge that Isreal "has launched a covert war against Iran" including "the planned assassination of top figures involved in Iran's atomic operations."

That might explain some of the disappearances but I'm not sure about cases 2,4, 5, and 7 where I have not yet found the link to the Iran nuclear program. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist however. There might also be more then one cause to this phenomenon.

Iran Optimistic about Uranium Swap; U.S. Media Says Deal Dead; Israeli Warships on Way to Persian Gulf

(Updated)

As the Tehran Times announces that Iran is optimistic about the uranium swap deal(to enrich uranium in a foreign country such as Russia and return it to Iran), CNN is reporting that Ahmadinejad is ordering uranium enrichment to begin domestically.

What is one to make of these mixed messages? Well that depends on who you believe. Clearly the corporate/government press of the West has taken a liking to the evil Ahmadinejad story as Fox and The Washington Post also run with 'Ahmadinejad orders higher enrichment of uranium' as headline. Of course the New York Times as well.

But buried in a Washington Post article is a possible explanation:

"But Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, denied that production would start immediately, saying that the president instructed his organization to start production of 20 percent enriched uranium only if talks on the swap fail..."The Iranian president has underlined that the main focus has been the swap deal," Salehi told state news agency IRNA. "He asked our organization to initiate a plan to enrich uranium 20 percent. As soon as the Iranian president declares that talks on the swap deal are over, and upon direct order from the president, the operation will start at the Natanz site.""

So the enrichment is just a threat if somehow the uranium deal falls through. Ok. But in the the New York Times article all you hear of is that the deal is dead:

“We have to agree, that deal is dead,” said Valerie Lincy, senior associate at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.

Who is this Valerie Lincy you might ask? Valerie Lincy happens to be Editor and Principal investigator of 'Iran Watch.' She also happens to be one of those who was firmly committed to the dangers of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction as we can see from this article from 2003. You remember those weapons of mass destruction? Those were the ones nobody could ever find.

By the way did you see the name of the website for the article on Saddam's WMDs?

That's right....Iraq Watch. So now she has Iran Watch. Do you see the direction we are going in here? Do you think another Iraq from people like Valerie Lincy is what we need?

Getting back to the New York TImes article, it goes on describing a dead deal here:

"The deal fell apart when it was rejected by the leadership in Tehran, which says its program is only for peaceful uses."

But on the other hand other more hopeful arguments can be found in the Washington Post article:

"Because of technological limitations, there are serious doubts that Iran could actually reach 20 percent enrichment, and even if it could there would still be significant hurdles to overcome before it could operate the reactor. Ahmadinejad immediately followed his order[for domestic enrichment], broadcast on state television, with a comment that negotiations with the West over the proposed uranium swap are not over."

In an earlier article the New York Times had nonchalantly mentioned the swap deal, albeit without much enthusiasm as 'Iran Avows Willingness to Swap Some Uranium', as if it were an NFL draft deal and not a possible end to a crisis which could trigger World War IV (or III depending on how you count.)

Of course that brings us to what this is all about, World War IV, something that Norman Podhoretz has described as 'The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism.'

To men like Podhoretz who literally lust for war with any of Israel's supposed enemies, any chance of a peace deal must be buried so the war preparations may continue. The editorials of Norman Podhoretz, William Kristol and other hawks like them have often appeared in the New York Times or the Washington Post and I don't find it hard to believe that such an attitude is shared by many in the fairly hawkish corporate media establishment. Certainly anyone who reads the New York Times on a regular basis has been inundated with scare articles about Iran threats.

And all this fear and propaganda may be leading somewhere dangerous. At this very moment the Israeli navy is on its way to the Persian Gulf.

Author's Note: Since the Washington Post is continually editing its articles and taking out the parts which were originally in it, I will include two screen shots of one of the articles mentioned to examine below. It's the article which includes the statements from Mr. Salehi and the writer which downplay the tone of imminent danger in this and other articles.

Cybersecurity Bills Drafted By Same Group Responsible for 9/11 Truth Hit Piece; Russia Today Covers Internet Control Coup

Attempts to seize control over the internet and track the indentity of internet users are being escalated in new cybersecurity legislation being considered in Washington.

In an AFP article, representative David Wu from Oregon fantatsizes about the Wild West of the internet.

"We cannot stand by and let the most powerful tool for connecting Americans with each other and the world remain the Wild West of technology."

Wild West? What is he talking about?

"Cybercrime is a major problem for the government, for businesses, and indeed for every American," Lipinski, a Democrat, said in a statement.

Is it really? I don't think I have ever personally experienced 'cyber crime.' Perhaps it is a threat for key infrastructure computer networks and much of the bills going through congress seem to address that, however there is fear that these bills usher in a new age of government control of the internet.

There is a House Bill which has just passed in the House, Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009(HR 4061), which would raise nearly $400 million for cybersecurity research and development programs, scholarships, and training programs in colleges and universities as well as setting up some kind of internationally accepted cybersecurity standards and public awareness campaigns.

However in another bill in the Senate (S. 773), in Section 18, it states the President "may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network." Under Section 14, Public-Private Clearinghouse, the Secretary of Commerce "shall have access to all relevant data concerning such networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access." The networks they are referring to are "State, local, and nongovernmental information systems and networks in the United States designated by the President as critical infrastructure information systems and networks."
However the concern rests on the fear that this might be defined loosely to include almost any network or internet site.

From an article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation we find that our private information may be once again spied on in new ways as well as tracked in the future through 'identity management.':

"the bill contains a particularly dangerous provision that could cripple privacy and security in one fell swoop...The broad scope of this provision could eviscerate statutory protections for private information, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Privacy Protection Act, or financial privacy regulations...A privacy threat still in the cocoon is the provision mandating a study of the feasibility of an identity management and authentication program with just a nod to “appropriate civil liberties and privacy protections.” There’s reason to fear that this type of study is just a precursor to proposals to limit online anonymity."

Interestingly in one article I came upon the information that "Snowe (R-Maine) noted that the bill "loosely parallels" a set of cybersecurity recommendations contained in a report released late last year by a commission set up by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies."

The Center for Strategic and International Studies? That rang a bell. And I remember from where. Recently Arnaud de Borchgrave wrote an article attempting to equate the Fort Hood shooter with 9/11 truthers, or the movement of people who want a new investigation into 9/11. This very same Arnaud de Borchgrave is the Director for Transnational Threats at the Center For Strategic and International Studies. So someone who easily connects the 9/11 truth movement with real terrorism is a director at the center responsible for helping to create the new cybersecurity legislation. Wow that can't be good.

It must also be noted that Arnaud de Borchgrave also wrote a book on Cybersecurity, namely 'Cyber Threats and Information Security.' Here on Amazon.

It must be however also noted that the actual commission which I believe Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R- Maine) was referring to does not include the name of Arnaud de Borchgrave on its list of members. Still it's interesting to see the general crowd from which the legislation is coming and it's probably a good idea to keep a close eye on how some of these think tanks have their influence on actual legislation.

Ironically you must watch Russia Today to find out about anti-corporate/pro liberty opinions on the new moves of the corporate state monster. Is that an outlet which might need to be 'shut down' in an emergency? Ah, welcome to the United States of Guatemala.

Hal Sparks says 9/11 Official Story is "Horseshit."

Actor/Comedian Hal Sparks explains and speculates about some of the real information concerning 9/11. Interview starts at 2:30 into video.

Hollywood And Media Scramble to Prepare Pro-War (But Box Office Loser) 'Hurt Locker' Win at Academy Awards

Pro-war media like the New York Times and Fox News are heaping praise on the film 'Hurt Locker' for giving Hollywood "a chance to get back in the good graces of the American people, who always want to see our fighting men portrayed positively."

You call those good graces? I call them the willful illusions of righteousness of any aggressor nation not too different from the celebrations of military strength and murderous wars which are encouraged in any proto-fascist nation. But call them good graces thats fine...

Anyway, even though 'Hurt Locker' has only grossed $12.6 million, there is a big push to move it ahead of the somewhat anti-war box office smash hit 'Avatar' which is the biggest grossing film of all time with more then $600 million in gross sales.

I have seen neither film, and my interest in this article is not to say which film is more artful or better. I wish to only expose my suspicion that there might be an agenda here to put a pro-war film 'on top.' I must state that I do not know what the intentions of the makers of this film were, but what I choose to criticize here is how the film can be, and is being used as pro-war propaganda by Fox, The New York TImes, and even ex-Bush administration officials.

In the Fox article, you can see the reviewer proclaiming the 'pro-war' film to have 'the edge' right from the title: "Why Quietly Pro-War 'Hurt Locker' Has the Oscar Edge." It goes on to talk about how the Iraq war is "changing in perceptions" and how Hollywood was "on the wrong side of the public", that is until now. Who is the reviewer in this case? James Pinkerton, who was part of the White House staff under both Reagan and George H.W. Bush. So you have a guy from the White House reviewing movies now and telling you the 'pro-war' film is better. What a surprise.

According to Pinkerton, who clearly idolizes the fictional soldiers of the film, they are nothing less then "heroes. Competent, yes, but courageous beyond any regular comprehension. So by that reckoning, “Locker” would rate as pro-war, because the warriors are presented as better versions of ourselves. Any one of us would want the men of “Locker” by our side in a fight. And it is all men; women play only the tiniest of roles in the film. “Locker” has the same dynamic as a male sports team -- and male sports are popular, too, even with women."

I don't know but there is something distasteful about an ex-White House staffer celebrating fictional soldiers as "better versions of ourselves" to me.

One reviewer attempts to say that a 'Hurt Locker' victory would be a "defiant celebration of artistry over commerce."

It might also represent the very interests of commerce at work behind the scenes to make sure a pro-war propaganda film gets pushed into the limelight.

Here is a bit of the excellent dialog from the 'artful' Hurt Locker.

First Soldier: "Want em to know if they are gonna leave a bomb on the side of the road for us, we are just gonna blow up their road."
Second Soldier: "Sounds Good."
First Soldier: "I'm cravin a burger is that strange?"

No it's not strange if your intention is to celebrate a world image of Americans as occupying thugs who miss their burgers.

The New York TImes included that clip in their puff piece blog on the movie where Melena Ryzik goes paint ball shooting with actor Anthony Mackie "to learn some of those [combat] moves and stances." Mackie also says during the video:

"We had these Blackwater guys that were working with us in the Middle East and they taught us like tactical maneuvers and stuff--how to just basically position yourself and move with a gun...We were shooting in Palestinian refugee camps. We were shooting in some pretty hard places. It wasn't like we were without enemies. There were people there looking at us, 'cuz we were three guys in American military suits runnin' around with guns. It was nothing easy about it. It was always a compromising situation."

An article in the Nation discusses the connection between Blackwater and the Hurt Locker.

Why not just nominate Erik Prince from Blackwater for Best Actor? Maybe dead Iraqis for best supporting role?

Terror Concerns For Next Week

In a previous post I outlined some of the neoconservative pro-war talk over Iran as well as mentioned a recent statement by our own intelligence agencies that an attempted attack in the next sixth months was a certainty. Ahmadinejad is apparently helping the issue by proclaiming to "deliver a harsh blow to the "global arrogance" on this year's anniversary of the Islamic Revolution(feb. 11).

In addition, We Are Change Vancouver, an activist group, speculates in this video below about possible terror scenarios at the Vancouver Olympics which begins on the 12th of February.



Hopefully nothing unusual will happen next week. But there are some who might have altogether different 'hopes.'

U.S. credit Rating at Risk; Investor Marc Faber Predicts U.S. to Go Bankrupt in Next Decade and Start War

According to articles in Russia Today, the Telegraph, and the Wall Street Journal among others, Moody has warned the U.S. that its triple 'A' credit rating is at risk.

From the Russia Today article:"The United States' top credit rating is at risk, with it's triple 'A' status warned it may be downgraded if the economy grows at a slower pace then expected, says agency Moody's."

Also in the article, investment guru Marc Faber is predicting the U.S to go bankrupt within the next decade and start a war to come out of depression.

“Maximum within 10 years time more than 35% of tax revenues will have to be used to pay the interest on the government debt and then you are in trouble – because then there will be not enough money out of the budget to pay for other stuff. I’m convinced the US government will go bankrupt, but not tomorrow. And before they go bankrupt, they’ll print money, and then you get high inflation rates, you have a depression and eventually they’ll go to war.”

Threats of More Terror and War From Osama Bin Establishment

In Prison Planet today was a warning that the U.S. government itself is warning of more terror. Since the government and our intelligence agencies are usually tight and comfy with the terrorists, monitoring their every deadly move(read here, here, here, and here, and here, and here), they should know and we should probably expect something some time soon. Especially since those wonderful neoconservatives are again getting watery mouthed and excited about action against Iran (and they have waited a long time for THEIR world war to really begin).
Recently a neoconservative pundit suggested Obama save his presidency by attacking Iran. Of course a convenient terror attack in the U.S. to blame on Iran would help the Iran attack agenda along nicely.

Unfortunately the assertions of former Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, that he was pressured to raise terror warnings to help George W. Bush's re-election, seem to ring true in such an environment.

One glimmer of hope are the reports that General Petraeus thinks attacking Iran would "have the unintended consequence of stirring nationalist sentiment," and of Defence Secretary Robert Gates who said an attack "would only delay Iran [from obtaining nuclear weapons]" That might hold off such nonesense from Kristol, Poderhetz, Pipes et al. Let us only hope. Kristol mentioned recently in December that an Obama speech laid "predicate for war with Iran."

Not that long ago a whole bunch of fake or neoconservatives were calling for a new 9/11 as heard here from Rumsfeld or here below on Fox.


And then we had Cheney warning of a high probablity for a U.S. city to be nuked under Obama's watch.

Remember when the neoconservatives were calling for a 'New Pearl Harbor' in the PNAC documents...they got it 4 years later. These guys seem to have had whatever it takes to deliver on their expectations, let's hope they still don't.

NYT Lauds Hitler's Stimulus Plan

This is old news, but I just came across it. In this New York Times article an economist uses the example of the works programs of Hitler to show how stimulus can work quite well indeed. As he says:

"But Germany did escape the Great Depression faster than other countries. Corporate profits boomed, and unemployment sank (and not because of slave labor, which didn’t become widespread until later). Harold James, an economic historian, says that the young liberal economists studying under John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s began to debate whether Hitler had solved unemployment."

Now....this is the New York Times, and I don't mean to say the writer should be restricted from saying this if he believes it is important. But! Read in this Bloomberg article how the very same kind of statement is used to describe the late far-right politician of Austria, Jörg Haider.

(The article goes on to mention that Haider also visited former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Well....who are we kidding? Look who else did in the video below. )


My point is not to try to rehabilitate Haider, or make Haider seem more mainstream, but to demonstrate the contradictions within our own mainstream. Of course it is less 'scary' for Americans to know that the New York Times is praising Hitler and that Rumsfeld is shaking hands with dictators then to know that a 'far-right' son of a Nazi is doing this.

Because America would never embrace the 'son of a nazi.'


And he has even regaled himself with Nazi style decorations.

Beyonce Does Fascist Corporate Propaganda for Grammy Show

Whatever the intentions of Beyonce might have been, this comes off as a revolting display of American corporate fascist asthetic. Pure evil. Absolutely fake. Cheap and without soul. A corporate attempt to celebrate thugs in body armor who are used against our own sleeping people when they actually attempt to protest, rare that might be. This is Nazi asthetic, done a la Hollywood. Will we have our own version of fascism, designed for a multicultural American population? Worshiping the power of the corporations and the state as opposed to the Nazi worship of race, folk and the state? I doubt it will ever get as far as it did with the Nazis but the corporate pigs are cheering. This is what they believe they have turned the music of rebellion, rock and roll, into, a virtually synthetic pile of artless propaganda candy.



The Nazis also had their marching entertainments:

I am not much into corporate singer songwriters, but read in this article what happens to you if you try to sing a song of rebellion today in America, you get beaten with a crowbar.

Before the attack she was doing videos like this. Again it's not my taste in music, but compared to Beyonce it seems like Bob Dylan.


The CIA actually went to Aimee Allen's record company Elektra Records and told them that they disapproved of the word "revolution." Her album was never released. Listen to an interview here.

Anyway here is what the CIA and the record industry corporate pigs seem to love. Men in body armor arresting reporters and beating up protesters. There will be alot more of this as the economy collapses into a pile of rubble and out of work people get fed up and head out on to the streets only to be met by the body armor thugs who are now impersonated by dancers prancing around on Grammy stages. This is not a Grammy performance, but real life, when a dumb downed population is trained to hate anti-war liberals and libertarians and love their corporate masters. The corporate machine is mean and ugly and coming to a town near you to protect its multinational soulless interests.






Why does this all exist? So we can do things like this for the corporations and power elite as well:


War Crimes - MyVideo

And we still don't really know who funded, operated and organized this:



Since even as Dick Cheney says Bin Laden had nothing to do with it:



But this IS the America of Cheney, Bush, Reagan, Rove, Rumsfeld, Lieberman, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Poderhetz, Prince and many many more.....

Hasan Spoke Openly of Beheading 'Non-believers' in Front of Colleagues and Supported Suicide as Strategic Victory; Had Ties to 9/11 Hijackers

On a profile of Major Hasan on a neo-conservative website one can view a strange collection of outbursts of his where he seemed to openly support terrorism and make violent threats in public. He also visited the same mosque as 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour and at the same time. Mainstream media reported in November that such 'warning signs' were missed by the Army.

From the profile: "he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Qu’ran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC during an environmental seminar in the summer of 2009."

Is it not absurd that this is the type of person the army has freely walking the grounds of a secure army base fully armed?

Isn't it odd that, although we live in a surveillance state where our emails are read and phone conversations are listened to, even though we are harassed at the airport for carrying too much toothpaste, or having long hair, being a musician, or carrying too much money, even though we are fingerprinted and retina scanned, even as we are pouring money into new surveillance technologies, the authorities again and again find it impossible to take pre-emptive action against an individual exhibiting an obvious dangerous profile of islamic militancy?

The 9/11 Hijackers, the Detroit Bomber, the Fort Hood Shooter....Are the authorities, especially the intelligence agencies and the military, incompetent or do they purposely put the public or the military in harms way to further other agendas? The question must be asked.

Strange Findings: Fort Hood Shooter Subscribed to Neo Con Website. Navy Veteran Found with Grenade Launcher and Muslim Headress

It is an odd bit of info, but worthy of mention, that the Fort Hood shooter was subscribed to a middle east forum on the pro-war neo-conservative Daniel Pipes website. Make of that what you will.

Another bizzare news story which one can only speculate about is the finding of a "Middle Eastern red and white tradional headress" in the possession of a Navy veteran arrested with a grenade launcher, assault rifle, and a map of the U.S. Army Base at Fort Drum, NY.

Strangely the FBI claim that Woodson "does not appear to have any links to terrorism."

$215 Million More for Body Scanners

Prison Planet is reporting today of further millions being spent for airport body scanners.

Even as Obama himself and The New York TImes admits our debts are dangerously high, hundreds of millions will be poured out for new body scanners which probably wouldn't have caught the Detroit Bomber in any case. You can read about the scanner scam here in Mother Jones where it is also described how former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who has been making the interview rounds pushing for the scanners, also heads the Chertoff Group which represents one of the leading manufacturers of body scanners, Rapiscan.
Rapiscan (OSIS) shares were up 10% after the christmas bombing.

Also one must take into account the witness reports of Abdulmutallab actually being led through security by a sharp dressed man, as well as the claim by the U.S. State Department that it was engaged in an elaborate sting operation with Abdulmutallab, and made a specific request not to revoke his visa. If a terrorist has inside help, and our intelligence agencies want him to fly, no amount of body scanning will do anything to stop him, but will without a doubt further harass innocent travelers and invade our privacy as well as line the pocketbooks of Rapiscan and other security technology investors.

Iraqi Government paid $85 Mil. for ADE 651 Bomb Finding Magic Wand Hoax

Read in this New York Times editorial how a british company sold to the Iraqi Government $85 million dollars worth of magic wands with a swiveling antenna which "the manufacturer guaranteed to point to weapons or bombs hidden up to a half-mile away, underwater or in planes three miles high."
The gadgets cost only $250 to make but were sold for as much as $60,000 each to the Iraqis.
The New York Times goes on to say that "american military testers pronounced the device no more useful than pure chance, its core an electronic merchandise tag designed to foil shoplifters."

Jim McCormick, the managing director of ATSC, the company which produced the ADE 651, said in an article on Times Online, "We have been dealing with doubters for ten years. One of the problems we have is that the machine does look a little primitive. We are working on a new model that has flashing lights.”

The device sold to the Iraqi's had "no electronic components and no working parts and was unable to detect a paper bag containing fireworks from a few feet away."

Way to go.

Jim Rogers: 'I Would Abolish the Federal Reserve and Resign.'

That was his answer when asked what he would do if he was in Mr. Bernanke's seat tomorrow morning.

The Bonehead Problem. - An Editorial

One of the real problems today may simply be that many people, for whatever reason, have lost their common sense. There seems to be a mental thickness, an inability to rationally think through problems, and a constant temptation to accept boneheaded arguments, prevalent in the mindset of many in our country. It might be a generational problem. It might be a nutritional problem, or a cultural problem. I am not sure of the causes of this, but the evidences are all over. It might be that there were always those who accepted boneheaded arguments yet today these opinions are selected by the corporations and the 'robber class' as helpful and brought to the forefront, where in the past they would have been derided. The gullible WILL be mislead. There is a robber class, which will take advantage of people who have lost the ability to think properly. Take for example the ridiculous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that corporations should have "free speech" and thus be allowed to contribute at will to the political candidates whose positions they support. Corporations are NOT individuals, they do not represent human beings, but rather are profit making constructs of the law. Why is that so hard to understand?

In The New York Times today, in a letter to the editor, an assistant professor writes of how campaign finance reform previously created "a one way street where health insurance companies and big banks could not "talk back."" Are you kidding me? What are you taking? INSURANCE COMPANIES and BIG BANKS, the ones actually making our laws today and stealing from you, the uninformed masses, cannot talk back? What planet do you actually live on? He then goes on to write about how his students initially accepted this moronic interpretation before throwing it out in the end as they realized that corporations had many avenues to address their concerns.

The original statement which was eventually rejected is simply asinine, and it is troubling that anyone would even consider it for longer then 30 seconds. Corporations are not individuals with "rights." We do not need to concern ourselves with their corporate 'rights' and their protection. Corporations today take care of themselves, don't worry. Worry about yourself and how people who can barely come to logical conclusions will have any kind of future except at the whim of those who will exploit a dumbed down population into complete and total slavery.

I am reassured by polls which seem to show that most people are actually on the right side of this as in another letter a reader writes "A Harris Poll conduced last year found that 85 percent of adults, including 84 percent of Republicans, believed that 'big companies have too much power and influence in Washington.' Only 10 percent thought they had too little power and influence."

Those 10% however seem to be well represented indeed in the mainstream media and on the U.S. Supreme Court, where their wishes have been made into law.

Cases of Debilitating Nerve Disease After H1N1 Vaccine From One Canadian Doctor's Office

Prison Planet is covering a report from The Toronto Sun of two patients who have come down with partial paralysis after taking the same H1N1 vaccine shot at the same doctors office. As the Watson brothers report in the Prison Planet article, "Similar cases of GBS, as well as other neurological disorders have been reported following the H1N1 shots in the U.S., Britain and France." They also mention in the article how back in September Reuters reported that public health officials were expecting "an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma," in the two weeks after people receive the vaccine.

Of course vaccine makers will be immune from any lawsuits. You can read about that in an AP article here.

Read an article in the Daily Mail here about how the swine flu pandemic is nothing more then a profit making scam putting millions at risk to unnecessary vaccine side effects.

Rove's Vote Stealing Expert Warned of Sabotage Before Fatal Plane Crash; Was Set to Testify

This is certainly old news for some, but it deserves a belated post. This is taken from Truthout, so go there and read all about how the private plane of the man responsible for fixing the votes in Ohio for the republicans went down in a fireball before he could testify. More Rovian Corruption.

YOUNG MEN WITH INTELLIGENCE TIES INVOLVED IN PHONE TAP AT CONGRESSWOMAN'S OFFICE

Apologies if this is old news to anyone, I just found it.

The office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) was invaded by four young men disguised as phone repairmen who proceeded to try and tamper with the phones as another, Stan Dai, was arrested with a listening device in a car blocks from the office. Some details are in this article from the Veterans Today website.

According to Raw Story Stan Dai apparently "served as the Operations Officer of a Department of Defence irregular warfare fellowship program." He also was a speaker at the Central Intelligence Agency summer school program.
In 2004 he traveled to Isreal for two weeks on a trip sponsored by the Foundation for the Defence of the Democracies(FDD). I urge you to read the Raw Story article to find out the details. Another of the group was seeking a Master of Science degree from the Missouri State University's Defence and Strategic Studies program. One of them was Acorn 'Pimp' James O'keefe.

Maybe this reminds one more of the children spies in Orwell's 1984 then it does Watergate, but it is certainly not insignificant if our intelligence agencies are recruiting moronic young men raised on neo-conservative propaganda to spy on members of congress.

According to the unsubstantiated claims of one website the congresswoman was at the time investigating money laundering ties of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Hurricane Fund and connections to Jeb Bush and the Madoff ponzi scheme. According to the website the senator is apparently also in possession of "new evidence linking the illegal prosecution of former Louisiana Governor Don Siegelman to former BushFRAUD White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove."

Whatever her investigations, the actions of these young men seem to reveal the absurd neo-conservative climate our intelligence agencies seem to encourage, and the lengths these young disciples will go for their agenda.