Goodbye NDAA, PATRIOT Act, Federal Reserve Act and Wars if Paul Wins Presidency
May 7, 2012 by Jack Blood
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byRuth Hull
OpEd News
No other Republican Presidential candidate has ever received the enthusiastic popular support in the Republican Stronghold of Orange County that Ron Paul received in his visit to Cal State University, Fullerton, on May 3rd, 2012. 6000 enthusiastic fans crowded into the Titan Stadium, which was not designed to hold 6000. The line stretched around the stadium. Seats ran out, but supporters continued to pile in, standing to see their candidate. Mitt Romney has never received that kind of support in Republican Orange County.
Crowd lines up to see Ron Paul
Once in office, Paul will repeal the NDAA, the PATRIOT Act and the Federal Reserve Act. The audience, by its standing ovations and chants showed its agreement with the plan.
Paul spoke to the paranoid fears he would cut social programs by expressing his understanding that people have come to need these programs. In cutting spending, he will start with the wars and foreign spending. He pointed out that, in recent years, the war spending has topped four trillion dollars. He noted that, in foreign spending, the United States government takes from the poor at home to give to rich oppressors in foreign lands. Studies done by a variety of informed organizations agree, showing that simply cutting the war budget will save the U.S. economy.
Paul noted that 75% of Americans want America out of Afghanistan. He pointed out that we are less respected and less liked in the world because of war policies. He said that a lot of innocent children and people are dying from our drone attacks. People are asking, “Why are we being terrorized by bombs falling out of the sky when we haven’t done anything to America?”
Much of the problem with the economy is that the world has stopped trusting the dollar. He said, “The dollar used to be as good as gold.” After we were pulled off the gold standard, the world continued to trust our dollar for a while but that time of trust has run out.
As noted above, Paul got a standing ovation on ending the Federal Reserve. The audience broke into chants of “End the Fed.” Paul reacted by saying, “It sounds like a wonderful idea.” He noted that you wouldn’t hear that on TV. He called for the repeal of the Federal Reserve Act on its hundredth anniversary.
Paul attacked the economic policies of the current government, saying the government gives crumbs to the poor and bailouts to the rich.
Paul stated, “I’d like to suggest that you never have to give up any of your liberties for safety and security.” He pointed out that he has no Secret Service protection. He told the crowd that holding up a sign in protest of someone with Secret Service protection could now get you ten years in prison. [This is a result of the protester bill Obama signed into law.] Paul also spoke of a Homeland Security facility in Utah that is large enough to hold the records of everyone in America. He noted that the role of government is to protect our privacy and liberty. It is not to destroy our civil liberties.
On the issue of Cuba, he suggested talking to the Cubans and ending sanctions. He pointed out that those who are accusing him of being an isolationist are the real isolationists.
It isn’t an easy road for honest politicians like Ron Paul. He pointed out that”" those people in Washington in charge will not give up their power easily.”
The crowd was ready for action. Paul got numerous standing ovations. People were reregistering as Republicans just so they could vote for him. People were also signing up to work on his campaign.
Paul is the only anti-war candidate running in a major party for President. This gives him an advantage with anti-war Democrats and independents. Even people who don’t agree with him, see him as a candidate who is incorruptible and beaming with integrity. He is considered a fresh, honest alternative to the status quo.
For those who want to vote for Paul in the California primary, they will have to reregister as Republicans. I know, it’s a pretty disgusting thought to most people. California has an open primary in every race except the Presidency, where the RNC is preventing non-Republicans from voting for Ron Paul. The Democratic Primary is more open, allowing independents to vote a Democratic ballot.
Noah Johnson is an example of a former Democrat who re-registered to vote for Ron Paul. Now he is running for the Republican Central Committee for the 41st District as part of his efforts to support Paul’s agenda. People were speaking of how they were going to change the Republican Party. This writer is reserving judgment on whether that is possible.
People had a number of ideas to publicize Paul’s candidacy. A couple of representatives were there from an organization called Skytypers, offering a “low cost” way to skywrite messages over events. Philip Stinis of Skytypers said the company used patented eco-friendly vapors. He also said this could also be used for independent candidates who wanted to get out their messages. This writer did not see a list of the chemicals, but it is an indication that people, distrusting the media, are coming up with solutions to get out the word about Paul.
The event was put together on short notice in a large venue with standing room only. Robert Scheer has encouraged people to reregister to vote for Ron Paul. If the votes are counted, and there is always a question about that, Ron Paul could conceivably win California.
May 7, 2012
Ruth Hull is the chairman of a liberal Democratic club. She has organized major political events and helped elect some of the most liberal politicians in America. Her career has included work as a criminal defense attorney, a licensed private investigator, an educator and a writer.
The terror of a subverted ‘democracy’
May 6, 2012 by Jack Blood
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“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”—Howard Zinn
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”—Frederick Douglass
The United States corporate government today has become what Frantz Fanon, over five decades earlier, accurately described, as a “monster,” permeated with “taints, sickness, and inhumanity.” Its’ much touted ‘democracy’ is in reality the very height of hypocrisy both inside this nation and abroad.
The scandalous Barack Obama and his corporate owned Democrat and Republican conspirators are simply the latest 21st century phase of this deliberately maintained hypocrisy of disinformation, critical omissions, and perpetual deceit sustained by an utterly corrupt system that has subverted the very meaning and intent of so-called democracy; as it legalizes and intensifies political repression at home and bloody Empire abroad. Ordinary, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in the U.S. and around the world are the cannon fodder and daily victims of this horror that some call ‘democracy,’ which is built upon subterfuge, parasitic economic bloodsucking, endless war mongering, and shameless deceit.
A more accurate name for this alleged democracy is systemic terrorism by the few against the many. Indeed, this is the “terrorism” embodied in the deceit and hypocrisy of the U.S. corporate government, and its propaganda arm, the corporate-stream ‘news’ media which is incorrectly referred to as the ‘mainstream media.’ In fact, the only thing that is ‘mainstream’ about the corporate-stream media is its ability to incessantly and widely disseminate misinformation, disinformation, distractions, and more often than not, no crucially relevant information to the vast majority of everyday people.
This nation sorely needs systemic revolution (not to be confused with reform). And the shape and parameters of this revolution must be determined by everyday people themselves/ourselves, not the system’s gatekeepers. First however, we must understand, in the immortal words of Frederick Douglass, that, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.” In other words, we must understand that systemic change is brought about by “agitation” and euphemistically “plowing up the ground,” not by expecting this corrupt system to change itself. It will not.
The corporate power brokers of the symbiotically-joined Democrat and Republican parties have deep vested political and economic interests in perpetuating this rotten, unjust, hypocritical terroristic system in one wily form or another, not eradicating it. Barack Obama, for example, is the most insidiously effective stealth weapon against everyday people of all colors that this corrupt system has yet produced; but whether he is re-installed or not in the upcoming corporate controlled phony elections in this nation, the system remains about perpetuating itself by keeping the people locked, in perpetuity, on the mental and political plantation of subscribing to and believing in the fake left/right (i.e. Democrat and Republican party) paradigm. Thus, subverting any genuine democracy in the United States. Until we the everyday people recognize this systemic reality for what it is and address it, we will continue to be pimped by the elite who control, own, and operate this U.S. political system of hypocrisy, injustice, and insanity.
The very real and deliberately maintained economic, political, judicial, and physical terrorism of the subverted ‘democracy’ in this nation is what keeps us divided and in fear of one another. Economic apartheid, racism, and sexism, etc., are, in fact, the mainstays of this system and will not be eliminated until we eliminate and replace this system with a model that serves the needs and aspirations of the many, not the insatiable and insane greed of the few.
We are the people, and it is time for us to act like it! It is time to creatively and collectively challenge ourselves and one another. That’s an important part of what “struggle” is all about. And in the words of Frederick Douglass, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” This challenge is an ongoing one (long and protracted) and it will not be easy to fulfill. But we can do it. We must do it. We must take back our humanity! For ourselves, each other, and the many peoples of Mother Earth, we must intensify in this struggle. The real terrorists are the bloodsuckers who divide us and terrorize this planet in our name. The terrorists are not the ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of this wondrous planet.
Remember Tecumseh! Remember John Brown! Remember Harriet Tubman! Remember Rosa Luxemburg! Remember ‘Mother’ Jones! Remember Joe Hill! Remember Lucy Parsons! Remember Emiliano Zapata! Remember Malcolm X! Remember Martin Luther King, Jr.! Remember Bobby Sands! Remember Howard Zinn! Remember them and so very, very many others. We are not alone for we walk in their immortal sunshine and we have each other! Let us remember—and take back our own humanity from the bloodsuckers of this nation and planet. It’s time to fulfill our destinies in this long and protracted struggle.
Each one teach one. Each one reach one. As Joe Hill said so many years ago, “Don’t Mourn. ORGANIZE!” We’ve much work to do. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!
Intrepid Report Associate Editor Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, the San Francisco BayView newspaper, the Black Commentator, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa). For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.)
Obama runs on two myths– that he’s not a warmonger, and that he really killed Osama bin Laden
May 6, 2012 by Jack Blood
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BECAUSE WE CAN! ……”Oh no he Di int”
5/5/12
By Andrew Steele
President Obama is trying to appeal to his jilted, antiwar liberal base (and perhaps even making a Hail Mary throw for some Ron Paul supporters) during this (s)election season by telling the public during his weekly Internet address that “… his goal of defeating al-Qaida is within reach and that it’s time to turn the country’s attention to domestic concerns”.
Pretending that he ending the war in Afghanistan and that he’s not trying to start new ones in Syria, Iran, and on the African continent, Obama claims that he’s calling on Congress to “…take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt and use the other half to rebuild America”, referring to the black hole U.S. debt that can never be paid off and promising to continue big government spending by shifting funding numbers from useless wars to economically detrimental government programs.
President Obama also took the opportunity to remind the public of the raid that supposedly killed Osama bin Laden a year ago and sent the nation into a sudden celebration of blood lust. DNA that could have been taken at any time from anywhere was offered up as “proof” that Seal Team 6 did the deed. However, the President hasn’t released any photographs or videos of bin Laden’s dead body– despite a lawsuit by Judicial Watch to force the CIA and DoD to do so– or produced a body for independent analysis (because the U.S. government supposedly threw bin Laden’s body in the ocean within hours of killing him). All but a handful of skeptical reporters have accepted the President’s ‘come on, just trust me’ evidence and inducted the bin Laden death tale into American gospel.
Last May, on the program 60 Minutes the President said of the alleged bin Laden death photos (from CBS):
“It is important to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool,” said the president.
“We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies,” Mr. Obama added. “The fact of the matter is, this is somebody who was deserving of the justice that he received.”
While Obama supposedly didn’t want to have evidence of the bin Laden death used as “propaganda” or as a “trophy”, that’s exactly what he’s using the death itself for now. Running on what is sold as one of the President’s biggest accomplishments, Obama’s public triumph is a myth based on no hard evidence that anything was done by Seal Team 6 on May 1st, 2011 other than killing some people in Abbottabad, Pakistan and claiming afterward that one of the bodies was that of Osama bin Laden.
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Also See:
*Known Liars Saying “Trust Us” is Not Proof
*White House fear mongers to court in order to keep fake bin Laden kill myth alive
*Desperate White House enlists Hollywood to produce blockbuster of alleged bin Laden kill that will be released right before election
*Financial Times story verifies that Akbar Khan (man named as actual person in ‘seized bin Laden video’) really existed and owned the residence
*Rupee News also identified fake bin Laden in video as “Akbar Khan, the landord”
*Bloomberg named “Akbar Khan” (aka fake bin Laden watching TV in video) as co-owner of supposed bin Laden compound
*Could the fake bin Laden watching TV in video, referenced as “Akbar Khan” on BBC, be related to Arshad Khan?
Fukushima 14 Months Later …..
May 5, 2012 by Jack Blood
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Darren Craddock talks about our collective ADD when it comes to news, particularly in regard to Fukushima, whose reactor # 4 would not withstand even a level 2 earthquake. This is alarming since it holds some 1500 fuels rods and a total of 460 tons of nuclear fuel. http://youtu.be/GleM4Z5AdMU
The Revolving Door of Insanity – Or From the Frying Pan Into The Fire
May 3, 2012 by Jack Blood
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Are we hamsters running endlessly on a spinning wheel, oblivious to the fact that we are substantively going nowhere but backwards? Or, are we reasoning, critically thinking human beings who have enough sense to comprehend the enormous difference between being on a perpetually spinning wheel, and making real systemic change that serves the needs and aspirations of ordinary people? The time is here and now for everyday, ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people to address and honestly answer this question. We must take responsibility for our collective destinies. The political system of the United States really is one wherein the following words, attributed to Charlie King, so thoroughly apply: “America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top.” The obvious question is why? Why is this allowed to continue? The answer is not complicated. It is the denial, self delusion, lethargy, and hypocrisy on the part of far too many people in this nation — stoked and perpetuated — by the corporate-owned Democratic and Republican parties, the corporate-stream ‘news’ media, and their concomitant systemic ‘educational’ institutions. The scum does not float to the top by osmosis. It is quite deliberate.
Nevertheless, this grim scenario does not have to remain in place. The revolving door of systemic insanity can be eliminated and discarded, but only by us, ordinary everyday people. It’s not going to happen unless and until everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation become fed up with being endlessly divided, systemically pimped, and treated as if we are caged hamsters, endlessly running on a perpetually spinning wheel. It’s time to call out, for what and who they really are, those so-called ‘liberals’ and ‘progressives’ who rightfully and vigorously organized and protested against the U.S. wars, internal political repression, and economic emaciation of everyday people by the Republican party Bush/Cheney regime, but whose silence is deafening when it comes to the outrageous abuses (both internally and externally) of the current corporate-owned, predator-drone missile, Democratic party occupant of the White House, who has far surpassed (in less than four years) the scandalous actions of his predecessor. It’s time to understand that these alleged ‘liberals’ and ‘progressives’ are HYPOCRITES who are showing that they are, in reality, systemic gatekeepers, perpetuating the revolving door of the Democratic and Republican party insanity of this system.
Suddenly, it apparently does not seem to matter to these hypocrites that trillions of dollars of the people’s money was criminally given to the elite Wall Street bloodsuckers, or that the horror of Guantanamo continues, or that ‘extraordinary rendition’ continues, or that U.S. wars are raging in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc., or that the U.S. bombed Libya, North Africa, or that the unconstitutional ‘Patriot Act’ (which in essence codifies into law the U.S. government’s infamous COINTELPRO horrors) has been renewed and still stands, or even that the current White House occupant has signed into law the reality of indefinite detention (NDAA) of U.S. citizens inside this nation, without charge or due process. This is why the “scum” repeatedly “floats to the top” in the rigged political system in the United States. Wake up people! Unchain your minds while there is yet time! Remember well the words of Harriet Tubman when she said, “I freed a thousand slaves – I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” To reiterate: The denial, self delusion, lethargy, and hypocrisy of far too many people (including many so-called ‘liberals’ and ‘progressives’) in this nation is precisely why this revolving door of systemic insanity continues unabated, and the people of all colors in this nation stay on the euphemistic and insidious political plantation of powerlessness. We must stop being fooled and sucked in by the bait-and-switch tactics and fake left/right paradigm of the corporate owned Democratic and Republican parties. They are not friends or allies of the everyday people, no matter what lies spew forth from their lips through their corporate-stream media. Organize, agitate, educate! Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Cherish and protect our Mother Earth! Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil / political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney. |
WHO WAS OSAMA? WHO IS OBAMA?
May 3, 2012 by Jack Blood
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by Michel Chossudovsky
Entwined in History... Made up History
While the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama “celebrates” the first anniversary of the alleged death of bin Laden, the substantive issue as to WHO WAS OSAMA BIN LADEN remains unheralded. (Remarks by President Obama in Address to the Nation from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, see video at foot of article)
Through lies and fabrications –which he intends to use in his election campaign– president Obama`s carefully scripted speech upholds a world of total fantasy, in which “bad guys” are lurking and “plotting acts of terror”. Meanwhile, Islamic “jihadists” are said to be threatening Western civilization.
Each and every statement in Obama’s May 1st speech at Bagram Air Force base regarding the role of Al Qaeda is a fabrication: (below are excerpts from Obama’s Remarks in italics, author’s comments are indicated inside square brackets [ ] ):
It was here, in Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden established a safe haven for his terrorist organization
[Osama bin Laden was recruited by the CIA, Al Qaeda was set up with the support of the CIA. Osama's safe haven was protected by US intelligence] .
It was here, in Afghanistan, where al Qaeda brought new recruits, trained them, and plotted acts of terror.[The Mujahideen were recruited and trained by the CIA. America's ally Saudi Arabia financed the Wahabbi koranic schools, Ronald Reagan praised the Mujahideen as "Freedom Fighters". Unknown to the American public, the US spread the teachings of the "Islamic jihad" in textbooks "Made in America", developed at the University of Nebraska]
It was here, from within these borders, that al Qaeda launched the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and children.[Obama is referring to the tragic events of September 11 2001. To this date there is no evidence that Al Qaeda was involved in the 9/11 attacks. Moreover, confirmed by CBS News, on September 10, 2001 Osama bin Laden had been admitted to a Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi, courtesy of America's ally Pakistan. Did he coordinate the 9/11 attacks from his hospital bed?]
And so, 10 years ago, the United States and our allies went to war to make sure that al Qaeda could never again use this country to launch attacks against us.[The 9/11 attacks was the justification for waging war on Afghanistan on the grounds of`"self defense". Afghanistan was said to be harboring Al Qaeda and was, therefore, complicit in an outright act of war against the USA.
The fact of the matter is that the Taliban government on two occasions in the weeks following 9/11 offered (through diplomatic channels) to hand over Osama bin Laden to the US Justice system. President George W. Bush refused the offer of the Taliban government, intimating that America "does not negotiate with terrorists".
NATO went to war in support of the US, invoking Article Five of the Washington Treaty. The latter states that an "act of war" against one member of the Atlantic Alliance is considered "an act of war" against all members of NATO under the doctrine of collective security.]
Despite initial success, for a number of reasons, this war has taken longer than most anticipated. In 2002, bin Laden and his lieutenants escaped across the border and established safe haven in Pakistan. America spent nearly eight years fighting a different war in Iraq. And al Qaeda’s extremist allies within the Taliban have waged a brutal insurgency.[The whereabouts of Osama bin Laden have always been known to US intelligence. President Obama conveys the illusion that US-NATO forces and their intelligence operatives could not find bin Laden. In the words of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (2002), "it is like searching for a needle in a stack of hay". The alleged Al Qaeda safe haven in Pakistan serves as a pretext for waging drone attacks against alleged terrorists in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
President Obama also intimates that Al Qaeda operatives equipped with stinger missiles and Kalashnikovs had managed to outsmart the US-NATO multi-trillion dollar military machine.]
But over the last three years, the tide has turned. We broke the Taliban’s momentum. We’ve built strong Afghan security forces. We devastated al Qaeda’s leadership, taking out over 20 of their top 30 leaders. And one year ago, from a base here in Afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.[A lot has been written on this issue. No proof as to the identity of the person who was allegedly killed by the Seals Special Forces In the words of Paul Craig Roberts; "The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered..." ]
The goal that I set — to defeat al Qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild — is now within our reach.[There is ample evidence that Al Qaeda (a US sponsored "intelligence asset") is still alive and fully operational. Officially, the goal is to "defeat Al Qaeda". Unofficially, Al Qaeda is supported covertly by US intelligence.
Since 9/11, Al Qaeda has developed into a multinational entity with "subsidiaries" in various geopolitical hotspots around the world.
In Libya and Syria, Al Qaeda brigades are the foot soldiers of the US-NATO military alliance. Wherever the US military and intelligence apparatus is deployed, Al Qaeda is present:
Al Qaeda in Iraq, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Al Shaabab (Somalia), Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed) (Pakistan), Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI) (Indonesia) Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, etc. (See US State Department Foreign Terrorist Organizations, United Nations Security Council, List of individuals, groups, undertakings and other entities associated with Al-Qaida Al-Qaida Sanctions List)
In a bitter irony, in all these countries, US intelligence is covertly coordinating the activities of Al Qaeda affiliated groups. Officially counterterrorism consists in fighting the "Islamic jihad" Unofficially through covert operations, Western intelligence supports their "assets" including terror entities on the US State Department list.
Moreover, these various terrorist organizations are now being used in US-NATO covert military operations against sovereign countries (e.g. Libya and Syria). According to Israeli intelligence sources:
"NATO headquarters in Brussels and the Turkish high command are meanwhile drawing up plans for their first military step in Syria, which is to arm the rebels with weapons for combating the tanks and helicopters spearheading the Assad regime's crackdown on dissent. Instead of repeating the Libyan model of air strikes, NATO strategists are thinking more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers for beating back the government armored forces."(DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011) ]
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Ronald Reagan chats with Mujahideen Freedom fighters
Who is or was Osama?
An “intelligence asset”, namely an instrument of the CIA used to justify the “Global War on Terrorism”.
It is worth recalling that on September 14, 2001, both the House and the Senate adopted a historical resolution authorizing the president to “go after” countries which “aided the [9/11] terrorist attacks”
The president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Today in 2012, there is ample evidence that:
1) Al Qaeda was not behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
2) There is also detailed evidence that agencies of the US government as well as NATO, continue to support and “harbor such organizations” [Al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations]. In Libya, the “pro-democracy” rebels were led by Al Qaeda paramilitary brigades under the supervision of NATO Special Forces. The “Liberation” of Tripoli was carried out by “former” members of the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). The jihadists and NATO work hand in glove. These “former” Al Qaeda affiliated brigades in Libya were the backbone of the “pro-democracy” rebellion.
3) There is evidence that the WTC towers were brought down through controlled demolition, raising the possibility of complicity and cover-up within the US government, intelligence and military. (See the writings of Richard Gage, Undisputed Facts Point to the Controlled Demolition of WTC 7, Global Research, March 2008, see also video, Richard Gage Controlled Demolitions Caused the Collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings on September 11, 2001, Global Research)
Who is Obama?
A political liar and a war criminal.
Obama’s scripted speeches are slanted distortions. Realities are turned upside down. Acts of war are heralded as peace-making operations…
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Dead L.A. County coroner did NOT do Breitbart’s autopsy
May 3, 2012 by Jack Blood
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Consider this a correction to our previous story…
5/3/12
By Andrew Steele
This is an update on Michael Cormier– a coroner for the L.A. Country coroner’s office who recently died, and whose death is being looked at as a potential homicide because of poison found in his system. Conflicting reports are coming out from various media outlets regarding whether or not he was the coroner who performed the autopsy on conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.
I called the L.A. County coroner’s office to get the word straight the horse’s mouth and they confirmed to me that Cormier did not perform Breitbart’s autopsy.
Many news sources have falsely claimed otherwise and have not cited any sources, or any proof to contradict what the L.A. County coroner’s office told me. Since I was able to easily verify this story with a quick phone call, no doubt more prominent news sources can do the same. Spreading this rumor without verifying if it’s true or not equates to outright lying and the kind of deceptive journalism those of us in the alternative media are fighting against. Such rumors only serve to distract those who legitimately find Breitbart’s sudden death on March 1st– the same day he allegedly planned to release damning Obama videos– suspicious, and discredit those who bite on such misinformation.
This doesn’t mean that Cormeir’s death should go unnoticed in journalists’ investigations of Breitbart’s death. (Cormier did die on April 20th– the same day that Breitbart’s autopsy results were released– which is an interesting coincidence.) However in order for the truth to be learned the facts first need to be established so that the right questions can be asked.
For example, from the L.A. Weekly:
“L.A. County Coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter tells LA Weekly that Cormier did not conduct Breitbart’s autopsy. “Only doctors” ever worked on Breitbart, says Winter, because foul play was not suspected from the beginning.”
Why didn’t a coroner like Cormier take a look at Breitbart? Given who Breitbart was, his still somewhat young age, and the kind of high powered people he tangled with, wouldn’t investigators want to put a coroner on the case, just to assure an increasingly vigilant public that murder was honestly looked at as a possibility but ruled out?
The fact that a coroner didn’t look at Breitbart is a story in itself, proving that a “natural causes” bias was present in the minds of investigators from the start.
The Price for Ignoring Ron Paul
May 3, 2012 by Szandor Blestman
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So, I’ve been writing about Ron Paul a lot lately. Well, there’s not a lot being said about him on the establishment media who decided long ago to ignore him, so I figure why not write about him? He’s drawing large crowds at rallies. He’s getting lots of delegates to bring with him to the Republican convention. He has, in fact, won more delegates than any other candidate from some of the caucus states where the vote was just a poll, nothing more, and it’s the delegates that matter. That’s news worthy. Since the establishment media is determined to keep things hidden from the general public, it’s up to little under read and mostly ignored bloggers like me to report on him. Read more
Secret Service Vet With Very Strange JFK Story
May 3, 2012 by Jack Blood
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PODCAST: Abraham Bolden, the first African-American Secret Service agent on the White House detail, in a talk from 2008. Recalls his astonishing experience with JFK, with his fellow agents, and the ominous goings-on prior to and after Kennedy’s assassination. A must-listen. Chilling. Also see our recent piece on the Service.
Click HERE to download/listen.
Who are the (Anti-Ron Paul) Trolls?
May 2, 2012 by Szandor Blestman
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A troll was, at one time, a nasty menace that sat under bridges waiting to eat little goats that may come along, or little children, depending on who’s telling the story. They would goad the creatures they sought to munch upon with jibes and insults. In the modern vernacular, the troll has become the hidden menace lurking around blogs waiting for someone to write something they feel they can discredit, usually by insults and barbs rather than by reason and persuasion. They are an ugly creature which unfortunately infest many a blog and can turn a pleasant forum full of reasonable discussion into the cyber equivalent of a shouting match. Read more
