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Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
01-26-2008
Washington Post

President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems.

The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the intelligence agencies, in particular the National Security Agency, to monitor the computer networks of all federal agencies -- including ones they have not previously monitored.

Until now, the government's efforts to protect itself from cyber-attacks -- which run the gamut from hackers to organized crime to foreign governments trying to steal sensitive data -- have been piecemeal. Under the new initiative, a task force headed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) will coordinate efforts to identify the source of cyber-attacks against government computer systems. As part of that effort, the Department of Homeland Security will work to protect the systems and the Pentagon will devise strategies for counterattacks against the intruders.

There has been a string of attacks on networks at the State, Commerce, Defense and Homeland Security departments in the past year and a half. U.S. officials and cyber-security experts have said Chinese Web sites were involved in several of the biggest attacks back to 2005, including some at the country's nuclear-energy labs and large defense contractors.

The NSA has particular expertise in monitoring a vast, complex array of communications systems -- traditionally overseas. The prospect of aiming that power at domestic networks is raising concerns, just as the NSA's role in the government's warrantless domestic-surveillance program has been controversial.

"Agencies designed to gather intelligence on foreign entities should not be in charge of monitoring our computer systems here at home," said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Lawmakers with oversight of homeland security and intelligence matters say they have pressed the administration for months for details.

The classified joint directive, signed Jan. 8 and called the National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23, has not been previously disclosed. Plans to expand the NSA's role in cyber-security were reported in the Baltimore Sun in September.

According to congressional aides and former White House officials with knowledge of the program, the directive outlines measures collectively referred to as the "cyber initiative," aimed at securing the government's computer systems against attacks by foreign adversaries and other intruders. It will cost billions of dollars, which the White House is expected to request in its fiscal 2009 budget.

"The president's directive represents a continuation of our efforts to secure government networks, protect against constant intrusion attempts, address vulnerabilities and anticipate future threats," said White House spokesman Scott Stanzel. He would not discuss the initiative's details.

The initiative foreshadows a policy debate over the proper role for government as the Internet becomes more dangerous.

Supporters of cyber-security measures say the initiative falls short because it doesn't include the private sector -- power plants, refineries, banks -- where analysts say 90 percent of the threat exists.

"If you don't include industry in the mix, you're keeping one of your eyes closed because the hacking techniques are likely the same across government and commercial organizations," said Alan Paller, research director at the SANS Institute, a Bethesda-based cyber-security group that assists companies that face attacks. "If you're looking for needles in the haystack, you need as much data as you can get because these are really tiny needles, and bad guys are trying to hide the needles."

Under the initiative, the NSA, CIA and the FBI's Cyber Division will investigate intrusions by monitoring Internet activity and, in some cases, capturing data for analysis, sources said.

The Pentagon can plan attacks on adversaries' networks if, for example, the NSA determines that a particular server in a foreign country needs to be taken down to disrupt an attack on an information system critical to the U.S. government. That could include responding to an attack against a private-sector network, such as the telecom industry's, sources said.

Also, as part of its attempt to defend government computer systems, the Department of Homeland Security will collect and monitor data on intrusions, deploy technologies for preventing attacks and encrypt data. It will also oversee the effort to reduce Internet portals across government to 50 from 2,000, to make it easier to detect attacks.

"The government has taken a solid step forward in trying to develop cyber-defenses," said Paul B. Kurtz, a security consultant and former special adviser to the president on critical infrastructure protection. Kurtz said the initiative's purpose is not to spy on Americans. "The thrust here is to protect networks."

One of the key questions is whether it is necessary to read communications to investigate an intrusion.

Ed Giorgio, a former NSA analyst who is now a security consultant for ODNI, said, "If you're looking inside a DoD system and you see data flows going to China, that ought to set off a red flag. You don't need to scan the content to determine that."

But often, traffic analysis is not enough, some experts said. "Knowing the content -- that a communication is sensitive -- allows proof positive that something bad is going out of that computer," said one cyber-security expert who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the initiative's sensitivity.

Allowing a spy agency to monitor domestic networks is worrisome, said James X. Dempsey, policy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "We're concerned that the NSA is claiming such a large role over the security of unclassified systems," he said. "They are a spy agency as well as a communications security agency. They operate in total secrecy. That's not necessary and not the most effective way to protect unclassified systems."

A proposal last year by the White House Homeland Security Council to put the Department of Homeland Security in charge of the initiative was resisted by national security agencies on the grounds that the department, established in 2003, lacked the necessary expertise and authority. The tug-of-war lasted weeks and was resolved only recently, several sources said.



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Chavez Urges Withdrawal From U.S. Banks
01-27-2008
AP

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his Latin American allies on Saturday to begin withdrawing billions of dollars in international reserves from U.S. banks, warning of a looming U.S. economic crisis.

Chavez made the suggestion as he hosted a summit aimed at boosting Latin American integration and countering U.S. influence.

"We should start to bring our reserves here," Chavez said. "Why does that money have to be in the north? ... You can't put all your eggs in one basket."

To help pool resources within the region, Chavez and other leaders launched a new development bank at the summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Nations of Our America, or ALBA.

The left-leaning regional trade alliance supported by Chavez is intended to offer an alternative, socialist path to integration while snubbing U.S.-backed free-trade deals.

Chavez noted that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Colombia in recent days, saying "that has to do with this summit."

"The empire doesn't accept alternatives," Chavez told the gathering, attended by the presidents of Bolivia and Nicaragua, Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage, and other leaders.

Chavez warned that U.S. "imperialism is entering into a crisis that can affect all of us" and said Latin America "will save itself alone."

Rice left Colombia on Friday after a trip aimed at reviving a free trade deal that has stalled in the U.S. Congress. She sidestepped an opportunity to confront Chavez, who accused Colombia and the United States of plotting "military aggression" against Venezuela.

Chavez took up the issue again on Saturday, saying, "I warn the world of the following: The U.S. empire is creating the conditions to generate an armed conflict between Colombia and Venezuela."

Formerly cordial relations between the two nations have been tense since November, when Colombia's U.S.-allied president, Alvaro Uribe, said Chavez was no longer welcome to continue mediating a hostages-for-prisoners swap with Colombia's leftist rebels.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega backed Chavez in the dispute at the summit, saying "the heating up (of tensions) toward Venezuela is toward the ALBA" as a whole.

He also joined Chavez in his criticism of U.S.-style capitalism, saying "the dictatorship of global capitalism ... has lost control." Three days earlier, Ortega had shouted "Long live the U.S. government" as he inaugurated an American-financed section of highway in his country.

The leaders signed a series of accords at the end of the summit pledging cooperation in areas from energy to agriculture, plus a document denouncing "the warlike attitude of the U.S. government and its attacks against our governments."

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Caracas rejected that characterization. "A door is always open to dialogue and cooperation on issues of mutual concern," Robin Holzhauer said.

Chavez welcomed the Caribbean island of Dominica into the ALBA — an acronym that means "dawn" in Spanish — joining Nicaragua, Bolivia and Cuba.

Chavez said a new fund created by Venezuela and Iran to support projects in third countries would have links to the ALBA Bank.



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VT Town To Vote On Arresting Bush & Cheney
01-27-2008
Rutland Herald

BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.

The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning.

According to Town Clerk Annette Cappy, organizers of the Bush-Cheney issue gathered enough signatures, and it was up to the Select Board whether Brattleboro voters would consider the issue in March.

Cappy said residents will get to vote on the matter by paper balloting March 4.

Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, said Friday the debate to get the issue on the ballot was a good one. Opposition to the vote focused on whether the town had any power to endorse the matter.

“It is an advisory thing,” said Daims, a retired prototype machinist and stay-at-home dad of three daughters.

So far, Vermont is the only state Bush hasn’t visited since he became president in 2001.

Daims said the most grievous crime committed by Bush and Cheney was perjury — lying to Congress and U.S. citizens about the basis of a war in Iraq.

He said the latest count showed a total of 600,000 people have died in the war.

Daims also said he believed Bush and Cheney were also guilty of espionage for spying on American people and obstruction of justice, for the politically generated firings of U.S. attorneys.

Voting to put the matter on the town ballot were Chairwoman Audrey Garfield and board members Richard Garrant and Dora Boubalis.

Voting against the idea were board members Richard DeGray and Stephen Steidle.

Daims said the names submitted to the town clerk’s office were the second wave of signatures the petition drive had to collect, because he had to rewrite the wording of the petition.

He said he gathered nearly 500 signatures in about three weeks, and he said most people he encountered were eager to sign it. He started the petition drive about three months ago.

“Everybody I talked to wanted Bush to go,” he said, noting that even members of the local police department supported the drive.

“This is exactly what the charter envisioned as a citizen initiative,” Daims said. “People want to express themselves and they want to say how they feel.”

He said the idea is spreading: Activists in Louisville, Ky., are spearheading a similar drive, and he said activists were also working in Montague, Mass., a Berkshires town.

The article asked the town attorney to “draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities.”

The article goes on to say the indictments would be the “law of the town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro police … arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro, if they are not duly impeached …”

Daims said people in Brattleboro were willing to “think outside the box” and consider the issue.

Daims had no compunction in comparing Bush and Cheney with one of the most notorious people in history.

“If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes,” Daims said.



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Paul: U.S. Has Run Out Of Money
01-28-2008
Press TV

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has criticized a US economic stimulus package based on tax-refunds, calling for 'fiscal caution'.

When asked where the money for the tax refunds - the basis of the Bush administration's stimulus package - was coming from, he told Fox News, "Where is the money coming from? We don't have any money over here in Washington."

"We have consumed everything we have gotten. So, we either have to borrow it from China or we print the money, which is inflationary. So, I'm opposed to that," he added.

Paul said the Federal Reserve moves to cut interest rates would further hurt the US dollar.

The Texas Congressman also warned that the world is losing its confidence in the US dollar as a reserve currency and called for reforms of the Federal Reserve and long-term changes.



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The Murder Of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr - Unspoken
Details - Part One
By Sherman H. Skolnick
12-11-99
www.skolnicksreport.com

Over a period of more than four decades, my associates and I have learned a lot about two activities in particular. About reporters and journalists in the mass media. And about various movements and persons supposedly promoting equal rights.


Self-taught in Law and legal research, but not comfortable to become a member of the Bar, I became widely known in the 1960s. In Illinois, in the federal courts, I brought and won a whole series of voting cases to re-do malapportioned voting districts. Some voting districts had 50 per cent more people than other districts, diluting their vote. Although not an attorney, I was grudgingly allowed to represent the entire class of aggrieved voters. Because of various court hearings, I was often for a minute or so on the evening TV local news.


I constantly risked jail for so-called "contempt of court". Why? I often put the judges' financial corruption in their faces in Court. I documented, for example, how the Chief District Judge in one of my numerous voting cases, was an official of a so-called "foundation" set up as a money laundry by a known hoodlum and thus, the Chief Judge was subject to blackmail. [The Albert Parvin Foundation, of which a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, William O. Douglas, was the President.] When I confronted the Chief Judge in Court, he had two Court bailiffs suddenly grab my wheelchair and try to turn it upside down. This was witnessed by 18 news reporters in Court for the voting case. Their stories about this, if any, never got on the air or in print. My suit against the bailiffs for assault and battery was torpedoed by the banker-judges in Chicago's federal appeals court.They alleged in their published ruling [Skolnick vs. Guadagno et al.] that the Law does not permit damage cases against court personnel.

I became known as "Mr. One Man, One Vote", a take-off on the slogan for reapportionment. In those days this type of case required a special three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court. With such cases, I tied up 24 judges, more than all they had in the courthouse. The Judges were sore at me.

Media types, who I got to know by way of such cases, seeing I am an independent, surviving on a shoe-string, and not tied to corporate interests, confided in me. In effect, I became their "Father Confessor". They knew I would risk jail but would never give out their identity in their lifetime. They communicated with me on the sly, sometimes at an out-of-the-way, all night eatery. I found out and fingered:

1. A CBS Network bigshot with a sideline of illegally selling babies from Europe to couples in the U.S. who could not have children.


2. An NBC Network Vice-President in the dope traffic. Hushed up, it was publicly instead blamed onto a lower level technician who was railroaded into prison as a scapegoat.

3. Hot items reporters are working on which they know endanger their jobs and their career in the media. They knew and know, that off-the-record, I will aid them in some way.

4. The buying and selling ot TV jobs. One TV reporter, with a three-year contract, said he cannot be fired but was. "I bought my job, it is mine, dammit. Don't you know of a lawyer that will sue?" He thus protested to me. Sensitive to his plight, I quietly told him such suits are not allowed, being against Public Policy. Sort of like a bank robber himself robbed by corrupt police on the way from the stick-up; he cannot sue for theft. As I found out from him and others, it is a wide-spread media policy: you have to pay 15 per cent in front in cash, of the first year's contract. One-third goes to the union business agent. One-third goes to the "celebrity" lawyer specializing in arranging such deals. [I fingered six such lawyers in Chicago.] And one-third of the bribe goes to the station manager or news director. The IRS is well aware of all this but uses the details as blackmail to get the mass media to say nice things about America's fearful Gestapo, the IRS.


In 1988, I got into a big ruckus with "60 Minutes" CBS Program boss Don Hewitt by confronting him with the details. His team vowed to keep me off the air forever and to shut me up. [Without public access Cable TV I would not be seen "on the air".]


An honest, hard-hitting reporter, Ted Smart, I knew from NBC's Chicago outlet, WMAQ-TV, Channel 5. "I got the goods, Sherman. I can prove it.

The FBI was implicated in the assassination of Dr.King" he confided to me. "Ted, it's a death warrant and you know it. Cool it." I responded. My pal, Ted Smart, was murdered on the night before July 4, 1970. Another journalist, Louis Lomax, on the track of the same data, was murdered about three weeks later.


Playing an evil role as to the murder of Dr. King and its aftermath, was Rev. Jesse Jackson. He falsely claimed he had been up on the motel balcony and that Dr. King died in his arms. In 1975, Barbara Reynolds, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, wrote a book about Rev. Jackson, "The Man, The Myth, and the Movement". It was loaded with eye-opening details. It surely painted Jesse as a charlatan and scoundrel. Such as, the tricks he used to reportedly put the arm on local businesses. The tricks he used to replace Dr. King. Some claim the reputed Dr. King blood on Jesse's shirt was actually chicken blood.

As the book was coming out, I spoke to Barbara Reynolds. She met me at a restaurant near Tribune Tower. She kept looking apprehensively at the door. "Jesse is going to run me out of this town. I can't stay here anymore" she told me. Someone came to the door and looked right at her. Frightened, she fled our table. Three weeks after the publication of her book, it was withdrawn. I have one of the few copies of the original book. In the early 1990s, Barbara Reynolds finally went public with what happened to her and her long-suppressed book. The Establishment had been plainly protecting their man, Rev. Jackson. She told of her plight while on "Tony Brown's Journal" TV Program. About that time her book was re-issued but not widely mentioned.

A former U.S. Justice Department official, who once held a key position, responded to my questions about the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "I examined Jesse's secret file locked up in our office. I shouldn't be talking about this", he leaned over and spoke in a low voice. "It was a stack of paper several feet high", he added. Impatient, I asked, "So what did it show?" And he confirmed what I found out from other sources over the years,"Jesse has been an FBI informant most of his adult life". "So he's a government fink" I added. "Absolutely. My boss knew, I knew it" he said as he cut-off the discussion.

Starting about 1970, my associates and I became very knowledgeable about the financial dirty business of Rev.Jackson. We had volunteered as consultants to a group made up of 25 thousand would-be home owners, Afro-Americans. They called themselves the South Side Contract Buyers League. In those years, mortgage companies "red-lined" certain neighborhoods, such as where blacks lived. No mortgages were to be issued in such areas. So, desperate to live in their own home instead of an apartment, the blacks were forced to buy "on contract". An examination of the area and the contracts showed the blacks were paying TWICE THE MARKET PRICE for the homes they were occupying. It was blatant racial discrimination.

The South Side Contract Buyers League had an office a few feet away from Jesse Jackson's office which was an abandoned movie theater. For a while Jesse paid no attention to them. He failed their repeated requests for aid. The Buyers League members organized a payment boycott. One morning the Cook County Sheriff, Joe Woods [brother of Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary that reportedly doctored up the mysterious 18-1/2 minute Watergate tape] was set to evict Buyers League members, all at once, for engaging in a payment boycott. For that purpose, the Sheriff arranged with the phone company and the electric company to shut off the entire area so blacks would have no lights and could not communicate with each other about the mass eviction. Residents in the area who were not even members of the group also had their phones and electric all cut off. After the eviction, the whole area looked like a war zone. Household goods scattered on the street. Fronts of houses crashed in. Windows and doors smashed, all around the house.

The leaders of the Buyers League found out that my associates and I were investigating and researching the lawyers who sold them out in Court, the banker-judges trying to control the blacks, and such. So I was invited to be the guest speaker at a huge mass meeting in a large Church. There was about 650 people packed in there. I detailed to them the dirty financial forces and public officials that were their sworn enemies, and what I suggested be done.


As I continued to make suggestions and show up at most every session in Court, Rev. Jesse Jackson pulled a trick on the leaders of the Buyers League, to get them falsely jailed. He had a group of ruffians, he called "Black Men Moving", who filled up the Courtroom and shouted slogans and would not be still, and stood next to the leaders of the Buyers League. Instead of blaming Jesse who was present, the Judge arrested the leadership and had them locked up in the basement of the Courthouse. At that point, Jesse crossed the street to the Mayor's office apparently to work a deal to take over the Buyers League now that the leaders were jailed.

A group of Buyers League women showed up as I was sitting in front of Jesse in the Mayor's outer office. "Rev.Jackson, you do not represent the Buyers League". Jesse must have thought I was just another wilted, foolish "liberal", and snarled at me and shouted, "What are you doing here white face?" Although angered how he was trying to psych me out with black-white slogans, I simply said, "Rev. Jackson, the leaders have told me that you repeatedly refused to help them.

Why?"

Jesse went into the Mayor's inner office as the women, by now alarmed, pounded on the Mayor's office door, "Jesse, come out of there! YOU are NOT our leader!" they screamed at the door. As Jesse came out, he walked past me, and with a vicious look, turned to me, "I am going to get you for this!" Little if anything about this was mentioned in print or on the air. But my confronting Jesse on his trick apparently got the Buyers League leaders released from the court basement jail.

The various strategies that I suggested resulted in the Buyers League members being issued mortgages at half the price of the contracts. That is, a mortgage for the true, not inflated, value of the homes.

Resentment built up, however, against Rev. Jesse Jackson in the black community. Well-informed black business people began meeting me on the sly. I became an authority on Jesse's rise to be a multi-millionaire. We compiled files with details. The Federal Government apparently gave him a 16-room house to live in a swank neighborhood not far from the University of Chicago. The pressfakers often said Jesse lives in the "ghetto". They never showed a picture of his mansion.

Jesse reportedly owned a private garbage truck business, Cross City Scavengers. The traditional mafia apparently made a deal with him, allowing him to horn in on their trade. They reportedly allowed him to empty off his garbage trucks in dumps under the control of the Mob. Jesse reportedly shook down a major food store chain in Chicago, claiming "discrimination". They apparently set him up in numerous businesses as a pay-off, concealed from the IRS. He reportedly got a major interest in a dairy that supplied--now get this--Grade "B" milk instead of Grade "A", foisted by strong-arm methods on certain stores and restaurants. He likewise used his gangster-like methods to reportedly force his orange juice company products on various stores.

As a mobster-type shakedown, Jesse began marching his troops on a near lakefront restaurant that had a black cook who was QUITE SATISFIED, WELL-PAID, and had no grievance. Jesse demanded the restaurant owner use his Grade "B" milk which the owner refused. Jesse demanded that the owner use Jesse's garbage removal services at TWICE THE RATE PER BARREL as charged by others in the industry. Jesse demanded that the restaurant use his pesticide services.


The restaurant owner told me how he got rid of Jesse's shakedown. He matter-of-factly pointed out, "The owner of this building where I lease space for my restaurant is a known hoodlum. He threatened to have Jesse's office bombed. You know, gangster versus gangster, stay out of my territory, you understand."

That ended the problem. A gangster firm itself took over the restaurant later and the nearby motel.

A downtown bank that had Jesse's secret accounts interested me, Amalgamated Bank and Trust. They are a long-time highly-political, reputed mob front. At great risk to themselves and their jobs, some of the bank clerks, on the sly, informed us of how Jesse pulls up in his Rolls Royce, is taken downstairs by a Bank Director especially assigned to reportedly hide Jesse's transactions, and everyone that works at that Bank is warned that they see nothing.


A small, elite team of federal agents were interested in all these financial rackets. About 1972, using our numerous details and witnessess, they got Rev.Jesse Jackson indicted on federal criminal charges of massive tax evasion and extortion done in the name of human rights. Jesse's cronies reportedly paid 850 thousand dollars to the Nixon White House to secretly quash the indictment. The money reportedly was conveyed through an Indiana GOP National Committeeman. The Chief Federal Prosecutor set to proceed with the prosecution, was forced out of his office.


I and two friends of mine in the media came to a secret meeting. A former member of the elite federal team ticked off to us how they got Jesse indicted, how he corruptly squelched the charges, and how the matter was covered up. One of the media people got himself a good job with the Wall Street Journal and never wrote what he found out. Do some get their jobs by blackmailing others? The other reporter, from ABC Network, died in a sabotaged plane crash enroute to a Mid-East assignment. His friends are mad how he was steered onto that doomed plane. And I dare mention all of this.

In session 1975-76, was the House Subcommittee on Assassinations, delving into the murders of President Kennedy and Dr. King. A staff member who I knew told me of records they had which will be locked up and not included in the Subcommittee's Report. The records show, he said, that the FBI hand-picked Rev. Jesse Jackson to replace Dr. King BEFORE King was assassinated BY THE FBI. That Dr. King opposed the Viet Nam War and was threatening to interfere with U.S. foreign policy. Dr. King in a speech he made exactly one year prior to his death said he planned to go to Viet Nam to tell black GIs they should not be killing yellow-skinned people in someone else's civil war. The staff member led me to understand that the records take the position that Rev. Jesse Jackson is acceptable to Federal agencies like the FBI and CIA, and Dr. King, perceived as a national security risk, was not. These bombshell disclosures will not be publicly divulged for thirty years, he told me.


So, was the late Ted Smart, a murdered reporter, correct? What did Louis Lomax. another murdered reporter, find out? Oh, so you are naive and you think reporters are only murdered in Mexico and Third World countries. Is Barbara Reynolds correct in her book? Rev. Jesse Jackson has plenty to consider and plenty to conceal. Reports are circulating that a key Chinese witness is set to testify that the Clinton White House demanded he come up with several million dollars from Bejing, for the political ambitions of Jesse's son, Jesse Jackson, Jr., a U.S. Congressman from Chicago's south side. Junior before becoming a Congressman, worked for the mafia-linked Hotel Workers Union. When grilled on this, on a radio show, Jesse Jr. said he never heard of the mobster who headed the Union for which Junior worked. Yet Junior was paid 59 thousand dollars a year as an alleged "organizer". Some contend Junior performed little, if any work.

The bottom line: was reputed FBI stool pigeon, Rev. Jesse Jackson, complicit in the murder of Dr. King, whose position Jesse coveted?



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Latest Ben Fulford Conversation
With Jeff Rense
Benjamin Fulford With Jeff Rense
Program Interview Of 1-21-8
Transcript Courtesy Of David Wilcock
1-26-8

RENSE: OK, Welcome back. It's time to go to Tokyo this hour to spend a little very interesting conversational time with Benjamin Fulford, who is with us once a month. Ben has become quite a familiar face on this program, so to speak. He has a large following, and people pay close attention to what he says. This is not just on the basis of the fact that he was the Asia-Pacific bureau chief for Forbes Magazine for eight years. His overall worldview and contact with a pan-Asian secret society which, as many of you know, issued ultimatums through Mr. Fulford to the Rothschilds and the Bilderbergers of the planet to cool it, change their tune...or else. It's a fascinating story. He's a remarkable man and we're happy to have him back with us tonight -- especially on the eve of what they're calling over here, Ben, Black Tuesday -- when the Dow Jones and New York Stock Exchange go at it in the morning after the holiday off today. How are you?

FULFORD: Fine, fine! Yeah, I've been doing a little bit of financial research. Now, I could be wrong, but it seems to be that the United States has gone completely bankrupt.

RENSE: (Laughs) Well, yes, yes. It seems that you're quite right.

FULFORD: You've got a GDP of about 13 or 14 trillion...

RENSE: At least!

FULFORD: And as far as I can tell, your debts are 120 trillion.

RENSE: There you go!

FULFORD: So, say you're only earning 13 thousand dollars a year and you owe 120 thousand. Federally, the bank says, "Hey, you've got to pay it back right now." That's basically the situation the US has found itself in.

RENSE: I don't know where it's going to end, but it's sure going to hell fast. It's like a runaway train, and it's got one wheel left on the track. Let me read some headlines to all of you. And, Ben, pull the phone a little further back from your mouth and I think we'll get a little clearer signal. You sound fine, but just pull that mouthpiece back.

Here's something from World Financial Disaster, the featured story at Rense.com. Let me read some of these headlines. In case you folks have been out of town or disconnected, or in case you wish to remain disconnected from all this, turn your volume down... Bond insurers demise threatens 2.6 trillion dollar bond market. Stocks plummet in Germany, Hong Kong, India and Brazil. 120 Billion lost in European stock crash today -- Black Tuesday set for US tomorrow. TSS Canadian stocks plunge 600 points today. Global markets plunge on US recession fears. Day of Reckoning in the United States -- Glass House coming.

It's wild, and it's getting crazier. Tomorrow, the projection is -- depending on who you care to pay attention to -- that the US stock market may lose up to a thousand points. It's 12,000 something now. Let me just put my two cents on the table. I don't pretend to be an economist, never have, never will -- wouldn't want to be either. I think the stock market has been so overinflated, so oversold, so overbought, so overvalued for so long that it's far past time that something like this happens, and it probably ought to be chopped down 30 percent to get to somewhere reasonable. How do you see it, Ben?

FULFORD: Oh, I figure it's going to fall at least 50 percent, probably more. RENSE: Fifty!

FULFORD: I was a witness to the Japanese bubble, and they had all sorts of what they called PKOs then, which was a Price Keeping Operation. No matter how much money they threw at it, they could not stop it.

RENSE: That's like the Plunge Protection Team. Same thing.

FULFORD: Yeah. They tried it in 1929 and it didn't work either, right? RENSE: Right.

FULFORD: Anyway, here's what's really going on. The essence of the situation is this. Remember what Nathan Rothschild famously said?

RENSE: Mm hmm.

FULFORD: "I don't care what fool sits on the Throne of England. Whoever controls the currency of England controls England -- and I control the currency of England." Okay?

RENSE: Sure.

FULFORD: Now, it's the people of Asia -- the Southeast Asians, the Chinese, people together who are 65 percent of the world's population -- who control the world's money now. And so, they can decide how it's going to be spent. And this is what they have decided to do. So, that's why you see Bush suddenly talking about Martin Luther King; what he did for this crusade, and how they assassinated him, and now they suddenly have an effort to make it up. You have the British chancellor saying, "Oh, maybe we should invite Yueng Biao and Brazil and African delegates into the Security Council. Well, they're running scared! Their whole gig is up, and they're trying to show a nice face. It's kind of too late. I mean, what they did to the Iraqi people... they murdered 1.2 million people in order to steal their oil.

RENSE: Yes sir.

FULFORD: They cannot be forgiven for that. Now they try to put on a nice face. They spent all this money -- what did they spend it on? Some sort of expense of a satellite that your friend photographed, that's designed for mass murder.

RENSE: Right.

FULFORD: Diseases that are tailored to kill individual races, specific peoples...

RENSE: You got it.

FULFORD: ...you know, military-industrial mass murder!

RENSE: Genocide on a scale unprecedented. And as you all know, if you've been listening to this program, or others which care about these things -- THEY, the controllers, the Bilderbergs, the CFR types -- have written about reducing the world population by four fifths. That's 80 percent. And they're going to do it. What they want is a feudal system on this planet with a skeleton middle class to interface between them and the serf class so they don't have to get their hands dirty. That's what they're after.

FULFORD: Well, they're not going to get it. They're lucky they're still alive, as I keep repeating. It's not going to happen. They are criminally insane, and the rest of the world has finally figured this out.

RENSE: Well, they ARE criminally insane.

FULFORD: We don't listen to the things they say, we just look at their actions -- and the actions speak for themselves.

RENSE: Speech writers are paid, the ultimate whores, probably, and the mouthpieces like the Bushes and the Browns and the other cretins out there who occupy places of public visibility don't talk about the human misery and death. If the United States -- and God knows, none of us want this to happen -- is the target of one or two or more nuclear bombs, the world at large is not going to mourn and lament that attack. The United States -- not you and I, folks...you know who: the people who have run the coup d'etat in this country, who now are literally driving this nation as an engine of death around the world -- those are the evil ones, but WE are going to pay the price. Don't we always?

FULFORD: I don't think you're going to pay the price at the end of the day. Here's what's going to happen, I believe. This is what I recommended to the society, and they have basically said that they will take this as their policy. Japan is very likely to have a change of government this year. The Democratic Party of Japan is projected to win power according to all the opinion polls. The election is due possibly as early as April, but maybe a bit later -- they'll try to delay it.

RENSE: What will that mean, Ben? What will that mean?

FULFORD: It will mean an end to Japanese slavery and occupation. It will mean an end to the raping and looting of Japan. In other words, it's their money, and they don't want them to use it the way they think it ought to be used. I'm going to ask the Democratic Party of Japan to give me the job, if they win power, of Deputy Finance Minister in charge of Japanese overseas assets. If I get this job, I will have five trillion dollars to play with. And what I'm going to do with that money, or what they're going to do -- I'm hoping, I'm recommending, I believe they're going to do this -- first of all, they're going to make sure that every single human being on the planet has access to a road if they wish it; good information and knowledge about the state of the planet; proper nutrition, and an Internet connection.

It will be a crash campaign on the planet to get everyone on the planet -- every single person -- aware and connected, and fed. Once that's done, we will ask them what their wishes are. Then we'll hire the top brains of the planet, and do everything in our power to make sure those wishes come true. (Voice breaking up -- tears) That's how the Japanese people, I believe, are going to spend their money. (Recovers) And that's a much better way of spending it than on genocide and mass murder. Plus, of course, they will spend it on protecting the environment, so that no more anonymous creatures disappear from the planet forever.

RENSE: It would be nice if the Japanese stopped killing whales, just as a token gesture.

FULFORD: I agree on that one. I will certainly push for that. They have an argument, which is that "you kill cows, and other animals."

RENSE: Two wrongs don't make a right. I don't care what culture you're in.

FULFORD: Sure, sure. I understand. What I would suggest, though, is they have some extraordinarily delicious vegetarian meat now here. It's so real you can't believe it's made from plants. And I'm going to recommend that if they wish to get on a high horse and preach, they should all become vegetarians first.

RENSE: Would you be the first Caucasian in the Japanese parliament -- or the Japanese government, not just parliament?

FULFORD: No. There is a member of parliament with Finnish ancestry now in the parliament. I would be the second.

RENSE: So, this is coming up fairly soon. You obviously have some connections with whom you can deal. You can make this suggestion and you obviously would be happy to serve the Japanese interests on a world stage, or advise it.

(Bumper music) It would be fascinating -- they would be silly not to use your expertise. It would be interesting!

FULFORD: I spent a long time talking to the leaders of that party over many years. They know me quite well. They read my books. They know what the plan is. Now that they realize they don't have to be scared of being murdered by right-wing gangsters anymore, and now that they realize that Japan really can be free again, they're ready to turn it around.

RENSE: Well, that's music to many, many ears, for sure. Stand by, Ben, we'll be right back. Benjamin Fulford is my guest, live from Tokyo. He's here once a month with us, and we shall continue right after this.

[Break]

RENSE: Wherever you look in the world now, you see not just ripples but major fractures in the actual structure of the financial engines of our countries, corporations and fiscal networks. They're calling it Miserable Monday in London -- the biggest crash since September 11th. It wiped off more than 150 billion dollars' worth of value from the stock market in London. They call it a meltdown. That's an understatement. That was the UK's 100 biggest companies. Tomorrow (Tuesday), I'm expecting a 500 to 1000-point drop on the Dow. The stage is set -- the Plunge Protection Team is burning the midnight oil, but there's not a whole lot they can do. The momentum of this thing now, if I am correct, is really unprecedented. I've never seen anything like it. From your background as an economics expert, have you ever seen anything like this? Did you expect to see something like this? It's like it got out of control and now it's running amok.

FULFORD: I have seen things like this before. I watched the collapse of the Japanese bubble. The difference, though, with the bubble and the US-European problem is that the Japanese only owed the money to each other. What's happening in the US is more like the collapse of Argentina or Mexico or the countries in the Asian crisis like Korea.

RENSE: That's an interesting analogy.

FULFORD: They owed the money to people outside their country, so it's not in their hands. They cannot make the decisions. The rest of the world will have to decide what the US needs to do if it wants to be rescued. And I believe they're going to say, "Look, you guys, you're spending too much money on killing people. And we want you to change your ways. Then we will continue to finance you again."

RENSE: Now, of course, Ben, the village idiot was just over in the Middle East, talking about what a terrible enemy Iran was to the human race, how Iran needed to be neutralized. Meanwhile, the Russians delivered the fourth shipment of nuclear fuel to the Iranian Buseher (ph) reactor, and I'm not sure, but it seems to me that there is an impasse of sorts developing. The Russian general staff has said they will not tolerate any threat to Russian sovereignty or to the sovereignty of any of Russia's allies and friends - which would seem to include Iran. I don't know, but it looks like Bush is under orders from his handlers to continue to press for a spring or summer offensive against Iran. And the Russians are saying, "Not a good idea."

FULFORD: It would be suicide for America, and the American people -- and for Israel. And for every single member of the elite families. You know who you are. Another thing I'd like to say to these petro-kings out there, especially the monarchs who rule Saudi Arabia, they should go back and read their Koran. If they continue to support these evil murderers who are killing their fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, they will very surely go to hell. They had better beware. Their days of evil are either going to end, or their families will be torn and uprooted from their countries.

RENSE: Interestingly enough, the Wahabi family was a creation of Zionism in the first place. And of course, as most of you know, those little sheikdoms around the Middle East were the creation of British Petroleum after World War I. In fact, BP drew the current map of the Middle East after World War I, and they dismembered what was left of Turkey.

FULFORD: Just think of the name Saudi Arabia. It's like saying "Bush America," you know?

RENSE: That's a very, very good point. Well put. Good.

FULFORD: And these people are really, really decadent and nasty. My father used to be the Canadian ambassador to Saudi Arabia. I got to meet a lot of these people firsthand. They're not nice people, and they do very nasty things to their own countrymen. One of the things I remember being told is if you ever got into a car accident in Saudi Arabia, you have to pretend to be injured. If the police take you, they might put you in a cell and forget they put you there. You might be there for years or dozens of years. That's the sort of country they run.

RENSE: It's something I've heard before. I concur with you. The whole situation over there is not good. Let's get back to this Russian thing. I'm not sure of the relationship between Japan and Russia. That's not really a topic of discussion now, but you did say that you, if you were somehow appointed to the position you talked about, would have five trillion dollars with which to potentially maneuver and manipulate and, shall we say, buy a lot of very valuable American assets cheaply. Now that would be quite a shopping spree!

FULFORD: There are a lot of nice American assets to be bought. More important than buying up individual American companies is redirecting the American economy away from war. It's kind of a military-industrial socialism. More important would be to hire Americans and American companies to go out and save the world. (Bumper music) In other words, pay the Americans to do good things. That would rescue America, and America would once again be as prosperous and as loved by the people of the planet as it was during the time of Kennedy. That's the ultimate goal.

RENSE: I would suggest that the place where that kind of an effort would be launched would be Iraq, where the country lies in utter ruin and devastation. Depleted uranium, of course, has destroyed it forever.

FULFORD: I think the important thing now is to eliminate oil as a source of energy.

RENSE: Well, it could be done. We've got to take a break here. For those of you who reviewed the Stanley Meyer story on YouTube, you understand that water has been made available as a fuel. We'll be back.

[Break]

RENSE: By this time tomorrow night, Black Tuesday will have come and gone. We will know the damage. If the American market dives tomorrow, will the rest of the world continue to founder and to plummet as it did today?

FULFORD: I'm going to try to call for an international meeting in Tokyo to come up with a new world financial system to replace the one now functioning, or dys-functioning, so to say. In other words, World Bank, IMF, BIF, and control by the Bank of England and Fed of the planet will be ended. A whole new system will have to be created. There will be a lot of discussion about what form it's going to take, but it's got to involve things like putting a value on nature -- making sure the financial system is fundamentally connected to the needs of the planet. It's the lifeblood of the planet, and it has to flow in a healthy manner. Right now it's turned into a system of very sophisticated thievery. There's a very simple psychological mechanism in humans. If you are poor, you take 50 dollars now rather than 100 dollars a month from now. If you're rich, you will wait a month. So what happens is over the years, people who are rich have said to the poor, "Here, we'll lend you money right now. You can pay us back later." They've created debt slaves. This is why the different religions over the years have banned usury. At a very high level, this is what has been going on. A group of 10,000 people or so have been cooking up very sophisticated forms of this technique to basically take money from the poor of the world and make themselves richer and richer. And that's why you've had asset inflations. These people are so rich that there's more money than they can spend on indulging themselves, so they buy stocks and real estate and push it up. And this is what's been going on. The system is fundamentally evil, put simply. There will be some kind of new rules to make sure that... right now, bankers don't need to have moral training. I think a banker needs to have better religious training than a rabbi, priest or imam. They are in a position where they have to have very, very strict ethical standards. And many do. My brother is a banker. He went to Rockefeller Univeristy, and when he graduated with his Ph.D., Nelson Rockefeller and David Rockefeller asked him what he wanted to do. He said "I want to be rich." They sent him to work with James Wolfensen, Paul Volcker (ph). But, because he was stupidly honest - I think he made three million dollars a year - he refused and quit jobs many times, because ethical corners were being cut. There are many bankers like that. And these people are very important. We need their help to come up with a new system that fits our moral codes. I don't know exactly what that system will be, but you can guarantee...

RENSE: Well, you're talking about removing the Fed. If you can cut the Fed out of... it reminds me of a patient who has systemic cancer with tumors everywhere, interconnected. They say it's inoperable. I don't know how we can do it, given the current situation.

FULFORD: A lot of the bureaucrats and technocrats in the Fed and these other central banks are not evil people. They are technicians. They are just trying to adjust the amount of money to the size of the economy. It's the higher-ups, the people who own it and don't get involved in day-to-day management, who are the problem, for the most part. It's interesting that the Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis came up with a very persuasive paper -- I think a guy named Kristol wrote it. The paper said the United States was bankrupt. Treasury Secretary O'Neill wanted to put this out to the public. That is why O'Neill was fired, and the report was suppressed. Bush didn't want to have to deliver bad news, so they shot the messenger. So now you're bankrupt. You failed to listen to the warnings of your own Fed! That's the situation. The Federal Reserve Board, or the families that own them, will have to relinquish that power. That's the bottom line. I think that we need to have some sort of global asset redistribution. If you take all the excess funds from those 10,000 people, I think you'll find there will be about 10,000 dollars for every man, woman and child on Earth. Now that might not seem like a lot for rich Americans, but if you were an African peasant farmer earning less than a dollar a day, that's like winning the lottery. And that's how most of humanity lives. Once humanity is allowed to develop its potential, there will be so many benefits for everybody. It's hard to imagine how wonderful it will be! You would have five times more really good movies to watch, for example. Incredible advances we can't even begin to imagine! It's going to be incredible!

RENSE: Do you see over there, from your perspective, that America is... I kind of laugh at this... headed toward a recession? We're already in a recession here, as far as I can tell. Inflation is double-digit virtually across the board now, and pushing into the 20s in some key categories.

FULFORD: I think that depression would be a better word than recession.

RENSE: Well, the joke my friend just sent me goes like this: "What do you call somebody who believes there's going to be a recession?"

FULFORD: I don't know, what?

RENSE: "An optimist!"

FULFORD: (Laughs) You've got to remember: at the end of the day there's one thing you've always got to calculate. You still have your people, you still have your know-how, you still have your factories. So, it's just that you have to change the rules you operate on. Some people call it restructuring. That's all. It involves a lot of changing your system. And the most important change is to stop spending so much money on killing people.

RENSE: You're talking about not just changing a system but literally eviscerating an evil which has taken total charge of most of the actual viable ingredients that we have to offer as a society!

FULFORD: You have an infestation of evil at the very highest levels. That has to be rooted out. We have to put a system into place so that this never happens again. (Bumper music) So yeah, there are some very, very evil people at very high levels. They need to be purged from your system.

RENSE: That's an understatement. OK, hold on, we'll be right back with Benjamin Fulford in just a couple minutes, live from Tokyo.

[Break]

RENSE: OK, and we're back with Benjamin Fulford. Jim Jubak (ph) wrote in MSN Money, "So, the next banking crisis is on the way." The next one! He said, let me read just a bit of this interesting report:

"Citigroup announced it would take an 18.1 billion-dollar write-down..." I love that expression, a write-down... "on its portfolio of sub-prime mortgages..." Why can't they say losses anymore? "...and other risky debt. The bank cut its dividend to 41 percent." Bla, bla, bla. He says, "This kind of quarter always marks the bottom of a crisis like this." Nope. "The banks and other financials have more losses from the sub-prime mortgage mess on their books that they haven't even yet confessed to. Worse, the mortgage debacle has spread to other types of debt, with banks and other financial companies reporting mounting losses on their credit card and auto loan portfolios. And worst of all, the next big leg of the crisis, the one I think will mark the true bottom, has just begun. As the economy slows, the default rate is rising for corporate debt - especially for the high-risk, high-yield corporate debt called "junk" by many of us. That's the opening of a Pandora's Box of potential write-downs that could dwarf the losses in the current mortgage market."

So, (according to Jubak) we're not even close to plumbing the depths of this catastrophe.

FULFORD: What's happening now is that this may be the biggest historical change in hundreds of years. We're talking about a secret regime that has ruled the planet for 300 years coming to an end. That's what really is going on. It's truly going to be a wonderful thing for the people of humanity, and for the people of America and England! They will be free -- for the first time in a very long time! The newspapers will be filled with real news. They will have more money. There will be no more paranoid propaganda. You people have been trained to be some sort of warrior ants or warrior caste. Fifty percent of Hollywood's budget comes from the Pentagon! You're trained to be fighting machines from a very young age. This is going to end. People will say, "Wow! I don't have to be paranoid anymore. I don't have to be scared. I don't have to think about fighting all the time." This is the sort of change we're talking about.

RENSE: Let me ask you another question. There's a big story you were kind enough to send me a translation of. In the Japanese parliament, several people brought the issue of 9/11 up over there. Tell us about that. How was that received by the Japanese press?

FULFORD: The fight for Japan is still not over yet. Until the Yakuda (ph) government goes, there are still some elements that are fighting for the US-controlled secret government. That's coming to an end. The policy of the leading opposition party is to bring this up in parliament on national TV aired nationwide. And this guy is going to take over the government within a year. That will mean, of course, that they will be told the truth -- not just about 9/11, but all sorts of historical truths that have been hidden will be made open. The Japanese people will be free from colonial control. That's what's going to happen. Right now, the people at the top level all know what 9/11 was. All the politicians, everybody else, they know it was a faction of the US government murdering their own people to create an excuse to steal oil and kill Iraqis.

RENSE: So most of the Japanese public who are politically aware and astute understand that basic concept?

FULFORD: Yes. At the high levels, they all understand. They know what's really going on.

RENSE: That's good to hear.

FULFORD: The Americans and the puppetmasters really do not understand the Japanese people. They thought they had them under much greater control than they do. That's what's happening here. Japan is in the process of liberating itself, and the emperor is behind this as a symbol of the Japanese people. Like I said, they have the largest amount of money in federal assets of any country in the world. So really, they can decide, once they free themselves, what to do with that money. The Japanese like peace, they like prosperity and they like to protect the environment - so that's going to be the new focus. Instead of creating wars and new wars and then suppressing technology, you're going to find them doing stuff that's just common sense.

RENSE: Are there calls for this kind of revolution in the Japanese mainstream media? Do you see editorials talking like you're talking, or are you speaking...

FULFORD: No, no editorials. There are, on commercial television, prime-time TV shows about 9/11, OK? So it's not just a private debate on NHK. One of Japan's biggest and most famous TV personalities, Dee Takeshia (ph,) I think he won some prizes at Cannes and is well-known overseas too - he had a prime-time commercial show about 9/11.

RENSE: Wow. They don't even talk about 9/11 in the so-called debates over here in this phony campaign season. That's amazing.

FULFORD: Look. Getting back to that Rothschild quote, it doesn't matter what puppet system is in the Oval Office anymore, because you're bankrupt! That's what Bush did... he bankrupted America and put an end to American military terrorism of the planet.

RENSE: He literally has... well, he hasn't, but his handlers have ground the American military almost to the point where they're just barely able to function as a projection of strength anymore. They've just really been depleted. They're sending American men and women back into combat who are injured -- they're that short on troops. This is all being done, of course, by design.

FULFORD: Whatever their design was, it's failing. Like I said, they cannot run their scenarios anymore.

RENSE: I hope to hell that you're right, and that they're listening, because they still show no signs of giving up yet. Your analysis is something they don't want to hear.

FULFORD: They're not going to have a choice. It's just a matter of time. This is going to play itself out, I believe, probably this year -- we should see the end of Illuminati rule.

RENSE: I think 2008 is the pivotal year.

FULFORD: The Chinese like auspicious numbers; their Olympics start on August 8, 2008. (8/8/8). The Japanese people are also believers in this. There's a general feeling that it's Asia's turn to have more say. Right now, the planet is ruled by an apartheid system. It's actually not even apartheid -- it's 10,000 people controlling the planet and manipulating people's information. And that's not a healthy system. So it's coming to an end. Literally, the entire post-World War II order -- the United Nations, the way it's structured -- everything is going to change. It's not just a financial crisis.

RENSE: Not soon enough.

FULFORD: You will see. Events will prove that I am right. This is something that is not my decision; it is a decision by the people of Asia. I'm just a spokesman. This is something that is not in the power of the Illuminati to stop. They cannot. It will not work.

RENSE: Who is still laying claim, or trying to lay claim to Japan? Is it the Rockefellers or the Rothschilds?

FULFORD: I think it's now the Rothschilds who are trying to show a nicer face and get back to the traditional, good side of the Anglo-Saxon world. There's a lot of good about Anglo-Saxon culture. A sense of fairness, doing the right thing...

RENSE: Absolutely. There used to be some amazing values systems. You're right.

FULFORD: So they're trying to say, "Hey, look. We're going to change our ways, and we're going to be good now." These sorts of things are going on. There is such a huge literature about the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Illuminati. Hundreds and hundreds of books. All the intellectuals in Japan know this! RENSE: So there's no problem in talking about Zionism over there. They have no problem. It's all over the place.

FULFORD: It's all over the place.

RENSE: Hmm! Of course, Zionists don't own the Japanese media, so that makes it a little easier.

FULFORD: The tricky thing is to avoid being prejudiced against the Jewish peoples while criticizing Zionism. Sometimes some of the Japanese have mixed the two together. I've been trying very hard to tell them, "Hey, hey. This is not a Jewish thing." They use the word "Judiah-shihon," Jewish capital. I tell them you cannot use that word, it's wrong; change the word. And they get it. They know it's not a Jewish thing.

RENSE: I've been trying to do that same thing for many years. It's finally starting to stick, but we don't have access to the majority of Americans, so that makes it hard.

FULFORD: Again, the thing is that once you get the intelligent people, it will trickle down. The trickle-down works with information too. So people are finally starting to get it. We're talking about gangsters here. We're not talking about any ethnic group or anything; we're talking about a group of very powerful, very intelligent hoodlums. They're murderers. They have controlled the Japanese. The Japanese basically won World War III in the 1980s by taking over the majority of the world's money. To prevent the Japanese from realizing that they have the power to save the world, they've been murdering Prime Ministers, intimidating journalists, murdering journalists, and hiring gangsters to try to keep the Japanese people subdued. Now the gangsters themselves are saying, "Wait a minute! Why are we betraying our own people?" (Bumper music) And once the Asian gangsters turn against them, they've lost their secret power!

RENSE: That's true. That's true. Thanks, Ben, we're out of time already. We'll talk to you next month - maybe we'll get your views on the American political season as it staggers forward.

FULFORD: It's really a farce!

RENSE: Totally. We might have some laughs. I'd like to get the take on the whole scene from the Japanese media. All right, we'll talk to you then. Thank you very much, Ben.

FULFORD: Thank you.

RENSE: Good night. Benjamin Fulford, live from Tokyo.

That's our program for tonight, and we'll be right back to you in 21 hours. Take care of yourself, and we'll see you at Rense.com.



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Jan 26, 2008
Ghandi's grandson says Jews center in culture of violence

Gandhi grandson leaves peace center
By BEN DOBBIN, Associated Press WriterFri Jan 25, 5:03 PM ET

A relative of Mahatma Gandhi has resigned from a peace institute after drawing condemnation for comments he made in an online forum that Israel and Jews "are the biggest players" in a global culture of violence.

Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of the revered pacifist, said Friday the board of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence based at the University of Rochester had accepted his offer a day earlier to step down as president.

Gandhi co-founded the institute with his wife, Sunanda, at Christian Brothers University in Memphis in 1991 and relocated it to the University of Rochester campus in June, a few months after her death.

Gandhi was on a panel of scholars, writers and clergy who discuss a new topic weekly on the Washington Post's "On Faith" page and his comments, posted Jan. 7, drew a torrent of criticism, much of it unfavorable.

He wrote that Jewish identity "has been locked into the holocaust experience — a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of (how) a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends.

"The holocaust was the result of the warped mind of an individual who was able to influence his followers into doing something dreadful. ... The world did feel sorry for the episode but when an individual or a nation refuses to forgive and move on, the regret turns into anger."

Describing Israel as "a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs," Gandhi asked whether it would "not be better to befriend those who hate you?"

"Apparently, in the modern world so determined to live by the bomb, this is an alien concept," he wrote. "You don't befriend anyone, you dominate them. We have created a culture of violence (Israel and the Jews are the biggest players) and that Culture of Violence is eventually going to destroy humanity."

Gandhi later apologized "for my poorly worded post," saying he shouldn't have implied that Israeli government policies reflected the views of all Jewish people.

"My intention was to generate a healthy discussion on the proliferation of violence," Gandhi said in a statement Friday. "Instead, unintentionally, my words have resulted in pain, anger, confusion and embarrassment. I deeply regret these consequences."

Larry Fine, head of the Jewish Federation of Rochester, called the posting "reprehensible." Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called it "shameful that a peace institute would be headed up by a bigot."

"One would hope that the grandson of such an illustrious human being would be more sensitive to Jewish history," Foxman said.

The school's president, Joel Seligman, said in a statement that Gandhi's resignation was appropriate and his remarks "did not reflect the core values" of the university or the institute.

The institute offers courses, workshops and seminars on nonviolence and will "continue its mission" at the university, Seligman said. A forum will be held later this year to allow Gandhi to discuss issues he raised with Jewish community leaders and other speakers, he said.

While emphasizing that Jewish suffering, particularly in the Holocaust, "was historic in its proportions" Gandhi said that "it is also important not to forget the past, lest we fail to learn from it," he stood by his criticism of "the use of violence by recent Israeli governments."

"I have criticized the governments of the U.S., India and China in much the same way," he said, adding that "I want to correct statements that I made with insufficient care, and that have inflicted unnecessary hurt and caused anger."

The institute's research library contains multiple photographs, audio and videotapes, and 100 volumes of writings by Gandhi's grandfather, who led India to independence in 1947 and was assassinated by a Hindu hard-liner in January 1948.



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Jul 11, 2006
On Your World, for a third time, Hoenig advocates military attack to boost stock market
Summary: On Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Jonathan Hoenig, managing member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, asserted that a pre-emptive attack on North Korea would cause "the market" to rise. "I would love to see us launch a pre-emptive attack on North Korea," Hoenig stated.

During the July 10 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, touted by Fox News as the "No. 1 business news show on cable," Jonathan Hoenig, managing member of Capitalistpig Asset Management LLC, asserted that a pre-emptive attack on North Korea would cause "the market" to rise. "I would love to see us launch a pre-emptive attack on North Korea," Hoenig stated.

Hoenig's comments came during a discussion led by host Neil Cavuto about whether North Korea's recent actions would be a "wildcard" for investments. As Media Matters for America noted, Hoenig, a frequent guest on Your World, suggested on June 19 that the United States should attack North Korea in order to prevent a "major sell-off on Wall Street" and contended on June 5 that bombing Iran would raise the Dow Jones industrial average. Hoenig has also claimed that the U.S. economy would be unable to "thrive" if convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui were not summarily executed, as Media Matters noted.

From the July 10 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:

HOENIG: But are they a threat? I mean, I think if they are a threat to the U.S., why are we letting Japan take care of them? Why are we letting China take care of them? I mean North Korea is a threat, Neil, yes, to our market, but they're also a threat to the U.S. and to our allies. And I think the longer that we putz around with the U.N., and with negotiation, and with sanctions, I think the longer we appease them, the more we encourage them to launch these aggressive attacks.

CAVUTO: Well, Jonathan, what happens if we were to strike North Korea's nuclear-strike capability? Do what Japan wants to do on its own.

HOENIG: What happens to the --

CAVUTO: Then what?

HOENIG: Then what happens to the market?

CAVUTO: Right.

HOENIG: I think the market rises. I would love to see us launch a pre-emptive attack on North Korea.

—B.J.L.



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'Global Government
Mankind's Gravest Need'
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IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Monday evening at the inauguration ceremony of new head of National Center for Globalization Studies, "mankind's gravest need today is a global government."

Appreciating the services rendered by the former head of that center (formerly called the International Center for Dialogue among Civilizations), Dr. Mohammad Nahavandian, the President said that choosing Esfandiar Rahim-Masha'ie was "based on precise calculations, and in accordance with a plan for the center."

The president added, "The Center for Globalization Studies must be a very dynamic center, able to take long studies forward, thanks to the presence of thinkers and intellectuals from various academic fields, able to pursue globalization discussions throughout the world."

Pointing out that God has definitely been pursuing objectives in creation of man, he stressed, "Almighty Allah has drawn the horizons of man's blessed life in this world and how to achieve that objective, based on man's innate desires and in the framework of his social relations with the others."

The President emphasized, "Man is created to be a global creature, as all divine religions are global, and if he would be deprived of this aspect of his personality, neither anything would remain of his humanity, nor any of his potentials and talents would find a proper ground for manifestation."

Proposing that the rule of single law in the entire world is a bare necessity for the mankind, he said, "The existence of a thousand laws in the world, and then expecting that the global society would reach a status of equilibrium, justice, and tranquility is wishing for the impossible."

He added, "It is not possible to observe global justice under such conditions that each country is ruled based on a different set of laws."

Ahmadinejad said, "The entire monotheist Arch-Prophets (PBUT) were leaders for the whole mankind, and accordingly, so long as a single law would not be put to effect globally, and a single perfect, and noble human being would not take the charge of a global government, the God given talents of the people would not be materialized, and there would be no sign of divine justice in the world."

He considered mankind's progress throughout history "a constant move towards perfection", reiterating, "Today, globalization has become an issue for daily talk of even ordinary folks, under such conditions that signs for accelerating move of the mankind towards the peaks of perfection are countless, and ever increasing."

The IRI President stressed that pure Mohamedan Islam has answers to modern man's entire questions, adding, "World nations would accept Islam in large groups if pure Islam would one day be presented to them free from all non-Islamic attachments."

Ahmadinejad said, "The entire developments in the world are pieces of a puzzle, being fit in their place in order to complete God's general scheme for a perfect world for the mankind, but in the process of this completion some people achieve perfection, while others fall in the abbeys of annihilation, and nowhere is ever devoid of God's will and Divine Rule, nor of his Caliph on earth." He said that the era for drawing border lines between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism is now over, reiterating, "Unadulterated Christianity and Judaism are the same as they are entirely manifestations of the same Divine Truth."

The President stressed, "The single and solid plan and order that we should present for the lives of the world people should be in a way to be acceptable by the pure innate nature of the entire mankind, and such laws need to be based on divine teachings."

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