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Religious Cultism Of
The 'Chosen Peoples'
The Big Picture Of Tyranny Since The Dawn Of Mankind
By Ed Ward, MD
edward19@cox.net
2-1-8
(Shh...SuperDuperQuadSecret. For the first time in the history of mankind, the unchosen heathens have a method to get the truth out en masse - the net.)
So many individual religious fanatic groups (masons, illuminati, jesuits, zionists, islamic, etc), but only one gets to divvy the spoils of the nation to the 'lesser chosen peoples'. The modern world has forced tolerance of the 'chosen people' of all nations. The 'chosen people' do not harm their brothers (other chosen people), so long as the unchosen are kept in control according to selected/elected tyrannic control. So they quibble amongst themselves for the spoils/greed, but the prime rule of forced 'God's Will' as ascribed by the ruling religious fanatics must always remain enforced.
Under these 'chosen people' who consider themselves more deserving of obedience than God himself:
* Families are destroyed under the supposition of these lying, murdering, scumbag, religious fanatics in acts of Treasonous War
* Families are destroyed under the supposition that these murdering scumbags care more about our children than their own parents for what is nothing more than a profitable murder and control.
Listening to the people is a sham/scam.
Corporations is a sham/scam.
The Media is a sham/scam.
The Courts is a sham/scam.
The Vote is a sham/scam.
Shared Parenting is a sham/scam.
Restraining Orders is a sham/scam.
Statute Law is a sham/scam.
IRS is a sham/scam.
911 is a sham/scam.
Reform groups is a sham/scam.
Operation Northwoods is a sham/scam.
Agent Orange is a sham/scam.
For 5 years I've shown the tyranny of these
scumbags and looked for their source/root. And in all of these sham/scams (and many more).the prime root has always been religious fanaticism of tyrants supported blindly by many that will not see other than their own cultish/bigoted/heretic 'God's Will'
We must start with a 100% Secure Vote before anything can be accomplished.
A 100% Secure Vote is the first step to freedom/liberty. Nothing can be decided without a 100% Secure Vote. No Candidate or Issue can be decided by the people without a 100% Secure Vote. These tyrants mearly tell US who won in their secret fixed fraudulent elections. They tell US who 'really' has a following of the people. Then they tell who these people picked in predetermined results. Then they tell US how close it was.
DON'T SUPPORT SECRET ELECTIONS.
A FIXED VOTE = NO VOTE = DON'T VOTE
BOYCOTT VOTE IS THE ONLY REAL VOTE.
All activists need to focus on the only path to remedy, A 100% Secure Vote. The first step for any activism must start with a 100% Secure Vote.
STOP VOTING. STOP EVERYTHING AND WORK TOWARD A 100% SECURE VOTE.
NOTHING MATTERS UNTIL WE HAVE IT.
My Best to You and Yours,
Ed Ward, MD
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Why Illegals Are Here
And Why They Stay
By Frosty Wooldridge
2-1-8
In this third and final interview, Michael Folkerth's book: "THE BIGGEST LIE EVER BELIEVED" exposes America's greatest crisis-unending growth.
Trying to corner Clinton, Obama, Romney and McCain into addressing America's immigration invasion proves harder than arm wrestling an octopus! Trying to get our apathetic American public to force definitive answers from this presidential quartet proves tougher than bringing an Egyptian mummy back to life.
Once the full impact of adding endless millions of people hits, the devastation to American society will make Hurricane Katrina look like a Sunday picnic. It'll make Mount Saint Helens look like a puff of smoke from Humphrey Bogart's cigarette. It'll make Briteny Spears' life resemble a "Father Knows Best" happy ending. What's the big difference for our entire society? Immigration, both legal and illegal, will create carnage and consequences that affect every state forever.
In other words, before the Titanic hit the iceberg, all seemed well. Once it hit, everything changed for the worst.
Folkerth examines why our corporations demand unending immigration to force-feed growth. "Today we will once more work through the actual root cause of illegal immigration as it relates to the economy," he said. "To avoid having to descend into the dismal science of conventional economics, we'll apply my patented 'Mikeronomics' and take a shortcut to the truth.
"Consumer spending represents two-thirds of our domestic U.S. economy, and is responsible for some 62 percent of the jobs that have thus far, not gone off to China. The necessity of keeping such consumer spending whipped up to a brisk pace is well up in the red zone of the alert scale for those seeking reelection.
"And, since our economy is based on the impossible basis of ever increasing growth, the necessity of adding a few million new consumers to our buyers club from time to time becomes imperative. Here's the rub. The current birthrate in the U.S. doesn't get the consumption job done.
"No problem; we have the I.N.S., often thought to mean Immigration and Naturalization Service, but actually meaning "Instant Necessary Shoppers," which allows 1.2 million foreign folks to join our club each and every year, legally.
"However, with all things ever expanding some years back we reached that unfortunate, but predicable, point where the birthrate and legal immigration combined didn't trip the trigger."
That's when the brilliant, foghorn-leghorn rooster, alcoholic Senator Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts dumped the 1965 Immigration Reform Act onto the American public. He raised immigration rates from a stable 175,000 annually to 1.1 to 1.5 million. That single bill drove consumption into high gear. Corporations busted unions and wages declined because millions of immigrants moved into the work place to undercut Americans. Soon, illegal aliens followed to work slave wages off the books. Result? Farmers and corporations raked-in unheard-of profits. Our economic engine roared with production, consumption, sales and pollution.
"We also reached the point where the good citizens of this country were reluctant that immigration continued at high numbers," Folkerth said. "Therefore we had a conundrum. Congress doesn't like conundrums. It forced them to either tell the American people that the false economy that they have come to love and enjoy was no longer an option, or let a few thousand illegal immigrants sneak in each night to reinvigorate the activity at the mall.
"Given the above choice and with election coming up, the decision for a person who is desperately seeking reelection becomes quite clear; never face south.
"We have noticed that nearly all politicians have denied the personal knowledge that 12 to 20 million illegals lived and worked our country. I remind you that these are the same politicians who are protecting you from terrorists sneaking into the country.
"If a federal or state politician says he or she didn't know these folks were here, throw the bums out. If they did know it and didn't tell us, throw the bums out.
"They all knew we had illegal immigration because it was encouraged. Allowing thousands of illegal people to invade the U.S. on a daily basis and remain here for years without any measure of enforcement against such activity, is encouragement; plain and simple.
"Imagine a consumption based society that is already teetering on the brink of recession due to a lack of consumer spending. Teetering may not be the correct word when our president and Congress are so desperate for Americans to spend money, that both agree to sending checks out to the good taxpayers (and non-taxpayers) to provide the money for that purpose.
"Continue to imagine that in the middle of this mess, 12 to 20 million of those consumers would leave overnight, due to being deported. Politicians imagine this event occurring all the time; it's called a hideous nightmare.
"Now, given the above information, can you spell a m n e s t y? Your faithful representatives sure can. After all, if there is a fine, it's not amnesty, it's then spelled 'collusion.'
"So what's the answer? Should we just continue to increase population until the whole thing flies into a million pieces? Should we keep on expanding until our natural resources can no longer support us? Or should we work toward a sustainable economy that is not based on ever expanding population growth?
"Unfortunately, it is possible to add millions of people to these United States. However, have you ever seen pictures that exhibit the living conditions of the average people in China and India? A picture is worth a thousand words. That picture may well represent Middle America, just a few years down the road."
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Cancer Is An Infection Caused
By Tuberculosis-Type Bacteria
By Alan Cantwell M.D.
©. 2008 Alan Cantwell - All Rights Reserved
1-30-8
Why does the medical establishment ignore a century of research pointing to tuberculosis-type "acid-fast" bacteria as the cause of cancer? TB-type bacteria can be seen in specially-stained tissue sections of cancer tumors and viewed under the highest magnification of the light microscope at a magnification of 1000 times, under oil immersion. So why isn't this simple microscopic procedure performed in cancer?
As long ago as 1890, Scottish pathologist William Russell discovered "a characteristic organism of cancer" in every cancer he examined; and other pathologists of that era confirmed his findings. Yet, a century ago, the powers-that-be in medical science ignored this research and declared emphatically that bacteria were not the cause of cancer. The reasoning behind this dictum was that cancer did not act like an infectious disease, nor was it communicable. We know now this reasoning was false. Many scientists believe viruses cause cancer; and sexually- transmitted cancer-causing viruses can be passed from person-to- person as well.
For more than a half-century, the cancer microbe has been reported as a pleomorphic, intermittently acid-fast bacterium closely related to the acid-fast mycobacteria and to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the acid-fast microbe that causes tuberculosis (TB). The acid-fast stain is a time-honored laboratory stain specifically used to detect TB-type mycobacteria in tissue and in culture. Virginia Livingston M.D. (1906-1990) was the foremost proponent of the bacterial cause of cancer. She was the first to discover that the acid-fast stain was the key to the detection of the cancer germ, both in tissue (in vivo) and in laboratory culture (in vitro). Livingston, along with microbiologist Eleanor Alexander- Jackson, cell cytologist Irene Diller, and chemist and TB expert Florence Seibert, all reported that the cancer germ was pleomorphic (meaning it has various appearing growth forms) and was filterable, indicating that in certain stages of its life cycle the microbe was virus-like and submicroscopic. Bacteria can be seen with the light microscope; the much smaller viruses cannot. (For more information on the acid-fast stain, mycobacteria, and pleomorphism, simply Google those key words.)
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http://www.rense.com/general80/pike.htm
Pike's Amazing Predictions
Of Three World Wars
2-1-8
Albert Pike received a vision, which he described in a letter that he wrote to Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871. This letter graphically outlined plans for three world wars that were seen as necessary to bring about the One World Order, and we can marvel at how accurately it has predicted events that have already taken place.
Pike's Letter to Mazzini
It is a commonly believed fallacy that for a short time, the Pike letter to Mazzini was on display in the British Museum Library in London, and it was copied by William Guy Carr, former Intelligence Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy. The British Library has confirmed in writing to me that such a document has never been in their possession. Furthermore, in Carr's book, Satan, Prince of this World, Carr includes the following footnote:
"The Keeper of Manuscripts recently informed the author that this letter is NOT catalogued in the British Museum Library. It seems strange that a man of Cardinal Rodriguez's knowledge should have said that it WAS in 1925".
It appears that Carr learned about this letter from Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez of Santiago, Chile, who wrote The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled.
To date, no conclusive proof exists to show that this letter was ever written. Nevertheless, the letter is widely quoted and the topic of much discussion.
Following are apparently extracts of the letter, showing how Three World Wars have been planned for many generations.
"The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the "agentur" (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions." 2
Students of history will recognize that the political alliances of England on one side and Germany on the other, forged between 1871 and 1898 by Otto von Bismarck, co-conspirator of Albert Pike, were instrumental in bringing about the First World War.
"The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm." 3
After this Second World War, Communism was made strong enough to begin taking over weaker governments. In 1945, at the Potsdam Conference between Truman, Churchill, and Stalin, a large portion of Europe was simply handed over to Russia, and on the other side of the world, the aftermath of the war with Japan helped to sweep the tide of Communism into China.
(Readers who argue that the terms Nazism and Zionism were not known in 1871 should remember that the Illuminati invented both these movements. In addition, Communism as an ideology, and as a coined phrase, originates in France during the Revolution. In 1785, Restif coined the phrase four years before revolution broke out. Restif and Babeuf, in turn, were influenced by Rousseau - as was the most famous conspirator of them all, Adam Weishaupt.)
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustionWe shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." 4
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001, world events, and in particular in the Middle East, show a growing unrest and instability between Modern Zionism and the Arabic World. This is completely in line with the call for a Third World War to be fought between the two, and their allies on both sides. This Third World War is still to come, and recent events show us that it is not far off.
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http://www.ejpress.org/article/23776
Spanish law had mandated a sentence of up to two years in prison for Holocaust denial but in November Spain's Constitutional Court ruled it falls within freedom of speech and would no longer be punishable with jail.
The court however ruled that imprisonment is a constitutional punishment for any individual convicted of justifying the Holocaust or any other genocide.
In an address to parliament, the federation leader Jacobo Israel Garzon asked
lawmakers to "think about how to once again introduce prison terms for Holocaust denial in the penal code".
Holocaust denial is "the threshold of hate speech" and its "depenalisation"
could lead to the rise in the distribution of Nazi propoganda, he added.
Holocaust denial is specifically targeted by laws in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Romania.
In April 2007 the European Union made inciting racism and xenophobia crimes throughout its 27 member states in a landmark decision tempered by caveats to appease free speech concerns.
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Wednesday, January 30
The Care and Feeding of the Practical Psychopath.
Every generation has its challenges, its wars and its peculiar identity. Every generation replaces the one in front of it and gets replaced by the one behind it. The enemy of each generation is always the same. It changes its clothes and terrain. It moves in and out of political ideologies and religious dogmas but it’s the same enemy.
Defining the enemy isn’t an easy thing. You’re dealing with continuous shape-shifting. You think you are confronting it in front of you when it is actually leaning over your shoulder and advising you. You find that it agrees with you and is on your side only to discover that it has used its seeming alliance to discredit what you believe in; to misrepresent what you believe in.
One day it’s the communists, next day it’s the Nazis, today it’s the Zionists. Tomorrow it will morph into something else. It’s always about disinformation and confusion. It’s always about treachery and deceit. While it is filling your head with Al Qaeda and terrorism it is muscling up against Russia about Kosovo and running Columbian insurgencies against Venezuela. It’s always moving on to the next conflict where it’s selling weapons to both sides.
It’s controlling the information into the mass mind. It knows that you know about it. It also knows that all it has to do is to control the larger portion of
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http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2008/01/care-and-feeding-of-practical.html
Wednesday, January 30
The Care and Feeding of the Practical Psychopath.
Every generation has its challenges, its wars and its peculiar identity. Every generation replaces the one in front of it and gets replaced by the one behind it. The enemy of each generation is always the same. It changes its clothes and terrain. It moves in and out of political ideologies and religious dogmas but it’s the same enemy.
Defining the enemy isn’t an easy thing. You’re dealing with continuous shape-shifting. You think you are confronting it in front of you when it is actually leaning over your shoulder and advising you. You find that it agrees with you and is on your side only to discover that it has used its seeming alliance to discredit what you believe in; to misrepresent what you believe in.
One day it’s the communists, next day it’s the Nazis, today it’s the Zionists. Tomorrow it will morph into something else. It’s always about disinformation and confusion. It’s always about treachery and deceit. While it is filling your head with Al Qaeda and terrorism it is muscling up against Russia about Kosovo and running Columbian insurgencies against Venezuela. It’s always moving on to the next conflict where it’s selling weapons to both sides.
It’s controlling the information into the mass mind. It knows that you know about it. It also knows that all it has to do is to control the larger portion of
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http://newsfromrussia.com/russia/kremlin/30-01-2008/103745-putin_medvedev_gazprom-0
Many observers say that there will not be a major confrontation held during the presidential election in Russia on March 2. First Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will most likely replace Vladimir Putin on the top state position. Putin in his turn will chair the government.
However, it is still unclear who will chair the Board of Directors of Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom. It is Dmitry Medvedev who takes the position at the moment. If he becomes Russia’s next president he will not be able to stay at Gazprom. It is worthy of note that Gazprom’s administration will have to approve the new list of candidates to its Board of Directors on February 4. The annual meeting of Gazprom’s shareholders is slated to take place on June 27.
Gazprom’s Board of Directors consists of ten people. Four of them represent the state structures, four others are from Gazprom itself, and the remaining two act as independent economists. The list of candidates is longer this year, spokespeople for the gas monopoly said. It counts 42 names as opposed to 26 in 2007.
Like it was mentioned above, Dmitry Medvedev will not be able to combine two positions of the president and the chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom. However, Vladimir Putin will have a full right for this, experts say.
It is not ruled out that Vladimir Putin may thus become Dmitry Medvedev’s successor at Gazprom.
There is another variant to solve the problem. A source close to the presidential administration said that Aleksey Miller, the incumbent chairman of Gazprom’s Board of Directors, may take the position. The chairman of the legal department of the company, Konstantin Chuichenko, will become his successor in this case.
The inauguration of Russia’s new president will take place in the beginning of May, when the new head of state officially takes office. Consequently, Dmitry Medvedev will be able to remain the chairman of Gazprom’s Board of Directors before May 2008.
Gazprom is the largest Russian company. Gazprom is the biggest extractor of natural gas in the world With sales of US$31 billion in 2004. It accounts for about 93 percent of Russian natural gas production; with reserves of 28,800 km3, it controls 16 percent of the world's gas reserves (as of 2004, including the Shtokman field.) After acquisition of the oil company Sibneft, Gazprom, with 119 billion barrels of reserves, ranks behind only Saudi Arabia, with 263 billion barrels, and Iran, with 133 billion barrels, as the world's biggest owner of oil and oil equivalent in natural gas.
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30/01/08 "SMH" -- - A FORMER head of Pakistan's military intelligence says Australia's troop deployment in Afghanistan is doomed to failure and has urged the Government to withdraw its forces as quickly as possible.
Hamid Gul, the retired general who was the director-general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate when it supported Afghan militias against the Soviet occupation of their country, believes Western troops will be forced to leave Afghanistan by the end of next year.
"There comes a time in every war when the scales start tilting," Mr Gul said. "I think the foreign presence in Afghanistan is at a tipping point now. Even if they are able to stretch it out, next year will be the last campaign year of the occupying forces. Then they will go - they will have to go."
Mr Gul said it was not "wise" for Australia to maintain its troop commitment. "Of course it's very difficult to say no to America, but [Australia should] find a way out like Japan … and many others."
More than six years after the US-led invasion, the issue of security came to a head this week when the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, threatened to pull out Canada's 2500 troops early next year unless NATO sent in more soldiers.
The US said it would press its European NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan's violent south, but the Pentagon has said it will not commit any more of its own forces there.
The Taliban were toppled by the invasion in late 2001 but have recently made an explosive comeback, despite the presence of 50,000 foreign troops under the command of NATO and the US military, backed by 120,000 Afghan security forces.
Australia has about 1000 troops stationed mainly in the south, making it the largest non-NATO contributor. The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has pledged to keep Australian troops in Afghanistan.
But Mr Gul says Western forces face a determined opposition that will not give up."As a soldier I can tell you there is no army, no matter how strong, that can prevail against a nation that decides to fight. You will never, never prevail," he said.
Since retirement Mr Gul has been involved with Jamaat-i-Islami, a relatively moderate Islamic political party in Pakistan, and was among a group of retired army officers who last week called on the President, Pervez Musharraf, to stand down.
Mr Gul concedes that a withdrawal from Afghanistan by the US and its allies would probably hand control of much of the country to the Taliban. But he said the security situation in his own country would improve significantly if US forces were to depart Pakistan.
The Afghan Defence Minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, has said Kabul expects its allies to help expand Afghanistan's security forces. "The only sustainable way to secure this country in an enduring way is to enable the Afghans themselves to be able to defend this country," he said.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4218157&page=1
Ex-9/11 Panel Chief Denies Secret White House Ties
Book Charges Zelikow May Have Interfered With the 9/11 Commission's Report By JUSTIN ROOD
Jan. 30, 2008
The former executive director of the 9/11 Commission denies explosive charges of undisclosed ties to the Bush White House or interference with the panel's report.
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Terror Leader Killed in Missile Strike?Obama Returns More Rezko-Linked CashGOP Lawmaker Presses Rice Over Iraq Rape CaseThe charges are said to be contained in New York Times reporter Philip Shenon's unreleased book, "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation," according to Max Holland, an author and blogger, and generally confirmed by the book's publisher. Although the book is not slated to hit stores until early next month, Holland says he bought a copy of the audio version at a bookstore. (Attempts to purchase the book, in any format, at the Barnes & Noble across the street from ABC News headquarters were unsuccessful.)
9/11 Commission co-chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton hired former Condoleezza Rice aide Philip Zelikow to be executive director, Zelikow failed to tell them about his role helping Rice set up President George W. Bush's National Security Council in early 2001 – and that he was "instrumental" in demoting Richard Clarke, the onetime White House counterterrorism czar who was fixated on the threat from Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, according to Holland's version of Shenon's tome.
"[Zelikow] had laid the groundwork for much of what went wrong at the White House in the weeks and months before September 11. Would he want people to know that?" Shenon writes, according to Holland.
Zelikow denied that was the case. "It was very well-known I had served on this transition team and had declined to go into the administration. I worked there for a total of one month. I had interviewed Sandy Berger, Dick Clarke and most of the NSC staff." He noted he recused himself from working on the section of the panel's report addressing the NSC transition, and that other staffers had held conflicting positions in the Clinton administration.
In his book, Shenon also says that while working for the panel, Zelikow appears to have had private conversations with former White House political director Karl Rove, despite a ban on such communication, according to Holland. Shenon reports that Zelikow later ordered his assistant to stop keeping a log of his calls, although the commission's general counsel overruled him, Holland wrote.
Ex-9/11 Panel Chief Denies Secret White House Ties
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Bush Sides With Mexican Truckers
President defies wishes of majority of Congress,American people
PRESIDENT BUSH IS ALLOWING Mexican truckers to roam freely throughout the United States, with sleepy drivers, bad brakes and thin tires, in defiance of a new law passed by Congress.
The decision to proceed with the four-month-old unlimited access program came despite language in a recently passed catch-all bill intended to ban the trucks.
The Department of Transportation is taking advantage of a loophole which provides no enforcement money. So the DOT has taken the position that, if you lack the funds to make us follow the law, we will disobey the law.
Obviously, it costs nothing to tell the Mexicans to stay inside the long-established narrow limits within the U.S. border.
The provision in the law signed by President Bush says: “None of the funds made available under this act may be used to establish a cross-border motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between the United States and Mexico.”
“They know what the law says,” said Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), who won a 74-24 vote to block the program. “And they’re not above the law.”
The program rejected by Congress but implemented by Mr. Bush is opposed by labor unions, independent truck owners and environmental groups. It allows 500 trucks from 100 Mexican motor carriers full access to American roads. The trucks could be driven by terrorists and the cargo could include nuclear weapons.
Opponents have been fighting the program since it was proposed as part of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing it will erode safety and eliminate U.S. jobs. They argue that insufficient safeguards exist to make sure Mexican trucks are safe.
“When you open up U.S. highways to long-haul Mexican trucks without equivalent safety standards, it poses risks for American drivers [and pedestrians],” Dorgan said.
(Issue #3, January 21, 2008)
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http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=7956
Re: Anthrax Attacks 2001 – An Inside Job
by Scarlet Carson – January 30, 2008
Well, well, well. The British History channel ran a program about how the anthrax attacks that occurred shortly after 9/11 could only have come from the U.S. biowarfare community. This program has never been seen on American television. And needless to say, no one has ever been arrested for the anthrax attacks.
Weapons grade anthrax (ultra pure and processed so that it would disperse very easily in the atmosphere) was sent in envelopes to several people, mostly Democrats, and included Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle, from South Dakota. This attack occurred on Oct. 15, 2001.
The so-called "Patriot" Act was then quickly introduced. It passed. NO ONE READ IT. On Oct. 25, 2001, ten days later, the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America – Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism – nice acronym, you just know some schmuck spent hours, if not days coming up with that one) passed in the Senate 98 to 1. Russ Feingold, the Democratic Senator from Wisconsin was the only Senator to vote against this monstrosity.
It later turned out that the so-called "Patriot" Act had been planned long before September 11. See: www.truthout.org/docs_02/05.21B.jvb.usapa.911.htm
Now here's a thought: the U.S. Senate had been split evenly, 50 Democrats to 50 Republicans in 2001, up till June 6, 2001 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont who was a Republican, pulled a switcheroo, and became an Independent, and announced he would be caucusing with the Democrats. That meant that Tom Daschle was now Senate Majority Leader. Three months later came 9/11. Less than five months later came the Oct. 15, 2001 anthrax letter attacks. Of 28 people who tested positive for anthrax, after the attacks, 20 of them came from Tom Daschle's office alone! Now, if Tom Daschle had died from this anthrax attack (a distinct possibility given the extreme lethality of the anthrax sent) then the control of the Senate would have shifted once more to the Republicans. It gets rather complicated, but from 2000 to 2002, control of the Senate switched back and forth between the Democrats and the
Republicans.
From the U.S. Senate website:
"Note: From January 3 to January 20, 2001, with the Senate divided evenly between the two parties, the Democrats held the majority due to the deciding vote of outgoing Democratic Vice President Al Gore. Senator Thomas A. Daschle served as majority leader at that time. Beginning on January 20, 2001, Republican Vice President Richard Cheney held the deciding vote, giving the majority to the Republicans. Senator Trent Lott resumed his position as majority leader on that date. On May 24, 2001, Senator James Jeffords of Vermont announced his switch from Republican to Independent status, effective June 6, 2001. Jeffords announced that he would caucus with the Democrats, giving the Democrats a one-seat advantage, changing control of the Senate from the Republicans back to the Democrats. Senator Thomas A. Daschle again became majority leader on June 6, 2001. Senator Paul D. Wellstone (D-MN) died on October 25, 2002, and Independent Dean Barkley was appointed to fill the vacancy. The November 5, 2002 election brought to office elected Senator James Talent (R-MO), replacing appointed Senator Jean Carnahan (D-MO), shifting balance once again to the Republicans – but no reorganization was completed at that time since the Senate was out of session."
In the event of a Senator leaving his office for any reason, the governor of his state appoints a Senator to fill in for the interim. The governor of South Dakota in 2001 was William Janklow, who had been governor for something like 16 years, and was a Republican. Republican governors almost always appoint Republican Senators as replacements, no matter whether the original Senator was a Democrat. Thus, if Senate Majority Leader Daschle had been killed in the anthrax attacks, the control of the Senate would have switched back once again to the Republicans. So in this scenario, not only would the control of Congress pass once more to the Republicans, including the all-important subpoena power, but the former Majority Leader would be dead. It's called a two-fer. Side note: just two short years later, William Janklow, now the sole U.S. Representative from South Dakota, would be charged with second-degree manslaughter, when his car, which was speeding, slammed into a guy on a Harley-Davidson, and killed him, in rural South Dakota.
Now, going back in time just slightly, to late 2000, there were more curious events relating to control of the U.S. Senate in the 107th Congress.
In Missouri, popular governor Mel Carnahan, because of term limits, could not run again for governor. So he decided to run for U.S. Senate, against John Ashcroft. Just one problem. On Oct. 16, 2000, he died in a plane crash. A plane crash that some called suspicious.
From: www.thegreenpapers.com/News/20001017-0.html
"Political Implications of Governor Carnahan's passing
A Carnahan victory against Incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft was key to the Democrats' plans for regaining control of the United States Senate. Under Missouri law, even though he is dead, Carnahan remains on the ballot. That is, the Democratic Party cannot change the ballot. We are now 3 weeks away from the election and the filing deadline has passed."
Now, isn't that special? Since Carnahan died 3 weeks from the election, and the filing deadline had passed, the Democrats were forced to run a dead guy for Senator from Missouri against John Ashcroft.
Which looked very bad for the Dems and very good for the Repubs. But incredibly the Dems won. That's right, John Ashcroft became the first person in history to lose a Senate election to a dead guy. Which freed up his schedule so that eventually we all got the supreme bliss of having him as Attorney-General of the United States of America. I mean hearing him sing "Let the Eagle Soar," was worth it alone!
But Mel Carnahan was not the only Democrat to die in a plane crash around this general period of time. In 2002 Paul Wellsltone also perished.
From: www.alternet.org/story/14399/
"Paul Wellstone was the only progressive in the U.S. Senate. Mother Jones magazine once described him as, "The first 1960s radical elected to the U.S. senate." He was also the last. Since defeating incumbent Republican Rudy Boschowitz 12 years ago in a grassroots upset, Wellstone emerged as the strongest, most persistent, most articulate and most vocal Senate opponent of the Bush administration.
In a senate that is one heartbeat away from Republican control, Wellstone was more than just another Democrat. He was often the lone voice standing firm against the status-quo policies of both the Democrats and the Republicans. As such, he earned the special ire of the Bush administration and the Republican Party, who made Wellstone's defeat that party's number one priority this year.
Various White House figures made numerous recent campaign stops in Minnesota to stump for the ailing campaign of Wellstone's Republican opponent, Norm Coleman. Despite being outspent and outgunned, however, polls show that Wellstone's popularity surged after he voted to oppose the Senate resolution authorizing George Bush to wage war in Iraq. He was pulling ahead of Coleman and moving toward a victory that would both be an embarrassment to the Bush administration and to Democratic Quislings such as Hillary Clinton who voted to support "the president."
Then he died."
He died, by the way, on the exact one year anniversary of the passage of the so-called "Patriot" Act. A nice touch, that.
His death, and the timing of it, was more than suspicious. He had just recently been nakedly threatened with "severe ramifications' by none other that Darth Cheney himself. Yes, indeed, the Dark Lord was not happy.
From: www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?p=55075&sid=4954d6855134dc02619da3c0157829ce
"Shortly before he died in a mysterious airplane crash 11 days prior to the 2002 elections, Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone met with Vice President Dick Cheney, probably the Bush administration's most evil public face.
Cheney was rounding up Senate support for the October 2002 vote on giving the administration carte blanche to invade Iraq, with or without blessing from the United Nations. Cheney strong-armed opposing politicians like the most vindictive of mafioso leaders, and opponents usually gave in.
But not Wellstone. Whatever you thought of his progressive brand of politics, he wasn't a wimp. And that's what made him more than dangerous in the eyes of people like Cheney.
At a meeting full of war veterans in Willmar, Minn., days before his death, Wellstone told attendees that Cheney told him, "If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota."
Wellstone cast his vote for his conscience and against the Iraq measure, the lone Democrat involved in a tough 2002 election campaign to do so. And a few weeks later on Oct. 25, as he appeared to be winning his re-election bid, Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, his daughter, Marcia Markuson, three campaign staffers, and two pilots died in a plane crash in Minnesota.
Talk about "severe ramifications."
So once again, in the space of just two years, the Democrats were in the position of having a Senate candidate die just days before the election. In this instance, although there were only 11 days till the election, they were able to persuade former Vice-President Walter Mondale to run in his place, and polls that were taken just days before the election looked good. Real good, fact – they showed Mondale winning by 6%, 51% to 45%. But then for some reason, on election day Mondale lost to Norm Coleman, the former mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota. Mondale lost by less than 50,000 votes out of well over 2,000,000 cast.
From: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Minnesota,_2002
"At the time of his death, Wellstone was slightly ahead in the polls. After Walter Mondale was chosen as the DFL candidate, in a poll taken a few days before the election Mondale was leading 51% to 45%. Early on election day Mondale was leading in votes but by nightfall Norm Coleman pulled ahead. The senator-elect won narrowly 47% to 50%."
Not that it's necessarily germane to this discussion, but the reader may enjoy learning that St. Paul has a special place in U.S. history, because in the 1930's, when John Dillinger and all the other outlaws were tearing the country up, The St. Paul police and political establishment openly stated and boasted, even, that they had made a deal with the crooks to keep hands off, so long as the crooks didn't mess with St. Paul. So basically, St. Paul gave the bad guys sanctuary, in exchange for being left alone. You know, just like certain New Yorkers pay protection money to the mob in exchange for being left alone. Now that's a great example to set for your constituents.
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Stock Crashes, Banker-Judges,
and Funeral Directors
By Sherman H. Skolnick
10-14-99
The 20th Century has had four stock crashes, 1907, 1929, 1937, and 1987. Early in 1987, I began commenting to acquaintances that I knew or suspected were plungers in the market, telling them, "You know, October is crash month. You would be better off to stick to the business you know lots about and leave the stock peddlers and stock swindlers to themselves."
Too often, their response went like this, "Sherman, since when are YOU a known financial commentator? You have no MBA---why, you did not even graduate from college."
"Well, as to college, I won first place in a college scholarship contest on merit. But I was put in with a bunch of dummies. Remember, I was a math major. My high school teacher was a protege of ALbert Einstein but the teacher had incorrect politics, so they sent the teacher to strenuous work, in an out of the way high school for crippled children. As a punishment, the teacher previously had been assigned to teach in a prison", I pointed out.
Giving more background, I added, "I gave back the college scholarship after 3 semesters because I wasn't learning anything I could not find out myself in the library," restraining myself from becoming insulting.
"The known financial experts--and that's not you--say we are in roaring prosperity. Things are wonderful," my suspected stock gambling friend retorted. "And you, Sherman, should stick to court reform and stop making stupid opinions about stock markets."
"Look,friend, I and my pals study financial matters because the key judges in America, from the start of this nation, have also owned and operated banks. AND: they do not disqualify themselves when THEIR BANK and THEIR BIG CUSTOMERS end up somehow in THEIR COURT," I bristled, adding, "Look, over the years, the big-time crooked judges our work sent to prison---most were BANKERS."
"So what", my unimpressed acquaintance shot back. And in an angry tone, I sneered, "With a system riddled with Banker-Judges, guess who wins in THEIR crooked court, huh?"
"Look, I have been checking the trends and such, and I believe October 19, 1987, will go down in history as Black Monday. But you can dismiss what I say and instead History will teach you a permanent and bitter lesson. So forget what I say," I finally said, resigning myself to being unheard.
So months later, on Monday, October 19, 1987, I was sitting with a friend eating a late lunch in a restaurant some distance from downtown Chicago. The TV there was on and the news was the market heading for a 500 point free-fall. My friend suggested we hurry up and get down to La Salle Street. "Why there?" I asked. The friend said, "Maybe they will jump out of windows". Cynically, I pointed out, "In modern buildings, the windows don't open up. The suicides after the 1929 crash were mostly into the 1930s, when things became really hopeless. Besides, if they jump out of a window on La Salle Street, they may damage the uninsured roof of your car as we drive by". So we sat and watched the debacle on the tube.
About a week later I met some of my acquaintances at a luncheon meeting. Feeling proud of my bull's-eye prediction, I sarcastically asked, "So, did you get your ass out of the market like I suggested, huh?" That "drop dead" look was all I got as several such apparently now-stricken stock plungers walked by with their plate of food. Secondary sources informed me that certain folks I knew got "burned" big in the Crash. One such finally screamed at me, "If assholes like you would just shut you rotten big mouth, we would have a prosperity and no stock crashes." Some now former-acquaintances have not talked to me ever since.
When early 1999 came around, I began saying, "Hey, friend, October is crash month." BUT: to hedge my predictions---and predictions can be risky---I said, "Well,it may be the beginning of a bad slide which may end up later as a crash. Or, the crash may not be that dramatic but prolonged."
Like in 1987, I was heckled by acquaintances all hung up on university diplomas hanging on the wall, Wharton School of Business degrees and such. "Look, this is a new era, business cycles are obsolete. Computers are part of the new prosperity technology", I heard them mouth off. Established pundits said about the same thing on Radio, TV, and in the press.
New era talk, I thought to myself. Some of those so-called "long-term investors" may end up eating out of garbage cans like in the Depression. As a child, I remember seeing former bigshot stock salesmen walking down the street in the last of their now threadbare good suits, without a coat, into the winter winds. The 1930s was a decade when a lot of people died, unemployed, sick,heartbroken. I always thought the Great Depression had murdered them. By 1935, the Wall Street Journal almost went bust.The name "Stock and Bond Salesmen", in my neighborhood, was a dirty word in those days.
I suspect the Great Gold Crisis of 1999, censored by the monopoly press, may be the crack in the wall of the so-called prosperity, a false feeling of good times pumped up by easy credit, and a flood of Federal Reserve Notes masquerading as the so-called "U.S. Dollar", backed by nothing, not gold, not silver, just hot-air promises. Savvy folks call gold the "killer metal", destroyer of the paper money world. How many just ordinary folks will lose their property when the ultra-rich scoop up homes, office buildings, and factories and such for a penny on the mortgaged dollar?
In all this, facing their own prosperity, the bankruptcy judges and lawyers stand to gain. In some big cities like Chicago, as I have pointed out publicly, they operate a "Bankruptcy Club", where favorable decisions are bartered, brokered, and purchased, and the law and the facts be damned. I call them, "America's Funeral Directors".
Other than panic newsletter publishers, WHO is there in a clear, unhysterical voice to warn us of the inevitable economic elevator of business cycles? Is that elevator on the way down? Is the down button, as before, marked OCTOBER?
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Key Players of 9-11 - Who is Jerome Hauer?
Posted By: ChristopherBollyn
Date: Sunday, 20 January 2008, 2:03 p.m. In the coming days I will publish an important article with crucial new information about several highly-placed U.S. government officials and the foreign computer technology that was used to carry out the aerial attacks of 9-11.
To obtain a copy of this forthcoming article, please send a donation to the email or postal address provided at the end of this article.
Thank you.
THE KEY PLAYERS OF 9-11
Who is Jerome M. Hauer?
By Christopher Bollyn
www.bollyn.com
Yesterday, a reader sent me a document that contained a link to a very interesting 9-minute video clip called "The 9/11 Solution."
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This short video, which I recommend, is about how the "9-11 cover story was sold to the public." It shows how – in the first hour after the attacks – the controlled media conspired, or was used, to promote the fairy tale that became the official story about why the World Trade Center towers collapsed, i.e. structural failure caused by fire.
The short video is composed of a couple clips taken from network television news on the very morning of 9-11.
The first is a clip of an unknown person in the street who provided a detailed explanation of how and why the towers collapsed. This simple man on the street, wearing a Harley-Davidson shirt, claims that the towers collapsed due to structural failure due to intense fires.
Although this person was not named, his non-expert opinion was echoed by highly-placed experts who were interviewed on the first news shows after the collapses. In hindsight, this video shows how manipulative and effective this "random" interview was in seeding the official explanation of 9-11.
The second clip is even more interesting. This is a Dan Rather interview with Jerome M. Hauer, the first director of the Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management (OEM). Not only does Hauer second the opinion that burning jet fuel brought down the towers – he even goes so far as to put the blame on Osama Bin Laden.
Now wonder they call him a "Terrorism Expert."
This is a very important video clip because it shows how Jerome Hauer, the former director of OEM, was instantly ready to speak to the mass media about the attacks in New York – from San Diego, I presume.
The buildings had just collapsed but Hauer, from a distance, stated that the "velocity" of the planes and the fuel were responsible for the collapses, which certainly looked explosive to real explosion experts, such as Van Romero of New Mexico Tech.
Hauer then went on to say that the attacks carried the "fingerprints of Osama bin Laden." How could he possibly make such a damning determination of responsibility before any evidence had even been collected?
Hauer did not work in New York on 9-11. He had left his position as head of the director of the OEM in New York City in February 2000. He had then joined Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a large consulting concern based in San Diego, as a vice president and associate director of its Center for Counterterrorism Technology and Analysis.
Like Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerome Hauer is a Zionist expert on terror.
WHO IS JEROME HAUER?
Jerome Hauer is among the small group of key individuals who are suspected of playing crucial roles is setting the stage for Israeli false-flag terror attacks of 9-11.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York appointed Jerome M. Hauer, left, to lead the newly created Office of Emergency Management in 1996
Hauer was the first director of Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management. He directed the agency since 1996, when Giuliani shifted responsibility for the city's emergency preparedness from the Police Department to the new agency – headed by Hauer, a person he did not even know. How odd.
The New York Times wrote in May 2007:
Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Hauer began their relationship in January 1996 when Mr. Hauer was hired to lead the new Office of Emergency Management, created to coordinate the city’s response to crises. Mr. Hauer, who was little known before he became a Giuliani aide, had previously run emergency management programs for the State of Indiana and IBM.
Oddly, the New York Times never mentions Jerome Hauer's deep family roots in the New York Jewish Zionist community. From reading the Times, one might think that Hauer is from Indiana.
This can only be intentional. Hauer's mother, Rose Muscatine Hauer, is the retired Dean of the Beth Israel School of Nursing and the Honorary President of the New York Chapter of Hadassah, the Daughters of Zion movement that is one of the central Zionist organizations involved in the creation and maintenance of the State of Israel.
Rose Muscatine Hauer, nurse
Rose M. Hauer, dean of Beth Israel School of Nursing
Jerome Hauer is the son of the late Milton G. Hauer and Rose Muscatine who married April 4, 1949. His mother's parents, Hyman David Muscatine (1881-1964) and Rebecca Bertha (nee Gartner), were Hebrew-speaking Zionists. They both came to the United States in 1908-1909; Hyman from "Russia Poland" in 1908 and Rebecca from the Austrian Empire in 1909.
His father's parents, Moritz and Gussie Hauer, immigrated from Hungary before the turn of the century.
Jerome Hauer, however, is best known for being the director of the OEM when he made the decision to build a $13 million crisis center on the 23rd floor at 7 World Trade Center. This bizarre crisis center was unveiled in June 1999, and became the subject of tension between the agency and the Police Department, whose own command center at 1 Police Plaza had until then been the focus of emergency preparedness operations.
Jerome M. Hauer, who has strong family connections to the State of Israel, built the bizarre crisis center for the Office of Emergency Management in Larry Silverstein's WTC 7, the 47-story tower which was demolished by explosives in the afternoon of 9-11
As the first director of the new crisis center, "one of Hauer’s first tasks was to find a home for an emergency command center to replace the inadequate facilities at police headquarters," according to the Times.
Reports indicate that the OEM crisis center at the World Trade Center was not being used on 9-11 by the usual personnel. The center had been temporarily relocated to Pier 92 on Manhattan’s West Side, due to a FEMA drill which was supposed to begin on the day after 9-11, according to statements made by Mayor Giuliani.
So who was in the OEM center in Larry Silverstein's building on 9-11? That's the question the needs to be answered.
Hauer's "crisis center" for the Office of Emergency Management occupied the 23rd floor of the Israeli-built tower owned by Larry Silverstein. It should be noted that the OEM crisis center was constructed (like the damaged section of the Pentagon) by the same British company (AMEC) who was contracted to clean up the rubble from the WTC and the Pentagon. The blast-proof bunker occupied the floor with the blue glass stripe, about halfway up the tower.
As Mayor Giuliani told the 9-11 Commission:
The reason Pier 92 was selected as a command center was because on the next day, on September 12, Pier 92 was going to have a drill, it had hundreds of people here, from FEMA, from the Federal Government, from the State, from the State Emergency Management Office, and they were getting ready for a drill for biochemical attack. So that was gonna be the place they were going to have the drill. The equipment was already there, so we were able to establish a command center there, within three days, that was two and a half to three times bigger than the command center that we had lost at 7 World Trade Center. And it was from there that the rest of the search and rescue effort was completed.
The OEM crisis center in WTC 7 is suspected as being the control center for the pre-planned demolition of the towers. The center, and all of the evidence of the crime, was destroyed when the 47-story tower was completely demolished at about 5:25 p.m. on 9-11. This blast-proof command and control bunker with its own air and water supply was fortified to withstand incredible forces. What role did it play in the demolition of the World Trade Center?
So, who decided to build the OEM crisis center in the only WTC tower actually owned by Larry Silverstein?
It was Jerome Hauer, of course.
"Mr. Hauer said he decided that offices on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center, next to the twin towers and just a few blocks from City Hall, seemed the best choice," Russ Buettner of the New York Times reported in May 2007.
The site was immediately controversial because it was part of the trade center, which had already been the location of a truck bomb attack in 1993. City officials, though, including Mr. Hauer, have long defended their decision, even after the command center had to be evacuated during the 2001 terror attack.
Last week, in an interview with Fox News, Mr. Giuliani again faced questions about the site. He put responsibility for selecting it on Mr. Hauer.
"Jerry Hauer recommended that as the prime site and the site that would make the most sense," Mr. Giuliani said. "It was largely on his recommendation that that site was selected."
Jerome Hauer clearly belongs to the very small group of people who were involved in setting the stage for 9-11. Like the others, people like Michael Chertoff, Alvin K. Hellerstein, Michael B. Mukasey, Ronald Lauder, Larry Silverstein, Frank Lowy, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Goff, James Rodney Schlesinger, and the Israeli brothers Elad and Amit Yoran, who controlled U.S. cyber-security, Hauer is also a Zionist Jew from a family with strong ties to the State of Israel.
This is, in fact, the one characteristic that is shared by all of the people who played key roles in setting the stage for the most disastrous terror attack in U.S. history – or covering up the truth afterwards.
This is not to say that these individuals are all necessarily witting accomplices in the crime. It is actually more likely that they were used, almost like mules, and because of their devotion to Israel they were placed in positions where they could be influenced to make decisions that would facilitate the attacks, demolitions, and subsequent destruction of the evidence and obstruction of the discovery and litigation processes to obtain justice for the victims.
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Bush's Holocaust Of Iraq -
Operation Desert Slaughter
Thoughts On Holocaust Memorial Day
By Felicity Arbuthnot
GlobalResearch.ca
1-28-8
It is seventeen years since America and Britain embarked on their 'Final Solution' for the population of Iraq.
The forty two day carpet bombing, enjoined by thirty two other countries, against a country of just twenty five million souls, with a youthful, conscript army, with broadly half the population under sixteen, and no air force, was just the beginning of a United Nations led, global siege of near mediaeval ferocity. Having, as James Baker boasted they would, reduced 'Iraq to a pre-industrial age', the country was denied all normality : trade, aid, telecommunications, power, sanitation, water repairs, seeds, foods, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment.
As I write, seventeen years ago, Iraq would be entering the second week of a barbaric, near twenty four hour a day, carpet bombing, which, then, as now (lest we forget - yet again) scrupulously ignored Protocol 1, Additional to the Geneva Convention of 1977: 'It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies such as irrigation works (denying them) to the civilian population or to the adverse Party ... for any motive.'
The blitzkrieg on Iraq deliberately targeted all 'indispensable to survival'.
Within twenty four hours, most was destroyed. The electricity went off within two hours, leaving patients on life support machines and vital equipment, babies in incubators, or those on oxygen to die. Refrigerators defrosted, all medicine needing refrigeration, blood banks and vital saline solutions for the injured were destroyed. Food rotted and between the bombing and the bank closures (latter for fear of looting) replacements were scarce to unbuyable.
In Najav, seventy dialysis patients, 'old friends', said the senior nurse in charge of the unit, died for want of electricity. The water supply was deliberately destroyed, parts denied subsequently by the pathetic, US-UK dominated Sanctions Committee - a Committee without a backbone between them - and remains lethal to this day.
This was the plan by US Central Command, it seems, all along. The destruction of Iraq's water system has been described by Professor Nagy and Stephanie Miller as: 'a slow motion holocaust'. Few could have put it better.
(See: How the US deliberately destroyed Iraq's water. by Thomas J Nagy http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/NAG108A.html )
The telecommunications tower was also one of the earliest casualties, an elegant, soaring, structure on the edge of Baghdad's Mansur district. It lay, broken and crumpled, as did the remains of those who worked inside it. Iraq was thus cut off from the world, the extent of the bombing and atrocities largely unknown for considerable time. Iraqis throughout the world had no way of knowing if their families, friends, loves, were dead or alive. Radio and television stations across Iraq were blitzed so no warnings to populus could be given (journalists too have special protection in wars, but decision makers, seemingly are not only illiterate, but ignore legalities.)
Hospitals, health clinics, schools and kindergartens were bombed, education eradicated so totally that the stores for educational materials, in buildings separate from the schools (usually in a central distribution point some miles away) were also bombed. Agriculture in all forms was deliberately targeted. Chicken farms bombed, flocks of sheep and goats, broadly half of all buffalo were killed, dairy farms obliterated. Crops, food processing factories reduced to rubble. A war crime stupendous in its immensity, for which not one murderous, genocidal, infanticidal, decision maker or pilot has stood trial.
Pharmaceutical factories were bombed, the medical syringe factory was destroyed. And in an especially psychotic policy, the countries who were Iraq's trading partners and had built factories and installations for the country, bombed those which they had built. America's gung-ho goons whooped over bombing the Pepsi and Coca Cola factories. 'Bravery' doesn't come more deviant, sub-normal and retarded than that.
Due to the use of defoliants and napalm, half of all Iraq's trees, including the great, ancient palms, died. Remaining palms did not bear their succulent fruit for about five years. In the tranquil, family farming settlements, amongst the palms, women and livestock alike aborted and often died. Survivors consistently described a 'vapor' coming from the 'planes, then the horrific aftermath, affecting those living in the shelter of the palm groves or copses of trees, where dwellers settled for relative cool from Iraq's searing summers. And, of course, in this decimation from above, which dropped more ordinance daily than was dropped daily in the second world war, five times more explosive power was dropped than on Hiroshima.
The weapons used were depleted uranium, which continues to irradiate Iraq and the region, the people, flora and fauna -and will continue to do so for four and a half billion years. '..protection of the natural environment against widespread, long term and severe damage', is another absolute dictate under the Geneva Convention. It proscribes absolutely '... damage to the natural environment (prejucing) the health and survival of the population.' Contraventions don't come bigger than condemning inestimable generations yet unborn, to death and deformity. The Nuremberg Principles are exercised by the treatment of both civilians and prisoners and the: '... murder or ill treatment ...of prisoners of war ... further, extermination ... and other inhuman acts against any civilian population'.
The 'inhuman acts', committed against the Iraqi people in 1991 constitute war crimes which, since no one was brought to justice, one can only hope haunt those responsible for all time.
The slaughter on the Basra Road, after the ceasefire, the fleeing civilians and retreating troops, ripped to pieces, or incinerated in General Norman Schwartzkop's 'turkey shoot'. The whole war, of course, was nothing else. Saddam Hussein had offered, indeed, started to retreat from Kuwait before the carnage began, but as ever, for the United States, conciliation was 'too late'. Buses, lorries, cars were also targeted throughout the forty two day massacre. Lorries carrying medicines, meat, essentials were burned, with their drivers. Western troops took their repulsive 'trophy photos', with the pathetic remains of the incinerated and dismembered.
When the (UK) Observer, to its credit, printed the picture which became the symbol of the 1991 atrocities, the Iraqi soldier, with his near melted face welded to the windscreen of his vehicle, there was an outcry. The sensitivities of readers should not be exposed to such horrors. Maggie O'Kane, writing in the Guardian Weekly (16th December 1995) describes searingly, reality. Relatives, praying, hope against hope, that those they loved, had somehow miraculously survived the hadean inferno that was the Basra Road massacre. "On the day the war ended, at a bus station south of Baghdad, dusk was falling and the road was covered with weeping women.
The Iraqi survivors of the `turkey shoot' on the Basra Road were crawling home with fresh running wounds. Their women were throwing themselves at the battered minibuses and trucks, pulling, pleading, begging. `Where is he, have you seen him ? Is he not with you ?' Some fell to their knees on the road when they heard the news.
Others kept running from bus, to truck, to car, looking for their husbands, their sons or their lovers - the 37,000 Iraqi soldiers who would not come back. It went on all night and it was the most desperate and moving scene I have ever witnessed." There was worse. Think of the excesses of horrors the Western media has deluged its readers with over the years, those perpetrated by people of other cultures, with other features: Stalin, Pol Pot, indeed Saddam Hussein and consider this in Maggie O'Kane's article: '
When Sergeant Joe Queen returned to his home town of Bryson City North California, after the Gulf war, the first thing he saw was a huge banner draped outside Hardees Burger Restaurant, which read: `Welcome Home Joe Queen.' Joe Queen, who'd been awarded a bronze star, wanted to chill out after the war, but Bryson City wouldn't let him Joe, 19-years old, had gone straight from Desert Storm to become one of the first American troops to cross the Saudi border in an armored bulldozer. His job was to bury the Iraqis alive in their trenches and then cover over the trenches real smooth so the rest of the Big Red One, as The First Armored Mechanized Brigade is called, could come nice and easy behind him. 'Joe Queen doesn't know how many Iraqi troops he buried alive on the front line.
But five years later, in his military base in Georgia, he remembers well how it worked:
`The sand was so soft that once the blade hits the sand it just caves in right on the sides, so we never did go back and forth. So you are traveling at five, six, seven miles an hour just moving along the trench... You don't see him. You're up there in the half hatch and you know what you got to do. You did it so much you could close your eyes and do it... I don't think they had any idea because the look on their faces as we came through the berm was just a look of shock. `While I was retreating, I saw some of the soldiers trying to surrender, but they were buried. There were two kinds of bulldozers, real ones, actual ones, and also they had tanks and they put something like a bulldozer blade in front of them. Some of the soldiers were walking towards the troops holding their arms up to surrender and the tanks moved in and killed them. They dug a hole in the ground and then they buried the soldiers and leveled it.' One survivor described the friends buried alive, who he had laughed with, eaten with ...'I really don't know how to describe it. We were friends. I ate with some of them. I talked to some of them. I cannot express how I felt at that moment..... I saw one soldier and his body was just torn apart by a bulldozer. The upper part was on one side and the lower on the other side.'
I hope your nightmares and those of your colleagues haunt for all time Joe Queen. May the specter of those for whose live burial you and your murderous colleagues were responsible, follow in all your footsteps, for all time.
These mass graves also carry the names of the leaders who ordered the decimation of Iraq in 1991,their military Commanders and soldiers, on every one of them. Ironically, the mass graves of Saddam Hussein have seemingly not materialized, just war graves and those from the uprising encouraged by the US and UK at the end of the 1991 decimation. The war, of course, never ended. The thirteen year subsequent embargo cost maybe one and a quarter million lives.
Additionally, the US and UK, bombed Iraq (illegally) until the (illegal) invasion of 2003. In 2002, they stepped up their destruction of life, limb and of entire housing projects with families within, children playing, doing homework, flocks of sheep and goats with their child shepherds. 'Approximately a year before the United States initiated Operation Southern Focus, as a change to its response strategy, by increasing the overall number of missions and selecting targets throughout the no-fly zones to disrupt the military command structure in Iraq. The weight of bombs dropped increased from none in March 2002 and 0.3 in April 2002 to between 8 and 14 tons per month in May-August, reaching a pre-war peak of 54.6 tons in September 2002.' (Wikipedia.)
A recent study by the Centre for Public Integrity, has also uncovered lies of impeachable stature, leading to invasion, by the Bush Administration..
'The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them, or had links to al Qaeda, or both. 'Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq's links to al Qaeda, the study found. That was second only to Powell's 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al Qaeda.' (
Iraq's post invasion (2003-2007) excess under five mortality has been estimated at over one million. In Afghanistan, post invasion, at 1.9 million (2001-2007.)
For another humanitarian abomination of our time, the Israeli siege of the Gaza strip (June 2007 and ongoing) total excess death figures are elusive. CIA figures for infant mortality, however (2004) are woeful at 23.54 per thousand births. Sweden (2007) just 2.76 per thousand births. Given Israel's withdrawal of electricity and just about all needed to sustain life since last June, some serious statistical data is needed - and relentless and absolute demands for humanity and human rights for our global neighbors in Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan, the forgotten of Lebanon's 'Simmer Rain' decimation, by 'we the people ...' Like Joe Queen's genocidal actions, the atrocities committed in these countries are being carried out in our name. 'Silence is complicity'. (For much more shameful complicity - since 1950 - please see Dr Gideon Polya: 'Body Count', an academic, key and indispensable work: http://www.globalbodycount.blogspot.com)
'There was no one left to kill', declared General Norman Schwartzkopf after the Basra Road bloodbath, where even the injured holding white flags, and doctors accompanying them were obliterated. 'Morally, we won', an Iraqi doctor told me shortly afterwards. Indeed. 'We are the new Jews', is an oft heard, Arab refrain now.
As I write, on Holocaust Memorial Day, it is impossible not to reflect that is does not take forced labor camps, forced transport and Zyclon B to create a holocaust. When the figures of the dead in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza, reach six million, as the world stands by, will they too get their own Holocaust Memorial Day? Will we all, regardless of color or creed, ever learn, before it is too late?
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