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Behind The Copied Speeches -
Governor Deval Patrick Is
Brzezinski's Spare Obama
By Webster G. Tarpley
2-19-8

The recent discovery by various functionaries of the Clinton campaign that Obama habitually lifts entire passages from the speeches of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick points far beyond the issue of alleged plagiarism and gets us close to the central issue about Obama: the Illinois Senator is a synthetic Manchurian candidate who has been concocted over a period of two decades or more by a political intelligence faction associated with the Zbigniew Brzezinski clan, and Zbig's friends of the "color revolutions" faction at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Soros milieu. The striking fact revealed by the discovery that Obama and Patrick parrot the same type of utopian and messianic platitudes is not just that these two mellifluous demagogues habitually swap chunks of their speeches. It is rather that both of them are the product of the same process of programming, training, and indoctrination ­ one might well say brainwashing ­ on the part of the Brzezinski faction. They are both from the same stable, so to speak. The reason that there are two of them is that each is a backup for the other within the framework of the same overall intelligence community project, which is to bring the techniques of postmodern coup, otherwise known as the CIA color revolution or people power putsch, into this country in order to seize power in a postmodern coup d'état. Both Obama and Patrick can be viewed as the dummies through which the ventriloquist Brzezinski speaks.


It is of course ironic that Obama, the professional word-monger, deals in words he has filched elsewhere. With no achievements, no record, no commitments, no promises, no loyalties, and no track record, Obama's stock in trade is oratory. How revealing that his only capability, his words, have been purloined.

Here is an example, widely quoted on the Internet, of parallel passages spouted by Obama and by Patrick:


Obama: "Don't tell me words don't matter. 'I have a dream' ­ just words? 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' ­ just words? 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' ­ just words? Just speeches?"


Patrick: "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' ­ just words? 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' ­ just words? 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.' Just words? 'I have a dream' ­ just words?"



The passages are interesting since they amount to a pre-packaged defense against the most obvious objection to the two politicians in question: they are short on concrete policy proposals, and long on vapid rhetoric. Since it would appear that Patrick made his remarks first, there is little doubt that Obama is indeed a mimic of Patrick. This discovery, however, is not new. Over the past year, the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Phoenix have all published articles pointing to the fact that the babblings of these two politicians are astonishingly similar, to the point of being practically identical. The Boston Phoenix article is included below. What these passages reveal is that both Obama and Patrick are indeed Manchurian candidates, and that both are reciting from the same intelligence community print out. They have memorized their lines from the same prompter. This points to the fact that both of these candidates come out of a laboratory, the same laboratory, and not out of any normal political process is the average person would understand that. Their rhetorical style and repertoire of themes are coherent with the same covert operation, in which they are both cogs.


As far as can be seen at this time, the roots of the Obama candidacy go back to a project begun by Zbigniew Brzezinski and his National Security Council subordinate, Professor Samuel Huntington of Harvard, in the early 1980s. This was the immediate aftermath of the catastrophic Carter administration, which Zbigniew Brzezinski had helped to wreck with the help of his fellow Trilateral Commission member Paul Adolph Volcker, whom Carter had appointed as head of the Federal Reserve System. For Brzezinski and the Trilateralists, the Carter administration had been a great success, one destined to be repeated. The Soviets had been enticed to enter Afghanistan, where they were destined to undergo a humiliating defeat in a long and genocidal war. The Shah of Iran had been ousted and replaced with Khomeini, thus wrecking the Iranian economy and permitting a second phony oil crisis. In Carter's State of the Union address for 1980, he had promulgated the so-called Carter Doctrine, namely that the United States would maintain supremacy in the Persian Gulf against all comers. This became the framework for the first Gulf War and the current Iraq war, not to mention possible future attacks on Iran. The entire US economy was well on the road to de-regulation, and the de-industrialization of this country had been largely carried out. Carter had also left the office of the presidency far weaker and far more hated than it was when he found it.


At this point, Brzezinski, Huntington and their Trilateral associates were already looking ahead towards the prospect of a mass political upsurge which they expected to emerge sometime between 2010 and 2030 ­ in our own time today. They were already busily scheming to find ways to use this next political upsurge to further their favorite cause, that of totalitarian government in the United States. Huntington wrote in his American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (1981):


"If the periodicity of the past prevails, a major sustained creedal passion period will occur in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century. the oscillations among the responses could intensify in such a way as to threaten to destroy both ideals and institutions. Yet the continued presence of deeply felt moralistic sentiments among major groups in American society could continue to ensure weak and divided government, devoid of authority and unable to deal satisfactorily with the economic, social and foreign challenges confronting the nation. Intensification of this conflict between history and progress could give rise to increasing frustration and increasingly violent oscillations between moralism and cynicism. This situation could lead to a two-phase dialectic involving intensified efforts to reform government, followed by intensified frustration when those efforts produce not progress in a liberal- democratic direction, but obstacles to meeting perceived functional needs. The weakening of government in an effort to reform it could lead eventually to strong demands for the replacement of the weakened and ineffective institutions by more authoritarian structures more effectively designed to meet historical needs. Given the perversity of reform, moralistic extremism in the pursuit of liberal democracy could generate a strong tide toward authoritarian efficiency." (p. 232)


Huntington, like his model Carl Schmitt, has always been looking for ways to institute a dictatorship. Obama is a means to that end.


It is evident that during these years, Brzezinski, Huntington, and company began the process of recruiting and indoctrinating promising young people who could, after a suitable process of training and indoctrination, be turned into political operatives to be deployed decades later, in the midst of a crisis which Brzezinski and Huntington were able to foresee, to ensure an outcome agreeable to the ruling finance oligarchy. There is every reason to think that Obama and Patrick are to examples of the assortment of candidates and political operatives which the Trilateralists began assembling at that time. This is the deeper reason why Obama and Patrick spout the identical platitudes of utopian reform, the abolition of partisan strife, and the healing of our "broken souls" by the touch of a false messiah.


This process was nothing new for Brzezinski and Huntington. Around the time of the Watergate crisis and the ouster of Nixon, they had begun planning to field a Manchurian candidate who would carry the program of the Trilateral Commission into the 1976 election campaign. After the disgrace of Nixon, it was evident that a Democrat would be needed. In addition, the Trilateralists wanted an outsider, untainted by the Watergate scandal of the corruption of Washington. They decided to select a southern governor with vague populist overtones. As Brzezinski boasts in his memoir Power and Principle, Carter was selected because he was more interested in international affairs. But at the same time, the immense investment in money, time, and work in assembling a political machine, developing position papers, purchasing and corrupting journalists and television personalities, preparing vote fraud options in battleground states like New York and Ohio, etc., etc., was much too great to let it depend on one person alone. What if Carter had another nervous breakdown? What if he got hit by a car? What if he were indicted? For these weighty but obvious reasons, the Trilateral planners decided that they would need a spare candidate, to be held in reserve and to be deployed in case their primary choice proved unviable or unworkable. As Brzezinski also points out, the spare Carter was Governor Reuben Askew of the state of Florida, who also had presidential ambitions. But without the financial backing of David Rockefeller and the rest of the Trilateral machine, Askew's ambitions were destined to remain a dead letter. But the point is that there was a spare candidate always available to be rushed into the breach.


There are indications that Obama was recruited by Brzezinski or his immediate circles in 1982-1983, when Obama was a student at Columbia University in New York City. The main problem that arises in investigating this issue is the obsessive secrecy on the part of Obama concerning this phase of his life. As New York Times reporter Janny Scott wrote last year:


"Barack Obama does not say much about his years in New York City. The time he spent as an undergraduate at Columbia College and then working in Manhattan in the early 1980s surfaces only fleetingly in his memoir. In the book, he casts himself as a solitary wanderer in the metropolis, the outsider searching for a way to 'make myself of some use.'"

"He barely mentions Columbia, training ground for the elite, where he transferred in his junior year, majoring in political science and international relations and writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament. He dismisses in one sentence his first community organizing job - work he went on to do in Chicago - though a former supervisor remembers him as 'a star performer.'"

"Yet he declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."

"He doesn't remember the names of a lot of people in his life," said Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman.

"Mr. Obama has, of course, done plenty of remembering. His 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father," weighs in at more than 450 pages. But he also exercised his writer's prerogative to decide what to include or leave out. Now, as he presents himself to voters, a look at his years in New York - other people's accounts and his own - suggest not only what he was like back then but how he chooses to be seen now."

"In a long profile of Mr. Obama in a Columbia alumni magazine in 2005, in which his Columbia years occupied just two paragraphs, he called that time 'an intense period of study.'"

"I spent a lot of time in the library. I didn't socialize that much. I was like a monk," he was quoted as saying." "Obama's Account of New York Years Often Differs from What Others Say," New York Times, October 30, 2007.


What is Obama hiding about his years at Columbia? Why the obsessive secrecy? It is likely that this is the decisive moment of his life, when he comes under the guidance of his protector and patron, Zbigniew. "Soviet nuclear disarmament" is a thesis title that has Zbigniew Brzezinski written all over it. Zbig was at this time the head of the Institute on Communist Affairs, where he was located from 1960 to 1989, apart from his time in the Carter White House. There is therefore a strong prima facie circumstantial case that Obama entered Brzezinski's orbit between 1982 and 1983 at Columbia. (Persons who knew Obama at Columbia during those years are urged to contact the author if they have information bearing on thiese questions.)


Today, the fact that Obama's and Patrick's utopian verbiage is basically identical points to the fact that an arrangement similar to the Carter-Askew one is in effect. This is not the place to illustrate the parallel lives of these two subjects. We can only mention the fact that they both come from relatively humble circumstances, both grew up ­ as did Bill Clinton ­ as fatherless African-American boys, both were selected to attend upscale prep schools, and both attended law schools. They are profiles of remarkably similar, to the point of being almost congruent. Everything points, in short, to the fact that they are both products whipped up by the same intelligence community operation. They have both been synthesized, groomed, indoctrinated, and programmed with the same demagogic political operation in view. As individuals, they may or may not be aware of all that has been done with and to them. For their part, voters have every right to be disturbed by the robot-like similarities of the sounds coming out of the mouths of these two operatives. They are both playing back the same tape. As time goes on, it should prove possible to reconstruct in much detail the specific sessions, drills, and other procedures which have been used to inculcate the ability to speak in this strange and singular manner. But even now, the lesson for voters ought to be clear: it would be very unwise to put the Manchurian puppet candidate Obama, the creature of Zbigniew Brzezinski and his gang, into the White House.

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That's What He Said
Barack Obama Sounds Just Like Deval Patrick.
Is That Good Or Bad?
By Adam Reilly and Boston Phoenix
1-17-8


More than any other presidential candidate, Barack Obama owes his success to sheer rhetorical power. Obama's dazzling keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention made the then­Illinois state senator an instant presidential prospect. His breakthrough speech at Iowa's Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in November 2007 led to his caucus win earlier this month. Even conservatives dig his shtick: Republican media operative Mark McKinnon praised him as a "walking, talking hope machine."

Here in Massachusetts, though, Obama's oratory can also trigger déjà vu. His compelling message sounds a lot like the one that Deval Patrick ­ who's known Obama for years, and who, like Obama, is a client of Democratic media consultant David Axelrod ­ used during his successful 2006 gubernatorial campaign. (Axelrod also worked for Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards in 2004, the same year he helped Obama win election to the US Senate.) As David Kravitz, an editor of the liberal blog Blue Mass. Group, wrote after Iowa: "[T]here was always lots of similarity, but it's getting really dramatic."

This Patrick-Obama parallelism hasn't gone unnoticed in the press. In April 2007, after a New York Times Magazine profile of Axelrod mentioned it in passing, the Boston Globe examined it in greater depth two weeks later. And this past weekend ­ after the Globe noted the two politicians' fondness for the phrase "Yes we can!" in a story on Patrick's decision to stump for Obama in South Carolina ­ the Associated Press ran a bigger piece on the subject.

Overall, though, these stories have had an exculpatory gist. While the articles note that Patrick and Obama share broad themes ­ hope, change, a faith in the power of words and the political grassroots ­ they seem willing to attribute this commonality to shared life experiences (both are African-Americans who rose from humble circumstances to attend Harvard Law School) and shared political instincts and beliefs. As Axelrod told the AP: "It's not surprising that there would be a commonality of themes. They've been friends for so long. They talk a lot. . . . I'm sure they learned from each other."


Two Of A Kind

But did they overdo it? Remember: this is a presidential election in which authenticity (or the perception of authenticity) is playing a major role. Hillary Clinton's emotional moment pushed her to victory in New Hampshire, for example, while Mitt Romney's Manchurian Candidate persona is crippling his campaign.

To date, this dynamic has helped Obama. As Huffington Post blogger Steve Rosenbaum wrote this past year: "Simply put ­ Obama's words feel like his own. Both convincing and colloquial. . . . His delivery is authentic."

Of course, no politician creates his or her message out of whole cloth. But the parallels between Patrick and Obama's messages are so close that they could end up limiting Obama's ability to play the authenticity card. Consider the following:

Both men depict themselves as change agents confronting stale establishments.

Patrick, speaking to National Public Radio (NPR) in December 2005: "The state is slipping behind, and I'm persuaded that the same old thing from the same insiders is not going to help."
·
Obama in a January 9 speech in Jersey City: "[D]o you want the same old folks out there doing the same old things? We need someone new."

Both say they're leading movements ­ and minimize the hubris of this claim by crediting their supporters.

Patrick in his November 7, 2006, victory speech: "You are the ones who transformed this from a political campaign to a movement for change, and I am honored and awed by what you have done."

Obama speaking with reporters after his victory in the Iowa caucuses: "I think [Iowa voters] sparked a potential movement for change in the country that will be inspiring for a lot of people."

Both practice an existential brand of politics.

Patrick in an October 2006 speech on Boston Common, where he hammered Republican candidate Kerry Healey for a controversial ad linking Patrick to a convicted rapist: "Hers is a politics of fear. Ours is a politics of hope."

Obama in April 2007, responding to Republican Rudy Giuliani's suggestion that America will suffer another big terrorist attack if a Democrat wins in 2008: "Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low, and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics."

Both leaven their optimistic tone by emphasizing the need for hard work.

Patrick in a 2006 TV spot: "[M]y grandmother had a saying, 'Hope for the best and work for it.' That fundamentally is what I'm asking you to do now."

Obama in his official campaign kickoff speech in February 2007: "[I]t won't be easy . . . Let us begin this hard work together. Let us transform this nation."

Both appeal to conservatives by stressing that government isn't a panacea.

Patrick speaking to NPR in 2005: "There is a much more negative, much more hurtful vision of government that has been spreading. Not the vision that government can do everything for everyone ­ nobody believes that ­ but the vision that government is bad, rather than government is us."

Obama addressing the Democratic National Convention in 2004: "The people I meet in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks, they don't expect government to solve all their problems."

Both insist that disagreement shouldn't preclude cooperation.

Patrick addressing a church audience in Springfield in 2006: "In politics, we need to get past this point where the view is, 'Unless we agree on everything, we can't work together on anything.'"

Obama addressing supporters in Nashua, New Hampshire, prior to that state's primary, quoted by the St. Petersburg Times: "You don't have to agree on everything to agree on some things."

Both temper their tendencies toward political messianism with winning self-deprecation.
Patrick in an October 2006 candidates' debate: "I don't have all the answers. No candidate does."

Obama in a September 2005 message to readers of dailykos.com. "Let me end by saying I don't pretend to have all the answers to the challenges we face."


The Man Behind The Curtain

Maybe liberals and progressives should find these convergences reassuring. After all, Patrick used his message to win a competitive Democratic primary, and then a general election; he was the first Democrat elected governor in 16 years, and the first African-American governor in the state's history. Similarly, Obama is seeking to win a Democratic primary, to return the presidency to Democratic hands, and to break an even bigger racial barrier. If the same message works, why not use it?

For that matter, why worry about where it came from? Axelrod probably matters more than he admits. (Here's John Edwards after Iowa in 2004: "I came here a year ago with a belief that we could change this country, with a belief that the politics of what was possible ­ the politics of hope ­ could overcome the politics of cynicism. . . . [T]onight we started a movement to change this country that will sweep across America.") But that just means he might be the long-awaited Democratic answer to Karl Rove.

Still, there's that authenticity problem. Obama's message is undeniably powerful. But that power diminishes a bit when you realize it isn't his alone. Whether, after this realization becomes widespread, it will still pack enough political punch to get him to the White House is an open question.



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Hijackings And How To
Make New Criminals
By Ted Twietmeyer
2-19-8

This is just getting to be simply too much. First we had Tom Ridge who was the pioneering "leader" of the nebulous, quasi-defense institution of Homeland Security which boldly duplicated the old East German Stasi-mentality. It's blatantly obvious that HS covertly funds brain-bending terrorist paranoid television shows like "24" and the civil-rights-stealing-feel-good show known as Law and Order and its bastard offspring, Law and Order SVU. And let's not leave out the infamous 24 hour propaganda channel, known as the Military Channel. I'll bet anything that even if ratings on any of Uncle's cookie-cutter shows fall below sea level, they will NOT be taken off the air. Not ever, until something newer has been produced to replace them. And you can bet more propaganda is being produced even now.

We mustn't leave out of the HS list those proud, Gestapo-like TSA agents at airports. They too have a role to play. Their employment comes with a lofty power trip to virtually and actually strip- search people, and taking items like nail clippers or liquids which passengers refuse to drink.

Bringing a baby on-board with you that needs a bottle to be happy? Better be ready to drink whatever formula or milk is that bottle, even if you are dangerously allergic to milk. That's no excuse. And to make someone drink anything is downright stupid. Let's look at this logically: any terrorist could swallow an antidote just before they entered the airport. This could include swallowing a handful of activated charcoal to absorb whatever toxic substances they drink, keeping them alive long enough to do what they want. They might even drink an accelerant. What difference would it make anyway? They plan to die with everyone else. Am I stating something here that some crazy hasn't thought of yet? Certainly not. But no one talks about these logical realities and that forcing someone to drink anything is pointless.

Equally pointless is that other directive when hand-carrying a video camera or other device with you, that you don't want destroyed by hard X-rays ­ you must turn it on so they can see that it works.

Recently, the Brits announced yet another new nail into the coffin lid which houses the miniscule remaining freedoms of their slaves. Now you need a microscope now to see that coffin as it shrinks monthly. What's their latest and newest bright idea? New plans are afoot to require people to buy a permit in person to purchase tobacco products. One can see what will follow ­ a new black market In England for tobacco products, just like the infamous "Speak-easies" during America's period of prohibition to buy alcohol.

Demand for any new banned product or item always creates a new underground market. It always has and it always will. Even during the days of ultra-tightly controlled Nazi Germany, there was a thriving black market where almost anything could be bought for a price. Of course the smoking permit will be cheap enough for most anyone to buy, but that won't matter. Why? If you're an illegal alien in the UK, they'll use your attempt to buy a permit to nail your hide to the wall. You'll probably be arrested right there in the permit office. So to prevent that from happening, illegal aliens won't even bother to apply for the permit. They will simply go buy their tobacco products on the black market.

But why stop there? Why not erect portable metal detectors on the street at random to look for knives? And so they have done that, too. Consider what happens in an airport when someone with a hidden prosthetic joint triggers an alarm. They are taken aside and searched.

Now think about what will happen with public detectors like this one below. Where are they going to take you aside here to search you if you have an artificial joint, insulin pump or a heart Pace- maker. Will they strip you right there on the street?

Portable metal detector madness ­ what persons or parties inside the government are connected with the contract to buy these things? Therein will be the reasons for their existence and required use. (photo courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk website)

The British government claims these portals are needed to crack down on those carrying knives. Just like taking guns away and leaving thugs unarmed, they will leave people completely defenseless.

This latest police state action only makes one or more of these statementss:

1. The government will protect you (?)
2. Crime is so low now you don't need any personal protection. The metal detectors on the street are only an illusion (?)
3. You're not supposed to be armed so you can DIE instead if you're attacked. Don't go down fighting, but go down BLEEDING to death. In any public health system country, the cold hard fact is that the state would much rather see someone die first than require the use of health care system resources. That's what saves the state money in any country ­ even more so in bad economic times.
4. Increased police presence designed to instill even more fear of the government.

The utter nonsense of rampant paranoia has infested the western world, with the sorry, pathetic excuse of "terror" as the reason always given. Those in power sit and laugh amongst themselves in private, watching the public wiggle and squirm while they reap the profits from buying utterly useless security systems and devices. Make no mistake - synthesized terror is big business.



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The bank, Julius Baer, sought the injunction to prevent claims being posted online that it was involved in money laundering and tax evasion in the Cayman Islands. It has indicated that the information was prejudicial to an ongoing court case.

Last night, the version of the site hosted in the US remained unavailable, but duplicate sites hosted in India and Belgium were still accessible.

Information on the Wikileaks site led to a front-page Guardian story in August 2007, exposing money laundering in Kenya by former president Daniel Arap Moi, and in November the site published a confidential briefing memo from Northern Rock that was picked up by the Guardian, the Financial Times and the BBC.

The site published hundreds of pages of information from a former bank employee about the offshore activity of Julius Baer. Several documents allegedly relate to money laundering claims. The bank could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Last week a Californian district court judge, Jeffrey White, accepted the bank's injunction without amendment and also ordered Dynadot, the site's domain registry, to delete all record of the address from the central internet domain registry. Wikileaks' founders said the US court's move breached the first amendment.



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Days Of Protest & Rebellion
Jim Kirwan
2-19-8

This nation was not born into this world as it exists today. It began with an idea that slipped through the rigid and established traditions of the Old World Order, to offer its new citizens a brief interlude with concepts that no nation had ever attained before. This 'freedom' in a fledgling Republic was theirs to lose-if they failed to understand the symbiotic relationship between the half-armored, half human, Freedom & Responsibility.

The founders lost this battle early, but succeeding generations fought to keep that torch alive, and over the decades chose to fight against the Old and rigid 'traditions' from a collective past that came directly from the Dark Ages.

Bit by bit Americans fought against the grain to establish for themselves and their posterity many of those rights that so many take for-granted today. One such period that encompassed most of the real fights over the future direction of this nation, came during the years surrounding the First World War.

There is a biography of Louise Bryant that takes us back to those heady Days of Protest & Rebellion. The story relates from the inside, the real battles between the rights of all people to a living wage and the demands of Capitalism that sought to maintain its stranglehold upon the vast populations of the world, who had to fight for every crumb of existence. Along the way the struggle for Women's Rights, the fate of the Union organizers as well as the in- bred conflict between the autocratic dictates of the establishment and the god-given rights of human beings to determine their own lives-each and all come into play-because that is what Louise's life and the lives of those she knew were all about. (1)

If Americans had discovered the substance in these events, as part of their basic education, we would not be in the situation that we find ourselves facing today. The biography is long (by web standards) but well worth the time if you want to understand how all these un-American laws and national Crimes-Against-Humanity have become commonplace today. Here's an excerpt from part four that sheds some light on what is ours, versus what the government has stolen from us-in the name of national security-in-a-time-of war!

"The freedoms the defendants claim as their birth-right will be no more if we are vanquished by a mortal enemy." Then Socialist Norris Hilquit for the defendants: "Constitutional rights are not a gift.
Countless thousands paid for them with their lives. War or no war; constitutional rights taken away and given back are never again the vivifying force they were before when they expressed the soul of a nation. They become just a gift to be given and to be taken away. ..." It was noon, Monday, April 28, 1918.

From a Senator in Senate Hearings, questioning Ms. Bryant: "You say you don't want to see this nation intervene in Russian affairs. Do you then think it is all right for the Bolshevik government to stir up a revolution in the United States?" At this question, she rose slightly from her chair, remained silent for several seconds, and then said passionately: "Revolutions, sir, are not like commodities that are exported from one country to another. They are created by conditions within a country. The Russian Czars made the Bolshevik revolution possible. If there is ever a revolution in this, my country, it will not be created by the Wobblies or the anarchists or anyone else. It will be the result of the sort of repression now sweeping this country, and by those of this country's leaders who want to see the repression go on."

Louise in a note: "I have been testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee and I want you to know my impressions of that unpleasant experience . . . I found myself at a long table, at which sat six men with cold eyes and harsh angry voices. They were my countrymen, but they were also my enemies. Their hate was naked and ugly, the flame of it burned away the mist before my eyes and I came away with the old, vague fears suddenly turned into vivid realities. . .

The men I write about are old men - not so old in years as in obsolete thoughts. They have determined to fight for a world as it was before the Great War - and that world no longer exists. They had decided to crush unmercifully all defenders of change. Each aged senator, chewing his everlasting cigar, sees in himself a Marquise de Lantenac - a strong man of the hour.

I have never been afraid of intelligent conversation, but I am afraid of ignorance, ignorance is cruel and intolerant. One cannot reason with it. When I went before the Committee I was full of hope. Here in America, I said to myself, we can surely get together . . . the breach is not so wide, there need be no violence. But; I was wrong, there will be. Our conservatives will see to that. It is idle to plead with such men; they will bring the house down on their own heads. They will destroy themselves and thousands of others. How many centuries ago Sophocles wrote: 'Woe for the doom of a dark soul!'" (2)

Several times throughout the biography politicians and various tyrants are "burned in effigy" ­ maybe it's time that this practice came back into vogue.

The United States today has become a hologram that cites as its reason for being-the existence of the hologram-which is both unreal and completely self-referential. Much talk revolves around the Constitution, the legalities of this or that action by the feral government, yet none of this has any bearing on the realities of life in Occupied America today. This is so for several very petty reasons. Foremost among these reasons is the fact that "sworn oaths" have come to mean less than nothing. In the real world of USA Incorporated, the only the oaths that count are taken when joining any of the Secret Societies, along with that oath so freely given, to Smoke & Mirrors, which is made to one's membership in major political parties. This is nothing more than a fantasy upon a farce: as whatever either supposed party "stands- for" changes with the political wind of every passing moment.

The other major departure from reality today is the fact that the people of this country have forsaken the laws of the constitution for their worship of Mammon, the god of Money. Somehow all of this became confused with the classical ideal of Victory and accomplishments unlimited. But the most famous image of Victory has no head, because she does not belong to any one person, just as Defeat is always headless-because no one ever claims it!
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Together these unrealities have combined to write our national epitaph in the Chemtrails that have begun to spell out our future, because we have chosen to remain in the Vestibule of Dante's Inferno: just inside the Gates of Hell.

There one finds the impossibly massive numbers of those that have continued to refuse to choose in life: so that in death they spend eternity chasing that forever whirling standard of the chaos that stands for nothing. Yet no matter how small the decision, everyone must choose something to believe in. Americans however, seem to believe that they are immune from such troublesome choices. So we have created this mythical hologram of ideologies and constructs that cannot survive within the poisoned air, the toxic land, or the undrinkable water of the world as it is today.

One wonders what the many would have thought; who fought so long for so many divergent 'rights and powers' had they but known how their descendants would have chosen to squander each and every one of their dreams: simply because we couldn't be bothered to discover anything about the way things really worked in this country, and that was less than a hundred years ago.

So many died, so many were destroyed to gain the simplest of basic things, and yet today that struggle of theirs might as well have taken place on Mars, for all the difference that it has not made in the thinking of our self-absorbed society: A self-concerned herd of terrified individuals that has deserted everything that we once said we 'stand for.'

If all the life on this planet were to be shown upon a one-hour clock, the portion that mankind has been here would occupy only the last one-one-hundredth of the very last second. That's how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. Yet in that miniscule time we have managed to utterly destroy our own place upon the planet; and now we are the single greatest threat to its existence. In addition we can't even seem to find ways for capitalism and the ordinary rights of people anywhere to co-exist.

Evolution and Extinction are part of the natural balance in this world. If we don't begin to find ways to both remain alive and return to living in accord with nature: then we shall soon disappear. The Judeo-Christian Ethic proclaimed Nature as the enemy of mankind-something that had to be conquered and contained-so that man could reign supreme. That hasn't worked out, and it never will.

Look around you, one act of nature can destroy a thousand years of humanity, in a few seconds: yet in the world of men too many have forgotten what happened to the despotic rulers of old, when they denied the rights of their slaves to anything remotely like a life! That's where the Guillotine came into this equation. The new rulers of the Old World Order are about to relearn that age-old rule firsthand, because none of us has ever "deserved" to spend their lives living above all the rest of us.

Our storied past can only serve as prologue for tomorrow if we heed what happened there and choose to change our ways. Only time can tell us whether we have reached our Zenith as a species, or whether we shall be recycled back, into the dust we share, with all of human-history.

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Ex-ISI chief foresees Iran-like revolution in Pak

Times of India – February 18, 2008

Former chief of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has said "an Iran-like revolution" is possible in the country if President Pervez Musharraf does not step down immediately.

"If Musharraf does not step down. We may have to think (about forcibly removing him) because, after all, the country is more important," former ISI Chief Hamid Gul has said in an interview to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

"We don't want the army and people to be clashing on the streets. That would be a disaster - a civil war or if we are lucky a revolution, something like the Iranian revolution (against the Shah in 1979)," he said.

"Pakistan was ripe for such possibilities. As a trained military man, one is obliged to think of these possibilities. And one is obliged to act as well," Gul was quoted as saying by Pakistan International Network.

Asked whether this meant his advocating a coup against Musharraf, he evasively said: "No, we are the ex-servicemen, not the serving men. I am saying to link arms with civil society - with the lawyers, the students. If we join them, it will have greater pressure on Pervez Musharraf to get out of office."

"Musharraf is the only impediment. If he goes, the judiciary can be restored to its original place. This will bring instant relief to people - the relief is a psychological phenomenon," the former ISI chief said.

"I hope Musharraf does pay heed to our advice and steps down. This will be good for him, the army and the nation. Everything else will fall in place."
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Bush Warns of Terror “That Will Make Sept. 11 Pale By Comparison."
Commentary – February 18, 2008

How does he know? The Bush administration was caught completely off guard by the events of 9/11. Or so they claim. They were in fact warned repeatedly about an impending terror threat by French and German intelligence, among others.

There are many other indications of some foreknowledge prior to 9/11. Not least of which was Condeleezza Rice’s warning to San Francisco mayor Willie Brown not to fly on that day.

Which brings us to the present and Bush’s warning below: is it an indication of another impending false flag? We know that the neocons are desperately angling for a U.S. strike on Iran. We also know that the U.S. military is adamant that this will not happen without due cause.

Another terror strike on the U.S. as big if not bigger than 9/11 would provide just that however. Particularly if it could be pinned on Iran it would open the way for a full-on U.S strike on Iran. One in which nuclear weapons might even be used.

The neocons are pushing for this scenario and it’s one that Bush might even play along with, just as he did with 9/11.


Bush Pushes for House Action on Eavesdropping Rules After Senate Passage
Fox News – February 13, 2008

President Bush pressured the House on Wednesday to pass new rules for monitoring terrorists' communications, saying "terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison."

Bush said he would not agree to giving the House more time to debate a measure the Senate passed Tuesday governing the government's ability to work with telecommunications companies to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails between suspected terrorists. The bill gives phone companies retroactive protection from lawsuits filed on the basis of cooperation they gave the government without court permission — something Bush insisted was included in the bill.

About 40 lawsuits have been filed against telecom companies by people alleging violations of wiretapping and privacy laws. The House did not include the immunity provision in a similar bill it passed last year.

"In order to be able to discover ... the enemy's plans, we need the cooperation of telecommunication companies," Bush said. "If these companies are subjected to lawsuits that could cost them billions of dollars, they won't participate. They won't help us. They won't help protect America."

The 68-29 Senate vote Tuesday to update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act belied the nearly two months of stops and starts and bitter political wrangling that preceded it. The two sides had battled to balance civil liberties with the need to conduct surveillance on potential adversaries.

Bush said the Senate bill was passed with wide, bipartisan support, and the House should pass it too — before the current law expires at midnight on Saturday.

"Congress has had over six months to discuss and deliberate," said Bush, who stood alongside Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell. "The time for debate is over. I will not accept any temporary extension. They have already been given a two-week extension."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused the president and Senate Republicans of being more interested in politicizing intelligence than resolving the debate. Reid said that the issue would not be before Congress if Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "in their unyielding efforts to expand presidential powers," had not created a system to conduct wiretapping, including on U.S. citizens, outside the bounds of federal law.

"The president could have taken the simple step of requesting new authority from Congress ... but whether out of convenience, incompetence, or outright disdain for the rule of law, the administration chose to ignore Congress and ignore the Constitution," Reid said.

Reid said if the president chooses to veto a short-term extension, he, not Congress will have to take the blame for any gaps in collecting intelligence of terrorists' communications.

"Due to months of White House foot-dragging, the relevant House committees have only just gotten important documents related to whether the Bush Administration followed the law and the Constitution," he said. "They need some time to review and analyze them. We must not let this critical issue be resolved by White House bullying."

Doubtful they can work out the differences in the bills by the time the law expires, Democrats in the Senate and the House prepared short-term extensions that would keep the law in effect for several more weeks. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky blocked an extension attempt Tuesday. Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said Republicans in the House would fight another extension.

"The one thing we've learned about Congress is they won't act until forced to," White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters after Bush's statement. "We're not going to pass extensions into perpetuity."

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said Tuesday he still opposes retroactive immunity.

"There is no basis for the broad telecommunications company amnesty provisions advocated by the administration," Conyers wrote in a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding asking for documents about the wiretapping program. The documents have been withheld from Congress.

While giving the White House what it wanted on immunity, the Senate also expanded the power of the court to oversee government eavesdropping on Americans. The amendment would give the FISA court the authority to monitor whether the government is complying with procedures designed to protect the privacy of innocent Americans whose telephone or computer communications are captured during surveillance of a foreign target.

The bill would also require FISA court orders to eavesdrop on Americans who are overseas. Under current law, the government can wiretap or search the possessions of anyone outside the United States — even a soldier serving overseas — without court permission if it believes the person may be a foreign agent.
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Voice of the White House February 18, 2008

TBR News.org – February 18, 2008

“Because of the public perception that many American Jews in government employ or in influential far right think tanks are primarily loyal to Israel first and, possibly, America second, anti-Semitism is sharply rising today. This is, for obvious reasons, not discussed in the media but it is very real. People who don’t know that Bush neither knows about nor cares about public opinion, bombard the White House daily with furious letters about what can best be called undue Jewish influence in America ’s foreign policy. It hasn’t gotten as ugly as it is now in France where Sarkozy, the Jewish French president is demanding French total acceptance of Israel and the teaching of “holocaust sins’ in all French schools. There has been a very strong movement, now on hold, for the U.S. to declare a ‘Day of Remembrance’ so that all Americans will have to observe a national day of mourning for the sufferings of the Jewish people. Why not one for the Armenians? Or Pol Pot’s victims? Or King Leopold’s slaughters in the Congo ? No, only Jews have suffered and Americans should seriously reflect on this. This sort of crap has the bad habit of blowing back on the perps and with violence unimagined. Only 17% of most Americans believe there was a Holocaust just as 25% of most modern Britons believe Winston Churchill was a fictional character. If the rabid Likudists and the vicious Neocons don’t like it here and view themselves as Israelis first and Americans second, why not encourage them to emigrate? The means of encouragement are varied but some would certainly be effective.”
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Dollar Sales by Japanese Investors Reach Record High (Update1)

By Kosuke Goto
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Dollar sales by Japanese individual investors on the Tokyo Financial Exchange Inc. rose to a record high on speculation the U.S. economy will suffer a recession.

Housewives, pensioners and businessmen accelerated sales of the U.S. currency this week, taking advantage of its rally to a one-month high against the yen. The exchanges share of so-called margin trading, borrowing money to buy and sell currencies, was 8.6 percent in 2007 based on figures from the Financial Futures Association of Japan.

``They do not seem to believe in the U.S. economic recovery later this year at all,'' said Yuji Kameoka, a senior economist and currency analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research, a unit of Japan's second-largest brokerage. ``They are expecting the dollar will head south.''

The U.S. currency traded at 107.84 yen as of 2 p.m. in Tokyo from 107.87 yen in New York yesterday. It rose to 108.60 yen on Feb. 14, the highest since Jan. 14. The currency has fallen 13 percent since June 22, when it reached a 4 1/2-year high of 124.13 yen.

Short positions held by individual investors on the dollar against the yen, wagers the U.S. currency will fall, reached 20,589 contracts on Feb. 13, the most since July 2006 when Japan's largest financial futures market started collecting data. The contracts are denominated in 10,000 units of the foreign currency.

Japanese investors have 1,536 trillion yen ($14.2 trillion) in financial assets, according to figures from the Bank of Japan released on Dec. 17.

Yield Premium

The dollar headed for the biggest weekly loss since December against the euro after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled the bank may cut interest rates further to avert a recession.

``Japanese individuals probably believe U.S. interest rates will go down amid a slowing economy, eroding the yield premium against the yen,'' said Tomoko Fujii, head of Japan economics and strategy at Bank of America Corp. in Tokyo, the second- biggest U.S. bank. ``They are waiting for dollar appreciation to sell.''

The U.S. currency may rise to 113 yen by June 30, Fujii forecast.

The difference in yield between benchmark two-year U.S. and Japanese bonds, among the securities most sensitive to interest rate changes, was 1.28 percentage points today, the smallest since October 2003.

The popularity of currency investment among Japanese individuals has soared in Tokyo. Trading of currencies in Japan using borrowed funds rose 162 percent in the third quarter to 185 trillion yen from the same period in 2006, data from the Financial Futures Association of Japan showed.

To contact the reporter on this story: Kosuke Goto in Tokyo at kgoto2@bloomberg.net .

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The Overthrow Of The American
Republic - Part 71
Gangster Assassin Terminated!
By Sherman H. Skolnick
4-25-5

After more than forty years, the American Secret Political Police iare throwing away their helpers.

The Federal Office buildings are located downtown Chicago. Originally, residing and headquartered just West of that, across the river, was the traditional Sicilian, Italian, Jewish, and Irish underworld.

Well-informed and astute independent-minded commentators were well-aware there was a nexus between "The Mob" and the Chicago Federal Hang-Man, the Chicago Federal Bureau of Inquisition, the Chicago Federal Banker-Judges, the Infamous Revenue Scissors, the Chicago Federal Narcotics Police, and the American CIA Chicago Station Chief, among others of the top-level of the Federal Bureaucracy acting at the behest of the Anglo-American Aristocracy.

"The Boys" aided the dirty work, foreign and domestic political assassinations, like JFK and RFK, Mexico, Central America, and South America; like dope importation into the U.S.; like penetrating hostile foreign governments through dope trafficking; like helping to topple "enemy" foreign governments by flooding the place with superior quality counterfeit paper money; like smuggling high-tech weapons and gold; like "putting the arm" on radio and tv network mass media sports events through bribery, extortion, and murder, covered up by the CIA-linked, highly corrupt CBS, NBC, and ABC Networks.

No question about it. Certainly not amongst those in the know. The usual criminal underworld has gotten old and obsolete.. So the liars and whores of the press now announce that the FBI is rounding up a great number of the mobsters. They are being charged with perpetrating supposedly many of the "Mob Hits". The press fakers do not bother to remind anyone that in the 1970s, there was likewise a bloody purge of Chicago mobsters. The peddled story at the time was that there was mob in-fighting. Not so. The American CIA, having used Chicago gangsters for various bloody business, silenced some of their low-life assistants, many of them ten years after their aid in the murder of President Kennedy.

So now what some prefer to call the Chicago Federal Gestapo is engaging in a final purge of their collaborators.

The American Gestapo, empowered by the treasonous excuse of 9-11, have found themselves new helpers, more trained and experienced in what years ago started out as "The Black Hand Society".

A recent book states on its cover, "An expose of the never-ending lap-dance between organized crime and the national security establishment...."
The book heavily-details a small corner of the matter.
"The Strength of the Wolf---The Secret History of America's War On Drugs" by Douglas Valentine, Verso Books, 2004, New York, N.Y.

The American Gestapo prefers the well-trained, highly disciplined, experienced Russian mafiya, many of whom were in the Soviet Secret Political Police, the KGB, or the Russian sort of Delta Forces, being the Spitznaz.

Strange, but the headquarters of The Russian Martial Arts Center, on the northside of Chicago, openly announces they train persons for the Russian Spitznaz. That headquarters is near the residence of Chicago Federal District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow whose husband and mother were found murdered in her residence.

Although the murder of the Judge's family members was blamed on a "lone assassin" by Homeland Security and the FBI, we believe it involves the immune and FBI-protected Russian maifya. [Visit earlier parts of this series.]

As a typical example, in the Chicago-area, granted complete immunity by the Chicago Police and the Federal Gestapo, the Russian mafiya controls the Red Light District, the business solicited through protected nightspots and arranged through certain taxi and livery services, some secretly owned by top-level police officials; peddling of stolen valuables including jewelry, "fenced", through stores acting as fronts supervised by local and federal police; some supposed come -from-nowhere "mortgage companies" laundering as loans, offshore illicit funds; cocaine circulating in the dope underground, a leaked by-product of the manufacturing of the secret base of Coca-Cola.

[As to Coca-Cola and dope, see the extensive series, "Coca-Cola, CIA, and the Courts", www.skolnicksreport.com ]

Tired of living a peaceful, uneventful existence? Fine. Go to your local FBI or Homeland Security office. There complain about the Russian mafiya in your district or area. Find out who the Federals run after. Most likely YOU.

There are good reasons to believe that the Russian mafiya, operating with impunity in the U.S., consist in part of renegade elements of Jesuits and members of Israeli Intelligence, The Mossad.



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Former CIA official: Mossad behind Mugniyah killing

Evidence in Damascus car bombing points to Israel, says Bruce Riedel, former advisor to three US presidents on Middle Eastern affairs. 'This proves Israel has infiltrated Hizbullah,' he notes, adding that Nasrallah has genuine reason for concern
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WASHINGTON – While Israel has formally refuted allegations it was involved in the assassination of Hizbullah 'operations officer' Imad Mugniyah in Damascus on Tuesday, former CIA official Bruce Riedel says all signs seem to indicate the Mossad was behind the killing.

Iran Blames Israel

Iran: Mugniyah killing result of Israeli 'state terrorism' / Roee Nahmias

Tehran praises assassinated Hizbullah leader as 'golden page in the history of mankind's fight against Zionists.' Syria: Assassination a cowardly act of terror. Washington welcomes death of man on FBI's most wanted list, says world 'a better place' without Mugniyah
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Riedel, who spent over 30 years with the CIA before serving as a senior advisor on South Asian and Middle East affairs under three US presidents, said Israel has already carried out similar operations in Syria.



Currently a senior fellow with the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute, he says Mugniyah's assassination proves Israel has successfully infiltrated Hizbullah and that even Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah knows he may also be in the crosshairs.



"Israeli intelligence services have motive and they have proven their ability to strike in Damascus in the past. This is a significant operation, whether or not the Israelis want to publicly admit to it. He (Mugniyah) has topped the US and Israel's most-wanted list for a quarter of a century," said Riedel.



The seasoned intelligence official said he believes Mugniyah was not the only name on a possible hit list. "It definitely includes Hassan Nasrallah," he said, "the Mossad is looking for Nasrallah and he knows it, that's why he conducts his operations from underground."



And the Hizbullah leader may have good reason to worry, said Riedel. "He's wondering who tipped off Mugniyah's location. That same individual could also reveal his own whereabouts."



When asked if the United States did not also have a stake in seeing the elimination of a man responsible for the deaths of American citizens, among them a senior CIA figure, Riedel said that while it was true Mugniyah was responsible for the murder of William Buckley "and that as far as we're concerned, he was


second only to Osama bin-Laden" – a car bombing was more consistent with the Mossad's modus operandi.



"In all honesty over the years we've become busy with many other issues, while ever since the summer of 2006 Hizbullah has returned to the forefront of Israel's concerns. Mugniyah also acted as a go-between with Iranian intelligence and Hamas."



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Superpower Divide Over Kosovo Widens
By ROBERT WIELAARD – 1 hour ago

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The U.S. and the European Union's biggest powers quickly recognized Kosovo as an independent nation Monday, widening a split with Russia, China and some EU members strongly opposed to letting the territory break away from Serbia.

A day after Kosovo declared independence, ethnic Serbs in the north angrily denounced the United States and urged Russia to help Serbia hold on to the territory that Serbs consider the birthplace of their civilization.

Protesters also marched in Serbia's capital, and that nation recalled its ambassador to the U.S. to protest American recognition for an independent Kosovo.

Despite clamoring of Serbs to retake Kosovo, Serbia's government has ruled out a military response.

But the dispute is likely to worsen already strained relations between the West and Russia, which is a traditional ally of Serbia and seeks to restore its influence in former Soviet bloc states. The Kremlin could become less likely to help in international efforts important to the U.S. and its allies, such as pressuring Iran to rein in its nuclear program.

Still, for Washington the declaration of independence by Kosovo vindicated years of dogged effort to help a land achieve its dream of self-determination after years of ethnic conflict and repression by Serbia.

Speaking in Tanzania, President Bush declared: "The Kosovars are now independent" — and Washington formally recognized Kosovo as an independent country soon afterward. Germany, Britain and France also gave their heavyweight backing, saying they planned to issue formal recognitions.

But Russia, Serbia's key ally, and emerging global power China remained adamantly opposed to Kosovo's independence, warning of the danger of inspiring separatist movements around the world, including in their own sprawling territories.

As veto-wielding Security Council members, Russia and China both have the power to block any attempt by Kosovo to gain a seat on the international body.

The Council met for 2 1/2 hours in New York in the second day of an emergnecy session on Kosovo but was unable to agree on a resolution or joint statement regarding Sunday's declaration of independence.

Serbia vowed to fight to the end against any U.N. recognition.

"The so-called Kosovo state will never be a member of the United Nations. Serbia will use all diplomatic means at its disposal to block Kosovo's recognition," said Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic.

The Kremlin was already working diplomatic levers to help Serbia achieve that aim.

Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Russia's special envoy to the Balkans, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying Moscow expected U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to abide by a Security Council resolution that recognized Kosovo as part of Serbia.

Ban opened Monday's Security Council session by citing the many peaceful celebrations that accompanied Kosovo's declaration but also noting scattered violence.

He said the United Nations had achieved "peace consolidation and the establishment of functional self-government" in Kosovo, including five successful elections. "Kosovo has made considerable progress through the years," he said.

Serbian President Boris Tadic, who attended the U.N. meeting, urged the council to oppose Kosovo's move and to intervene as a last resort.

"The Republic of Serbia will not resort to force," said Tadic. "On the other hand, this arbitrary decision represents a precedent, which will cause irreparable damage to the international order."

He said Kosovo's declaration "annuls international law, tramples upon justice and enthrones injustice."

Serbia recalled its ambassador to Washington in protest of U.S. recognition for Kosovo, but said it was not severing diplomatic ties. It also withdrew envoys to France and Turkey and was expected to recall others as more nations formally recognized Kosovo as a new state.

"America and the European Union are stealing Kosovo from us, everyone must realize that," said Tomislav Nikolic, the head of Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radical Party.

After an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Britain, Germany and France said they would quickly give recognition to Kosovo, a move that would be followed in the days ahead by most of the bloc's other 24 member states, officials said.

The EU does not recognize nations, leaving that up to its individual members, and Spain, Greece, Romania and Cyprus have criticized the effort to make Kosovo independent.

Despite that divide, the EU foreign ministers issued a joint statement citing "the conflict of the 1990s" in Kosovo as a justification for the independence declaration.

The U.S. and its NATO allies intervened with an air campaign against Serbia in 1999 to end a brutal crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists that had killed 10,000 people. The territory had been under U.N. and NATO administration since then, although formally remaining part of Serbia.

Seeking to address the concerns of Russia and others about a free Kosovo, the foreign ministers stressed that Kosovo should be an exception to the international rule that national borders can be changed only if all parties agree.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has argued that independence without U.N. approval sets a dangerous precedent for the former Soviet Union, where separatists in Russia's Chechnya region and two areas of Georgia are agitating for independence.

Russian officials hinted last week that if Kosovo declared independence it might retaliate by recognizing the independence claims of Abkhazia and South Ossetia — two Russian-supported provinces in Georgia. Russia's parliament repeated the threat Monday.

On Monday, Kosovo independence took center stage in China's diplomatic jousting with Taiwan, which has been self-governing since the Chinese civil war in 1949 but which the Beijing regime considers to still be part of China.

China's Foreign Ministry criticized Taiwan for welcoming Kosovo's independence, saying the island's government did not meet the criteria for recognizing other countries.

"It is known to all that Taiwan, as a part of China, has no right and qualification at all to make the so-called recognition," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in a statement posted on the ministry's Web site.

China has good ties with Serbia and expressed "deep concern" over Kosovo's independence declaration.

For Beijing, the announcement conjures up one of its greatest fears: that Taiwan could some day make a similar declaration, something China says it would meet with military force. Chinese leaders also worry about separatist sentiments in the heavily Muslim regions of western China.

Spain, which has battled a violent Basque separatist movement for decades, was the biggest European Union nation to oppose Kosovo independence. Greece, Romania and Cyprus also are against Kosovo's new status.

In Bucharest, Romanian President Traian Basescu called Kosovo's declaration "an illegal act" — a position rooted in Romania's traditional close ties with Serbia.

British Foreign Secretary defended the move by Kosovo's Albanians, saying the EU was keen to close the book on "two decades of violence and conflict and strife" in the western Balkans.

"There is a very strong head of steam building among a wide range of (EU) countries that do see this as the piece of the Yugoslav jigsaw and don't see stability in the western Balkans being established without the aspirations of the Kosovar people being respected," he said.

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911 And The
Endless War Game
By Faith Siempre
2-18-8

PRELUDE - THE BACKGROUND

In world politics there is an international network of people who belong to a certain ethnic and highly politicized organized group known as the Judistani. These Judistani people have been well-connected politically for a couple thousand years due to their close-knit tribal loyalties, their competitive drive and outlook. They have traditionally placed a high importance on exceeding in education, law, medicine and the mastery of banking systems, as well as story-telling, which led them to dominate the areas of media and propaganda in many countries where they reside.

They have come to a zenith of their power in their adopted land of Columbiana, which had risen to become the world's only superpower over the course of a couple hundred of years. Via their focused in-roads into dominating the media, and using their vast supplies of gold and wealth to wield wonders with the powers that be, soon the Judistani became possibly the most dominant sector of the elite establishment in Columbiana. In spite of the idealistic notion of The Golden Rule, often it is the gold that rules, a fact not lost on the Judistani elite, whose other golden rule is to do unto others as they would do unto you, assuming the worst, which explains the Judistani predisposition for preemptive war.

Upon reaching their zenith of power in Columbiana, their restless energy and ruthless ambition drove the Judistani towards attempting to achieve their ultimate goal: domination of none other than the entire world, and even into outer space, and indeed, the entire universe.

A PLAN FOR ENDLESS WAR IS HATCHED



The Judistani came up with a plan which they dubbed "Project for New Columbianan Century" which was the blueprint for setting out to first conquer the part of the world where there were huge oil resources in a region known as Opeca. Conquering the rest of the world would follow later. The Judistani had already secured a little sliver of a country of their own in that part of the world, which they had dubbed Judistan, which had been propped up artificially at the expense of other countries, especially the government of Columbiana, using their citizens' taxes. With their excellent propagandistic skills and overall dominance of the world of media, the Judistani systematically honed and cultivated their Ultimate Victimhood Status, to a point which then propelled the Judistanis into a race or culture of saints, unable to be criticized or questioned. To do so would be considered heretical blasphemy, punishable by law in some regions of the world conquered by the Judistani. Any critical speech of Judistani had become a taboo even worse than anything else under the sun, so much so that no one seemed to notice the plight of the indigenous people who had been living in Judistan, which had been known as Philistina before the Judistani came back to violently claim it again two thousand years later. Some observers in Columbiana meekly questioned whether the Judistani had the right to do so or even wondered aloud if these Judistani actually even had any real connection to the ancient land of Judistan, also known as Philistina, but these observers had little power, and were ostracized by the powerful Judistani in the Columbianan government and media, and therefore the rest of the powers that be, and therefore by many of the people who bowed down to the authorities.

The plan called for endless wars, for that is what happens when one continually steals the land and resources of another. However, the Judistanis were confident that the losses for the Columbianan armies would be slight compared to the losses of their self-made enemies: the countries of Opeca, who were not as organized as the Judistani and Columbianans. As far as the Judistanis were concerned, the life an Opecan citizen was not worth one thousand, nay, not even six million Judistanis. And the gains from the wars would be worth it: absolute domination of the world by the Judistani and their collaborators.

But in order to get the people of Columbiana to go along with the required War of One Thousand Years (the Judistani elitist leaders strategized years in advance for the systematic achievement of their goal of global, universal dominance), they needed a "Coral Harbor-style catastrophe" to occur, referring to a large scale attack made on a Columbianan target by an enemy country which launched a world-wide war decades earlier. This would scare the good people of Columbiana into thinking that they needed their government to attack the designated, accused evil-doers before another attack happened on Columbianan soil and to prevent these evil-doers from coming to Columbiana to rob them of their freedoms and their way of life. This is what the leaders would come to tell the frightened people.

So some of the Judistani leaders and conceivers of the Project for New Columbianan Century were discussing amongst themselves how to go about achieving this "Coral Harbor- style catastrophe", which they would orchestrate themselves but they would make it look as if some Opecan terrorists did it. After all, the Judistani elitists in this war circle couldn't really rely on some incompetent, malcontented Opecans to pull this off, not by themselves, anyway. The plan had to be pulled off flawlessly, and yet still be blamed on the Opecans. This would be easy to do as the Judistanis in the media had been building a case for years that the Opecans were a real danger to Columbianans, especially Been Badden, an Opecan figurehead that the Judistani wrote endlessly about in their essays in media across the country and pundits extolled his evilness as the worst in the world, at least since Zitler, an evil leader in another country who in the past was an enemy of the Judistanis.

NOW LISTEN IN TO THE CONVERSATION RE: MAKING 9-11 HAPPEN



One Sunday, a Judistani leader by the name of Benderman Needayahoo called up his buddy and fellow Judistani-Columbiana comrade living in New Jork City, by the name of Lenny Silverbomb, as it was their habit to call each other every Sunday (it was cheaper to call on that day) and they were tossing around some ideas.

From his office at the Judistani Spy Headquarters in Televisia, Judistan, Needayahoo said to Silverbomb, "Got any ideas for a target to start the roll out for our theater of wargames?"

"Hmmm." replied Silverbomb, "How about I buy the Twin Temples in downtown New Jork? Look, they are very visible and that would really blow everyone's minds if we got them blown up and made it look like some crazy Opecans did it! See, I've been doing my homework about this. The Twin Temples need to be brought down anyway! "

Needayahoo, intrigued, said, "Tell me more!"

Silverbomb continued, "They are filled with asbestos and I've looked into it ­ it'd cost millions of dollars just to bring it up to code! No matter who buys those moneypits, they'd have to spend millions to either bring it up to code or implode them and re-build. So, I got this brilliant idea!"

Needayahoo says, "What?! Tell me already!"

Silverbomb spits out excitedly, gesturing wildly with his hands, practically dropping the phone: "You get the explosives experts in the Judistani Spy Department to plant the explosives in the buildings, and then bring we 'em down!" He brings his left hand up and then swooshes it down vertically as he paced inside his office with sweeping views of the city of Madhatten.

Needayahoo pauses, his electrified energy flowing over thousands of miles of cables into Silverbomb's ear, and after a couple of moments, he said tersely, "But it will look like a planned demolition and don't you know? It takes at least a couple of weeks or so to set up the explosives for an operation like that! So people would wonder how on earth did the explosives get in there without building management knowing about it! You know, all the surveillance cameras, the security guards and all. But still, it's a start perhaps hmm"

Silverbomb practically shouts out, "I got it!! I got it!!!"

Needayahoo says, "Calm down! What?"

Silverbomb continues, "How about this how about we get a jet plane to fly into one building and right after that, another one flies into the other one! BOOM! BOOM! That way, we get the full drama of jets flying into the Twin Temples, and then we'll get the explosives to detonate right after that and the building will fall into their footprints. Everyone will think that the fire from the jetfuel and the impact of the jets will have been enough to bring the buildings down. We can orchestrate the whole thing from building seven and then bring that down too to destroy all the evidence! Even if it's not hit by a jet, we can just blame it on the fires and, besides, we can make sure that there's so much mayhem, that no one's gonna think too much about that. Don't forget, we own the media. And we've got all the Big Boys and Girls in the gov on-board with this too, ya know. We can try and hit the Pentagon and maybe get another flight to go bust-it'll be a real six ring circus! People's heads will be spinning! Shock and awe, baby, SHOCK AND AWE!!!"

A smile starts to light up Needayahoo's face, "Silverbomb, did anyone ever tell you that you are an absolute genius?" He gets up out of his chair, and effuses his joy at this idea. "Lenny, I think we've got something here," barely controlling his excitement while envisioning the bombs of fireballs going off and getting the attention of the entire world.

Lenny Silverbomb smiles like a cat that just ate a bird. "So Bender, how long will the whole attack will last from the time the jets hit the buildings, to the time they implode? Got any idea?"

Needayahoo ventures a guess, "Ehhh.I'd guess about one and half to two hours"

Silverbomb exclaims, "Perfect!!! That's about how long a major feature film lasts! That'll keep 'em entertained!"

"Oh yeah," adds Needayahoo, sucking in his breath, then exhaling, "That'll sear the fear right into the brains and hearts of all those American people, and they will want blood and war for it too, you watch. No doubt! So we'll start with Afgassastan, then into Irockistan, and so on, and in the meantime, the Columbianan people will be so preoccupied with all of that, they'll forget all about the f*ckin' Judistani-Philistinian conflict, so we can step up the campaign to wipe those motherf*ckers out once and for all! I'm losing patience on that front for sure, so this will be a good opportunity to do the Final Solution to those f*ckers. F*cking vermin!"

Silverbomb lets out an evil laugh, and his eyes smolder with excitement about the upcoming drama, and of course, he will insure the Twin Temples to the hilt, specifically for terrorist attacks, which will seem reasonable due to the previous smaller terrorist attack there in 1993, and so he will kill many birds with one stone, or, better yet, with two. Then he will get double the insurance pay-out. Billions of dollars to re-build new, up-to-date buildings, charge top dollar rent for them, and perhaps even more importantly, he tells himself, feeling a sense of virtue, he will help out his comrades and the advance the agenda of Judistan: absolute worldwide domination. As he and Netayahoo have discussed many times, the elitist, corrupt leaders of Columbiana will go along with it because they will not only be allowed to advance their careers, they will also be able to participate in the spoils of wars via the corporations that they have created specifically for wars: the weaponry, the contracts for re-building the countries soon to be ravaged by the Columbianan soldiers, and dominating the oil resources of the region of Opeca. In fact, thanks to the hard negotiation work by the elite leaders of the Judistanis, Judistan had been already positioned to get not only a "free" oil pipeline from Opeca (to be paid for with Columbianans' tax dollars) but also to be the broker of the oil supplies between Opeca and Columbiana, as well as the rest of the world, in honor of Judistan's support for the upcoming Columbiana "war on terror". The dream is rapidly materializing, Silverbomb thinks excitedly!

Silverbomb asks Needayahoo, "But there's one thing I'm a bit worried about. What about the evidence? Wonder if some forensic experts come in after the attacks and start testing the evidence and discover traces of explosives?"

Needayahoo contemplates this question for a few moments, then offers, "Don't worry about that. We can plan it so that the explosives detonate at something like 30 foot intervals, so that will leave shards of steel that will be fairly easy for the clean-up company to haul away and ship it to China to melt down immediately. I'm sure we can find one of our people who can handle this, eh?

Silverbomb chortles, "Of course. We've got our people at all the key spots to pull this off. "

Nodding his head in approval, Needayahoo confidently continued, "And we don't need to worry about trying to find pilots to go along with the suicide mission of flying jet planes into the Universe Trade Center. We'll just guide the planes via remote control. No problem."

Silverbomb approvingly says, "Good man!"

Needayahoo adds, "Yep, we've got a Judistani security company handling all the airport security there in Columbiana; we've got a Judistani heading the Homeland Security, and so he'll be sure to let any of our spies who might get rounded up by the local authorities off the hook and flown back to Judistan and we've got the Columbianan media covered.. you know, we've got it so they almost never dare to say a cross word about Judistan or Judistanis.. And we've got the telecommunications in Columbiana all handled with Judistan software, and ditto with the eavesdropping technology there. I think we've got all the bases covered"

Silverbomb exclaims, "OK - it's settled then! Tomorrow, I am going to buy the Universe Trade Center including the Twin Temples and the surrounding buildings that go with them and I'm gonna seal the deal! How much time do your guys need to wire the buildings for the implosions?

Needayahoo pauses, and then replies, "A few months. Let's see it's April now, in six months it will be September. What's a good date September is month number 9. Number 9Number 9

Silverbomb offers cheerfully, "How about 9-11? You know, here in Columbiana, we dial 9-11 for emergencies!"

Needayahoo smiles, "Brilliant! Silverbomb, you never cease to amaze me. That's it! So we'll start the prep work for it as soon as possible but in the last few weeks leading up to 9-11 we may need to really ramp up our work, soooo how about you plan a few blackouts so our guys can plant the explosives without surveillance cameras. Think you can handle that?"

Silverbomb replies, "Not a problem. And we've got several floors that are empty now, and we can move the tenants around as necessary, and offer them steep discounted rents for any inconvenience."

"Sounds like a plan, Len," Needayahoo said thoughtfully, settling back into his plush leather executive chair.

Silverbomb adds "And remember, we've got President Douche and his brother, who is the manager of the Twin Temples on board with something heavy going down in order to roll out this wargame plan."

Needayahoo, "Oh yeah, we've all been discussing this for years now, and he's totally on board, so to speak. They've all been briefed and made aware that they are on a "need to know" basis in order to protect them from any accusations and to protect all of us from any "loose cannons"."

Silverbomb breathes in a deep breath, smiles as his eyes twinkle with the excitement of a pre-teen boy about to play a brand new video arcade wargame or a gambler hoping to score a windfall at the casino, rubs his hands together and said, "Well, OK, then. Let's roll!!!"

Note: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.



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