Saturday, September 29, 2007

Governments prove crime pays

http://www.voltairenet.org/article144748.html
http://chemecol.org
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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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http://house.gov/paul
http://www.the-boondocks.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=7688&start=0&
newamericamedia.org

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Did you mean: "Carboholics Anonymous"
Blog ~ Blog
I started off by announcing that I am a carbonholic and that this was the first meeting of the Atlanta Chapter of Carbonholics Anonymous. ...
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Jane Goodall says biofuel crops hurt rain forests

Wed Sep 26, 6:08 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/sc_nm/clinton_goodall_forests_dc
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Primate scientist Jane Goodall said on Wednesday the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming.
"We're cutting down forests now to grow sugarcane and palm oil for biofuels and our forests are being hacked into by so many interests that it makes them more and more important to save now," Goodall said on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative, former U.S. President Bill Clinton's annual philanthropic meeting.

As new oil supplies become harder to find, many countries such as Brazil and Indonesia are racing to grow domestic sources of vehicle fuels, such as ethanol from sugarcane and biodiesel from palm nuts.

The United Nations' climate program considers the fuels to be low in carbon because growing the crops takes in heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide.

But critics say demand for the fuels has led companies to cut down and burn forests in order to grow the crops, adding to heat-trapping emissions and leading to erosion and stress on ecosystems.

"Biofuel isn't the answer to everything; it depends where it comes from," she said. "All of this means better education on where fuels are coming from are needed."

Goodall said the problem is especially bad in the Indonesian rain forest where large amounts of palm nut oil is being made. Growers in Uganda -- where her nonprofit group works to conserve Great Apes -- are also looking to buy large parcels of rain forest and cut them down to grow sugar cane, while in Brazil, forest is cleared to grow sugar cane.

The Goodall Institute is working with a recently formed group of eight rain forest nations called the Forest Eight, or F8, led by Indonesia. The group wants to create a system where rich countries would pay them not to chop down rain forests and hopes to unveil the plan at climate talks in Bali in December.

Scientists from the forested countries are trying to nail down exactly how much carbon dioxide the ecosystems store, but the amount has been estimated to be about double that which is already in the atmosphere, Goodall said.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner)
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

the making of historical myth

From:
Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion
http://feminist.com/whatsnew.htm
http://feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/politicsandpassion.html
page 17
..Im in Hanoi, out in the country...told to get out of the car and run because the bombers were coming...manholes for individual people that had thick straw lids that you pull over to protect you from the bombs and the shrapnel...a young Vietnamese girl comes up behind me and pulls me down into one of these holes...and then she got into the hole with me and pulled the top on...the bombs thudding...sandwiched in together...could feel her breath, and her eyelashes, on my cheek...saved my life...When the bombing raid was over..and I came out...I began to cry, saying over and over to the girl, 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.' She stops me and starts speaking to me in Vietnamese. Not angry, very calm...Huoc...translates. 'She says you shouldn't cry for us. We know why we're fighting. The sadness should be for your country, your soldiers. They don't know why they are fighting us.'...
page 26
...understand...the destruction...caused to civilian populations and residential areas, to cultural centers...pagodas bombed...theaters...recreation centers...the people more determined than ever to fight...
page 59
...In the spring of 1972, reports began to come in from European scientists and diplomats that the dikes of the Red River Delta in North Vietnam were being targeted by U.S. planes. Those who had witnessed this felt it was deliberate...in 1966, Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton, searching for some new means to bring Hanoi to its knees, had proposed destroying North Vietnam's dikes, which, he said, if handled right, would flood the rice fields and cause starvation. He estimated maybe a million. In 1972, Henry Kissinger estimated that, if the dikes collapsed, around 200,000 would starve.
To his credit, President Johnson had not acted upon this option. Now, six years later, Richard Nixon...
...I wanted to expose the lies and bring back filmed evidence, if there was evidence (which there was), that the dikes were being bombed. Almost 300 Americans had gone to North Vietnam before me - scientists, Nobel Prize winners, activists, priests, diplomats, reporters, Vietnam veterans - over eighty had spoken over the radio there. I knew that my trip would be controversial, but I felt I had to go. And I'm glad I did...The bombing of the dikes stopped...If my trip and the footage I brought back played even a small role in that, it was worth it.
But I committed a terrible lapse of judgement on my last day there. I sat on an anti-aircraft gun. A group of soldiers had sung me a song. I had sung one back, everyone was laughing and clapping and someone asked me to sit down, pictures were taken by reporters and I didn't realize until a moment after I got up what the implication of that image would mean...
I had spent over two years working with GIs and Vietnam veterans and had spoken before hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters telling them that our men in uniform aren't the enemy...
Quite a while after that, right-wing idealogues began to create a myth about me...

Nourish the Earth

"...How do we persuade the most technologically and economically advanced individuals, corporations and nations that the economic strategy of promoting unlimited growth and increased levels of consumption is leading to disaster for all? How do we persuade the less technologically and economically advanced individuals, enterprises and nations not to follow the lead of those who are currently more financially successful, but rather to search for sustainable alternatives? And — How do we persuade the largest group of all, those who are undereducated and poor, that they also must contribute to the solution by curbing population growth and to nourish the earth rather than continuing to ravage its abundance to the detriment of future generations?..."
~Edgar Mitchell
http://edmitchellapollo14.com/my_vision_for_the_third_millenni.htm
http://edmitchellapollo14.com/links.htm
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http://ranprieur.com/land/links.html
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=s9GBf8y0lY0
http://theparanormalreport.com/morgellons-new-disease-or-manmade-weapon-of-terror.html
http://uforeview.tripod.com/haarp.html
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Wal-Mart
Manager's Tool Box to Remaining Union Free
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0413-07.htm
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Chainsaw George's quick and dirty way

win-wins

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Healing the Ozone Holes Could Help Lower Earth's Temperature
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2007/2007-09-17-01.asp
Montreal 9/17/7
...representatives of 191 governments opened a four day conference at which they will try to speed up the phaseout of both production and consumption of HCFCs. They are seeking solutions that can both protect the ozone layer and help to stabilize the climate. The governments are Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer...
"The phase out of CFCs has not only put the ozone layer on the road to recovery, new research...also shows that the CFC phaseout has assisted in combating climate change...
"If governments adopt accelerated action on HCFCs...we can look forward to not only a faster recovery of the ozone layer, but a further important contribution to the climate change challenge.
"Benefits would include a reduction in skin cancer, cataracts, and harm to the human immune system alongside reduced damage to agricultural and natural ecosystems...
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United States Climate Action Partnership
http://us-cap.org
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Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
http://www.sustainability-indexes.com
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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Washington, D.C. - mob world headquarters

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From:
The Secret History of the American Empire:
Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption
by John Perkins 2007
http://johnperkins.org
page 141
...In December 2005 Evo Morales won a landslide victory to become Bolivia's first Indian president...announced that he would cut his salary in half...Bolivia's anticorporatocracy revolutionary movement...
The mainstream press in the United States openly deceived its U.S. audiences...conveyed the impression that Morales was a "Communist" and "agent of Castro."...
...,"The looting by the foreign companies has ended."...
page 146
Chapter 27 A History of Assassinations
"I walked into El Presidente's office two days after he was elected and congratulated him.
He sat behind that big desk grinning at me like a Cheshire Cat.
I stuck my left hand into my jacket pocket and said, 'Mr. President, in here I got a couple hundred million dollars for you and your family, if you play the game - you know, be kind to my friends who run the oil companies, treat your Uncle Sam good.' Then I stepped closer, reached my right hand into the other pocket, bent down next to his face, and whispered, 'In here I got a gun and a bullet with your name on it - in case you decide to keep your campaign promises.'
I stepped back, sat down, and recited a little list for him, of presidents who were assassinated or overthrown because they had defied Uncle Sam: from Diem to Torrijos - you know the routine.
He got the message."
...No sane person assassinates a head of state without first trying to bring him around. No politician or CIA agent would consider it. Not even the most hardened mafioso would do that. It is simply too risky. And too messy. There are so many possibilities for error. You always send emissaries first. They offer the carrot of corruption and then, if that does not work, they threaten the stick of coup or assassination.
When I was sent on similar assignments, I was more subtle...
page 148
...President Chavez spoke about his own contacts with EHMs [economic hit men] and jackals on Venezuelan radio
...said he was offered funds from the IMF if he agreed to surveillance flights and the presence of U.S. advisers...Even though he refused their offers...hit men did not give up..."We have defeated the economic hit men and the jackals, and if they even consider coming back, we will defeat them again,"...
...several members of the U.S. armed forces approached me with accounts of maneuvers on Colombian soil aimed at a military invasion of Venezuela...deeply concerned about the course their country was taking; they did not dare go public but they wanted the American people to hear about their experiences.
Colombia is the glaring exception to the hemispheric anti-corporatocracy movements...Washington's surrogate. Shored up by massive U.S. taxpayer assistance and armies of corporate-sponsored mercenaries, as well as formal U.S. military support, it has become the keystone in Washington's attempt to regain regional domination. Although official justification for U.S. involvement centers on drug wars, this is a subterfuge for protecting oil interests against grassroots opposition to foreign exploitation.
Raul Zibechi,...professor at the Franciscan Multiversity of Latin America, points out that Colombia is now the world's fourth-largest beneficiary of U.S. military aid, behind Israel, Egypt, and Iraq...states that he and other analysts have concluded that Washington is creating a South American unified armed force, commanded by the Pentagon, that is a military version of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas and is headquartered in Colombia.
...stationed in Colombia were to establish a U.S. presence and to train Latin soldiers as part of a United States commanded Southern Unified Army...
"Everything we do in Colombia just makes it more attractive for the drug business...Why do you think the situation keeps getting worse there? Because we want it to, we're behind the drug trafficking. The CIA is - just like it was in Asia's Golden Triangle. And in Central America and Iran during Iran-Contra. And the British with opium in China. Coke provides illicit money, in the billions - for clandestine activities - and an excuse to build up our armies. What more can you ask? We're there, men like me in the legit army, to protect oil and to invade Venezuela. The drug game is a smokescreen."
A former U.S. Green Beret officer told me that a mercenary army was being assembled in Guyana, along the Venezuelan border. He said that all the men were combat-hardened paratroopers, training for jungle warfare and learning Spanish.
"We got wars under way in Afghanistan and Iraq. No jungles there. No Spanish. So what's the point? But guess where there's lots of jungle? Venezuela. And they speak Spanish in Venezuela. In addition to guys like me - U.S., British, and South African mercenaries - there's a lot of guys in Guyana from Latin militaries, mostly WHINSEC graduates."
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) formerly the School of the Americas (SOA), trains Latin soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency, interrogation, torture, spying, communications, and assassination. Its graduates include some of the continent's most notorious generals and dictators. SOA was located in the Panama Canal Zone until Omar Torrijos insisted on its removal. The fact that Manuel Noriega would not allow it back after Torrijos's death is one of the reasons the United States placed him on its "Most Wanted" list. Both Torrijos and Noriega were SOA graduates and both understood the power it wielded as an antidemocratic institution. It was moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, and in 2001 its name was changed in an attempt to dampen growing criticism...
...Jaime Roldos...the Ecuadorian president who refused to be corrupted by me and other EHMs...died in a plane crash...1981...my belief that it was not an accident; that he had been assassinated by the CIA...Washington and the oil companies hated him...
page 277
...corporations...bribe politicians to write laws that cheat society on a mammoth scale, most significantly by allowing them to avoid paying many of the very real costs incurred in conducting their businesses. What economists refer to as "externalities" are left out of pricing calculations. These include the social and environmental costs of destruction of valuable resources, pollution, the burdens on society of workers who become injured or ill and receive little or no health care, the indirect funding received when companies are permitted to market hazardous products, dump wastes into oceans and rivers, pay employees less than a living wage, provide substandard working conditions, and extract natural resources from public lands at less than market prices. Furthermore, most corporations are dependent on public subsidies, exemptions, massive advertising and lobbying campaigns, and complex transportation and communications systems that are underwritten by taxpayers; their executives receive inflated salaries, perks, and "golden retirement parachutes," which are written off as tax deductions.
Under proper accounting all these "externalities" would be factored into the costs of products. Those goods and services that are inherently "clean" should also be the cheapest. Consumers would pay a premium for products that strain the environment and society; the price would include funds for correcting the damage. In a truly "free" market economy, these very real costs would be "internalized" - included. But they are not. Why? Because accounting firms are not obligated to enforce sound accounting principles; they only need to adhere to those required by the laws - which are written by politicians who are dependent on the corporatocracy.
Modern corporations have all the rights of individuals but none of the responsibilities. In fact, they are licensed to steal. From an economic standpoint, there is simply no other word for it. They plunder the poor and future generations in order to further enrich the wealthy...
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http://environmentalrepublican.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_archive.html
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Paul Wellstone
http://assassinationresearch.com
http://assassinationscience.com
http://www.catholicnewtimes.org/index.php?module=xarpages&func=display&pid=10
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2006/07/kevin-barrett-james-fetzer-911.html
http://www.wellstone.org/archive/sites/index.aspx
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astronaut Edgar Mitchell
http://edmitchellapollo14.com/links.htm
http://thomaspecora.com/mainpage.html
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

progress, not war

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From 2004 presidential platform of Thomas G. Heneghan:
http://stewwebb.com/HeneghanWebb2004OfficialPresidentialPlatform.html
...36. No more covert wars for oil and stealing natural resources from other nations for national and international corporations...
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http://ronpaulradio.com
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International Socialist Review
http://isreview.org
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From:
Bush's Cover-up Continues to Unravel
http://pepib.convio.net/site/News2?scope=this&keywords=Bush&submit=Go&news_iv_ctrl=0&security=0&cmd=search&entry=true
http://impeachbush.org
...Carl Bernstein Compares Bush to Nixon
http://pepib.convio.net/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&page=NewsArticle&id=5133
...in Vanity Fair, Carl Bernstein, famous for breaking the Watergate story, writes:

"Worse than Watergate? High crimes and misdemeanors justifying the impeachment of George W. Bush, as increasing numbers of Democrats in Washington hope, and, sotto voce, increasing numbers of Republicans - including some of the president's top lieutenants - now fear? Leaders of both parties are acutely aware of the vehemence of anti-Bush sentiment in the country, expressed especially in the increasing number of Americans - nearing fifty percent in some polls - who say they would favor impeachment if the president were proved to have deliberately lied to justify going to war in Iraq.

"John Dean, the Watergate conspirator who ultimately shattered the Watergate conspiracy, rendered his precipitous (or perhaps prescient) impeachment verdict on Bush two years ago in the affirmative, without so much as a question mark in choosing the title of his book Worse than Watergate. On March 31, some three decades after he testified at the seminal hearings of the Senate Watergate Committee, Dean reiterated his dark view of Bush's presidency in a congressional hearing that shed more noise than light, and more partisan rancor than genuine inquiry. The ostensible subject: whether Bush should be censured for unconstitutional conduct in ordering electronic surveillance of Americans without a warrant.

"Raising the worse-than-Watergate question and demanding unequivocally that Congress seek to answer it is, in fact, overdue and more than justified by ample evidence stacked up from Baghdad back to New Orleans and, of increasing relevance, inside a special prosecutor's office in downtown Washington."
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Anthrax for Export
April 1998 Issue
U.S. companies sold Iraq the ingredients for a witch's brew
by William Blum
http://progressive.org/0901/anth0498.html
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reasons for the obesity and diabetes epidemics:
Jonesin' for a Soda
by Max Raskin 9/5/7
http://mises.org/story/2678
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The science behind Al Gore's testimony to Congress
by Dr. Radley Horton, Goddard Institute of Space Studies (NASA) and Columbia University
http://nysec.org/2007/05/13/horton-global-warming
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

da trute finely perzents itsef

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http://truedemocracy.net/td3/shadow/s30.html
...President Truman said of the CIA and its creation, "I think that it was a mistake. And if I'd known what was going to happen, I never would have done it.... But it got out of hand.... Now as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own and there is nobody to keep track of what they are up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they will have something to report on. They've become . . . it's become a government of all its own and all secret. They just don't have to report to anybody. . . . The people have got a right to know what those birds are up to. . . . You've got to keep an eye on the military at all times, and it doesn't matter whether it's the birds in the Pentagon or the birds in the CIA."...
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Society for Ethical Culture
http://nysec.org
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From:
How the Failure To Identify, Prosecute and Convict President Kennedy's Assassins Has Led To Today's Crisis Of Democracy
by Joan Mellen 1/24/6 [lecture delivered at the Ethical Culture Society]http://joanmellen.net/NYC_2006article.html
http://nysoundposse.com/2006/01/event-who-planned-murder-of-jfk-who.html
...the truth about the Kennedy assassination...will help us understand how we have arrived at a point where people...are comparing the current U.S. government with the rise of fascism in the mid-twentieth century... the present state of our political culture is a direct result of the fact that those responsible for the murder of President Kennedy have never been brought to justice...the clandestine service of the CIA not only covered up the truth about the Kennedy assassination...but organized the event itself. That the CIA escaped without penalty...What begins as surveillance moves to wiretapping, then COINTELPRO tricks, and finally to murder - a diagram of what happened to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

After the death of President Kennedy, ex-President Harry S. Truman, under whose watch the CIA was created in 1947, wrote on the front page of the “Washington Post,” that the CIA had been running a “shadow government,”...

...interference in the electoral process in Italy and France, funneling money to certain political parties - in Italy it was the Christian Democrats whom the CIA funded in an effort to prevent a coalition of socialists and Communists from taking power. The assassination of Prime Minister Aldo Moro was connected to that CIA campaign.
At the time of the assassination, Charles de Gaulle remarked that John F. Kennedy, whom he admired, had died as a result of an intra-government conflict...The documentation available since the passage of the JFK Act in 1992 overwhelmingly supports de Gaulle's view... In April 1967 the CIA issued a memo (available at the National Archives) instructing friendly reporters on how to reply to challenges to the Warren Report, recommendations that have resurfaced in the past few years in a renewed set of attacks on Jim Garrison, a decade after his death...comparing the deliberate ignoring of crucial information by the 9/11 Commission with a similar failure to investigate a key lead by the Warren Commission...the Able Danger intelligence unit had identified Mohammed Atta and other accused hijackers as part of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States at least a year before 9/11. Colonel Shaffer had wanted this information to go immediately to the FBI only for Defense Department lawyers to forbid Able Danger from contacting the Bureau...Shaffer...had presented the findings of the Able Danger team to Philip Zelikow, that same executive staff director of the 9/11 Commission who has defended the recent attacks on Jim Garrison as a dupe of the KGB! Zelikow saw to it that the Able Danger information never appeared in the 9/11 Commission Report, and went on to deny that he was given the information. He now works on the staff of Condeleeza Rice.
One might ask: could Zelikow and company have gotten away with denying the reality of a cover-up of vital information about 9/11 if we had demanded the truth from the Warren Commission?...demanding the truth about the Kennedy assassination, even at this late date, is a step toward restoring our basic freedoms. The discourse needs to go even further than point to who planned and implemented the crime. Was the CIA acting alone on its own behalf? Whose interests did the Agency serve in 1963...?...The discussion of who rules America might begin with President Eisenhower's heroic warning against a military-industrial (and we need, of course, to add national security) complex. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes,” President Eisenhower added. He cut the military budget as soon as he took office; he didn't believe the U.S. should be a militarized nation. The CIA, the research reveals, sabotaged President Eisenhower's effort to achieve détente with the Soviets in the final year of his presidency...
...Eisenhower had a good definition of “National Security.” He said “national security” meant that the country was proceeding in peace and without a deficit...
In November, 1963...LTV, a major defense contractor, was almost bankrupt. Defense contracts flowing from the Vietnam War changed that, and by 1968 the stock had increased geometrically in value. Meanwhile we know that President Kennedy opposed vehemently a protracted ground war, and that as soon as he was dead, Lyndon Johnson dispatched thousands of troops to Vietnam...Brown and Root itself had been bought by Halliburton in 1962. It is less well known that Brown and Root profited not only from the war in Iraq, but first from Vietnam. Having recognized the role of Brown and Root, and discovering that George Brown was a CIA asset (as the CIA's own released documents confirm), Jim Garrison hoped to investigate Brown's role.
Was the CIA acting on behalf of President Eisenhower's military-industrial complex? As a matter for further research, the intelligence connections of the Bushes date from before the very founding of the CIA: the Agency's mandate was outlined in 1946 by Robert A. Lovett, who was a partner of Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers Harriman.
Not least, as readers of the “Nation” magazine know, after the Kennedy assassination, the FBI was enlisted to brief CIA asset George Bush...To the general observation that the CIA represented the interests of the oil-defense industries, and the Pentagon, must be added another motive for the involvement of the CIA in the assassination. Almost from the moment Kennedy took office, a conflict raged between the President and the CIA. Once Kennedy refused to be blackmailed by the CIA into a full-scale invasion of Cuba at the time of the Bay of Pigs, de Gaulle's “intra-administration war” erupted. The clandestine service of the CIA pushed for an invasion of Cuba. President Kennedy declined, and went on to fire the Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles, who re-emerges as the central figure at the Warren Commission.
Throughout Kennedy's brief presidency, the CIA treated him as an enemy. They withheld information, which included details about the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Also concealed from President Kennedy were the CIA's continuing assassinations and attempted assassinations of foreign leaders.
John F. Kennedy, in turn, sought to reign in the CIA, and to limit the scope of its activities, including reducing the powers of the Director of Central Intelligence...He intended to cut the CIA budget. He sent, I discovered, Richard Goodwin down to No-Name Key to ask the Soldiers of Fortune training there to take over Radio Swan, the CIA radio station, on behalf of the President. They declined. Kennedy threatened the existence of the Agency as they knew themselves.
Richard Reeves, in his very honest biography of John F. Kennedy, quotes the President repeating over and over again: “I've got to do something about those CIA bastards,” and “Those CIA bastards. I'm going to get those bastards if it's the last thing I ever do.” It was the persistent refrain of the Kennedy presidency...We should not be surprised that the National Security Agency, empowered only to spy on foreign agents abroad, is spying on US instead. Research into the Kennedy assassination reveals that although the CIA was supposedly created to deal with foreign threats, the CIA operated together with the FBI in the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination. Documents reveal that this mutual cooperation dates from the moment of the founding of the CIA. In Louisiana, the sabotage of Garrison's investigation was led by the CIA, operating beyond its mandate, domestically...Oswald was virtually NEVER alone. Moreover, he was not involved with anyone who was NOT connected to the CIA...federal agencies worked actively to thwart Garrison's investigation...FBI director J. Edgar Hoover subverted Garrison's effort...Bobby Kennedy then sent Sheridan to New Orleans, as Sheridan freely admitted, to “destroy” Jim Garrison...Placing Oswald in the company of so close an associate of Bobby Kennedy, in an incident that points to foreknowledge of the assassination as well as the framing of Oswald, created the trap that would silence Bobby forever. Bobby asked his aide, Frank Mankiewicz whether “any of our people were involved,” and, Mankiewicz told me, he had asked himself, did you think there might be?...he Warren Commission and the HSCA buried what they knew about Oswald's participation in ANTI-Castro activities, information that would have led directly to the role of the CIA in the assassination.I believe that we are now suffering the consequences of allowing lies about what happened to President Kennedy to remain unchallenged. The consequence of the public not demanding that the murder of the head of state be properly investigated has led directly to the current undermining of the integrity of our democratic institutions, not least the press. An obvious consequence of the obfuscations of the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee both has been the ease with which the 9/11 Commission was able to conceal important truths...Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from a sermon a year before his death: “No lie can live forever.”
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http://tabacco.blog-city.com/cia_invisible_government__the_men_who_killed_kennedy__not_le.htm
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From:
Don’t Call It a Conspiracy — the Kennedy Brothers
by R.U. Sirius [born Ken Goffman] 7/12/7
http://10zenmonkeys.com/2007/07/12/dont-call-it-a-conspiracy-the-kennedy-brothers
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
...the hostility that existed between the Kennedy brothers and their own military, intelligence and enforcement agencies...
R.U. Sirius [born Ken Goffman] : They suckered Kennedy into letting this invasion happen. Apparently, there was a fairly recent revelation that the CIA knew the Bay of Pigs wasn't going to work and they were sure that Kennedy would be forced to mount an invasion.
DT: That's right. I think they were trying to sandbag him. They knew he was young and inexperienced. According to the CIA's own internal history of the Bay of Pigs, which was released and de-classified in 2005, they knew that it would fail. They knew that their own motley brigade of Cuban exiles weren't sufficient to defeat Castro, and they thought that Kennedy's hand would be forced to send in the Marines and Air Force once these guys were pinned down on the beaches. But he didn't. He was very loath to widen the war. He knew — as the CIA itself later determined in an intelligence estimate — that if we were to do that, it would end up like what we're seeing today in Iraq. U.S. forces would have quickly swept aside Castro's military, they'd have marched on to Havana and then they would've gotten bogged down in a long and bloody occupation.
Did Kennedy suspect that he had been sandbagged?
DT: Yes. And he was furious. Afterwards, he famously threatened to shatter the CIA and scatter it to the winds. And he did fire the top two officials of the CIA — Allen Dulles, who ironically later became the most active member of the Warren Commission (to investigate the assassination of JFK), and Richard Bissell. And he was constantly re-shuffling his Joint Chiefs, because they were some frightening characters as well. The head of the Air Force, Curtis LeMay, actually thought you could fight and win a nuclear war.
RU: LeMay comes across in this book as actually very anxious to just get right into a nuclear war. And there's another character – Lyman Lemnitzer — true psycho maniacs. Talk a little bit about these characters.
DT: Those are two of my favorites! Curtis LeMay was this cigar-chomping World War II hero who had devastated Japan with firebombing assaults during that war. He knew that, in the early '60s, America had massive nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union. And he thought that was our window of opportunity to take the commies out. Do it now. We would, of course, suffer millions of casualties of our own, but he argued with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that you could still win the war as long as you had more weapons in the end.
RU: The one who dies with the most bombs wins.
DT: Exactly. LeMay, of course, was the inspiration for General Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove.
RU: And he was George Wallace's Vice Presidential candidate in 1968.
DT: Lyman Lemnitzer is another frightening character. Kennedy thought he was a dope — that's what Arthur Schlesinger, the Kennedy historian, told me. This is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
RU: Right. A complete idiot.
DT: Yeah, a complete idiot. And at one point, he came up with a scheme called Operation Northwoods, which he presents to McNamara and Kennedy.
JEFF DIEHL: The 9/11 conspiracy people bring that up all the time.
DT: Yes, because it obviously has some potentially interesting parallels with what happened on 9/11, depending on what you think 9/11 was all about. In any case, this was a plan to provoke a number of terrorist acts on U.S. soil and blame it on Castro as a way of creating a pretext for a war on Cuba. The plan included setting off bombs in Miami and Washington and killing American citizens and blaming it on Fidel.
RU: In Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, James Bamford reported that one of the ideas was to blow up John Glenn in space, and blame it on the Cubans.
DT: (Laughs) Yes.
RU: You asked McNamara about it, and McNamara didn't even remember it. I get the sense that the Kennedy administration didn't even take it seriously. They just kind of tossed it in the wastebasket.
DT: I found a memo that Lyman and Lemnitzer did bring it up in the meeting with Kennedy, and he dismissed it out of hand. And Kennedy said, "I hope you're prepared for a wider war." In other words, he thought the Soviets would move against West Berlin if we were to move on Cuba.
I think Jack Kennedy was a wise and temperate man who'd learned the horrors of war firsthand as a young Navy officer in World War II. His own brother, who was a Navy pilot in World War II, had been shot down and killed during that war. So he wasn't like the kind of rich kids we see in office today in the White House…
RU: Although he was a rich kid.
DT: That's right. He was a rich kid. But he actually served in the military, and he knew firsthand the horrors of war.
RU: I love this expression that you use to describe how Kennedy operated. "In the end, JFK threaded the needle of Berlin, as he would do repeatedly during his administration, avoiding either an explosive confrontation or embarrassing capitulation in an artful dance, combining tough speech, symbolic military measures, and back channel diplomacy." Threading the needle – he was trying to sneak down the middle.
DT: Right. He was a skillful guy at the game of politics. He knew that if he came out too publicly as a force for peace, he would be pilloried by the far right, which was on the rise in those days – and was strong in the military — and he would be portrayed as a wimp. And, of course, Democrats have been portrayed that way ever since. But Kennedy was artful about avoiding that label. At the same time, behind the scenes, he was clearly trying to thread the needle and get out of these war situations — in Berlin, in Vietnam, in Laos, and in Cuba.
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excerpt "Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years "http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/about/excerpt.html
..."I think he told me with pleasure," Kennedy would recall. Twenty minutes later, Hoover phoned again to deliver the final blow: "The president's dead," he said and promptly hung up. Again, Kennedy would remember, his voice was oddly flat - "not quite as excited as if he were reporting the fact that he had found a Communist on the faculty of Howard University."...
RFK's search for the truth about the crime of the century has long been an untold story. But it is deeply loaded with historic significance. Kennedy's investigative odyssey - which began with a frantic zeal immediately after his brother's assassination, and then secretly continued in fitful bursts until his own murder less than five years later - did not succeed in bringing the case to court. But Robert Kennedy was a central figure in the drama - not only as his brother's attorney general and the second most powerful official in the Kennedy administration, but as JFK's principal emissary to the dark side of American power. And his hunt for the truth sheds a cold, bright light on the forces that he suspected were behind the murder of his brother. Bobby Kennedy was America's first assassination conspiracy theorist...
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http://freepedia.co.uk/booktalbot.php ...even on 22 November 1963, RFK had reason to believe that dark forces were at work in Dallas...he planned to open an investigation into the assassination had he become president in 1968...
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Monday, September 03, 2007

da daily dance

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Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
http://labofii.net/links
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The "Oh Dude" Massacre
http://smashedo.org.uk/resources.htm
"... raw unedited footage from an F-16 gun camera as the pilot bombs a crowd of civilians in Fallujah. Shows the dehumanized face of modern war..."
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http://greenfeet.net/newsletter/hemp-revealed.shtml
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research a suggested possible solution:
"diatomaceous earth" injected into the stratosphere to reduce the "ozone hole" proposed by a physicist [lost track of the link]
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Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System:
Issues Related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons
http://www.ipcc.ch/press/SPM.pdf
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Pub_Ch07-v2.pdf
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Early Ozone Hole
http://www.earthweek.com/BW.pdf
A hole in the stratospheric
layer of ozone over
Antarctica has appeared
earlier than usual in 2007,
according to a report by the United
Nations weather agency. The World
Meteorological Organization said it
is too early to tell if the ozone hole
will become larger than the record
size measured in 2006. Some experts
say it may extend northward to the tip
of South America by October.
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http://peoplesgeography.com/tag/climate-change
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Pittsburgh Food Not Bombs
http://home.earthlink.net/~foodnotbombs/helpfullinks.html
http://fnb-pgh.2ya.com
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Not In Our Name
http://nion.us
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http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/642/642_02_Vietnam.shtml
"...not long after Pol Pot came to power, he became a secret ally of the U.S. and China to put military pressure on Vietnam...."
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Pope on board to save the Earth, fair distributes
"hand-cranked battery charger"s
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http://globalgreen.org
http://pealcenter.org
http://toxicsinpackaging.org
http://enviro-pac.com
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Northeast Recycling Council
http://nerc.org/state_information/pennsylvania.html
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Center for Health, Environment and Justice
http://chej.org
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http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com
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Saturday, September 01, 2007

unexpected beauty, passing

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"...the Earth is moving closer to several negative "tipping points" that could - within as little as 10 years - make it virtually impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization..."
Albert Gore, former President of the United States (2000-2004)
http://11thhouraction.com/
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http://freepeoplesmovement.org/
http://factoryrat.com/
http://whaledreamers.com/
http://savethewhalesagain.com/links2.html
http://www.lysistrataproject.org/SacredFeminine.htm#VisforVolcano
http://nucnews.com/whatsnew.php
http://pepeace.org/
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From:
The Perfect Nuclear Storm is Brewing
by Douglas Mattern 6/26/3
...by far the greatest terrorism is that each and every day for the past several decades, and in this third year of a new millennium, we are daily under the threat of nuclear incineration whether by accident, miscalculation, or by design.

McGeorge Bundy, former assistant to President Kennedy, said: "In the real world even one hydrogen bomb on one city would be a catastrophe; ten bombs on ten cities would be a disaster beyond history. A hundred or even less would be the end of civilization"

There are 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world today and only a fool could believe we can exist indefinitely without these weapons being used. It's utter madness, and it's imperative that thinking people join together...
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