Anti Oligarch's Posts - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T17:43:42ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarchhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1961297094?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://12160.info/profiles/blog/feed?user=AntiOligarch&xn_auth=noHiroshima and Detroit 65 years latertag:12160.info,2018-05-25:2649739:BlogPost:2071982018-05-25T17:16:29.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<div class="rp2"><div class="post-text"><div>Be sure to view all the way to the end! What happened to the radiation that’s supposed to last thousands of years??<br></br> <br></br> HIROSHIMA AUGUST 6TH, 1945</div>
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<h2>Which is worse?</h2>
<p>WHAT HAS CAUSED MORE LONG TERM DESTRUCTION – THE A-BOMB OR U.S. POLITICS?</p>
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<h2><a href="http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=9544" rel="bookmark" title="Read Hiroshima and Detroit 65 years later">Source: Hiroshima and Detroit 65 years later</a></h2>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1976557640?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" height="370" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1976557640?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="246"></img></a> <strong>Aldous Huxley, author of ‘Brave New World’, gives his speech “The Ultimate Revolution” at Cal Berkeley, 1962.…</strong></p>
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{garbled}Aldous Huxley, a renowned Essayist and Novelist who during the spring semester is residing at the university in his capacity of a Ford research professor. Mr Huxley has recently returned from a conference at the Institute for the study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara where the discussion focused on the development of new techniques by which to control and direct human behavior. Traditionally it has been possible to suppress individual freedom through the application of physical coercion through the appeal of ideologies through the manipulation of man’s physical and social environment and more recently through the techniques, the cruder techniques of psychological conditioning. The Ultimate Revolution, about which Mr. Huxley will speak today, concerns itself with the development of new behavioral controls, which operate directly on the psycho-physiological organisms of man. That is the capacity to replace external constraint by internal compulsions. As those of us who are familiar with Mr. Huxley’s works will know, this is a subject of which he has been concerned for quite a period of time. Mr. Huxley will make a presentation of approximately half an hour followed by some brief discussions and questions by the two panelists sitting to my left, Mrs. Lillian {garbled} and Mr. John Post. Now Mr. Huxley<br/>
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Uh, First of all, the, I’d like to say, that the conference at Santa Barbara was not directly concerned with the control of the mind. That was a conference, there have been two of them now, at the University of California Medical center in San Francisco, one this year which I didn’t attend, and one two years ago where there was a considerable discussion on this subject. At Santa Barbara we were talking about technology in general and the effects it’s likely to have on society and the problems related to technological transplanting of technology into underdeveloped countries.<br/>
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Well now in regard to this problem of the ultimate revolution, this has been very well summed up by the moderator. In the past we can say that all revolutions have essentially aimed at changing the environment in order to change the individual. I mean there’s been the political revolution, the economic revolution, in the time of the reformation, the religious revolution. All these aimed, not directly at the human being, but at his surroundings. So that by modifying the surroundings you did achieve, did one remove the effect of the human being.<br/>
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Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows. Well needless to say some kind of direct action on human mind-bodies has been going on since the beginning of time. But this has generally been of a violent nature. The Techniques of terrorism have been known from time immemorial and people have employed them with more or less ingenuity sometimes with the utmost cruelty, sometimes with a good deal of skill acquired by a process of trial and error finding out what the best ways of using torture, imprisonment, constraints of various kinds.<br/>
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But, as, I think it was (sounds like Mettenicht) said many years ago, you can do everything with {garbled} except sit on them. If you are going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent, it’s exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion an element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them.<br/>
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It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude. This is the, it seems to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolutions shall we say, and this is a problem which has interested me many years and about which I wrote thirty years ago, a fable, Brave New World, which is an account of society making use of all the devices available and some of the devices which I imagined to be possible making use of them in order to, first of all, to standardize the population, to iron out inconvenient human differences, to create, to say, mass produced models of human beings arranged in some sort of scientific caste system. Since then, I have continued to be extremely interested in this problem and I have noticed with increasing dismay a number of the predictions which were purely fantastic when I made them thirty years ago have come true or seem in process of coming true.<br/>
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A number of techniques about which I talked seem to be here already. And there seems to be a general movement in the direction of this kind of ultimate revolution, a method of control by which a people can be made to enjoy a state of affairs by which any decent standard they ought not to enjoy. This, the enjoyment of servitude, Well this process is, as I say, has gone on for over the years, and I have become more and more interested in what is happening.<br/>
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And here I would like briefly to compare the parable of Brave New World with another parable which was put forth more recently in George Orwell’s book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote his book between, I think between 45 and 48 at the time when the Stalinist terror regime was still in Full swing and just after the collapse of the Hitlerian terror regime. And his book which I admire greatly, it’s a book of very great talent and extraordinary ingenuity, shows, so to say, a projection into the future of the immediate past, of what for him was the immediate past, and the immediate present, it was a projection into the future of a society where control was exercised wholly by terrorism and violent attacks upon the mind-body of individuals.<br/>
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Whereas my own book which was written in 1932 when there was only a mild dictatorship in the form of Mussolini in existence, was not overshadowed by the idea of terrorism, and I was therefore free in a way in which Orwell was not free, to think about these other methods of control, these non-violent methods and my, I’m inclined to think that the scientific dictatorships of the future, and I think there are going to be scientific dictatorships in many parts of the world, will be probably a good deal nearer to the brave new world pattern than to the 1984 pattern, they will a good deal nearer not because of any humanitarian qualms of the scientific dictators but simply because the BNW pattern is probably a good deal more efficient than the other.<br/>
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That if you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they’re living. The state of servitude the state of being, having their differences ironed out, and being made amenable to mass production methods on the social level, if you can do this, then you have, you are likely, to have a much more stable and lasting society. Much more easily controllable society than you would if you were relying wholly on clubs and firing squads and concentration camps. So that my own feeling is that the 1984 picture was tinged of course by the immediate past and present in which Orwell was living, but the past and present of those years does not reflect, I feel, the likely trend of what is going to happen, needless to say we shall never get rid of terrorism, it will always find its way to the surface.<br/>
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But I think that insofar as dictators become more and more scientific, more and more concerned with the technically perfect, perfectly running society, they will be more and more interested in the kind of techniques which I imagined and described from existing realities in BNW. So that, it seems to me then, that this ultimate revolution is not really very far away, that we, already a number of techniques for bringing about this kind of control are here, and it remains to be seen when and where and by whom they will first be applied in any large scale.<br/>
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And first let me talk about the, a little bit about the, improvement in the techniques of terrorism. I think there have been improvements. Pavlov after all made some extremely profound observations both on animals and on human beings. And he found among other things that conditioning techniques applied to animals or humans in a state either of psychological or physical stress sank in so to say, very deeply into the mind-body of the creature, and were extremely difficult to get rid of. That they seemed to be embedded more deeply than other forms of conditioning.<br/>
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And this of course, this fact was discovered empirically in the past. People did make use of many of these techniques, but the difference between the old empirical intuitive methods and our own methods is the difference between the, a sort of, hit and miss craftsman’s point of view and the genuinely scientific point of view. I think there is a real difference between ourselves and say the inquisitors of the 16th century. We know much more precisely what we are doing, than they knew and we can extend because of our theoretical knowledge, we can extend what we are doing over a wider area with a greater assurance of being producing something that really works.<br/>
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In this context I would like to mention the extremely interesting chapters in Dr. William (sounds like Seargent’s) Battle for the Mind where he points out how intuitively some of the great religious teachers/leaders of the past hit on the Pavlovian method, he speaks specifically of Wesley’s method of producing conversions which were essentially based on the technique of heightening psychological stress to the limit by talking about hellfire and so making people extremely vulnerable to suggestion and then suddenly releasing this stress by offering hopes of heaven and this is a very interesting chapter of showing how completely on purely intuitive and empirical grounds a skilled natural psychologist, as Wesley was, could discover these Pavlovian methods.<br/>
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Well, as I say, we now know the reason why these techniques worked and there’s no doubt at all that we can if we wanted to, carry them much further than was possible in the past. And of course in the history of, recent history of brainwashing, both as applied to prisoners of war and to the lower personnel within the communist party in China, we see that the pavlovian methods have been applied systematically and with evidently with extraordinary efficacy. I think there can be no doubt that by the application of these methods a very large army of totally devoted people has been created. The conditioning has been driven in, so to say, by a kind of psychological iontophoresis into the very depths of the people’s being, and has got so deep that it’s very difficult to ever be rooted out, and these methods, I think, are a real refinement on the older methods of terror because they combine methods of terror with methods of acceptance that the person who is subjected to a form of terroristic stress but for the purpose of inducing a kind of voluntary quotes acceptance of the state the psychological state in which he has been driven and the state of affairs in which he finds himself.<br/>
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So there is, as I say, there has been a definite improvement in the, even in the techniques of terrorism. But then we come to the consideration of other techniques, non-terroristic techniques, for inducing consent and inducing people to love their servitude. Here, I don’t think I can possibly go into all of them, because I don’t know all of them, but I mean I can mention the more obvious methods, which can now be used and are based on recent scientific findings. First of all there are the methods connected with straight suggestion and hypnosis.<br/>
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I think we know much more about this subject than was known in the past. People of course, always have known about suggestion, and although they didn’t know the word ‘hypnosis’ they certainly practiced it in various ways. But we have, I think, a much greater knowledge of the subject than in the past, and we can make use of our knowledge in ways, which I think the past was never able to make use of it. For example, one of the things we now know for certain, that there is of course an enormous, I mean this has always been known a very great difference between individuals in regard to their suggestibility. But we now know pretty clearly the sort of statistical structure of a population in regard to its suggestibility. Its very interesting when you look at the findings of different fields, I mean the field of hypnosis, the field of administering placebos, for example, in the field of general suggestion in states of drowsiness or light sleep you will find the same sorts of orders of magnitude continually cropping up.<br/>
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You’ll find for example that the experienced hypnotist will tell one that the number of people, the percentage of people who can be hypnotized with the utmost facility (snaps), just like that. is about 20%, and about a corresponding number at the other end of the scale are very, very difficult or almost impossible to hypnotize. But in between lies a large mass of people who can with more or less difficulty be hypnotized, that they can gradually be if you work hard enough at it be got into the hypnotic state, and in the same way the same sort of figures crop up again, for example in relation to the administration of placebos.<br/>
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A big experiment was carried out three of four years ago in the general hospital in Boston on post-operative cases where several hundred men and woman suffering comparable kinds of pain after serious operations were allowed to, were given injections whenever they asked for them whenever the pain got bad, and the injections were 50% of the time were of morphine, and 50% of water. And about twenty percent of those who went through the experiment, about 20% of them got just as much relief from the distilled waters as from the morphea. About 20% got no relief from the distilled water, and in-between were those who got some relief or got relief occasionally.<br/>
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So yet again, we see the same sort of distribution, and similarly in regard to what in BNW I called Hypnopedia, the sleep teaching, I was talking not long ago to a man who manufactures records which people can listen to in the, during the light part of sleep, I mean these are records for getting rich, for sexual satisfaction (crowd laughs), for confidence in salesmanship and so on, and he said that its very interesting that these are records sold on a money-back basis, and he says there is regularly between 15% and 20% of people who write indignantly saying the records don’t work at all, and he sends the money back at once. There are on the other hand, there are over 20% who write enthusiastically saying they are much richer, their sexual life is much better (laughter) etc, etc. And these of course are the dream clients and they buy more of these records. And in between there are those who don’t get much results and they have to have letters written to them saying “Go persist my dear, go on” (laughter) and you will get there, and they generally do get results in the long run.<br/>
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Well, as I say, on the basis of this, I think we see quite clearly that the human populations can be categorized according to their suggestibility fairly clearly,. I suspect very strongly that this twenty percent is the same in all these cases, and I suspect also that it would not be at all difficult to recognize and {garbled} out who are those who are extremely suggestible and who are those extremely unsuggestible and who are those who occupy the intermediate space. Quite clearly, if everybody were extremely unsuggestible organized society would be quite impossible, and if everybody were extremely suggestible then a dictatorship would be absolutely inevitable. I mean it’s very fortunate that we have people who are moderately suggestible in the majority and who therefore preserve us from dictatorship but do permit organized society to be formed. But, once given the fact that there are these 20% of highly suggestible people, it becomes quite clear that this is a matter of enormous political importance, for example, any demagogue who is able to get hold of a large number of these 20% of suggestible people and to organize them is really in a position to overthrow any government in any country.<br/>
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And I mean, I think this after all, we had the most incredible example in recent years by what can be done by efficient methods of suggestion and persuasion in the form of Hitler. Anyone who has read, for example, (Sounds like Bulloch’s) Life of Hitler, comes forth with this horrified admiration for this infernal genius, who really understood human weaknesses I think almost better than anybody and who exploited them with all the resources then available. I mean he knew everything, for example, he knew intuitively this pavlovian truth that condition installed in a state of stress or fatigue goes much deeper than conditioning installed at other times. This of course is why all his big speeches were organized at night. He speaks quite frankly, of course, in Mein Kampf, this is done solely because people are tired at night and therefore much less capable of resisting persuasion than they would be during the day. And in all his techniques he was using, he had discovered intuitively and by trial and error a great many of the weaknesses, which we now know about on a sort of scientific way I think much more clearly than he did.<br/>
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But the fact remains that this differential of suggestibility this susceptibility to hypnosis I do think is something which has to be considered very carefully in relation to any kind of thought about democratic government . If there are 20% of the people who really can be suggested into believing almost anything, then we have to take extremely careful steps into prevent the rise of demagogues who will drive them on into extreme positions then organize them into very, very dangerous armies, private armies which may overthrow the government.<br/>
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This is, I say, in this field of pure persuasion, I think we do know much more than we did in the past, and obviously we now have mechanisms for multiplying the demagogues voice and image in a quite hallucinatory way, I mean, the TV and radio, Hitler was making enormous use of the radio, he could speak to millions of people simultaneously. This alone creates an enormous gulf between the modern and the ancient demagogue. The ancient demagogue could only appeal to as many people as his voice could reach by yelling at his utmost, but the modern demagogue could touch literally millions at a time, and of course by the multiplication of his image he can produce this kind of hallucinatory effect which is of enormous hypnotic and suggestive importance.<br/>
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But then there are the various other methods one can think of which, thank heaven, as yet have not be used, but which obviously could be used. There is for example, the pharmacological method, this is one of the things I talked about in BNW. I invented a hypothetical drug called SOMA, which of course could not exist as it stood there because it was simultaneously a stimulant, a narcotic, and a hallucinogen, which seems unlikely in one substance. But the point is, if you applied several different substances you could get almost all these results even now, and the really interesting things about the new chemical substances, the new mind-changing drugs is this, if you looking back into history its clear that man has always had a hankering after mind changing chemicals, he has always desired to take holidays from himself, but the, and, this is the most extraordinary effect of all that every natural occurring narcotic stimulant, sedative, or hallucinogen, was discovered before the dawn of history, I don’t think there is one single one of these naturally occurring ones which modern science has discovered.<br/>
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Modern science has of course better ways of extracting the active principals of these drugs and of course has discovered numerous ways of synthesizing new substances of extreme power, but the actual discovery of these naturally occurring things was made by primitive man goodness knows how many centuries ago. There is for example, in the underneath the, lake dwellings of the early Neolithic that have been dug up in Switzerland we have found poppy-heads, which looks as though people were already using this most ancient and powerful and dangerous of narcotics, even before the days of the rise of agriculture. So that man was apparently a dope-bag addict before he was a farmer, which is a very curious comment on human nature.<br/>
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But, the difference, as I say, between the ancient mind-changers, the traditional mind-changers, and the new substances is that they were extremely harmful and the new ones are not. I mean even the permissible mind-changer alcohol is not entirely harmless, as people may have noticed, and I mean the other ones, the non-permissible ones, such as opium and cocaine, opium and its derivatives, are very harmful indeed. They rapidly produce addiction, and in some cases lead at an extraordinary rate to physical degeneration and death.<br/>
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Whereas these new substances, this is really very extraordinary, that a number of these new mind-changing substances can produce enormous revolutions within the mental side of our being, and yet do almost nothing to the physiological side. You can have an enormous revolution, for example, with LSD-25 or with the newly synthesized drug psilocybin, which is the active principal of the Mexican sacred mushroom. You can have this enormous mental revolution with no more physiological revolution than you would get from drinking two cocktails. And this is a really most extraordinary effect.<br/>
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And it is of course true that pharmacologists are producing a great many new wonder drugs where the cure is almost worse than the disease. Every year the new edition of medical textbooks contains a longer and longer chapter of what are Iatrogenic diseases, that is to say diseases caused by doctors (laughter} And this is quite true, many of the wonder drugs are extremely dangerous. I mean they can produce extraordinary effects, and in critical conditions they should certainly be used, but they should be used with the utmost caution. But there is evidently a whole class of drugs effecting the CNS which can produce enormous changes in sedation in euphoria in energizing the whole mental process without doing any perceptible harm to the human body, and this presents to me the most extraordinary revolution. In the hands of a dictator these substances in one kind or the other could be used with, first of all, complete harmlessness, and the result would be, you can imagine a euphoric that would make people thoroughly happy even in the most abominable circumstances.<br/>
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I mean these things are possible. This is the extraordinary thing, I mean after all this is even true with the crude old drugs. I mean, a housemate years ago remarked after reading Milton’s Paradise Lost, He Says “And beer does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man” (laughter). And beer is of course, an extremely crude drug compared to these ones. And you can certainly say that some of the psychic energizers and the new hallucinants could do incomparably more than Milton and all the Theologicians combined could possibly do to make the terrifying mystery of our existence seem more tolerable than it does. And here I think one has an enormous area in which the ultimate revolution could function very well indeed, an area in which a great deal of control could be used by not through terror, but by making life seem much more enjoyable than it normally does. Enjoyable to the point, where as I said before, Human beings come to love a state of things by which any reasonable and decent human standard they ought not to love and this I think is perfectly possible.<br/>
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But then, very briefly, let me speak about one of the more recent developments in the sphere of neurology, about the implantation of electrodes in the brain. This of course has been done in the large scale in animals and in a few cases its been done in the cases of the hopelessly insane. And anybody who has watched the behavior of rats with electrodes placed in different centers must come away from this experience with the most extraordinary doubts about what on Earth is in store for us if this is got a hold of by a dictator. I saw not long ago some rats in the {garbled} laboratory at UCLA there were two sets of them, one with electrodes planted in the pleasure center, and the technique was they had a bar which they pressed which turned on a very small current for a short space of time which we had a wire connected with that electrode and which stimulated the pleasure center and was evidently absolutely ecstatic was these rats were pressing the bar 18,000 times a day (laughter). Apparently if you kept them from pressing the bar for a day, they’d press it 36,000 times on the following day and would until they fell down in complete exhaustion (laughter) And they would neither eat, nor be interested in the opposite sex but would just go on pressing this bar {pounds on podium}<br/>
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Then the most extraordinary rats were those were the electrode was planted halfway between the pleasure and the pain center. The result was a kind of mixture of the most wonderful ecstasy and like being on the rack at the same time. And you would see the rats sort of looking at is bar and sort of saying “To be or not to be that is the question”. (Laughter) Finally it would approach {Pounds on podium} and go back with this awful I mean, the (sounds like franken huminizer anthropomorphizer), and he would wait some time before pressing the bar again, yet he would always press it again. This was the extraordinary thing.<br/>
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I noticed in the most recent issue of Scientific American there’s a very interesting article on electrodes in the brains of chickens, where the technique is very ingenious, where you sink into their brains a little socket with a screw on it and the electrode can then be screwed deeper and deeper into the brainstem and you can test at any moment according to the depth, which goes at fractions of the mm, what you’re stimulating and these creatures are not merely stimulated by wire, they’re fitted with a miniature radio receiver which weighs less than an ounce which is attached to them so that they can be communicated with at a distance, I mean they can run about in the barnyard and you could press a button and this particular area of the brain to which the electrode has been screwed down to would be stimulated. You would get this fantastic phenomena, where a sleeping chicken would jump up and run about, or an active chicken would suddenly sit down and go to sleep, or a hen would sit down and act like she’s hatching out an egg, or a fighting rooster would go into depression.<br/>
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The whole picture of the absolute control of the drives is terrifying, and in the few cases in which this has been done with very sick human beings, The effects are evidently very remarkable too, I was talking last summer in England to Grey Walter, who is the most eminent exponent of the EEG technique in England, and he was telling me that he’s seen hopeless inmates at asylums with these things in their heads, and these people were suffering from uncontrollable depression, and they had these electrodes inserted into the pleasure center in their brain, however when they felt too bad, they just pressed a button on the battery in their pocket and he said the results were fantastic, the mouth pointing down would suddenly turn up and they’d feel very cheerful and happy. So there again one sees the most extraordinary revolutionary techniques, which are now available to us.<br/>
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Now, I think what is obviously perfectly clear is that for the present these techniques are not being used except in an experimental way, but I think it is important for us to realize what is happening to make ourselves acquainted with what has already happened, and then use a certain amount of imagination to extrapolate into the future the sort of things that might happen. What might happen if these fantastically powerful techniques were used by unscrupulous people in authority, what on Earth would happen, what sort of society would we get?<br/>
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And I think it is peculiarly important because as one sees when looking back over history we have allowed in the past all those advances in technology which has profoundly changed our social and individual life to take us by surprise, I mean it seems to me that it was during the late 18 century early 19th century when the new machines were making possible the factory situation. It was not beyond the wit of man to see what was happening and project into the future and maybe forestall the really dreadful consequences which plagued England and most of western Europe and this country for sixty or seventy years, and the horrible abuses of the factory system and if a certain amount of forethought had been devoted to the problem at that time and if people had first of all found out what was happening and then used their imagination to see what might happen, and then had gone on to work out the means by which the worst applications of the techniques would not take place, well then I think western humanity might have been spared about three generations of utter misery which had been imposed on the poor at that time.<br/>
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And the same way with various technological advances now, I mean we need to think about the problems with automation and more profoundly the problems, which may arise with these new techniques, which may contribute to this ultimate revolution. Our business is to be aware of what is happening, and then to use our imagination to see what might happen, how this might be abused, and then if possible to see that the enormous powers which we now possess thanks to these scientific and technological advances to be used for the benefit of human beings and not for their degradation.<br/>
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</div>Gary Webb’s DARK ALLIANCE Timeline - e evolution of an international drug ring with ties to the CIAtag:12160.info,2017-04-20:2649739:BlogPost:2502682017-04-20T17:56:10.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<p><strong>DARK ALLIANCE is Gary Webb’s investigation of the evolution of an international drug ring with ties to the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras. A saga that has lasted more than twenty years, the story features convoluted and secretive trails of money and drugs as well as equally twisted relationships between the CIA operatives, the Contras, and crack cocaine distributors. It is all chronicled by Gary Webb in the following timeline.</strong><br></br> <br></br> <strong>1977…</strong><br></br> <br></br></p>
<p><strong>DARK ALLIANCE is Gary Webb’s investigation of the evolution of an international drug ring with ties to the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras. A saga that has lasted more than twenty years, the story features convoluted and secretive trails of money and drugs as well as equally twisted relationships between the CIA operatives, the Contras, and crack cocaine distributors. It is all chronicled by Gary Webb in the following timeline.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1977</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>June 2—Nicaraguan crime boss Norwin Meneses, who will become the leader of an international drug ring, is arrested and jailed in connection with the murder of Nicaragua’s top Customs official. His brother, Gen. Edmundo Meneses, chief of Managua’s police department believed to have been a CIA asset who coordinated couterinsurgency movements throughout Latin America in the 1970s, investigates and clears Norwin.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1978</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Spring—FBI and DEA reports together show that Norwin and Ernesto Meneses are smuggling large quantities of cocaine into the United States via commercial airliner. The DEA believes Norwin is dealing cocaine from Colombia and selling it in San Francisco and Miami. Norwin’s nephew, Jaime Meneses, is distributing the cocaine in San Francisco.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Sept. 29—Gen. Edmundo Meneses dies of wounds after being machine-gunned in Guatemala City two weeks earlier by Sandinista supporters.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1979</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>June—Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón, who would later become Los Angeles’s biggest cocaine trafficker, separately flee Nicaragua for the United States.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>July 1—International cocaine conference opens in Lima, and North American scientists get first-hand reports about cocaine smoking craze in Peru.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>July 17—Nicaragua falls to Sandinista rebels. Dictator Anastasio Somoza and about 100 others are airlifted to Homestead AFB in Florida.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>July 19—Congress convenes cocaine hearings and receives first warnings of oncoming cocaine smoking epidemic.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>December—”Freeway” Ricky Ross, an illiterate teenager from South Central L.A., sees his first rock of crack.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1980</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>August—Former Nicaraguan National Guard Colonel Enrique Bermúdez goes onto CIA payroll and heads to Guatemala to take over command of the Legion of September 15, a violent gang of ex-Guardsmen and mercenaries, the forerunners of the Contras.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Sept. 17—Anastasio Somoza assassinated in Ascuncion, Paraguay.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>October.-November.—Small groups of pro-Contra Nicaraguans meet in Miami to form the UDN-FARN Contra army, which buys some weapons and radio equipment.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 4—Reagan elected President.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1981</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Mar. 9—Reagan signs “finding” to begin destabilizing the Nicaraguan government. CIA gears up for covert actions.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Mid-year—Ricky Ross and his friend Ollie Newell begin selling small amounts of powder cocaine in South Central L.A., which they get from a teacher.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Aug. 10—At the CIA’s behest, UDN-FARN and the Legion of Sept. 15 form the FDN and move their base of operations to Honduras.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 23—Reagan signs NSDD #17, authorizing the CIA to spend $19.95 million to set up the Contras, a paltry sum to fund such an ambitious project.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>December—FDN begins setting up support committees in various U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Houston, and Miami.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>December—Blandón and Meneses “start the Contra revolution” in California. They meet with Bermúdez in Honduras to figure out how to raise money for the Contras. On return to U.S., Blandón picks up two kilos from Meneses in San Francisco and begins selling drugs in L.A.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1982</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Jan. 23—Ex-fighter pilot Carlos Cabezas is recruited in San Francisco to sell cocaine for the Contras. Obtains it from Contra supporters in Costa Rica working for Meneses.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Mid-year—Crack cocaine starts appearing in noticeable quantities on streets of South Central. Ricky Ross begins buying cocaine from Nicaraguan subordinate of Danilo Blandón.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>September—Former Sandinista Edén Pastora unites with the UDN-FARN commander “El Negro” Chamorro to form ARDE, the main Contra army in Costa Rica.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Oct. 22—CIA gets information that Contras, Meneses aide Pena Cabrera, and unnamed religious group will meet in Costa Rica to discuss arms for drugs.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 8—FBI identifies Meneses lieutenants Troilo Sánchez, Fernando Sánchez and Horacio Pereira, Contra supporters operating out of Costa Rica, as sources of cocaine for San Francisco drug ring.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Late year—Ricky Ross begins marketing pre-made crack “ready rock” to other dealers.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1983</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Early—Ross’s drug enterprise has become so large he begins buying his cocaine directly from Blandón. This substantially reduces his costs, which he passes on to his customers, thereby helping to spread crack even more liberally throughout South Central L.A.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Jan. 17—Colombian freighter docked in San Francisco is raided and 430 pounds of cocaine are seized, breaking open the “Frogman Case,” the first documented instance of Contra drug dealing in the U.S. Carlos Cabezas and other Contra supporters are arrested soon after.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Summer—Crack market in South Central explodes.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Sept. 19—Reagan signs another secret finding, this one authorizing money and CIA help for paramilitary operations against the Sandinistas. Authorizes $19 million for fiscal year 1984.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1984</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Mar. 5—Norwin Meneses begins his conspiracy to distribute cocaine in San Francisco, according to a secret indictment.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>May—Contras run out of money.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>June 4—Norwin Meneses pays for a dinner party in San Francisco in honor of CIA agent Adolfo Calero, the political boss of the Contras. Meneses and Calero have a series of private meetings over the next few months.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>July 30—CIA is told evidence in Frogman case links CIA operatives in Costa Rica to U.S. drug traffickers. Agency scrambles to keep information from public and returns $36,000 to convicted drug dealer.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Oct. 10—Congress votes to cut off all funding for the Contras.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 26—FDN official and Meneses’s nephew are busted in San Francisco for cocaine trafficking.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Dec. 5—CIA is informed that Meneses and Contra leader Sebastian “Guachan” González are involved in drug dealing and arms trafficking in Costa Rica.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1985</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>March—DEA is told Chepita and Danilo Blandón are “members of a cocaine trafficking organization.” Soon, U.S. State Department grants both political asylum. By this time, Blandón reports, he and Ross are moving upwards of 100 kilos a week.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Apr. 4—Jairo Meneses implicates his uncle in drug trafficking, yet no charges are filed. Norwin soon moves to Costa Rica and goes to work for the DEA.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>September—DEA identifies Blandón has the head of a cocaine distribution organization in Los Angeles. No action is taken.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>September—Panamanian doctor Hugo Spadafora, a Contra leader, meets three times with DEA agent Robert Nieves in Costa Rica, reportedly to accuse Contra leader “Guachan” Gonzalez and Manuel Noriega of drug trafficking. A week later, Spadafora is decapitated.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Dec. 20—Brian Barger and Robert Parry write story for Associated Press saying Contras are dealing in cocaine and running guns. Story is largely ignored by the American press.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1986</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Mid-April—Guatemalan DEA agent Celerino Castillo III gets telegram from DEA agent Robert Nieves in Costa Rica that says Contras are involved in drug smuggling out of Hangars four and five at Ilopango in El Salvador.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>June—Crack problem “discovered” by the mainstream press after college basketball player Len Bias and pro football player Don Rogers die of overdoses.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>June 25—House approves $100 million Contra aid package by 221-209 vote. Senate approves it two months later.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Aug. 25-27—DEA agents in southern California debrief confidential informant inside Blandón’s operation and are told that cocaine sold in South Central is financing the Contras. L.A. County Sheriff’s office begins investigation and discovers FBI has same information.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Oct. 5—Cargo plane used by Oliver North’s illegal Contra resupply effort is shot down over Nicaragua.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Oct. 27—Blandón’s house and used car lot and a dozen other locations are raided by the L.A. County Sheriff, FBI, IRS, and Bell police. Detectives told by one suspect and Blandón’s lawyer that CIA is involved. Reagan signs bill authorizing CIA to spend $100 million on Contras.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 3—Iran arms story breaks in Beirut magazine. Two weeks later Attorney General Ed Meese and Reagan hold press conference to admit Contra diversion scheme. Iran-Contra scandal erupts.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Dec. 10—All charges against Blandón stemming from drug raid are dropped and he applies for permanent residence in U.S.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Dec. 13—Former Contra mercenary Steven Carr is found dead of a drug overdose in Los Angeles, shortly before he was to testify about Contra drug and arms dealing in Costa Rica.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Dec. 27—Assistant U.S. attorney assigned to Blandón case allegedly commits suicide in Los Angeles soon after Blandón case is rejected for prosecution in Washington, D.C.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1987</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Jan. 12—LAPD and County Sheriff form Freeway Rick Task Force.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Jan. 21—San Francisco Contra supporter Dennis Ainsworth contacts the FBI and tells them that the FDN “has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Sandinistas.”</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Spring—Blandón leaves L.A. and moves to Miami. FBI discontinues its investigation. Ricky Ross leaves L.A. a couple months later and Freeway Rick Task Force disbands.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>November—George Bush is elected President.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1988</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>March 23—Sandinistas and Contras sign truce at Sapoa.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>July 7—Ross indicted in Texas on cocaine conspiracy charges.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 5—Ross moves back to L.A. from Cincinnati.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1989</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Feb. 8—Norwin Meneses is indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for acts committed in 1984 and 1985. An arrest warrant is issued the same day. Both are put under seal and never made public in U.S.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>June—Ricky Ross is indicted in Cincinnati.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Sept. 1—FBI sting in L.A. snares several members of Blandón raid team and Freeway Rick Task Force.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Late—Blandón returns to Southern California and resumes cocaine dealings.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 28—Ross arrested in L.A. on Cincinnati warrant and jailed.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1990</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>March—DEA San Diego begins investigation of Blandón.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>July 21—Undercover DEA agents meet with Blandón, who mentions that he is “due to receive $1 million dollars back from the U.S. government.”</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Sept. 6—Ross pleads guilty to drug charges in Cincinnati.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Oct. 16—Defense lawyer in FBI police corruption sting tells press about Blandón and the 1986 raids, and claims CIA involvement in drugs. Attorney hit with gag order by federal judge.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1991</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Feb. 8—Ross is sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>June 13—Blandón is audio- and videotaped negotiating a 50-kilo drug deal with a DEA informant.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>August—Ricky Ross begins testifying against police in the L.A. corruption trials.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>November—Nicaraguan police arrest Norwin Meneses and aides and seize 725 kilos of cocaine.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Dec. 9—Blandón arrested on conspiracy and drug charges by LAPD but the charges are dropped at the request of the Justice Department.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1992</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>May 15—Blandón and his wife are arrested in San Diego at the INS offices where they went to pick up Chepita’s green card.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>August—Norwin Meneses convicted of cocaine trafficking in Nicaragua. Sentenced to 30 years, which he is currently serving in Tipitapa Prison.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Oct. 13—Blandón cuts a deal with government, which reduces a probable life sentence to 48 months in jail.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1993</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>August—Ricky Ross released from federal prison after serving four years and starts rebuilding old theater in South Central.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 10—Ross is convicted of old conspiracy case to deliver a controlled substance in Smith County, Texas, and returns to jail.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1994</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>August 12—DEA targets Ross for drug sting, a few weeks before he is released from prison.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Sept. 19—Blandón walks out of jail on the arm of an INS agent, a free man.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>October—Blandón, now a DEA informant, begins negotiating a drug deal with Ross.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1995</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>March—Ross arrested in DEA sting.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>July—Gary Webb begins investigation of Blandón and Contra cocaine dealing, learns of drug sales to Ross in South Central.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>October—DEA agents meet with Webb to dissaude him from writing about Blandón. Two weeks later, former Costa Rican DEA agent Nieves resigns from top DEA position.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>November—DEA alerts CIA that Webb is investigating Contra drug dealing and is trying to locate Meneses, who DEA expects will admit Contra drug dealing.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1996</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>March—Ross goes on trial in San Diego and is convicted. Blandón testifies as prosecution witness, admits Contra drug dealing.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>August—”Dark Alliance” series appears in San Jose Mercury News.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>September—CIA and Justice Dept. launch internal investigation of “Dark Alliance” allegations.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>October—Ross sentenced to life without parole.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>November—Then-chief of the CIA, John Deutsch, makes an unprecedented trip to South Central L.A. to respond to public outrage over “Dark Alliance” allegations.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1997</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>May-June—Mercury News editor Jerry Ceppos recants some findings of “Dark Alliance” series. Webb disagrees with Ceppos and is yanked off the story and reassigned to a bureau 150 miles from his home.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>Nov. 19—Webb quits Mercury News.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>December—Attorney General Janet Reno refuses to release a declassified report by the Justice Dept.’s Inspector General on the U.S. government’s handling of Blandón and Meneses investigations.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>1998</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>January—CIA declassifies and releases one volume of a two-volume report on its internal investigation of Contra drug dealing. Volume two is still classified.</strong><br/> <br/> <strong>March—CIA Inspector General Fred Hitz tells Congress that CIA had secret deal with Justice Dept. from 1982 to 1995 which permitted the agency to avoid reporting cases of drug trafficking by its agents and assets.</strong></p>
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<p>We've had thousands of newspaper articles video and photographic reports showing the terrible Israeli attacks all over Gaza that amounted to about 2.000 dead people most of them unarmed innocent civilians and children.</p>
<p>I won't mention Iraq coz it's really bad there, but in Syria by April this year more than 200,000 (two hundred thousand) people mostly Christians have been executed by Al Qaeda aka ISIS aka ISIL the usual CIA funded groups of maniacs killing for pleasure all over the…</p>
<p>We've had thousands of newspaper articles video and photographic reports showing the terrible Israeli attacks all over Gaza that amounted to about 2.000 dead people most of them unarmed innocent civilians and children.</p>
<p>I won't mention Iraq coz it's really bad there, but in Syria by April this year more than 200,000 (two hundred thousand) people mostly Christians have been executed by Al Qaeda aka ISIS aka ISIL the usual CIA funded groups of maniacs killing for pleasure all over the world. Why is this not "attracting" attention? Are we being directed to one atrocity in order to ignore another?<br/><br/><a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/un-rights-chief-slams-syria-paralysis-death-toll-tops-191-000/article/398588">http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/un-rights-chief-slams-syria-paralysis-death-toll-tops-191-000/article/398588</a><br/><br/><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1976591093?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1976591093?profile=original" width="450"/></a></p>Gruesome Harvest: The Costly Attempt To Exterminate The People of Germany (1947)tag:12160.info,2014-03-22:2649739:BlogPost:2579422014-03-22T22:11:59.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<p><span class="font-size-3">By: Ralph Franklin Keeling, 1947</span><br></br> <br></br> <span class="font-size-3">Open source free download: <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/GruesomeHarvest/FH.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/GruesomeHarvest/FH.mobi" target="_blank">Kindle</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/GruesomeHarvest/FH_djvu.txt" target="_blank">Full Text</a></span><br></br> <br></br> <span class="font-size-3">On May 8, 1945 the shooting ended in…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">By: Ralph Franklin Keeling, 1947</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">Open source free download: <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/GruesomeHarvest/FH.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/GruesomeHarvest/FH.mobi" target="_blank">Kindle</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/GruesomeHarvest/FH_djvu.txt" target="_blank">Full Text</a></span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">On May 8, 1945 the shooting ended in Europe. But, shockingly, the war against Germany went on. Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had decreed that the German people must suffer - and suffer they did. Driven from their homes, looted of their property, decimated by famine and disease, raped, robbed, and enslaved, millions of Germans - most of them women and children - bore the brunt of what Time magazine called "history's most terrifying piece".</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">Gruesome Harvest was one of the first books in America to sound the alarm against the victor's postwar war against the Germans. Bristling with contemporary documentation, burning with humanitarian and patriotic outrage, this informed, riveting classic dares to tell the shameful story of how American and Allied policy makers undertook the political, economic, and social destruction of the German people even as they presumed to instruct them in "justice" and "democracy"</span><br/> <br/> <span class="font-size-3">Today, as the propaganda war against the Germans wears on in the media and academic life, Gruesome Harvest, written in 1947 by a courageous American, when the decimation of the German race was still official U.S.-Allied policy, tells a vital story, one that must not be suppressed or forgotten.</span></p>FLASHBACK - The Day Before 9/11: 'Missing' Trillions From The Pentagontag:12160.info,2014-02-18:2649739:BlogPost:2357762014-02-18T13:33:45.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<p><i>People are up in arms about the bailouts.<br></br> Give-aways really.<br></br> But they forget the biggest give-away of all time: <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091001defensebudget&scale=0" target="_blank">$2.3 trillion missing</a>, gone, no explanation.</i><br></br>
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<p><i>People are up in arms about the bailouts.<br/> Give-aways really.<br/>
But they forget the biggest give-away of all time: <a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091001defensebudget&scale=0" target="_blank">$2.3 trillion missing</a>, gone, no explanation.</i><br/>
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By: <a href="http://mediamonarchy.blogspot.com/2009/09/day-before-911-missing-trillions-from.html" target="_blank">Media Monarch</a></p>The Banking Monopoly - Babylon Banksters by Joseph P. Farrelltag:12160.info,2014-01-29:2649739:BlogPost:1860352014-01-29T22:14:40.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<h1><a href="http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/">The Banking Monopoly - Coast to Coast AM <span class="watch-video-date">May<br></br> 25, 2010</span></a></h1>
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<br></br> Expert in alternative science and history, Joseph P. Farrell presented his<br></br>
premise that ancient and modern international bankers have practiced a<br></br>
kind of racketeering (hence his nickname for them 'Banksters') that<br></br>
relates to concepts in physics. Both physics and finance can be…
<h1><a href="http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/">The Banking Monopoly - Coast to Coast AM <span class="watch-video-date">May<br/> 25, 2010</span></a></h1>
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<br/> Expert in alternative science and history, Joseph P. Farrell presented his<br/>
premise that ancient and modern international bankers have practiced a<br/>
kind of racketeering (hence his nickname for them 'Banksters') that<br/>
relates to concepts in physics. Both physics and finance can be thought<br/>
of in two different ways. One is a closed system, based on scarce<br/>
resources, energy or money. The other is an open system, in which<br/>
energy is in abundant supply, "and where money in turn reflects this by<br/>
being a creation of the state, and therefore a debt-free instrument of<br/>
exchange," he detailed.<br/>
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The former is the system we've been<br/>
living under, "where you have a private banking monopoly issuing<br/>
monetized debt...the money always carries an interest bearing load on<br/>
it, so there's always going to be money that's in short supply of the<br/>
demands of the economic system that it's in," he said. Any bank<br/>
including the Federal Reserve can never issue interest, they can only<br/>
lend money into circulation, so that there's never enough money to pay<br/>
the interest on the principle, he continued. A state, however, can<br/>
issue debt-free money yet past US Presidents such as Lincoln, Garfield,<br/>
and Kennedy all ended up assassinated after they tried to change the<br/>
banking system, Farrell pointed out.<br/>
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The Federal Reserve is not a<br/>
government enterprise-- it's a privately held joint-stock company<br/>
that's "no more federal than Federal Express," Farrell quipped. However,<br/>
now, the corporate elite bankers are on the defensive-- "they've made<br/>
too many enemies around the world," with countries like Russia and<br/>
China, he noted. Politicians such as Ron Paul are on the right track,<br/>
calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve, he commented. New energy<br/>
technologies like zero point are being suppressed by both governments<br/>
and the corporate elite, as "they are wanting to monopolize this<br/>
technology for themselves," as well as keep it out of the hands of<br/>
terrorists who might hold the world hostage, he added.<br/>Vatican Smiles At Karl Marx Legacytag:12160.info,2013-12-03:2649739:BlogPost:1525832013-12-03T20:56:06.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<p><font size="4" style="font-style: italic;">We must remember that, Catholic sex abuse has a long and ongoing history intertwined with that of many other religious institutions.</font><br></br> <font size="4" style="font-style: italic;"><br></br></font> <br></br>
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<br></br> <font size="3">An article in the Vatican newspaper shows a surprisingly positive attitude to the work of Karl Marx. The atheist philosopher’s works on the evils of social inequality and capitalism are relevant today, the…</font></p>
<p><font style="font-style: italic;" size="4">We must remember that, Catholic sex abuse has a long and ongoing history intertwined with that of many other religious institutions.</font><br/> <font style="font-style: italic;" size="4"><br/>
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<br/> <font size="3">An article in the Vatican newspaper shows a surprisingly positive attitude to the work of Karl Marx. The atheist philosopher’s works on the evils of social inequality and capitalism are relevant today, the author argues.</font><br/>
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Marx’s criticisms of the social alienation affecting the working class and the injustice of a system in which most of the world capital belongs to a handful of people, have not lost their importance in modern society, says Georg Sans, a German-born professor of the history of contemporary philosophy at the pontifical Gregorian University. In his article in L’Osservatore Romano, he argues that Marx’s theories may help explain why this situation has not changed, reports British newspaper The Times.<br/>
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“We have to ask ourselves, with Marx, whether the forms of alienation of which he spoke have their origin in the capitalist system,” Sans says. “If money as such does not multiply on its own, how are we to explain the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few?”<br/>
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At the same time he criticized Marxism as an ideology, saying communist regimes have distorted and marred Karl Marx’s intellectual legacy. “It is no exaggeration to say that nothing has damaged the interests of Marx the philosopher more than Marxism,” he said.<br/>
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Marx himself is not beyond criticism too, the professor said, since he wrongly reduced a human being to no more than a product of his physical circumstances. His prediction that capitalism would inevitably crumble under internal contradictions has also proved false so far.<br/>
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Earlier, the Catholic Church kept a hostile attitude towards Karl Marx and his legacy. Pope Benedict XVI singled out Marxism as one of the great scourges of the modern age, accusing it of damaging both material and spirit.<br/>
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Marx joins a number of historical figures whose role the Vatican has reassessed recently. Last year it erected a statue of Galileo in a move to apologize for persecuting him over his support of heliocentrism. Later, a senior Catholic Church official said Darwin’s Theory of Evolution did not contradict the faith. And in July, L’Osservatore praised Oscar Wilde, the gay playwright, as “a man who, behind a mask of amorality, asked himself what was just and what was mistaken.”<br/>
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Source: <a href="http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-10-22/vatican-smiles-karl-marx.html#" target="_blank">Russia Today</a>, 22 Feb 2010</p>Webster Tarpley: Against Oligarchytag:12160.info,2013-10-20:2649739:BlogPost:1626552013-10-20T22:02:44.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<h2><img alt="Against Oligarchy" class="alignright size-full wp-image-130" height="200" src="http://ucsnt2.career.virginia.edu:8008/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aobooks.gif" title="Against Oligarchy" width="140"></img> Essays and Speeches, 1970-1996</h2>
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<h3>Venice</h3>
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<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/the-venetian-conspiracy/">The Venetian Conspiracy</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Address delivered to the ICLC Conference near Wiesbaden, Germany, Easter Sunday, 1981; (appeared in Campaigner, September, 1981)…</dd>
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<h2><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-130" title="Against Oligarchy" src="http://ucsnt2.career.virginia.edu:8008/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aobooks.gif" alt="Against Oligarchy" height="200" width="140"/> Essays and Speeches, 1970-1996</h2>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 1em;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Table of Contents</span></h3>
<h3>Venice</h3>
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<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/the-venetian-conspiracy/">The Venetian Conspiracy</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Address delivered to the ICLC Conference near Wiesbaden, Germany, Easter Sunday, 1981; (appeared in Campaigner, September, 1981)</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/the-role-of-the-venetian-oligarchy/">The Role of the Venetian Oligarchy in Reformation, Counter-reformation, Enlightenment, and the Thirty Years’ War</a></dt>
<dd class="source">ICLC Conference, 6 September 1992; (appeared in New Federalist, April, 1993)</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/giammaria-ortes-the-decadent-venetian-kook-who-originated-the-myth-of-carrying-capacity/">Giammaria Ortes: The Decadent Venetian Kook Who Originated The Myth of “Carrying Capacity”</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Printed in The American Almanac, June 20, 1994</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/how-the-dead-souls-of-venice-corrupted-science/">How the Dead Souls of Venice Corrupted Science</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Speech to Schiller Institute Conference, September 4, 1995. Printed in The American Almanac, January, 1996.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/venices-war-against-western-civilization/">Venice’s War Against Western Civilization</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Appeared in Fidelio, Summer 1995</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/the-war-of-the-league-of-cambrai-paolo-sarpi-and-john-locke/">The War of the League of Cambrai, Paolo Sarpi and John Locke</a></dt>
<dd class="source">From ICLC Conference panel titled: “The Axioms of the American System,” Feb. 18, 1996; (appeared in New Federalist, March 18, 1996)</dd>
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<h3>The British</h3>
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<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/how-the-venetian-system-was-transplanted-into-england/">How the Venetian System Was Transplanted Into England</a></dt>
<dd class="source">New Federalist, June 3, 1996</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/the-british-empire-bid-for-undisputed-world-domination-1850-1870/">The British Empire Bid for Undisputed World Domination, 1850-1870</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Schiller Institute Food For Peace Conference, Chicago, February 22-23, 1992</dd>
<dt><a href="lord-palmerstons-multicultural-human-zoo">Lord Palmerston’s Multicultural Human Zoo</a></dt>
<dd class="source">ICLC Conference, February 20, 1994</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/king-edward-vii-of-great-britain-evil-demiurge-of-the-triple-entente-and-world-war-1/">King Edward VII of Great Britain: Evil Demiurge of the Triple Entente and World War 1</a></dt>
<dd class="source">ICLC Conference, February, 1995</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/sir-edward-grey-turned-sarajevo-crisis-into-war">Sir Edward Grey Turned Sarajevo Crisis Into War</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Printed in The American Almanac, March, 1995</dd>
<dt><a href="the-versailles-thesis-the-roots-of-wwi-and-wwii">The Versailles Thesis: The Roots of WWI, and WWII</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Conference Speech by Webster Tarpley, Schiller Institute Food For Peace Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 22-23, 1992.</dd>
<dt><a href="the-versailles-treaty-the-war-guilt-clause">The Versailles Treaty: The War Guilt Clause</a></dt>
<dd class="source">Printed in the American Almanac, March, 1995</dd>
<dt><a href="http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/british-financial-warfare/">British Financial Warfare: 1929; 1931-33; How The City Of London Created The Great Depression</a></dt>
<dd class="source">December 1996</dd>
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<p>DON'T MISS THE WHAT I CAN DO SECTION BELOW THE FOOTNOTES</p>
<p> <strong>"Wars have generally occurred after periods of increased prosperity and social progress, especially when accompanied by more personal freedom. The progress and increased wealth are felt to…</strong></p>
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<p>DON'T MISS THE WHAT I CAN DO SECTION BELOW THE FOOTNOTES</p>
<p> <strong>"Wars have generally occurred after periods of increased prosperity and social progress, especially when accompanied by more personal freedom. The progress and increased wealth are felt to have polluted the national bloodstream with sinful excess, making men 'soft' and 'feminine,' a frightful condition that can only be cleansed by a blood-shedding purification. There is no question that if the world could treat children with helping-mode parenting, wars and other self-destructive social conditions we still suffer from in the twenty-first century will be cured."</strong> <br/> -- Article on 9/11 in <em>Journal of Psychohistory</em>, Volume 32, No. 3</p>
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<p>By Matt Everett<br/> <em>Journal of Psychohistory</em>, Volume 32, No. 3, Winter 2005, pp. 202-238</p>
<p><br/> At the beginning of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, U.S. Defense Secretary <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=79623&page=1" target="_blank">Donald Rumsfeld promised</a>: "What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before." The invasion that ensued was, like all wars, destructive and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Yet Baghdad fell in a mere three weeks, and just six weeks after the invasion commenced, <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2003-05-01/world/sprj.irq.main_1_tailhook-landing-major-combat-navy-s-3b-viking?_s=PM:WORLD" target="_blank">President Bush announced</a>: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Despite the death and destruction, it was hardly a war of a 'force,' 'scope' and 'scale' beyond what had been seen before.</p>
<p>However, before it began, there were indications that some people wanted a far more destructive war than that which ensued. For example, <strong>ridiculous as it may now sound, it was suggested that Britain and America might use nuclear weapons against Iraq.</strong> As <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,871128,00.html" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> reported at the time:</p>
<p>"From last year's US defence review and the testimony of the Defence Secretary, Geoffrey Hoon ... it was clear that a major change in the US and UK nuclear policy was taking place. For the first time, Britain and America were contemplating using nuclear weapons against an enemy using only chemical or biological weapons. Referring to 'states of concern', and Saddam Hussein in particular, Mr Hoon []: 'They can be absolutely confident that in the right conditions we would be willing to use our nuclear weapons.'" [1]</p>
<p><strong>A month before the invasion, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2717939.stm" target="_blank">Hoon repeated his warning</a>: "Saddam can be absolutely confident that in the right conditions we would be willing to use nuclear weapons." [</strong>2] As investigative journalist <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0815-06.htm" target="_blank">John Pilger</a> points out: "No British minister has ever made such an outright threat." [3]</p>
<p>Thankfully, the invasion passed without our resorting to nuclear weapons. But it seemed the desire for a bigger conflict remained, with attempts beginning almost immediately to find a new, more formidable enemy. In particular, Iran and Syria seemed next on the list for 'liberation.' At a press conference in July 2003, President Bush issued a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/22/usa.duncancampbell1" target="_blank">stern warning</a> to both countries, accusing them of harboring terrorists. "This behaviour is completely unacceptable," he said, "and states that continue to harbour terrorists will be held completely accountable." [4] Three months later, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/10/iran.richardnortontaylor" target="_blank">John Bolton told journalists</a>: "There is awareness of the threat posed by Iran and consensus that threat has to be eliminated." [5] Yet these warnings failed to capture much public interest.</p>
<p>Instead, there was a growing interest around the investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001. Previously, the press had largely ignored the work of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the "9-11 Commission." When it held its second public hearings in May 2003 on the key issue of air defense, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times failed to write any articles about it. [6] Suddenly though, in March 2004 the Commission became the center of attention when former White House security expert Richard Clarke publicly testified before it and criticized the Bush administration for failing to address terrorism when it first came into office.</p>
<p>Since then, the 9/11 Commission remained a major news story and the book of its final report became an instant bestseller. However, the mass media were still overlooking the fact that increasing numbers of people were seriously questioning the entire official account of 9/11. More and more books had been released around the world giving evidence of possible U.S. government complicity in the attacks.</p>
<p>Polls suggested that millions of people were suspicious: <strong>A <a href="http://zogby.com/news/2004/08/30/half-of-new-yorkers-believe-us-leaders-had-foreknowledge-of-impending-9-11-attacks-and-consciously-f/" target="_blank">Zogby poll</a> in late August 2004 found 49 per cent of New York City residents and 41 per cent of New York citizens overall agreed that "some leaders in the U.S. Government knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to take action."</strong> [7] <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0528-09.htm" target="_blank">A survey</a> three months earlier found 63 per cent of Canadians believed the U.S. Government had "prior knowledge of the plans for the events of September 11th, and failed to take appropriate action to stop them." [8] A <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1447232/German-Sept-11-theory-stokes-anti-US-feeling.html" target="_blank">July 2003 poll</a> had found almost a fifth of Germans believed the U.S. Government, or elements within it, were responsible for organizing the attacks. [9]</p>
<p>With attempts at identifying a new 'external enemy' so far failing, I believe it is possible that, instead, this growing suspicion around 9/11 will develop into an unprecedented public scandal. But what are these suspicions about? Are they simply the result of rumour and 'urban legend,' or could some of the disturbing allegations now being made be found true in the future? In this article, I will examine some of the arguments put forward by 9/11 skeptics, along with supporting evidence. Then I will examine some of the psychohistorical evidence that shows why we could be heading for a major scandal over the events of 9/11.</p>
<p>Until the controversy around 9/11 is brought into the open and investigated properly, it is up to individuals to draw their own conclusions. However, in my opinion, <strong>the volume of evidence now gathered is enough to suggest a massive scandal is a real possibility</strong>. The implications of this would be extraordinary. As one of the most prominent 9/11 skeptics, former German government minister <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1447232/German-Sept-11-theory-stokes-anti-US-feeling.html" target="_blank">Andreas von Bülow, says</a>: "If what I say is right, the whole US government should end up behind bars." [10]</p>
<p><strong>DONALD RUMSFELD ON 9/11</strong></p>
<p>As U.S. secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld was on 9/11 second in the military chain-of-command behind the president. Yet details of what he did during the attacks are sketchy and from what we currently know, he did nothing in response to the crisis until it was too late to make a difference.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2603" target="_blank">According to Rumsfeld</a>, on the morning of September 11 he was hosting a breakfast meeting at the Pentagon for some members of Congress. He told them that "sometime in the next two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve months there would be an event that would occur in the world that would be sufficiently shocking that it would remind people again how important it is to have a strong healthy defense department."</strong> [11]</p>
<p>Soon after, someone walked in and gave him a note saying a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Yet Rumsfeld apparently was not moved to take action. "[W]e adjourned the meeting, and I went in to get my CIA briefing," <a href="http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2603" target="_blank">he has said</a>. [12] <strong>Whilst in his office with the CIA briefer, Rumsfeld says he was told of the second plane hitting the WTC. Yet he went ahead with a meeting in his private dining room at the Pentagon with his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz and U.S. Representative Christopher Cox, to discuss how to win votes for Bush's defense plan</strong>.</p>
<p>During this meeting, Rumsfeld was apparently oblivious to the fact that an airplane was heading towards Washington. However, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020817051201/http://cox.house.gov/html/release.cfm?id=33" target="_blank">he made another prediction</a>: "let me tell you, I've been around the block a few times," he told Representative Cox. "There will be another event." For emphasis, he repeated: "There will be another event." [13] Just minutes later the Pentagon was hit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17798-2004Mar23" target="_blank">Rumsfeld says</a>: "I went outside to determine what had happened. I was not there long because I was back in the Pentagon with a crisis action team shortly before or after 10:00 a.m. On my return from the crash site and before going to the executive support center, I had one or more calls in my office, one of which was with the president." [14] <strong>Rumsfeld didn't enter the National Military Command Center within the Pentagon though until 10.30. Brigadier <a href="http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/pentagon/attack/abcnews091102_jenningsinterviews.html" target="_blank">General Montague Winfield says</a>: "For 30 minutes we couldn't find him."</strong> [15] As the <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm" target="_blank">9/11 Commission conclude</a>: "The Secretary of Defense did not enter the chain of command until the morning's key events were over." [16] Nor is Rumsfeld on the record as having given any orders that morning.</p>
<p>Yet, <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01a.pdf" target="_blank">according to military procedure</a>, if the Federal Aviation Administration were to notify the National Military Command Center of a hijacking, with the exception of "immediate responses" the NMCC was required to "forward requests for DOD assistance to the Secretary of Defense for approval." [17] Of course, 9/11 would easily come under the heading of "immediate responses." All the same, Rumsfeld has yet to be asked whether he was contacted in line with this military procedure and, if so, what did he do in response?</p>
<p>Interestingly, since 9/11 Donald Rumsfeld has made statements suggesting why he may have wanted an event like 9/11 to occur. For example, in a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/rumsfeld_09-10.html" target="_blank">televised interview</a> two years after the attacks, he described how he thinks about what a senior leader in the Gulf told him, that maybe 9/11 was "a blessing in disguise," and a "wake-up call" for the world to deal with the growing threat of terrorism. Rumsfeld said he agreed with this, that 9/11 was indeed a 'wake-up call.' [18] He wrote a similar thing in his <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/rumsfeld_statement.pdf" target="_blank">prepared testimony</a> to the 9/11 Commission:</p>
<p>"Think about what has been done since the September 11th attacks: two state sponsors of terrorism have been removed from power, a 90-nation coalition has been formed which is cooperating on a number of levels… All of these actions are putting pressure on terrorist networks. Taken together, they represent a collective effort that is unprecedented. [19]</p>
<p><strong>DICK CHENEY ON 9/11</strong></p>
<p>Based upon mainstream accounts, Vice President Cheney's actions during the attacks appear less suspicious than those of Bush and Rumsfeld. However, there are some odd contradictions in the reports of what he did. On the morning of September 11, before learning about the attacks, Dick Cheney was in his office in the White House. According to the 9/11 Commission, just before 9 a.m. he was preparing for a meeting when his assistant "told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center." [20]</p>
<p>Cheney subsequently saw the second aircraft hitting the South Tower. Then, "just before 9:36," the Secret Service ordered the evacuation of the vice president and agents took him down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker below the East Wing of the White House. "The Vice President entered the underground tunnel leading to the shelter at 9:37." [21]</p>
<p>However, according to White House photographer David Bohrer who was present at the time, this evacuation occurred just after 9 a.m. [22] Furthermore, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta described before the 9/11 Commission how a young man had come into the PEOC to inform the vice president of the approach towards Washington of the aircraft that hit the Pentagon. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=mineta+9%2F11+testimony&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" target="_blank">According to Mineta</a>, this occurred around 9:25 or 9:26. [23]</p>
<p>This suggests that the report of Cheney only reaching the underground tunnel leading to the shelter at 9:37 is incorrect. If Cheney were in fact evacuated soon after 9, why would it later be claimed this took place about half an hour later? One possibility is that it was to make the failure of the Secret Service to evacuate President Bush from his location that morning appear less suspicious. (See below.) Alternatively, if Michael Ruppert's allegations about the vice president's involvement in the attacks are correct, then this claim could simply be an attempt to conceal his complicity.</p>
<p>Soon after 9:15, Cheney spoke over the phone with the president, who was at a school in Florida that morning. Also, "sometime before 10:10 to 10:15," he reportedly phoned the president to discuss the rules of engagement for the combat air patrol above Washington. Supposedly, he recommended the president authorize the military to shoot down any civilian airliners that might be under the control of hijackers. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42754-2002Jan26.html" target="_blank">Bush later recalled</a> his response being "You bet." [24]</p>
<p>The president also emphasized in his private meeting with the 9/11 Commission that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft. [25] This is an important point, because the shooting down of a wayward aircraft before it crashed into a populated area could save many lives.</p>
<p>Yet, according to the 9/11 Commission, "there is no documentary evidence for this call." [26] <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2004/06/27/who-was-really-in-charge.html" target="_blank">Newsweek adds</a>: "Nor did the real-time notes taken by two others in the room, Cheney's chief of staff, 'Scooter' Libby -- who is known for his meticulous record-keeping -- or Cheney's wife, Lynne, reflect that such a phone call between Bush and Cheney occurred or that such a major decision as shooting down a U.S. airliner was discussed." [27]</p>
<p>According to Newsweek, some of the Commission's staff were highly skeptical of Cheney's account, with one well-informed source claiming some of them "flat out didn't believe the call ever took place." [28] All the same, whether or not Bush authorized him to do so, "by the time Cheney issued his shoot-down order, between 10:10 and 10:15 a.m., United Flight 93, the last plane-turned-missile on 9/11, had already crashed in Pennsylvania (at 10:03 a.m.)." [29]</p>
<p>Furthermore, <strong>it appears that Cheney -- along with Bush -- was reluctant for 9/11 to be investigated: When then Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.kolumbus.fi/sy-k/911/Daschle.htm" target="_blank">Tom Daschle appeared</a> on NBC's Meet the Press in May 2002, he said Cheney had, on January 24 that year, urged him not to investigate the events of September 11.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Daschle added that four days later Bush made the same request. When the program's moderator Tim Russert asked: "It wasn't, 'Let's not have a national commission, but let's have the intelligence committees look into this,' it was 'No investigation by anyone, period'?" Daschle replied: "That's correct." He added that the request had been repeated on "other dates following." [30]</strong></p>
<p><strong>GEORGE W. BUSH ON 9/11</strong></p>
<p>September 11, 2001 was the most important day of George W. Bush's life. As American president he was commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces. His actions were crucial. According to the 9/11 Commission, the only people that day with authority to order the shooting down of a civilian plane if, say, it were heading towards a populated area (like the World Trade Center or the Pentagon) were the president or the secretary of defense. [31] I have already shown that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was apparently 'out of the loop' during the attacks. What then did Commander in Chief Bush do?</p>
<p>Before examining this question, it is important to recognise that the U.S. president does not travel alone. He takes with him an entire staff, including members of the Secret Service, who are responsible for his safety. The president's travelling entourage have the best communications equipment in the world. They have contact with, or can easily reach, the cabinet, the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon, the FAA and other Secret Service agents. [32] We might therefore assume George Bush would have been one of the first people informed of the extraordinary chain of events unfolding on September 11.</p>
<p><strong>Furthermore, Bush's location for that morning was made public four days previously, on September 7: He would be in Sarasota, Florida, to "continue his focus on reading and education." [33] We might assume then that once it was recognised that America was under attack, the president would have been considered a potential target and immediate action would have been taken to protect him and ensure the safety of all around him.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yet, despite the horrifying sequence of events in progress, Bush continued with his pre-planned visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, where he listened to a class full of children reading. He remained at the school until around 9:35 a.m. [34] -- nearly 50 minutes after the first plane hit the WTC and over half an hour after the second plane hit. Incredibly, the president's support team, including the Secret Service, allowed this.</strong></p>
<p>According to Philip Melanson, an expert on the Secret Service, Bush should have been removed from the school immediately after Flight 175 hit the second WTC tower. Melanson says: "With an unfolding terrorist attack, the procedure should have been to get the president to the closest secure location as quickly as possible, which clearly is not a school. You're safer in that presidential limo, which is bombproof and blastproof and bulletproof." [35]</p>
<p>Furthermore, considering the president's responsibilities as commander in chief, Melanson adds that Bush's limousine had key advantages: "In the presidential limo, the communications system is almost duplicative of the White House -- he can do almost anything from there but he can't do much sitting in a school." [36]</p>
<p>Bush was informed of the second plane hitting the WTC when, around 9:05, his Chief of Staff Andrew Card came across the classroom and reportedly whispered to him: "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." [37] According to the 9/11 Commission: "The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis." [38]</p>
<p>Furthermore, "The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door." [39] Yet this inaction could have had disastrous consequences. In the words of 9/11 researchers Allan Wood and Paul Thompson: "Why hasn't Bush's security staff been criticized for their completely inexplicable decision to stay at the school? And why didn't Bush's concern for the children extend to not making them and the rest of the 200 or so people at the school terrorist targets?" [40]</p>
<p><strong>As the reporter Gail Sheehy concludes, the final report of the 9/11 Commission shows that on the morning of September 11, "the president and the other top officials in charge of the systems to defend the country from attack were, in essence, missing in action: They did not communicate, did not coordinate a response to the catastrophe, and in some cases did not even get involved in discussions about the attacks until after all of the hijacked planes had crashed."</strong> [41]</p>
<p>With the best communications in the world available to him, we might assume Bush would have been one of the first people informed of the hijackings and the first plane hitting the WTC. Yet according to official accounts, he remained oblivious even whilst millions of people saw what had happened on television. Strangely, there have been at least seven different accounts of when and from whom Bush first heard of Flight 11 crashing into the WTC. [42] As Allan Wood and Paul Thompson note, Bush's own recollections only add to the confusion:</p>
<p><strong>"Less than two months after the attacks, Bush made the preposterous claim that he had watched the first attack as it happened on live television…. On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked: "How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?" [As reported on CNN,] <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/se.04.html" target="_blank">Bush replied</a>, "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on…. I said, it must have been a horrible accident." [43]</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yet, as Wood and Thompson point out, "There was no film footage of the first attack until at least the following day."</strong> They continue: "It's doubly strange why his advisors didn't correct him or -- at the very least -- stop him from repeating the same story only four weeks later. On January 5, 2002, <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020105-3.html" target="_blank">Bush stated</a>: "Well, I was sitting in a schoolhouse in Florida ... and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on." [44]</p>
<p>On the morning of 9/11, Bush promised that he had "ordered that the full resources of the federal government go ... to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act." [45] Yet it appears more like he has tried to hinder investigations. As Salon reported in June 2003:</p>
<p>"The White House long opposed the formation of a blue-ribbon Sept. 11 commission, some say, and even now that panel is underfunded and struggling to build momentum. And, they say, the administration is suppressing a 900-page congressional study, possibly out of fear that the findings will be politically damaging to Bush.</p>
<p><strong>"We've been fighting for nearly 21 months -- fighting the administration, the White House," says Monica Gabrielle. Her husband, Richard, an insurance broker who worked for Aon Corp. on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center's Tower 2, died during the attacks. "As soon as we started looking for answers we were blocked, put off and ignored at every stop of the way. We were shocked. The White House is just blocking everything."</strong></p>
<p>Another 9/11 family advocate ... was more blunt: "Bush has done everything in his power to squelch this [9/11] commission and prevent it from happening." [46]</p>
<p>After opposing the creation of the 9/11 Commission, the White House wanted to limit any appearance by the president to just one hour spent with two of the commissioners. A compromise was met such that George Bush did eventually meet with the Commission on April 29, 2004, but only under stringent conditions. Bush had to have Dick Cheney at his side, testifying at the same time; testimony was given in private and not under oath; no press coverage was allowed; and no recordings or transcripts were made of what they said. [47]</p>
<p>Further suspicion had been raised just over two weeks earlier, when the White House was forced to release a daily intelligence briefing given to the president whilst on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, five weeks before 9/11.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf" target="_blank">The briefing</a> was titled "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US," and stated: "FBI information ... indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York…. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Laden supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives." [48] Despite receiving this, according to the New York Times, "Bush broke off from work early and spent most of that day fishing." [49]</strong></p>
<p>What is also interesting is that <strong>several key members of the Bush administration, including Cheney, Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, had been members of a neoconservative think-tank called the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)</strong>. In September 2000, PNAC wrote a report called Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, which they hoped would be "a road map for the nation's immediate and future defense plans." In it they complained: "The post-Cold War world will not remain a relatively peaceful place if we continue to neglect foreign and defense matters."</p>
<p>However, they added: "serious attention, careful thought, and the willingness to devote adequate resources to maintaining America's military strength can make the world safer and American strategic interests more secure now and in the future." [50] <strong>They stated that to "preserve American military preeminence in the coming decades" America would need to undergo a "military transformation." [51] However, they wrote, this transformation would be "a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor.</strong>" [52] One year later, 9/11 happened. As George W. Bush wrote in his diary that night: "The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today." [53]</p>
<p>After this catastrophic, catalyzing event, actions proposed by the Project for the New American Century soon came into force. As John Pilger wrote of PNAC:</p>
<p>"[In 2000] it recommended an increase in arms-spending by $48bn so that Washington could "fight and win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars". This has happened. It said the United States should develop "bunker-buster" nuclear weapons and make "star wars" a national priority. This is happening. It said that, in the event of Bush taking power, Iraq should be a target. And so it is. [54] Furthermore, during his 2000 election campaign and after, Bush repeatedly promised a budget surplus, except in the event of a recession, war or a national emergency. In the days after 9/11, he said to his budget director: "Lucky me. I hit the trifecta." [55] (A 'trifecta' is a kind of bet that requires picking the top three finishers in a race.)</p>
<p>With so much suspicious evidence, one lawyer, Stanley Hilton -- a former aide to Senator Bob Dole -- has filed a $7 billion suit on behalf of the families of 14 victims of the 9/11 attacks, alleging that Bush, along with Cheney, Rumsfeld and others, actually ordered 9/11 to happen for political gain. Hilton says he has incriminating documents and witnesses showing this. Calling it "the biggest act of treason and mass murder in American history," he claims that 9/11 was a 'decoy operation': "You make the people focus on the decoy to avoid looking at the real criminals. So they are focusing on these so-called nineteen hijackers and saying, 'Oh, it must have been these Arabs.' When, in fact, the guilty person is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- sitting in the Oval Office." [56]</p>
<p>I have already discussed White House attempts to prevent or hinder any official inquiry into 9/11. But another less known example, where there has been a lack of investigation and a suppression of important evidence relating to 9/11, is in the unlikely situation of the retirement community that is Venice, in southwestern Florida.</p>
<p><strong>THE MOHAMED ATTA MYTH</strong></p>
<p>Of the four alleged 9/11 suicide-pilots, three had been in attendance at two flight schools at the tiny airport in Venice, Florida: Huffman Aviation and Florida Flight Training. Both were owned by Dutch men who purchased the schools within months of each other, in 1999. Soon after they took over, the schools began training unprecedented numbers of Arab flight students. [57] Yet Huffman Aviation and Florida Flight Training, along with the dubious characters who ran them, have so far avoided any serious investigation or media attention.</p>
<p>One man who has tried to make up for this is investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker, who spent two years following the attacks in Venice, examining the training of the alleged hijackers. He reports his findings in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Terrorland-Mohamed-Cover-up-Florida/dp/0975290673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313703312&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><em>Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida</em></a>. As well as describing evidence of large-scale illegal activity going on in and around the Venice Airport, this book casts serious doubt upon the official account of who the hijackers really were.</p>
<p><strong>We have all heard how these 19 alleged hijackers were Islamic extremists. Yet evidence uncovered by Hopsicker, particularly regarding alleged ringleader Mohamed Atta, depicts unlikely personalities and lifestyles for a bunch of religious fanatics. For example, almost totally ignored by the mainstream press is that Atta had an American girlfriend for over two months whilst in Venice, with whom he would go out clubbing almost every night.</strong></p>
<p><strong>At the time, this attractive young woman -- Amanda Keller -- had spiky pink hair and was working as a 'lingerie model' for an escort service called Fantasies & Lace. Atta is known to have been a heavy drinker who snorted cocaine. Local newspapers reported how in February 2001, along with Keller, he went on a three-day binge of drinking and drug taking in Key West. [58]</strong></p>
<p>Just days before 9/11, Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi (another of the alleged suicide-pilots) spent the evening drinking heavily at a bar in Fort Lauderdale. The bar's manager later <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/04/MN102970.DTL" target="_blank">told reporters</a> that the men "got wasted," drinking "Stolichnaya and orange juice, and Captain Morgan's spiced rum and Coke." Bartender Patricia Idrissi concurred, saying: "Atta drank Stoli vodka for three straight hours…. They were wasted." [59]</p>
<p>Amanda Keller describes a typical night out at a club with Atta: "Marwan [al-Shehhi] was in the reggae room drinking with a bunch of women at the bar, there were a lot of women around him, and he was just flaunting money." As Hopsicker points out: "It's one thing to hear Atta described as living it up with wine, women and song. But Marwan flaunting money at the bar pretty much puts the lie to the 'Islamic fundamentalist' tag." [60]</p>
<p>Hopsicker suggests that, rather than being a fundamentalist Muslim, Mohamed Atta better fits the profile of a member of Arab society's privileged elite and also a spy. Amongst many oddities contradicting the 'fundamentalist' label is the fact that his e-mail list included the names of several employees of U.S. defense contractors. [61] More alarming, he and as many as six of the other alleged 9/11 hijackers appear to have <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2001/09/14/alleged-hijackers-may-have-trained-at-u-s-bases.html" target="_blank">trained at U.S. military bases</a>. Hopsicker writes:</p>
<p><strong>"On the Saturday following the Tuesday attack, the Los Angeles Times <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/15/news/mn-46069" target="_blank">broke the story</a> in a long article on their front page. 'A defense official said two of the hijackers were former Saudi fighter pilots, 'reported the paper, 'who had studied in exchange programs at the Defense Language School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.'"</strong></p>
<p>The story went wide the next day, Sunday, September 15th. <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2001/09/14/alleged-hijackers-may-have-trained-at-u-s-bases.html" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>, the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38270-2001Sep15" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> and the Miami Herald all reported as many as seven of the terrorist hijackers in the September 11th attacks received training at secure U.S. Military installations.</p>
<p>"Two of 19 suspects named by the FBI, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi, have the same names as men listed at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola. Two others, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, have names similar to individuals listed in public records as using the same address inside the base," the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A38270-2001Sep15" target="_blank">Washington Post reported</a>.</p>
<p>"In addition, a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, while men with the same names as two other hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, appear as graduates of the U.S. International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, and the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, respectively," the Post said. [62]</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2001/09/14/alleged-hijackers-may-have-trained-at-u-s-bases.html" target="_blank">Newsweek detailed</a> how U.S. Military facilities routinely trained pilots for other countries: "A former Navy pilot told NEWSWEEK that during his years on the base, 'we always, always, always trained other countries' pilots…. Whoever the country du jour is, that's whose pilots we train.' Candidates begin with 'an officer's equivalent of boot camp,' he said. 'Then they would put them through flight training.'" [63]</p>
<p>Hopsicker explains how this crucial story came to be dismissed:</p>
<p>"Someone was going to have to answer ... for a lot."</p>
<p>"But Atta is a fairly common surname in the Middle East," the Post quoted Laila Alquatami of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee as saying, and the suspected hijacker's first name is "probably the No. 1 name that is given to babies, in honor of the prophet Mohamed."</p>
<p>The Boston Globe reported the Pentagon's denial: "Some of the FBI suspects had names similar to those used by foreign alumni of U.S. Military courses," said the Air Force in a statement. "Discrepancies in their biographical data ... indicate we are probably not talking about the same people."</p>
<p>How easy was it to tell the Pentagon was lying? Think about it. It is neither plausible nor logical that the reports were false because of seven separate cases of mistaken identity. One or two, maybe. But seven? [64]</p>
<p><strong>None of the newspapers retracted the story, yet it disappeared. One person who sought answers was Senator Bill Nelson, who faxed Attorney General John Ashcroft, demanding to know if the story was really true. However:</strong></p>
<p><strong>"The Senator has still not received a reply, we heard from his spokesman, when we called his office eleven months later. In the wake of those reports, we asked about the Pensacola Naval Air Station but we never got a definitive answer from the Justice Department," stated the Senator's press spokesman.</strong> "So we asked the FBI for an answer 'if and when' they could provide us one. Their response to date has been that they are trying to sort through something complicated and difficult." [65]</p>
<p>Deciding to investigate for himself, Hopsicker phoned the Pentagon and spoke with the public information officer who helped write and disseminate their original denial of the story:</p>
<p>"Biographically, they're not the same people," she explained patiently, using the same language contained in the Air Force's press release. "Some of the ages are twenty years off." … Was she saying that the age of the 'Mohamed Atta' who had attended the Air Force's International Officer's School at Maxwell Air Force Base was different than that of 'terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta?'</p>
<p>Not exactly, she admitted. She could not confirm that -- in this specific instance -- they had different ages. What she could do was once again deny that the International Officer's School attendee named Mohamed Atta had been the Mohamed Atta who piloted a passenger plane into the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>However, she could offer no specifics for her assertion, and repeatedly declined requests for biographical details about the Mohamed Atta who had trained at Maxwell Air Force Base. [66]</p>
<p>After Hopsicker's persistent questioning, she finally said in exasperation: "I do not have the authority to tell you who attended which schools." Hopsicker reflects: "It was hard to read this as anything other than a back-handed confirmation. When she said that she didn't have the authority, the clear implication was that someone else does… Somewhere in the Defense Dept. a list exists with the names of Sept. 11 terrorists who received training at U.S. Military facilities. She just didn't have the authority to release it." [67] Furthermore, Hopsicker spoke to a woman who works at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama:</p>
<p>"I have a girlfriend who recognized Mohamed Atta. She met him at a party at the Officer's Club," she told us. "The reason she swears it was him here is because she didn't just meet him and say hello. After she met him she went around and introduced him to the people that were with her. So she knows it was him."</p>
<p>Saudis were a highly visible presence at Maxwell Air Force Base, she said. "There were a lot of them living in an upscale complex in Montgomery. They had to get all of them out of here. "They were all gone the day after the attack." [68]</p>
<p><strong>Despite it being a key 9/11 crime scene, there has been a surprising absence of investigations into the goings on in Venice, Florida. In fact, to the contrary, "the FBI's full attention seemed to have been engaged -- not in investigating what had happened -- but in suppressing evidence and even intimidating the witnesses who had seen and heard things that fly in the face of the 'official story.'" [69]</strong></p>
<p><strong>For example, Mohamed Atta's former girlfriend Amanda Keller says that even after she left Venice, the FBI called on her every other day for several months, telling her not to talk to anybody. Similarly, a woman called Stephanie Frederickson who lived next-door to Atta and Keller in Venice reported how she and other residents at the same apartment building were harassed and intimidated by FBI agents, to prevent them from talking to reporters.</strong></p>
<p>According to Frederickson: "The question [the FBI] asked was always the same. You aren't saying anything to anybody, are you? At first, right after the attack, they told me I must have been mistaken in my identification. Or they would insinuate that I was lying. Finally they stopped trying to get me to change my story, and just stopped by once a week to make sure I hadn't been talking to anyone. [70]</p>
<p><strong>What is more, the FBI arrived in Venice just hours after the 9/11 attacks. A former manager from Huffman Aviation said: "They were outside my house four hours after the attack." He added: "My phones have been bugged, they still are…. How did the FBI get here so soon? Ask yourself: How'd they got here so soon?" [71]</strong></p>
<p>Within 24 hours of the attacks, records from Huffman Aviation, where Atta and al-Shehhi attended, were escorted aboard a C-130 cargo plane to Washington by Florida governor and brother of the president Jeb Bush. Similarly, according to a sergeant with the Venice police, the FBI took all their files and flew them to Washington with Jeb Bush aboard. (Presumably this was on the same flight as the Huffman records.) Hopsicker notes: "The important point was that taking files was a lot different than copying them. The FBI wasn't taking any chances." [72] He concludes: "There is a demonstrable, provable, and massive federally-supervised cover-up in place in Florida." [73]</p>
<p><strong>As this and my previous evidence shows, there are countless unanswered questions about 9/11 that at some point are going to have to be properly examined. Even an investigation into just a few of these questions, such as those around <a href="http://www.wanttoknow.info/050317wargames911" target="_blank">the war games on 9/11</a>, could be enough to start a major scandal.</strong> However, as numerous writers and independent researchers have found, there are so many suspicious circumstances that the truth could be very different to what we have been led to believe.</p>
<p><strong>Human rights lawyer Richard Falk has written: "There are so many gaping holes in the official accounts of 9/11 that no plausible coherent narrative remains, and until now we have been staggering forward as if the truth about these traumatic events no longer mattered." [74] But if the mainstream press start investigating properly, it could lead to a completely unprecedented '9/11 scandal.'<a name="1" target="_blank"></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>PSYCHOHISTORICAL REASONS BEHIND 9/11 AND ENSUING WARS</strong></p>
<p>There are in fact specific psychohistorical reasons I have identified why there could be a major 9/11 scandal in the future. I detail some of these in <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2004-16371-001" target="_blank">my previous article</a>, "Killer Women Group-Fantasies and the 9/11 Controversy," in which I examined signs of the current public mood in Britain and America. [75] My evidence suggested both countries are in a state of particularly high anxiety and will need some kind of large crisis to make us all feel better. But with no new 'external enemy' having been found, I suggested we might instead be veering towards 'regicidal solution' -- where we somehow 'sacrifice' our own leaders. But what is the cause of the current public anxiety? And why have our leaders been unable to find a new 'external enemy' to invade?</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_deMause" target="_blank">Lloyd deMause</a> describes how wars have generally occurred after periods of increased prosperity and social progress, especially when accompanied by more personal freedom. He has found that increased wealth and social change causes many individuals anxiety and discomfort:</strong></p>
<p>"That personal achievement and prosperity often make individuals feel sinful and unworthy of their success is a commonplace observation of psychotherapy ever since Freud's first case studies of people 'ruined by success.' Yet no one seems to have noticed that feelings of sinfulness are usually prominent in the shared emotional life of nations after long periods of peace, prosperity, and social progress, particularly if they are accompanied by more personal and sexual freedom." [76]</p>
<p>As deMause points out: "wars between great powers occur during periods of economic expansion, while stagnation hinders their outbreak." [77] Furthermore, "Wars not only occurred far more frequently after prosperous periods, but were longer and bigger after prosperity, 'six to twenty times bigger as indicated by battle fatalities." [78]</p>
<p>DeMause has found recurrent images of guilt and poison blood in the media, following periods of prosperity and progress. <strong>The progress and increased wealth are felt to have "polluted the national bloodstream with sinful excess, making men 'soft' and 'feminine,' a frightful condition that can only be cleansed by a blood-shedding purification."</strong> [79]</p>
<p>DeMause continues: "Wars have often been thought of as purifying the nation's polluted blood by virtue of a sacrificial rite identical to the rites of human sacrifice so common in early historical periods, when the blood of those sacrificed was believed to renew all the people. War, said those preparing for the bloody Finnish Civil War, purges guilt-producing material prosperity through the blood of soldiers sacrificed on the battlefield." [80]</p>
<p>So, in the case of the 1991 Gulf War, once it was over: "The sacrificial ritual had been carried out. The nation had been cleansed of its emotional pollution. The President's popularity rating rose to 91 percent, the highest of any American leader in history. The stock market soared. The country had been united by slaughter as it had never been by any positive achievement. We felt cleansed, purified, as though we had been reborn." [81]</p>
<p><strong>To summarize then, periods of growth and prosperity cause much discomfort to many people: feelings of guilt, sinfulness, being 'soft' or 'feminine,' etc. And one way that nations frequently relieve these unpleasant feelings is by going to war.</strong></p>
<p>The 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium certainly rank as a period of prosperity and change. Along with increasing wealth and social change, we have experienced a technological revolution, with cheaper and increasingly powerful home computers, DVD players, digital cameras, and many other previously unavailable gadgets. One writer recently concluded: "We live in the freest, happiest, least bigoted, healthiest, most peaceful and longest-lived era in human history... [W]e are richer and have the power to alter and control our environment in ways that would have seemed like magic 200 years ago." [82]</p>
<p>Considering deMause's observations about wars correlating with change and economic growth, it seems the conditions have been right for a particularly large war to occur. Although we have had recent wars in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003), these have been small in comparison to some key wars of the 20th century. For example, the Vietnam War lasted many years, from the 1960s through to the early 70s.</p>
<p>During this conflict, the U.S. used weapons of mass destruction, spraying South Vietnam with a deadly chemical called 'Agent Orange,' which causes fetal death, congenital defects and cancer. [83] Several <em>million</em> Southeast Asians were killed, along with around 58,000 American soldiers. The recent attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq pale in comparison. So surely we'll need a bigger war than either of these, considering all the prosperity and change of the last decade. However, as I said at the start of this article, <strong>following the 2003 Iraq invasion attempts by Britain and America to find a new, more formidable enemy to attack have so far failed.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I believe the reason for this is because there are now larger than ever numbers of people opposing war. This in turn, I believe, is thanks to improvements in childrearing during the latter half of the 20th century.</strong> <strong>For years, psychohistorians have observed a steady evolution in childrearing that is now more rapid than ever before.</strong> Lloyd deMause writes:</p>
<p>"Progress in childrearing evolution may be extremely uneven, but the trends are nonetheless unmistakable. The overall direction is from projection to empathy, from discipline to self-regulation, from hitting to explaining, from incest to love, from rejection to overcontrol and then to independence... Just the sheer cost of raising a child in dollars has been going up. The families I know in my section of Manhattan easily devote over half of their spare time and half their income to their children. Compare this to the small fraction of parents' time and money given over to children in earlier centuries with children even spending most of their lives working for adults in various ways and one can begin to comprehend the overall direction of childrearing evolution." [84]</p>
<p>Similarly, in 1998 psychohistorian Robert McFarland wrote: <strong>"Improvements in parenting practices can now be measured in decades rather than in centuries. Since Sweden banned hitting children in 1979, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Austria have followed." [85] And whereas in 1992 over 90 per cent of American parents hit their young children, by 1999 this had dropped to 57 per cent.</strong> [86]</p>
<p>Due to this steady 'evolution of childhood,' the average level of childrearing experienced by today's young adults in developed countries will have been better than that experienced by previous generations. <strong>Consequently there are now more and more people in the higher 'psychoclasses':</strong> individuals who, due to their more loving childhoods, have a higher level of psychological health. These individuals will be more able to enjoy their increased prosperity and the new technology that has become available over recent years, along with any increased personal freedoms. <strong>As a result, they will have less, if any, desire for war.</strong></p>
<p>This relationship between childhood experience and support for, or opposition to war, has been found by, amongst others, political psychologist Michael Milburn. Milburn says:</p>
<p>"We found that, particularly for males who had never had any psychotherapy, <strong>when they reported a high level of childhood punishment, they were significantly more likely to endorse a range of punitive public policies like ... support for the use of military force</strong>... [T]he higher level of punitiveness among political conservatives is really strongly associated with experiences, generally, of harsh punishment from childhood. It's not just going to be that they were spanked; there's a whole family climate, and punishment is just going to be one of those indicators of that." [87]</p>
<p>If a person who experiences a severe and punitive childhood is likely to grow up into the kind of adult who favours the use of military force, we might logically assume the opposite is true: Individuals who had better childhoods will be less supportive of wars. Lloyd deMause confirms this, describing his observations of young adults today who have experienced far more loving childhoods:</p>
<p>"[These individuals] are far more empathic and therefore more concerned about others than we ever were, and this has made them far more activist in their lives in trying to make a difference and change the world for the better, mostly involving themselves in local activities rather than global political changes. They lack all need for nationalism, wars, and other grandiose projects, and in the organizations they start are genuinely nonauthoritarian. <strong>There is no question that if the world could treat children with helping-mode parenting, wars and other self-destructive social conditions we still suffer from in the twenty-first century will be cured</strong>." [88]</p>
<p>With the gradual improvement in the average level of childrearing over recent decades (in developed countries at least), we would expect a corresponding <em>decrease</em> in support for war. This was clearly evidenced by the unprecedented level of opposition to the 2003 Iraq invasion. In London, for example, on Saturday February 15, 2003, an estimated one to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/sep/26/politics.antiwar" target="_blank">two million people</a> marched in protest against the imminent invasion: the largest public demonstration ever to occur in Britain. The following month, 400,000 marched through London, the biggest protest in Britain against a war during wartime. [89]</p>
<p>Weeks before the war started, Tony Blair suffered the biggest Commons revolt of his premiership when 199 MPs rejected his direction over Iraq. As the leader of the Liberal Democrats, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/feb/26/foreignpolicy.uk2" target="_blank">Charles Kennedy, observed</a>: "Despite investing masses of political and parliamentary capital, the government has still failed to persuade a third of the House of Commons." [90]</p>
<p>According to leading political scholar and critic of American foreign policy <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/feb/04/interviews.iraq" target="_blank">Noam Chomsky</a>, in an interview around this time: "There's never been a time that I can think of when there's been such massive opposition to a war before it was even started... Even in the United States there is overwhelming opposition to the war and the corresponding decline in the leadership that is driving the war." [91]</p>
<p>Chomsky points out how <strong>even our governments are aware of this new reluctance towards war and have had to modify their actions accordingly</strong>: <strong>"[W]hen any administration comes into office the first thing it does is have a worldwide intelligence assessment -- 'What's the state of the world?' -- provided by the intelligence services...</strong></p>
<p>When the first Bush administration came in 1989, parts of their intelligence assessment were leaked, and they're very revealing about what happened in the subsequent 10 years about precisely these questions. <strong>The parts that were leaked said that it was about military confrontations with much weaker enemies, recognising they were the only kind we were going to be willing to face, or even exist. So in confrontations with much weaker enemies the United States must win 'decisively and rapidly' because otherwise popular support will erode, because it's understood to be very thin.</strong> Not like the 1960s when the government could fight a long, brutal war for years and years practically destroying a country without any protest. Not now." [92]</p>
<p>Although the peace movement failed to prevent the Iraq invasion, when the war began it seemed they had made a significant difference. As <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/22/iraq.antiwar" target="_blank">Jonathan Freedland wrote</a> in <em>The Guardian</em>:</p>
<p>"The campaign began not with 'shock and awe' but a subtler knife, aimed at the surgical decapitation of Saddam Hussein and his regime. One night's bombing of Baghdad lasted no more than an hour... There could be a stack of explanations for that initial deployment of the short, sharp blow... But there may be another motive for the initial preference for short-and-sweet over shock-and-awe. The US might have wanted to avoid a wave of worldwide revulsion. A series of tight, well-aimed strikes at the regime would have confounded the global fear of colossal Iraqi civilian casualties. It's as if Washington had heard the peace movement's objection to this war--that too many innocents would die--and was attempting to heed it." [93]</p>
<p>Freedland continues: "[P]erhaps the clearest proof of the anti-war camp's efforts came from our own prime minister: 'I know this course of action has produced deep divisions of opinion in our country,' he said, just seconds into his own TV message to the nation. No leader wants to go into a war admitting such a thing. But Blair had no choice. As with much else, the peace movement has changed the landscape for this conflict--and the men of war are having to deal with it." [94]</p>
<p>What peace activists may well have achieved is the prevention of further invasions of 'axis of evil' countries. As Lindsey German of the Stop the War Coalition said, "does anyone think Tony Blair can ever stand up in parliament again and say the words, 'trust me'? As they talk up targeting Iran and Syria, do you think anyone will ever believe this government when they say we've got the intelligence to prove it?" [95]</p>
<p><strong>Maybe the improvements in childrearing over recent decades that account for this unprecedented opposition to war, will also mean there are now enough people less afraid to challenge authority and face unpleasant truths, so as to help bring about a 9/11 scandal.</strong> Compare this to, say, the truth about the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. We now know that President Franklin Roosevelt and his top military advisers knew in advance that Japan was planning a 'surprise attack' on America. Japanese radio messages had been intercepted and it was known when and where they would attack the U.S.</p>
<p>Despite this foreknowledge, Roosevelt allowed the attack to go ahead so as to create a pretext for America to join World War II. Yet these facts only became more widely known in 2000, with the release of Robert B. Stinnett's book <em>Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor</em>. [96] Robert McFarland points out: "While it was 58 years before Stinnett's book made the facts about Pearl Harbor widely known, two important books about 9/11 came out within a year... Since these books came out quickly, we are apparently more willing to look at bad news than we were in 1941." [97]</p>
<p>While a 9/11 scandal would be a sufficiently large public crisis to help ease the particularly high level of public anxiety ('growth panic') among the lower psychoclasses, unlike a massive war it ought also be acceptable to the more peaceful higher psychoclass individuals. If we do have such a scandal, the emotional effect will undoubtedly be intense. Consider how the general public would feel if people start openly accusing some within the Bush administration of complicity in the 9/11 attacks. How would Americans feel who had voted for these men, trusted and respected them? I can imagine many people finding such events devastating.</p>
<p><strong>What if security camera footage of the attack on the Pentagon had to be made public at some point and it showed something <em>other than</em> a Boeing 757 hitting the Pentagon? [98] Surely millions of people would feel horrified. The full implications of a 9/11 scandal would be colossal. It would be the <em>emotional equivalent</em> of a massive war. So maybe instead of the war "of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before," that Donald Rumsfeld promised back in 2003, there is going to be a scandal of a "scope and scale" that is "beyond what has been seen before."</strong></p>
<p><strong>FOOTNOTES</strong></p>
<p>1 David Hearst, "Nato directionless on nuclear policy." The Guardian, January 19, 2003. <br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,871128,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,871128,00.html</a><br/> 2 "UK restates nuclear threat." BBC News, February 2, 2003. <br/> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2717939.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2717939.stm</a><br/> 3 John Pilger, "John Pilger investigates US plans for mini-nukes." New Statesman, August 18, 2003. <br/> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0815-06.htm" target="_blank">http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0815-06.htm</a> <br/> 4 Duncan Campbell, "Bush in new threat to Iran and Syria." The Guardian, July 22, 2003. <br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/22/usa.duncancampbell1" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/22/usa.duncancampbell1</a> <br/> 5 Richard Norton-Taylor, "US hawk warns Iran threat must be eliminated." The Guardian, October 10, 2003.<br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/10/iran.richardnortontaylor" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/10/iran.richardnortontaylor</a> <br/> 6 From Paul Thompson, "The Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11." Center for Cooperative Research. <a href="http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essayairdefense" target="_blank">http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essayairdefense</a><br/> 7 "Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks and 'Consciously Failed' To Act; 66% Call For New Probe of Unanswered Questions by Congress or New York's Attorney General, New Zogby International Poll Reveals." Zogby International, August 30, 2004. Online at: <a href="http://zogby.com/news/2004/08/30/half-of-new-yorkers-believe-us-leaders-had-foreknowledge-of-impending-9-11-attacks-and-consciously-f/" target="_blank">http://zogby.com/news/2004/08/30/half-of-new-yorkers-believe-us-leaders-had-foreknowledge...</a><br/> 8 Antonia Zerbisias, "Poking holes in the official story of 9/11." Toronto Star, May 26, 2004. <br/> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0528-09.htm" target="_blank">http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0528-09.htm</a> <br/> 9 Michael Gavin, "September 11 conspiracy claims find large readership." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 5, 2003. <br/> 10 Quoted in Kate Connolly, "German Sept 11 theory stokes anti-US feeling." The Telegraph, November 20, 2003. <br/> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1447232/German-Sept-11-theory-stokes-anti-US-feeling.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1447232/German-Sept-11-theory...</a> <br/> 11 From "Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Larry King." Larry King Live, CNN, December 5, 2001. Transcript at: <a href="http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2603" target="_blank">http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2603</a><br/> 12 Ibid. <br/> 13 From "Chairman Cox's Statement on the Terrorist Attack on America." September 11, 2001. Online at: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020817051201/http://cox.house.gov/html/release.cfm?id=33" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20020817051201/http://cox.house.gov/html/release.cfm?id=33</a><br/> 14 From "Day One Transcript: 9/11 Commission Hearing." Washington Post, March 23, 2004. Online at: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17798-2004Mar23" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17798-2004Mar23</a><br/> 15 From "'The Pentagon Goes to War': National Military Command Center: A look at 9/11 at the Pentagon's National Military Command Center." American Morning With Paula Zahn, CNN, September 4, 2002. <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/cnn090402.html" target="_blank">Transcript here</a>, and "9/11: Interviews by Peter Jennings," ABC News, September 11, 2002. Transcript at: <a href="http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/pentagon/attack/abcnews091102_jenningsinterviews.html" target="_blank">http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/pentagon/attack/abcnews091102_jenningsinterviews.html</a><br/> 16 The 9/11 Commission Report: The Full Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Executive Summary. 2004, p. 15. Online at: <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm" target="_blank">http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm</a><br/> 17 See Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CJCSI 3610.01A, June 1, 2001. Online at <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01a.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01a.pdf</a>. Due to the fact that this new procedure was introduced just three months before 9/11, several individuals have questioned whether this new instruction, requiring secretary of defense approval in responding to hijackings, was introduced deliberately so as to hinder the interception of the hijacked planes on 9/11. However, this requirement was not new: The previous instruction for dealing with hijackings, dated July 31, 1997, also required approval from the defense secretary. See: <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01.pdf</a><br/> 18 The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, September 10, 2003. Transcript at: <br/> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/rumsfeld_09-10.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/rumsfeld_09-10.html</a><br/> 19 "Testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Prepared for Delivery to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States." March 23, 2004, p. 21. Online at: <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/rumsfeld_statement.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/rumsfeld_statement.pdf</a><br/> 20 The 9/11 Commission Report: The Full Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004, p. 35. <br/> 21 The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 39-40. <br/> 22 "Sept. 11 Scramble." ABC News, September 14, 2002. <br/> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/onair/DailyNews/sept11_moments_2.html" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/onair/DailyNews/sept11_moments_2.html</a><br/> 23 "9/11 Commission Hearing." May 23, 2003. Transcript at: <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hearing2/9-11Commission_Hearing_2003-05-23.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hearing2/9-11Commission_Hearing_2003-05-23.pdf</a><br/> 24 Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, "America's Chaotic Road to War." Washington Post, January 27, 2002.<br/> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42754-2002Jan26.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42754-2002Jan26.html</a> <br/> 25 The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 40. <br/> 26 Ibid., p. 41. <br/> 27 Daniel Klaidman and Michael Hirsh, "Who Was Really In Charge?" Newsweek, June 28, 2004.<br/> <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2004/06/27/who-was-really-in-charge.html" target="_blank">http://www.newsweek.com/2004/06/27/who-was-really-in-charge.html</a> <br/> 28 Ibid. <br/> 29 Ibid. <br/> 30 Meet the Press, NBC, May 26, 2002. Transcript online at: <a href="http://www.kolumbus.fi/sy-k/911/Daschle.htm" target="_blank">http://www.kolumbus.fi/sy-k/911/Daschle.htm</a><br/> 31 The 9/11 Commission states: "Prior to 9/11, it was understood that an order to shoot down a commercial aircraft would have to be issued by the National Command Authority (a phrase used to describe the president and secretary of defense)." From The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 17. Previous news reports had said the president was the only person with the authority to order the shooting down of a civilian plane. See Jamie McIntyre, "Pentagon never considered downing Stewart's Learjet." CNN, October 26, 1999. <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/US/9910/26/shootdown/" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/US/9910/26/shootdown/</a> Kevin Dennehy, "'I Thought It Was the Start of World War III'." Cape Cod Times, August 21, 2002. <br/> 32 From Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel, "Guilty for 9-11, Part 3: Bush in the Open." The Emperor's New Clothes, January 18, 2002, revised September 12, 2003. <a href="http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-3.htm" target="_blank">http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-3.htm</a><br/> 33 "Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer." September 7, 2001. Online at: <br/> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010907-1.html#week" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010907-1.html#week</a><br/> 34 From Allan Wood and Paul Thompson, "An Interesting Day: President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11." Center for Cooperative Research, May 9, 2003. <br/> <a href="http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday" target="_blank">http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday</a><br/> 35 Quoted in Susan Taylor Martin, "Of fact, fiction: Bush on 9/11." St. Petersburg Times, July 4, 2004. <br/> 36 Ibid. <br/> 37 The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 38. <br/> 38 Ibid., p. 38. <br/> 39 Ibid., p. 39. <br/> 40 From Allan Wood and Paul Thompson, "An Interesting Day." <br/> 41 Gail Sheehy, "Who's in Charge Here?" Mother Jones, July 22, 2004. <br/> 42 See Allan Wood and Paul Thompson, "An Interesting Day." <br/> 43 CNN Transcript of President Bush's town meeting in Orlando, Florida on December 4, 2001.<br/> <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/se.04.html" target="_blank">http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/se.04.html</a><br/> 44 Transcript on White House website of President Bush's comments at a town hall forum in Ontario, California on January 5, 2002<br/> <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020105-3.html" target="_blank">http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020105-3.html</a> <br/> 45 "Remarks by the President After Two Planes Crash Into World Trade Center." September 11, 2001. Online at: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911.html" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911.html</a><br/> 46 Eric Boehlert, "Bush's 9/11 coverup?" Salon, June 18, 2003. <br/> 47 From Julian Borger, "Bush to face tough questions on 9/11." The Guardian, April 29, 2004; "Hiding in the White House." The Boston Globe, April 30, 2004. <br/> 48 This briefing is available online at: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2004/images/04/10/whitehouse.pdf" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2004/images/04/10/whitehouse.pdf</a><br/> 49 Frank Rich, "Thanks for the Heads-Up." New York Times, May 25, 2002. <br/> 50 The Project for the New American Century, Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century. September 2000, p. iii. <br/> 51 Ibid., p. 50. <br/> 52 Ibid., p. 51. <br/> 53 Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, "America's Chaotic Road to War." <br/> 54 John Pilger, "Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W. Bush said what America needed was 'a new Pearl Harbor'. Its published aims have come alarmingly true." New Statesman, December 16, 2002. <br/> 55 "Remarks By Office Of Management And Budget Director Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. At Conference Board Annual Meeting." October 16, 2001. Online at: <br/> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/pubpress/daniels_conference_board_speech10-16-01.html" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/pubpress/daniels_conference_board_speech10-16-01.html</a><br/> 56 From "Alex Jones Interviews Stanley Hilton." The Alex Jones Show, September 10, 2004. Transcript at: <a href="http://www.serendipity.li/wot/hilton_interview.htm" target="_blank">http://www.serendipity.li/wot/hilton_interview.htm</a><br/> 57 From: Daniel Hopsicker, Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida. Eugene: The MadCow Press, 2004, pp. 171-182. <br/> 58 Ibid., pp. 68-69. <br/> 59 Ibid., p. 81. <br/> 60 Ibid., p. 284. <br/> 61 Ibid., p. 105. <br/> 62 Ibid., pp. 135-136. <br/> 63 George Wehrfritz, Catharine Skipp and John Barry, "Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases." Newsweek, September 15, 2001. <br/> <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2001/09/14/alleged-hijackers-may-have-trained-at-u-s-bases.html" target="_blank">http://www.newsweek.com/2001/09/14/alleged-hijackers-may-have-trained-at-u-s-bases.html</a> <br/> 64 Daniel Hopsicker, Welcome to Terrorland, pp. 136-137. <br/> 65 Ibid., p. 138. <br/> 66 Ibid., p. 139. <br/> 67 Ibid., p. 140. <br/> 68 Ibid., p. 141. <br/> 69 Ibid., p. 301. <br/> 70 Ibid., pp. 62-63. <br/> 71 Ibid., p. 150. <br/> 72 Ibid., p. 31. <br/> 73 Ibid., p. 301. <br/> 74 From his forward to David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor, p. vii. <br/> 75 Matt Everett, "Killer Women Group-Fantasies and the 9/11 Controversy." Journal of Psychohistory 32(1): 2-39.<br/> <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2004-16371-001" target="_blank">http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2004-16371-001</a> <br/> 76 Lloyd deMause, The Emotional Life of Nations. New York: Karnac, 2002, p. 17<br/> 77 Ibid., p. 159.<br/> 78 Ibid., p. 141.<br/> 79 Ibid, p. 51.<br/> 80 Ibid., p. 52.<br/> 81 Ibid., p. 38<br/> 82 Michael Hanlon, "There's no time like the present." The Spectator. August 7, 2004.<br/> 83 See John Pilger, "Nuclear war, courtesy of Nato." The Guardian, May 4, 1999; John Pilger, "Blair is a coward." Daily Mirror, January 29, 2003.<br/> 84 From Lloyd deMause, "Childhood and Cultural Evolution." Psychohistory Web site. <a href="http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/eln07evolution.html" target="_blank">http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/eln07evolution.html</a><br/> 85 Robert B. McFarland, "Improvements in Parenting are Real." Journal of Psychohistory 25(3):237.<br/> 86 Tracy L. Dietz, "Disciplining Children: Characteristics Associated With the Use of Corporal Punishment." Child Abuse & Neglect 24(2000): 1529, 1536. Quoted in Lloyd deMause, The Emotional Life of Nations, p. 339.<br/> 87 Brian Braiker, "See No Evil: A political psychologist explains the roles denial, emotion and childhood punishment play in politics." Newsweek Web site, May 13, 2004. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4972441/site/newsweek/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4972441/site/newsweek/</a> <br/> 88 Lloyd deMause, The Emotional Life of Nations, p. 430.<br/> 89 Carmel Brown, "Weapon of mass democracy." The Guardian, September 26, 2003.<br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/sep/26/politics.antiwar" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/sep/26/politics.antiwar</a> <br/> 90 Matthew Tempest, "Labour Mps revolt over Iraq." The Guardian, February 26, 2003.<br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/feb/26/foreignpolicy.uk2" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/feb/26/foreignpolicy.uk2</a> <br/> 91 Matthew Tempest, "Full transcript: Noam Chomsky on the anti-war movement." The Guardian, February 4, 2003.<br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/feb/04/interviews.iraq" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/feb/04/interviews.iraq</a> <br/> 92 Ibid.<br/> 93 Jonathan Freedland, "Peaceniks lost the war but changed the shape of the battle." The Guardian, March 22, 2003.<br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/22/iraq.antiwar" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/22/iraq.antiwar</a> <br/> 94 Ibid.<br/> 95 Quoted in Carmel Brown, "Weapon of mass democracy."<br/> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/sep/26/politics.antiwar" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/sep/26/politics.antiwar</a> <br/> 96 Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. London: The Free Press, 2000.<br/> 97 Robert B. McFarland, "A Psychohistorical Comparison of the Pearl Harbor and September 11 Attacks." Journal of Psychohistory 31(1):75. <br/> 98 The Pentagon has many dozens of videos of the 9/11 Pentagon hit, yet has refused to release all but a few of these videos which are decidedly unconvincing as to what it was that hit the building.</p>
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<li>The Twin Towers were destroyed faster than physics can explain by a free fall speed "collapse."</li>
<li>They underwent mid-air pulverization and were turned to dust before they hit the ground.</li>
<li>The protective bathtub was not significantly damaged by the destruction of the Twin Towers.</li>
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<li>The Twin Towers were destroyed faster than physics can explain by a free fall speed "collapse."</li>
<li>They underwent mid-air pulverization and were turned to dust before they hit the ground.</li>
<li>The protective bathtub was not significantly damaged by the destruction of the Twin Towers.</li>
<li>The rail lines, the tunnels and most of the rail cars had only light damage, if any.</li>
<li>The WTC underground mall survived well, witnessed by Warner Bros. Road Runner and friends. There were reports that "The Gap" was looted.</li>
<li>The seismic impact was minimal, far too small based on a comparison with the Kingdome controlled demolition.</li>
<li>The Twin Towers were destroyed from the top down, not bottom up.</li>
<li>The demolition of WTC7 was whisper quiet and the seismic signal was not significantly greater than background noise.</li>
<li>The upper 80 percent, approximately, of each tower was turned into fine dust and did not crash to the earth.</li>
<li>The upper 90 percent, approximately, of the inside of WTC7 was turned into fine dust and did not crash to the earth.</li>
<li>One file cabinet with folder dividers survived.</li>
<li>No toilets survived or even recognizable portions of one.</li>
<li>Windows of nearby buildings had circular and other odd-shaped holes in them.</li>
<li>In addition to the odd window damage, the marble facade was completely missing from around WFC1 and WFC2 entry, with no other apparent structural damage.</li>
<li><i>Fuzzballs</i>, evidence that the dust continued to break down and become finer and finer.</li>
<li>Truckloads of dirt were hauled in and hauled out of the WTC site, a pattern that continues to this day.</li>
<li><i>Fuming</i> of the dirt pile. Fuming decreased when watered, contrary to fumes caused by fire or heat.</li>
<li><i>Fuzzyblobs</i>, a hazy cloud that appeared to be around material being destroyed.</li>
<li>The <i>Swiss-Cheese</i> appearance of steel beams and glass.</li>
<li>Evidence of molecular dissociation and transmutation, as demonstrated by the near-instant rusting of affected steel.</li>
<li>Weird fires. The appearance of fire, but without evidence of heating.</li>
<li>Lack of high heat. Witnesses reported that the initial dust cloud felt cooler than ambient temperatures. No evidence of burned bodies.</li>
<li>Columns were curled around a vertical axis like <i>rolled-up carpets</i>, where overloaded buckled beams should be bent around the horizontal axis.</li>
<li>Office paper was densely spread throughout lower Manhattan, unburned, often along side cars that <u>appeared</u> to be burning.</li>
<li>Vertical round holes were cut into buildings 4, 5 and 6, and into Liberty street in front of Bankers Trust, and into Vesey Street in front of WTC6, plus a cylindrical arc was cut into Bankers Trust.</li>
<li>All planes except top secret missions were ordered down until 10:31 a.m. (when only military flights were allowed to resume), after both towers were destroyed, and only two minutes (120 seconds) after WTC 1 had been destroyed.</li>
<li>Approximately 1,400 motor vehicles were towed away, toasted in strange ways, during the destruction of the Twin Towers.</li>
<li>The order and method of destruction of each tower minimized damage to the bathtub and adjacent buildings.</li>
<li>More damage was done to the bathtub by earth-moving equipment during the clean-up process than from the destruction of more than a million tons of buildings above it.</li>
<li>Twin Tower control without damaging neighboring buildings, in fact all seriously damaged and destroyed buildings had a WTC prefix.</li>
<li>The north wing of WTC 4 was left standing, neatly sliced from the main body which virtually disappeared.</li>
<li>For more than seven years, regions in the ground under where the main body of WTC4 stood have continued to fume.</li>
<li>The WTC1 and WTC2 rubble pile was far too small to account for the total mass of the buildings.</li>
<li>The WTC7 rubble pile was too small for the total mass of the building and consisted of a lot of mud.</li>
<li>Eyewitness testimony about toasted cars, instant disappearance of people by "unexplained" waves, a plane turning into a mid-air fireball, electrical power cut off moments before WTC 2 destruction, and the sound of explosions.</li>
<li>Eyewitness <font color="black">testimony</font> of Scott-pack explosions in fire trucks and fire trucks exploding that were parked near the WTC.</li>
<li>There were many flipped cars in the neighborhood of the WTC complex near trees with full foliage.</li>
<li>Magnetometer readings in Alaska recorded abrupt shifts in the earth's magnetic field with each of the events at the WTC on 9/11.</li>
<li>Hurricane Erin, located just off Long Island on 9/11/01, went virtually unreported in the days leading up to 9/11, including omission of this Hurricane on the morning weather map, even though that portion of the Atlantic Ocean was shown on the map.</li>
<li>Sillystring, the appearance of curious cork-screw trails.</li>
<li>Uncanny similarities with the Hutchison Effect, where the Hutchison Effect exhibits all of the same phenomena listed above.</li>
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<blockquote><p>* Is it possible that such a technology exist? Since invention of the microwave for cooking in <a href="http://timelines.ws/subjects/Technology.HTML" target="_blank">1945</a> and lasers in <a href="../../articles/DEW/StarWarsBeam7.html#laser" target="_blank">1955</a>*, commercial and military development of directed-energy technology has proceeded apace, so use of directed-energy technology is likely to exist -- and <b><font color="#DC143C">the data tells us it <i>does</i> exist.</font></b></p>
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<p><b><font size="+1">What explanations have been suggested to explain these phenomena?</font></b><br/> <b><font size="+1">Seven explanations have been identified:</font></b></p>
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<li type="a">Arson</li>
<li type="a">The official theory of airplane impact, fires and weakened steel collapsing</li>
<li type="a">Conventional demolition with explosives such as RDX, dynamite, etc.</li>
<li type="a">Demolition via thermite or its variants</li>
<li type="a">Fission or fusion nukes (and clean bombs)</li>
<li type="a">Beam weapons, energy weapons, <a href="#DEW">directed-energy weapons</a> (DEW)<br/><br/> (CCD-BiB) = "Conventional Controlled Demolition" with "Bombs in the Building"</li>
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<tbody><tr bgcolor="white"><td valign="top"><b><font color="#DC143C">Beam Weapons</font>, <font color="#DC143C">Energy Weapons</font>, and <font color="#DC143C">Directed Energy Weapons</font> (<a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/weathercontrol/scalarweapon01.html" target="_blank">DEW</a>):<br/></b><p>We have used the terms "beam weapons" and "directed energy weapons" to refer to unconventional weapons (exotic weapons) that are energy weapons. We broadly define DEW as <u><font color="#DC143C" size="+1"><b>E</b>nergy</font></u> that is <u><font color="#DC143C" size="+1"><b>D</b>irected</font></u> and is used as a <u><font color="#DC143C" size="+1"><b>W</b>eapon</font></u>. The full range of these weapons is classified information, so we make no limits or distinction of categories within the realm of energy weapons, as doing so would imply specific knowledge of all that is available. In the following paragraph, we have listed some of the possibilities we are aware of.</p>
<p>Our critics have accused us of insisting that beam weapons did their damage from outer space, yet we make no claim about whether the directed energy weapon operated from a space-, air-, or ground-based platform. Nor do we make any claim about what wavelength(s) was used, what the source(s) of energy was, whether it involved interference of multiple beams, whether it involved sound waves, whether it involved <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence" target="_blank">sonoluminescence</a>, whether it involved <a href="http://cui.unige.ch/isi/sscr/phys/antim-BPP.html" target="_blank">antimatter weapons</a>, whether it involved <a href="http://www.freedomdomain.com/weathercontrol/scalarweapon01.html" target="_blank">scalar weapons</a>, whether it was <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/haarp.htm" target="_blank">HAARP</a> <font size="-1">(more <a href="http://www.viewzone.com/haarp11.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www-star.stanford.edu/%7evlf/HAARP/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</font>, whether it involved a nuclear process (e.g. <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/doe/pubgd.html" target="_blank">NDEW</a>, more <a href="../articles/DEW/StarWarsAppendix1.html#nuke_1F">info</a>), whether it involved conventional directed energy weapons (cDEW), whether it involved <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/23/inventors-claim-to-turn-300-microwaves-into-megawatt-energy-weap/" target="_blank">improvised</a> directed energy weapons (<a href="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060208672%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060208672&RS=DN/20060208672" target="_blank">iDEW</a>), nor what kind of accelerator was used, nor do we claim to know what the serial numbers of the parts that were in the weapon(s).</p>
<p>What we do claim is that the evidence is consistent with the use of energy weapons that go well beyond the capabilities of conventional explosives and can be directed.</p>
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</table>List of Keywords and Phrases DHS Uses to Monitor Social Networking Sites and Online Mediatag:12160.info,2012-05-29:2649739:BlogPost:8665602012-05-29T05:50:46.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<p>List of Keywords and Phrases DHS Uses to Monitor Social Networking Sites and Online Media for Signs of Terrorism and Threats.</p>
<p>--Words included in DHS 2011 '<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/82701103/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED" target="_blank">Analyst's Desktop Binder</a>'. 27 May 2012 'Snow' 'Blizzard' 'H1N1' 'Vaccine'. Whoops! I'm now <a href="http://www.legitgov.org/CLG-Under-Surveillance" target="_blank">under surveillance</a>.We read:…</p>
<p>List of Keywords and Phrases DHS Uses to Monitor Social Networking Sites and Online Media for Signs of Terrorism and Threats.</p>
<p>--Words included in DHS 2011 '<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/82701103/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED" target="_blank">Analyst's Desktop Binder</a>'. 27 May 2012 'Snow' 'Blizzard' 'H1N1' 'Vaccine'. Whoops! I'm now <a href="http://www.legitgov.org/CLG-Under-Surveillance" target="_blank">under surveillance</a>.We read: <strong><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html" target="_blank">Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you</a></strong> 26 May 2012 The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S. The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'smart', 'cloud', 'blizzard' and 'Mexico'. Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats. The words are included in the department's 2011 '<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/82701103/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED" target="_blank">Analyst's Desktop Binder</a>' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.</p>
<p>Here is the list.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.legitgov.org/graphics/dhs_keywords1.gif" alt="DHS Keyword Trigger List - 1" height="433" width="725"/></p>
<p><img src="http://www.legitgov.org/graphics/dhs_keywords2.gif" alt="DHS Keyword Trigger List - 1" height="882" width="634"/></p>
<p><img src="http://www.legitgov.org/graphics/dhs_keywords3.gif" alt="DHS Keyword Trigger List - 2" height="788" width="634"/></p>
<p><img src="http://www.legitgov.org/graphics/dhs_keywords4.gif" alt="DHS Keyword Trigger List - 3" height="788" width="634"/></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.legitgov.org/graphics/dhs.jpg" alt="DHS"/></p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.legitgov.org/List-Keywords-and-Phrases-DHS-Uses-Monitor-Social-Networking-Sites-and-Online-Media" target="_blank">legitgov.org</a>, May 27 2012</p>Go-ahead for world's first mobile euthanasia unit that will allow patients to die at hometag:12160.info,2012-02-13:2649739:BlogPost:7748142012-02-13T13:58:41.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<h2>No way back: The units will euthanize patients by administering a strong sedative to put them in a coma, followed by a drug to stop them breathing. Teams will end the lives of additional 1,000 a year in Europe</h2>
<p>The world’s first mobile team to administer euthanasia in patients’ homes will be launched next month.</p>
<p>Units will be dispatched when family doctors refuse to administer lethal drugs on ‘ethical’ grounds.</p>
<p>They are expected to send the number of euthanasia cases in…</p>
<h2>No way back: The units will euthanize patients by administering a strong sedative to put them in a coma, followed by a drug to stop them breathing. Teams will end the lives of additional 1,000 a year in Europe</h2>
<p>The world’s first mobile team to administer euthanasia in patients’ homes will be launched next month.</p>
<p>Units will be dispatched when family doctors refuse to administer lethal drugs on ‘ethical’ grounds.</p>
<p>They are expected to send the number of euthanasia cases in Holland soaring, with pro-campaigners claiming they will end the lives of an additional 1,000 patients a year.</p>
<p>Officially, 2,700 Dutch people a year choose assisted suicide, but critics say the real figure is far higher.</p>
<p>The launch of the first unit, which will consist of at least a doctor and a nurse, was confirmed on Radio Netherlands by the country’s Right to Die Association. The group confirmed the unit in The Hague will be the first of six that will target borderline cases in which family GPs are reluctant to administer euthanasia. It is likely to be used with mentally ill patients or those with early dementia, involving the patient’s GP only 'if possible', the association has said.</p>
<p>The group has previously claimed that 80 per cent of people with dementia or mental illnesses were being 'missed' by the country’s euthanasia laws.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099089/Go-ahead-worlds-mobile-euthanasia-unit-allow-patients-die-home.html" target="_blank">DailyMail.co.uk</a><br/> By: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Simon+Caldwell" target="_blank">Simon Caldwell</a></p>The Disease Machine: Why Drug Makers Keep You Sicktag:12160.info,2012-01-25:2649739:BlogPost:7556082012-01-25T10:18:26.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<p>Why are ineffective and dangerous drugs peddled by supposed ‘public health’ organizations in place of well-established natural solutions with virtually zero side effects?</p>
<p>The truth of the matter is that <strong>drug makers simply would not profit if the world were to awaken to the plethora of free health-promoting substances</strong> that beat out over-priced pharmaceuticals and medical interventions. There would be no need for pharmaceutical manufacturers, phony ‘public health’…</p>
<p>Why are ineffective and dangerous drugs peddled by supposed ‘public health’ organizations in place of well-established natural solutions with virtually zero side effects?</p>
<p>The truth of the matter is that <strong>drug makers simply would not profit if the world were to awaken to the plethora of free health-promoting substances</strong> that beat out over-priced pharmaceuticals and medical interventions. There would be no need for pharmaceutical manufacturers, phony ‘public health’ organizations peddling the latest ‘miracle’ drug, and certainly no research organizations feeding off the donations of good-hearted individuals.</p>
<p>You may think that this is an impossibility and that natural solutions simply do not compare to ‘scientifically proven’ pharmaceutical science. The truth of the matter is that scientific evidence is the <em>very thing disproving</em> the safety and effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs, as well as highlighting the surplus of beneficial properties associated with inexpensive and free vital nutrients.</p>
<p>Contrast: Cancer Drugs Causing ‘Mega’ Tumors, Turmeric Reduces Tumors by 81%</p>
<p>It was recently revealed that cancer drugs, touted as the only choice among chemotherapy for many cancer sufferers by ‘public health’ groups, are actually causing <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/deadly-cancer-drugs-make-cancer-worse-and-kill-patients-more-quickly/" target="_blank">massive tumors and subsequently killing the patient</a>. The cancer drugs were found to not only be completely ineffective, but deadly. These are the same drugs that are sold for a premium price and considered to be scientifically validated.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, peer-reviewed research has found that a spice known as <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/curcumin-turmeric-spice-reduces-tumors-by-81-percent/" target="_blank">turmeric can reduce tumors by 81% naturally</a>. Researchers found that curcumin (a derivative of turmeric) <em>dramatically decreased brain tumors</em> in 9 out of the 11 studies examined by <strong>81 percent</strong>. Furthermore, there was <strong>no evidence of toxicity</strong>. Widely used as a spice in South Asian and Middle Eastern countries, turmeric is continually being pinpointed as an <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/turmeric-offers-powerful-anti-cancer-benefits-without-side-effects/" target="_blank">extremely potent anti-cancer solution</a>. What’s more is the fact that turmeric is extremely inexpensive, and can be found around the globe — from Saudi Arabia to Kentucky.</p>
<p>This is just one example of scientific research validating natural alternatives, while simultaneously pinpointing the extreme dangers associated with mainstream pharmaceuticals pushed as the <em><strong>only</strong></em> treatment by drug companies.</p>
<p><strong>Antibiotics Causing Mental Illness, Drug Makers Treat With Antipsychotics</strong></p>
<p>As reported back in 2011, antibiotics have been found to <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/antibiotics-could-be-to-blame-for-skyrocketing-mental-illness-rates/" target="_blank">permanently destroy beneficial gut bacteria</a> and damage gut health. As you may know, gut health has been directly linked to the state of your mental health, with some even going as far as saying that your gut is your ‘second brain’. What this means is that antibiotic use can actually breed mental illness (along with <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/antibiotics-promote-obesity-diabetes-metabolic-syndrome/" target="_blank">diabetes and metabolic syndrome</a>), which is quite concerning when considering that <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/report-half-of-all-americans-to-be-diagnosed-with-mental-health-problems/" target="_blank">half of all Americans</a> are to be diagnosed with a mental illness within their lifetime.</p>
<p>What is the answer to these skyrocketing mental illness rates according to drug makers and the mainstream medical industry? Prescribe mind-altering antipsychotics. Prescribe <em>more</em> drugs to treat a side effect of another drug — receive more profits. After all, the extreme profits generated from antipsychotic drugs became apparent in 2008, becoming the top-selling therapeutic class prescription drug in the United States and <strong>grossing over $14 billion in sales</strong>.</p>
<p>Of course these antipsychotics are given out to patients instead of actually addressing the core problem associated with gut health. As a result, the patient simply is under the influence of brain-altering effects and never really ‘recovers’ from their mental illness. Instead, they are sentenced to a lifetime of prescription drug usage with the <em>possibility</em> of reduced dosage over time. To truly address the issue of gut health, it is vital to utilize <strong>probiotics to restore the depleted beneficial bacteria back into your gut</strong>.</p>
<p>This can easily be done through natural foods or high quality supplementation. Fermented food items such as sauerkraut, tempeh, miso or kefir are all rich sources of probiotic bacteria. But the drug makers would never willingly tell you that, because all of these foods can be found for a few dollars at your local farmers market, and can work more effectively to recover mental health than dangerous antipsychotics.</p>
<p><strong>Paradigm Shift</strong></p>
<p>Drug makers want you to remain sick, tired, and looking for pharmaceutical solutions. In order to see a transformation, natural solutions need to be brought into the spotlight. As a result, drug sales will plummet and these profit-mongering corporations will begin to go bankrupt after spending millions on the latest cancer drug that turns out to actually be deadlier than the disease itself.</p>
<p>A real paradigm shift is coming — the gears of the disease machine are slowing to a halt.</p>
<p>Source: <a title="Read The Disease Machine: Why Drug Makers Keep You Sick" href="http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=19009" target="_blank">RBN</a><br/> By Anthony Gucciardi</p>Officials Say ‘Toilet on Tap’ Wastewater Same Quality as Regular Water Supplytag:12160.info,2012-01-14:2649739:BlogPost:7467032012-01-14T20:30:19.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<div class="rp2"><div class="post-text"><p>Mike Barrett<br></br> <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/officials-say-toilet-on-tap-wastewater.html" target="_blank"><strong>Activist Post</strong></a></p>
<p>Do you think it might be possible that you’re drinking wastewater (also known as ‘toilet on tap’) and don’t even know it?</p>
<p>It just so happens that many Americans <em>are</em>, whether they know it or not.</p>
<p>But new federally funded…</p>
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<p>Do you think it might be possible that you’re drinking wastewater (also known as ‘toilet on tap’) and don’t even know it?</p>
<p>It just so happens that many Americans <em>are</em>, whether they know it or not.</p>
<p>But new federally funded <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085351/Toilet-tap-Panel-recommends-Americans-drink-waste-water-combat-future-shortages.html#ixzz1jCcebjMb">research</a> brought to you by the National Research Council says that wastewater is completely safe, if not safer than existing water supplies.</p>
<p>What does this say about the current state of your tap water?</p>
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<p>Irony Alert: The House is holding hearings on sweeping Internet censorship legislation this week -- and it's censoring the opposition! The bill is backed by Hollywood, Big Pharma, and the Chamber of Commerce, and all of them are going to get to testify at the hearing.</p>
<p><strong>But the bill's opponents -- tech companies, free speech and human rights activists, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users -- won't have a voice.…</strong></p>
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<p>Irony Alert: The House is holding hearings on sweeping Internet censorship legislation this week -- and it's censoring the opposition! The bill is backed by Hollywood, Big Pharma, and the Chamber of Commerce, and all of them are going to get to testify at the hearing.</p>
<p><strong>But the bill's opponents -- tech companies, free speech and human rights activists, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users -- won't have a voice.</strong></p>
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<p>As if you need a reminder: This is the most offensive Internet legislation we've seen in years. </p>
<p>It will give the government and corporations new powers to block Americans' access to sites that are accused of copyright infringement, force sites like YouTube to go to new lengths to police users' contributions, and put people in prison for streaming certain content online.</p>
<p><strong>The bill will wreck much of what's great about the Internet, and this sham of a hearing represents everything that's broken about our political system.</strong></p>
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<p>A congressman says he’s alarmed that President Obama’s science “czar,” <a href="http://antioligarch.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/john-holdren-obamas-science-czar-says-forced-abortions-and-mass-sterilization-needed-to-save-the-planet/" target="_blank">John P Holdren</a>, apparently has been collaborating with the Chinese even though Congress specifically prohibited that activity in a bill signed into law by his boss, Obama. The accusations from U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf. R-Va., came this week in a…</p>
<p>A congressman says he’s alarmed that President Obama’s science “czar,” <a href="http://antioligarch.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/john-holdren-obamas-science-czar-says-forced-abortions-and-mass-sterilization-needed-to-save-the-planet/" target="_blank">John P Holdren</a>, apparently has been collaborating with the Chinese even though Congress specifically prohibited that activity in a bill signed into law by his boss, Obama.
The accusations from U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf. R-Va., came this week in a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.</p>
<p>Read more: Congressman: Science ‘czar’ giving China U.S. technology <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=364197" target="_blank">www.wnd.com</a></p>Support Cheri Honkala, Occupy Candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, Running on Platform of No Foreclosures, No Evictionstag:12160.info,2011-10-30:2649739:BlogPost:6955982011-10-30T14:07:09.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
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I urge support for Cheri Honkala, who is running for Sheriff of Philadelphia on a platform of no evictions and no foreclosures. Cheri Honkala may be the only Occupy candidate in the United States, and her example deserves to be imitated wherever possible. An experienced activist, Cheri is running on the Green Party ticket against a Republican and a Democrat, neither of whom has matched her pledge to protect American working people from the outrageous thievery of the banksters. Cheri knows the drama of homelessness first hand: she and her nine-year-old son became homeless and were forced to take refuge in an empty home owned by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, where she was arrested. Cheri Honkala regards housing as an inalienable human right, which places her firmly in the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Economic Bill Of Rights of January 1944. She has also called for permanent solutions to the homelessness crisis through the construction of low-cost, affordable housing.<br />
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As Sheriff of Philadelphia, Cheri is pledged to refuse to throw any family out of their homes, nor will she honor or issue any writ to that effect. She is a critic of the totalitarian Patriot Act and an advocate of the free exercise of Constitutional rights, including the economic rights implicit in the general welfare clause. She will also refuse to cooperate with the racist witch-hunts of the ICE, which has continued under Obama to conduct raids, separate families, and deport immigrant workers.<br />
<h3>Philadelphia Needs a People’s Sheriff, Not a Robo-Sheriff for the Banksters</h3>
Cheri Honkala’s campaign is a model and paradigm for what activists should be doing all across the United States. She is showing how campaigns for elected office can cooperate with the mass strike movement more generally. Bank of America and other zombie banks have notoriously used robo-signers, bribed robo-judges, and corrupt robo-cops to steal people’s homes. As People’s Sheriff of Philadelphia, Cheri Honkala will provide a lesson in how local governments can be used to assert justice against tyranny. Philadelphia needs a People’s Sheriff, not a Robo-Sheriff in the service of Bank of America.<br />
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Cheri is not foundation funded and needs contributions now to get out the vote on November 8. For more information, please go to <a href="http://www.cherihonkala.com/" target="_blank">cherihonkala.com</a> or call 215-923-3747.<br />
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Source: <a title="Permanent Link to " href="http://tarpley.net/2011/10/27/cheri-honkala-for-sheriff-of-philadelphia/" target="_blank">Tarpley.net</a>, October 27, 2011<br />
By: Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D.Toxic Metals Arsenic and Cadmium Found in Baby Foodtag:12160.info,2011-10-20:2649739:BlogPost:6916222011-10-20T22:49:02.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<div class="rp2"><div class="post-text"><p>Mike Barrett<br></br> <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/toxic-metals-arsenic-and-cadmium-found.html"><strong>Activist Post</strong></a></p>
<p>As our society has been moving with haste away from raw and natural foods and more towards processed foods, we are seeing a surge of toxic contaminants such as heavy metals leaking into our food. The heavy metals in our food alongside with heavy metals found in vaccinations and other forms of exposure are…</p>
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<div class="rp2"><div class="post-text"><p>Mike Barrett<br/> <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2011/10/toxic-metals-arsenic-and-cadmium-found.html"><strong>Activist Post</strong></a></p>
<p>As our society has been moving with haste away from raw and natural foods and more towards processed foods, we are seeing a surge of toxic contaminants such as heavy metals leaking into our food. The heavy metals in our food alongside with heavy metals found in vaccinations and other forms of exposure are paving the way for wide-spread heavy metal poisoning. One particular form of heavy metal poisoning our society may be facing is arsenic poisoning.</p>
<p>The growing concern over arsenic exposure and arsenic poisoning is very real. Our bodies are being exposed to heavy metals in amounts that, in some cases, don’t exceed the “safety” limit put in place by government organizations. But with all of these “small amount” and with some amounts being completely unsafe, our bodies are being completely invaded by the exposure to these heavy metals.</p>
<p>Arsenic must be especially better controlled at is it being found in our food time and time again. A few months ago, baby foods in the UK were found to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8440126/Arsenic-and-toxic-metals-found-in-baby-foods.html">have some levels of arsenic</a> – so much so that the babies who ingested the food were exposed to fifty times the amount of arsenic compared to a breast-fed baby.</p>
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</div>Author Naomi Wolf arrested outside Huffington Post awards ceremonytag:12160.info,2011-10-19:2649739:BlogPost:6902072011-10-19T17:03:18.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
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<p>Feminist author Naomi Wolf was arrested last night outside the Huffington Post’s “Game Changers” awards ceremony as she marched with about 150 members of “Occupy Wall Street” to protest New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) <a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/10/18/cuomo_compares_his_opposition_to_mi.php">resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy</a>.</p>
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<p>Feminist author Naomi Wolf was arrested last night outside the Huffington Post’s “Game Changers” awards ceremony as she marched with about 150 members of “Occupy Wall Street” to protest New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) <a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/10/18/cuomo_compares_his_opposition_to_mi.php">resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy</a>.</p>
<p>Cuomo, who was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/who-is-the-ultimate-game-_n_962974.html?1316572528#s362532&title=Andrew_Cuomo">being honored by the AOL news group</a> for supporting same sex marriage in New York, has recently been criticized for <a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/10/18/cuomo_compares_his_opposition_to_mi.php">pushing back against a tax on millionaires</a>, which is supported by <a href="http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/blogs/polls/2011/10/should-ny%E2%80%99s-millionaires-tax-be-made-permanent/">a large majority of New York voters</a>.</p>
<p>Wolf showed up last night to make sure members of the press understood how offensive the protesters find this. “I was completely complying with the law and the permit as it was described to me by police and I was arrested for standing lawfully on the sidewalk,” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/naomi.wolf.author/posts/10150350745044476">she explained</a> after being released.</p>
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<h2 class="darkred" style="text-align: center;"><strong>We’ve had some mail since Andrews Saturday show questioning Andrews position on the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations. Some of our listeners were quite disturbed by some of the things he had to say about it. He addresses those questions in today’s show as well as discussing:</strong></h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">-The Volcker Rule</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">-Reinstating Glass Steagall</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">-Trade Wars and tarifs</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">-Unions</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">-What really happens when we couple employment with benefits</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">-How the free market works well at exposing fraud and rewarding successes</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">and so much more!</h2>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>October 12</strong></h2>
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<p>Andrew Gause may just be the top man anywhere for the highest quality analysis into the world of money we all live in. Andrew is a currency historian, an internationally recognized expert on the United States monetary system. He’s written two books, “The Secret World of Money” and “Uncle Sam Cooks the Books”. You can order these books as well as speak to Andrew personally. As a One Radio Network listener, you’ll have highest priority in his phone time. His # is 800.468.2646.</p>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top">Many people wonder what's true and what's "theories" these dark days we're living in.<p>I'm wondering that myself, but I started searching a few years ago and what I've found out up to now is mind-bongling to say the least. So much so, that I've lost friends and contact with family members over it. They just don't want to know that we're being screwed by a few evil people.</p>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top">Many people wonder what's true and what's "theories" these dark days we're living in.<p>I'm wondering that myself, but I started searching a few years ago and what I've found out up to now is mind-bongling to say the least. So much so, that I've lost friends and contact with family members over it. They just don't want to know that we're being screwed by a few evil people.</p>
<p>Just imagine that you're flying 1st class and you get a perfect view of the land beneath you.<br/> All that money down there is owed to its "creator" plus some, not yet "created" that is the interest. Somewhere along the way we've lost our right to issue our own money and instead we have to borrow from its "creators", the bankers. They've been carrying on this scam for thousands of years, Jesus came across them and got really angry with them. The only time we read of Jesus losing His temper was when He saw the money changers. And we all know what happened to Him. Just what happened to Abraham Lincoln and JFK.</p>
<p>Anyway, as they say, to solve a crime, follow the money, find who benefits from it.</p>
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<p><em>The Federal Reserve Banks are a privately owned consortium controlled by the eight major stock-holding families: The Rothschilds of England and Germany, Moses Seif of Italy, Lazard Freres of France, the Warburgs of Germany, Kuhn-Loeb of Germany, Goldman-Sachs of the United States, Lehman Brothers of the United States, and the Rockefellers of the United States. Only three of these families are American. This small group decides the fates of hundreds of millions of people by their financial policies and maneuvers. It was Baron Meyer Amschel Bauer Rothschild, (born in 1744 and died in 1812), who said, "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes it's laws."</em><br/> <em>-- <strong><a href="http://www.andygause.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246&Itemid=1" target="_blank">Andy Gause</a>, 01 October 2003</strong></em></p>
<p>First to investigate and write about the private cabal that is the "federal reserve bank", at the instigation of the Late Great Ezra Pound, was Eustase Mullins. His book "<em>Mullins on the Federal Reserve</em>" was published in 1952 was the first to reavel to the world the secret meetings of the bankers at Jekyll Island, where the Federal Reserve Act was drafted.</p>
<p>Andrew Gause of <a href="http://www.andygause.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246&Itemid=1" target="_blank">Andygause.com</a> is a scholar, a monetary historian and coin dealer who's studied and expanded Eustace Mullins' work revealing how the criminals are carrying out their business today.</p>
<h3>Banks of the Federal Reserve. The top 16 Bank Holding Companies</h3>
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<td><h3> Citigroup Inc.</h3>
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<td><h3> New York</h3>
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<td><h3> NY</h3>
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<td><h3> J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.</h3>
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<td><h3> New York</h3>
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<td><h3> NY</h3>
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<td><h3> Bank of America Corporation</h3>
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<td><h3> Charlotte</h3>
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<td><h3> NC</h3>
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<td><h3> Wachovia Corporation</h3>
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<td><h3> Charlotte</h3>
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<td><h3> NC</h3>
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<td><h3> Wells Fargo & Company</h3>
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<td><h3> San Francisco</h3>
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<td><h3> CA</h3>
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<td><h3> Bank One Corporation</h3>
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<td><h3> Chicago</h3>
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<td><h3> IL</h3>
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<td><h3> Taunus Corporation</h3>
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<td><h3> New York</h3>
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<td><h3> NY</h3>
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<td><h3> Fleetboston Financial</h3>
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<td><h3> Boston</h3>
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<td><h3> MA</h3>
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<td><h3> U.S. Bancorp</h3>
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<td><h3> Minneapolis</h3>
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<td><h3> MN</h3>
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<td><h3> ABN Amro North American Holding Company</h3>
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<td><h3> Chicago</h3>
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<td><h3> IL</h3>
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<td><h3> HSBC North America Inc.</h3>
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<td><h3> Buffalo</h3>
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<td><h3> NY</h3>
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<td><h3> Suntrust Banks, Inc.</h3>
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<td><h3> Atlanta</h3>
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<td><h3> GA</h3>
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<td><h3> National City Corporation</h3>
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<td><h3>Clevland</h3>
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<td><h3> OH</h3>
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<td><h3>The Bank of New York Company , Inc.</h3>
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<td><h3> New York</h3>
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<td><h3> NY</h3>
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<td><h3> Fifth Third Bancorp</h3>
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<td><h3> Cincinnati</h3>
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<td><h3> OH</h3>
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<td><h3> BB&T Corporation</h3>
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<td><h3> Winston-Salem</h3>
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<td><h3> NC</h3>
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</table>Bank Of America Holds Patent On ‘Changing Your Emotions’ During Customer Service Calltag:12160.info,2011-10-02:2649739:BlogPost:6798972011-10-02T13:27:49.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
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<p>By The Daily Bail</p>
<p>Systems and methods for inducing a change in a human physiological characteristic.</p>
<p><a href="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=35&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=%22Bank+of+America%22&OS=%22Bank+of+America%22&RS=%22Bank+of+America%22" target="_blank">Read the Patent Application HERE</a></p>
<p>We wonder, do they also have patents on the following:</p>
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<li>Ken Lewis’ genius decision to buy Countrywide and assume billions in liability.</li>
<li>Having the worst customer service of any U.S. bank.</li>
<li>Overpaying for Merrill Lynch.</li>
<li>Robbing shareholders.</li>
<li>Using Repo 105s to hide true balance sheet exposures.</li>
<li>Foreclosing on homeowners in violation of 400-year-old contract law.</li>
<li>Destroying lives.</li>
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<p>We’re certain there are more, but we’ll leave it to readers to complete the rest of the BofA patent portfolio in comments.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://solari.com/blog/category/catherine/" title="View all posts in Catherine" rel="category tag">Catherine Austin Fitts</a></em></p>
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<p>In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat…</p>
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<p>In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy.</p>
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<p>The agency had issued no public announcement of the session — only private invitations to 52 attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva, and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly “embargoed.” There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left.</p>
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<p>The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency’s massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines — thimerosal — appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. “I was actually stunned by what I saw,” Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants — in one case, within hours of birth — the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.</p>
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<p>Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. “You can play with this all you want,” Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results “are statistically significant.” Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting’s first day, was even more alarmed. “My gut feeling?” he said. “Forgive this personal comment — I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on.”</p>
<p>But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry’s bottom line.</p>
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<p>“We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits,” said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. “This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country.” Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that “given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let’s say, less responsible hands.” Dr. John Clements, vaccines advisor at the World Health Organization, declared that “perhaps this study should not have been done at all.” He added that “the research results have to be handled,” warning that the study “will be taken by others and will be used in other ways beyond the control of this group.”</p>
<p>In fact, the government has proved to be far more adept at handling the damage than at protecting children’s health. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to “rule out” the chemical’s link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten’s findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been “lost” and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism.</p>
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<p>Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase thimerosal out of injections given to American infants — but they continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year. The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using the preservative in some American vaccines — including several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to 11-year-olds.</p>
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<p>The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government’s vaccine-related documents — including the Simpsonwood transcripts — and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the “Eli Lilly Protection Act” into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. Congress repealed the measure in 2003 — but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. “The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists,” says Andy Olsen, a legislative assistant to Frist.</p>
<p>Even many conservatives are shocked by the government’s effort to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. Rep. Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana, oversaw a three-year investigation of thimerosal after his grandson was diagnosed with autism. “Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic,” his House Government Reform Committee concluded in its final report. “This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin.” The FDA and other public-health agencies failed to act, the committee added, out of “institutional malfeasance for self protection” and “misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”</p>
<p>The story of how government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from the public is a chilling case study of institutional arrogance, power and greed. I was drawn into the controversy only reluctantly. As an attorney and environmentalist who has spent years working on issues of mercury toxicity, I frequently met mothers of autistic children who were absolutely convinced that their kids had been injured by vaccines. Privately, I was skeptical. I doubted that autism could be blamed on a single source, and I certainly understood the government’s need to reassure parents that vaccinations are safe; the eradication of deadly childhood diseases depends on it. I tended to agree with skeptics like Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, who criticized his colleagues on the House Government Reform Committee for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations. “Why should we scare people about immunization,” Waxman pointed out at one hearing, “until we know the facts?”</p>
<p>It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts, studying the leading scientific research and talking with many of the nation’s preeminent authorities on mercury that I became convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real. Five of my own children are members of the Thimerosal Generation — those born between 1989 and 2003 — who received heavy doses of mercury from vaccines. “The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of neurological or immune-system damage,” Patti White, a school nurse, told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999. “Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier; however, in 25 years of nursing I have never seen so many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our children.” More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism, and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases every year. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among 11 children born in the months after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931.</p>
<p>Some skeptics dispute that the rise in autism is caused by thimerosal-tainted vaccinations. They argue that the increase is a result of better diagnosis — a theory that seems questionable at best, given that most of the new cases of autism are clustered within a single generation of children. “If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor diagnosis,” scoffs Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world’s authorities on mercury toxicity, “then where are all the 20-year-old autistics?” Other researchers point out that Americans are exposed to a greater cumulative “load” of mercury than ever before, from contaminated fish to dental fillings, and suggest that thimerosal in vaccines may be only part of a much larger problem. It’s a concern that certainly deserves far more attention than it has received — but it overlooks the fact that the mercury concentrations in vaccines dwarf other sources of exposure to our children.</p>
<p>What is most striking is the lengths to which many of the leading detectives have gone to ignore — and cover up — the evidence against thimerosal. From the very beginning, the scientific case against the mercury additive has been overwhelming. The preservative, which is used to stem fungi and bacterial growth in vaccines, contains ethylmercury, a potent neurotoxin. Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines — and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children’s vaccines 20 years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit.</p>
<p>“You couldn’t even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe,” says Haley, who heads the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. “It’s just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage.”</p>
<p>Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage — and even death — in both animals and humans. In 1930, the company tested thimerosal by administering it to 22 patients with terminal meningitis, all of whom died within weeks of being injected — a fact Lilly didn’t bother to report in its study declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, warned Lilly that its claims about thimerosal’s safety “did not check with ours.” Half the dogs Pittman injected with thimerosal-based vaccines became sick, leading researchers there to declare the preservative “unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs.”</p>
<p>In the decades that followed, the evidence against thimerosal continued to mount. During the Second World War, when the Department of Defense used the preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required Lilly to label it “poison.” In 1967, a study in Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed mice when added to injected vaccines. Four years later, Lilly’s own studies discerned that thimerosal was “toxic to tissue cells” in concentrations as low as one part per million — 100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so, the company continued to promote thimerosal as “nontoxic” and also incorporated it into topical disinfectants. In 1977, 10 babies at a Toronto hospital died when an antiseptic preserved with thimerosal was dabbed onto their umbilical cords.</p>
<p>In 1982, the FDA proposed a ban on over-the-counter products that contained thimerosal, and in 1991 the agency considered banning it from animal vaccines. But tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-laced vaccines. Newborns would be vaccinated for hepatitis B within 24 hours of birth, and 2-month-old infants would be immunized for haemophilus influenzae B and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis.</p>
<p>The drug industry knew the additional vaccines posed a danger. The same year that the CDC approved the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck’s vaccine programs, warned the company that 6-month-olds who were administered the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury. He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued, “especially when used on infants and children,” noting that the industry knew of nontoxic alternatives. “The best way to go,” he added, “is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives.”</p>
<p>For Merck and other drug companies, however, the obstacle was money. Thimerosal enables the pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses, which require additional protection because they are more easily contaminated by multiple needle entries. The larger vials cost half as much to produce as smaller, single-dose vials, making it cheaper for international agencies to distribute them to impoverished regions at risk of epidemics. Faced with this “cost consideration,” Merck ignored Hilleman’s warnings, and government officials continued to push more and more thimerosal-based vaccines for children. Before 1989, American preschoolers received 11 vaccinations — for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of 22 immunizations by the time they reached first grade.</p>
<p>As the number of vaccines increased, the rate of autism among children exploded. During the 1990s, 40 million children were injected with thimerosal-based vaccines, receiving unprecedented levels of mercury during a period critical for brain development. Despite the well-documented dangers of thimerosal, it appears that no one bothered to add up the cumulative dose of mercury that children would receive from the mandated vaccines. “What took the FDA so long to do the calculations?” Peter Patriarca, director of viral products for the agency, asked in an e-mail to the CDC in 1999. “Why didn’t CDC and the advisory bodies do these calculations when they rapidly expanded the childhood immunization schedule?”</p>
<p>But by that time, the damage was done. Infants who received all their vaccines, plus boosters, by the age of six months were being injected with a total of 187 micrograms of ethylmercury — a level 40 percent greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists that ethylmercury poses little danger because it breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several studies — including one published in April by the National Institutes of Health — suggest that ethylmercury is actually <em>more</em> toxic to developing brains and stays in the brain <em>longer</em> than methylmercury. Under the expanded schedule of vaccinations, multiple shots were often administered on a single day: At two months, when the infant brain is still at a critical stage of development, children routinely received three innoculations that delivered 99 times the approved limit of mercury.</p>
<p>Officials responsible for childhood immunizations insist that the additional vaccines were necessary to protect infants from disease and that thimerosal is still essential in developing nations, which, they often claim, cannot afford the single-dose vials that don’t require a preservative. Dr. Paul Offit, one of CDC’s top vaccine advisors, told me, “I think if we really have an influenza pandemic — and certainly we will in the next 20 years, because we always do — there’s no way on God’s earth that we immunize 280 million people with single-dose vials. There has to be multidose vials.”</p>
<p>But while public-health officials may have been well-intentioned, many of those on the CDC advisory committee who backed the additional vaccines had close ties to the industry. Dr. Sam Katz, the committee’s chair, was a paid consultant for most of the major vaccine makers and was part of a team that developed the measles vaccine and brought it to licensure in 1963. Dr. Neal Halsey, another committee member, worked as a researcher for the vaccine companies and received honoraria from Abbott Labs for his research on the hepatitis B vaccine.</p>
<p>Indeed, in the tight circle of scientists who work on vaccines, such conflicts of interest are common. Rep. Burton says that the CDC “routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on intellectual advisory committees that make recommendations on new vaccines,” even though they have “interests in the products and companies for which they are supposed to be providing unbiased oversight.” The House Government Reform Committee discovered that four of the eight CDC advisors who approved guidelines for a rotavirus vaccine “had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were developing different versions of the vaccine.”</p>
<p>Offit, who shares a patent on one of the vaccines, acknowledged to me that he “would make money” if his vote eventually leads to a marketable product. But he dismissed my suggestion that a scientist’s direct financial stake in CDC approval might bias his judgment. “It provides no conflict for me,” he insists. “I have simply been informed by the process, not corrupted by it. When I sat around that table, my sole intent was trying to make recommendations that best benefited the children in this country. It’s offensive to say that physicians and public-health people are in the pocket of industry and thus are making decisions that they know are unsafe for children. It’s just not the way it works.”</p>
<p>Other vaccine scientists and regulators gave me similar assurances. Like Offit, they view themselves as enlightened guardians of children’s health, proud of their “partnerships” with pharmaceutical companies, immune to the seductions of personal profit, besieged by irrational activists whose anti-vaccine campaigns are endangering children’s health. They are often resentful of questioning. “Science,” says Offit, “is best left to scientists.”</p>
<p>Still, some government officials were alarmed by the apparent conflicts of interest. In his e-mail to CDC administrators in 1999, Paul Patriarca of the FDA blasted federal regulators for failing to adequately scrutinize the danger posed by the added baby vaccines. “I’m not sure there will be an easy way out of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and immunization-policy bodies may have been asleep at the switch re: thimerosal until now,” Patriarca wrote. The close ties between regulatory officials and the pharmaceutical industry, he added, “will also raise questions about various advisory bodies regarding aggressive recommendations for use” of thimerosal in child vaccines.</p>
<p>If federal regulators and government scientists failed to grasp the potential risks of thimerosal over the years, no one could claim ignorance after the secret meeting at Simpsonwood. But rather than conduct more studies to test the link to autism and other forms of brain damage, the CDC placed politics over science. The agency turned its database on childhood vaccines — which had been developed largely at taxpayer expense — over to a private agency, America’s Health Insurance Plans, ensuring that it could not be used for additional research. It also instructed the Institute of Medicine, an advisory organization that is part of the National Academy of Sciences, to produce a study debunking the link between thimerosal and brain disorders. The CDC “wants us to declare, well, that these things are pretty safe,” Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM’s Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001. “We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect” of thimerosal exposure. According to transcripts of the meeting, the committee’s chief staffer, Kathleen Stratton, predicted that the IOM would conclude that the evidence was “inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation” between thimerosal and autism. That, she added, was the result “Walt wants” — a reference to Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program for the CDC.</p>
<p>For those who had devoted their lives to promoting vaccination, the revelations about thimerosal threatened to undermine everything they had worked for. “We’ve got a dragon by the tail here,” said Dr. Michael Kaback, another committee member. “The more negative that [our] presentation is, the less likely people are to use vaccination, immunization — and we know what the results of that will be. We are kind of caught in a trap. How we work our way out of the trap, I think is the charge.”</p>
<p>Even in public, federal officials made it clear that their primary goal in studying thimerosal was to dispel doubts about vaccines. “Four current studies are taking place to rule out the proposed link between autism and thimerosal,” Dr. Gordon Douglas, then-director of strategic planning for vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health, assured a Princeton University gathering in May 2001. “In order to undo the harmful effects of research claiming to link the [measles] vaccine to an elevated risk of autism, we need to conduct and publicize additional studies to assure parents of safety.” Douglas formerly served as president of vaccinations for Merck, where he ignored warnings about thimerosal’s risks.</p>
<p>In May of last year, the Institute of Medicine issued its final report. Its conclusion: There is no proven link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. Rather than reviewing the large body of literature describing the toxicity of thimerosal, the report relied on four disastrously flawed epidemiological studies examining European countries, where children received much smaller doses of thimerosal than American kids. It also cited a new version of the Verstraeten study, published in the journal Pediatrics, that had been reworked to reduce the link between thimerosal and autism. The new study included children too young to have been diagnosed with autism and overlooked others who showed signs of the disease. The IOM declared the case closed and — in a startling position for a scientific body — recommended that no further research be conducted.</p>
<p>The report may have satisfied the CDC, but it convinced no one. Rep. David Weldon, a Republican physician from Florida who serves on the House Government Reform Committee, attacked the Institute of Medicine, saying it relied on a handful of studies that were “fatally flawed” by “poor design” and failed to represent “all the available scientific and medical research.” CDC officials are not interested in an honest search for the truth, Weldon told me, because “an association between vaccines and autism would force them to admit that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of children. Who would want to make that conclusion about themselves?”</p>
<p>Under pressure from Congress and parents, the Institute of Medicine convened another panel to address continuing concerns about the Vaccine Safety Datalink data-sharing program. In February, the new panel, composed of different scientists, criticized the way the VSD had been used to study vaccine safety, and urged the CDC to make its vaccine database available to the public.</p>
<p>So far, though, only two scientists have managed to gain access. Dr. Mark Geier, president of the Genetics Center of America, and his son, David, spent a year battling to obtain the medical records from the CDC. Since August 2002, when members of Congress pressured the agency to turn over the data, the Geiers have completed six studies that demonstrate a powerful correlation between thimerosal and neurological damage in children. One study, which compares the cumulative dose of mercury received by children born between 1981 and 1985 with those born between 1990 and 1996, found a “very significant relationship” between autism and vaccines. Another study of educational performance found that kids who received higher doses of thimerosal in vaccines were nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with autism and more than three times as likely to suffer from speech disorders and mental retardation. Another soon-to-be-published study shows that autism rates are in decline following the recent elimination of thimerosal from most vaccines.</p>
<p>As the federal government worked to prevent scientists from studying vaccines, others have stepped in to study the link to autism. In April, reporter Dan Olmsted of UPI undertook one of the more interesting studies himself. Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines — the kind of population that scientists typically use as a “control” in experiments — Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Penn., who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three — including one child adopted from outside the Amish community — had received their vaccines.</p>
<p>At the state level, many officials have also conducted in-depth reviews of thimerosal. While the Institute of Medicine was busy whitewashing the risks, the Iowa Legislature was carefully combing through all of the available scientific and biological data. “After three years of review, I became convinced there was sufficient credible research to show a link between mercury and the increased incidences in autism,” state Sen. Ken Veenstra, a Republican who oversaw the investigation, told the magazine Byronchild earlier this year. “The fact that Iowa’s 700 percent increase in autism began in the 1990s, right after more and more vaccines were added to the children’s vaccine schedules, is solid evidence alone.” Last year, Iowa became the first state to ban mercury in vaccines, followed by California. Similar bans are now under consideration in 32 other states.</p>
<p>But instead of following suit, the FDA continues to allow manufacturers to include thimerosal in scores of over-the-counter medications as well as steroids and injected collagen. Even more alarming, the government continues to ship vaccines preserved with thimerosal to developing countries — some of which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism rates. In China, where the disease was virtually unknown prior to the introduction of thimerosal by U.S. drug manufacturers in 1999, news reports indicate that there are now more than 1.8 million autistics. Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, autistic disorders also appear to be soaring in India, Argentina, Nicaragua and other developing countries that are now using thimerosal-laced vaccines. The World Health Organization continues to insist thimerosal is safe, but it promises to keep the possibility that it is linked to neurological disorders “under review.”</p>
<p>I devoted time to study this issue because I believe that this is a moral crisis that must be addressed. If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children, their actions arguably constitute one of the biggest scandals in the annals of American medicine. “The CDC is guilty of incompetence and gross negligence,” says Mark Blaxill, vice president of Safe Minds, a nonprofit organization concerned about the role of mercury in medicines. “The damage caused by vaccine exposure is massive. It’s bigger than asbestos, bigger than tobacco, bigger than anything you’ve ever seen.” It’s hard to calculate the damage to our country — and to the international efforts to eradicate epidemic diseases — if Third World nations come to believe that America’s most heralded foreign-aid initiative is poisoning their children. It’s not difficult to predict how this scenario will be interpreted by America’s enemies abroad. The scientists and researchers — many of them sincere, even idealistic — who are participating in efforts to hide the science on thimerosal claim that they are trying to advance the lofty goal of protecting children in developing nations from disease pandemics. They are badly misguided. Their failure to come clean on thimerosal will come back horribly to haunt our country and the world’s poorest populations.</p>
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<p><em><strong><em>originally published on Salon.com</em> <br/> June 16, 2005</strong></em></p>Occupytag:12160.info,2011-09-30:2649739:BlogPost:6788272011-09-30T04:19:52.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
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<p>It was hardly fertile ground for grief, you'd think. And yet, the weird detachment of the moment was severed by the chanting of the names and the brief tributes of the readers. It was the daughter who said her father's friends tell her that she reminds them of him that did it for me. That, and the list of victims called Jones. Jones after Jones after Jones. Too many Joneses. I took my sniffles back up the street to Starbucks.</p>
<p>And from Starbucks, I went down the rabbit hole. I found myself at a conference on Walker Street called 'How The World Changed After 9/11'. It was packed, but I managed to slide in at the back, to hear a guy called Webster Tarpley chant his own list of names. The names of the 46 military exercises and hijack drills (called things like 'Vigilant Guardian') that were actually taking place on the morning of September 11. "The greatest density of drills in US military history," Tarpley said.</p>
<p>Fake radar blips, dummy hijacks, dummy attacks, fighter jets sent off to Turkey, the skies left unprotected, with the FBI's top anti-terror experts stuck on a training exercise in California. The drills, said Tarpley, were important, because not only did they weaken and confuse US air defence, but there was also a military drill for each major component of the 9/11 attacks. The drills were cover, and the dummy threats were made real.</p>
<p>September 11, he argues, was a coup carried out by a rogue network within the US military and government. A cabal of fascists, working with (and for) a banking oligarchy, "the old boys of Wall Street".</p>
<span class="inline wide"><img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/9/12/1315835365635/Webster-Tarpley-007.jpg" alt="Webster Tarpley" width="460" height="276"/> <span class="caption" style="width: 460px;">Webster Tarpley</span></span> <br/>
<p>"You want to blame Saudi Arabia, or Israel, or Pakistan? You can't. There isn't the evidence." The evidence, Tarpley says, points towards 9/11 as a false flag attack, carried out by a high level clique, that forced a shocked and awestruck US public into a vast and still ongoing war. It was America's very own Reichstag fire. And the official version of the event? "A racist, militaristic, and fascist myth that we must reject."</p>
<p>What I heard, from speaker after speaker, was a heartfelt desire to turn away from the path of destruction, militarism and lies that America has been set upon after 9/11. Ray McGovern, a former <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cia" title="More from guardian.co.uk on CIA">CIA</a> analyst, mourned for Iraq: "One million dead, 4m displaced, and that's a victory?" He sees the failure of Americans to comprehend the scale of the destruction wrought under their flag as nothing less than racist. "In America, we are very good at segregating our tears. Racism is our original sin."</p>
<span class="inline wide"><img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/9/12/1315835314819/Ray-McGovern.-007.jpg" alt="Ray McGovern." width="460" height="276"/> <span class="caption" style="width: 460px;">Ray McGovern</span></span> <br/>
<p>McGovern quoted from <a href="http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/annotated_letter_from_birmingham">Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham jail</a>: "Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up, but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured." And 9/11, for McGovern, is a "big boil" that needs lancing.</p>
<p>He drew attention to an extraordinary story, barely touched by the mainstream press, that Richard Clarke, who was the White House counter-terrorism czar at the time of the attacks, has <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/11/september-11th-anniversary-richard-clarke-s-explosive-cia-cover-up-charge.html">recently accused the CIA of deliberately suppressing information before 9/11</a>, information that might have prevented the attacks. Clarke claimed: "There was a high-level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share information." And who made this decision? "I would think it would have been made by the director".</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tenet">So that would be George Tenet</a>. Director of the CIA from 1997-2004, now a managing director of an investment bank. The former CIA man, McGovern, ends his speech by saying: "Of all the people who should be put in prison, he'd be top of my list."</p>
<p>Another speaker, Mike Rivero, addressed the outrage, which he often felt when the "false flag" analysis of 9/11 is presented. The idea that "we would never do such a thing" or "it's not the sort of thing governments do." He gave a whistlestop tour of state-sponsored attacks and hoodwinkings: the Lusitania, the Maine, the Dodgy Dossier, Saddam's nuclear weapons, the staged burning of the Reichstag, and the notorious Gleiwitz incident in which the Nazis faked an attack on a German radio station to justify the invasion of Poland. His point being that 9/11 was "not unique". There's a historical context.</p>
<p>History, documentation, facts. A respect for life, and a respect for truth. This is what I heard, over and over again, at this remarkable conference. Wayne Madsen – a former naval officer and NSA operative – spoke of the atmosphere of "hype and fear" that still grips America, 10 years after 9/11. A fear that's pumped into us, relentlessly, through our flatscreen HD Orwellian "telescreens".</p>
<span class="inline wide"><img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/9/12/1315835404251/Wayne-Madsen-007.jpg" alt="Wayne Madsen" width="460" height="276"/> <span class="caption" style="width: 460px;">Wayne Madsen</span></span> <br/>
<p>Madsen called for the release of the commission findings <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/12/september11-usa">that Ludkowski told me about last night</a>: "Let's get those documents out of the National Archives!" But he noted that the man whose job it is to decide what gets released, the administrator of the White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein">one Cass Sunstein</a>. The same Cass Sunstein that in 2008 urged the government to <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein">"cognitively infiltrate"</a> alternative groups like the 9/11 Truth Movement. So releasing those documents probably isn't top of his to-do list.</p>
<p>He's also the same Cass Sunstein that <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301596.html">wrote the first op-ed about Julian Assange</a> – the CIA asset and "child of MK Ultra", as Tarpley dubs him. But that's a whole other can of worms …</p>
<p>I found myself blinking back tears for the second time when McGovern read out a poem – in his polished CIA Russian – about a mother mourning the loss of her child. This thread of grieving ran throughout the conference. Wayne Madsen grieved for the loss of "shoeleather journalism", McGovern mourned the death of the fourth estate, while Tarpley spoke of the hollow memorial at Ground Zero – the two "abysses": the reflecting pools, or "voids", as they're often called. He sees these memorials as an appropriately empty vision of "nothingness. Nihil. No ideals, nothing." A nothingness at the heart of America. "But we have to do something."</p>
<p>We have to do something. Even if that something is simply to Google 'Cass Sunstein' and start from there. Begin your own cognitive infiltration. Google 'Vigilant Guardian' or 'Able Danger'. Crosscheck 'Abdel Hakim Belhadj' and 'Al-Qaida'. Begin digging. Begin thinking. And stop believing.</p>
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<div align="left"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/afghanistan/?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/09/19/bagram" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">US to pay up to 100 million dollars to build new Bagram prison</span></strong></a> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">19 Sep 2011 As the Obama administration announced…</span></span></span></div>
<div align="left"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/afghanistan/?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/09/19/bagram" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">US to pay up to 100 million dollars to build new Bagram prison</span></strong></a> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">19 Sep 2011 As the Obama administration announced</span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/us/politics/obama-plan-to-cut-deficit-will-trim-spending.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">plans for hundreds of billions of dollars more in domestic budget cuts</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">, it late last week solicited bids for the construction of a massive new prison in Bagram, Afghanistan. Posted on FedBizOpps.Gov</span> <a href="https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=8823422cb26e9acd8a65722bec183b6d" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">website</span></a> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">which it uses to announce new privatized spending projects, the administration unveiled plans for “the construction of Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP), Bagram, Afghanistan” which includes “detainee housing capability for approximately 2000 detainees.” It will also feature “guard towers, administrative facility and Vehicle/Personnel Access Control Gates, security surveillance and restricted access systems.” The announcement provided: “the estimated cost of the project is between $25,000,000 to $100,000,000.”</span></span></span></div>
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<div align="left"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/us-embassy-iraq-state-department-plan_n_965945.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">750 Million-Dollar US Embassy In Iraq Will Expand Further</span></strong></a> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">16 Sep 2011 U.S. diplomats, military advisers and other officials are planning to fall back to the gargantuan embassy in Baghdad — a heavily fortified, self-contained compound the size of Vatican City. The embassy compound is by far the largest the world has ever seen, at one and a half square miles, big enough for 94 football fields. It cost three quarters of a billion dollars to build (coming in about $150 million over budget). Inside its high walls, guard towers and machine-gun emplacements lie not just the embassy itself, but more than 20 other buildings, including residential quarters, a gym and swimming pool, commercial facilities, a power station and a water-treatment plant.</span></div>Aspartame Resource Guidetag:12160.info,2011-09-18:2649739:BlogPost:6596232011-09-18T16:54:15.000ZAnti Oligarchhttps://12160.info/profile/AntiOligarch
<div class="postbody"><h3>Courtesy of Dr. Betty Martini</h3>
<p>Aspartame medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, <a href="http://www.sunsentpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.sunsentpress.com</a> by H. J. Roberts, M.D., over 1000 pages He also has other books on aspartame and just published “A Manifesto for American Medicine”</p>
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<p>Dr. Leonard Coldwell’s Detox Formula:…</p>
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<div class="postbody"><h3>Courtesy of Dr. Betty Martini</h3>
<p>Aspartame medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sunsentpress.com/" target="_blank">www.sunsentpress.com</a> by H. J. Roberts, M.D., over 1000 pages He also has other books on aspartame and just published “A Manifesto for American Medicine”</p>
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<p>Dr. Leonard Coldwell’s Detox Formula: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mpwhi.com/resources-coldwell.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mpwhi.com/resources-coldwell.htm</a> <br/> His new book is “The Only Answer to Cancer”.</p>
<p>Detox formula: “What To Do If You Have Used Aspartame” by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm" target="_blank">www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm</a> Dr. Blaylock is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/" target="_blank">www.russellblaylockmd.com</a> He has an excellent CD titled: “The Truth About Aspartame”, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.atavistik.com/" target="_blank">www.atavistik.com</a> All info is on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mpwhi.com/blaylock_wellness_center.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mpwhi.com/blaylock_wellness_center.htm</a></p>
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<p>Aspartame documentary:<br/> Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, Cori Brackett a href="mailto:cori@sweetremedyradio.com">cori@sweetremedyradio.com></p>
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<p>Aspartame Information List, you can subscribe on:<br/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mpwhi.com/" target="_blank">www.mpwhi.com</a> scroll down to banners.</p>
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<p>How to get aspartame out of your state:<br/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_24_feb_2009.html" target="_blank">http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_24_feb_2009.html</a></p>
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<p>Information on how aspartame blinds:<br/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mpwhi.com/nfb_aspartame_and_vision.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mpwhi.com/nfb_aspartame_and_vision.htm</a></p>
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<p>Safe Sweetener:<br/> Just Like Sugar, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.justlikesugarinc.om/" target="_blank">www.justlikesugarinc.om</a> Can be found in places like Whole Foods. Made of chicory and orange peel, Calcium and Vitamin C. Chicory has been used for 70 years to improve the health of diabetics.</p>
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<p>Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote in his newsletter, The Blaylock Wellness Report, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/" target="_blank">www.russellblaylockmd.com</a> “Finally a safe sweetener”.</p>
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<p>Special warning for diabetics:<br/> Aspartame can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes diabetics to go into convulsions, and even interacts with insulin.</p>
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<p>The free methyl alcohol causes diabetics to lose limbs. Jeanette Soto, Mission Possible Brookville, Fla, who wrote “Blinded Sight” when her husband lost his sight from aspartame was unable to get her father-in-law, diabetic off aspartame because of the addiction. The free methyl alcohol is classified as a narcotic. It causes chronic methanol poisoning which affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes the addiction. When Jeanette’s father-in-law, Santiago Echiverria died it had to be a closed casket, the formaldehyde from the free methyl alcohol was oozing out of his skin. The American Diabetes Assn was sued in 2004 for racketeering for pushing aspartame on diabetics, but because of their power got out of it.</p>
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<p>Today people are dying of the methanol poisoning. Dr. James Bowen explains:<br/> “Only after longer aspartame usage does liver damage cause blood methanol levels to measurably rise because the liver mitochondria are so damaged that the liver no longer quickly processes either methyl or ethyl (drink) alcohol. Then the acute methanol poisoning is directly measurable from lab results, as the blood methanol level elevates. This entire sequence or “toxic axis” begins with your very first dose of aspartame. Both acute and chronic poisonings from this methanol toxic axis, and other additive and synergistic aspartame poisonings, steadily accumulate in the aspartame consumer.” We continue to get reports of people dying of methanol poisoning. Charles Fleming died and his wife, a Sunday School teacher, remains in a prison in Virginia. The detective on the case said, “Diane is innocent but because I was promoted I could not stop the indictment.” Be warned no diabetic should ever consume wood alcohol. The FDA did no NOAEL on methanol. Without it you cannot set an ADI, allowable daily intake. It’s 44% too high.</p>
<p><br/> Aspartame Warning Flyer for distribution: <br/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mpwhi.com/warning_flyer_on_aspartame.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mpwhi.com/warning_flyer_on_aspartame.htm</a></p>
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<p>The Lethal Science of Splenda: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm</a></p>
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<p>Studies have shown that sucralose can:</p>
<p>* Cause the thymus to shrink by as much as 40% (the thymus is your immune powerhouse – it produces T cells)<br/> * Cause enlargement of the liver and kidneys<br/> * Reduce growth rate as much as 20%<br/> * Cause enlargement of the large bowel area<br/> * Reduce the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%<br/> * Increase the pH level in the intestines (a risk factor for colon cancer)<br/> * Contribute to weight gain<br/> * Cause aborted pregnancy low fetal body weight<br/> * Reduce red blood cell count</p>
<p>Particular warning to diabetics: Researchers found that diabetic patients using sucralose showed a statistically significant increase in glycosylated hemoglobin, a marker that is used to assess glycemic control in diabetic patients. According to the FDA, “increases in glycosolation in hemoglobin imply lessening of control of diabetes.”</p>
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<p>Here is how Splenda is made: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wnho.net/chemical_processing_of_splenda.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wnho.net/chemical_processing_of_splenda.htm</a></p>
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<p>Ajinomoto just announced a new name for aspartame called AminoSweet. Be warned.</p>
<p>Web sites: <br/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mpwhi.com/" target="_blank">www.mpwhi.com</a>,<br/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dorway.com/" target="_blank">www.dorway.com</a> and<br/> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wnho.net/" target="_blank">www.wnho.net</a></p>
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<p>Aspartame Toxicity Center, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame" target="_blank">www.holisticmed.com/aspartame</a></p>
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