Vincent L. Guarisco's Blog – September 2009 Archive (15)

Lt. Ehren Watada Allowed to Resign

9/28/09

@truthout.org

First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned military officer to refuse deployment to Iraq because he believed it was an illegal war, has won his three-year legal battle with the Army.

With little fanfare the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash., accepted the resignation of the 1996 Kalani High School graduate, and he will be discharged the first week in October.

Rather than seek a second court-martial against the artillery officer, the… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 28, 2009 at 1:34pm — 2 Comments

Everything You Know About Iran Is A Myth

September 27, 2009 "Lawrence of Cyberia " -- -

@ICH

There are some terms that people in Islamic and Western countries should never say to each other, because they confuse and inflame more than they clarify. The most obvious ones would be “jihad”, “crusade” and “great satan”. All of them are used in somewhat innocuous ways by the people who utter them, but mean something completely different – and much more inflammatory – to foreign ears.

I would like to propose… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 27, 2009 at 4:27pm — 1 Comment

TIME TO CHANGE BERNANKE'S MEDICATION? Secret White House letter to G-20

by Greg Palast

Tuesday, September 22, 2009, New York

For The Huffington Post

I still get a thrill whenever I get my hands on a confidential memo with "The White House, Washington" appearing on the letterhead. Even when—like the one I'm looking at now—it's about a snoozy topic: This week's G-20 summit.

But the letter's content shook me awake, and may keep me up the rest of the night.

The 6-page letter from the White House, dated September 3, was… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 23, 2009 at 1:36pm — No Comments

A Nation in Silent Anger: 9/11 is the Calling of Our Time

By Manuel Valenzuela

9/16/09

REVERBERATIONS

Can you hear that deep, silent anger inside you, pounding like a heavy iron fist on a wooden door, banging relentlessly every time you notice the America of your dreams vanish more each and every day, instead becoming a most unwelcome nightmare that you are impotent to wake up from? Can you feel the hollow pain in your bones, the restlessness running through your veins every time another freedom is gutted or another… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 17, 2009 at 1:07pm — No Comments

"You Have to Learn Lessons from History"

By Cindy Sheehan

September 15, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- I was just watching a report on CNN and after the commentator said that support for Afghanistan is rapidly dwindling (58 percent now think it’s not worth fighting), an interview with Obama was shown.

The interviewer asked the president if he was afraid that because war-weary America is growing impatient with the wars, that failing to withdraw and, in fact, sending more troops would look like what Johnson… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 16, 2009 at 2:56pm — No Comments

Leonard Peltier's Statement on His Parole Denial

September 11, 2009

http://whoisleonardpeltier.info** The United States

Department of Justice has once again made amockery of its lofty and pretentious title. After releasing an original and continuing disciple of death cultleader Charles Manson who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford,an admitted Croatian terrorist, and another attempted assassin ofPresident Ford under the mandatory 30-year parole law, the U.S.Parole Commission deemed that my release would "promote… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 12, 2009 at 2:33pm — No Comments

My 9/11 Article from Last Year....

The 7th Anniversary Of 9/11

And The Cycle Of War

By Vincent L. Guarisco

16 August, 2008

Countercurrents.org

'Why would all 110 stories drop straight down to the ground in about 10 seconds, pulverizing the contents into dust and ash - twice. Why would all 47 stories of WTC 7 fall straight down to the ground in about seven seconds the same day? It was not struck by any aircraft or engulfed in any fire. An independent investigation is justified for all… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 11, 2009 at 2:11pm — No Comments

If You Think Corporations Run The Government Now…http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23463.htm

By Chris Bowers

September 10, 2009 "Open Left" -- Then just wait and see what happens after, as expected, the Supreme Court allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of their favored candidates:

The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it may let businesses and unions spend freely to help their favored candidates in time for next year's elections. Such a step could roll back a century of attempts to restrain the power of corporate treasuries in… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 10, 2009 at 7:27pm — No Comments

Money and Health

By John Cory

@Truthout.org

9/9/09

The media tells me that health reform is a very complicated issue, that it is hard to understand and even harder to explain to simple-minded and politically unsophisticated people like me. It is about money and costs and free-market and big government socialists versus real America, or something like that.

So, I ask: How can the majority of other industrialized nations manage to provide affordable health care to their… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 9, 2009 at 2:48pm — 2 Comments

New David Ray Griffin book on WTC 7‏

The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False (Olive Branch Press, 2009), by David Ray Griffin

At 5:20 in the afternoon on 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been struck by a plane and had fires on only a few floors. The reason for its collapse was considered a mystery. In August 2008, NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) issued its report on WTC 7,… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 9, 2009 at 4:47am — No Comments

Martial Law Alert Over Swine Flu

Monday, 07 September 2009

Stephen J. Lendman

Fact check:

-- no Swine Flu threat exists;

-- reported H1N1 infections and deaths are uncorroborated;

-- WHO predicting a global pandemic affecting "as many as two billion people....over the next two years" is falsified hype unless a diabolical depopulation scheme (by vaccines or other means) plans to create one;

-- vaccines don't protect against diseases they're designed to prevent… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 8, 2009 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance

(The fiat peddlers on Wall Street will probably dance a jig over your grave on this one. ~Vince)

By JENNY ANDERSON

After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one.

The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash — $400,000 for a $1 million policy, say, depending on the life expectancy of the… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 7, 2009 at 1:36pm — No Comments

Kurt Sonnenfeld : 9/11 FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public

http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html

As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he wrote "El Perseguido" (the persecuted). His recently-published book tells… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 4, 2009 at 1:44pm — No Comments

Unemployment Numbers

Friday, September 4, 2009

@Institute for Public Accuracy

NPR reports: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in August, the jobless rate hit 9.7 percent, up from 9.4 in June."

MAX FRAAD WOLFF, mfwolff@aol.com,http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-fraad-wolffWolff, an instructor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University who regularly writes on the economy, said this morning: "Today another 216,000 job losses were reported… Continue

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Washington's NWO Weapons are Weapons of Mass Destruction

"HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction."

By Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, January 4, 2002

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20020104&articleId=205

The important debate on global warming under UN auspices provides but a partial picture of climate change; in addition to the… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on September 3, 2009 at 12:06pm — No Comments