Citizen Quasar

Fuck MySpace

2007-05-29T13:24:00.001-07:00

"Tom"

2007-05-03T19:54:00.000-07:00

Re: [#124766309] YouTube Support

2007-03-20T11:37:00.001-07:00

You have done NOTHING to correct this problem. I will cut to the chase. The truth is that my blog exposes the truth about the tyranny of the New World Order. As Google owns YouTube and censors and propagandizes the internet, YouTube complies with Google's censorship.

I await your response.

YooHoo to YouTube III-a

2007-03-17T19:35:00.000-07:00

Re: [#124766309] YouTube Support

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From: citizenquasar
Subject: YouTube Support
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:57:52 -0700

I Posted several videos to my blog at

http://citizenquasar.blogspot.com

It has been three days and they have not posted yet. Please correct
this
for me.

Thanks

Martial Law Imposed In China's Yongzhou, Hunan Province

2007-03-16T12:04:00.000-07:00

Epoch Times | March 15, 2007
Li Xi

CHINA—The riot in Zhushan, Yongzhou has been quelled by the police, but the whole city remains under martial law. Since the afternoon of March 13, road traffic has partially resumed for restricted time periods, but public transport service has not been permitted yet.

According to a local resident, authorities have stationed over 2,000 armed police in the town.

On March 13, police vehicles patrolled the city and broadcast messages requesting the residents to keep calm and not to listen to "rumors." They claimed that the police had been restrained and would not harm civilians.

Responding to the messages broadcast from the police vehicle, a local resident said, "It's a lie! I saw the police beating civilians. Some even targeted pedestrians; passengers on motorcycles were beaten as well. At least 50 people were injured from the beatings."

Over the last two days, many international media have arrived at the scene. Major television stations including several from Hong Kong, Japan, England, etc. have been reporting on the event as their top story.

After the incident, Pan-Blue Coalition member Zhang Zilin—who had been monitoring the development of the protests—left Yongzhou in the afternoon of March 13. He said that the Security Department had summoned him because he reported this incident to the international media and the authorities had issued strict orders prohibiting media reports.

Local residents believe that corruption in the government has directly caused the increase in bus fares. Because the National People's Congress is currently being held in Beijing, people are angered by the arrogance of the local authorities who dared to create trouble during this "sensitive period."

According to local residents, the public transport service between Zhushan, Daqingping, etc. to Yongzhou were taken over and brought under the control of Anda Bus Company, the only allowed bus operator in the region. Passengers were dissatisfied with the company's service. After the New Year, students returning to school were charged extra for their luggage and medium-sized buses were not permitted to take students. This increase in bus fares finally triggered long accumulated public resentment and the demonstration turned into a riot. The actual numbers participating in the riot could possibly exceed 20,000.

Human Rights in China spokesman Feng Congde commented that the Yongzhou incident and the recent large scale conflicts between the police and the public reflects the huge gap between the true situation and the image of a harmonious society that the Chinese regime has endeavored to build.

YooHoo to YouTube III

2007-03-16T07:42:00.000-07:00

Where are the YouTube videos that I posted yesterday?

Proof of Concept

2007-03-14T15:54:00.001-07:00

This device, just under an inch long, is designed to be inserted into the body through a small incision.

Once inside, doctors can control its movements and direct it to areas where investigations are needed.

It would be able to capture images through a tiny camera placed in its "head" - and could deliver drugs through a special injecting device.
Early versions have also included tiny forceps for taking tissue samples. In the future these nippers could be used to snip out cancerous cells.

While this device is too large for use in blood vessels, it demonstrates proof-of-concept for smaller, radio-controlled nano-devices. All that is necessary is to reduce this design by a factor of a hundred.

I predict that this will be done sooner, rather than later.

Read original article HERE.

Quote of the Day IV

2007-03-12T13:08:00.001-07:00

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mill, English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

20,000 Riot in Communist China

2007-03-12T11:58:00.001-07:00

Around 20,000 Chinese farmers and laid-off workers have rioted in central China.
Efforts to reduce inequality and sources of discontent have been a theme of government efforts to improve the livelihoods of its 750 million farmers

Nine police cars were burnt during the riot in the central province of Hunan.

The protesters clashed with about 1,000 police armed with guns and electric cattle prods, a local official said.

"They did it because they were not satisfied with some government behaviour," the official from the Hunan city of Yongzhou said.

"They were also unhappy about official corruption."

The overseas human rights website Boxun said the riot was sparked by dissatisfaction with rising public transport costs. The site, which is critical of China, is blocked on the mainland.

The Hunan official said the riot had been quelled and that scores of the rioters were arrested.

Both police and rioters were injured in the violence, and some of the rioters were sent to hospital, but none was seriously hurt, the official added.

A widening gap between rich and poor, corruption and official abuses of power have fuelled a growing number of demonstrations and riots around China, often sparked by seemingly minor issues.

The government has said the number of "mass incidents" in the country - a term that includes protests, petitions and demonstrations - was about 23,000 last year.

Buy guns. Do NOT register them. Keep your powder dry.

Newly Unearthed Footage Exposes 9/11 Media Scripting

2007-03-12T11:46:00.001-07:00

Yet more archive news footage unearthed from broadcasts on 9/11 offers further evidence that the media were being fed a script in which a cover story was quickly groomed to offset questions about the highly suspicious collapse of the twin towers.

Two weeks ago we highlighted BBC World footage from September 11 in which a correspondent reports the collapse of Building 7 as it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. New footage unearthed from Britain's Channel 5 news coverage provokes more questions about 9/11 scripting in a similar vein.

"Sections of the other tower are also crumbling - now the reason this is happening, according to the website for the World Trade Center, they're actually telling us that the structure, the outside cladding of this building is integral to the safety and security of it," states the news anchor following the collapse of the south tower.

"Once you penetrate that apparently the very structure of the building is under threat and that's why one tower has already collapsed."

The suspicious rapidity of the instant press release aside, why did the World Trade Center's website carry such a blatantly fallacious explanation for the collapse of the first tower? Even the layman knows that any modern building is anchored by core columns, not "outside cladding," and the twin towers were no different . To rest a building's integrity on its "outside cladding" is a reversal of all commonly accepted architectural knowledge. Why was the World Trade Center website peddling this nonsense in contradiction with the words of the twin tower's own designers ?

Complete HERE.

2007-03-12T11:46:00.000-07:00

BBC Reported the Collapse of Building 7 BEFORE It Happened

2007-02-26T16:29:00.000-08:00

Here we see the BBC marquee across the bottom of the screen announcing the collapse of the Salomon Brothers building. The Salomon Brothers building is also known as Building 7.

Building 7 is still standing and intact at this time as it appears in the background over the announcer's left shoulder. It was brought down by pre-planted demolitions about 20 minutes later.

The 911 Commission ignored Building 7 in its hearings and reports.

Here is the video:

This video may also be viewed HERE, HERE, and HERE.

http://www.esnips.com/doc/47ae2fd7-0a9f-4928-9d30-f53741139733/911Building7Collapse

Astronauts Gone Wild

2007-02-25T22:50:00.000-08:00

As I surf the Internet looking for anti-New World Order videos, I come across many aspects of “the Black World” which I have great difficulty in accepting. I realize that there are a lot of nut cases jumping into the light.

Sometimes I have difficulty telling what is truth from what is bullshit. I must vet every story to verify its truth or falsity. One law governs supreme here. I call it Celine’s Law. It is a statement that was made in one of the volumes of the Illuminatus! trilogy. Hagbard Celine says:

“If the bizarre is often true then the true may often be bizarre.”

One of the things that I have wondered about is how the heat was dissipated from the Apollo Lunar Module (LEM) while it was on the lunar surface. This is because the Apollo command module had to rotate perpendicular to the Sun so that no surface collected too much energy from the sun.

The lunar module rotated with the command module all the way to the moon because they were connected together. However, once the LEM landed, it just sat there…in broad lunar daylight. The suns rays mot only came in full blast because there is no atmosphere on the moon, they also reflect from the bright lunar surface.

Someday, I am going to come across the LEM specs and give this one a good look. As I have had a smattering of chemistry and physics in my time, I should be able to figure it out to my satisfaction…when that time comes. But that time is note here now. I am in the early stages of researching this. I am presently limited to looking at videos online.

Well here is a video which I watched in an effort to begin to zero in on my question, and perhaps find an easy answer. It is called Astronauts Gone Wild. It is about some guy that goes around and tries to get the Apollo astronauts to swear on a Bible that they have really been to the moon. He is very intrusive. At times he is just down right obnoxious. Watch it to see what all the astronauts say.

Nazi Propaganda

2007-02-24T23:54:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day III

2007-02-24T11:46:00.000-08:00

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."

---Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda, 1928.

G. Edward Griffin - A World Without Cancer - The Story Of Vitamin B17

2007-02-24T10:38:00.000-08:00

G. Edward Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease - like scurvy or pellagra - aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modern man's diet. That substance is vitamin B17. In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile.

This story is not approved by orthodox medicine. The FDA, the AMA, and The American Cancer Society have labeled it fraud and quackery. Yet the evidence is clear that here, at last, is the final answer to the cancer riddle.

Why has orthodox medicine waged war against this non-drug approach? The author contends that the answer is to be found, not in science, but in politics - and is based upon the hidden economic and power agenda of those who dominate the medical establishment.

With billions of dollars spent each year on research, with other billions taken in on the sale of cancer-related drugs, and with fund-raising at an all-time high, there are now more people making a living from cancer than dying from it. If the solution should be found in a simple vitamin, this gigantic industry could be wiped out over night. The result is that the politics of cancer therapy is more complicated than the science.

Jim Marrs: 9/11 Truth in 10 Minutes

2007-02-23T16:00:00.000-08:00

Lou Dobbs II: The North American Union

2007-02-23T15:43:00.000-08:00

Constitution Class 1 of 7, for Patriots of USA Republic

2007-02-23T13:15:00.000-08:00

By Michael Badnarik.

This is a class for patriots and most Americans who are truly ignorant about the real Constitution of USA.

Constitution Class 2 of 7, for Patriots of America

2007-02-23T13:14:00.000-08:00

Constitution Class 3 of 7. for Patriots of America

2007-02-23T13:13:00.001-08:00

Constitution Class 4 of 7 , for Patriots of America

2007-02-23T13:13:00.000-08:00

Constitution Class 5 of 7, for Real Patriots

2007-02-23T13:11:00.001-08:00

Constitution Class 6 of 7, for Real Patriots

2007-02-23T13:11:00.000-08:00

Constitution Class 7of 7, for Patriots

2007-02-23T12:03:00.000-08:00

Four Informants Told FBI Of Additional OKC Bombing Plotters

2007-02-22T19:42:00.000-08:00

The FBI has admitted withholding information about informants who claimed Timothy McVeigh had additional accomplices in the Oklahoma City bombing, and a federal judge yesterday ordered the Bureau to perform new searches for documents relating to the case.

The 22-page ruling by Judge Dale Kimball in Trentadue v. FBI ordered the FBI to perform two new searches for specific documents, setting the stage for new disclosures about the Oklahoma City case, more than 10 years after the April 19, 1995 bombing which claimed the lives of 168 people.

Filings in the case also revealed the existence of at least four informants who were part of the Oklahoma City bombing investigation, including the one working undercover and another under an explicit confidentiality agreement.

The lawsuit was filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which compels the government to disclose information at the request of the public. The plaintiff, attorney Jesse Trentadue, began seeking information on the Oklahoma City bombing after the death of his brother, Kenneth Trentadue.

Jesse Trentadue believes his brother's death is related to the Oklahoma City case. In yesterday's ruling, Kimball noted in his ruling that Trentadue had "unearthed significant evidence of foul play" regarding his brother's death in a federal penitentiary, which was initially ruled a suicide.

FULL TEXT of RULING

Complete article HERE.

Montreal XII: Cameras 2

2007-02-22T19:17:00.000-08:00

Larry Potts and Oklahoma City

2007-02-22T12:57:00.000-08:00

A newspaper reported the name of the FBI agent fingered by Terry Nichols as having led Timothy McVeigh in carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing before a Utah court order sealed documents pertaining to the testimony.

Though subsequent reports do not mention the accused agent by name, the Deseret Morning News identified the individual as Larry Potts, who was the lead FBI agent during the Ruby Ridge confrontation in 1992 and was also involved in the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993.

Potts (pictured ) was forced to retire after it emerged that he tried to cover-up an order to shoot anyone seen leaving the Weaver cabin at Ruby Ridge.

"McVeigh said he believed Potts was manipulating him and forcing him to 'go off script,' which I understood meant to change the target of the bombing," Nichols stated.

Click here for an extended report on this explosive story and watch this space for developments.

Tony Snow Slams The "Hateful," "Polarized" Blogosphere

2007-02-22T11:25:00.000-08:00

The Secret Room at AT&T

2007-02-22T10:05:00.000-08:00

Oklahoma !

2007-02-22T09:21:00.000-08:00

New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were complicit in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday:

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.

The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.

Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations. The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also declined comment.

The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney Jesse Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and beaten to death in an Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995. Authorities claimed Trentadue had committed suicide but he was being held in a suicide proof cell at the time and autopsy photos of his body showed he had been shocked with a stun gun, bruised, burned, sliced and then hung.

Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for one of Timothy McVeigh's alleged bombing accomplices and in attempting to get him to talk Federal agents went too far and then tried to instigate a cover-up of the murder.

Read complete article HERE.

More HERE.

Sweet Dreams

2007-02-22T08:31:00.000-08:00

Is that a pyramid in his lap?

Wake up to the New World Order (Final Cut)

2007-02-21T16:25:00.000-08:00

Christine Ebersole Interview with John Conner on 9/11 Attack

2007-02-20T13:19:00.000-08:00

Broadway star Christine Ebersole says 9/11 was an inside job
and the U.S. Government was behind the attacks.

(New York, NY) One of Broadways biggest stars Christine Ebersole joined author and radio host John Conner on Sunday February 18th to discuss her beliefs that a corrupt faction within the U.S. government helped make sure the 9/11 attacks happened on purpose as a justification for war and a domestic police state.

“There are some people that I work with that I think are upset at my talking about 9/11 and thinking that it was an inside job, and they are worried about my career…and I don’t think people really want to take in the reality that our government could do us harm. I think we want to look at our government as sort of like a benevolent father that’s going to take care of us and be kind to us and treat us well and I think it’s too much for our people to conceptualize and I’m sure that’s what happened to people in Nazi Germany.” Christine told Conner on Resistance Radio on the Genesis Communications Network.

“Things just weren’t adding up. For me it’s really hard to say what’s the exact sort of epiphany that I had where I just realized that it was the government that did harm to its own people. But I think maybe what a deciding one was when my dentist sent me a link to Loose Change [the film] and when I saw that, everything that I feared or everything that I intuitively felt was confirmed by watching Loose Change.

When asked how she would go about educating someone how the U.S. government was behind the attacks she responded, “I’d ask about World Trade Center number 7. That’s the most obvious blunder, because [Larry] Silverstein [the building’s owner] said publicly that ‘we had talked with the fire department and we felt that WTC 7 was so badly damaged that we decided to take it down.’ Now you can not put controlled demolition devices in a building in an afternoon. That’s just not possible. Of course, they never even mention it. That’s never even mentioned and it’s not even brought up in the [9/11 Commission] report. How do you explain that?”

Operation Northwoods, a declassified plan where the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved committing terrorism in Washington D.C. while blaming another country to justify military action was also discussed during the interview. “They think that Operation Northwoods…well…just because they wrote it and because Lemnitzer was fired by Kennedy doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t do it. People can’t face reality. It’s just too difficult. It’s just too much. Now they want to do the DNA sampling of the immigrants…I mean come on...what’s next? We’ll all get implanted with those chips [VeriChips] and it’s just a way of controlling people,” Ebersole concluded.

Ebersole also displayed knowledge of the secret Bohemian Grove resort. “That’s another thing that’s just so disturbing. People want to make this a left right issue, and a Christian [vs.] Muslim issue, he [George Bush] makes a mockery of Christianity. Everybody is fooled. They are worshiping a false God and that’s exactly what George Bush is doing. The God of money…the God of power…it’s quite disgraceful, but the whole thing about Bohemian Grove, I had never heard of that before I went to your website [www.TheResistanceManifesto.com]. For a man who calls himself saved by Jesus and all that stuff…burning mock human sacrifices is not worshiping God. It’s unbelievable. And He’s completely hijacked the Republican party.”

When asked about her personal religious views Ebersole answered, “For me, Christ is the greatest example of what we should aspire to how to live our lives on this earth, and that’s why [it’s unbelievable] for George Bush and all these people that call themselves Christians and they absolutely don’t adhere to his basic principle of love God with all your heart, and soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. To me, Jesus is alive today and Christ is living in each of us and each of us that practice the principles of how he lived his life.”

Referring to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [H.R.6166] which enables the U.S. government to strip people of their U.S. citizenship and deny them the rights to habeas corpus, she proclaimed, “Jesus Christ was an enemy combatant.”

One week earlier, Ebersole plugged John Conner’s website, www.TheResistanceManifesto.com while sitting in as a guest host on ABC’s ‘The View’. The video clip of the incident has been one of the most viewed videos on YouTube over the weekend.

Link to article HERE.

Bush Getting What He Deserves

2007-02-20T12:16:00.000-08:00

A float depicting U.S. President George W. Bush being spanked by the Statue Of Liberty passes by during the Rose Monday carnival parade in Mainz, western Germany, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. Thousands of spectators attended the traditional street carnival parade in the state of Rhineland-Palatinates's capital.

Fat bin Laden Video is Fake

2007-02-19T10:58:00.000-08:00

The Bush Administration says yes, citing a grainy, badly-edited videotape that surfaced in December, 2001. In that tape, a fat guy who vaguely resembles Bin Laden chortles about the success of the 9/11 attacks. (In earlier interviews, Bin Laden had denied responsibility for 9/11, once even deploring the loss of civilian life in the attacks and calling them un-Islamic.)

Is the famous “confession video” genuine? Despite Bush’s insistence that the tape is authentic, America’s top academic Bin Laden expert has finally gone on the record, joining numerous other experts.
“It’s bogus,” says Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University’s Religious Studies program.

Lawrence, author of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, offered his historic debunking of the administration’s lie in an interview with Kevin Barrett (“Dynamic Duo,” gcnlive.com, 2/16/2007, first hour). The interview marked Lawrence’s first major public statement since he made headlines last year by suggesting that recent Osama tapes are hoaxes and that the real Osama Bin Laden may be dead.

Why has the Bush Administration been lying for more than five years by telling us that this preposterously bad hoax is a genuine “confession video”? Lawrence, citing informants in the US intelligence apparatus’s Bin Laden units, said that everyone knows the tape is fake, adding that the hoax has been kept alive because it is politically useful to those who wish to deflect attention from
“conspiracy theories” about 9/11.

If Professor Lawrence is right—and anyone with eyes can see that he is, simply by comparing the overweight impostor in the Fatty Bin Laden bogus confession video to other pictures of Osama Bin Laden—the Bush Administration, by repeatedly citing the tape as authentic, is clearly guilty of obstruction of justice at best, high treason and conspiracy to mass murder at worst. Since the FBI now tells us that Osama Bin Laden is “not wanted for 9/11” because there is “no hard evidence” connecting him to the 9/11 attacks, and since US intelligence personnel all know the “confession tape” is a Bush Administration hoax, it should not be difficult to nail the perpetrators of this outrageous cover-up of the crime of the century.

More HERE.

Montreal VI: Cameras

2007-02-19T08:05:00.000-08:00

Montreal VII: MAXI (Part One)

2007-02-19T08:02:00.000-08:00

Montreal VIII: MAXI (Part Two)

2007-02-19T08:01:00.002-08:00

Montreal IX: MAXI (Part Three)

2007-02-19T08:01:00.001-08:00

Montreal X: Conclusion (Part One)

2007-02-19T08:01:00.000-08:00

Montreal XI: Conclusion (Part Two)

2007-02-19T08:00:00.000-08:00

John Conner Crashes Community College and Professor AGREES!

2007-02-18T09:57:00.000-08:00

Neo-Nazi Rally was Organized by FBI Informant

2007-02-17T07:28:00.000-08:00

A paid FBI informant was the man behind a neo-Nazi march through the streets of Parramore that stirred up anxiety in Orlando's black community and fears of racial unrest that triggered a major police mobilization.

That revelation came Wednesday in an unrelated federal court hearing and has prompted outrage from black leaders, some of whom demanded an investigation into whether the February 2006 march was, itself, an event staged by law-enforcement agencies.

The FBI would not comment on what it knew about the involvement of its informant, 39-year-old David Gletty (in foreground with back to camera) of Orlando, in the neo-Nazi event. In court Wednesday, an FBI agent said the bureau has paid its informant at least $20,000 during the past two years.

Orlando Sentinel article HERE.

MORE PICTURES.

Going After the Con-man-der in Chief

2007-02-16T15:06:00.000-08:00

[Elizabeth de la Vega is a former federal prosecutor with more than twenty years of experience. During her tenure, she was a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Chief of the San Jose Branch of the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California. Her pieces have appeared in The Nation, the Los Angeles Times and Salon. She writes regularly for Tomdispatch.]

"OK, everyone who has studied the unitary executive theory of the presidency, raise your hand. Anyone? Anyone?

If you are not raising your hand, you're not alone. Only recently has the world received notice that President Bush's "I can do anything I want" approach to governance has a name: the unitary executive theory of the presidency. Not having heard of this concept, and thinking perhaps that I had missed something in Constitutional Law, I decided to survey a random sampling of attorneys about it. The group included civil practitioners, prosecutors, a federal judge, a former federal prosecutor who has a PhD as well as a JD, defense attorneys and a US magistrate. The precise question was: "When did you first hear about the unitary executive theory of the presidency?" Most said, "The past few weeks." But my favorite was, "A few seconds ago, when you asked about it." All agreed that the term does not appear in the US Constitution and that, the last time they checked, we still had three branches of government.

Discussion of this "theory" has been prompted, of course, by President Bush's recent confession to a crime: repeatedly authorizing the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept domestic electronic communications for foreign intelligence purposes without a court order, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. FISA contains no exception for the President, but Bush claims his action is legal because: (1) Congress endorsed it in its September 18, 2001, authorization to use military force in response to Al Qaeda's September 11 attacks, and (2) he has inherent power as Chief Executive to act as he deems necessary in wartime. Many scholars, including Georgetown University's David Cole and former New York State Congressional Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, have thoroughly debunked these arguments.

You don't have to be a constitutional scholar to know that Bush's legal justifications are weak. You merely have to consider the Administration's duplicitous conduct. The Bush team has deliberately concealed this program, not only from the public and Congress but, most damning of all, from the very agency that is responsible for executing the laws of this country: the Justice Department. It has been widely reported that even Bush appointees, such as former Assistant Attorney General James Comey, and possibly former Attorney General John Ashcroft, objected to the NSA's wide-ranging warrantless spying. After twenty years as a federal prosecutor, I am absolutely certain that the vast majority of career attorneys at the Justice Department and criminal prosecutors from US Attorneys' offices around the country, as well as federal law enforcement agents, would have refused to participate knowingly in this program. Bush and his coterie knew that their legal arguments were weak and intellectually dishonest, if not ludicrous, so rather than making their case honestly, even to their own people, they avoided dissent by acting in secret and affirmatively misleading the entire country. Using a tragically familiar modus operandi, Bush has carried out his unlawful spying scheme by acting not as a unitary executive (whatever that is) but as a solitary executive--as if the President Knows Best.

To understand the extent and complexity of Bush's deception with regard to the NSA's warrantless surveillance--not to mention frightening consequences--consider some of the practicalities of FISA, both before and after it was changed by the USA Patriot Act.

As anyone who took high school civics knows, the government must get a warrant before conducting electronic surveillance on people within the United States. But before the September 11 attacks, few citizens knew that law enforcement had to follow different procedures to get that warrant, depending on the investigative purpose. If the purpose was chiefly to aid a criminal investigation, such as in a drug or bribery case, the agents had to get what was called a Title III warrant from the US District Court. If the object was primarily to get foreign intelligence on people within the United States, regardless of whether they were communicating with someone in or out of the country, agents had to go to a secret court called the FISA court.

Under no circumstances could an agency electronically eavesdrop on a person within the United States without such a warrant, but if people were outside the country, the NSA could electronically intrude on their communications--phone calls, e-mails or faxes--without getting any court authorization. So if the whole communication was outside the United States, NSA could spy to its heart's content.

If a criminal case was at stake, the FBI or whichever agency was involved needed a Title III criminal warrant; and if it was a foreign intelligence case, the FBI needed a FISA warrant. What was the difference between the two? Other than the difference in purpose--criminal investigation versus foreign intelligence--the main differences were threefold. First, the amount of proof needed to get a FISA warrant was less. Second, with a FISA warrant, the person surveilled rarely could seek judicial review because he would normally have had no way of finding out that it had even happened. The third difference flowed from the first two: Because of the relaxed standard of proof and the unavailability of review, foreign intelligence agents were not allowed to share their information with criminal agents, even if they were in the same agency. That barrier between criminal and foreign intelligence agents was called the FISA wall.

After the 9/11 attacks, however, as part of its push for the Patriot Act, Administration representatives, mainly from the Justice Department, proposed numerous changes to the FISA law that they argued were necessary due to both technological and societal developments since 1978. They wanted to break down the FISA wall to allow for greater sharing of information in order to avoid the numerous communication snafus that may have prevented discovery of the plans for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately, the Administration received most of its desired changes. Break down the FISA wall? You got it. Roving wiretaps? You got it. Administrative subpoenas to libraries? You got it.

And that was just the first round. Since October 2001, the Administration has obtained passage of three rounds of additional changes to FISA. All the requested changes have led to considerable public debate about the threat to constitutional protections posed by relaxing the rules for getting electronic surveillance warrants as well as the increase in tools available to law enforcement. Nevertheless, for the most part, Congress has acceded to whatever requests for changes to FISA the Bush Administration has made.

At no time during this four-year debate about security and civil liberties, despite well-established Congressional procedures for discussions that involve classified material, has the Bush Administration advised Congress in any meaningful way that it was in ongoing violation of FISA; nor has it ever formally sought to amend the law to accommodate the sorts of technological advances that it now cites as the very reason for its secret program. In other words, the Administration has conducted a prolonged charade during which it has pretended to participate in a democratic process of amending and enacting legislation, while secretly and monumentally violating the law that was under consideration.

This charade was not merely for the benefit of the public and Congress but also for the benefit of the thousands of Administration employees who are charged with enforcing the rule of law. When Bush announced famously on April 20, 2004, "There are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires--a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way," the vast majority of people at the Justice Department most likely believed that to be true. DOJ has an entire website devoted to internal and external propaganda about the Administration's commitment to civil liberties. Prominently displayed on the website with the title "The Patriot Act: Preserving Life and Liberty" is a smiling photo of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the following quote: "We are waging a war...each day in a way that values and protects the civil liberties and the constitutional freedoms that make our Nation so special."

What makes Gonzales so special is that as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, he has been entirely indifferent to the rule of law. He has been complicit in the activities of an Administration that has marginalized its career employees to hide its activities. Note that the only people who have thus far publicly defended the legality of the NSA eavesdropping scheme are: President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former NSA Director Michael Hayden--all non-lawyers whose self-interest is obvious; as well as Gonzales, Bush's longtime friend and former White House Counsel, and Assistant Attorney General William Moschella, a Bush appointee who has been a lawyer for fewer than ten years and has never actually practiced law. We should not expect to hear support for the warrantless NSA spying from any career criminal prosecutors.

This illegal surveillance is a prosecutor's nightmare. As Hayden testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in October 2002, the National Security Agency turns over legally obtained evidence to the FBI in a way that prevents FBI agents from knowing its source or sources. If the NSA hides the source of its legally obtained evidence, it certainly also hides the source of any illegally obtained evidence it may be turning over. Neither illegally obtained evidence nor evidence gleaned from it can be used in a criminal prosecution. Consequently, an untold number of successful prosecutions are now jeopardized by the possible use of tainted evidence. Such challenges have already begun in the case of Lyman Faris, who is serving a twenty-year sentence for conspiring to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. In other words, the government's reckless adoption of an illegal surveillance program could actually have the effect of undermining the very prosecutions it claims as its successes in the "war on terror." The Bush Administration argues that this sort of secret spying is what we have to do for our own security. Indeed, they suggest that if the program had existed prior to September 11, those attacks might have been prevented because they would have "caught" two hijackers who were making calls to Al Qaeda from San Diego. In legal terms, this claim would be called the defense of "necessity," but in lay terms this claim would be called "a big fat lie."

The hijackers to whom Bush and his advisers are referring are Khalid al-Midhair and Nawaf al-Hamzi. It is astounding that Bush should cite them in support of the illegal spying program, because the NSA knew about these two men and their relationship to Al Qaeda as early as 2000 as a result of a legal wiretap they had on a safe house in Yemen. But they never bothered to place them on a watch list or provide detailed information about them to the FBI or the CIA. NSA's Michael Hayden said his staff failed to provide the information to other agencies because they didn't appreciate its significance.

The problem at that time, as the 9/11 commission and so many other investigative bodies have found, was failure to communicate among the agencies, or even within the agencies. The NSA was unable to recognize the importance of its own information because it didn't know what the other agencies knew, and it was institutionally incapable of sharing even legally obtained information because it was operating as a lone wolf. Ironically, in the hands of President Bush, the NSA has effectively become even more isolated--essentially an outlaw. And it still does not know everything that the other agencies know, so it has no more capability of recognizing the importance of what it learns now than it did before. So it is difficult to imagine how it can now possibly use its illegally obtained information to prevent attacks.

It appears, then, that President Bush, using his wholly fabricated unitary theory of the executive, has clandestinely managed to marginalize his own agencies and eviscerate many of the information-sharing benefits of his own Patriot Act. When will we, as a country, finally stop thinking that the President Knows Best? "

First Quantum Computer II

2007-02-15T19:46:00.000-08:00

The world’s first commercially viable quantum computer was unveiled and demonstrated Tuesday in Silicon Valley by D-Wave Systems, Inc., a privately-held Canadian firm headquartered near Vancouver.

Quantum computing offers the potential to create value in areas where problems or requirements exceed the capability of digital computing, the company said. But D-Wave explains that its new device is intended as a complement to conventional computers, to augment existing machines and their market, not as a replacement for them.

Company officials formally announced the technology at the Computer History Museum, in the heart of Silicon Valley, in a demonstration intended to show how the machine can run commercial applications and is better suited to the types of problems that have stymied conventional (digital) computers.

“D-Wave’s breakthrough in quantum technology represents a substantial step forward in solving commercial and scientific problems which, until now, were considered intractable. Digital technology stands to reap the benefits of enhanced performance and broader application,” said Herb Martin, chief executive officer.

What experts are saying. (Video)
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All Internet Surfing To Be Monitored

2007-02-14T12:28:00.000-08:00

A bill introduced last week by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is beginning to raise eyebrows.

[It] would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely . The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records.

This is a terrifying development and it must be stopped before it gains any significant momentum. Background, Action items and contact information below the fold.

Under the guise of reducing child pornography, the SAFETY (Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth) Act is currently the gravest threat to digital privacy rights on the Internet. Given the increasing tendency of people, especially young people, to use the Internet as a primary means of communication, this measure would affect nearly all Americans in ways we are only beginning to understand. Also, given the fact that the Act requires all Internet Service Providers to record the web surfing activity of all Internet users, this amounts to the warrantless wiretapping of the entire Internet.

Read more HERE.

Rigged USA Elections Exposed

2007-02-12T18:35:00.000-08:00

Clinton Curtis

The Bush Crime Family Tree

2007-02-12T15:16:00.000-08:00

Link: Bush Crime Family Tree

George Walker, GW's great-grandfather, set up the takeover of the Hamburg-America Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage unit in the United States. In Germany, I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust. The Bush family was not unaware of the nature of their investment partners. They hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany, rather than divest. It was only in 1942, when the government seized Union Banking Company assets under the Trading With The Enemy Act, that George Walker and Prescott Bush stopped pumping money into Hitler's regime. (1)

Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence and US government archives, President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush. (2) On the 20th of October, the government commenced action against the company under the trading with the enemy act. (3) After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. (4) In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past.(5)

George Herbert Walker Bush, the presidents father. Bush, as director of the CIA, had funneled enormous amounts of cash to drug runners including Manuel Noriega and helped in the destabilization of Argentina. Bush utilized his own connections to help fund drug runners from Laos to Panama. Most shocking was the so-called "cocaine coup" in Bolivia in June 1980, masterminded by fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher Of Lyons." Barbie, who had been previously secreted in Latin America by the CIA, began working closely with the Argentines and used drug money to finance a neo-Nazi cabal, one that succeeded in overthrowing the government. The troops swept through the capital wearing Nazi armbands, according to former DEA agent Mike Levine. George H.W. Bush later facilitated the Iran-contra affair, employing many of the same methods: secretly selling Central American cocaine in America and weapons to Iran while using the profits to fund the contras and to overthrow democratically elected socialists in Central America.(6) as the head of the CIA and later as Vice President, toppled democratically elected regimes in South and Central America and began propping up a dictator by the name of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Although forbidden by congress to do so, he continued to sell chemical and biological weapons to Saddam even after he used them on villages of innocent civilians. A decade later The United States had to go to war against him and the Bush family again, made millions from it.

Jonathan J. Bush, the Presidents uncle. Jonathan Bush's "Pioneer Profile" in "George W. Bush's $100,000 Club" cites him as the "head" of the Riggs Investment Management Co.; "Bush’s uncle Jonathan ... founded its subsidiary, J. Bush & Co., of which he is chair. He also is an ex-chair of the New York Republican State Finance Committee. Bush credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early ‘80s." (17)

Jonathan J. Bush, is a top executive at Riggs Bank, which this week agreed to pay a record $25 million in civil fines for violations of law intended to thwart money laundering. Jonathan Bush, who is a major fundraiser for his nephew, was appointed in 2000 to run Riggs Investment Management Co. His association with Riggs began when he headed J. Bush & Co., a New Haven, Conn., company he created in 1970 and built to offer advice on money management. (18)

According to the 5/14/04 New York Times, Federal regulators fined the Riggs National Corporation, the parent company of Riggs Bank, $25 million yesterday for "failing to report suspicious activity, the largest penalty ever assessed against a domestic bank in connection with money laundering. The fine stems from Riggs's failure over at least the last two years to actively monitor suspect financial transfers through Saudi Arabian accounts held by the bank." The 5/14/04 Wall Street Journal reported that of particular concern, Riggs failed to monitor "tens of millions of dollars in cash withdrawals from accounts related to the Saudi Arabian embassy," including "suspicious incidents involving dozens of sequentially numbered cashier's checks and international drafts written by Saudi officials, including Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan." According to the 4/18/04 Washington Post, Saudi Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, "may have used a Riggs account to donate money to a charity that then gave some of it to the Sept. 11 terrorists."
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According to the nonprofit Texans for Public Justice, Jonathan Bush is the President and CEO of Riggs Investment Management - a major arm of Riggs Bank. He is also the uncle of President George W. Bush. The President "credits the investors sent his way by this banker uncle as a key to his 'success' in the Texas oil industry in the early '80s." According to Public Citizen, the uncle Jonathan was a Bush Pioneer, having raised more than $100,000 for his nephew in 2000.(19)

Neil Bush, the president's brother. Central player of the 1980'ssavings and loan scandal, he ran a savings and loan into the ground while shoveling millions of its taxpayer-backed dollars into the pockets of two deadbeat partners. Neil served as a director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan in Denver, Colorado, from 1985 until 1988. During that time, the now-dead thrift made over $200 million in loans to Neil's two partners in JNB Exploration, Neil's abysmally unsuccessful oil company. Federal regulators determined that, while Silverado was pumping loans to Neil's two associates, Neil was completely dependent on the two men for his income. The failure of Silverado -- its closure delayed until after the 1988 election -- cost taxpayers about $1 billion. After Silverado failed, Neil started a new oil company, Apex Energy. This time, his money came from a $2.35 million loan through a Small Business Administration program. When news of this reached the press in March 1991, the SBA discovered that the companies through which the loan was approved were technically insolvent, and it gave them up to thirty months to "self-liquidate." This meant that Apex would have to repay its SBA-guaranteed loans. Neil took this as his cue to move on, and he left Apex -- and its debts -- for others to worry about. (7) update: Neil Bush made $171,370 in one day. The fact that he was a former consultant to the company whose stock he dumped is just a coincidence

Marvin Bush, the president's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family. The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down." The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there.(8) (9) more

Jeb Bush, the president's brother. After graduating from The University of Texas, Jeb Bush served a short apprenticeship at the Venezuelan branch of Texas Commerce Bank in Caracas before settling in Miami, in 1980, to work on his father's unsuccessful primary bid against Ronald Reagan. Shortly after arriving in Miami, Jeb was hired by Cuban-American developer Armando Codina to work at his Miami development company as an agent leasing office space. A couple of years later, Jeb and Codina became business partners, and in 1985 they purchased an office building in a deal partly financed by a savings and loan that later failed.The $4.56 million loan, from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida, was granted in such a way that neither Codina's nor Bush's name appeared on the loan papers as the borrowers. A third man, J. Edward Houston, borrowed the $4.56 million from Broward and then re-lent it to the Bush partnership. When federal regulators closed Broward Savings in 1988, they found the loan, which had been secured by the Bush partnership, in default. As Jeb's father was finishing his second term as vice-president and running for the presidency, federal regulators had two options: to get Jeb Bush and his partner to repay the loan, or to foreclose on their office building. But regulators came up with a third solution. After reappraising the building, regulators decided it wasn't worth as much as was owed for it. The regulators reduced the amount owed by Bush and his partner from $4.56 million to just $500,000. The pair paid that amount and were allowed to keep their office building. Taxpayers picked up the tab for the unpaid $4 million. (10)

He also rigged an election that you may have heard about. Thousands of eligible voters were disallowed the right to vote in predominantly democratic regions. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent vote Democratic.) A company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid $4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year for the same service.Two of these "scrub lists," as officials called them, were distributed to counties in the months before the election with orders to remove the voters named. Together the lists comprised nearly 1 percent of Florida?s electorate and nearly 3 percent of its African-American voters. Neither DBT nor the state conducted any further research to verify the matches. DBT, which frequently is hired by the F.B.I. to conduct manhunts, originally proposed using address histories and financial records to confirm the names, but the state declined the cross-checks. (11)

George W. Bush, second appointed president of the United States.

• 1979-83: Fifty Bush family investors and friends, led by uncle Jonathan, a New York Republican Party official and an investment manager, fork over $4.7 million to set up young Bush in a company called Arbusto. It's a flop, and in 1982 gets a new name: Bush Exploration.

• 1984: Spectrum 7 Corporation, an Ohio oil exploration outfit owned by Dubya's Yalie pal William DeWitt Jr., buys out Bush Exploration, setting up young Bush as CEO at $75,000 a year and giving him 1.1 million shares of the firm's stock. Another flop. The company's fortunes soon sink, with $400,000 in losses and a debt of $3 million.

• 1986: In the nick of time, Bush and partners merge the failing Spectrum with Harken Oil, a Dallas exploration company, with a $2 million stock purchase. Bush puts up about $500,000 and gets a $120,000 annual consulting fee along with $131,250 in stock options. Harken is a small outfit, looking for oil opportunities within the U.S. Then out of the blue comes Harvard Management Corporation, an investment adviser for Harvard University's endowment portfolio. It pumps millions into the venture.

• 1990: Although Harken has no international expertise, it gets the attention of the Bahrain National Oil Company, which unexpectedly appears on the scene and bypasses big oil's Amoco and Chevron to sign a production agreement with the little Texas concern. The contract grants Harken exclusive rights to what seems to be a promising offshore area squeezed between two productive tracts owned by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Wall Street Journal speculates Bahrain was trying to cozy up to Daddy Bush, who was plotting an assault on Iraq after Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait.

Bass Enterprises Production Company finances the Bahrain drilling with $25 million, and Harvard Management raises its investment. A couple of members of the Fort Worth Bass family have places on Team 100, an elite business group contributing to the Republican National Committee.

In June, Harken drills two dry holes in Bahrain. The future looks bleak. Dubya dumps two-thirds of his Harken holdings (212,140 shares), for $848,560. He uses some of this money to buy into the Texas Rangers baseball club. This is a lot of stock to dump on the market all at once, and brokers say it was purchased by an unnamed institutional investor.

That August, Harken posts a loss of $23 million.

• January 1991: Daddy Bush attacks Iraq.

• February 1991: Dubya, as the official in charge at Harken, reports his big stock sale to the SEC—eight months late.

• April 1991: The SEC begins an investigation into Harken dealings. Chairman Richard Breeden, who had been appointed by the senior Bush and served him as an economic policy adviser, hails from Baker & Botts, a big Texas oil law firm where he was a partner. Inside the SEC, James Doty, general counsel and the official in charge of any litigation that might come out of the Harken investigation, is another alumnus of Baker & Botts. And as a private attorney, before joining the government, Doty represented the younger Bush in matters related to Dubya's ownership of the Rangers.

• 1993: The SEC ends its Harken investigation following perfunctory interviews.

The good people of Baker & Botts continued looking out for Shrub. Since 1993, Breeden, Doty, and other lawyers there have given him $182,050 for his various political campaigns, making the firm one of his biggest supporters.(12)

Upon appointment as president, Bush appoints 6 Iran-contra defendants to his staff, (13) fills the upper levels of the White house and pentagon with senior members of the PNAC (14) including his speech writer, chief advisor, secretary of defense, and vice president. Uses the terrorist attacks of 9-11 (16) to illegally invade and occupy Iraq under the false pretense of imminent threat (15) and reaps billions for Cheney's Halliburton, Rumsfeld's Bechtel, and his own family's Carlyle group.

They Say ...

2007-02-12T13:11:00.000-08:00

9/11 Truth Bullhorns United for Peace and Justice Assembly 1/28/07

2007-02-10T10:39:00.000-08:00

The day after 500,000 plus people rallied in Washington D.C. calling for peace in the Middle East, a follow up strategy session took place at a High School not far away in Bethesda, Maryland sponsored by United for Peace and Justice (UPFJ). The focus of the session was to educate Peace activists on the topics which were to be addressed during the Congressional lobbying session planned for the following day. However to the dismay of several 9/11 Truth activists in the audience, no mention was ever made of the most imperative issue by any speaker. UFPJ refuses to recognise 9/11 Truth as part of the Peace Movement and as such denied multiple requests by D.C. 9/11 Truth and other 9/11 activists to arrange a 9/11 Truth speaker at the Peace Rally on January 27, 2007. Knowing full well the contempt held by UPFJ for the 9/11 Truth Movement, a voice of dissent made sure that 9/11 was on the UFPJ agenda!

ABC's The View Plugs The Resistance Manifesto by John Conner

2007-02-09T16:54:00.000-08:00

Strangelove 911

2007-02-09T12:36:00.000-08:00

Foreknowledge of WTC 7 Collapse

2007-02-09T12:24:00.000-08:00

First Quantum Computer

2007-02-09T09:59:00.000-08:00

This is the core of a new quantum computer to be unveiled by D-Wave Systems, says Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture-capital firm. "It is attached to a Leiden Cryogenics dilution fridge, ready to begin a cool down to 0.005 degrees above absolute zero. This quantum computer employs the resources of 65,536 parallel universes to compute answers in a fundamentally new way."

D-Wave claims it is the world's first and only provider of quantum computing systems designed to run commercial applications. The event will be hosted in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, B.C.

US Tank vs. Iraqi Car

2007-02-08T10:05:00.000-08:00

Here is how the United States Army is winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis. Now, if one of these Iraqis takes a potshot at an American soldier, these Iraqis will be labelled as "terrorists." Besides, stealing wood in a war zone is, at worst, a misdemeanor. Other than that, this video speaks for itself.

False Flag Alert!! II: Zbigniew Brzezinski

2007-02-08T10:01:00.000-08:00

A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran.
By Barry Grey in Washington DC
2 February 2007

Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration’s policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.

Brzezinski, who opposed the March 2003 invasion and has publicly denounced the war as a colossal foreign policy blunder, began his remarks on what he called the “war of choice” in Iraq by characterizing it as “a historic, strategic and moral calamity.”

“Undertaken under false assumptions,” he continued, “it is undermining America’s global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America’s moral credentials. Driven by Manichean principles and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability.”

Brzezinski derided Bush’s talk of a “decisive ideological struggle” against radical Islam as “simplistic and demagogic,” and called it a “mythical historical narrative” employed to justify a “protracted and potentially expanding war.”

“To argue that America is already at war in the region with a wider Islamic threat, of which Iran is the epicenter, is to promote a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he said.

Most stunning and disturbing was his description of a “plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran.” It would, he suggested, involve “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.” [Emphasis added].

Complete article HERE.

False Flag Alert !!

2007-02-06T14:09:00.000-08:00

Expect a ship to be sunk off the coast of Iran. This will provide tragic video images for the evening news. It will be intended to unite public opinion behind an all-out attack on Iran.

Please review the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

The Assassination of JFK Jr. (1 of 4)

2007-02-05T10:26:00.000-08:00

The Assassination of JFK Jr. (2 of 4)

2007-02-05T10:18:00.000-08:00

The Assassination of JFK Jr. (3 of 4)

2007-02-05T03:47:00.001-08:00

The Assassination of JFK Jr. (4 of 4)

2007-02-05T03:47:00.000-08:00


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Danny Bonaduce on Oreilly Factor talking about John Conner

2007-02-04T09:14:00.000-08:00

In this video, Danny Bony Douche, while wearing a Christian crucifix around his neck, says on national television that he threatened to KILL John Connor. In this video, John Connor includes the rest of his (intrusive) interview showing that Danny did NOT say this. Danny lied about this on national television.

What did the FBI find out about the alledged death threats that Danny says he received on his MySpace website as a result of his interview with John Connor? Answer: NOTHING! There were none. Danny lied about this too.

Danny would have more credibility if he would tell the truth.

Robert Kennedy Assassination Analysis

2007-02-03T21:29:00.000-08:00

Another "fine" police investigation.

Police State 2: "The Takeover" by Alex Jones

2007-02-03T11:57:00.000-08:00


Alex Jones exposes the Problem-Reaction-Solution paradigm being used to terrorize the american people into accepting a highly controlled and oppressive society. See how the left-wing anarchist groups are actually controlled by the state and used to demonize peaceful protesters.

PoliceAbuse.org Investigation: Independence, Missouri

2007-02-02T17:08:00.000-08:00

Policeabuse.org

Pig Indiscrimitately Pepperspraying People In Miami in 2003

2007-02-02T16:56:00.000-08:00

Rush Limbaugh Shills for Bohemian Grove

2007-02-02T13:34:00.000-08:00

Please notice Rush waving his hands in the air.

The Twilight Zone : The Obsolete Man (Part 1)

2007-01-31T21:20:00.000-08:00

The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man (Part 2)

2007-01-31T21:19:00.000-08:00

The Twilight Zone : The Obsolete Man (Part 3)

2007-01-31T21:18:00.000-08:00

Lou Dobbs

2007-01-30T15:55:00.000-08:00

Andy Griffith vs. PATRIOT Act II

2007-01-30T15:17:00.000-08:00

The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed.

Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet users at a time into massive databases, according to current and former officials. That database can subsequently be queried for names, e-mail addresses or keywords.

Such a technique is broader and potentially more intrusive than the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system, later renamed DCS1000. It raises concerns similar to those stirred by widespread Internet monitoring that the National Security Agency is said to have done, according to documents that have surfaced in one federal lawsuit, and may stretch the bounds of what's legally permissible.

Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach. It's employed when police have obtained a court order and an Internet service provider can't "isolate the particular person or IP address" because of technical constraints, says Paul Ohm, a former trial attorney at the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. (An Internet Protocol address is a series of digits that can identify an individual computer.)

That kind of full-pipe surveillance can record all Internet traffic, including Web browsing--or, optionally, only certain subsets such as all e-mail messages flowing through the network. Interception typically takes place inside an Internet provider's network at the junction point of a router or network switch.

The technique came to light at the Search & Seizure in the Digital Age symposium held at Stanford University's law school on Friday. Ohm, who is now a law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Richard Downing, a CCIPS assistant deputy chief, discussed it during the symposium.

In a telephone conversation afterward, Ohm said that full-pipe recording has become federal agents' default method for Internet surveillance. "You collect wherever you can on the (network) segment," he said. "If it happens to be the segment that has a lot of IP addresses, you don't throw away the other IP addresses. You do that after the fact."

"You intercept first and you use whatever filtering, data mining to get at the information about the person you're trying to monitor," he added.

On Monday, a Justice Department representative would not immediately answer questions about this kind of surveillance technique.

Read complete original article HERE.

What are the Georgia Guidstones? II: A Journey Through The Guide Stones

2007-01-30T14:52:00.000-08:00

Building Stonehenge: "This Man Can Move Anything" (Reader's Request)

2007-01-30T14:00:00.000-08:00

How was Stonehenge built? This question has led many people to suspect everything from magic to space aliens were involved.
Well, this man shows how he could have done it by himself.

AMERICA: Freedom To Fascism. Aaron Russo Interview.

2007-01-29T19:57:00.000-08:00

Glenn Beck is asked about Bohemian Grove.

2007-01-29T19:49:00.000-08:00

Andy Griffith vs. PATRIOT Act

2007-01-29T19:21:00.000-08:00

AMENDMENT IV (THE U. S. CONSTITUTION):

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Added to YouTube: December 26, 2006
From: manfromlaramie

In case you've been on Mars since 2000, two updates: (1) The Red Sox won the World Series. No kidding--they really did. (2) Quickly following a September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Congress passed the "PATRIOT Act" (500+ pages), which was quickly signed by President Bush. The full text of the PATRIOT Act was not read on the floor of the House or Senate, nor was it made available to Congress in a reasonable time before it was voted on. Almost none of Congress read it before approving it, and President Bush almost certainly never read it before signing it.

The PATRIOT Act allows federal agents warrantless searches in some instances, expanded wiretaps (including lawyer-client conversations, without judicial oversight--important in checks and balances), Internet monitoring, and even the examination of library and bookstore records. This clearly violates the 4th Amendment's prohibition on searches and seizures of Americans and their property WITHOUT WARRANTS ISSUED BY INDEPENDENT COURTS AFTER FINDING PROBABLE CAUSE. Case in point: Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act (sometimes called "the library provision") allows Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts to issue warrants for individual records such as medical and library records WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE--directly against the plain words of the 4th Amendment (go up and read the 4th Amendment again if you missed it).

Recently the National Security Agency was revealed to have conducted far-reaching eavesdropping of the e-mails and phone calls of American citizens. When confronted with this fact, the President was visibly angered, not because it happened, but because it was exposed. In fact, he tried to have the person who exposed these facts arrested.

Link.

End of short history refresher. To answer the question, I am *NOT* a left-winger or what is known today as a "liberal" in any sense of the word. Today's "liberals" (left-wingers), who have a long history of supporting the clamping down on the personal freedoms and property rights of citizens, oppose the PATRIOT Act mainly because it passed under a Republican Congress and Republican President. This is easy to demonstrate: The same left-wingers who scream bloody murder about the PATRIOT Act's attack on the 4th Amendment--with good reason--don't mind the 20,000+ anti-gun laws in America, which all violate the 2nd Amendment (named clearly as a prohibition against government's infringement upon the INDIVIDUAL right to bear arms, like the other amendments in the Bill of Rights).

Americans should disapprove of the PATRIOT Act simply because it overturns basic Constitutional prohibitions on government abuse. (Reminder: The Constitution does not GRANT rights to citizens; it PROHIBITS THE GOVERNMENT from infringing upon these basic rights. Read the 4th Amendment above again. It DOES NOT say "citizens are granted the right to be secure in their persons"; it says these rights "shall not be violated," which is a direct limitation upon the government.)

NOTE TO DEMOCRATS: Please don't pretend the PATRIOT Act is solely a "right-wing" piece of legislation:

- 48 of 50 Democrat Senators (96%) voted in FAVOR of the PATRIOT Act.
- 145 of 211 Democrat Representatives (69%) voted in FAVOR of the PATRIOT Act.

NOTE TO REPUBLICANS: please do not confuse George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress with "conservatives." They have nothing to do with traditional conservatism--small government, low taxes, respect for property rights and personal freedom. The "neoconservative" movement (of which Bush and most Republicans in Congress are a part) has roots that go back to Leon Trotsky, and they praise FDR, one of the most notorious socialists-taxers-anti-private property rights politicians in U.S. history, as one of their heroes. And if you consider yourself a traditional "conservative" and support Bush or the PATRIOT Act, you are badly misinformed.

I am posting these salient comments from Sheriff Andy Taylor regarding one of the bulwarks of a free society: lawyer-client confidentiality, now under attack via the (sic) PATRIOT Act. This legislation never should have been passed by Congress or signed by the President; all swore an oath to defend the Constitution. That the Congress and President want to change the Constitution outside the lawful way (an AMENDMENT) speaks volumes.

Foul language, non-sequiturs, and posts with obscene usernames are not welcome. (Aunt Bee wouldn't approve.)

Montreal V: Monopoly (Part Two)

2007-01-28T09:09:00.001-08:00

Montreal IV: Monopoly (Part One)

2007-01-28T09:09:00.000-08:00

What are the Georgia Guidestones?

2007-01-28T01:27:00.000-08:00

The Georgia Guidestones.
The Rose Cross(audio): Programs 40, 41, and 42.

England I: The Truth Shall Set You Free

2007-01-26T11:50:00.000-08:00

The Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry

2007-01-25T10:43:00.000-08:00

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Counterpunch
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

In recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine warrants to people who posed no danger to the police or to the public.

Occasionally Washington think tanks produce reports that are not special pleading for donors. One such report is Radley Balko's "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America" (Cato Institute, 2006).

This 100-page report is extremely important and should have been published as a book. SWAT teams (Special Weapons and Tactics) were once rare and used only for very dangerous situations, often involving hostages held by armed criminals. Today SWAT teams are deployed for routine police duties. In the US today, 75-80% of SWAT deployments are for warrant service.

In a high percentage of the cases, the SWAT teams forcefully enter the wrong address, resulting in death, injury, and trauma to perfectly innocent people. Occasionally, highly keyed-up police kill one another in the confusion caused by their stun grenades.

Mr. Balko reports that the use of paramilitary police units began in Los Angeles in the 1960s. The militarization of local police forces got a big boost from Attorney General Ed Meese's "war on drugs" during the Reagan administration. A National Security Decision Directive was issued that declared drugs to be a threat to US national security. In 1988 Congress ordered the National Guard into the domestic drug war. In 1994 the Department of Defense issued a memorandum authorizing the transfer of military equipment and technology to state and local police, and Congress created a program "to facilitate handing military gear over to civilian police agencies."

Today 17,000 local police forces are equipped with such military equipment as Blackhawk helicopters, machine guns, grenade launchers, battering rams, explosives, chemical sprays, body armor, night vision, rappelling gear and armored vehicles. Some have tanks. In 1999, the New York Times reported that a retired police chief in New Haven, Connecticut, told the newspaper, "I was offered tanks, bazookas, anything I wanted." Balklo reports that in 1997, for example, police departments received 1.2 million pieces of military equipment.

With local police forces now armed beyond the standard of US heavy infantry, police forces have been retrained "to vaporize, not Mirandize...More.

Liberty Teeth

2007-01-25T00:26:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day IV

2007-01-24T23:38:00.000-08:00

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

---Abraham Lincoln

State Of The Union

2007-01-23T19:50:00.000-08:00

Analysis.

Montreal III

2007-01-23T12:34:00.000-08:00

Montreal II: "Good Days"

2007-01-23T12:29:00.000-08:00

"I will NOT run for President." --Hillary Clinton

2007-01-22T10:52:00.000-08:00

Rumor has it that Hillary's favorite two books are 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Does Hillary bury her face in Janet Reno's bush?

Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009

2007-01-22T10:47:00.000-08:00

An international team of scientists is developing what they say will be the world's first microrobot -- as wide as two human hairs -- that can swim through the arteries and digestive system.

The scientists are designing the 250-micron device to transmit images and deliver microscopic payloads to parts of the body outside the reach of existing catheter technology.

Another Day In The Empire

2007-01-22T10:38:00.000-08:00

It was bad enough George Bush Senior found it necessary to blame bloggers for creating what he deems an “adversarial and ugly climate” (never mind his particular bit of ugliness in Iraq more than a decade ago, eventually resulting in the murder of more than a million people), last month we had the Manchurian candidate, John McCain, introducing legislation “that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion, and acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web,” as Paul Joseph Watson writes for Prison Planet.

Link.

Ed Brown vs. IRS Standoff [Exclusive Video]

2007-01-21T19:30:00.000-08:00

"Hat tip" to John Klar.

Suckers!

2007-01-21T15:30:00.000-08:00

Dianne Feinstein Rues Executive Dictatorship, Patriot Act, Proposes Change

2007-01-20T21:03:00.000-08:00

William Cooper Interviews Jordan Maxwell On The Hour Of The Time

2007-01-20T20:02:00.000-08:00

Quicktime audio HERE. Link to entire broadcast series HERE. Posted show is number 28.

Montreal

2007-01-20T18:46:00.000-08:00

Hat tip to: "Azrael."

Girl In Human Sling Shot

2007-01-20T13:05:00.000-08:00

Girl in human sling shot at millionaire's home in Utah. OK. Now let's get serious again.

White & Nerdy

2007-01-20T12:58:00.000-08:00

I first saw this video on The Reference Frame a few months ago. I guess it's time to post it here. It's by one of my favorite geniuses.

80 Core Central Processing Unit

2007-01-20T12:45:00.000-08:00

Intel has developed an 80-core processor prototype that it plans to roll out within the next five years.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini demonstrated the 80-core behemoth at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to Otellini, the chip is capable of transferring a terabyte of data per second. As Intel’s powerful Core 2 Duo chip is able to trasfer only 1.66 gigabytes of data per second, the proposed 80-core chip would represent a several hundred fold increase over the performance in today’s processors.

Otellini also confirmed the release of the upcoming Quad-core processors at the conference, with the 2.66 Ghz Core 2 Extreme being released in November at a stanard $1,000 US. Core 2 Quadro, the mainstream version of the processor, will be released in Q1 2007 with a clock speed of a respectable 2.4Ghz.

While information of the quad-core chips was already known, it’s always nice to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth. Especially if the horse is holding several 80-core processors in his hands.

Meet Commander X

2007-01-19T18:52:00.000-08:00

Remember in the not-so-dim and not-so-distant past before everybody had DVD's and VCR's were not obsolete yet? They had PRE-VIEWS at the beginning before the movies on VCR tapes.

I always said they should put the previews at the end. That way after the nerds listened to the song and then watched the credits, they could watch some more. They could see what other videos were available. And I could plug in the wound tape and watch my damned movie instantly.

I used to watch videos with some people that actually liked the previews at the beginning. They said that it made them feel more like they were at the movies. Well THIS video has a 1' 20" commercial at the beginning.

Enjoy.