Malachi Smith's List: POLITICAL CRIMINAL CLASS

• Operation Sarkozy: how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic
• Global Research, September 4, 2008
• One should judge Nicolas Sarkozy according to his actions, and not according to his personality. Yet when his doings surprise even his own constituents, it is legitimate to take a detailed look at his biography and question the bonds that brought him to power.
• Thierry Meyssan has decided to write the truth about the French Republic’s president background.
• All the information included in this article is provable, except for two assertions signalled by the author who alone takes full responsibility.
• Tired of the overextended presidencies of François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, the French elected Nicolas Sarkozy counting on his energy to revitalize their country.
• They were hoping for a break with years of no-change and ideologies of the past. What they got instead was a break with the very principles which founded the French nation, and have been shocked by this “hyper-president”, seizing every day a new dossier, attracting towards him the right and the left wing, and tearing apart all points of reference to the point of creating a total confusion.

  • "Order out of Chaos?"
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• Like children who have just made a boo-boo, the French are too busy trying to find excuses for themselves to admit the magnitude of the damages and of their naiveté, and they refuse all the more to see who Nicolas Sarkozy really is, that they realize they should have known since a long time who he was.
• One must say the man has talents. Like a magician he tricked them. By offering them the spectacle of his private life and posing in People’s magazines, he got them to forget his political history.
• The aim of this article must be clearly understood. It is not to reproach M. Sarkozy his family, his friends or his professional ties, but the fact of having hidden those ties from the French who believed, wrongly, they were electing a free man.
• To understand how a man whom all agree today to view as an agent of the United States and of Israel was able to become the head of the Gaullist party and the president of the French Republic, we must go back in time, very very far back. We must make a long digression in the course of which we will present the protagonists who are today taking their revenge.
• The family secrets
• At the end of Second World War, the United States secret services relied on Italo-US godfather, Lucky Luciano, to control the security of American ports and prepare their disembarking in Sicily.
• The main contacts of Luciano — held at that time at a New York luxury prison — to the US intelligence services went notably through Frank Wisner, Sr.
• Later, when the “godfather” was liberated and chose to exile in Italy, they operated through his Corsican “Ambassador”, Étienne Léandri.
• In 1958, worried about a possible victory of the FLN in Algeria which could open the way to Soviet influence in Northern Africa, the United States decided to provoke a military coup d’Etat in France.
• The operation was jointly organized by the Cia’s Direction of Planning – theoretically lead by Frank Wisner, Sr. – and by NATO.
• But Wisner had already become senile by that time and it was his successor, Allan Dulles, who supervised the coup.

  • Good ole Dulles. His and his brother's name pop up and have been popping up for years whenever one reads something on the "conspiracy" for world government.
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• Out of Algeria, French generals organized a Public Salvation Committee which pressured the Parisian civilian authorities to vote full powers to General de Gaulle without having had to use force.
• In a first phase, he attempted to deal with the colonial contradiction by granting to the overseas territories a large autonomy within the French Union.
• Yet, Charles de Gaulle was not the pawn the Anglo-Saxons had believed they could manipulate.
• But it was already too late to save the French empire; the colonized people didn’t believe any longer in the promises of the Metropolitan France and demanded their independence. After victorious but fierce repression against those fighting for independence, de Gaulle decided to face reality, and in a rare show of political wisdom, he granted independence to each colony.
• The CIA and NATO supported then all kinds of plots to eliminate him, among which a missed coup and some 40 attempts to murder him.
• This turn about was perceived by most of those who brought him to power as a betrayal.
• However, certain of his followers approved of his political evolution. Around Charles Pasqua, they created the SAC (Civic action services), a militia to protect him.

  • A private militia organized to protect deGaulle.
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• Pasqua was both a Corsican bandit and a former resistant. He married the daughter of a Canadian bootlegger who made fortune during the prohibition and he directed the Ricard company who, after commercialising absinthe, a forbidden alcohol, won respectability by converting to the sales of another alcohol based on liquorice (anisette).
• The company continued however to serve as a cover for all sorts of traffics connected to the New York Italian American family of the Genovese (and) that of Lucky Luciano.

  • Again, the "Mob" and it's connections surface again as having ties with ad being used by Western governments to further their exclusive NWO policies.
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• It is therefore not surprising that Pasqua called on Étienne Léandri (Ambassador of Luciano) to recruit the hands that constituted the Gaullist militia. A third man played an important role in the formation of the SAC, the former body guard of de Gaulle, Achille Peretti, also a Corsican.
• Even though asserting his belonging to the Atlantic camp, he questions the Anglo-Saxon leadership. He opposes the entry of the United Kingdom into the European common market (1961 and 1967); refuses the deployment of UN helmets into Congo (1961); encourages the Latin American states to become free of US imperialism (speech of Mexico, 1964); kicks NATO out France and withdraws from the Atlantic Alliance’s integrated command (1966); he condemns Israeli expansionism during the Six Day war (1967); supports independence of Quebec (Speech of Montreal 1967), etc.
• Thus protected, de Gaulle designs an audacious national independence policy.
• Simultaneously, de Gaulle consolidated the power of France by endowing it with a military industrial-complex including a nuclear deterrent and guarantying its energy provisions.
• He conveniently distanced the encumbering Corsicans of his entourage by entrusting them with foreign missions. Thus, Étienne Léandri became a leader of the ELF group (today Total), while Charles Pasqua the trusted man of the Francophone heads of State in Africa.
• Conscious that he could not defy the Anglo-Saxons on all fronts at the same time, De Gaulle allied himself to the Rothschild family, choosing as Prime Minister, Georges Pompidou, who was the fondé de pouvoir of the bank.

  • deGaulle and the Rothschilds
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• The two men constituted an efficient tandem, the political audacity of the first never losing sight of the economic realism of the second.
• When De Gaulle resigned in 1969, Georges Pompidou succeeded him briefly at the Presidency before being taken out by a cancer. The historical Gaullists did not admit his leadership, however, and worried about his anglophile proclivities.
• They howled treason when Pompidou, supported by the General Secretary of the Élysée, Edouard Balladur, had “perfidious Albion” join the European Common Market.
• The making of Nicolas Sarkozy
• That decorum having been put into place, we can now return to our main character, Nicolas Sarkozy.
• Born in 1955 he is son to a Hungarian catholic nobleman, Pal Sarkösy of Nagy-Bosca, who sought refuge in France after fleeing the Red Army, and to Andree Mallah, a Jewish commoner from Thessalonica.

  • Sarkozy then is Hungarian on his father's side and a Greek Jew on his Mother's.
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• After having three children (Guillaume, Nicolas and François), the couple divorced. Pal Sarkösy of Nagy-Bocsa remarried with an aristocrat, Christine de Ganay, with whom he had two children (Pierre Olivier and Caroline).
• Nicolas will not be raised by his own parents alone, but will go back and forth within this recomposed family.
• His mother became the secretary of De Gaulle’s bodyguard, Achille Peretti. The latter, after founding the SAC, pursued a brilliant political career. He was elected Deputy and Mayor of Neuilly sur Seine, the richest residential suburb of the capital, and later President of the National Assembly.
• Unfortunately, in 1972, Achille Peretti comes under grave accusations. In the United States, Time Magazine reveals the existence of a secret criminal organization « the Corsican Union » which controls a large part of the drug trade between Europe and America, the famous « French connection » which Hollywood popularized on the large screen.

  • The "French Connection"
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• Based on parliamentary auditions and on his own investigations, Time names the name of a mafia boss, Jean Venturi, arrested a few years earlier in Canada, who is none other than Charles Pasqua’s commercial delegate at the liquor society Ricard.
• The names of several families headed by the “Corsican Union” are cited, among which that of the Peretti. Achille denies, but is forced to renounce to the presidency of the National Assembly, and barely escapes a “suicide”…
• In 1977, Pal Sarkösy of Nagy-Bocsa separates from his second wise, Christine de Ganay, who then gets together with the N°2 of the US State Department central administration. She marries him and settles in America with him. The world being very small, as everyone knows, her husband is none other than Frank Wisner, Jr, son of the previous.

  • Sarkozy's step mom, Christine de Ganay married the No-2 at the U.S. State Department, Frank Wisner, Jr..".son of the previous."
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• Junior’s responsibilities at the CIA are unknown, but it is clear that he plays an important role.
• Nicolas, who remains close to his mother in law, his half brother and his half sister, begins to turn towards the United States where he “benefits” from training programs of the State Department.
• During that same period, Nicolas Sarkozy adheres to the Gaullist party coming into frequent contact with Charles Pasqua, who was not only a national leader then, but also the head of the party’s Haut de Seine department section.
• Having finished Law School in 1982 and joined the Barr association, Nicolas Sarkozy married the niece of Achille Peretti. His best man was Charles Pasqua.
• As a lawyer, Sarkozy defended the interests of his mentors Corsican friends. He bought a property on the Island of Beauty, in Vico, and went as far as envisaging to make his name more “Corsican” by replacing the “y” by an “i”: Sarkozi.
• The next year, he was elected Mayor of Neuilly sur Seine in replacement of his uncle in law, Achille Peretti, thundered by a heart attack.
• However, it was not long before Nicolas Sarkozy betrayed his wife, and since 1984, he had a secret liaison with Cecilia, the wife of the most famous entertainer of French television at that time, Jacques Martin, whom he had met while celebrating their marriage, a function he exerted being mayor of Neuilly.
• That double life lasted five years, before the lovers decided to quit their respective couples in order to build a new home.
• In 1992, Nicolas was best man in the marriage of Jacques Chirac’s daughter, Claude, with an editorialist of Le Figaro.
• He couldn’t refrain himself from seducing Claude and having a short liaison with her, while officially living with Cecilia.
• The cuckold husband committed suicide by absorbing drugs. The break was brutal and without pardon between the Chirac’s and Nicolas Sarkozy.
• In 1993, the left lost the legislative elections. President François Mitterrand refused to resign and entered into cohabitation with a right wing Prime Minister.
• Jacques Chirac who ambitioned the presidency, and was thinking at that point of constituting, with Edoaurd Balladur, a couple comparable to that of De Gaulle and Pompidou, refused to be Prime minister and left his post to his “30 year long friend”, Edouard Balladur.
• In spite of his sulphurous past, Charles Pasqua became Interior Minister. While keeping high hand over Moroccan marijuana trade, he took advantage of his situation to legalize his other activities taking control of casinos, gambling and horse races in francophone Africa.

  • French ties with North Africa and the drug trade.
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• He wove ties with Saudi Arabia and Israel and became an officer of honour to the Mossad. Nicolas Sarkozy on his part, became minister of Budget and spokesman for the government.
• In Washington, Frank Wisner, Jr. became the successor of Paul Wolfowitz as head of the Political Planning department of the Department of Defense. Nobody noticed at that time the ties to the spokesman of the French government.

  • Frank Wisener, Jr and the U.S. DoD
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• It is then that tensions similar to those which rocked the Gaullist party 30 years earlier, broke out between the historical Gaullists and the financial right wing, incarnated by Balladur.
• The new element was that Charles Pasqua and along with him, the young Nicolas Sarkozy, betray Jacques Chirac in order to join the Rothschild current.

  • Rothschild again
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• Mayhem breaks out. The conflict will reach a climax in 1995 when Edouard Balladur ran for president, against his former friend, Jacques Chirac, and was beaten. Foremost, following instructions from London and Washington, the Balladur government opened negotiations for membership status to the European Union and NATO to States of Central and Eastern Europe who had freed from Soviet control.
• Havoc reigns then in the Gaullist party where the friends of yesterday are ready to kill themselves today. To be able to finance his electoral campaign, Edouard Balladur attempts to grab the secret slush fund of the Gaullist party, hidden in the double deckered accounting of the books of the oil group ELF.
• The ride through the desert

• Through out his first mandate, Jacques Chirac keeps Nicolas Sarkozy at arms distance. The man was discrete during his ride through the desert. Discretely, however, he continued to weave ties to the financial circles.

   

  In 1996, finally succeeding to bring to conclusion an endless divorce procedure, Nicolas Sarkozy marries Cecilia. Two billionaires were their best men, Martin Bouygues and Bernard Arnaud (the richest man of the country).
• The final act
• Way before the Iraqi crisis, Frank Wisner Jr. and his colleagues at the CIA plan the destruction of the Gaullist current and the coming to power of Nicolas Sarkozy.
• They move in three phases: first, the elimination of the leadership of the Gaullist party and the take over of the party apparatus, then the elimination of his main right wing rival and the securing the nomination to the presidential election for the Gaullist party; finally, the elimination of any serious challenger on the left to make sure that Nicolas would win the presidential election.
• Before dying from a terminal disease, for reasons which remain unknown, he decided to video tape his confessions and for reasons which are even more obscure, the “cassette” landed in the hands of a Socialist party leader, Dominique Strauss Kahn, who addressed it indirectly to the media.
• During years, posthumous revelations by a real estate dealer kept the media on their toes.
• While the confessions of the real estate dealer did not lead to any juridical sanctions, they opened up the Pandora’s Box.
• The main victim of the series of scandals was Prime Minister Alain Juppé. To protect Chirac, he assumed alone all the penal sanctions. The removal of Juppé from the front lodges opened the way for the take by Sarkozy of the leadership of the Gaullist party.
• Sarkozy exploited then his position to force Jacques Chirac to take him into the government once again, in spite of their reciprocal hatred.
• In the end, he became Interior Minister. Mistake !
• This post gave him control over the prefects and the internal intelligence apparatus which he used to gain positions of power over the large administrations.
• He dealt also with Corsican affairs. Prefect Claude Érignac was murdered. Even though nobody claimed it, the murder was immediately interpreted as a challenge by the independentists to the Republic.
• Following a long hunt, the police managed to arrest a fleeing suspect, Yvan Colonna, son of a Socialist deputy. Caring little about the presumption of innocence, Nicolas Sarkozy announced the arrest, accusing the suspect of being the assassin.

  • Another rail road job?
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• The news is too important, a mere two days away from the referendum the minister has organized in Corsica to modify the status of the island. Be as it may, the electors reject the Sarkozy project, who, according to some, favoured mafia interests.
• While Yvan Colonna was ultimately declared guilty, he always claimed his innocence and no material proof was ever found against him. Strangely, the man preferred to remain totally silent rather than reveal what he actually knew.
• We reveal here that prefect Érignac was not directly killed by the nationalists, but by a paid killer, immediately exfiltrated towards Angola where he was hired to the security of the Elf group.

  • Ahhh..such is the way of the world of the "Movers & Shakers"
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• The mobile of the crime was precisely connected to the previous functions of Érignac, responsible for the African networks at Pasqua’s cooperation ministry.
• As for Yvan Colonna, he is a personal friend of Nicolas Sarkozy since decades and their children have entertained social relations.
• A new scandal broke out then: phoney computer listings were circulating falsely accusing several personalities of hiding bank accounts in Luxembourg, at Clearstream.
• Among the defamed personalities: Nicolas Sarkozy, who filed a suit insinuating that he suspected his right wing rival to the presidency, Dominique de Villepin, to have organized this machination.

  • Sarkozy and de Villepin
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• Sarkozy didn’t hide his intention either to throw him in jail.
• In reality, the false listings were put in circulation by members of the French American Foundation, of which John Negroponte was the president and Frank Wisner Jr, the administrator.

  • John Negroponte's name surfaces yet again. He is a very busy man...
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• What the judges ignored and which we reveal here is that the listings were fabricated in London by a common office of the CIA and of MI6, Hakluyt and co, of which Frank Wisner is also an administrator.
• Villepin denied the accusations, but was indicted, assigned to residence and, de facto, eliminated from political life temporarily.

  • Villepin removed and gotten out of the way by international mechinations..CIA, MI6 out of London with a Wisener connection.
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• It remained for the opposition candidacies to be neutralized. The membership fees to the Socialist party were reduced to a symbolic level in order to attract new activists. Suddenly, thousands of youth take membership cards. Among them, there were at least 10 000 new members who are in reality militants from the “Lambertist” Trotskyite party, (named after its founder Pierre Lambert).

  • SEE: American Neocons
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• The road is thus free on the right wing for Nicolas Sarkozy.
• This small extreme left group historically served the CIA against the Stalinist communists during the cold war (it is the equivalent of the Social democrats/USA of Max Schatchman, who trained the US neo-conservatives).

  • SEE: the Neocons of the GOP and Google their Trotsky background
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• It is not the first time the “Lambertists” infiltrate the Socialist party. They introduced there two notorious CIA agents : Lionel Jospin (who became Prime minister) and Jean Christophe Cambadelis, the main advisor to Dominique Strauss Kahn.
• Two personalities were competing: Laurent Fabius and Ségolène Royal. Only the first was a danger for Sarkozy.
• Primaries were organized inside the Socialist party to designate its candidate to the presidential election.
• Dominique Strauss Kahn came into the race with the mission to eliminate Fabius at the last moment. Something he did with the help of the votes of the infiltrated “lambertists”, who voted not for him but for Royal.
• The operation is possible because Strauss Kahn is since long on the pay roll of the United States.
• Frenchmen ignore that he teaches at Stanford, where he was hired by the prévot Dean of the University, Condoleeza Rice. From the beginning of his term, Nicolas Sarkozy and Condoleeza Rice will thank Strauss Kahn by having him elected to the leadership of the International Monetary fund.

  • The Stanford University and Condoleeza Rice connections with French politics. The Stanford agent, Strauss-Kahn will then be selected to head the IMF in thanks.
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• First days at the Élysée
• The evening of the second round of the presidential election, when polling agencies announced his probable victory, Nicolas Sarkozy gave a short speech to the nation from his general campaign quarters. Then, contrary to all custom, he didn’t celebrate with the militants of his party, but went to the Fouquet’s.
• The famous brasserie at the Champs-Élysées, formerly the place of rendez-vous of the “Corsican union” is today the property of Casino magnate, Dominique Desseigne. It was lent to the elected president to receive his friends and main campaign donors. Some hundred guests crowded there, the richest men of France hobnobbing with the casino bosses.
• The elected president then offered himself some days of well merited rest.
• Transported to Malta by a private Falcon 900, he relaxed on the Paloma, a 65 m yacht of his friend Vincent Bollore, a billionaire trained at the Rothschild bank.
• The first decree he signed was not to enact an amnesty, but to authorize the casinos of his friends Desseigne and Partouche to multiply the money machines.
• Finally, Nicolas Sarkozy was inaugurated president of the French Republic.
• He composed his working team and his government. Without surprise, one finds there an ominous casino owner (the minister of Youth and Sports) and the lobbyist of the casinos of his friend Desseigne (who became a spokesman of the “Gaullist party”.)

• Nicolas Sarkozy relies above all on 4 men:

   

  - Claude Guéant, secretary general of the Elysée Palace, the former right hand of Charles Pasqua.
   - François Pérol, under-secretary general of the Elysée, an associate manager of the Rothschild bank.
   - Jean-David Lévitte, diplomatic advisor. Son of the former director of the Jewish Agency. French ambassador to the UN, he was removed by Chirac who judged him too close to George Bush.
   - Alain Bauer, the man of the shadows. His name does not appear in the directories. He is in charge of the secret services. Former Grand Master of the French Great Orient (the most important Masonic organization in France) and former N°2 of the United States National Security Agency in Europe.

  • Here is a list of characters with connections to the U.S. National Security Agency and Freemasonry. Looks as if the Conspiracy Theorists are not so off the mark after all.
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• Frank Wisner Jr. who in the meantime was named “special envoy” to President Bush for the independence of Kosovo, insisted that Bernard Kouchner be named minister of Foreign affairs with a double mission priority: the independence of Kosovo and the elimination of France’s Arab policy.

  • Frank Wisenr, jr, President Bush and Kosovo connection
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• Thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, he took part in operations of Zbigniew Brzezinski in Afghanistan against the soviets, along sides with Oussama Ben Laden and the Karzai brothers.

  • Barnard Kouchner, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Karzais of Afghanistan and....guess who: Ossama Ben Laden. Well-well-well....The picture puzzle is beginning to make some sense.
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• Kouchner started his career by participating in the creation of a humanitarian NGO.
• One finds him again in the 90’s working with Alija Izetbegovic in Bosnia Herzegovina. From 1999 to 2001 he was high representatives of the UN to Kosovo.
• Under the rule of the youngest brother of president Hamid Karzaï, Afghanistan became the first world producer of opium poppies transformed in heroin locally and transported by the US Air force to Camp Bondsteed (Kosovo).

  • And here, yet again, the involvement of the United States government in international drug production and smuggling. Which is why so many investigators and writers are always insisting the U.S. authorities are into the lucrative drug trade.
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• There, the men of Hacim Thaci take charge of the drug and distribute it mainly in Europe and accessorily in the United States.

  • The "War on Drugs" is a freak'n joke!
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• Karzai and Thaci are longstanding personal friends of Bernard Kouchner who undoubtedly ignores their criminal activities in spite of all the international reports which have been dedicated to them.
• The benefits are used to finance the illegal operations of the CIA.
• To complete his government, Nicolas Sarkozy named Christine Lagarde, minister of the Economy and Finances. All her career was made in the United States where she directed the prestigious law firm Baker and McKenzie.
• At the Center for international and strategic studies of Dick Cheney, she copresided with Zbigniew Brzezinski a working group which supervised the privatisations in Poland. She organized also an intense lobbying effort for Lockheed Martin against French airplane producer Dassault.
• New escapade during the summer. Nicolas, Cecilia, their common mistress and their children went on holidays to the United States at Wolfeboro, not far from the property of President Bush.
• The bill was paid this time by Robert F. Agostinelli, an Italian-New Yorker investment banker, Zionist and a pure brand of neo-conservative who writes in Commentary, the magazine of the American Jewish Committee.

  • Ahhhhh...and now we have the AIPAC, Neocons, investment bankers and Zionists connection in all this. My apologies to all the conspiracy "nuts" out there.
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• The success of Nicolas had impact on his half brother, Pierre Olivier. Under the American name of Oliver, he was named by Frank Carlucci (formerly N°2 of the CIA after having been recruited by Frank Wisner, Sr.) Director of the new investment fund of the Carlyle Group (the common investment firm of the Bush family and Ben Laden).

  • The criminal cabal stretches across national borders and the Bush Family seems to keep popping up again and again...
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• Having become the 5th largest business dealer in the world, he handles the main assets of the sovereign funds of Kuwait and Singapore.
• One of his communications advisors, Jacques Seguela (also consultant for political communication at the NED where he is in charge of diverse CIA operations in Western Europe and Latin America), proposes to detract the public’s attention with new “people stories”.
• The popularity of the President is in a free fall in the polls.
• The announcement of the divorce with Cecilia was publicised by Libération, the paper of his friend Edouard de Rothschild, to cover up the slogans of demonstrators in a day of general strike.

  • The same idiotic nonsense and superficialities that pass for "news" in America. Americans need to turn off the Idiot Tube; get a computer, get on-line and began researching...researching...researching.
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• Stronger even, the communications agent organized a meeting between the president and the former top model, Carla Bruni. Some days later, her liaison with the president became official and the media hammering covered up once again political criticism.
• This time, he chose as best men Mathilde Agostinelle (the wife of Robert) and Nicolas Bazire, a former cabinet director of Edouard Balladur who became assistant manager at the Rothschilds.
• Some weeks later, the third marriage of Nicolas occurred.
• When will the French use their eyes to see what they have to do ?

  • And Americans too...!
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• References
• [1] Quand le stay-behind portait De Gaulle au pouvoir, par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 27 août 2001
• 3] L’Énigme Pasqua, par Thierry Meyssan, Golias ed, 2000.
• [5] Un relais des États-Unis en France : la French American Foundation, par Pierre Hillard, Réseau Voltaire, 19 avril 2007.
• 6] Les New York Intellectuals et l’invention du néo-conservatisme, par Denis Boneau, Réseau Voltaire, 26 novembre 2004.
• [8] Dominique Strauss-Kahn, l’homme de « Condi » au FMI, par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 5 octobre 2007.
• [10] Le gouvernement kosovar et le crime organisé, par Jürgen Roth, Horizons et débats, 8 avril 2008.
• [11] Avec Christine Lagarde, l’industrie US entre au gouvernement français, Réseau Voltaire, 22 juin 2005.
• [12] L’honorable Frank Carlucci, par Thierry Meyssan, Réseau Voltaire, 11 février 2004.
• [13] Les liens financiers occultes des Bush et des Ben Laden et Le Carlyle Group, une affaire d’initiés, Réseau Voltaire, 16 octobre 2001 et 9 février 2004.
• Tags: CIA, France, New World Order, Sarkozy

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  Conspiracy of Silence, The Franklin Cover-Up
  A documentary listed for viewing in
  TV Guide Magazine was to be aired
  on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994.
  This documentary exposed a network of
  religious leaders & Washington politicians
  who flew children to Washington D.C.
  for sex orgies.
  
  Many children suffered the indignity of
  wearing nothing but their underwear & a
  number displayed on a piece of
  cardboard hanging from their necks when
  being auctioned off to foreigners in
  Las Vegas, Nevada & Toronto, Canada.
  
  At the last minute before airing, unknown
  congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry
  with restrictive legislation if this documentary
  was aired. Almost immediately, the rights to the
  documentary were purchased by unknown persons
  who had ordered all copies destroyed.
  
  A copy of this videotape was furnished
  anonymously to former Nebraska state
  senator & attorney John De Camp who
  made it available to retired FBI Agent
  Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality
  is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster
  in what is revealed by the participants involved.

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  Conspiracy of Silence, The Franklin Cover-Up
  A documentary listed for viewing in
  TV Guide Magazine was to be aired
  on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994.
  This documentary exposed a network of
  religious leaders & Washington politicians
  who flew children to Washington D.C.
  for sex orgies.
  
  Many children suffered the indignity of
  wearing nothing but their underwear & a
  number displayed on a piece of
  cardboard hanging from their necks when
  being auctioned off to foreigners in
  Las Vegas, Nevada & Toronto, Canada.
  
  At the last minute before airing, unknown
  congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry
  with restrictive legislation if this documentary
  was aired. Almost immediately, the rights to the
  documentary were purchased by unknown persons
  who had ordered all copies destroyed.
  
  A copy of this videotape was furnished
  anonymously to former Nebraska state
  senator & attorney John De Camp who
  made it available to retired FBI Agent
  Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality
  is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster
  in what is revealed by the participants involved.
  

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  Conspiracy of Silence, The Franklin Cover-Up
  A documentary listed for viewing in
  TV Guide Magazine was to be aired
  on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994.
  This documentary exposed a network of
  religious leaders & Washington politicians
  who flew children to Washington D.C.
  for sex orgies.
  
  Many children suffered the indignity of
  wearing nothing but their underwear & a
  number displayed on a piece of
  cardboard hanging from their necks when
  being auctioned off to foreigners in
  Las Vegas, Nevada & Toronto, Canada.
  
  At the last minute before airing, unknown
  congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry
  with restrictive legislation if this documentary
  was aired. Almost immediately, the rights to the
  documentary were purchased by unknown persons
  who had ordered all copies destroyed.
  
  A copy of this videotape was furnished
  anonymously to former Nebraska state
  senator & attorney John De Camp who
  made it available to retired FBI Agent
  Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality
  is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster
  in what is revealed by the participants involved.
  

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  Conspiracy of Silence, The Franklin Cover-Up
  A documentary listed for viewing in
  TV Guide Magazine was to be aired
  on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994.
  This documentary exposed a network of
  religious leaders & Washington politicians
  who flew children to Washington D.C.
  for sex orgies.
  
  Many children suffered the indignity of
  wearing nothing but their underwear & a
  number displayed on a piece of
  cardboard hanging from their necks when
  being auctioned off to foreigners in
  Las Vegas, Nevada & Toronto, Canada.
  
  At the last minute before airing, unknown
  congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry
  with restrictive legislation if this documentary
  was aired. Almost immediately, the rights to the
  documentary were purchased by unknown persons
  who had ordered all copies destroyed.
  
  A copy of this videotape was furnished
  anonymously to former Nebraska state
  senator & attorney John De Camp who
  made it available to retired FBI Agent
  Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality
  is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster
  in what is revealed by the participants involved.
  
  http://franklincase.org/silence.htm

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  Conspiracy of Silence, The Franklin Cover-Up
  A documentary listed for viewing in
  TV Guide Magazine was to be aired
  on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994.
  This documentary exposed a network of
  religious leaders & Washington politicians
  who flew children to Washington D.C.
  for sex orgies.
  
  Many children suffered the indignity of
  wearing nothing but their underwear & a
  number displayed on a piece of
  cardboard hanging from their necks when
  being auctioned off to foreigners in
  Las Vegas, Nevada & Toronto, Canada.
  
  At the last minute before airing, unknown
  congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry
  with restrictive legislation if this documentary
  was aired. Almost immediately, the rights to the
  documentary were purchased by unknown persons
  who had ordered all copies destroyed.
  
  A copy of this videotape was furnished
  anonymously to former Nebraska state
  senator & attorney John De Camp who
  made it available to retired FBI Agent
  Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality
  is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster
  in what is revealed by the participants involved.
  
  http://franklincase.org/silence.htm

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  Conspiracy of Silence, The Franklin Cover-Up
  A documentary listed for viewing in
  TV Guide Magazine was to be aired
  on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994.
  This documentary exposed a network of
  religious leaders & Washington politicians
  who flew children to Washington D.C.
  for sex orgies.
  
  Many children suffered the indignity of
  wearing nothing but their underwear & a
  number displayed on a piece of
  cardboard hanging from their necks when
  being auctioned off to foreigners in
  Las Vegas, Nevada & Toronto, Canada.
  
  At the last minute before airing, unknown
  congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry
  with restrictive legislation if this documentary
  was aired. Almost immediately, the rights to the
  documentary were purchased by unknown persons
  who had ordered all copies destroyed.
  
  A copy of this videotape was furnished
  anonymously to former Nebraska state
  senator & attorney John De Camp who
  made it available to retired FBI Agent
  Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality
  is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster
  in what is revealed by the participants involved.
  
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• Pelosi, Kerry May Share Pain as AIG Stakes Evaporate (Correct)
• By Jonathan D. Salant
• (Corrects Sept. 19 story to show Hayes is from North Carolina in 11th paragraph.)
• Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The market storm that brought down Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., American International Group Inc. and other pillars of U.S. finance may have also blown holes in the portfolios of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator John Kerry and more than 50 other members of Congress.
• Pelosi, in her most recent financial disclosure form, reported that her husband owned between $250,000 and $500,000 of stock in AIG, which ceded majority control to the U.S. government this week in exchange for $85 billion of loans.

  • Pelosi's husband large stock owner in AIG
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• Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, disclosed that his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, had more than $2 million of AIG stock at the end of 2007, when shares were worth $58.30.

  • Kerry's wife owns large amount of stock in AIG
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• AIG has fallen 85 percent this week to close yesterday at $2.69. The lawmakers' aides didn't respond to calls seeking comment.
• Altogether, 56 senators and representatives had stakes in AIG, Lehman, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns Cos. or IndyMac Bancorp Inc. -- some of the biggest casualties of the market bloodbath -- according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

  • 56 U.S. senators and congressmen had stakes in AIG, Lehman, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns and IndyMac
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• The most recent annual disclosure filings list investments as of Dec. 31, 2007, and reveal the size of holdings only within a range of values. Lawmakers may have sold shares since then.
• ``Lawmakers, like everyone else in America who has any kind of retirement portfolio or stock holdings, are going to be suffering,'' said Gary Kalman, a lobbyist for the Boston-based U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a consumer-advocacy organization. ``This is a serious issue. We need to have a serious response.''
• Government Takeover
• Earlier this month, the government took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together accounted for almost half of the U.S. home-loan market.
• Representative Robin Hayes, a North Carolina Republican, had Congress's biggest AIG stake, according to the Washington- based Center for Responsive Politics. Hayes's AIG stock was worth between $2.8 million and $11.5 million.

  • North Carolina Republican Robin Hayes held the biggest AIG stake
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• John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, avoided potential losses. Because of the Arizona senator's run for the White House, his wife, Cindy, last year liquidated a blind trust that had contained stock in AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Lehman. The amounts of stock she had owned weren't disclosed.
• Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, owned between $50,000 and $100,000 of Lehman shares, according to her disclosure form. Calls to offices of Hayes and Harman weren't returned.
• Pasadena, California-based IndyMac's bank was seized by U.S. regulators in July, in the third-biggest U.S. bank failure. IndyMac stock closed yesterday at 6 cents, after trading earlier this year for as much as $11.32.

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• Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter
• September 22, 2008 02:06 PM
• A critical - and radical - component of the bailout package proposed by the Bush administration has thus far failed to garner the serious attention of anyone in the press.
• Section 8 (which ironically reminds one of the popular name of the portion of the 1937 Housing Act that paved the way for subsidized affordable housing ) of this legislation is just a single sentence of thirty-two words,
• but it represents a significant consolidation of power and an abdication of oversight authority that's so flat-out astounding that it ought to set one's hair on fire.

• It reads, in its entirety:

    

  Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
• In short, the so-called "mother of all bailouts," which will transfer $700 billion taxpayer dollars to purchase the distressed assets of several failed financial institutions, will be conducted in a manner unchallengeable by courts and ungovernable by the People's duly sworn representatives.
• All decision-making power will be consolidated into the Executive Branch - who, we remind you, will have the incentive to act upon this privilege as quickly as possible, before they leave office.

  • The "Unitary Executive." Recall that term?
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• The measure will run up the budget deficit by a significant amount, with no guarantee of recouping the outlay, and no fundamental means of holding those who fail to do so accountable.
• Robert Kuttner cuts through much of the gloss in an article in today's American Prospect:
• Is this starting to sound familiar?
• The deal proposed by Paulson is nothing short of outrageous.
• It includes no oversight of his own closed-door operations. It merely gives congressional blessing and funding to what he has already been doing, ad hoc.
• He plans to retain Wall Street firms as advisors to decide just how to cut deals to value and mop up Wall Street's dubious paper.
• There are to be no limits on executive compensation for the firms that get relief, and no equity share for the government in exchange for this massive infusion of capital.
• Both Obama and McCain have opposed the provision denying any judicial review of decisions made by Paulson -- a provision that evokes the Bush administration's suspension of normal constitutional safeguards in its conduct of foreign policy and national security. [...]
• The differences between this proposed bailout and the three closest historical equivalents are immense.
• When the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the 1930s pumped a total of $35 billion into U.S. corporations and financial institutions, there was close government supervision and quid pro quos at every step of the way.
• Much of the time, the RFC became a preferred shareholder, and often appointed board members.
• The Home Owners Loan Corporation, which eventually refinanced one in five mortgage loans, did not operate to bail out banks but to save homeowners.
• And the Resolution Trust Corporation of the 1980s, created to mop up the damage of the first speculative mortgage meltdown, the S&L collapse, did not pump in money to rescue bad investments; it sorted out good assets from bad after the fact, and made sure to purge bad executives as well as bad loans.
• And all three of these historic cases of public recapitalization were done without suspending judicial review.
• Kuttner's opposition here is perhaps the strongest language I've seen used, pushing back on this piece of legislation, in any publication of repute, and even here, Section 8 is not cited by name or by content.
• McClatchy Newspapers also alludes to Section 8 with concern, citing the "unfettered authority" that Paulson would be granted, and noting that the "law also would preclude court review of steps Paulson might take, something Joshua Rosner, managing director of economic researcher Graham Fisher & Co. in New York, said could be used to mask previous illegal activity."
• Jack Balkin also gives the matter the sort of attention it deserves on his blog, Balkinization.
• But elsewhere, the conversation is muted. The debate over whether Congress is going to pass the Paulson bailout package, or pass the Paulson bailout package really hard seems to have boiled down to a discussion of time and concessions.
• The White House has made it clear that they want this package passed yesterday.
• Congressional Democrats seem to be of different minds on the matter, with some pushing back hard, and others content to demand a small dollop of turd polish to make the package seem more aesthetically pleasing, at which point, they'll likely roll over and pass the bill.
• Neither candidate, John McCain or Barack Obama, seem all that amenable toward the bailout, but neither have either demonstrated that they are willing to risk their candidacies to do much more than exploit the issue for electoral purposes.
• Sunday morning came and went, with Paulson traipsing dutifully from studio to studio, facing nary a question on Section 8.
• Front page articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal detail the wranglings, but make no mention of this section of the legislation.
• On TV, cable news networks are stuck in the fog of the ongoing presidential campaign.
• Throughout the coverage, one catches a whiff of what seems like substantive pushback on this power grab, but it largely amounts to a facsimile of journalistic diligence.
• Most note, in general terms, that the bailout represents a set of "broad powers" that will be granted to the Department of the Treasury. Yet the coverage offsets these concerns through the constant hyping of the White House's overall message of "urgency."
• But one cannot overstate this: Section 8 is a singularly transformative sentence of economic policy.
• It transfers a significant amount of power to the Executive Branch, while walling off any avenue for oversight, and offering no guarantees in return.

  • The Despot
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• And if the Democrats end up content with winning a few slight concessions, they risk not putting a stop-payment on the real "blank check" - the one in which they allow the erosion of their own powers.
• Over in the Senate, Christopher Dodd has proposed a bailout legislation of his own, which critically calls for "an oversight board that not only includes the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the SEC, but congressionally appointed, non-governmental officials" and would require the President to appoint an "independent inspector general to investigate the Treasury asset program."
• In Dodd's legislation, Section 8 is effectively stripped from the bill.
• Nevertheless, the fact that Section 8 of the Paulson plan seems to strike few as a de facto dealbreaker can and should astound.
• The failure of Congress to hold the line on this point would be truly embarrassing. But if we make it through this week with nobody in the press specifically informing the public about the implications of this single sentence - in the middle of a complicated bill, in the middle of a complicated time - then right there, you have the single largest media failure of this year.
• Comments:
• Possumpaul
• I can feel a lot of anger in the comments. Against the fantastically well paid parasites of Wall Street, who produce nothing in their zero sum game. Against the cronyism and corrupting lobby system entrenched in the present government. Against the injustice of rewarding the captains of industry, sorry, virtual industry, who have fantastic contracts so that if they lead their enterprise to catastrophie and ruination, they will still get a goldern handshake.
   Come to think of it, there is anger at the whole system.
• The above are just easy targets. The real problem is that the US has slid into debt. Personal debt, corporate debt, and government debt. Have a long hard look at the assets and liabilities account for the US. Not a pretty sight.
• China, Japan, Saudia Arabia, EU have been bankrolling America for some time. Fortunately they are not calling in the debts, because they know they wouldn't be paid. Better the illusion of an asset than to force a fire sale.
• The US needs to suck its head in and live within its means. A humbling experience, but not without benefits.
• To rediscover the meaning of the words thrift, parsimony and frugality.
• I did a spot check on some teenagers and they didn't reconise the words.
• bltmn
• A predictable and preventable catastrophe followed by an obscene consolidation of power and a crippling over-extension of government resources.
   
   Sound familiar?
   
   Really, will anything be left by November 4? Are these people going to do a scorched-earth retreat and completely gut this country before they finally fall from power in November? Will they ever actually fall from power? Haven't they essentially made democracy irrelevant?
• guntotinganglion
• This is all conspiracy to commit fraud, on numerous layers, with intent to stop an investigation by the Justice Department. This is world class conspiracy and fraud against the citizens of the United States...ALL of us.
• The fact of the failures is evidence enough to start a vast criminal investigation immediately.
• The cover up of the facts of the failure (bad loans, inside deals, conflict of interest, greed, graft, corruption, collusion in defrauding bank customers) with this steaming loaf of a bill as a setup to divert attention from those activities, is world class conspiracy and fraud on at least two levels....deeply criminal.
• This's at least a double conspiracy to defraud every man, woman, child and baby (even fetus's if possible) in this country. Also, by attempting to cover their off-shore interests, they've added a third level of conspiracy to the total crime.
• That third level is the inclusion of foreign banks in the proposed bailout with former Goldman Sachs CEO Paulson's standing to make out like a literal bandit.
• He can collect on both ends of the deal, as Treasury Secretary, and as CEO Emeritus of Goldman Sachs...with NO questions asked, or allowed, and no oversight whatsoever of his wheeling and dealing in this gigantic bank robbery. The only thing is, this is the bankers stealing from the banks, then stealing from the US taxpayers to keep the banks in the business of being stolen from!!
   
   We have gone through a glass, very darkly....
• whatsthatsound
• Thanks for this post. Those words are outrageous. As far from one can get from all that this country supposedly stands for.
• It would give this odious administration three months to seal the deal. To place this country in the hands of the super duper rich, so that they can suck it dry, and then move on to build up consumer cultures all throughout Arabia and Asia.
• "So long America. We don't expect any thanks for serving you up the good life for sixty years. It was our pleasure. We'll send you a postcard from Dhubai. Stay warm."
• collprof
• Hey guys...we know we're out come January. You know that too. I also can't get my term extended. Seems this constitutional BS is in the way again.
   
   What I can attempt to get passed this congress is something akin to the power we had after 9/11. Unfettered power to do what we want for as long as we want. We will create a crisis called Wall Street. We will fund any of our donors with oodles of money paid for by the very people we took to the cleaners with mortgage hacked securities. They will gladly pay if we cherrypick the data we use to up the ante. How's $700B sound? It's 6% of our current national debt and less than 5% of our GNP. We'll also use a section 8 preventing any of them obersighters and regulators from laying their crummy hands on our future 5th Avenue condos.
   
   Psssst..don't forget guys. This is your gift because I couldn't do privatization of Social Security. I'll want my usual fee for my library and a brand new home in Dallas.
• yeshe
• BBC Radio 4 "Document" uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen.
• The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush"s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
   
   Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy. ( Played July 2007)
   
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
   
   Assess today's connection for yourself !
   
   Further, Smedley Butler broke up the 1933 coup plans. You can read all about it in this book by Jules Archer.
• Free to read ...
   
   http://www.chris-floyd.com/plot/The_Plot_to_Sieze_the_White_House_by_Jules_Archer/

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• September 24, 2008
• Terrified Oligarchs
• Posted by Lew Rockwell at September 24, 2008 04:33 PM
• As an insider tells me, Congressmen are "peeing in their pants" over the proposed bailout of the plutocrats - because they are being inundated by calls, emails, and visits from their very angry constituents.
• No regular American believes Paulson and Bernanke, or thinks that their insider deal to rip us off for the government-connected rich is a good idea.
• Both Obama and McCain are wholly owned subsidiaries of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
• But congressmen are vulnerable to a change in the climate of opinion. Indeed, eventually, the whole regime is.

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• September 24, 2008
    Categories: Sarah Palin
• Palin schmoozes with Murdoch
• Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel reports:
• NEW YORK, N.Y. – Sarah Palin schmoozed with controversial media tycoon Rupert Murdoch at a swanky charity gala here Wednesday night.
• Murdoch, whose New York tabloid this month editorialized about Palin being “charming, but rock-solid,” seemed quite chummy with the Republican vice presidential candidate after the two emerged together from a swanky charity gala, according to a pool report sent to the press covering Palin.
• “He gave her a pat on the back … and said to her, ‘Thank you very much’” as she slid into the back of a waiting SUV wearing “a radiant smile,” the report said.
• The dinner, held at a midtown Asian restaurant where guests are greeted by a reflecting pool stocked with Japanese carp and an enormous floating Buddha statue, was hosted by Murdoch’s wife Wendi Murdoch, as well as Jordan's Queen Rania and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah Brown.

  • Gala hosted by the whores of the Internationalist leaders.
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• It was to benefit a United Nations-linked initiative seeking to reduce maternal mortality worldwide.
• Rupert Murdoch – who is involved in former President Bill Clinton’s worldwide efforts to combat climate change, poverty and corruption – is known for his conservative positions, but has cultivated ties to U.S. politicians of both parties.
• He owns right-leaning media outlets like Fox News and The New York Post, the latter of which surprised some observers this month by endorsing the McCain-Palin ticket over Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
• That's because Murdoch had publicly spoke favorably of Obama, even dubbing him a "rock star."
• Not only was The Post’s endorsement early, but Murdoch had admitted  he "played a role" in the Post’s endorsement during the Democratic primary of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, for whom he had hosted a fundraiser.
• Last week, Murdoch talked about the editorial to Neil Cavuto, and described Obama's economic policies as "naive."
• In addition to calling Palin “charming” and “rock-solid,” The Post’s general election endorsement of McCain-Palin praised her as and said her selection as underscoring McCain’s Washington-outsider status.
   
   “Neither plays well with others,” the editorial said.

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• Out of Control Fraud
• The Bush Family Business
• For four generations now, the Bush family has been involved in supporting the country's enemies (most notably the Nazi Party in Germany) and robbing the country blind.
• The family was directly involved and profited from the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s and has participated in security fraud as well.
• With this understanding as a background, the Iraq War can be viewed as their "masterpiece."
• The Bush family and its associates have stolen countless billions of dollars in the course of the war.

  • Yeah..wasn't the number "$6-billion" that went missing under Paul Bremer's watch in Iraq?
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• In fact, one of their motivations for pushing the war in the first place was the opportunity for theft.
• Chances are the destruction of World Trade Tower Seven, the home of crucial and now lost forever SEC and other federal law enforcement evidence and case files was carried out to cover their tracks. 

  • In this day and clime: wouldn't surprise me at all
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• The National Intelligence Design
• Jim Kirwan
    1-8-9
• The nominee to head the Department of Intelligence, that  oversees the CIA, is Admiral Blair.
• Above is the logo for the National  Intelligence Director; an office that was created on May 5, 2005, to  insure that corruption throughout US National Intelligence will more directly  support all the criminality created by the Cheney- Bush-Doctrine of 2002.
• Obama's choice for this office not only supports the continuance of crimes  against humanity: it will insure that the Cheney-Bush policies go forward  uninterrupted into the bleakest of futures for the US and the world.
• "Obama has tapped Leon Panetta, a former Congress-member  and White House Chief of Staff under President Clinton. Many observers  call him a surprise pick because of limited intelligence experience and  his public opposition to the Bush administration's policies on torture.
• Top Democrats have chided Obama for not consulting with  them before announcing the pick and have suggested they might oppose Panetta.
• In a brief statement, the new chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee,  Dianne Feinstein of California, said: "My position has consistently  been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence  professional in charge at this time."
• The outgoing intelligence committee  chair, Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, says he shares  Feinstein's concerns. ['Intelligence professionals' enabled the failures  on 911].
• It's interesting to compare that to how lawmakers are  greeting Obama's other top intelligence pick.
• While members of Obama's  own party vow a tough confirmation hearing for a torture opponent, they've  expressed no reservations about another nominee accused of supporting  [massive] torture and murder abroad.
• The former commander of US military forces in the Pacific,  Admiral Dennis Blair, has been tapped to become the Director of National  Intelligence. It's the nation's top intelligence job, overseeing sixteen  agencies.
• Blair played a critical role in backing the Indonesian  occupation of East Timor during the 1990s.
• At the height of a wave of  ruthless attacks on Timorese that killed hundreds and displaced tens of  thousands, Blair personally informed top Indonesian general Wiranto of  unwavering U.S. support.

  • SEE: the writings of Deanna Spingola for more on the Power Elites' use of American military muscle around the globe.
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• He continued to support the Indonesian military  until international outcry forced the Clinton administration to withdraw  its military and diplomatic backing" (1)
• Here's more of who Admiral Blair was and is: "Admiral  Blair was involved in supporting the Indonesian armed forces as they were  massacring churches in East Timor,
• as they were killing civilians in  1999 in the run-up to a UN-sponsored free election.
• That election was  due to decide whether East Timor would become independent. The Indonesian  army was trying to stop the occupied Timorese from voting for independence,  so they set up militias, which went on rampages.
• In one incident, they went into a church in Liquica where  refugees were hiding. They massacred them with machetes. Their flesh was  found plastered to the walls.
• Two days after that, Admiral Blair went  to meet with the Indonesian commander, General Wiranto, and he gave him  reassurances that the US was still behind him. He offered him new US military  aid.
• And even though Blair had been told by the State Department and the  White House to tell Wiranto to stop the massacres, Blair did not do that.
• This is according to classified US cables which I obtained in 1999 and  reported in The Nation magazine.
• After that, when people at the State Department heard  about what Blair had done, he was told to talk to Wiranto again. He again  spoke to Wiranto, on the phone, and again reassured him, offered him  new US military aid.
• Blair even offered Wiranto aid for the specific unit,  the Brimob, the paramilitary police who had gone into that church as they  chopped up the refugees and chopped up the clergy who were hiding there.
• General Wiranto naturally took this as reassurance. He escalated the attacks.
• Wiranto was later indicted for crimes against humanity. Blair has not  been held to account. And now, they say Obama wants to make him Director  of National Intelligence."(2)
• Feinstein, along with Speaker of the House Pelosi are  two of the most grossly-corrupt officials that are being strengthened  in the Obama administration
• and that will ensure an ever greater role  for Israel inside all US policies, under Obama's supposed mandate of   "politics for change."
• Barack Obama keeps saying 'he will not look backwards'  at all, because 'he is focused on moving America forward.' 

    

  This is an oxymoron as no forward movement, that matters,  can be taken without a thorough understanding of what actually happened  in the past-If the goal is to actually change anything in the way this  government does business, "going forward."
• The crimes which the National Intelligence Agencies have  been committing and covering up go all the way back to the Clinton Administration,  as exemplified by Admiral Blair's appointment.
• These two appointments  (Panetta at CIA & Blair as NID) are perfect examples of two crucial  points where the crimes of the past collide head-on, with Obama's so-called  "plans" for the future.
• How these two political positions get filled will determine  the difference between whether or not torture and crimes against humanity  shall continue to be the foundation of American illegal and unilateral  occupations: Or whether 'change' can happen within the covert side of  US military and political polices.
• What happens on the surface of American  government is nothing compared to the importance of the real polices that  govern our covert and black-ops operations worldwide.
• Obama must be responsible  for changing the global threat that US-Israel policies now pose to the  peace and security of the planet-Barack's success or failure with these  appointments shall determine virtually everything else that he supposedly  "stands for."
• Israel is behind US policies in the Middle East, and  those policies have been furthered and enhanced, on Israel's behalf, by  US National Intelligence interpretations, that are overseen by war- criminals  and "professionals" throughout the so-called "intelligence"  networks that have been in-place and growing since the Clinton years.
• If Obama wants to change anything he must change this: because this is  The Tail that Wags the Dog, that has enabled us, to allow the financial  collapse of this country to happen as it has. (3)
• This  is why these policies of torture and the routine round-up of civilians  must be publicly-severed from US policy, and permanently observed, under  the laws already in effect under terms of the Geneva Conventions. Until  the rights of "all people" have real weight before international  law, no one is "free." (4)
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• Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War
• Paulson’s Financial Bailout
• by Prof. Peter Dale Scott
• Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War
• Global Research, January 8, 2009
• It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001.
• Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
• The excuse for bypassing normal legislative procedures was the existence of an emergency. But one of the most reprehensible features of the legislation, that it allowed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to permit bailed-out institutions to use public money for exorbitant salaries and bonuses, was inserted by Paulson after the immediate crisis had passed.
• According to Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vermont) the bailout bill originally called for a cap on executive salaries, but Paulson changed the requirement at the last minute.
• Welch and other members of Congress were enraged by “news that banks getting taxpayer-funded bailouts are still paying exorbitant salaries, bonuses, and other benefits.”1
• In addition, as AP reported in October, “Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. questioned allowing banks that accept bailout bucks to continue paying dividends on their common stock. `There are far better uses of taxpayer dollars than continuing dividend payments to shareholders,’ he said.”2 
• Even more reprehensible is the fact that since the bailouts, Paulson and the Treasury Department have refused to provide details of the Troubled Assets Relief Program spending of hundreds of billions of dollars, while the New York Federal Reserve has refused to provide information about its own bail-out (using government-backed loans) that amounts to trillions.
• This lack of transparency has been challenged by Fox TV in a FOIA suit against the Treasury Department, and a suit by Bloomberg News against the Fed.3
• The financial bailout legislation of September 2008 was only passed after members of both Congressional houses were warned that failure to act would threaten civil unrest and the imposition of martial law.
• U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., both said U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson brought up a worst-case scenario as he pushed for the Wall Street bailout in September. Paulson, former Goldman Sachs CEO, said that might even require a declaration of martial law, the two noted.4

• Here are the original remarks by Senator Inhofe:

   

   

   

  Speaking on Tulsa Oklahoma’s 1170 KFAQ, when asked who was behind threats of martial law and civil unrest if the bailout bill failed, Senator James Inhofe named Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as the source.
• “Somebody in D.C. was feeding you guys quite a story prior to the bailout, a story that if we didn’t do this we were going to see something on the scale of the depression, there were people talking about martial law being instituted, civil unrest….who was feeding you guys this stuff?,” asked host Pat Campbell.
• “That’s Henry Paulson,” responded Inhofe, “We had a conference call early on, it was on a Friday I think – a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1.
• In this conference call – and I guess there’s no reason for me not to repeat what he said, but he said – he painted this picture you just described. He said, ‘This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced.’”5

• Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA 27th District) reported the same threat on the Congressional floor (Rep. Sherman later downplayed his remarks slightly on the Alex Jones show):

   

   

   

  “The only way they can pass this bill is by creating a panic atmosphere…. Many of us were told that the sky would fall…. A few of us were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. That’s what I call fear-mongering, unjustified, proven wrong.”6
• It also seems clear that Congress was told of a threat of martial law, not itself threatened.
• So it is clear that threats of martial law were used to get this reprehensible bailout legislation passed.
• It is still entirely appropriate to link such talk to the Army’s rapid moves to redefine its role as one of controlling the American people, not just protecting them.
• In a constitutional polity based on balance of powers, we see the emergence of a radical new military power that is as yet completely unbalanced.
• The Army’s New Role in 2001: Not Protecting American Society, but Controlling It
• This new role for the Army is not wholly unprecedented. The U.S. military had been training troops and police in "civil disturbance planning" for the last three decades.
• The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, or "Operation Garden Plot," was developed in 1968 in response to the major protests and disturbances of the 1960s.
• But on January 19, 2001, on the last day of the Clinton administration, the U.S. Army promulgated a new and permanent Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program.
• It encapsulated its difference from the preceding, externally-oriented Army Survival, Recovery, and Reconstitution System (ASRRS) as follows:
• a. In 1985, the Chief of Staff of the Army established the Army Survival, Recovery, and Reconstitution System (ASRRS) to ensure the continuity of essential Army missions and functions.
• ASRRS doctrine was focused primarily on a response to the worst case 1980's threat of a massive nuclear laydown on CONUS as a result of a confrontation with the Soviet Union.
• b. The end of the Cold War and the breakup of the former Soviet Union significantly reduced the probability of a major nuclear attack on CONUS but the probability of other threats has increased. Army organizations must be prepared for any contingency with a potential for interruption of normal operations.
• To emphasize that Army continuity of operations planning is now focused on the full all-hazards threat spectrum, the name "ASRRS" has been replaced by the more generic title “Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program.”7
• This document embodied the secret Continuity of Operations (COG) planning conducted secretly by Rumsfeld, Cheney, and others through the 1980s and 1990s.8 This planning was initially for continuity measures in the event of a nuclear attack,
• but soon called for suspension of the Constitution, not just “after a nuclear war” but for any “national security emergency.”
• This was defined in Reagan’s Executive Order 12656 of November 18, 1988 as “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”
• The effect was to impose on domestic civil society the extreme measures once planned for a response to a nuclear attack from abroad.9
• In like fashion ARR 500-3 Regulation clarified that it was a plan for “the execution of mission-essential functions without unacceptable interruption during a national security or domestic emergency.”
• Donald Rumsfeld, who as a private citizen had helped author the COG planning, promptly signed and implemented the revised ARR 500-3.
• Eight months later, on 9/11, Cheney and Rumsfeld implemented COG, a significant event of which we still know next to nothing. What we do know is that plans began almost immediately – as foreseen by COG planning the 1980s -- to implement warrantless surveillance and detention of large numbers of civilians,
• and that in January 2002 the Pentagon submitted a proposal for deploying troops on American streets.10
• Then in April 2002, Defense officials implemented a plan for domestic U.S. military operations by creating a new U.S. Northern Command (CINC-NORTHCOM) for the continental United States.
• In short, what were being implemented were the most prominent features of the COG planning which Oliver North had worked on in the 1980s.
• Deep Events and Changes of Party in the White House
• Like so many other significant steps since World War Two towards a military-industrial state, the Army’s Regulation 500-3 surfaced in the last days of a departing administration (in this case the very last day).
• It is worth noticing that, ever since the 1950s, dubious events--of the unpublic variety I have called deep events--have marked the last months before a change of party in the White House.
• These deep events have tended to a) constrain incoming presidents, if the incomer is a Democrat, or alternatively b) to pave the way for the incomer, if he is a Republican.
• Consider, in the first category, the following (when a Republican was succeeded by a Democrat):
• * In December 1960 the CIA secured approval for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, and escalated events in Laos into a crisis for which the Joint Chiefs proposed sending 60,000 troops. These events profoundly affected President Kennedy’s posture towards Cuba and Indochina.
• * In 1976 CIA Director George H.W. Bush installed an outside Team B intelligence unit to enlarge drastically estimates of the Soviet threat to the United States, eventually frustrating and reversing presidential candidate Jimmy Carter’s campaign pledge to cut the U.S. defense budget.12 
• Equally important were events in the second category (when a Democrat was succeeded by a Republican):
• * In late 1968 Kissinger, while advising the Johnson administration, gave secret information to the Nixon campaign that helped Nixon to obstruct the peace agreement in Vietnam that was about to be negotiated at the peace talks then taking place in Paris. (According to Seymour Hersh,“The Nixon campaign, alerted by Kissinger to the impending success of the peace talks, was able to get a series of messages to the Thieu government” in Saigon. making it clear that a Nixon presidency would offer a better deal.
• This was a major factor in securing the defeat of Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey.13 Kissinger was not the kind of person to have betrayed his president on his own personal initiative. At the time Nixon’s campaign manager, John Mitchell (one of the very few in on the secret), told Hersh that “I thought Henry [Kissinger] was doing it because Nelson [Rockefeller] wanted him to. Nelson asked Henry to help and he did.”14
• * In 1980 the so-called October Surprise, with the help of people inside CIA, helped ensure that the Americans held hostage in Iran would not be returned before the inauguration of Reagan. This was a major factor in securing the defeat of incumbent Jimmy Carter.15 Once again, the influence of the Rockefellers can be discerned.
• A CIA officer later reported hearing Joseph V. Reed, an aide to David Rockefeller, comment in 1981 to William Casey, the newly installed CIA Director, about their joint success in disrupting Carter’s plans to bring home the hostages.16
• Both the financial bailout, extorted from Congress and the escalated preparations for martial law can be seen as transitional events of the first category.
• Whatever the explanations for their timing, they will constrain Obama’s freedom to make his own policies.
• I fear moreover they may have the consequence of easing this country into unforeseen escalations of the Afghan war.
• The Intensive Quiet Preparations for Martial Law
• On September 30, 2008, the Army Times announced the redeployment of an active Brigade Army Team from Iraq to America, in a new mission that “may become a permanent part of the active Army”:
• Let us deal first with the preparations for martial law.
• The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
• Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.
• Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. . . .
• After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one. . . .They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.17
• This announcement followed by two weeks the talk of civil unrest and martial law that was used to panic the Congress into passing Paulson’s bailout legislation.
• Not only that, the two unprecedented events mirror each other: the bailout debate anticipated civil unrest and martial law, while the announced positioning of an active Brigade Combat Team on U.S. soil anticipated civil unrest (such as might result from the bailout legislation).
• Then on December 17, 2008, US Northern Command chief General Renuart announced that “the US military plans to mobilize thousands of troops to protect Washington against potential terrorist attack during the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama.”18
• The US Army War College has also raised the possibility of the U.S. Army being used to control civil unrest, according to the Phoenix Business Journal:
• A new report by the U.S. Army War College talks about the possibility of Pentagon resources and troops being used should the economic crisis lead to civil unrest, such as protests against businesses and government or runs on beleaguered banks.
• “Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security,” said the War College report.
• The study says economic collapse, terrorism and loss of legal order are among possible domestic shocks that might require military action within the U.S.19
• It is clear that there has been a sustained move in the direction of martial law preparations, a trend that has been as continuous as it has been unheralded.
• Senator Leahy was thus right to draw our attention to it back on September 29, 2006, in his objections to the final form of the Fiscal Year 2007 National Defense Authorization Act, which gave the president increased power to call up the National Guard for law enforcement:
• It . . .  should concern us all that the Conference agreement includes language that subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military’s involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law. There is good reason for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations.20
• This quiet agglomeration of military power has not “just growed,” like Topsy, through inadvertence. It shows sustained intention, even if no one has made a public case for it.
• How the Bush Administration Protected Predatory Lending and Let the Financial Crisis Grow
• No one should think that the crisis was unforeseen.
• Let us now consider the financial crisis and the panic bailout.
• Back in February Eliot Spitzer, in one of his last acts as governor of New York, warned about the impending crisis created by predatory lending, and reveled that the Bush Administration was blocking state efforts to deal with it.
• His extraordinary warning, in the Washington Post, is worth quoting at some length:

• Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. …

   

   

   

  Even though predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American homeowners.
• In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers. . . . Several state legislatures, including New York's, enacted laws aimed at curbing such practices. . .
• Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.
• Let me explain: The administration accomplished this feat through an obscure federal [Treasury] agency called the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC has been in existence since the Civil War. Its mission is to ensure the fiscal soundness of national banks.
• For 140 years, the OCC examined the books of national banks to make sure they were balanced, an important but uncontroversial function. But a few years ago, for the first time in its history, the OCC was used as a tool against consumers.
• In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks.
• The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.
• But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.21
• Eliot Spitzer submitted his Op Ed to the Washington Post on February 13. If it had an impact, it was not the one Spitzer had hoped for.
• On March 10 the New York Times broke the story of Spitzer’s encounter with a prostitute. According to a later Times story, “on Feb. 13 [the day Spitzer’s Op Ed went up on the Washington Post website] federal agents staked out his hotel in Washington.”22
• It is remarkable that the Mainstream Media found Spitzer’s private life to be big news, but not his charges that Paulson’s Treasury was prolonging the financial crisis, or the relation of these charges to Spitzer’s exposure.

•  As a weblog commented,

   

   

   

  The US news media failed to draw the obvious connection between the bizarre federal law enforcement investigation and leak campaign about the private life of New York Governor Spitzer and Spitzer's all out attack on the Bush administration for its collusion with predatory lenders.

• While the international credit system grinds to a halt because of a superabundance of bad mortgage loans made in the US, the news media failed to cover the details of Spitzer's public charges against the White House.

   

   

   

  Yet when salacious details were leaked about alleged details of Spitzer's private life, they took that information and made it the front page news for days.23
• After Spitzer’s Op Ed was published, according to Greg Palast, the Federal Reserve, “for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks’ mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure.”24
• What are we to make of Spitzer’s charge that the Bush administration interfered to preempt state laws against predatory lending, and of the fact that the mainstream media did not report that?
• A petty motive for the OCC’s behavior in 2003 might have been to allow the housing bubble to continue through 2003 and 2004, thus facilitating Bush’s re-election. But the persistence of Treasury obstruction thereafter, despite the unanimous opposition of all fifty states, and the continuing silence of the media about this disagreement, suggest that some broader policy intention may have been at stake.
• One is struck by the similarities with the Savings and Loan scandal which was allowed to continue through the Reagan 1980s, long after it became apparent that deliberate bankruptcy was being used by unscrupulous profiteers to amass illegal fortunes at what was ultimately public expense.25 
• In the same way, the long drawn-out housing bubble of the current Bush decade, and particularly the derivative bubble that was floated upon it, allowed the Bush administration to help offset the trillion-dollar-plus cost of its Iraq misadventure,26 by creating spurious securities that sold for hundreds of billions, not just in the United States, but through the rest of the world.
• In the long run, this was not a sustainable source of wealth for America’s financial class, which is now suffering like everyone else from the consequent recession. But in the short run, the financial crisis and bailout made it possible for Bush to wage a costly war without experiencing the kind of debilitating inflation that was brought on by America’s Vietnam War.
• When we turn to the martial law preparations, however, they are being made in anticipation of civil unrest in the future. Why such intense preparation for this?
• The trillion dollar meltdown,27 in other words, can be rationalized as having helped finance the Iraq War.
• The obvious answer of course is memory of the rioting that occurred in San Francisco and elsewhere during the great depression of the 1930s.
• Indeed that thought may be uppermost among those who recently arranged for the redeployment of a Brigade Combat Team from Iraq to America.
• But the planning for martial law in America dates back almost three decades, from the days when Reagan appointed Rumsfeld, Cheney and others to plan secretly for what was misleadingly called Continuity [i.e., Change] of Government.
• Concern about the 2008 recession cannot have been on their minds then, or on those who introduced the Army’s “Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program” on January 19, 2001.
• Instead the “full all-hazards threat spectrum” envisaged in that document was clearly ancillary to the doctrine of “full-spectrum dominance” that had been articulated in the Joint Chiefs of Staff blueprint, Joint Vision 2020, endorsed eight months earlier on May 30, 2000.28
• The interest of Cheney and Rumsfeld in COG planning, including planning for martial law, also envisaged full spectrum dominance.
• This is made clear by their simultaneous engagement in the 1990s in the public Project for the New American Century (PNAC). PNAC’s goals were stated very explicitly in their document Rebuilding America’s Defenses: to increase defense spending so as to establish America’s military presence throughout the world as an unchallengeable power. This would entail permanent U.S. forces in central as well as east Asia, even after the disappearance[jam1]  of Saddam Hussein.29
• In short PNAC’s program was a blueprint for permanent overseas American empire, a project they recognized would not be easily accepted by an American democracy.
• Their call frankly acknowledged that it would be difficult to gain support for their projected increase in defense spending to “a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually.”
• “The process of transformation,” the document admitted, “is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”30

• There is of course every reason to hope that the disastrous era of Rumsfeld and Cheney is about to end, with the election of Barack Obama. Obama has made it clear that he will pursue a foreign policy dedicated to diplomacy and multilateralism. In this spirit he has declared his willingness to talk to Iran without preconditions.

   

   
• But Obama’s stated reason for disengagement from Iraq – “The scale of our deployments in Iraq continues to set back our ability to finish the fight in Afghanistan”31 – is very ominous.
• Few serious students of the Afghan scene believe that America can “finish the fight in Afghanistan,” any more successfully than could the Russians or British before them. The U.S. position there is visibly deteriorating, while the U.S. strategy of cross-border attacks is having the effect of destabilizing Pakistan as well.
• The U.S.-backed Karzai regime has so little control over the countryside that Kabul itself is now coming under rocket attack. Experts on the scene agree that any effort to “finish” will be a long-term proposition requiring at a minimum a vastly escalated commitment of U.S. troops.32
• One cannot predict the future, but one can examine the past.
• For thirty years I have been writing about the persistence in America of a war mentality that, time after time, trumps reasonable policies of negotiation, and leads us further into armed conflict. This dominant mindset is not restricted to any single agency or cabal, but is rather the likely outcome of on-going tensions between hawks and doves in the internal politics of Washington.
• If a container of rocks and gravel is shaken vigorously, the probability is that the gravel will gravitate towards the bottom, leaving the largest rocks at the top.
• There is an analogous probability that, in an on-going debate over engaging or withdrawing from a difficult military contest, the forces for engagement will come out on top, regardless of circumstances.
• Available military power tends to be used, and one of the most remarkable features of history since 1945 is that this tendency has not so far repeated itself with atomic weapons.
• Let me explain this metaphor in more concrete detail. Progressive societies (in this era usually democracies) tend to expand their presence beyond their geographic boundaries. This expanded presence calls for new institutions, usually (like the CIA) free from democratic accountability. This accretion of unaccountable power, in what I have elsewhere called the deep state, disrupts the public state’s system of checks and balances which is the underpinning of sane, deliberative policy.
• We might expect of progressive democracies that they would evolve towards more and more rational foreign policies. But because of the dialectic just described, what we see is the exact opposite – evolution towards foolish and sometimes disastrous engagements.
• When Britain became more democratic in the late 19^th Century, it also initiated the Boer War, a war very suited to the private imperial needs of Cecil Rhodes, but irrelevant if not deleterious to the interests of the British people.
• Hitler’s dreams of a Third Reich, entailing a doomed repeat of Napoleon’s venture into the heart of Russia, suited the needs of the German industrialists who had financed the Nazis; but from the outset sane heads of the German military staff could foresee the coming disaster.
• For over a half century now, beginning with Vietnam, unaccountable forces have been maneuvering America into unsustainable adventures on the Asian mainland.
• We now know that Kennedy did not intend ever to commit U.S. combat troops to Vietnam.34 But the fatal planning to expand the Vietnam War north of the 17^th parallel was authorized in the last week of his aborted presidency, probably without his being aware.
• When elected, Jimmy Carter was determined to reduce the size and frequency of CIA covert operations.36 Yet his national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, initiated maneuvers in Afghanistan that led to the largest CIA covert operation (and in my view, one of the most deleterious) of all time.37
• Our archival historians have not yet fully understood either paradox, or the forces behind them. And as the philosopher George Santayana famously observed, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."38
• The Future: Military Escalation Abroad and at Home?
• Among the latter are his unqualified desire to “finish” (i.e., “win”) the war in Afghanistan, and his support, along with his party’s, for the final version of the Paulson bailout. In my view they go together.
• Like both Kennedy and Carter, Barack Obama is a complex mix of hopeful and depressing qualities.
• Like the government negotiated resolution of the savings-and-loan-scandal of the 1980s, the financial bailout undisguisedly taxed the public wealth of the republic to protect and even enrich those who for some time had been undeservedly enriching themselves.
• Old-line leftists might see nothing unusual about this: it conforms to their analysis of how the capitalist state has always worked.
• Before that time governmental policies were more likely to be directed towards helping the poor; afterwards the ideology of free-market literalism, even under Clinton, was invoked in numerous ways for the enriching of the rich.
• But it is only characteristic of the American state since the Reagan revolution of the 1980s.

• The result of these government policies has been summarized by Prof. Edward Wolff:

   

   

   

  We have had a fairly sharp increase in wealth inequality dating back to 1975 or 1976. Prior to that, there was a protracted period when wealth inequality fell in this country, going back almost to 1929. So you have this fairly continuous downward trend from 1929, which of course was the peak of the stock market before it crashed, until just about the mid-1970s.
• Since then, things have really turned around, and the level of wealth inequality today is almost double what it was in the mid-1970s…..
• Up until the early 1970s, the U.S. actually had lower wealth inequality than Great Britain, and even than a country like Sweden. But things have really turned around over the last 25 or 30 years.
• In fact, a lot of countries have experienced lessening wealth inequality over time. The U.S. is atypical in that inequality has risen so sharply over the last 25 or 30 years.39
• Past excesses of American wealth, as in the Gilded Age and the 1920s, have been followed by political reforms, such as the income tax, to reduce wealth and income disparity. But as Kevin Phillips has warned, this type of reform must happen again soon, or it may not happen at all:
• As the twenty-first century gets underway, the imbalance of wealth and democracy in the United States is unsustainable. . . . Either democracy must be renewed, with politics brought back to life, or wealth is likely to cement a new and less democratic regime—plutocracy by some other name.40
• Judged by this criterion, the Paulson bailout as passed was not just an opportunity missed; it was a radical leap in the wrong direction.
• It is not reassuring that the bailout was passed with the support of Obama and the Democratic Party. This is rather a sign that plutocracy will not be seriously challenged by either party in their present state.
• Warren Buffett may have been correct in saying that the bailout was necessary. But it is not hard to think of reforms that should have accompanied it:
• 1) there should have been transparency, not secrecy
• 2) public funds should not have been made available for bonuses or dividends (The richest 10 percent of Americans own 85 percent of all stock).41
• And as a bailout for the automobile industry is debated, two more reforms seem self-evident:
• 3) any reduction in income should not affect workers alone, but all levels of employees equally
• 4) as has often been suggested, a limit should be established by law to the maximum ratio of the highest remuneration to the lowest in any industry – perhaps a ratio of twenty to one.
• I am not making these obvious suggestions with any expectation that they will be passed or seriously debated. The plutocratic corruption of both our parties makes such a prospect almost unthinkable.
• What I do want to contemplate is the serious prospect of war.
• America escaped from the depression of the 1890s with the Spanish-American War.42 It only escaped the Great Depression of the 1930s with the Second World War. There was even a recession in the late 1940s from which America only escaped with the Korean War.
• As we face the risk of major depression again, I believe we inevitably face the danger of major war again.
• In the meantime, some aspects of the financial meltdown, although they arose for many reasons and were not the result of some conspiratorial cabal, may be prolonged because of their utility to the war-minded.
• Consider that, from the perspective of maintaining America’s imperial thrust into Afghanistan (and even Pakistan), the financial crisis has had some desired consequences:
• 1) The dollar’s value against other international currencies, notably the euro, has improved, thus improving America’s balance of payments and also offsetting the threat to the dollar’s important role as the primary unit of international trade.
• 2) Thanks to the determined international marketing of overvalued derivatives based on predatory lending, the resulting financial crisis has been internationalized, with economies elsewhere suffering even greater shocks than the United States. This has relatively improved America’s capacity to finance a major war effort overseas (which has always had a major impact on the U.S. balance of payments).
• 3) The price of oil has plummeted from $147 a barrel last July to under $40, thus weakening the economies of Russia, China, and especially Saudi Arabia, the country whose international foundations have been supporting Al Qaeda.
• The Afghan situation is grim, but it is not hopeless. Two skilled observers, Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid, have proposed a political solution for the entire region that would promise greater security for the entire area than Obama’s ill-considered proposal to send 20,000 more U.S. troops.43

• In Rashid’s words, 

   

   

   

  President-elect Obama and Western leaders have to adopt a comprehensive approach that sees the region [with Afghanistan's neighbors, including Pakistan, India, Russia, China, Iran, and the former Soviet states] as a unit with interlocking development issues to be resolved such as poverty, illiteracy and weak governance.
• There has to be a more comprehensive but more subtle approach to democratising the region and forcing powerful but negative stakeholders in local power structures - such as the drug mafias - either to change their thinking or be eliminated.44
• That observers with such recognized status are offering a sensible political solution does not provide me with much optimism. For three decades now Barnett Rubin has been offering sound advice on Iran and Afghanistan to Washington, only to be ignored by those lobbying for covert operations and military solutions.
• This dialectic is reminiscent of the Vietnam War, where for over a decade reasonable proposals to demilitarize the conflict were similarly ignored.
• I repeat that the future is unpredictable. But I fear that Obama’s proposal to send 20,000 additional troops will carry the day, with its predictable consequences of a wider war in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• With this I also fear an increased use of the U.S. Army to control protests by the American people.
• I earnestly hope that my fears are misplaced. Time will tell.

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• Secret Meeting Martial Law US Government
• jonselby
     August 11, 2008
• US House of Representatives holds secret closed door session to prepare for martial law and coming collapse of the U.S. Economy in 2008

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• Asked about WMDs, Bush grins: 'Things didn't go according to plan'
• John Byrne
  Published: Monday January 12, 2009
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• Abu Ghraib a 'disappointment'
• A confident George W. Bush took the podium Monday for what is likely the last press conference of his presidency, fielding a panoply of questions on the economy, President-elect Barack Obama, and what he sees as the failings of his term.
• Speaking about the Administration's claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction -- which served as the cornerstone of the president's justification for war -- Bush laughed.
• "Things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way," Bush said with a smile, then a grimace.
• The WMDs touted by Bush and his advisers were never found. More than 4,000 American troops have died as a result of the invasion; the toll for Iraqi civilians is in the tens of thousands.
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• "Clearly putting a mission accomplished on an aircraft carrier was a mistake," he replied when asked what he'd done wrong under his watch.
   "Some of my rhetoric has been a mistake."
• "I've thought about Katrina," he added, without identifying particular errors in judgment.
• "Abu Ghraib obviously was a huge disappointment," he continued. "Not having weapons of mass destruction was a big disappointment."
• Bush defended his decision in 2007 to send an additional 30,000 American troops to Iraq to knock down violence levels and stabilize life in the country.
   
   "The question is, in the long run, will this democracy survive, and that's going to be a question for future presidents," he said.
• Speculation is rife that the president may pardon I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, who was convicted of obstruction of justice in the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
• Bush also refused to answer questions about pardons.
• This video is from CNN.com, broadcast Jan. 12, 2009.

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• Bush grants federal aid for Obama inauguration
• President declares state of emergency so president-elect may use funds
• Posted: January 13, 2009
  6:28 pm Eastern
• By Chelsea Schilling
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• President Bush declared a state of emergency in the District of Columbia today and ordered the use of federal funds for Barack Obama's inauguration.
• "An emergency exists in the District of Columbia," White House press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement.
• In the next week, as many as 2 million people are expected to travel to the area from all over the world to see Obama become the 44th president of the United States.
• Perino said federal aid is available "for emergency protective measures that are undertaken to save lives and protect public health and safety" and will be used for security and transportation needs.
• Streets are expected to close; only taxis will have access to bridges, and security will be tightened.
• According to the Washington Times, Mayor Adrian Fenty has estimated he will need $75 million – $60 million more than the $15 million Congress appropriated for security and associated costs.
• On Jan. 7, Fenty wrote a letter to Bush asking for the declaration and the funds. The city will have access to federal aid from Jan. 17-21.
• White House spokesman Scott Stanzel told the Wall Street Journal, "We are responding to Mayor Fenty's assessment that the magnitude of the crowds … could stress the city's capabilities and that federal assistance is necessary."

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• UNCELEBRATE  KING 2009
• PAGAN, PLAGIARIST, SEX PREDATOR, RED
   
    By: Alan Stang
• We have sports "heroes," men who are  paid lots of money to play games. We have movie "heroes," who are paid even more  money to pretend to be someone else.
• One of the many symptoms of the decline and fall of American  civilization is its confusion about heroes.
• Our newest "hero" is an illegal alien whose  real name we don’t know, whose total qualifications are a beautiful, black preacher  voice, who will be coronated tomorrow as Emperor Also Known As the First.
• Our heroes used to be  patriots, preachers, inventors and military leaders, etc. No more!
• Show me a nation’s heroes and I’ll tell you what it is.
• The true heroes we have  are vilified, preeminent among them Senator Joe McCarthy.
• So thoroughly has the Conspiracy  for World Government besmirched his name that today, when the truth of all he said is  available, even putative "conservatives" still use his name as a curse.
• On the other hand, as we shall see tomorrow, traitors and mountebanks are enshrined.
• Today is the official, federal holiday that honors Martin Luther King.
• Regular readers and  listeners know that every year we uncelebrate that event. I shall be doing so today on my  radio talk show on the Republic Broadcasting Network at 11 a.m. Central.
• Our annual uncelebration has become something of a tradition.
• This year’s  uncelebration is based on my magazine pieces on the subject and my first book and  best-seller, It’s Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights.
• The book is now  forty four years old. Readers tell me it is still remarkably relevant
• Meanwhile, let’s uncelebrate. There are two reasons you don’t need to know  anything about King to know that we should not be celebrating a holiday in his name.
• First, a respectable time needs to pass after a man dies, during which the facts will  mature. After sober reflection has considered them, a national clamor will spontaneously  call such an honor into being – if it is deserved.
• To force such a holiday into law soon after a man dies, almost gasping in haste as in  an emergency, using intimidation and threats for the purpose, is unseemly to say the  least; but that is how the present farce we uncelebrate was arranged.
• Need we add that  this principle applies to any man, whatever his name, whatever his color.
• The second reason proves ipso facto that the King holiday is a fraud. The only  American who used to be so honored – the only one – was George Washington  himself, the Father of our country, because sober reflection on the facts proved he  deserved it. Grateful Americans spontaneously made his birthday a holiday.
• But the King holiday demoted George Washington. His birthday was submerged in  "Presidents Day," with the result that the only American honored with a holiday  all his own was Martin L. King.
• Even if you knew nothing about him before you started  reading this, the obvious question should erupt from your monitor: Does this man –  does any American – deserve to be honored above Washington? The sober question  answers itself.
• 2) the violence that always erupted in a King  demonstration;
• But there is much more. There are five important aspects of Martin Luther King’s  career:
• 1) his Communist Party activities;
• Despite  the fact that, by now, all this is known, the same putative "conservatives" who  demean Joe McCarthy continue to genuflect at the shrine of Martin Luther King.
• 5) his pagan beliefs.
• 3) his plagiarism;
• 4) his sexual pathology;
• It’s Very Simple talks about Bayard Rustin,  King’s sodomite "secretary," who spent his entire life in Communist Party  activities, and who demanded that "more bloody Negro suffering should be encouraged  so that squeamish Northern Negroes would be horrified into line. . . ."
• King was a Communist.
• There was also a man named Hunter Pitts O’Dell, who ran King’s organization.
• The media of  the time kept exposing O’Dell and Mike kept pretending to fire him, but O’Dell  later would turn up elsewhere in King’s apparatus. It’s Very Simple  includes pictures of both Rustin and O’Dell.
• O’Dell was a member of the national committee of the Communist Party.
• There are also pictures of Carl and Anne Braden, who also ran King’s organization.  Both were Communists.
• Carl was convicted in Louisville of blowing up a house inhabited by  blacks and blaming it on whites.
• James Dombrowski was another Communist who worked closely  with King and stayed in his home.
• All these people were white. As you see, we are not just  talking about one Communist who accidentally wormed his way in. We are talking about a  swarm.
• Martin Luther King attended a Communist training school in Tennessee.
• A famous picture  shows him enjoying a lecture in the company of Communist Aubrey Williams and Abner W.  Berry, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
• Rosa Parks, who helped  King launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott, learned how to do it at the same Communist  training school.
• What has always amused me is that, after the book was published, we learned much more  about King’s Communist and other activities than we knew before. I had to write many  magazine articles to catch up.
• For instance, when I wrote It’s Very Simple I  did not yet know about Stanley Levison.
• The war took him far afield from "civil  rights," and his speeches started sounding like enemy propaganda cooked up in Hanoi.  The reason was that Stanley Levison was writing those speeches.
• Suddenly, King started to make speeches about the war in Vietnam. Well meaning  Americans scratched their heads.
• So who was Stanley  Levison?
• The  KGB routinely sent Levison the rubles to pay for all Soviet activities in the United  States, and he would distribute the money.
• Stanley was the paymaster in this country for the KGB, the Soviet secret police.
• How high up in the Soviet apparatus would you  have to be – how much would the KGB have to trust you – to get that job?
• Stanley  Levison, of the KGB, financed King and wrote his speeches. That is correct: the Soviet  secret police financed Martin Luther King and put the words in his mouth.
• King was said to be "heroic" because he was an apostle of Mohandas K.  Gandhi’s non-violence in India.
• For that reason, many Americans at the time wondered  why it was that, wherever King went, violence erupted. Why the paradox?
• King explained it  himself, in a piece he wrote for Saturday Review, April 3, 1965 ("Behind the  Selma March," pp. 16-17, 57), in which he set forth the four steps of his technique:
• 2. Racists resist by unleashing violence against them.
• 3. Americans of conscience  in the name of decency demand federal intervention and legislation.
• "1. Nonviolent demonstrators go into the streets to exercise their constitutional  rights
• 4. The administration,  under mass pressure, initiates measures of immediate intervention and remedial  legislation."
• Notice  that step two of his formulation calls for violence. The reason violence broke out  wherever he went was that violence was what he went into the streets to get.
• Remember, this is not something we are accusing him of. King wrote this himself.
• Without the  necessary violence, his schemes would fall flat. So, in King’s scenario, why would  "racists" attack "nonviolent" demonstrators?
• Drue Lackey was Montgomery, Alabama Chief of Police.
• In a speech in  October, 2006, he explained that in the famous confrontation of 1965,  "non-violent" demonstrators tried to provoke his policemen to react, by throwing  "non-violent" bottles and bricks, and bedecking them with gobs of spit, while  other "non-violent" demonstrators waited nearby to take pictures. 
• "Those four days on the road  had turned into an habitual sex orgy by the time they reached the capitol.
• Here is Chief Lackey’s rendition of the event:
• He stayed partying separately most of those days, and would only arrive in a  chauffeured limousine for appointed press deadlines, leaving immediately after.
• King was always  seen on TV marching in the front row among clean, well-disciplined performers. It was all  a sham.
• "Most of the others put off at least until nightfall, what they had come for, as  this mob had been bused in from across the country and around the world: unemployed  Blacks, White students, party activists of both races, on promises of all the free food,  booze and sex they wanted.
• "They reached Montgomery late on the afternoon of March 24, 1965, and spent the  night at St. Jude’s where they had been invited.
• We kept security along with the  National Guard, for the local whites were up in arms.
• We witnessed them sleeping on the  ground all together, and a lot of sexual activity went on throughout the night, with  frequently changed partners.
• This is what the federal government sponsored: a bunch of  communists and moral degenerates."

  • Because it itself is filled with traitors and "moral degenerates."
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• Chief Lackey also had to protect King’s residence from provoked locals who were  threatening to bomb it.
• But there was nothing he could do about the 25,000 misfits  fornicating and committing other canine functions on local residents’ front lawns.
• Yes, confronted with such expert provocation, many locals snapped. Would you have been  able to keep your head?
• The Communist Broadcasting System, etc., would not record these assaults, but it would  broadcast graphic coverage of what you did when you went crazy, with the logical result  that fair-minded people around the country believed you attacked the "nonviolent  demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights" for no reason.
• This was a  typical King "nonviolent" demonstration.
• I participated in a modest effort to defuse some of this, as the only white member of a  strike team that would travel to a targeted town and explain the scheme before King’s  terrorists arrived to foment animosity.
• For instance, King chose Sandersville, Georgia as  a target and Julia Brown and I went there to do what we could.
• Another member of our team was Leonard Patterson, Communist Party boss  Gus Hall’s roommate at the Lenin School of Political Warfare in Moscow, where Leonard  learned the art of fomenting race warfare here.
• Mrs. Brown had served as an F.B.I. undercover agent in the Communist Party for many  years in Cleveland.
• Mrs. Brown and I traveled and worked together many times. The Love Priestess and I were  honored to have her stay at our home. She would delight in telling people I was her  grandson, which raised some eyebrows among people too polite to ask how a black lady could  have a grandson as white as Herman Talmadge.
• Needless to say, I did not correct her. A man  would have to be enormously stupid to get crossways with his grandmother.
• King’s men had already provoked so  much tension that it would have been dangerous to bring the black and white residents  together to the same hall to hear us. So, we spoke to them on two consecutive evenings,  one evening to the blacks, the other to the whites.  
• When we arrived, Sandersville was simmering.
• We told them what this man King was, which organizations and people he worked with and  fronted for, how he did it and what his purpose was.
• We explained that he was trying to  divide the races and foment violence in behalf of his bosses who had more contempt for  Negroes, as people of color then were known, than the worst racist concocted by the  perfervid imagination of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
• The people of Sandersville,  Georgia, black and white, united in understanding who their true enemy was. King’s  revolutionaries left. There was no riot.
• And, mirabile dictu, the tension dissipated.
• My beautiful "grandmother" and I flew together to the District  of Criminals for the purpose. Julia testified that while she was an undercover Party  member, she "knew Martin Luther King to be closely connected with the Communist  Party." 
• Later, my dear friend, Congressman Larry  McDonald, the Georgia Democrat, invited Julia and me to testify against the proposed  holiday for King.
• When word arrived about the  next town King planned to terrorize, she would go there first and talk to the townspeople  of both races who were willing to listen. Mike’s scheme would fizzle.
• My "grandmother" became a one-woman truth squad.
• So effective  was she at exposing what Mike really was, so discredited and ineffective did he become, I  worried that his Communist bosses might have him killed. As a martyr, he would be much  more valuable to them than he had become. 
• Wanting Mike to remain alive and ineffective, I warned my colleagues of my fear, hoping  that sufficient publicity could neutralize the threat, but a few weeks later he was dead,  killed by the usual "lone assassin."
• Waving a shirt he said was drenched with King’s  blood (it wasn’t), Jesse Jackson, who said he cradled the dying King in his arms (he  didn’t), launched a career selling Chicago "protection," that no doubt has  turned Cosa Nostra black with envy.  
• As usual, there was "no  conspiracy." There never is.
• This is something I knew  absolutely nothing about and can take no credit for revealing. After King was killed  – which made a valuable martyr out of a man who had become a liability because he had  been so well exposed – the professors went to work on his writings.  
• Now let’s look at Martin Luther King’s plagiarism.
• Their motive was not to speak ill of the dead; they loved, admired, even revered King  and wanted to give his writings the same treatment they would give any other  "great" man’s. The lawyers would call their revelations "admissions  against interest."
• They were astounded and horrified, even shocked – shocked, I  say! – to discover that their hero was a slovenly, semi-literate high school writer,  who had plagiarized most of what he "wrote."  
• Plagiarism is the literary version of bank robbery. It is theft; it is stealing.
• That  is why the federal government rightly guarantees copyright in this country.
• A literary  work is a property just as much as a piece of real estate is, and a copyright does the  same thing a land title does. That is why moviemakers pay millions for the right to film  best-selling books.
• But Martin Luther King plagiarized as prolifically as young seminarian  Josef Stalin robbed banks. 
• Browse through a book entitled The Martin Luther King Jr. Plagiarism Story  (Rockford Institute, Rockford, IL, 1994), by Theodore Pappas.
• In 1984, the "Martin  Luther King Papers Project" was launched at Stanford University. In 1986, Professor  David J. Garrow, in his book, Bearing the Cross, wrote that big chunks of King's Stride  Towards Freedom are identical to passages from Paul Ramsay's Basic Christian Ethics  and Anders Nygren's Eros and Agape. 
• No doubt  that was why he did not call what King had done plagiarism, and his index calls the  incident "ghostwriting."
• It is important to note that Professor Garrow is not a King critic. He is a  "liberal," a staunch admirer who had come to worship at the shrine.
• David, David! No! A ghostwriter is someone who is hired  to write something by the person whose name will appear on the cover as the author. A  ghostwriter is not someone who steals what someone else writes and puts his own name on  the cover.
• The King Papers project first discovered evidence of his plagiarism in late 1987.
• In  October, 1989, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Waldman, the  professors discussed King's plagiarism with his widow, Coretta Scott King, in an all-day  meeting in Atlanta. Mrs. King remained silent throughout, and never did answer queries  about her husband's thefts.
• The board decided to publish King's papers with footnotes  fully detailing the plagiarism, along with a separate article outlining its extent.  
• On December 3, 1989, Frank Johnson revealed in the British Sunday Telegraph,  that Ralph Luker, associate editor of the King Papers Project, said King had  "borrowed" heavily from the thesis of Jack Boozer, fellow Boston University  theology student and later Professor of Religion at Emory.
• While Boozer was away in the  military, King stole his work.
• In September, 1990, Thomas Fleming wrote in Chronicles that  King's doctorate should be considered a courtesy title, because he had plagiarized his  dissertation.  
• If the truth had leaked, Boston University would have been humiliated.
• It is a short  distance from B.U. to P.U. So, B.U. President Jon Westling sent a letter to Chronicles  (published in the January, 1991 issue) denying Fleming's charge.
• Westling said King's  dissertation had been "scrupulously examined and reexamined by scholars," and  that "not a single instance of plagiarism of any sort has been identified. . . . not  a single reader has ever found any nonattributed or misattributed quotations, misleading  paraphrases, or thoughts borrowed without due scholarly reference in any of its 343  pages."
• Hey, Jon, how long was your nose after you said all that? 
• The story appeared on the  front page of the Wall Street Journal on November 9, 1990. The article quoted  Claiborne Carson finally admitting King's plagiarism, but it calls his thievery  "borrowings," and "voice merging" that derives from the oral  traditions of the black church.
• Claiborne Carson was director of the Project. He denied all charges until Waldman said  he had a copy of Boozer’s dissertation. Then he caved.
• In other words, he was saying that thievery was a  tradition of the black church, an intolerable insult. 
• The article says that "most of King's papers had many original thoughts," but  often "borrowed without citing," According to Waldman, Carson was asking staff  members to refrain from use of the "p" word at work.
• In short, even the author  of the exposé leaned over backward far enough to do an Olympic flip.
• Compare this  treatment to what you know would be done to anyone else – black, white or whatever  – who commits misrepresentation as outrageous as King’s. He would be stripped of  his degree. Look for instance at the case of Clifford Irving’s phony  "biography" of Howard Hughes. 
• Gerry Harbison was a professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska. He was  certainly not a "right-wing wacko." He was full of praise for the "civil  rights movement."
• His surviving papers from that period show that from the very  beginning he was transcribing articles by eminent theologians, often word for word, and  representing them as his own work. 
• Professor Harbison is worth quoting at length: "Like most  graduate students, King spent the first half of his doctoral work taking courses in his  degree area, theology.
• "After completing his course work, graduate students usually write a dissertation  or thesis, supposedly an independent and original contribution to scholarship.
• King's  thesis was anything but original. In fact, the sheer extent of his plagiarism is  breathtaking.
• Page after page contains nothing but direct, verbatim transcriptions of the  work of others.
• In 1990, the King Project estimated that less than half of some chapters  was actually written by King himself. Since then, even more of his ‘borrowings’  have been traced. 
• ". . . But most unforgivably of all, thousands of words in paragraph-sized chunks,  were taken from the thesis of a fellow student, Jack Boozer, an ex-army chaplain who  returned to Boston University after the war to get his degree.
• We even know how he did it,  for King was systematic in his plagiarism. He copied significant phrases, sentences or  whole paragraphs from the books he was consulting onto a set of index cards.  ‘Writing’ a thesis was then a matter of arranging these cards into a meaningful  order. 
• "Sometimes he linked the stolen parts together with an occasional phrase of his  own, but as often as not he left the words completely unchanged.
• The index cards still  survive, with their damning evidence intact.
• Everything I've written above can  easily be verified in a couple of hours in Love Library. None of it comes from right-wing  scandalmongers who might have a vested interest in damaging King's reputation." 
• King fooled everybody: his adviser, his  thesis reader and King scholars for more than 30 years.
• In other words, King was a fiction, a phantasm,  manufactured and maintained by the Communists who chose him because of his oratorical  talent, groomed him, used him, protected him and then (probably) eliminated him when he  became a liability.  
• So, while Jack Boozer was at war, serving in our military, unable to protect himself,  Martin Luther King stole his work.
• The Martin Luther King we were told about did not exist.
• We are talking about a man who should have been in jail for grand theft, but who instead  has been honored above Washington. 
• He even plagiarized the  "I Have a Dream" speech. He should have called it, "I Have a Scheme."
• He was a "Reverend." He had  a "doctorate" in theology.
• Now let’s look at King’s Christianity
• The man was as brilliant a theologian as Boston  University’s Jack Boozer.
• Christianity, we are told, was the inspiration for  everything he did.
• What did Martin Luther King believe?  
• Among the papers with his name on it is one entitled, "What Experiences of  Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the  Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection."
• The title  itself tells us something is wrong.
• These doctrines came not from anyone’s  "experience," but from history and from what Jesus said. But, "Dr."  King comments, "these doctrines are historically and philolophically untenable."  (sic)  
• "The first  doctrine of our discussion which deals with the divine sonship of Jesus went through a  great process of developement. (sic) . . . How then did this doctrine of divine sonship  come into being? We may find a partial clue to the actual rise of this doctrine in the  spreading of Christianity into the Greco-Roman world. . . . Anything that possessed flesh  was always underminded (sic) in Greek thought. And so in order to receive inspiration from  Jesus the Greeks had to apotheosize him. 
• Here is how Jesus got to be divine, according to "Dr." King:
• ". . . As Hedley laconically states, ‘the church had found God in Jesus, and  so it called Jesus the Christ; and later under the influence of Greek thought-forms, the  only begotten Son of God.’"
• In short, according to King, it was the Greeks who  made Jesus "divine."
• My guess is that King really did write this, because it is  so incompetent. This is the writing of a mediocre high school sophomore, not a man about  to receive a doctorate. 
• "First we must admit that the evidence for the  tenability of this doctrine is to (sic) shallow to convince any objective thinker . . .  ."
• Finally, consider that the resurrection is the master doctrine of Christian  belief. Catholics believe it. Protestants believe it. Without the resurrection, there is  no Christianity; there is just another "wise man."
• Here is King on the virgin birth:
• If you don’t believe in  the resurrection, then go your way in peace, but you are not a Christian. 
• So, what does "Dr." King believe about the resurrection?
•   "The last doctrine in our discussion deals with the resurrection story. This  doctrine, upon which the Easter Faith rests, symbolizes the ultimate Christian conviction:  that Christ conquered death. From a literary, historical, and philosophical point of view  this doctrine raises many questions. In fact the external evidence for the authenticity of  this doctrine is found wanting. . . ."
• According to King, the apostles made it all up  because they loved Him so much. 
• So, "Dr." King was not a Christian.
• Along these lines, King was an ardent  supporter of Planned Parenthood, the baby-killing racket, won their Margaret Sanger Award  in 1966 and said "there is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret  Sanger’s early efforts."
• Mrs. Sanger’s early efforts included agitation to  limit the procreation of the "inferior races" and publishing the work of Nazi  propagandists. Were those the early efforts he meant? 
• We are not just talking  about a world-class philanderer like Jack Kennedy.
• We’re not just talking about  Fiddle and Faddle in the White House and Marilyn Monroe.
• Finally, there was King’s career as a sexual predator.
• We’re talking about a  genuine sexual psychopath.
• How do we know this? We know it because FBI Director J. Edgar  Hoover tapped his telephones and bugged King’s activities.
• Why did Hoover do  that? 
• He did it because his boss, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy – a certified demigod  in the illiberal pantheon – ordered him to.
• The Kennedys had become aware of  King’s Communist activities and were worried.
• They brought him to the White House,  where the President himself warned King that what he was doing could discredit them all.
• They wanted to know what he was up to, hence the wiretaps and bugs.
• What did they find  out? Because the truth is so putrid, some of it has leaked.  
• King was naked. I  don’t know whether the woman was.
• For instance, King was in Norway to accept the Nobel Prize. He spent the night before  the ceremony chasing a woman naked down the hallway in his Oslo hotel.
• A story in the Atlanta Journal, dated March  31, 1965, quoted Republican Congressman William Dickinson as saying that King participated  in "all night sessions of debauchery" in a church.
• On the night before he was  killed, King participated in another orgy. He hired prostitutes and paid for them with  church money. He beat at least one of them up.
• Again, he wasn’t just a womanizer; he  was a predator. He should have been in jail.
• At the request of Mrs. King, a court has sequestered all this evidence until the year  2027, long enough to milk everything possible from the myth.
• We share Mrs. King’s  embarrassment.
• Some of them have been released under  the Freedom of Information Act; the rest has been labeled "obscene."
• There are over 60,000 censored pages.
• King’s  own son says his father was killed in a "massive conspiracy" because his bizarre  behavior, long-term depression and alcohol abuse had become a liability the killers  couldn’t afford. 
• Go ahead  and uncelebrate all day, which will put you in mind to uncelebrate tomorrow’s  coronation of Emperor Also Known As the First.
• Again, they prove how corrupt we have become.
• These are just a few examples of what we know, but they are certainly sufficient to  justify a massive uncelebration.

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• Paying income tax in America is Voluntary
• AlliDrac
     April 01, 2008
• When you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. Idiot Harry Reid maintains that paying income tax is voluntary in the U.S.. Harry Reid is the Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate. He's obviously not very bright. But then again... he is a politician. Interviewer Jan Helfeld does a great job of trying to nail him down but... well, you'll see. See more bottom Line Interviews by Jan Helfeld at janhelfeld.com
• TNAROHfan
• Paying federal income taxes is VOLUNTARY compliance enforced by threat of violence. They can play the semantics game all they want, but the fact remains that most people don't have the money or legal counsel to fight the IRS. If you don't VOLUNTARILY pay, they will fine and penalize you, throw you in prison or send armored combat vehicles to your "Compound" and kill you should you not surrender. That is NOT voluntary, that is EXTORTION. Reid is a typical slimey double speaking politician.
• Gibson2480
• For Geithners and Rockerfellers, paying taxes means exactly what it says: VOLUNTARY
  You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the IRS out of the kindness of my heart. - David Rockefeller
  
  vol⋅un⋅tar⋅y [vol-uhn-ter-ee]
  adjective 1. done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice
  
  And I am forced to pay because .. ?
• ClausenLT
• This is classic "double speak"...look at the IRS's own documentation...yes the Federal income tax is voluntary...because under the US constitution there is no law to pay a federal income tax...it is an illegal tax so they try to say..."well it is voluntary"...they illegally enforce it...period!
• PoliticalAnimal1959
• And to think that the American people continue to send this jerk back to the Senate. This guy (Reid) is an elitist con artist. He should be tarred and feathered and sent packing! It angers me to no end that this bastard is one of our premier "leaders" of this great nation. Quite frankly he strikes me more as being a traitor to We the People!
•   

    XtantZero
• there's only one legal way to not have to pay taxes, just don't make any money at all. Otherwise millions of people on welfare are counting on you. so get back to work and pay your taxes, dammit. stop your complaining.

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• Angry citizen(s) spray paint Congressman’s car and home
• February 22nd, 2009 | Banker Bailouts
• By: D. H. Williams
• On October 22, just after the first round of bankster bailouts was passed by Congress against the will of the American people several representatives in Minnesota found their cars and homes spray painted by angry constituents.
• It has just been reported by ABC Eyewitness News 5 in Missouri that Congressman Russ Carnahan’s home and car where spray painted in a similar manner.
• birgit on 02.22.09 at 9:25 pm  

   

  The sheeples rage is still too subdued..Just wait… one more bail out scam and who knows what they will write on walls….
   WINK:)
• Timbeau on 02.23.09 at 12:23 am

   

   

  Guess that’s what happens when you keep voting against your constituents wishes. These bailouts were severely unpopular with the American public. “We the people” don’t want these unconstitutional bailouts and it’s showing. They should all be tried for treason considering how lopsided the approval rating on these pork laden bills were.
• George in Toronto on 02.23.09 at 7:36 am

   

   

  If it was me with spray paint–the words wouldn’t be as nice.America and Canada have been infiltrated by Habitual liars and swindlers–JewXjuice
• Clint on 02.23.09 at 8:59 am

   

   

  When “we the people” get pushed up against a wall, there will inevitably be pushing back. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
• Shane Gibson on 02.23.09 at 9:20 am

   

   

  They are lucky it was only paint on their property and not their neck being stretched in their front lawns.
• robertsgt40 on 02.23.09 at 9:53 am

   

   

  At some point the citizenry will see no other option when their elected officials refuse to do the will of the “people” not the global elite. I think this is the shape of things to come. It will eventually user in the police state.
• James on 02.23.09 at 9:58 am

   

   

  These congressmen committed high treason and are playing stupid. They know very well — they just looted the nation and doomed us all for the sake of their rich criminal friends. They are all psychopaths and should be considered wanted criminals, still at large.
• A. Magnus on 02.23.09 at 10:36 am

   

   

  The only outrage about these incidents is the outrage of the ruling aristocracy that their landless peasants are daring to use intimidation against them in reprisal for their crimes. These Wall-Street paid for politicians believe only they should have the monopoly on force and theft. Like all bullies, they are scared when confronted with their own tactics.
• Hank Elrod on 02.23.09 at 10:42 am

   

   

  Although I don’t believe unorganized public acts of rebellion has much of a significant impact, and are more an expression of rage and frustration rather than a well-planned strategic action, these politicians did have it coming.
   But sadly, I don’t think they really have learned anything from this (other than to make sure all of their possessions accessible to the public is fully insured against vandalism).
• Lysander Spooner on 02.23.09 at 10:49 am

   

   

  Gee, it’s funny how the results of this poll (92% saying ‘no’ as of this writing) mirror the reports of the percentage of calls, emails, faxes, etc. to Congress against the bailouts. And yet the old media keeps trying to spin public opinion in the opposite direction…
• Jon Gault on 02.23.09 at 4:00 pm

   

   

  Spooner, I’m with ya. The sheeple are finally waking up and we aren’t going to take it any more.We are at a tipping point where push is going to lead to us shoving back. Don’t forget, the elite control the main stream media media.
• George in Toronto on 02.23.09 at 6:13 pm

   

   

  Jon Gault -FYI; the Elite you speak of are almost Zionist Jews. King makers and killers.
   Why now the uprising? Most of us know that the 911 attacks were not done by Arabs unless you consider Isralites as Semites. When Bush was spending tax dollars like a drunk’en sailor–how come no-one cared?
   When the freebees disappear Americans wake-up :^(
• Dan Rardon on 02.23.09 at 7:30 pm

   

   

  The graffiti in Missouri looks like a ‘copycat’ job to what was done in Minnesota. The Missouri graffiti was probably done by Carnahan’s own staff to evoke ‘pity’. It doesn’t appear to be as widespread as the graffiti in Minnesota. The graffiti in Minnesota targeted multiple politicians and was painted in multiple places, not just on a car.

   

  Graffiti is just a waste of time though, and only serves as a way for someone to end up in jail for vandalism and gives the corporate media an opportunity to demonize good citizens who are genuinely concerned about the direction in which our country is going.

   

  I fully support civil disobedience, but there has to be another way to leave a bigger impact, like a general srike, etc.

   

  “We The People” will prevail and we will hold the traitors to the U.S. Constitution accountable for their treasonous deeds!