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Rep Goode's HCR 40 Will
Stop NAFTA Superhighway
And NAU
United States Representative Virgil H. Goode, Jr.
(R-VA-5th District)
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Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not
engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North... (Introduced in
House)
HCON 40 IH
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. CON. RES. 40
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not
engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with
Mexico and Canada.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 22, 2007
Mr. GOODE (for himself, Mr. WAMP, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr.
PAUL, Mr. STEARNS, Mr. DUNCAN, and Ms. FOXX) submitted the following
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not
engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with
Mexico and Canada.
Whereas the United States Departments of State, Commerce, and
Homeland Security participated in the formation of the Security and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP) on March 23, 2005, representing a tri-
lateral agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico
designed, among other things, to facilitate common regulatory schemes
between these countries;
Whereas reports issued by the SPP indicate that it has implemented
regulatory changes among the three countries that circumvent United
States trade, transportation, homeland security, and border security
functions and that the SPP will continue to do so in the future;
Whereas the actions taken by the SPP to coordinate border security by
eliminating obstacles to migration between Mexico and the United
States actually makes the United States-Mexico border less secure
because Mexico is the primary source country of illegal immigrants
into the United States;
Whereas according to the Department of Commerce, United States trade
deficits with Mexico and Canada have significantly increased since
the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA);
Whereas the economic and physical security of the United States is
impaired by the potential loss of control of its borders attendant to
the full operation of NAFTA and the SPP;
Whereas the regulatory and border security changes implemented and
proposed by the SPP violate and threaten United States sovereignty;
Whereas a NAFTA Superhighway System from the west coast of Mexico
through the United States and into Canada has been suggested as part
of a North American Union to facilitate trade between the SPP
countries;
Whereas the State of Texas has already begun planning of the Trans-
Texas Corridor, a major multi-modal transportation project beginning
at the United States-Mexico border, which would serve as an initial
section of a NAFTA Superhighway System;
Whereas it could be particularly difficult for Americans to collect
insurance from Mexican companies which employ Mexican drivers
involved in accidents in the United States, which would likely
increase the insurance rates for American drivers;
Whereas future unrestricted foreign trucking into the United States
can pose a safety hazard due to inadequate maintenance and
inspection, and can act collaterally as a conduit for the entry into
the United States of illegal drugs, illegal human smuggling, and
terrorist activities; and
Whereas a NAFTA Superhighway System would likely include funds from
foreign consortiums and be controlled by foreign management, which
threatens the sovereignty of the United States: Now, therefore, be
it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That--
(1) the United States should not engage in the construction of a
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System;
(2) the United States should not allow the Security and Prosperity
Partnership (SPP) to implement further regulations that would create
a North American Union with Mexico and Canada; and
(3) the President of the United States should indicate strong
opposition to these acts or any other proposals that threaten the
sovereignty of the United States.
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sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the
construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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H. Con. Res. 40: Expressing the sense of Congress that the United
States should not engage in the...
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News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government
25 January 2007
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Ohio election workers convicted of rigging '04 presidential
recount 24 Jan 2007 Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of
rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more
thorough review in Ohio's most populous county. Ohio gave President
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Date: Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:28 p.m.
CNN Interviews Christopher Bollyn, 9/11 Researcher
CNN sent a team from New York City to Chicago to interview
Christopher Bollyn, 9/11 researcher and independent journalist, at
the Schaumburg Township District Library on January 23, 2007.
Bollyn was interviewed for more than two hours
by reporter Deborah Feyerick for a piece being produced by Sheila
Steffen. The segment is expected to air at the end of the current
week. Bollyn was told that the section of the program with his
comments should be about 3 and a half minutes in length.
The CNN interviewers were very interested in knowing why Bollyn did
not believe the official version. They were also keenly interested in
why he thinks agents of the state of Israel were involved in the
terror attacks on the World Trade Center.
THE ODIGO WARNINGS
Bollyn explained that the fact that Israel-based employees of Odigo
had received instant text messages warning of the WTC attacks hours
before they occurred and that these warnings had been accurate "to
the minute" indicated that some Israelis (including employees of the
Mossad-linked company) had clearly been forewarned.
"To have prior knowledge of a crime like 9/11 indicates
involvement," Bollyn said.
Odigo had its U.S. headquarters a few blocks from the twin towers
of the WTC. Had the Odigo warnings of an imminent attack been passed
on to the authorities in New York City, thousands of lives could have
been saved.
The CNN team was also very interested in the 5 "dancing Israelis"
who were arrested in New Jersey after having been observed
videotaping and celebrating the attacks on the twin towers.
Bollyn explained that he had investigated the story of the dancing
Israelis through Paolo Lima, the New Jersey-based reporter who had
followed the story in the days after 9/11. When it was reported by
Lima in 2001 that the 5 men, who pretended to be movers, were Israeli
citizens who had been caught with a van that tested positive for
explosives, multiple passports, thousands of dollars in cash, and box
cutters, Bollyn raised the question that they could be working for
Israeli intelligence. The men also reportedly had been wearing Middle
Eastern clothing to give the appearance that they were Arabs.
Months later, Urban Moving Systems, the fake moving company that
the men "worked" for was exposed to be a Mossad front company based
on information provided to the Forward newspaper of New York City.
Dominic Suter, the head of the Weehawken, NJ-based Mossad front
company, fled the United States immediately after 9/11 before the FBI
could interview him.
After being released from U.S. custody, the 5 Israeli agents
returned to Israel where they appeared on a popular television show
and openly explained that their "purpose" had been sent to "document
the event."
This admission certainly indicates prior knowledge of the attacks,
which is proof of involvement.
See: "The Likud Criminal Gang Behind 9/11 and the War on Terror"
http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-Olmert-23Dec2006.html
Here is the video excerpt of the Israelis' admission on TV:
http://www.iamthewitness.com/video/ForBollynsSpeech11Nov2006_DancingIs
raelis.wmv
The CNN interviewer repeatedly asked Bollyn, "Who did it?"
Bollyn responded, "I wish I knew," and described the 9/11 terror
attack as "an unsolved crime." He explained that he does not
speculate and works from evidence and information he comes across.
Most recently, for example, he has been investigating the evidence
that Thermate was used in the World Trade Center attack and
demolitions.
The CNN program will also include interviews with critics of Bollyn
from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law
Center. The ADL, for example, has often labeled Bollyn as an anti-
Semite, which is not true.
ZIONISM vs JUDAISM
Knowing that the mainstream media is generally hostile to 9/11
skeptics and independent researchers, Bollyn, a scholar of Middle
Eastern history, explained that there is a fundamental difference
between Zionism and Judaism.
"There are Jews who are not Zionists and there are Zionists who are
not Jews," he said.
If elements of Israeli intelligence were involved in the attacks of
9/11, he said, that would be very unfortunate but it should have no
bearing on innocent Jews anywhere in the world. The state of Israel
claims to represent the Jews of the world, whether they support
Zionism or not.
Bollyn, who has lived in Israel and the Middle East, explained that
while elements of the Israeli state appear to have been involved in
the events of 9/11, they are from the most extreme right-wing group
of revisionist Zionism. Many of the current officials in the
government of the state of Israel are the sons and daughters of the
terrorist Irgun organization of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the people who
first brought terrorism to the Middle East and the world stage in the
1940s.
Asked why 9/11 would have been done by Zionists, Bollyn said that
as the "New Pearl Harbor," 9/11 had been carried out to sway public
opinion and usher in the on-going War on Terror.
This so-called War on Terror, he said, was first promoted publicly
by the former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his book,
Terrorism: How the West Can Win, in 1986.
The current U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are
exactly what Netanyahu called for in his book. The Bush
administration has followed the agenda of Netanyahu's war on terror
in the Middle East to the letter since coming to office in 2001. This
policy, Bollyn said, is disastrous for the U.S., the region, world
peace, and ultimately, even for the Jews.
Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, is a financial
crook and a war criminal, Bollyn said. He was the co-defendant, with
Menachem Atzmon, in a criminal financial scheme to raise funds in the
United States and elsewhere for the Likud party when he was treasurer
of the party in the late 1980s.
While both men were involved in the scheme, Atzmon was convicted
while Olmert was acquitted. Olmert went on to become the mayor of
Jerusalem while Atzmon became a "security expert" at U.S. and
European airports as the CEO of his "security" company, International
Consultants of Targeted Security (ICTS).
On 9/11, Olmert's old political ally and co-defendant Atzmon was
the owner of Huntleigh USA, the company that provided passenger
screening and security services at Boston's Logan airport and the
airport of Newark, New Jersey.
See: "The Israeli Prime Minister's Connection to 9/11"
http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-Olmert-22Dec2006.html
While Bollyn's comments to CNN will certainly be drastically
edited, he sincerely hopes and expects that CNN will not distort his
opinions or allow him to be smeared as an anti-Semite.
Photo: Christopher Bollyn discusses the evidence of 9/11 with
Deborah Feyerick prior to the CNN interview at Schaumburg library.
Recent Articles by Christopher Bollyn
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Stop him before he kills again
What is this all about? Bush is reportedly going to send more troops
to Iraq for a "surge," "bump," or "escalation," depending upon who
you talk to and when. He is going to do this in spite of the fact
that only 11% of Americans are in favor of doing this, virtually all
of the Generals are not in favor (he is removing the ones that don't
cooperate), the Democratic majorities are opposed, as are many
Republicans. So what is he up to? Even though I have been convinced
for years that he is marginally retarded, he must be aware that what
he is doing is insane. Or is it? I think he is actually maneuvering
himself into a situation in which whatever happens he (at least in
some sense) "wins." Think about it. If Democrats or others oppose
sending or funding this so-called "surge" he will be able to blame
them when the miserable Iraq failure becomes too obvious to cover up.
On the other hand, if he gets the troops, he can prolong the "war"
until the next election at which time he
can just dump the failure onto someone else's watch. Clever, no?
This is more likely Rove or Cheney's idea than Bush's but he is,
after all, the front man for this political con game. And make no
mistake about it, this isn't about "war," it's about politics.
Bush/Cheney and the neocons are using our troops for their own
political ends.
I was wondering why Negroponte, who has arguably one of the most
important posts in the Administration (head of all intelligence
units) would resign to become an Assistant Secretary of State under
Condi Rice. This made no sense to me. Stephen Pizzo, in an article
entitled "White House Chess," (in Smirking Chimp), has come up with a
speculation that makes perfect sense even if it may prove to be
pretty unbelievable. Pizzo argues that the only reason Negroponte
would agree to this is because he wants to become Secretary of State.
The scenario goes as follows: Cheney will resign for reasons of
health, Bush will appoint Condi as Vice President. Negroponte will
become Secretary of State. Pizzo offers perfectly good reasons why
this might happen that I do not wish to review here. I urge you to
read his article. Remember, this is only speculation. But it is well
worth watching.
Keith Olberman made an impassioned comment about Bush's idea
of "sacrifice." If you didn't see it, or haven't yet seen it, you can
find a video of it on Truthout. It is powerful and well worth
watching.
Bush is supposed to announce next week what his plan is for "moving
forward" (more accurately described as "staying the course") in Iraq.
With virtually the entire world opposed to sending in more troops
will he actually do it? And if he does what does that tell us about
his opinion of anyone but himself? There is a deep psychological
problem here such that reason, common sense, empathy, and even basic
human values have no place. Bush, I believe, is not only marginally
retarded but a genuine sociopath. Can no one or anything stop him
before he kills again?
Dennis Kucinich is absolutely right. Cut off any funding for this
phony "war" other than those funds needed to bring our troops home
safely. Is anyone listening? Perhaps the Pelosi/Reid letter is just
the first "shot across the bow." I sincerely hope so.
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End Corporate Control Over Our Media By Sen. Bernie Sanders:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16252.htm
Bernie Sanders speaking at the National Conference for Media Reform.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: We have already taken a giant step forward in
transforming our country, because what we have done -- and the size
of this conference indicates our success -- we have begun the long
road to make media a major political issue in America. And more and
more, in campaigns and in non-campaigns, when people who are running
for office go before the public and, as been mentioned, when they
talk about healthcare or the environment or the dozens of other
important issues, somebody in the front of the room is going to raise
their hand and say, "Well, what do you think about corporate control
over the media? What are you going to do about that?" So, to the
degree that we have already raised consciousness on this issue, we
should be very proud. But, obviously, we know that we still have a
very, very long way to go.
I happen to believe that we are reaching a moment when critical mass
is kicking in. Because of your efforts, because of a growing
grassroots movement all over America, what I can tell you is that not
only in the House is there a media caucus where this issue is now
going to reach a higher level than ever before, I can tell you that
it's going to happen in the Senate, as well. I can also tell you,
absolutely, that we will not succeed unless you are there, unless
there is a strong grassroots media, which demands fundamental changes
in media today and the end of corporate control over our media. We've
got to work together on that.
Now, you are going to hear from a lot of folks who know more about
the details of the media than I do, but what I do know a lot about is
how media impacts the political process, what media means for those
of us who day after day struggle with the major issues facing our
country and a goal of trying to improve the quality of life for all
of our people.
And I want to spend just a minute in telling you what I suspect most
of you already know. If you are concerned, as been said, about
healthcare, if you are concerned about foreign policy and Iraq, if
you are concerned about the economy, if you are concerned about
global warming, you are kidding yourselves if you are not concerned
about corporate control over the media, because every one of these
issues is directly controlled and directly relevant to the media.
Let me just talk about a few. Four years ago, George W. Bush told the
American people that a third-rate military power country called Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction and that they were about to attack
the United States of America. That's what he told us. I can tell you,
because I was there in the middle of that, in opposition to that --
that day after day, those of us who oppose the war, among many other
things, would be holding national press conferences that you never
saw. I can tell you, as you know, that hundreds of thousands of
people in our country were so disgusted with the media simply acting
as a megaphone for the President that they turned off American media,
and they went to the BBC or the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
In terms of the war in Iraq, the American media failed, and failed
grotesquely, in exposing the dishonest and misleading assertions of
the Bush administration in the lead-up to that war, and they are as
responsible as is President Bush for the disaster that now befalls
us. Media plays a role. And the disintegration of Iraq, the death of
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, of over 3,000 Americans, the cost of
hundreds of billons of dollars out of our pockets -- directly related
to the failure of the media.
Let me touch on another issue, an issue that I am deeply involved in.
If you were to ask me what the most significant untold story of our
time is, in terms of domestic politics, I would tell you very simply
that that story happens to be the collapse of the American middle
class. Simply stated -- I don't want to speak at great length on it,
but simply stated, despite an explosion of technology, huge increase
in worker productivity, tens of millions of our fellow Americans have
seen a decline in their real wages and are working longer hours for
lower wages. In fact, what you probably don't know is that the
working people in our country work longer hours than do the working
people in any other industrialized nation on earth.
How did that happen? How did it happen today that a two-income family
has less disposal income than a one-income family did thirty years
ago? How does it happen that thirty years ago, one person working
forty hours a week could earn enough money to take care of the
family; now, you need two, and they're still not doing it? Now, one
might think that this is an interesting story. One might think that
globalization and disastrous trade policies, which have lowered the
standard of living of millions of American workers, might be a story
that should be covered.
What I can tell you is that when NAFTA was first passed over ten
years ago -- and I strongly opposed NAFTA -- we did some research. We
did some research. We went through the editorial pages of every major
newspaper in America, every single one of them was prone after, and
today, despite a $600 billion trade deficit, the loss of millions of
good-paying blue-collar and white-collar jobs, these corporate titans
are still in favor of unfettered free trade, despite the disastrous
impact it has had on America's workers.
Now, what is all of this about? What happens? If the reality of
working people's lives are not reflected in the TV, in the
newspapers, what happens? This is what happens. People lose their
jobs, because corporations shut down. Just had an instance in Vermont
this week. 175 workers shut down, lost their jobs, because of free
trade.
People working long hours, people working for lower wages, they turn
on the television set, they do not see that reality. What they see is
the issue is personal responsibility. You can't afford healthcare?
You're losing your pension? Then the problem is with you. Work a
little bit harder. It is not a systemic problem. It is not a problem
that can be solved by government. It is not a problem which asked you
to be involved in the political process. You are the only person who
can find a job that pays you a living wage. That's your fault! And
you are the only person who can't find a job that provides you with
healthcare. That's your fault! And you're the only father who can't
afford to send your kid to college. That's your fault! Don't get
involved in the political process. It won't do any good. So people
turn on the television -- they're hurting, they're exhausted -- they
do not see a reflection of their reality in the media. They do not
understand that participation in the political process can bring
about change, and that is not by accident.
When we wake up in the morning and we brush our teeth, for better or
worse, we see our own reflections in the mirror. When we turn on the
television, somebody is providing us a mirror to the world, and what
we want is that mirror to reflect the reality of ordinary people and
not the illusions of a few.
AMY GOODMAN: More with Independent Senator Bernie Sanders after
break.
[break]
AMY GOODMAN: We return to the Vermont Independent Senator Bernie
Sanders, speaking at the National Conference for Media Reform in
Memphis, Tennessee.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Talk about healthcare. We are told that it is
quite amazing. After sixteen years in the Congress, you hear these
guys getting up on the floor announce, "We have the best healthcare
system in the world. Yeah!" 47 million Americans have no health
insurance. Even more are underinsured. We pay the highest prices in
the world for prescription drugs. Costs are soaring. Best healthcare
system in the world.
But, you know, go out on the street and ask people how many major
countries in the world do not have a national healthcare program,
which guarantees healthcare to all people. And you know what? Most
people do not know, because they have not seen it reflected in the
media, that the United States of America is the only nation on earth
that does not guarantee healthcare to all of its people. They do not
know about the healthcare systems in Scandinavia. They do not know
about European healthcare systems. And the only thing they will hear
about the Canadian healthcare system are the problems that that
system has. That's what they will hear.
I can remember in the early 1990s, during the early years of the
Clinton administration, there was a lot of debate about the need for
real healthcare reform. Do you happen to know which piece of
legislation in the House had far more support than any other concept?
You probably don't. It was legislation to support a single-payer
national healthcare system. That's a fact. But, as somebody who was
involved in that fight, we would turn on the television and
say, "Hey, single payer has more support than any other concept. Are
you going to talk about single payer?" "Oh, no, no. We don't talk
about single payer. It's not feasible." Virtually no coverage about
what a single-payer concept is about. Virtually no coverage about
international healthcare and how other countries are doing a better
job than we are doing.
In terms of the environment. In terms of the environment, if we are
told over and over again that there is a serious scientific debate
about the causation of global warming or whether global warming
actually exists, it has an impact upon our consciousness. Why should
we break our dependency on fossil fuels, why should we move to
sustainable energy, if there is a debate among the scientific
community? And that is, in fact, what you hear in the media. Well,
you know what? There is no debate among the scientific community.
Now, here's an issue that I'm sure you see on the TV almost every
night -- it probably bores you, you see it so much -- and that is
that the United States today has the most unfair distribution of
wealth and income of any major country on earth. I was joking. You
don't see that on television very often. Now, here is at issue, you
know, which is of enormous significance from an economic point of
view, as well as a political point of view, as well as a moral point
of view. Richest 1% of the population in America owns more wealth
than the bottom 90%. Richest 13,000 families earn more income than do
the bottom 20 million families. In many ways, in my view, we are
moving toward an oligarchic form of society. Do you think that maybe
this is an issue that should be thrown out there on the table? Do we
think it's a good idea that so few have so much and so many have so
little? But that is an issue that is beyond the scope of what
establishment media is literally allowed to discuss.
Now, I have been in politics for a long time. I have been asked a
thousand questions by media. Not one member of the media has ever
come up to me and said, "Bernie, what are you going to do to deal
with the outrage of America having the most unfair distribution of
wealth of any country on earth? What are you going to do about it?"
Have you ever heard any political leader ever being asked that
question? Why not? Why is that issue outside of the scope of what we
are allowed to talk about?
AMY GOODMAN: Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, speaking
at the National Conference for Media Reform. It took place last
weekend in Memphis, Tennessee.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16252.htm
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a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." --- James
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"Right now, it is easier for us to embrace the status quo, than it is
to take a different course - we as a people see these alternative
courses of actions as more painful than the status quo - but someday
the status quo will be more painful and difficult than the change and
then we will embrace the change. People change when they are ready to
change - when it is time to change - the same can be said for the
masses." "America does not need a Regime Change, America needs a
Regime Removal."
Downsize DC, http://www.downsizedc.org/mission.shtml - Read The Bill
Act, http://www.downsizedc.org/rtba_legislation.shtml.
Many other
quick and simple ways to email your voice on Constitutional rights
and organizing for activism -
https://secure.downsizedc.org/rtba/coalition/.
SAVE AMERICA!
STOP SPENDING AND START SAVING! - CUT THE GDP - MONEY IS THE ONLY
THING THE US GOVERNMENT UNDERSTANDS - WHEN THEY START RETURNING THE
CONSTITUTION - WE CAN START SPENDING AGAIN.
Dei Jurum Conventus - (God's Rights (Unity)/Convention)
Ed Ward, MD; http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/arc_ward.htm
Independent writer/Media Liaison for The Price of Liberty;
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/
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6:17 PM
9/11 was an inside job says Shayler*
Jan 22 2007
Paddy Shennan, Liverpool Echo
EX-MI5 officer David Shayler, who will be in Liverpool to launch the
Truth
Movement, tells Paddy Shennan what he thinks about the New York terror
attacks
FORMER spy David Shayler doesn't have a story to tell. He has a
million. And
a lot of them might even be true.
Talking to him was incredibly interesting – and not just because he
reckons
he could be bumped off by dark forces at any time, thereby becoming
the UK's
own Alexander Litvinenko.
We spoke on the 'phone because, well, you can't be too careful. I
certainly
wouldn't fancy getting in a car with him – he says he has suffered
three
suspicious, potentially-fatal road accidents, in 1997 (driver fell
asleep),
2002 (rear tyre exploded) and 2005 (dodgy brakes).
Call the writer and activist whatever you want, but don't call him
boring.
Because you'd be as wrong as wrong can be.
This is a man who worked for MI5 for five years, sold a story to a
newspaper, fled abroad and, eventually, after being called a traitor
to his
country, jailed.
And now . . . he claims 9/11 was an inside job.
He has even been quoted (out of context, he protests) in a magazine
saying:
"Yes, I believe no planes were involved in 9/11 . . . The only
explanation
is that they were missiles surrounded by holograms made to look like
planes
. . . Watch the footage frame by frame and you will see a cigar-shaped
missile hitting the World Trade Centre."
However, he tells the ECHO: "I was misquoted. This was a clear and
deliberate attempt to send someone in and stitch us up. They used the
quote
out of context.
"What I am still saying is go onto the internet and look at the
footage . .
. people have had a go at me saying there were no planes but there is
little
evidence to show that jets went into the buildings. I'm entitled to
say they
didn't and something else did . . . You can make some accurate
calculations
from Newton's laws of motion."
This is where he's got me. I saw planes going into the World Trade
Centre
but Newton's laws of motion are a mystery to me. As is quantum
mechanics,
which David also mentions during another part of our conversation.
Now a member of the 9/11 Truth Movement – formed after the
publication, in
July 2004, of the official 9/11 Commission Report – Shayler and his
partner
and fellow former MI5 officer Annie Machon will be in Liverpool later
this
week, as support for the "inside job" theory gathers momentum.
The newly-formed Merseyside Truth Movement is hosting "An Evening
With Real
Spies Unravelling The Lies" event (free admission) from 7.30pm on
Thursday
at The Casa in Hope Street.
Gary Fletcher, 45, from Wavertree, a rescue boat driver in the North
Sea, is
one of 14 members of the local group. He says: "I saw the second
plane hit
the World Trade Centre on TV and my initial reaction was that it was a
terrorist attack. But when I saw shots from the Pentagon I
thought 'There's
something funny going on here' – especially with four planes being
able to
spend that much time in the air without being shot down."
Short Changed, a documentary about 9/11 made by a group of Americans,
will
be shown at the Casa and then followed by talks by Shayler and Machon
on
state terrorism and the aims of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Shayler, who worked in MI5's political and counter-terrorism
departments in
the early 1990s, says: "I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet but the
credibility I add to the movement is enormous" (I can hear a
trumpet!).
He adds: "Liverpool is one of our target cities, as it has a
reputation for
radicalism and questioning the powers-that-be. We are calling for the
inquiry to be re-opened."
There are, according to the non-believers, many more questions than
answers
– not least concerning the collapse of the twin towers: "All the
evidence
points to controlled demolition," claims Shayler.
The Pentagon? "We can say, hand on heart, there is evidence of missile
damage."
Many will agree – many do agree, just look on the internet – but what
about
the danger of mass ridicule, in a David ("I'm the Son of God") Icke
kind of
way?
"You must have the courage to tell the truth," says Shayler.
David Shayler is 41. But will he reach 42? He says: "I believe in a
higher
power. I have no fear of death" – which may be just as well, as he
claims:
"There have been three attempts on my life in car crashes – two when
I was
an atheist" (he now practices Kabbalah, described as the world's
oldest body
of spiritual wisdom).
Regarding the future, he says: "This is the defining issue of
humanity. We
have never lived with such control ."
George Bush, though? Some might say he couldn't even control his own
bowel
movements. But, says Shayler, it goes much deeper than Bush and Tony
Blair.
"Bush and Blair are puppets . . . Blair may be more intelligent than
Bush,
but they are both clearly patsies."
But I can still hear people shouting: "This is madness!" How would you
respond?
"I would say that in 20 years time their kids may be asking them 'Why
is it
we used to live in a democracy and don't any more?'"
Told you – he's not boring, is he?
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/printable_version.cfm?
objectid=18513424&siteid=50061#top>
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http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_meth
od=full%26objectid=18513424%26siteid=50061-name_page.html
Movie oss docs
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/motionpicturedraft.htm
tons of docs inside
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/index.htm
posted by Alfons at
4:20 PM
has been holding tight, now at #28....thank you all who have helped
to keep it at the front....
visit http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html
and click on #28 and support the resistance.....currently thousands
of US troops are refusing to LIVE WITH WAR, and will not deploy.
This is also known as a mutiny.
Please forward this link on, and let's see if we can get the
resistance into the top ten...
PEACE
Click here to listen... Ain't Going Back Again
Dennis Kyne
Support the Truth
www.denniskyne.com
posted by Alfons at
2:29 AM
The REAL Plan for Iran By George Washington 22 Jan 2007 A top former
U.S. intelligence analyst has stated that the U.S. plans a broad-scale
war against Iran... But how would the U.S. -- which has already
stretched its military thin in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- pull
it
off? By using "The Khuzestan Gambit", as military planners call it.
Basically, the U.S. would invade Khuzestan, a small region of Iran
containing 90% of Iran's oil.
Russian Admiral Says U.S. Navy Prepares Missile Strike on Iran 15 Jan
2007 U.S. Navy nuclear submarines maintaining vigil off the coast of
Iran indicate that the Pentagon's military plans include not only
control over navigation in the Persian Gulf but also strikes against
Iranian targets, a former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet,
Admiral Eduard Baltin has told the Interfax news agency.
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8:07 PM
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7:48 PM
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2:49 PM
False Flag Ops - Some History
By Mac McKinney
>From time to time I'm going to throw out a few terms, definitions and
expositions on the political science (or political voodoo) subject
one might call Modern Machiavellianism 101, the principles (or
unprinciples) of which form the modus operandi of the Bush
Administration. Today's term is "false flag operation", a term most
readers are familiar with, but not all, so here is how Wikipedia
briefly defines it:
"False flag operations are covert operations conducted by
governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed
to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The
name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors;
that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag)
I guess the old Hollywood pirate movies would be a perfect example of
literally flying a false flag, when a pirate ship would hoist an
innocent-looking national ensign as it approached its intended
victim, beguiling the crew, and then haul up the Jolly Roger at the
last minute as it attacked. In real history, a classic example would
be the German Raiders of WWII, vessels which had hidden guns and
torpedo-launchers on board what were converted merchant ships flying
false flags as they approached other vessels. They would raise the
German flag at the last moment, demand the other ship's surrender
through signal flags, or some other means, to give the crew a cursory
opportunity to escape if the German captain was feeling gracious, and
then strive to sink it whether it surrendered or not.
But the type of false flag operation I am specifically referring to
today is when one entity commits a crime or stages what looks like a
crime while pretending to be another entity, so as to have all the
blame cast on the second entity. For example, the infamous Reichstag
Fire in Germany in 1933, which was originally blamed on the mentally
challenged communist, Marinus Van der Lubbe, who also confessed,
after Nazi interrogation, to the fire, is now widely accepted as
an "inside" job by the Nazis themselves to promote a murderous purge
against German communists and catapult Hitler to dictatorial power
through the Enabling Act.
It was later revealed that an underground tunnel running from Hermann
Goering's residence to the cellars of the Reichstag allowed storm
troopers, led by SA leader Karl Ernst, to steal undetected into the
building to engage in their own significant arsonist activities while
Van der Lubbe, clueless, apparently ran amok, half-naked, using his
shirt as a torch. Indications are that undercover Nazi agents had
befriended him and knew the time of his arson attempt.
The Nazis also employed a sinister false flag op against Poland in
1939, staging an attack on the Gleiwitz radio station on the German
border with Poland. One of several slightly different historical
accounts has the Nazis dressing up several German-held convicts in
Polish uniforms, shooting them and then arranging their bodies as if
they had attacked the station. A German agent then read anti-German
polemics over the air in Polish, conjuring up, across Germany's air
waves, the imagined scenario that Poles had overrun the station.
German citizens were outraged and Hitler dutifully invaded Poland the
next day, citing this and several other alleged incidents as
justification.
False flag operations have been used repeatedly throughout history,
dating back to Nero framing the Christians for the great fire of Rome
and beyond. And there are now widespread arguments that this
Machiavellian technique has become an ongoing tool in both the
American and British Establishments' clandestine bag of dirty tricks,
the Gulf of Tonkin incident with North Vietnam often cited as one
prominent example, not to mention the historical controversy
surrounding the justification for the American invasion of Mexico in
1846, as well as the controversy surrounding the sinking of the USS
Maine in Havana Harbor that led to the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Currently, there are powerful allegations that both 9/11 and the
London Terror Bombings also fall into the false flag category, as
shock and awe catastrophies designed to jerk the public's chains in
the United States and Britain and then manipulate them into the
frenzied service of war. Various draconian terror alerts
and "uncovered" terrorist plots also raise questions, particularly in
those cases where we learn that government agencies had conducted
surveillance operations on suspects for months or even run sting
operations against them. A good case in point is last year's
melodramatic announcement of a "Liquid Bomb Plot" against some 14
airliners, a case which has slowly been unraveling as various
suspects both in Britain and Pakistan have been quietly released or
had their charges downgraded for lack of serious evidence, as opposed
to mountains of dubious circumstantial "evidence". The assassination
of Harik Hariri in Lebanon may also be a classic false flag op,
tarring Syria with the murder while many, including French
Intelligence officials, now believe Israeli operatives were behind
it. I am sure viewers of this website have their own opinions on all
of this.
What is worse is that there are now heightening rumors and
predictions that a new false flag operation is underway to justify
retaliatory attacks or full-scale war against Iran and/or Syria. The
recent storming of a de facto Iranian consulate in Arbil in Kurdish
Northern Iraq is, quite possibly, a trial run in this direction, an
escalation beyond the arrest and later release of Iranian diplomats
in Baghdad last December. Five Iranians, although in Arbil at the
invitation of Kurdish authorities and recognized as diplomats by the
Iraqi government, were arrested and accused by Americans of being
Republican Guard types clandestinely supplying Iraqi insurgents with
weapons, etc. Never mind that the Iranian government is Shiite and
the insurgents, as the US military defines them, are Sunnis involved
in hostilities with the Shiites - reality is the last consideration
in splashy propaganda operations by an Imperialist power.
Let us hope that a false flag disaster with a made-in-USA Iranian
pennant hoisted over it is simply overwrought paranoia, for the very
last thing the planet needs is another bloody war. But if another
major terrorist attack does occur, let us not be shocked and awed
into stupidity, but start to analyze the event immediately with a
healthy dose of skepticism.
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