"Putin made it understood that he is interested in preserving a counterbalance, despite the USA’s policy of forcing the world to acknowledge that it is the only current superpower. Putin signed a declaration for the advantages of the multi-polar world order, which is completely opposed to the American New World Order."

"The last War on Terrorism didn't go so well for Germany. They were ultimately defeated, not by the "terrorists", but by a foreign alliance because of their response to terrorism.

The foreign alliance felt justified in removing a hysterical empire from existence, who apparently could not deal with terrorism in a rational manner. Russia and China will feel the same justification when they attempt to do the same."

"America rules the world – by force. And that's ironic. Because for as long as I can remember, conservatives have been railing against the threat of world government. But now we actually have a form of world government – a government run by George Bush and enforced by the American military – and most conservatives are all for it."

• Republicans controlled both Houses of Congress from 1995 through 2001 during which time the federal budget grew from $1.4 trillion to $2.1 trillion (about $100 billion annually).
• Social welfare programs under George W. Bush have grown by $96 billion in just two years, versus $51 billion under six years of Clinton, according to economist Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth. (And don't blame it on the Democrats, President Bush didn't veto any legislation during his first 18 months in office.)
• The last Republican president to preside over a decrease in federal spending was Warren G. Harding who served from 1921 until his death in 1923. During that time federal spending decreased 38% from $5 billion to $3.1 billion.

The Fabian Society

..."The theoreticians who drafted this plan, (The Bretton Woods Conference; the creation of the World Bank, and the IMF 'International Monetary Fund' ), were the well-known Fabian Socialist from England, John Maynard Keynes, and the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Harry Dexter White.

" The Fabians were an elite group of intellectuals who formed a semi-secret society for the purpose of bringing socialism to the world. Whereas Communists wanted to establish socialism quickly through violence and revolution, the Fabians preferred to do it slowly through propaganda and legislation. The word socialism was not to be used. Instead, they would speak of benefits for the people such as welfare, medical care, higher wages, and better working conditions. In this way, they planned to accomplish their objectives without bloodshed and even without serious opposition. They scorned the communists, not because they disliked their goals, but because they disagreed with their methods. To emphasize the importance of gradualism, they adopted the turtle as the symbol of their methods...... Across the bottom, the masses kneel in worship of a stack of books advocating the theories of socialism. Thumbing his nose at the docile masses is H.G. Wells who, after quitting the Fabians, denounced them as "the new Machiavellian." The most revealing component, however, is the Fabian crest which appears between Shaw and Web (prominent leaders). It's a wolf in sheep's clothing."

- The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

"You do raise a salient point - some folks are quick to promote their own expansion of the powers of the federal government, as long as it promotes their own particular agenda."

"The members of this small but extremely influential group are responsible for a parade of foreign policy disasters in China, Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, and Africa. The group itself has always sought to lead the United States into a one-world socialistic system led by its members and their like-minded associates in other nations. Shouldn't you know about this organization and what its members are planning for the l990s?"

"Disseminate stories of particular victims to convey the range of people killed in the 9/11 attacks—stress range of religions, races, income levels, etc. (Stress that bin Ladin has killed co-religionists by showing Muslims killed, counteract myth that Mossad was behind the attacks by showing Jews killed, etc.)"

According to anonymous sources within the Dutch intelligence community, all tapping equipment of the Dutch intelligence services and half the tapping equipment of the national police force, is insecure and is leaking information to Israel.

How difficult is it to make a back-door in the Dutch Transport of Intercepted IP Traffic[1] system? The discussion focusses on the tapping installations for telephony and internet delivered to the government in the last few years by the Israeli company Verint[2].

This company was called Comverse-Infosys[3] until half a year ago, but was quickly renamed when the FBI started several investigations against it and arrested some of its employees in the US on suspicion of espionage. (See pulled FoxNews stories, Politech, Cryptome or Google).

People within the Dutch government got worried too. Especially because they had been warned as early as 1998 about the possible back-doors in the tapping equipment. The ex-ministers of interior ("Binnenlandse Zaken"), Peper and de Vries, could not comment. The minister of Justice at the time, Korthals Altes, was asked to report to parliament in december 2001, where he stated that the security measures meet the required level and that an investigation would be started if this, after all, was not the case. No investigation followed.

"Brave New World" was originally broadcast as the series premiere, in two parts, on January 27 and February 3rd, 1956. Aldous Huxley himself narrated this hour long adaptation of his dystopic novel of a quickly nearing future in which society manufactures babies for specific roles in life and people control and mellow their experience with the drug Soma...

• Part 1 - Duration: 29:41
• Part 2 - Duration: 30:01

Aldous Huxley discusses using terrorism to create willing slaves out of the population. Questions / Answers

"The Bush administration succeeded Friday in temporarily stopping a lawsuit seeking documents about the inner workings of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force and its meetings with industry executives and lobbyists," reports AP. "A federal appeals court INDEFINITELY delayed Monday's deadline for the White House to produce task force documents or provide a detailed list of the documents it is withholding."

Chesa Boudin, the son of former Weather Underground leader and convicted terrorist Kathy Boudin is to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.

Last night's raid of a Massachusetts-based software firm for possible links to al-Qaeda signals a shift in the FBI's focus on nongovernmental organizations and charities to corporate America, including the IT industry, experts close to the investigation said. ...........

The company's client list reads like a who's who of the high-tech industry, including companies such as IBM, Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc., Motorola Inc., Sprint Corp. and The Mitre Corp.........

customs officials and the FBI began investigating Yacub Mirza, a former member of Ptech's board of directors who also manages a number of other businesses in the U.S.

"Mirza was acting on behalf of Yassin Qadi, the Saudi financier who was on the U.S. [terrorism] watchlist and whose accounts here are frozen," said Vince Cannistraro, the former chief of counterterrorism at the CIA. "Qadi is the guy behind Ptech.".....

However, it's the company's work with the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense that has raised the most concern, experts said.

"Booz-Allen & Hamilton, in conjunction with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, runs the Saudi Armed Forces Staff College, while O'Gara Protective Services (former U.S. CIA and Secret Service agents) protects the Saudi royal family and their property and provides Saudi forces with security training."

NEW YORK - When federal agents swooped into the offices of Ptech, a computer software firm outside Boston this morning, they were looking for information about a Saudi businessman who is thought to be an investor in the firm and who has connections to another company based in the U.S. and another in Canada.

Yassin al-Kadi is on a Treasury Department list of wealthy individuals and entities that are thought by federal law enforcement officials and the CIA to be funneling money to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist organization. Al-Kadi has denied the allegations.........

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the Bush Administration designated al-Kadi as a terrorist entity, citing a relationship with a Saudi charity called Muwafaq Foundation, or "Blessed Relief" that is said by the government to transfer money from wealthy Saudi citizens to Al Qaeda.

Al-Kadi also has been named in a lawsuit by survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks.

""Bin Laden’s kind offer of "humanitarian help" in 1994 has been used repeatedly ever since to fund terrorism in Albania. Many terrorists have posed as "humanitarian workers" since. Secret KLA training camps, which the CIA and SAS also used, were created in Northern Albania by Iran and other countries "using Islamic educational institutions and projects for the development of rural communities as a front."

Back in 1999, "a Saudi government audit acquired by US intelligence showed that 5 of Saudi Arabia’s top business executives ordered the National Commercial Bank (NCB), the kingdom’s largest, to transfer personal funds along with $3 million diverted from a Saudi pension fund to New York and London banks. The money was diverted into the accounts of Islamic charities, including Islamic Relief and Blessed Relief, that serve as fronts for Bin Laden."

The selection of Elliot Abrams last week as President George Bush's director of Middle Eastern affairs triggered a cloud of controversy over both the administration's Middle East policy.

Abrams pleaded guilty in 1987 to withholding information from about the Nicaraguan Contra case from Congress, before being pardoned by the first President Bush in 1992. Four officials now in the Bush administration worked for President Reagan in the mid-1980s, when money from arms sales to Iran was diverted to aid the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

• Precision projection of 3-D visual images into a selected area
  
• Supports PSYOP and strategic deception management
  
• Provides deception and cloaking against optical sensors

• 4.1.4, Image Processing (holographic displays)
  
• 10.1, Lasers
  
• 10.2, Optics
  
• 10.3, Power Systems

Helpful in measuring whether an "outside the box" scandal, can cause commotions within the "box", are historical records. The monopoly press keep the same, calling them "the morgue", the place where they save old news clips, sometimes so old they are on microfilm, microfiche, and similar retention devices.

Do non-monopoly press sorts keep track that way? If not, why not? Internet search engines are helpful but limited. Did THEIR computers save the real stuff, the real possible negatives, revealing little-known happenings?

Now that we know the Federal Reserve is a privately owned, for-profit corporation, a natural question would be: who OWNS this company? Peter Kershaw provides the answer in "Economic Solutions" where he lists the ten primary shareholders in the Federal Reserve banking system.

1) The Rothschild Family - London 2) The Rothschild Family - Berlin 3) The Lazard Brothers - Paris 4) Israel Seiff - Italy 5) Kuhn-Loeb Company - Germany 6) The Warburgs - Amsterdam 7) The Warburgs - Hamburg 8) Lehman Brothers - New York 9) Goldman & Sachs - New York 10) The Rockefeller Family - New York

Now I don't know about you, but something is terribly wrong with this situation. Namely, don't we live in AMERICA? If so, why are seven of the top ten stockholders located in FOREIGN countries? That's 70%!

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Palm Beach technology company Applied Digital Solutions (Nasdaq: ADSX) said its microchip subsidiary has signed an exclusive, five-year deal with a City of Industry, Calif.-based import-export firm to distribute its products in South Korea.

The VeriChip subsidiary said Global Integrated Technology will be able to market and distribute all applications of VeriChip products in South Korea, provided the distributor meets minimum purchase requirements and certain other conditions. Applied said GIT must purchase 5,000 VeriChips in three months.

VeriChips are microchips that can be inserted under a person's skin and contain personal information. The agreement also calls for GIT to buy 216 VeriChip scanners, according to Applied. The scanners allow users to retrieve information stores in a VeriChip

Field Manual (FM) 3-19.40 depicts the doctrinal foundation, principles, and processes that MP will employ when dealing with enemy prisoners of war (EPWs), civilian internees (CIs), US military prisoner operations, and MP support to civil-military operations (populace and resource control [PRC], humanitarian assistance [HA], and emergency services [ES]). FM 3-19.40 is not a standalone manual, and it must be used in combination with other publications. These publications are pointed out throughout the manual, and a consolidated list is provided in the bibliography.

Also see:

Oslo, Norway - The criminal trial against Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager who watched his DVDs on his Linux computer using a DVD descrambling program called DeCSS, will start in Norway this Monday, December 9. The trial is scheduled to last until Friday, December 13.

"Jon owned the DVDs and he's never been accused of copyright infringement or assisting in copyright infringement," noted EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Instead, he's facing criminal charges for taking the necessary steps to view his own DVDs on his own computers."

It's getting so it's nearly impossible to follow which war-crimes monster or which convicted lying felon or which mysterious pro-corporate stable boy is heading what major investigative commission or sinister domestic-surveillance database or cramming what vile homeland-security bill with how many tons of conservative pork....

...In related news, Bush also appointed a squad of those evil hooded dark-rider things from "The Lord of the Rings" to look into the thousands of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. They promise complete unbiased reportage, as soon as they remove the skulls from between their teeth.

"Although I will reveal the full details of my intelligence background and activities only before a grand jury, trial jury or congressional committee, I will say that during and after my military service in the United States Army (RA11312792) I worked for or with the Army Security Service, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Army's Criminal Investigative Division.

This affidavit is limited to my activities from approximately 1971 through 1977 in Lakeland, Florida; Sao Paulo, Brazil and Albuquerque, New Mexico..."

What is SOS?

Students for an Orwellian Society (SOS) is a nationwide student group. Although SOS has always been a nationwide student group, there is evidence to suggest that it first appeared at Columbia University. The mission of SOS is to promote the vision of a society based upon the principles of Ingsoc, first articulated by George Orwell in his prophetic novel, 1984.

"And so the courage of America is being called upon more than at any time in my lifetime. And what I fear I hear is an echo chamber of voices in America that are saying, "Give us greater dominion over your personal liberties and we will make you secure."

...There are many authorities that we can extend to the government of this country that'll make us safer. But will we be free?"

Washington (RP) -- CIA sources have revealed al Qaeda plans to target particularly naive Americans with "insane conspiracy theories." Such theories, sources say, are intended to instill otherwise baseless trepidation into the hearts of citizens riddled with paranoia.

"One such claim," a CIA spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity stated, "is that Osama bin Laden has acquired technology that would allow him to transmute al Qaeda operatives into squirrels capable of gnawing through SUV brake lines."

The official added that the credibility degree of al Qaeda-spun theories ranges from "psychotically implausible" to "just enough to keep the irrational neurotic."

A Massachusetts high-tech firm that has sold millions of dollars in software and services to the FBI, the White House and other sensitive federal agencies was raided by federal agents early this morning because of allegations it is secretly funded by a U.S.-designated terrorist financier.

"Public health officials want to shut down roads and airports, herd people into sports stadiums and, if needed, quarantine entire cities in the event of a smallpox attack".- the Boston Herald, Nov. 8, 2001

"Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace." -the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 14, 2002

"The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system. . . . " - the Washington Post, Dec. 1, 2002

When police in the tiny republic of Montenegro swooped on a suspected pimp accused of running a major sex trafficking operation, they ran into an embarrassing problem.

The man they were about to put behind bars was none other than the country's deputy state prosecutor.

I predict that history will repeat itself again and again.

The last War on Terrorism didn't go so well for Germany. They were ultimately defeated, not by the "terrorists", but by a foreign alliance because of their response to terrorism.

The foreign alliance felt justified in removing a hysterical empire from existence, who apparently could not deal with terrorism in a rational manner. Russia and China will feel the same justification when they attempt to do the same.

"But the terrorists want to take away our freedom"

If the purpose of terrorism is to destroy liberties, then that can only be accomplished by the reactionary measures imposed. If the reaction is to destroy liberties, couldn't that reaction and those that support it be considered terrorist accomplices or phase two of the terrorist agenda?

My solution to terrorism would be just the opposite; use the same tactics of those used by the media to quell "terrorist" anti-war protests, or those used by MLB when a fan streaks naked accross the field: IGNORE THEM.

Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil (1985) was an attempt to explore reactionism and inverting the terrorist paradigm.

Terrorists don't destroy liberties. That's impossible. It's the governments that do.

"The I.N.S. is acting to place the prime suspect in a wider-ranging 9/11 conspiracy investigation out of the reach of the Independent Investigation."

At the instigation of Bush Administration officials the Immigration and Naturalization Service is preparing to deport the man whose Venice, FL. flight school served as a magnet for Mohamed Atta's terrorist cadre, effectively placing him beyond the reach of the upcoming 9/11 investigation, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.

As he was putting his camera away, Maginnis found himself confronted by a Denver police officer who demanded that he hand over his film and camera. When he refused to give up his Nikon F2, the officer pushed him to the ground and arrested him.

After being brought to the District 1 police station on Decatur Street, Maginnis was made to wait alone in an interrogation room. Two hours later, a Secret Service agent arrived, who identified himself as Special Agent "Willse."

The agent told Maginnis that his "suspicious activities" made him a threat to national security, and that he would be charged as a terrorist under the USA-PATRIOT act. The Secret Service agent tried to make Maginnis admit that he was taking the photographs to analyze weaknesses in the Vice President's security entourage and "cause terror and mayhem."

When Maginnis refused to admit to being any sort of terrorist, the Secret Service agent called him a "raghead collaborator" and a "dirty pinko faggot."

COUNTERFEIT RESERVE

Carried over from the greatly troubled 20th Century is a hush-hush group of events that is virtually impossible to be dealt with by the American monopoly press. After you study this, the how, when, where, and why of it, may become clear to you...

...Starting October, 1980, Daddy Bush, running for Vice President on the Reagan/Bush ticket, arranged a treasonous deal with the Iranians at the time, holding 52 U.S. Embassy hostages in Teheran. The Iranians agreed, in a Paris suburb meeting, to hold the U.S. hostages until the Reagan/Bush ticket was elected by getting the edge over incumbent Jimmy Carter...

Another, little-known part of the treasonous Daddy Bush/Iran deal, was Bush's promise to them that the then new administration would take no action if the Iranians counterfeited foreign currencies, INCLUDING THAT OF THE UNITED STATES.

So, the Iranians bought printing apparatus from Germany, similar to that used by the U.S., to print superior quality bogus Federal Reserve Hundred Dollar Notes. Through corrupt means, the Iranians even obtained the special U.S.-contract only, linen type paper used for printing the hocus pocus money.

The big secret, forbidden to be discussed by the oil-soaked, spy-riddled American monopoly press is that there is, because of Iran and others, over 800 billion dollars worth of these superior quality Federal Reserve Notes, masquerading, of course, as the "U.S. Dollar". Some of it, circulating by way of Iran. Some is being circulated by a joint deal between the Russian mafiya (former KGB officers) and a faction of the Colombia dope cartel. Some by blowback (spy lingo) is coming back to the U.S....

World government

America rules the world – by force.

And that's ironic. Because for as long as I can remember, conservatives have been railing against the threat of world government.

But now we actually have a form of world government – a government run by George Bush and enforced by the American military – and most conservatives are all for it...

In the aftermath of 9/11 Mr. O'Reilly, from his battle station at Fox, was calling for the United States "to bomb the Afghan infrastructure to rubble, the airport, the power plants, the water facilities, the roads." He went on to describe Afghanistan as "a very primitive country" and to say "taking out their ability to exist day-to-day will not be hard. Remember the people of any country are ultimately responsible for the government they have. The Germans were responsible for Hitler, the Afghans are responsible for the Taliban. We should not target civilians but if they don't rise up against this criminal government, they starve, period."

(*Editors Note | This is the first part of a three-part series on the Homeland Security Act (HSA). The first part reviews the origins of the Act in the Hart-Rudman Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Tomorrow, Part 2 will discuss Cheney's plan for global dominance and how that relates to homeland security. Wednesday, Part 3 will detail some of the HSA provisions themselves and briefly discuss what worries civil libertarians.)

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - A Bosnian Muslim arrested by U.S. troops in Bosnia on suspicion of spying on a U.S. base is linked to the Al Qaeda terrorist network, peacekeepers said today.
Sabahudin Fijuljanin, 41, was arrested Oct. 26 by U.S. troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force based in Tuzla, northeastern Bosnia, when they saw him allegedly spying on their base.

During an investigation, the troops found an anti-tank weapon and several passports in Fijuljanin's home.

"We have information which links Fijuljanin to Al Qaeda," said Lt. Cmdr. Yves Vanier, a spokesman for the peacekeepers......

Since the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, several people in Bosnia have been questioned about possible links to international terrorism. Six of them - all Algerians - were arrested and handed over to the U.S. government. They still are reported to be in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Earlier this year, Bosnian authorities raided several Islamic charities operating here and closed three of them: the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation and Bosanska Idealna Futura - a branch of the Chicago-based Benevolence International Foundation.

"The authority to kill U.S. citizens is granted under a secret finding signed by the president after the Sept. 11 attacks that directs the CIA to covertly attack al-Qaida anywhere in the world. The authority makes no exception for Americans, so permission to strike them is understood rather than specifically described, officials said."

Marvin P. Bush, one of George W. Bush's three younger brothers, is co-founder and partner in Winston Partners, a private investment firm in Alexandria, Va. Winston Partners in turn is part of a larger venture capital entity called the Chatterjee Group, headed by venture capitalist Purnendu Chatterjee........

Inevitably, many companies are aggressively marketing services to make businesses ``Patriot Act''-compliant: that is, they sell computer systems to enable banks to argue successfully to Uncle Sam that they're not laundering money for terrorists. One of the most aggressive is Sybase Inc., which developed a ``Sybase PATRIOT compliance Solution'' months ago. Sybase, which said it wanted foreign banks as customers (it already had a deal with the People's Bank of China), landed Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in time for the October 2002 compliance deadline.

This is where Winston Partners comes in. The Chatterjee Group, including Winston Partners, owns 5.5 million shares in Sybase (Chatterjee businesses also have been paid thousands more shares in Sybase). SEC filings show that Winston Partners LP owns 1,036,075 shares in Sybase; Winston Partners LDC holds 1,317,825 shares; and Winston Partners LLC owns 1,221,837 shares. The shares owned by the subsidiaries are collectively managed in funds for Winston Partners by Pernendu Chatterjee. There is also a Chatterjee Charitable Foundation.

MP3 AUDIO: Alex Jones interviews Trina Magi, past President of the Vermont Library Association. Magi has said,

"We think that if you have to start wondering what your reading list might look like to an FBI agent then you might just start to censor yourself and not read the things that you want to read. And the moment you have to begin thinking about that, you are no longer free to be an informed citizen."

Detainees in the war on terrorism are fighting for access to American courts, contending they should not be held at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without seeing a lawyer and without being charged with a crime.
The Bush administration was arguing in a federal appeals court here Monday that 12 Kuwaitis, two Australians and two British Muslims captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the months following the Sept. 11 attacks are ``unlawful combatants.''
Siding with Justice Department lawyers, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled four months ago that the Guantanamo detainees have no right to court hearings, meaning the military can hold them indefinitely without filing charges. ........

As for the detainees in the appeals court case: ........

There is little doubt that Australian David Hicks, 26, had joined the Taliban when he was captured by U.S.-backed Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said. Hicks' family denies that he trained with al-Qaida. Australian newspapers have published photos of Hicks as a freckled 10-year-old schoolboy alongside a picture of him as a bazooka-toting soldier taken during a stint in Kosovo, where he fought with Muslims in the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of the United States?

- Egypt: favorable, 6 percent; unfavorable, 69 percent
- Jordan: favorable, 25 percent; unfavorable, 75 percent
- Lebanon: favorable, 35 percent; unfavorable, 59 percent
- Pakistan: favorable, 10 percent; unfavorable, 69 percent
- Turkey: favorable, 30 percent; unfavorable, 55 percent

Do you support or oppose the U.S.-led war on terrorism?

- Egypt: support, 5 percent; oppose 79 percent
- Jordan: support, 13 percent; oppose 85 percent
- Lebanon: support, 38 percent; oppose 56 percent
- Pakistan: support, 20 percent; oppose 45 percent
- Turkey: support, 30 percent; oppose 58 percent

FTW - October 9, 2001 – Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.

According to continuityofgovernment.org, the official website of The Continuity of Government Commission:

In the fall of 2002, the Continuity of Government Commission was launched to study and make recommendations for the continuity of our government institutions after a catastrophic attack. September 11th raises the possibility that foreign enemies might seriously disrupt the filling of vacancies in Congress, presidential succession, and achieving a quorum for the Court so much so that our basic institutions might not function in a normal constitutional manner.

This is a long but very important story. Read more for who is backing COG, what COG intends to do, and for a transcription of a portion of a radio interview with Howard Phillips, the leader of the Constitution Party who got sixth place for U.S. President in the 2000 election with 100,000 votes (behind Bush, Gore, Nader, Buchanan, and Browne).

On the 4th of July [Geez, talk about a loaded date! - Editor] Hacktivismo announced it would release Camera/Shy, a steganography application. Ever since we've been bombarded by journalists wanting to know, "Could this application be used by terrorists?" Last year the boogiemen were child pornographers. Next year they might be extraterrestrials. Who knows?

We know we're in the business of providing technical solutions for democracy activists, not assisting bomb throwers and weenie wagers. Camera/Shy actively benefits the democratic experience wherever freedom is under siege. But can Cisco and the other software titans make the same claim? How are they helping the democratic franchise by selling censorware to the People's Republic of China? Or are they allowed because, unlike us, it isn't their business to care about these things?

And Another Thing
While the so-called leaders of the free world are doing nothing to open up the Internet, we're doing this with no money and in our spare time. Just think of what we could do with a budget. Currently our R & D division is running off an Atari and a Casio keyboard. I can hardly wait until we can afford a copy of Windows 95.

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WASHINGTON -- The first national opinion poll regarding the newly created Department of Homeland Security since President Bush signed the law establishing it last week indicates that former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who has been tapped to head the massive new bureaucracy, has his work cut out for him.

Only 13 percent of Americans polled by the Gallup Organization say they have confidence that the new department will make them "a lot" safer. Nearly 4 in 10 Americans expect that the new department will not make the country any safer.

Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll, said in an interview that from a public relations standpoint, Ridge "has two strikes against him. As the war [against terrorism] has gone on without Osama bin Laden being caught, there's been a growing cynicism that anything will be effective against terrorism. And there has always been a healthy skepticism about the effectiveness of government bureaucracy. [Ridge] has a tough row to hoe."

"You, in the media, have to think about how to protect your nations and your youth against terrorism. You have to learn how to protect your faith against being stamped as terrorism by a group of suspicious and dubious people. I am personally one of those who suspect that these terrorist organizations have relations with foreign intelligence organs which have an anti-Arab and anti-Islamic tendency. At the top of those [foreign intelligence] is the Israeli intelligence, because they [the terrorists] tried to assail us from within our bases and from within our faith and principles, Islam and the Palestinian cause. I am supposed to believe that 19 young men, of whom 15 are Saudis, managed to conduct this operation, and that bin Laden and Al-Qaeda group did that independently. This is impossible. I will never believe that. If they have this capability, then they must be supermen or probably have some heavenly power."

The boundaries of crime seem to be expanding.

VS.

Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. Through his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, he has a commercial interest in not shaking things up ...it's still possible that Kissinger may—emphasize may—prove a smart choice to run the commission precisely because he's the same Machiavellian schemer he always was. The 9/11 committee carries great potential to become a vehicle for Kissinger's revenge against his bitterest bureaucratic foe.

That would be Donald Rumsfeld...

..."We have ways of dealing with those clowns," Kissinger said.

Wow!! We make the top 10 Blogs of War Hostiles List as the only libertarian site, grouped with the liberals such as IndyMedia, ANSWER, Michael Moore, PETA, and ELF, (yes I know, but they don't know the difference.) LOL!!

As the Fascists battle the Socialists for control, I'd like to direct both parties to the latest column by Ron Paul, MD (R), TX:

Our Incoherent Foreign Policy Fuels Middle East Turmoil

If ADS continues to market VeriChip for applications the FDA considers medical, the agency could seize the company's inventory, impose civil penalties and obtain an injunction against further marketing of VeriChip, the letter said. "Violations of the [Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act] are also punishable by criminal penalties. The FDA expects ADS to correct these violations immediately."

From a visitor in Germany....

Hello Paul,

There is something that you can't know. In a private TV station, there was a Kissinger interview recently. It was done in German, Kissinger speaks very good German.

http://www.dctp.de/archiv/2002/pw44/gaus_kissinger.shtml

My bad, I didn't record it :(

Anyway, the interesting part was this: The interviewer spoke about the whole Bush administration, 9/11 issue, Kissinger made a rather strange remark, if I remember correctly it was something like "...yes, but maybe he isn't president any more soon." The interviewer stumbled, but didn't ask any further about that.

Lawyers Cite Consumer Rights and Technology Innovation

Los Angeles - Attorneys argued in federal court today over a copyright lawsuit brought by entertainment companies against StreamCast Networks, maker of the popular Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) software.

"This case is broader than StreamCast and P2P technology,"said Steve Griffin, Streamcast's CEO, who attended the hearing. "It is about the rights of consumers to share information freely and technology companies to innovate freely."

Thousands of American troops already occupy Afghanistan, and perhaps hundreds of thousands more are poised to attack Iraq. The justification given for these military invasions is that both nations support terrorism, and thus pose a risk to the United States.

Yet when we step back and examine the region as a whole, it’s obvious that these two impoverished countries, neither of which has any real military, pose very little threat to American national security when compared to other Middle Eastern nations. The decision to attack them, while treating some of region’s worst regimes as "allies," is just the latest example of the deadly hypocrisy of our foreign policy in the Middle East.

AMERICAN investigators know the identity of the killer who paralysed the US by sending anthrax in the post but will not arrest the culprit, according to leading US scientists.

"Documents from the inquiry show that one unauthorized person who was observed entering the lab building at night was Langford's predecessor, Lt. Col. Philip Zack, who at the time no longer worked at Fort Detrick. A surveillance camera recorded Zack being let in at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992"

"I'm amazed that the government has never once sought to find out from Moussaoui who the people are in the United States that he was in touch with," said Ed MacMahon, one of Moussaoui's court-appointed standby defense attorneys.

Michigan's 7th district congressman, Nick Smith, has cosponsored HR 3598 called the "Universal Military Training and Service Act of 2001." This bill authorizes the federal government to force six months of military training onto every male from age 18 to 22.

At first glance HR 3598 appears to be an absurdity destined for the ash heap. The military has no use for millions of conscripts. They would be a nuisance, burden and expense. Giving real training to millions of conscripts would mean that many of the military's present personnel would have to be switched from being soldiers to being trainers. One might conclude at this point that even Congress is not so out of touch with reality as to seriously consider such legislation.

Countering a basic principle of American anti-drug policies, an independent U.S. study concluded on Monday that marijuana use does not lead teenagers to experiment with hard drugs like heroin or cocaine.

The study by the private, nonprofit RAND Drug Policy Research Center rebutted the theory that marijuana acts as a so-called gateway drug to more harmful narcotics, a key argument against legalizing pot in the United States.

The question was recently put to me in the course of an Internet dialog regarding conspiracy theories, "Ian, can you give examples of conspiracy theories which have been proven true?" Toward the satisfaction of this question I offered the following:

IAN: If we define "proven true" as "that which is accepted by the Govt. Media," and thus by the majority of people, I'd be hard-pressed to point to a conspiracy "proven true." If we define "proven true" as "consistent with facts," then there are many conspiracy theories proven true, such as:

The brother of President George Bush, the Florida governor, Jeb Bush, has been instrumental in securing the release from prison of militant Cuban exiles convicted of terrorist offences, according to a new book. The Bush family has also accommodated the demands of Cuban exile hardliners in exchange for electoral and financial support, the book suggests.

"According to the original legend, the community at Ong's Hat was built upon the foundations of the Moorish Science Temple and the Moorish Orthodox Church, both of which are considered heretical Moslem sects. (which sought to counterbalance the forces of Islam)

Whether it is true or not, one of the most incredible stories of Ong's Hat concerns Wali Fard, an African-American from Chicago who is a legend in his own right. After traveling throughout Asia and experiencing exotic initiations from different mystery schools, Fard amassed a fortune from trading in carpets and other well known Afghan exports (we can assume hashish and opium).

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan induced him to return to America in 1978. Fard laundered his earnings by buying about 200 acres in the New Jersey pine barrens and set up the foundation for that which became known as The Institute for Chaos Studies and the Ong's Hat Legend.

In 1931, a black circus magician named Noble Drew Ali founded an Islamic heretical sect and called it the Moorish Science Temple. In the 1950's various jazz musicians and poets who belonged to this sect founded the Moorish Orthodox Church, tracing their spiritual ancestry to various "Wandering Bishops" loosely affiliated with the Old Catholic Church and schisms of Syrian Orthodoxy. In the 1960's the Moorish Orthodox Church remained a presence at Millbrook, New York at Timothy Leary's commune...

... The popular press has characterized Osama bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks. In actuality it is far more complicated. We are dealing with a secret society that goes back thousands of years and might take ten, twenty, or even one hundred years to put an assassin in place to commit an execution.

This modus operandi is the gravest danger for the United States of America at this particular time. The terrorists could not have hit a more significant symbol than the trade towers. The only way way for them to hit a more dramatic target and to strike terror in the heart of America would be a carefuly trained assasisn to strike at the heart of the president himself. This means a person who is very close to him. This would be the most demoralizing we could suffer as a nation. Whether it plays out or not, and I certainly hope it does not, this is how the sect works.

One of the top programmer/hackers in the world is an Arab with sympothies to terrorists. He facilitates an intimidating message to the White House when the terrorists revealed to our government that they knew exactly where the president was at the time of the attacks because they had broken the security codes. They were sending a message to the president himself.

Sen. Bob Graham, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said... U.S. intelligence agencies now were predicting a 75 percent chance or better of attacks inside the United States in the event of any attack on Iraq that threatens Saddam Hussein.

Since it's the threat of obscurantism we're hoping to thwart, let's be blunt: The Bush administration's plan to strip the Government Printing Office's authority is a threat to democracy.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels wants to transfer control of information management from the printing office to individual Cabinet agencies. That would spell the end of the current system, in place since the Jeffersonian era, which requires executive branch agencies to send their documents and reports to neutral librarians, who then make them available to the public both online and in 1,300 public reading rooms nationwide.

Daniels would replace that system with a more secretive one in which individual agencies would manage -- and possibly sanitize -- their own electronic databases.

Currently, a federal agency such as the Pentagon can't delete an embarrassing passage from a historical document without first going through the hassle of asking each reading room to obscure the passage with a black marker.

If Daniels gets his way, all an agency will have to do is call up the document in Microsoft Word and quietly hit Control X to delete the passage for eternity.

"They're trying to cleanse America,'' Redner said after his release Saturday night from Orient Road Jail on a charge of trespassing after warning. "To me, it's what the Nazis used to try to do. In this country, you have an absolute right to protest.''

15 cities and towns have passed resolutions; more are underway in 24 states!

Congratulations to #15: Eugene, OR, for its unanimous City Council vote on November 25!

"We support repeal of parts of the USA PATRIOT Act and Executive Orders that infringe on Constitutional rights. This web site documents and supports local efforts to restore civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution, which have been threatened by the Act and Orders."

Who better to investigate an unwarranted attack on America than the man who used to instigate America's unwarranted attacks? Who better to ferret out US government duplicity and manipulation than the man who engineered secret wars, secret bombings, secret wiretaps and secret coups, and still ended up as a Nobel Peace Prize winner?

If you want to get to the bottom of something, you don't appoint Henry Kissinger. If you want to keep others from getting to the bottom of something, you appoint Henry Kissinger.

On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the 'Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.' If passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

The 'distress' had been secretly caused by the Nazis themselves in order to create a crisis atmosphere that would make the law seem necessary to restore order. On February 27, 1933, they had burned the Reichstag building, seat of the German government, causing panic and outrage. The Nazis successfully blamed the fire on the Communists and claimed it marked the beginning of a widespread uprising.

On the day of the vote, Nazi storm troopers gathered in a show of force around the opera house chanting, "Full powers - or else! We want the bill - or fire and murder!!" They also stood inside in the hallways, and even lined the aisles where the vote would take place, glaring menacingly at anyone who might oppose Hitler's will.

Just before the vote, Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag in which he pledged to use restraint.

"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures...The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one." - Hitler told the Reichstag.

Are you bored with your life of reasonable, rational thought?

Do you long for the simplicity and excitement of paranoia? (Flash Video)

SUMMARY: International hacker organization issues software license that allows the group or its licensees to take human rights violators to court.

CROSSHAIRS: This story is important for anyone interested in hacking, human rights, information security, open-source software, Internet censorship, international law, international politics, or technology transfer.

LUBBOCK, TX, November 25 -- Hacktivismo, an international group of hackers and human rights activists, today issued the Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement (HESSLA). The license offers open-source transparency, enhanced by legal remedies both for Hacktivismo, as licensor, and for end-users...

...The most novel innovation in the license distributes enforcement power instead of concentrating it in Hacktivismo's hands. If a private citizen happens to violate the license, then Hacktivismo is in charge of enforcement. But the situation is different if the violation is by a government or a governmental official. When Governments subvert human rights, and try to use Hactivismo-licensed software as part of any aspect of such a project, then the license empowers end-users act as enforcers too.

The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say.

What a pain it is to write a check these days -- all those forms of identification. But now, technology makes it possible to identify customers using their fingerprints. In a flash you can pay for groceries safely.

We've all been there-standing in the supermarket's check out line, digging for identification to prove we are who we say we are. Now there's a better way and it's at the tip of your fingers.

"We use a finger identification system to identify customers for their payment process," Garry Huddleston of Kroger Food Stores.

Of all the peculiarities, unanswered questions, and things that simply don’t add up about the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the one aspect that keeps nagging at me revolves around our military’s incredible lack of response to the hijacking of four airliners. Anyone who investigates this matter will soon find that the United States Air Force and the FAA both have established procedures that have been in place for at least 25 years regarding planes that veer abnormally off course.

Specifically, federal law MANDATES that the Air Force must dispatch a plane to investigate why a certain craft has strayed from its predestined route. These interceptors are only allowed to shoot an airliner from the sky under orders from the President, but that doesn’t negate that they are still required to investigate the situation in a timely manner.

Yet, on 9-11, NO ONE FOLLOWED ORDERS! Why? Who gave these orders? Plus, Washington, D.C. has the most restricted air space in the country, yet from 9:03 a.m., when the second tower was hit, to 9:47 a.m. when the Pentagon came under attack … when the Air Force KNEW that a jet was headed toward the Capitol, no planes were dispatched to intercept it. Who gave the orders for these planes to ‘stand down,’ and, God forbid, were some even called back after they had taken off?