"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
~ President Thomas Jefferson
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This is HUGE! Out Damn Blot: A Letter to Colin Powell By Ray McGovern August 15, 2008
From 911blogger.com - Sunday, August 17, 2008 By Ray McGovern Ray McGovern, a 27-year career CIA analyst, wrote Collin Powell a letter asking Powell, "What Did You Know ... and When?" ...to come clean on what he knew about the behind the scenes intelligence reports from Naji Sabri and Tahir Jalil Habbush. ...info about Iraq's lack of WMD's that Powell omitted from his U.N. speech to push for the justification for the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Ray McGovern wrote: "Most important, each independently affirmed that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, information that should have prevented you from making a fool of yourself before the U.N. Security Council." Ray McGovern, during his 27-year career in CIA's analysis ranks chaired National Intelligence Estimates and briefed the President's Daily Brief to the most senior national security officials. RELATED: UPDATED: Ron Suskind: White House ordered forgery to link al-Qaeda/Saddam to 9/11 attacks Read More [ permalink ] |
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U.S. Imperialist Agenda and the Deepening Crisis in Iraq
From Fire This Time - Sunday, July 6, 2008 By Alison Bodine September 3rd was the last time US President George Bush set foot on Iraqi soil, bloodied and wrecked after over 4 years of US occupation. At this time he had a few words to share with the people of Iraq and the world: "When we begin to draw down troops from Iraq, it will be from a position of strength and success, not from the position of fear and failure." For the people of Iraq who have endured an estimated 1.2 million deaths (UK-based ORB polling agency), and countless humiliations since the March 2003 military invasion, the idea of ever seeing the US leave seems distant or impossible, let alone from a position of "success" and "strength." The US has a long-term plan for their continued occupation of Iraq and it includes continued death and destruction for the people of Iraq and a rising massive humanitarian crisis. How the US is turning Iraq into a permanent military base In a declaration of principles signed by George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on November 26th 2007 the ground work was laid for a long-term agreement on future cooperation between the US and Iraq. In the political, economic and security (military) sphere the US and the installed Iraqi Prime Minister are starting to plan for an "enduring" relationship to last well into the future. The plan will include United States support for the "democratic regime in Iraq against domestic and external dangers," according to Al-Maliki. It also includes plans to protect the US-drafted Iraqi constitution, give preferential treatment to US investments and continued support for a strategic partnership. This is the beginnings of their plans for "enduring" occupation. Another part of continued US presence in Iraq are the 14 "enduring" (read: permanent) bases whose construction began as soon as the US invaded. These bases are long-term encampments for US forces in Iraq and outposts for military and government policy advisors that will remain in Iraq beyond any troop withdrawal or formal end to the occupation of Iraq. To compliment US bases and the continued occupation, the US has also built a $740Million Embassy in Iraq, the largest in the world. It will eventually staff an estimated 4,000 regular employees, contractors, local Iraqi employees and visitors. It will also house 619 apartments and 27 separate buildings behind the well-secured walls of the "Green Zone" in Baghdad and serve as the main base for representing US interests in Iraq. After 4 and a half years of occupation the US has not established anything close to stability or the assurance of a successful US proxy regime in Iraq. They know that after a troop withdrawal there will be an internal struggle in Iraq and that it is very possible that its' outcome will not be in favour of the US. As an insurance plan for all the work they have done to fuel US interests in Iraq, they now have the military bases and US Embassy at their back. Mercenaries and Continued Occupation Continued US presence in Iraq would not be possible without the assistance of 120,000 mercenaries in Iraq, the contract employees of military corporations such as Blackwater USA, DynCorp International and Armor Group. According to US "Order 17", issued in 2004, all mercenaries operating in Iraq are exempt from obeying Iraqi law. In this way mercenaries are allowed to operate without rule of law or accountability to anyone, except the corporations that employ them. This has meant numerous tragedies, with the lives and dignities of Iraqi people disappearing under the radar. After a September 16th shooting in which 17 Iraqi civilians were needlessly killed by a Blackwater guard in a Baghdad square, this provision and the legal loop-hole allowing them to escape charges under US law came under fire from people internationally. As a way to avoid further embarrassment and scrutiny the US government signed a new agreement in December 2007. This agreement means that contract mercenaries are now accountable under US law. Unfortunately, this still does not mean that they will be charged and they are still not held accountable under Iraqi law. Human Crisis: Daily Life in Iraq Over the past four years of US-led occupation, the human crisis has deepened in Iraq. Iraqi woman and children have felt the greatest impact from the presence of hundreds of thousands of foreign military troops taking away their basic human rights to housing, food, water, education and a future with guns, bombs and tanks. According to the Iraq Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, over 1.6 million children under the age of 12 have become homeless in Iraq. This is almost 70 percent of the 2.2 million homeless and internally displaced persons in Iraq. To make the situation even worse, internally displaced Iraqi's are not finding the infrastructure and basic aid that they need anywhere in Iraq. As one example, the Basra province in Southern Iraq can no longer handle families and children seeking refuge. A senior Iraqi official in the Basra Governing Council, Hassan Abdul-Kareem, explained to IRIN News Service. "We cannot cope with any more families seeking refuge in our province, whatever their reasons. The governorate is seriously affected by the high number of displaced families, health services have deteriorated, schools are overcrowded and we aren't even able to offer a good service to our locals. Things have become worse since the high influx of new arrivals," The situation has also deteriorated for girls hoping to attend school in Iraq. Families and mothers are worried about sending their girls to school for fear that they will be raped or killed. They are also needed to stay at home as one-million families are now headed by widows whose husbands have been killed by the occupation and the violence it has created (Aljazeera News: "Debating the US troop 'surge'). The Heavy Costs of the Occupation Everyday the US spends $280Million towards death and destruction in Iraq. According to the American Friends Services Committee, a US based peace and justice organization, if you include not just the immediate costs of the war, but also ongoing factors such as long-term health care for veterans, interest on debt and replacement of military hardware, that number grows to $720Million a day. The American Friends Services Committee also broke down these numbers into what the money could have bought for social service in the US including: homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity. The US-Congressional report entitled "The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War," stated the cast of the war from 2002 to present as being $1.3Trillion. Not only does this money mean the destruction of civil society and human life in Iraq, it has also been another part of the deepening economic crisis in the US. This crisis has been marked most recently by the devaluation of the US dollar, the crisis in mortgage and the banking market and the continued growth of poverty in the US. The crisis that the US has created in Iraq is directly tied to the crisis in the US and the disgusting amount of money spent to fuel death and destruction. Resistance to the occupation: in Iraq and World-wide For over four years the US has been relying on its' consolidation of the occupation to demoralize the Iraqi people, and the movement of resistance against their continued presence in Iraq. Contrary to their hopes, the number of demonstrations, strikes and attacks on occupying forces has increased drastically as the occupation has continued. The US is now confronted with a deep political, social and military crisis. This is why they need permanent presence in Iraq. This is also why the people of Iraq will keep fighting any way that they can for their land, lives and dignity. The continued struggle of the Iraqi people against the occupation and the US crisis in Iraq has also meant that its own enlisted fighters, the US military forces, are demoralizing. US Army suicide rates are at a record high of 18.4 per 100,000 active duty soldiers, according to military reports. A CBS News investigation also showed that military veterans aged 20-24, meaning those whom have served during the so-called "War on Terror" in Iraq and Afghanistan, had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age. The US cannot fight without a willing army, and suicides rates are only one of the signs that the US is loosing ground with the troops. If the Iraqi's kick the US out of Iraq it will mean a weakening of the position of the US and Israel that would accelerate the struggle of people all over the Middle East against Imperialism. In this new era of war and occupation which emerged as the "War on Terror" following Sept 11th 2001, we must come together as poor and working people against the occupation of Iraq. As peace and human loving people, we have no other choice but to work to build a united and effective antiwar movement to end this brutal war and echo the demands of the Iraqi people for life and self-determination! US Out Now! Bring the Troops Home Now! Self-determination for all oppressed nations! Read More [ permalink ] |
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EX-ABU GHRAIB INMATES SUE US FIRMS FOR TORTURE
From CommonDreams - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 By Agence France Presse ISTANBUL - Four Iraqis are suing two US firms and their employees for allegedly torturing them at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Bagdad five years ago. Their lawsuit is against private security contractor CACI International and two of its interrogators, Daniel Johnson and Tim Dugan, and the translation agency L-3 (formerly Titan Corp) and its interpreter, Abel Nakhla, lawyer William Gould told AFP in Istanbul on Monday. Their complaint was to be lodged Monday at courts in Maryland, Ohio and Washington — the US states where the alleged torturers live — as well as Michigan, where L-3 recruited most of its interpreters, said Gould who met his Iraqi clients in Istanbul. He said the court cases would show that the accused were in Abu Ghraib and involved in a CONSPIRACY that included the torture of the plaintiffs. Read More [ permalink ] |
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United States attempts to Weaken Mexican Sovereignty
Thursday, June 12, 2008 By Your-Rights.com The United States Congress passed a bill, 311-106, to help Mexico crack down on the illegal drug trade and the cartels behind it. however, there is one small catch... The Mexican government is opposing the anti-drug trafficking aid in the bill because of requirements in it that Mexico says interfere with its sovereignty! This in and of its self might not be all that bad, however, considering all the fuss about a proposed North American Union (which some say is a farce), this is just one more peice of evidence to say it exists. On top of all those references in the last link, Canada just showed a film on the CBC entitled, The Trojan Horse which was a fictional account of the all to real activities of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). There is also a huge wealth of information about the North American Union at Wikipedia. Search for more info about Mexico's sovereignty. Tags: North American Union Read More [ permalink ] |
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Bush Knew About Torture Techniques AND Approved Them
Monday, April 14, 2008 By Your-Rights.com Cause of detainee death was HOMICIDE according to Army CID investigation autopsy! An autopsy was performed as part of what seems to be part of an Army CID investigation of a detainee. The medical examiner said the cause of death was HOMICIDE! To quote the medical examiner from the autopsy report: ''This 47-year-old White male, [redacted], died of blunt force injuries and asphyxia. The autopsy disclosed multiple blunt force injuries, including deep contusions of the chest wall, numerous displaced rib fractures, lung contusions, and hemorrhage into the mesentery of the small and large intestine. An examination of the neck structures revealed hemorrhage into the strap muscles and fractures of the thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone. According to the investigative report provided by U.S. Army CID, the decedent was shackled to the top of a doorframe with a gag in his mouth at the time he lost consciousness and became pulseless. This autopsy report by its self is very disturbing. And on top of that autopsy report, we have George W. Bush admitting he not only knew WHAT WAS GOING ON, but that key administration officials discussed specific torture techniques. George W. Bush ADMITS he approved torture! Bush: "I Was Aware" of Harsh Tactics (cached) ABC News President Bush says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday. What makes me the most angry about this whole mess... Ron Suskind: White House ordered forgery to link al-Qaeda/Saddam to 9/11 attacks The FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11 (search) NO LINK has been found between al Qaeda and Iraq before we invaded. (search) George W. Bush tells a reporter that Iraq had "NOTHING" to do with the World Trade Center 9/11 attacks. (video) U.S. and Allied Intelligence Services Had Penetrated The Highest Levels of Al Qaeda Prior to 9/11 (search) (old link) BUSH DID NOT LIE! There WAS a connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein! The connection was the BUSH FAMILY!!! So... The REAL Terrorists attacked on 9/11. George W. Bush used these attacks to ILLEGALLY invade a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. Then George W. Bush captures the people who tried to protect their country from his illegal invasion. Then... George W. Bush imprisons these INNOCENT people with no charges, no access to an attorney, no Habeas Corpus. THEN, George W. Bush authorizes innocent people to be tortured for information about ties to al Qaeda that didn't even exist before our illegal invasion! Then the C.I.A. DESTROYS THE EVIDENCE OF TORTURE as a Judge Sought Interrogation Data! All of this torture, George W. Bush says, is to ''protect'' the American people from the al Qaeda threat that didn't even exist before Bush invaded Iraq! So, after knowing all of this, why hasn't the United States Congress STARTED IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS? Maybe it is because THEY ARE MAKING TO MUCH MONEY FROM THE WAR! RELATED: Loose NUKES: Secret ILLEGAL U.S. Government Backroom Deals Bush Consolidates the National Security State Proof that George W. Bush had advanced knowledge of 9-11 - George W. Bush Can't Remember His Own Lies Bush, Cheney subject to arrest for War Crimes Rumsfeld Charged with Torture in French Court MSNBC: 9/11 Commission findings based largely on testimony waterboarded out of suspects. In other words, forced confessions rather than investigations Proof: BUSH AUTHORIZED TORTURE plus Waterboarding videos Read More [ permalink ] |
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Bush Consolidates the National Security State
From Dissident Voice - Thursday, March 20, 2008 By Tom Burghardt One of the best articles about the history of the United States. ''While administration apologists claim such sweeping and intrusive spying is necessary to "keep America safe," if history is any judge of past intelligence abuses these practices are designed instead, to "keep America in line," ever-fearful and obedient servants of our capitalist masters.'' This article is a good start for those who do not know about these issues. For an even deeper look into the shadows of American policies, read the excellent book, ''A People's History of the United States'' by Howard Zinn. Read More [ permalink ] |
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FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including ''Shoot to Kill'' WITHOUT REPERCUSSION
From The Progressive - Sunday, February 10, 2008 By Matthew Rothschild The FBI has a new set of eyes and ears, and they're being told to protect their infrastructure at any cost. They can even kill without repercussion. The parallels between our current police state and Nazi Germany are way to numerous to be mere coincidence! Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does -- and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law. InfraGard is "a child of the FBI," says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm. RELATED: Our Imperial Emperor, Lord Bush! - Hitler George Bush Movie Documentary Tags: LORD BUSH Read More [ permalink ] |
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PROOF: Plans for North American Union (NAU) are REAL
Monday, January 21, 2008 By Your-Rights.com On January 22, 2007, Rep. Virgil H. Goode, Jr. introduced H.CON.RES.40 titled "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." This bill has 43 co-sponsors. After campaigning to have the North American Union artlcle restored in Wikipedia, it is back! Thanks to all who helped! Alex jones and his crew has compiled a long list of news articles that mention the North American Union. We have witnessed a congressional bill describing the North American Union. We have Alex Jones' huge list of news articles about it, yet people still won't believe it is real! Professor Robert Pastor says the North American Union is JUST A CRISIS AWAY. Pastor "believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada." ( Dr. Robert A. Pastor served as co-chair and a member of the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations' Independent Task Force on the Future of North America.) Now that you know who Dr. Robert A. Pastor is, do you believe what he is saying? If ANYONE on this planet knows about what is going on, this is the person! Rep. Cynthia McKiney said that she believes the Federal Government is controlled by a criminal syndicate. This might sound like a conspiracy theory, until you EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE! More not so SECRET GOVERNMENT PLANS Exposed: To clarify... These are the Exposed Secret plans of the criminal cartel operating within the secrecy of the Bush administration, Cocaine Import Agency (a.k.a. CIA), Congress, Council on Foreign Relations, etc. The Protect America Act (search) New Law Gives Government Six Months to Turn Internet and Phone Systems into Permanent Spying Architecture "There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security." -- ACLU The Real ID Act (search) Montana Governor Foments Real ID Rebellion States to Track Drivers Through Licenses "A federal program promotes driving license technology that allows the tracking of motorists even WHEN THEY ARE NOT DRIVING."The RFID chip would be voluntary under the proposed legislation, but if the past is any indication, it may not be for long. "Seat belt legislation started with child-restraint laws, then secondary enforcement, and finally a full-on mandate in the majority of states. Why does this legislative escalation occur? It's simple. The federal government just incentivizes their proposal so that each state, and by extension its citizens, feel like they have no choice but to go along with their program."REAL ID Action Required Now Tags: cocaine, CIA, Read More [ permalink ] |
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Sign the PETITION to Impeach!
Monday, January 21, 2008 By Your-Rights.com Almost a quarter of a million people have signed this petition!!! Click here to sign the PETITION to Impeach! Why have we not yet started Impeachment hearings? MORE INFO and GOOD IMPEACHMENT EDITORIAL Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. day. Mr . King stood up for our rights. Now it is time for ALL of us to take the stand and stand up for our rights! Please join the almost quarter of a million people who have already signed the IMPEACH Cheney petition! Please tell everyone you know to sign the petition for impeachment. At some point, Congress will have to listen to us! And if they don't, then we no longer have a democracy! Also, here is a very short video I think everyone should watch. You Will Never be Safe, no Matter What -- You Can be Free, Though Read More [ permalink ] |
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ABSOLUTE MUST READ - Sibel Edmonds Case - Benazir Bhutto and The 'Islamic' Bomb
From Democratic Underground - Thursday, January 3, 2008 By lukery This is very important information that you should know! From the article: "(Benazir Bhutto) said two things that sealed her fate. She said that if elected PM, she would allow US forces to hunt for bin Laden on Pakistani soil, and that she would allow the Vienna-based IAEA to interrogate the rogue nuclear scientist, AQ Khan about his nuclear smugglings to North Korea, Iran, Libya, etc. After those statements, she had no chance of surviving." -- UPI's Richard SaleWhat Benazir Bhutto said in the following video is that she was going to expose the people who are financing Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organazations. The U.S. Government helped create Al-Qaeda! What is interesting to note is that Benazir Bhutto said in this full, unedited interview that Osama bin Laden was murdered! [ link 2 ] This statement was DELIBERATELY CENSORED by the BBC!!! READ THE STORY!!! But wait, there's MORE... Here is what appears to be OSAMA BIN LADEN'S FUNERAL NOTICE!!! And also this article from CBS News. Knowledge is power! Ignorance supports Fascism and Tyranny!!! Please click "read more" to read the rest of this excellent article! There are many references linked within the text. CLICK THEM AND LEARN!!! One VERY IMPORTANT question that remains... is this the reason that Pat Tillman was murdered? Because he found out that Osama bin Laden was DEAD and was going to tell people about it? Also read the original article and the discussion there. Other reports of Osama bin Laden being dead: Daily Kos What Really Happened RELATED: National Security Whistle blowers Coalition Video shows clearly, shots fired at Bhutto... Read More [ permalink ] |
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PLEASE HELP restore the North American Union article in Wikipedia
Sunday, November 25, 2007 By Your-Rights.com The Wikipedia article about the North American Union was nominated for deletion in April of 2006. That was a year and a half ago. Currently, the North American Union article redirects to the Independent Task Force on North America article, which are two separate things. Of course, there are some who believe that the North American Union is fake, including one person who voted for deletion of the article. After reviewing the overwhelming evidence, including the huge list of references, I can not find any good reason to prevent the restoration of the article. It certainly passes the wikipedia notability guidelines from the massive list of references cited above. It also has quite a few incoming links from other pages within Wikipedia. Even with the large amount of information supporting the restoration of the North American Union article, it has not yet been restored. A lot of good arguments supporting the recent restoration of the Zeitgeist, the Movie Wikipedia article apply to this article. I posted this information here hoping someone will take the initiative and either restore the undeleted version of the North American Union article or create a new one containing as much verifiable information that can be found. Tags: NAFTA, North American Union, NAU, Security and Prosperity Partnership, SPP Read More [ permalink ] |
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Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest
From CBC News - Friday, August 24, 2007 Police came under fire Tuesday, when a video surfaced on YouTUBE that appeared to show three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandannas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock. Police said the three were told to monitor protesters who were not peacefully demonstrating to prevent any violent incidents, but they were called out as undercover agents when they refused to throw objects.
If you watch the video, you can clearly see that the plainclothes police officers were there to do ANYTHING BUT "prevent any violent incidents"!!!
As you can CLEARLY see from the video, the officers are the ones with the LARGE ROCK and the protesters are the ones DEMANDING that they PUT DOWN THE ROCK! What a bunch of LIES! "To a certain extent it's self-fulfilling logic. You provide police with this kind of equipment and they end up using it and one way to justify it is to plant some people that toss a rock or two." Watch all of the video's in the YouTUBE SPP Video Play list Here are MORE LIES! SQ's Official Press release "At all times, they responded within their mandate to keep order and security." "At no time did the police of the Sûreté du Québec act as instigators or commit criminal acts," the police force said in French in a news release. Police said the three undercover officers were only at the protest to locate and identify non-peaceful protesters in order to prevent any incidents. Related: SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence at SPP Summit Protest Police spies chosen to lead war protest Stan Jones (mp3 audio) Tags: SPP, police Read More [ permalink ] |
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SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence at SPP Summit Protest
From Infowars.net - Wednesday, August 22, 2007 By Steve Watson Peaceful protesters at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders. UPDATE: Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their faces masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in front of a line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men is holding a rock in his hand, reports the Canadian Press. Boots give away undercover cops as real protesters expose criminality.  (Click picture for full size image) "I have no hesitation in saying they were police agents . . . and they were caught red-handed." YouTube Link More SPP Summit Protest Video's: YouTube Playlist Link Read More [ permalink ] |
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American leaders travel to Canada's capital to reveal the Bush administration SPP plot to overthrow democratic governments
From Canadian National Newspaper - Wednesday, August 22, 2007 By John Stokes News Conference representatives want to "Tear Down the Wall of Secrecy" Recently, in Ottawa, Canada, on Monday, 20 August 2007 the Coalition to Block the North American Union, presented an excellent and well documented News Conference about what the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is all about. The SPP appears to be an apparent attempt by clique a associated with the U.S. Bush administration, to seize power over Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in much the same way that Adolf Hitler had seized power in Germany in the early 1930's. The Bush administration, like Adolf Hitler, is seeking to seize power through a contrived fear, that can be used to isolate and then defeat its enemies, with the support of greed-driven Big Business interests, military commanders, organized Christian religious leaders, power hungry intellectuals, and corrupted political officials. The "War of Terrorism", and its SPP manifestation is indeed scripted from Hitler's Nazi ideology. It is evident that the SPP, is an apparent attempt by a U.S.-based political-military-industrial complex, to fuse the power of Big Business interests and government. It is inspired by a Nazi Economic Program of controlled capitalism and military expansionism, for resources to further aid more sought never ending expansionism toward Global Conquest. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Alex Jones Issues His Most Dire Warning - Martial Law Is Imminent
From 911oz.com - Wednesday, August 22, 2007 On 16th August, radio talk show host Alex Jones went on air to give what he described as his most important broadcast message. Throughout the US there has been increased talk in the media of special measures to be implemented in the event of a natural or man made disaster. A KLSA news report from 16 August has the following headline: "Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared." Related: Economic Collapse As Precursor To Open Plan For Martial Law? Tommy Franks: Martial Law Will Replace Constitution After Next Terror Attack Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans -- This is just plain scary! All Hail Our Imperial Emperor, Lord Bush! Heil Bush! Heil Bush! - Hitler George Bush Movie Documentary FOLLOW THE 'READ MORE' LINK TO WATCH THE VIDEO! Read More [ permalink ] |
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NAU Alert - Bush, Harper and Calderon Hold Summit to Expand NAFTA
From Democracy Now! - Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Thousands of protesters have gathered near Ottawa to protest a meeting of President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. On Monday riot police used tear gas and pepper spray to block protesters from approaching the site of the summit. The North American leaders are meeting to discuss expanding NAFTA by agreeing to the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP is a White House-led initiative consisting of a secretive series of agreements between the three countries on issues including trade, border security and patent protections. See the STOP the NAU website for more information. Tags: NAFTA, North American Union, NAU, Security and Prosperity Partnership, SPP Read More [ permalink ] |
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The War as We Saw It (from the troops in Iraq)
From The New York Times - Sunday, August 19, 2007 By Op-Ed Contributors -- BUDDHIKA JAYAMAHA, WESLEY D. SMITH, JEREMY ROEBUCK, OMAR MORA, EDWARD SANDMEIER, YANCE T. GRAY and JEREMY A. MURPHY Baghdad VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day. (Obviously, these are our personal views and should not be seen as official within our chain of command.) The claim that we are increasingly in control of the battlefields in Iraq is an assessment arrived at through a flawed, American-centered framework. Yes, we are militarily superior, but our successes are offset by failures elsewhere. What soldiers call the "battle space" remains the same, with changes only at the margins. It is crowded with actors who do not fit neatly into boxes: Sunni extremists, Al Qaeda terrorists, Shiite militiamen, criminals and armed tribes. This situation is made more complex by the questionable loyalties and Janus-faced role of the Iraqi police and Iraqi Army, which have been trained and armed at United States taxpayers' expense. A few nights ago, for example, we witnessed the death of one American soldier and the critical wounding of two others when a lethal armor-piercing explosive was detonated between an Iraqi Army checkpoint and a police one. Local Iraqis readily testified to American investigators that Iraqi police and Army officers escorted the triggermen and helped plant the bomb. These civilians highlighted their own predicament: had they informed the Americans of the bomb before the incident, the Iraqi Army, the police or the local Shiite militia would have killed their families. As many grunts will tell you, this is a near-routine event. Reports that a majority of Iraqi Army commanders are now reliable partners can be considered only misleading rhetoric. The truth is that battalion commanders, even if well meaning, have little to no influence over the thousands of obstinate men under them, in an incoherent chain of command, who are really loyal only to their militias. Similarly, Sunnis, who have been underrepresented in the new Iraqi armed forces, now find themselves forming militias, sometimes with our tacit support. Sunnis recognize that the best guarantee they may have against Shiite militias and the Shiite-dominated government is to form their own armed bands. We arm them to aid in our fight against Al Qaeda. However, while creating proxies is essential in winning a counterinsurgency, it requires that the proxies are loyal to the center that we claim to support. Armed Sunni tribes have indeed become effective surrogates, but the enduring question is where their loyalties would lie in our absence. The Iraqi government finds itself working at cross purposes with us on this issue because it is justifiably fearful that Sunni militias will turn on it should the Americans leave. In short, we operate in a bewildering context of determined enemies and questionable allies, one where the balance of forces on the ground remains entirely unclear. (In the course of writing this article, this fact became all too clear: one of us, Staff Sergeant Murphy, an Army Ranger and reconnaissance team leader, was shot in the head during a "time-sensitive target acquisition mission" on Aug. 12; he is expected to survive and is being flown to a military hospital in the United States.) While we have the will and the resources to fight in this context, we are effectively hamstrung because realities on the ground require measures we will always refuse -- namely, the widespread use of lethal and brutal force. Given the situation, it is important not to assess security from an American-centered perspective. The ability of, say, American observers to safely walk down the streets of formerly violent towns is not a resounding indicator of security. What matters is the experience of the local citizenry and the future of our counterinsurgency. When we take this view, we see that a vast majority of Iraqis feel increasingly insecure and view us as an occupation force that has failed to produce normalcy after four years and is increasingly unlikely to do so as we continue to arm each warring side. Coupling our military strategy to an insistence that the Iraqis meet political benchmarks for reconciliation is also unhelpful. The morass in the government has fueled impatience and confusion while providing no semblance of security to average Iraqis. Leaders are far from arriving at a lasting political settlement. This should not be surprising, since a lasting political solution will not be possible while the military situation remains in constant flux. The Iraqi government is run by the main coalition partners of the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance, with Kurds as minority members. The Shiite clerical establishment formed the alliance to make sure its people did not succumb to the same mistake as in 1920: rebelling against the occupying Western force (then the British) and losing what they believed was their inherent right to rule Iraq as the majority. The qualified and reluctant welcome we received from the Shiites since the invasion has to be seen in that historical context. They saw in us something useful for the moment. Now that moment is passing, as the Shiites have achieved what they believe is rightfully theirs. Their next task is to figure out how best to consolidate the gains, because reconciliation without consolidation risks losing it all. Washington's insistence that the Iraqis correct the three gravest mistakes we made -- de-Baathification, the dismantling of the Iraqi Army and the creation of a loose federalist system of government -- places us at cross purposes with the government we have committed to support. Political reconciliation in Iraq will occur, but not at our insistence or in ways that meet our benchmarks. It will happen on Iraqi terms when the reality on the battlefield is congruent with that in the political sphere. There will be no magnanimous solutions that please every party the way we expect, and there will be winners and losers. The choice we have left is to decide which side we will take. Trying to please every party in the conflict -- as we do now -- will only ensure we are hated by all in the long run. At the same time, the most important front in the counterinsurgency, improving basic social and economic conditions, is the one on which we have failed most miserably. Two million Iraqis are in refugee camps in bordering countries. Close to two million more are internally displaced and now fill many urban slums. Cities lack regular electricity, telephone services and sanitation. "Lucky" Iraqis live in gated communities barricaded with concrete blast walls that provide them with a sense of communal claustrophobia rather than any sense of security we would consider normal. In a lawless environment where men with guns rule the streets, engaging in the banalities of life has become a death-defying act. Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist, militia and criminal violence. When the primary preoccupation of average Iraqis is when and how they are likely to be killed, we can hardly feel smug as we hand out care packages. As an Iraqi man told us a few days ago with deep resignation, "We need security, not free food." In the end, we need to recognize that our presence may have released Iraqis from the grip of a tyrant, but that it has also robbed them of their self-respect. They will soon realize that the best way to regain dignity is to call us what we are -- an army of occupation -- and force our withdrawal. Until that happens, it would be prudent for us to increasingly let Iraqis take center stage in all matters, to come up with a nuanced policy in which we assist them from the margins but let them resolve their differences as they see fit. This suggestion is not meant to be defeatist, but rather to highlight our pursuit of incompatible policies to absurd ends without recognizing the incongruities. We need not talk about our morale. As committed soldiers, we will see this mission through. Buddhika Jayamaha is an Army specialist. Wesley D. Smith is a sergeant. Jeremy Roebuck is a sergeant. Omar Mora is a sergeant. Edward Sandmeier is a sergeant. Yance T. Gray is a staff sergeant. Jeremy A. Murphy is a staff sergeant. Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company -- In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 and The Berne Convention on Literary and Artistic Works, Article 10, news clippings are made available without profit for research and educational purposes. Read More [ permalink ] |
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U.S. to Expand Domestic Use Of Spy Satellites
From The Wall Street Journal - Wednesday, August 15, 2007 By ROBERT BLOCK The U.S.'s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation's vast network of spy satellites in the U.S. The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, places for the first time some of the U.S.'s most powerful intelligence-gathering tools at the disposal of domestic security officials. The move was authorized in a May 25 memo sent to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking his department to facilitate access to the spy network on behalf of civilian agencies and law enforcement. Until now, only a handful of federal civilian agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey, have had access to the most basic spy-satellite imagery, and only for the purpose of scientific and environmental study. Read More [ permalink ] |
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EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED - Constitutional Crisis (video)
From TUMC Seattle - Tuesday, August 7, 2007 EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED - Constitutional Crisis IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE HELP disseminate this information TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! WATCH THIS VIDEO ON THE INTERNET, ONLY on Thursday, August 9, 2007, at 10:00 pm PACIFIC time. The video from the emergency meeting that was held in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday, August 1st, will be shown on Seattle's Local Public Access Channel, SCANTV.ORG, ONLY on Thursday, August 9, 2007, at 10:00 pm PACIFIC time on cable channel 77. If you check the schedule the show will be aired during the time slot labeled "Social Justice Television (Political), Length: 0:58" If you will read these two articles, you will understand this issue is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE! "Once this (latest Bush Executive Order) becomes law, he has all the tools Hitler and Stalin had to keep their respective populations in utter subjection to their will." Read the complete article: 30 days to absolute tyranny ...EVEN LESS TIME NOW!!! WE DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME written by Rev. Rich Lang of the Trinity United Methodist Church. Rev. Rich Lang is one of the speakers featured in the video! The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 elections A powerful Senate committee wants government regulators to find cutting edge technologies that can censor audio and video that flows over the internet -- bye, bye investigative reporting by alternative media and this web page you are now reading, also! "First they came for the terrorists but I wasn't a terrorist so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then they came for those suspected of terrorism, but I certainly wasn't a suspect so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then they came for those who defended those who were suspected of terrorism, but I wasn't defending such people so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then, one day, they came and began to "suspect" me, so I stayed very, very silent and went about my business. And that is how I lost my soul." Here is more information about these issues: Friday, July 20, 2007 JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian Staff WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says. Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why. "We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee." Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive." Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee. "I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee-jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House," Ornstein said. This is the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. DeFazio has asked Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to help him access the documents. "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said. LA Cops attack crowd - specifically smash every camera they find - but they don't get them all Cops shoot protester in the head with a rubber bullet - then laugh about it (until the video gets out) Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer US Police State: Congress Approves Extensive Wiretapping Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html The outrageous gutting of FISA-- the foreign intelligence surveillance act. And by "foreign" they now mean domestic. Because if you are inside the US making an international call, the government can now monitor that call with only the approval of Alberto Gonzales, the Torture Guy. Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran? We ARE In A Constitutional Crisis lord bush Read More [ permalink ] |
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U.S. military plans for combating U.S. civil insurrections -- IMPEACH WHILE YOU STILL CAN ! ! !
From 911blogger.com - Monday, July 23, 2007 READ THIS!!! It seems the police state may already be here! Here is a post I found on myspace.com: Impeach now before we can be arrested for saying so. CALL TO ACTION. We need 3 more senators. ------------------- I just found out they have over a block of DHS buildings in Detroit. FBI as well and surrounding the Fed Res. They had special op storming of homes by three counties working in unision. Then you add the new department the Pentagon is forming for National Security. The Military state isnt being built, its here. I dont know what we can do...i really dont I wrote FTF, and Samuel was most shocked. Next false flag might be here. The "Gut feeling" they got was made about an attack while in Detroit, and why were they here? biggest Arabic population outside of Middle East. Canadian border easy excuse for a false flag terrorist act in Michigan? As well as Conyers and Impeachment. but point is, they are already in buildings and raiding homes. I THINK the only thing to do, is IMPEACH. then work from there otherwise, ITS IN PLACE Read More [ permalink ] |
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Help Restore HABEAS CORPUS! - The MOST IMPORTANT Action You Can Take!
Friday, July 20, 2007 By Your-Rights.com ( NOTE: Please click on the bold links on this page. They are references that everyone should see! ) YOU WILL CARE about Habeas Corpus when you really need it, but by then, it will PROBABLY BE TO LATE for you to do anything about it!!! "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe (1749-1832) It was very odd to celebrate Independence Day without Habeas corpus! "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison (1751-1836) Let's also not forget what our wonderful President once said: "There ought to be limits to freedom." Apparently George Bush wasn't kidding when he said that! Take a look at the liberties we have lost since Bush has been President! HABEAS CORPUS "Habeas Corpus is the name of a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment. The writ of habeas corpus has historically been an important instrument for the safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary state action." -- Wikipedia HELP RESTORE HABEAS CORPUS! PLEASE click the link to learn more about what you can do to help! The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 Despite the opposition, Congress is trying to restore some of our rights. "This is the key protection that people have if they're held in violation of the law," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a Duke University law professor who has criticized the administration's actions on civil liberties. "If there's no habeas corpus, and if the government wants to pick you or me off the street and hold us indefinitely, how do we get our release?" -- SF Gate Please help Congress reinstate Habeas Corpus so that American citizens ( THIS INCLUDES YOU ) can't be held without charges or without representation of an attorney!!! "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." -- Bruce Barton (1886-1967) Alberto Gonzales: "I Haven't Really Thought About" Habeas Corpus "The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas," Gonzales told Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Jan. 17. -- huffingtonpost Freedom is ANYTHING BUT FREE! "Today, consent of the governed is a presumptive aspect of all democracies. Indeed, any government that cannot plausibly claim to rule by consent of the governed tends not to enjoy the benefit of the doubt about their legitimacy, either by their own people or the peoples of other nations." -- Wikipedia A lot of people in the United States feel that our country is no longer ruled by consent of the governed. They feel that OUR GOVERNMENT IS CHANGING from a Democracy into a Totalitarian and Militaristic state which uses a hateful brand of Theocracy as a means of social engineering and social control to manipulate the citizens. When Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers of the United States created the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution they included language or terms which stated that the United States would be ruled by consent of the governed and that there would be separation of church and state. They made every effort to make sure that the United States would NOT be ruled by Theocracy as the Bush administration would like! "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- Harry S. Truman Take a good, hard look at what is going on in the United States and around the world. It doesn't get any more real than this! We are either going to sink or swim. Which one are YOU going to do? PLEASE HELP RESTORE HABEAS CORPUS! PLEASE click the link to learn more about what you can do to help! Something simple you can do to help restore Habeas Corpus: PLEASE help others learn about what is going on! One easy way to do this is to simply e-mail the link to this article. If everyone does this, then all of us together may be able to influence congress enough to restore this most important Right! Mailing this to people will not only inform them of their plight, but it will ENABLE them to do something about it! ( If you wish to mail this article to people, click on the 'PERMALINK' link below, then, after the page loads... just copy the address from the locaiton bar into your e-mail messages. You can also just right click on 'PERMALINK' and then click on 'copy link locaiton' or similar text, then paste the address into your e-mails. ) Something else you can do: Randomly engage people you see in conversation about Habeas Corpus! I would bet that a large percentage of people, depending on whom you ask, probably have never even heard of it! Make sure to let them know what they can do to help restore Habeas Corpus! References: All Hail Our Imperial Emperor, Lord Bush! Heil Bush! Heil Bush! How Can Bush Free Iraq When He Brings Tyranny to America? Rules 'hiding' TRILLIONS in American debt: Liability $516,348 per U.S. household Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions GEORGE W. BUSH TO BE DICTATOR DURING UPCOMING PLANNED CATASTROPHIC EMERGENCY Free Speech, How far will you go? Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006) Tags: Habeas Corpus Read More [ permalink ] |
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GEORGE W. BUSH TO BE DICTATOR DURING UPCOMING PLANNED CATASTROPHIC EMERGENCY
From Your-Rights.com - Friday, July 20, 2007 UPDATED: Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Russian News Agency: "White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official"  ( READ THIS, ALSO! and WATCH THIS MOVIE! )How Can Bush Free Iraq When He Brings Tyranny to America? Here's the not-so-secret game plan in case you haven't been paying attention. Since as early as September, 2006 it was reported by Col. Sam Gardiner on CNN's "Situation room" that the United States is ALREADY at war with Iran! If you REMEMBER the Vietnam war, the CIA was covertly conducting war operations in Vietnam long before we officially entered the war through the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. The United States has been criticized for trying to shut down North Korea and Iran's nuclear programs while simultaneously supporting the nuclear programs of India and Israel. Dick Cheney and others have been stating that a nuclear attack on the U.S. is looming, highly probable. Unmentioned by any major media source, the U.S. Government HAS BEEN WAR-GAMING a simulated nuclear attack on the United States for the better part of a week. Part of the war-gaming has been to determine how Americans will react through the use of extremely advanced computer modeling using over 2 million computer modeled "people." Most likely modeling the best way to implement MARTIAL LAW in the United States with the least amount of resistance! Here's part of what Bush's declaration says: "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;" Read this comment from Digg.com: Notice the very last paragraph: Professor Robert Pastor says the North American Union is JUST A CRISIS AWAY. Pastor "believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada." ( Dr. Robert A. Pastor served as co-chair and a member of the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations' Independent Task Force on the Future of North America.) Remember all those supposedly embedded terrorists hiding inside the United States getting ready to make Jihad? Well, when they rise up OR the next time something like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, or JUST ABOUT ANYTHING that Bush whims it to be... George W. Bush will DECLARE MARTIAL LAW and then TAKE OVER the entire U.S. Government, becoming the DICTATOR in Chief. Do you remember how Hitler took power? As dictator, he will annex Canada and Mexico creating the North American Union and then TYRANNY will RULE THE LAND because of those who traded Liberty for Security. Police spies have been infiltrating peaceful anti-war activist groups and even shooting tear gas and RUBBER BULLETS at protesters! If you are thinking that we can just rise up and retake our country from Dictator George after he has taken over, think again. You see, they have already thought of that, too! Just the other day, it was written that George W. Bush has contracted with Haliburton to build detention camps INSIDE the United States. This is nothing new, Alex Jones has been documenting how the FEMA detention camps have been operating. This may not happen tomorrow or next week, but it has already been steadily happening, just like clockwork! This is just around the corner if we don't do something to stop it! CAN'T YOU SEE IT UNFOLDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES?!?!?! Poll shows 39% of Americans support impeachment GEORGE W. BUSH AND DICK CHENEY MUST BE IMPEACHED NOW!!! OR WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!! 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!! THE NEXT TERROR ATTACK WILL BE, TOO!!! George W. Bush Declares Himself Dictator During A Catastrophic Emergency Bush Wants Full Control Of Government During Catastrophic Attack Search Digg for "Bush dictator" Tags: New World Order, North American Union, 9/11, Tyranny Read More [ permalink ] |
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With LESS FREEDOM, Independence Day is NOT as much fun! What does Independence Day mean to you?
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