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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing Government / The Elite NEWS articles 1 through 62 of 62.
- An article by Richard A. Serrano and Scott Gold observes that early in the Bush presidency "Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial "presidential daily briefing" hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks."
- A top US Defence Department analyst with expertise in the Middle East has pleaded guilty to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro-Israel lobbying group - President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals.
- ...Bush's "war speech" before the National Endowment for Democracy and a late Thursday afternoon report that "19 operatives" have arrived in New York City to place bombs on subway trains are blatant attempts by the White House to divert attention from the impending indictments against the Bush White House.
- As if on cue, about a year after the BULGE was sighted during the Presidential Debates of '04... our pesky Presidential Bulge has made a special "anniversary" appearance.
- Scott Ritter said the "aggressive warfare" of the United States and Britain in Iraq was similar to German actions in Europe in World War II. - ...Fitzgerald may be casting his net wide with the 1917 Espionage Act - and...one fish that may be pulled in is our favorite fake reporter, James Guckert/Jeff Gannon, former auto body manager/White House "correspondent" for fake news outlet Talon News.
- by Sibel Edmonds - U.S. Marine accused of sending documents to politicians in the Philippines
- Since we are burdened under a contrived and supercilious hoax that puts the federal regime in total and complete command of our government, we are told that it is lawful, because the Supreme Court has ruled it to be so. - Should just people obey unjust laws? Should they obey authority that does not have their own welfare at heart? Should they be loyal to authority that takes from the poor and gives disproportionately to the rich? Should they lend their support to a military industrial complex that uses them as cannon fodder in wars in which they have no stake? Should they obey the authority of heartless and soulless corporate entities—legal fictions—who behave like sociopaths but write many of the laws governing corporate behavior? The answer is a resounding NO!
- The principle weapon of government to impose its will upon the people has been the military. For many years, the US government has carefully crafted a covert tyranny of the wealthy through the use of media and propaganda, but as more Americans awaken to the true nature of their state, the Bush regime is becoming more eager to employ its unparalleled military power on the domestic front. - Adam Kidan’s newly-uncovered link to a Sicilian Mafia figure sheds light on the activities of secretive Naples, FL financier Wally Hilliard, owner of 9.11 terror flight school attended by Mohamed Atta. - ...Cheney's options -- worth $241,498 a year ago -- are now valued at more than $8 million. - More than two dozen national security whistleblowers, lawyers and public interest advocates gathered Monday night in a pristine fishing village on Virginia's eastern shore to discuss strategies for strengthening legal protections against reprisal and to exchange stories.
- A simple glance at the secret roster of attendees shows it is composed of the wealthy elites, who are all seeking similar goals—increasing their power and profits, while turning the rest of us into serfs on the global plantation.
- The Rumsfeld Pentagon has developed destruction of the character of those who get in its way to an art form. Those viewed as troublesome become the target of a special investigation. Wiretaps are applied to their telephones and their emails are read. An evidentiary case is built and humiliating leaks to the press occur.
- Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday appointed Palm Beach County Judge Charles Burton to the Circuit Court bench, elevating a magistrate whose face was beamed into millions of households when he oversaw the county's recount during the disputed 2000 presidential election. - Now...Mr. Bush can prevent the public from knowing not only what he did in office, but what Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan did in the name of democracy. - E-mails warned bigs of city attack
- Knowledgeable sources are reporting that the case of accused White House spy Leandro Aragoncilla, a former Marine aide on the staff of the Vice President and later a an FBI employee, involves a Roman Catholic Opus Dei espionage and political assassination team operating in the United States - Mid-Level Managers Picked for Fealty to "the President's Management Agenda" - "Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen." - Let's remember - this is only the latest example of political hacks doctoring and burying reports.
- When the possibility of far-reaching war crimes and crimes against humanity exists, people of conscience have a solemn responsibility to inquire into the nature and scope of these acts and to determine if they do in fact rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- How did a judge's decision not to deport the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela connect to the report that George W. Bush has again hit the bottle? - Casualties of the Bush Administration
- The ongoing cover-up of a U.S. government informant's participation in mass murder in a Mexican border town extends to the highest level of the U.S. Justice Department, recently obtained public documents show.
- ...I think the only way we can explain Blair's behaviour is that he is blackmailable by the intelligence services. - Israeli Oligarch’s Ill-Gotten Loot Channeled to Dubya’s Brother
- Attacks White House for confining power to small 'cabal' with presidential OK, saying it led to bad decision on war - Should Rove, Libby, Cheney and others be indicted in the CIA leak case it will be akin to slipping out the back door. - ... the possible take down of the arch-neocon and disgusting human specimen, Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle.
- Marvin Bush's maid wanted to show him a video of her and President Bush. Moments later she was crushed to death by her own vehicle in Marvin Bush's driveway. - Concepts of imperialism and empire are "in flat contradiction to the traditional political self-definition of the U.S.A.," Hobsbawm said, however, "there is no precedent for the global supremacy that the U.S. government is trying to establish." - Retired Gen. Tommy Franks...has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
- Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has just launched his own brand-new Web site. - The right-wing, scandal-ridden "charity" that isn’t really a charity
- Gag Order Lifted On Canadian Torture Charges Against Bush - ...the GTECH contract was preserved on a no-bid basis by then-chairwoman of the Lottery Commission Miers in order to "keep the lid on" the National Guard controversy involving then-Gov. Bush. - We all knew Condi had arrived as a trickster when she stood calmly in front of the 9-11 Commission and said nobody in national security ever dreamed hijackers might fly planes into buildings.
- Hard information is in short supply - Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 - 10 times the land's worth - despite the state's objections to the way the price was determined... - ...Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged person in the history of the United States, at least according to her ACLU lawyers. If gag orders were nickels, she'd be rich. - ...Wal-Mart made a $5,000 contribution to support Tom Delay’s corruption 2 days after his indictment. - Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets.
- Ritter says Neo-Cons are embattled, surrounded, could resort to desperate measures to further global domination - In President Bush's first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
- Now I know they are the minor leagues compared to the GOP, but they are both pigs at the trough of American corruption. It has never ceased to amaze me that we can have 31 flavors of ice cream in this country but only two coherent political philosophies. Everyone who fights for progressive causes knows the 2004 and 2000 elections were stolen. Similarly, we know that we are heading for another theft in 2006, and then 2008.
- Thanks to history textbooks, Hollywood, television and politicians (Democrat and Republican), the US people are kept in ignorance of their imperial past. Each intervention is presented as an altruistic response to a crisis. - The neocon policies will persevere.
- ...But Crooked High Court Judges Will Never Have The "Legal Balls" To Enforce The Law - The robber barons of old ruled their world. Today’s robber barons are much more powerful than those earlier titans, and they appear to be all but unbeatable. - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency. - "Casino Jack", the "Headless Hammer" & The Republican War Cabal
- Imagine if a criminal broke into your house and made off with your television, stereo, camera, and the gold coins you hid under the mattress. Imagine the cops caught him speeding away. But instead of arresting him for stealing your goods, they simply issued him a ticket for speeding. - Towards an even more dangerous international security apparatus - The rulers of the United States rule over far more than you and me. They control and strongly influence many foreign rulers of dependent satellite countries. This extended rule makes our Presidents the powerful emperors of a vast Empire. - Following 9/11 everything from the giant street signs at doughnut shops to blinking signs on gas pumps insisted that Americans must never forget. There were even sweatshirts being sold in supermarkets and gardening centers. It was all one huge, confused, and dangerous reaction spurred on by an incompetent man at the top muttering about "with us or against us."
- Walton was the judge who...placed a gag order on former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds.
- 60 years? Libby won't do 60 minutes...The lesson from all this for the American left?: stop putting all your political hopes on a Republican prosecutor appointed by John Ashcroft, get the crooked voting machine problem fixed... - ALITO WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE...ALITO SUPPORTS UNAUTHORIZED STRIP SEARCHES... - "Pioneers and Rangers" handed access to contracts, policymakers
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