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5 Surprising Facts About Spying In America
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
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Here are 5 surprising facts about spying in America.
We understand if some of this sounds far-fetched. But take a look for yourself, and see if you can disprove these claims.

1: Cheney and Rumsfeld Pushed for Warrantless Wiretaps in the '70s
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumseld and other government officials who held high positions in the George W. Bush administration pushed for wiretaps without approval by a judge ... in the 1970s.

2: Massive Spying on Americans Began Before 9/11
You know about the government's massive program of spying on Americans which has been justified as a necessary response to 9/11?
Whistleblowers from major telecommunications companies have testified that the program began before 9/11 (confirmed here and here).

3: U.S. and Allied Intelligence Heard the 9/11 Hijackers Plans from Their Own Mouths
The 9/11 hijackers were largely unknown prior to that horrible event, right?

Actually, U.S. and allied intelligence services heard a lot from the hijackers' own mouths prior to 9/11:
    •    An FBI informant hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000. Specifically, investigators for the Congressional Joint Inquiry discovered that an FBI informant had hosted and even rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House. As the New York Times notes:
    •    Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat who is a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused the White House on Tuesday of covering up evidence . . ..
    •    The accusation stems from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's refusal to allow investigators for a Congressional inquiry and the independent Sept. 11 commission to interview an informant, Abdussattar Shaikh, who had been the landlord in San Diego of two Sept. 11 hijackers.
    •    According to Le Monde, the intelligence services of America's close ally France and of other governments had infiltrated the highest levels of Al-Qaeda's camps, and actually listened to the hijackers' debates about which airlines' planes should be hijacked, and allied intelligence services also intercepted phone conversations between Al-Qaeda members regarding the attacks
    •    According to journalist Christopher Ketcham, America's close ally Israel tracked the hijackers' every move prior to the attacks, and sent agents to film the attack on the World Trade Centers
    •    The National Security Agency and the FBI were each independently listening in on the phone calls between the supposed mastermind of the attacks and the lead hijacker. Indeed, the FBI built its own antenna in Madagascar specifically to listen in on the mastermind's phone calls
    •    According to various sources, on the day before 9/11, the mastermind told the lead hijacker "tomorrow is zero hour" and gave final approval for the attacks. The NSA intercepted the message that day and the FBI was likely also monitoring the mastermind's phone calls
    •    Shortly before 9/11, the NSA also intercepted multiple phone calls to the United States from Bin Laden's chief of operations
    •    The CIA and the NSA had been intercepting phone calls by the hijackers for years (see also this)
    •    According to the Sunday Herald, two days before 9/11, Bin Laden called his stepmother and told her "In two days, you're going to hear big news and you're not going to hear from me for a while." U.S. officials later told CNN that "in recent years they've been able to monitor some of bin Laden's telephone communications with his [step]mother. Bin Laden at the time was using a satellite telephone, and the signals were intercepted and sometimes recorded." Indeed, before 9/11, to impress important visitors, NSA analysts would occasionally play audio tapes of bin Laden talking to his stepmother.
    •    And according to CBS News, at 9:53 a.m on 9/11, just 15 minutes after the hijacked plane had hit the Pentagon, "the National Security Agency, which monitors communications worldwide, intercepted a phone call from one of Osama bin Laden's operatives in Afghanistan to a phone number in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia", and secretary of Defense Rumsfeld learned about the intercepted phone call in real-time (if the NSA monitored and transcribed phone calls in real-time on 9/11, that implies that it did so in the months leading up to 9/11 as well)
4: The Spying Program Has Not Been Narrowly Tailored to Keeping Americans Safe
We would all hope that the spying program has been tightly focused on protecting Americans from terrorists.
However, as I noted in 2008:

    •    The NSA spied on U.N. diplomats in their deliberations on the Iraq war (so that the U.S. could figure out which countries were against the war and their reasons, to gain an advantage in twisting arms and selling the war)
    •    The government has been spying on journalists from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications for years
    •    Some 8 million average Americans are now listed in government threat assessment databases as potentially suspect
As one writer puts it:
"If we know of illegal administration spying on journalists and other non-suspects, and we know of pre-9/11 surveillance, then we for all intents and purposes know that these are not programs designed to fight some foreign terrorists threat."

Indeed, the government and its contractors seem to have spent most of their time spying on antiwar protesters, environmentalists and other non-dangerous people. See this and this.
(Of course, the fact that the spying program began before 9/11, and that 9/11 wasn't stopped even though intelligence heard from the hijackers themselves, is also instructive. And see below).
5: The Spying Program Isn't Just Used for Listening ... It Also Is Used to Track Americans and Predict Behavior
As I noted in 2008, it's not just spying, but also tracking and predicting what American citizens will do:

As a new article by investigative reporter Christopher Ketcham reveals, a governmental unit operating in secret and with no oversight whatsoever is gathering massive amounts of data on every American and running artificial intelligence software to predict each American's behavior, including "what the target will do, where the target will go, who it will turn to for help".

The same governmental unit is responsible for suspending the Constitution and implementing martial law in the event that anything is deemed by the White House in its sole discretion to constitute a threat to the United States. (this is formally known as implementing "Continuity of Government" plans).

As Ketcham's article makes clear, these same folks and their predecessors have been been busy dreaming up plans to imprison countless "trouble-making" Americans without trial in case of any real or imagined emergency. What kind of Americans? Ketcham describes it this way:
"dissidents and activists of various stripes, political and tax protestors, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal aliens, foreign nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people."
Do we want the same small group of folks who have the power to suspend the Constitution, implement martial law, and imprison normal citizens to also be gathering information on all Americans and running AI programs to be able to predict where American citizens will go for help and what they will do in case of an emergency? Don't we want the government to -- um, I don't know -- help us in case of an emergency?

Bear in mind that the Pentagon is also running an AI program to see how people will react to propaganda and to government-inflicted terror. The program is called Sentient World Simulation:
"U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test propaganda messages and military strategies.

Called the Sentient World Simulation, the program uses AI routines based upon the psychological theories of Marty Seligman, among others. (Seligman introduced the theory of 'learned helplessness' in the 1960s, after shocking beagles until they cowered, urinating, on the bottom of their cages.)

Yank a country's water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next.

The sim will feature an AR avatar for each person in the real world, based upon data collected about us from government records and the internet."
The continuity of government folks' AI program and the Pentagon's AI program may or may not be linked, but they both indicate massive spying and artificial intelligence in order to manipulate the American public, to concentrate power, to take away the liberties and freedoms of average Americans, and -- worst of all -- to induce chaos in order to achieve these ends.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said that web-based artificial intelligence can predict where people will go. See this and this.
ABC News Fast Company, Gizmodo and many other sources report that computer programs are being used to "predict" who will commit a crime.
Indeed, as noted by Boston University's Journal of Science and Technology Law, Fox News, the Daily Telegraph and other sources, the Department of Homeland Security is developing an airport scanner to be able to read people's minds and predict terrorist behavior.
Neuroscientists at UCLA say they can predict - using brain scanning - people's behavior better than the people themselves can. And Northwestern University announced in July that scientists can read people's brain waves to detect terrorism. See also this and this.
I am all for stopping real terrorists. But given that protest is now considered "low-level terrorism" (see this, this, this and this), this could be used for very repressive purposes.
In other words, spying may gradually be morphing into the Orwellian concept of "pre-crime".




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Feds Use Pre-Crime To Target Disgruntled Veterans
Mind Machine Project purports to find domestic terrorists by building psychological profiles from illegally wiretapped phone and email conversations

 

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Friday, October 1, 2010

 

The government seems to be obsessed with targeting disgruntled veterans with pre-crime and other unconstitutional forms of surveillance, demonization and harassment, the latest example being an Orwellian software program that purports to identify potential terrorists by analyzing the tone of phone conversations and emails to detect “resentment toward government”.

 

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Bed Bugs & Ancient Discovery: In the latter half of the show, investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe discussed the invasion of DDT-resistant super bed bugs in America, and the discovery of 12,000 year old circles of limestone columns found in Turkey. The new breed of bed bugs are resistant to most insecticides, and have infiltrated hotels, apartments and homes from New York and Pennsylvania to Ohio, throughout North America, and around the world, she reported. Only one insecticide, Propoxur, has proven effective in killing the bugs, but the EPA says it's dangerous to children. In an interview with Entomology Professor Dini Miller, she noted that on the positive side, bed bugs don't transmit diseases, and heat chamber technology has been a successful (if expensive) method for eradicating the insects.   Has a smoking gun been discovered that pushes sophisticated human civilization back to at least 12,000 years? At a site in in southeastern Turkey called Gobekli Tepe, circles of limestone columns weighing from 7 to 15 tons have been excavated, and there may be at least 250 more standing stones in 18 still-buried circles. The columns, which have been carbon-dated to 12,000 years ago, feature finely etched reliefs and sculptures depicting animals, humans, and other figures. Linda spoke with John Anthony West, who along with Robert Schoch, visited the site in May. This discovery lends credence to their theory that Egypt's Sphinx is actually far older than most archaeologists suggest. View the complete interview with West, and photos of the columns. Linda also touched on findings from a Brazil conference on the science and symbols of worldwide crop formations. Today in Strangeness: On this day in 1957, the motto In God We Trust first appeared on U.S. paper currency, starting with the one-dollar silver certificate. 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From a friend. Date: Friday, 1, October, 2010, 2:18 AM [The guess is that elite who run our world want a slow, step by step economic take down to keep as many Americans “on board” as possible, while they reduce them to third world poverty.  Some researchers have said they can keep this game going a lot longer as they have the “inflation” stage of economic disintegration to go through yet.  Speaking of which….   (They just don’t get it.  The Fed is not “out of control”, the Fed is totally “in control”.]           Is The Federal Reserve Out Of Control? Markets Across The Globe Brace For Impact As The Federal Reserve Powers Up The Printing Presses What in the world is going on over at the Federal Reserve?    Has it gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve is completely and totally out of control?  There is increasing speculation in the financial community that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of unleashing another round of quantitative easing.  In fact, at their September meeting, Federal Reserve officials hinted very strongly that quantitative easing is very much on their minds when they stated that the Federal Open Market Committee "is prepared to provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery and to return inflation, over time, to levels consistent with its mandate."  You might want to reread that quote a couple of times just to let it sink in.  Do you see what the Fed is saying there?  The Fed is actually saying that it has a mandate to maintain a certain level of inflation.  Not that this is a secret to anyone that has seriously studied the Federal Reserve.  Since 1913, inflation has constantly gone up, U.S. government debt has increased exponentially and the U.S. dollar has lost over 96 percent of its value.  But for Federal Reserve officials to openly state that a certain amount of inflation is part of their mandate is absolutely stunning. Even though the U.S. economy is still in pretty decent shape at this point (for the moment at least), the Federal Reserve still seems obsessed with trying to stimulate it. In the past, the Federal Reserve would just cut interest rates whenever the economy needed a bit of a boost, but at this point the Fed has cut rates to nearly zero.  There just isn't any more room to cut rates. So what else can the Federal Reserve do? Well, it can create money out of thin air and use it to buy U.S. Treasuries, mortgage-backed securities and other assets.  This is known as quantitative easing, and many analysts fear that it is quickly becoming more than just an emergency measure. Back in March 2009, the Federal Reserve announced that it would purchase $1.7 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities over the next 6 to 9 months.  That was the first round of quantitative easing and Fed officials believe that it helped the U.S. economy avoid an even worse downturn. But now Federal Reserve officials are talking about making quantitative easing a regular thing.  An article in the Wall Street Journal recently described the current thinking inside the Fed....  Rather than announce massive bond purchases with a finite end, as they did in 2009 to shock the U.S. financial system back to life, Fed officials are weighing a more open-ended, smaller-scale program that they could adjust as the recovery unfolds. Quantitative easing that is open-ended? What kind of insanity is this? Is quantitative easing going to become a permanent part of our financial system? And what does "smaller-scale" actually mean? Well, according to James Bullard, the president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, "small-scale" is actually pretty darn large.  According to the Wall Street Journal, a "small-scale" quantitative easing program would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion a month.... Under a small-scale approach, Mr. Bullard says, the Fed might announce some still-undecided target for bond buying—say $100 billion or less per month. It would then make a judgment at each meeting whether continued action was needed. If the Fed injected $100 billion a month into the economy through quantitative easing, that would mean that by the end of the year over 1 trillion dollars would have been created. That does not sound like "small-scale" to me. In fact, if the Federal Reserve purchased $1 trillion in U.S. Treasuries next year that would be an amount nearly equal to the total amount of new debt that the U.S. government plans to issue during the year. Can anyone say Ponzi scheme? When we get to the point where the Federal Reserve is "buying" a large percentage of new U.S. debt with money that is created out of thin air there is simply no denying the fact that the Fed is running a massive Ponzi scheme.  But the truth is that the U.S. government is in so much debt and the U.S. economy is in so much trouble that something must be done.  It is really tempting to "inflate away" the debt and to pump up GDP figures with a flood of paper money, and Helicopter Ben Bernanke has certainly shown that he is not shy about pulling the trigger. Of course more debt, more paper money and more inflation will only make our long-term economic problems even worse. But right now Federal Reserve officials appear to be absolutely obsessed with the short-term. And without a doubt world financial markets are certainly expecting a new round of quantitative easing to begin soon. CNBC recently polled 67 economists, strategists and fund managers about what they think is going to happen.  The following is a summary of what CNBC found....  The Federal Reserve will boost its balance sheet by about half a trillion dollars over a six-month period beginning in November and keep it inflated for up to a year, according to a survey of leading markets participants by CNBC. But many analysts believe that the Fed will take even more substantial action than that.  According to the Wall Street Journal, economists at Goldman Sachs are projecting that the Federal Reserve will end up buying at least another $1 trillion in assets during this next round of quantitative easing. Stephen Stanley of Pierpont Securities in convinced that it will be even worse than that.  Stanley believes that the Fed will add another $3 trillion to its balance sheet by next August.  The following is what he recently told CNBC.... "If the Fed pulls the trigger, they will go big." In an interview with the Economic Times of India, Marc Faber painted an even bleaker picture.... "I believe that if the S&P in the US drops 15-20% to around 900-950, the Fed would come out not with this quantitative easing No. 2, but with quantitative easing No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 until the asset markets go up again. They are going to print and print and print." It seems like almost everyone is anticipating that the Federal Reserve is going to fire up the printing presses. Now, even some of the Federal Reserve's staunchest defenders are now abandoning them. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, perhaps the most respected financial columnist in the U.K., recently penned an article entitled "Shut Down the Fed (Part II)" in which he absolutely lambasted Bernanke and other Federal Reserve officials for considering another round of quantitative easing.... I apologise to readers around the world for having defended the emergency stimulus policies of the US Federal Reserve, and for arguing like an imbecile naif that the Fed would not succumb to drug addiction, political abuse, and mad intoxicated debauchery, once it began taking its first shots of quantitative easing. In fact, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is now openly accusing the Federal Reserve of being out of control.... So all those hillsmen in Idaho, with their Colt 45s and boxes of krugerrands, who sent furious emails to the Telegraph accusing me of defending a hyperinflating establishment cabal were right all along. The Fed is indeed out of control.. On behalf of those who believe that the Federal Reserve is "a hyperinflating establishment cabal", I accept Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's apology. The truth is that the Federal Reserve is out of control. The Federal Reserve system was designed to get the U.S. government into a perpetually expanding spiral of debt.  Wealth is slowly but surely transferred from the American people to the U.S. government (when we pay taxes) and ultimately into the hands of those who own U.S. government debt. As long as the Federal Reserve system exists, U.S. government debt will keep going up, the value of the U.S. dollar will keep going down and wealth will be slowly transferred into the hands of the ultra-wealthy. And why in the world would the American people allow an unelected, privately-owned central bank to run the U.S. economy, control the money supply, set interest rates and print all U.S. currency? It simply does not make any sense. The Federal Reserve has not been shy about declaring that it is "not an agency" of the U.S. government and not directly accountable to the American people. So why do the American people put up with this kind of nonsense? The truth is that the Federal Reserve has become far too powerful.  U.S. Representative Ron Paul recently told MSNBC that he believes that the Federal Reserve is actually more powerful than Congress..... "The regulations should be on the Federal Reserve. We should have transparency of the Federal Reserve. They can create trillions of dollars to bail out their friends, and we don’t even have any transparency of this. They’re more powerful than the Congress." The truth is that the U.S. economy will never be fundamentally "fixed" simply by electing another "Bush" or another "Obama".  Something needs to be done about the Federal Reserve system, but right now our politicians in Washington can't even muster enough support to pass a bill to audit the Fed.  […]     {{  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/is-the-federal-reserve-out-of-control-markets-across-the-globe-brace-for-impact-as-the-federal-reserve-powers-up-the-printing-presses  }}

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Organic Farmers & Fishers v. Clones, GMOs & Nano   #244, September 30, 2010 Health, Justice and Sustainability News from the Organic Consumers Association Edited by Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins   In this issue: Quote of the Week: The Cloning Company vs. OCA Alerts of the Week: Organic Standards Alert: Beer, Eggs, Wine Keeping Nano Out 10 Freakiest Things About Frankenfish Why Who Fishes Matters Ready for 10/10/10? Video of the Week: What's Wrong With Our Food System Little Bytes Connect with us:        Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Read Past Issues | OCA Homepage | Donate Quote of the Week The Cloning Company vs. OCA "There are people who do not agree with our approaches, like the Organic Consumers Association. I work for a livestock cloning company and we have been active for the last 8 years in moving this into the market place - these groups still don't like us." - Mark Walton, President of ViaGen: The Cloning Company, speaking at the Ag Industry Biotech Conference, September 16, 2010, in Saskatchewan, Canada Poor Mark Walton, maybe he's still sore about the hilarious piece the Daily Show did on cloning where he and OCA spokesperson Adam Eidinger were interviewed by Rob Riggle. Of course, OCA has more reason to fear Mark Walton than he has to fear us. For one thing, he successfully got milk and meat from cloned cows approved by the FDA. Anyone's who's not eating certified organic, which bans cloning, has probably eaten some of the mutant fruits of his labors. Since the FDA doesn't require labels on meat and dairy products that come from cloned cows, consumers are in the dark. After a scandal about unlabeled cloned products in Europe, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was asked if "cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply." He replied, "I can't say today that I can answer your question in an affirmative or negative way. I don't know." Read More Alerts of the Week Organic Standards Alert Beer When is organic beer not really organic? Nearly always - and the situation may quickly get worse. The issue is hops, one of the central ingredients in beer. It's a little-known fact that "certified organic" beer can be brewed with non-organic hops, owing to a USDA ruling made in 2007, despite the objections of thousands of OCA members. 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And these are the ones in high places in the government!!!  If these jerks aren`t satanists then somebody please explain just what they are.                Marti  --- On Thu, 9/30/10, semperfidave@... <semperfidave@...> wrote: From: semperfidave@... <semperfidave@...> Subject: [ctrl] Fw: ONE OF HISTORY'S GREATEST CRIMES AGAINST ANOTHER NATION & ITS PEOP LE. To: Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 4:27 PM   ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: James Wickstrom <jamespwickstrom@...> To: James Wickstrom <jamespwickstrom@...> Subject: ONE OF HISTORY'S GREATEST CRIMES AGAINST ANOTHER NATION & ITS PEOPLE. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:12:37 -0700 (PDT) NEVER in known history, has one nation done this to another nation, who had dome nothing against or to the nation attacking it.  Even the Bush administration after attacking Iraq admitted, that Iraq had nothing to do with the Twin Towers.  This is mass murder and slaughter.  This is a true holocaust of Iraq by the Republicans and Democrats who continue to carry out their orders from the neo-con JEWS.  This is why the whole world hates the United States at this time.  Imagine if this were happening to the United States, to every man, woman, and child who had done NOTHING to the country killing, damaging, wounding, blowing up all of the united States?  What would you do?  Because your tax money has and is assisting to pay for this to happen to another country and its citizens who have done nothing to you or to the united States. Dr. James P. Wickstrom One Of History's Greatest Crimes By Stephen Lendman 9-26-10   America's hidden history is ugly and disturbing. No nation ever matched it. To Iraq alone, over the past two decades, it includes ongoing genocide, destruction, terror, occupation, and contamination - a horrendous combination of crimes, unmentioned in Western discourse.   Environmental Engineering Professor Souad N. Al-Azzawi documents them, including in his report titled, "Crime of the Century: Iraq's Occupation and DU Contamination," a detailed account of US culpability.   America's strategic aims, he explains, include:   -- controlling most of the world's oil and other natural resources;   -- remaining permanently in the Middle East, "the intersection zone of the three continents where 80% of the world('s) population" lives; and   -- if the above two objectives are achieved, America will control the world's economy, or enough of it to matter.   Spread over a large enough area, depleted uranium (DU) is a weapon of mass destruction, because it's radioactive and chemically toxic. If ingested or inhaled through food, air, water or other means, it enters the human body, remaining for decades. An earlier article reported the dangers, accessed through the following link:   http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2006/01/depleted-uranium-hidden-looming_16.html   It explained that continued DU use has the potential to end planetary life, yet few understand the risk, or that weaponized DU is used regularly in missiles, bombs, shells and bullets wherever America wages war - first during the 1991 Gulf War.   Its danger comes from radiation residue after use. On impact, DU munitions penetrate deeply and aerosolize into a fine spray, polluting surrounding air, water and soil. It's microscopic, sub-microscopic, and permanent. Spread over vast areas as radioactive atmospheric dust, its contamination causes virtually all known illnesses and diseases from severe headaches, muscle pain and general fatigue, to major birth defects, infections, depression, cardiovascular disease, and many types of cancers. It also causes permanent disability and death.   Over the past two decades in Iraq alone, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of tons have been used, irradiating the entire country, some areas more than others. In his October 2009 presentation to the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia International Conference to Criminalize War, Azzawi accused America and Britain of:   "subject(ing) the whole nation of Iraq for two decades to torture and slow death through the intentional use of radioactive weapons and the sanctions. The continuous and intentional use of (these) weapons is a crime against humanity due to its un-differentiating harmful health effects on civilians in contaminated areas tens of years to come after the military engagements." Radiation, in fact, is permanent, affecting unborn generations like living ones.   During the Gulf War, about 320 tons were used in southern Iraq, affecting the Basrah region. Post-conflict, "comprehensive" examination detected it, especially "in and around Al-Basrah City," showing:   -- "high gamma radiation" levels;   -- "soil samples from 39 locations (with) higher activities than natural background levels;" and   -- "Surface water channel sediments (with 2 - 3) times higher radioactivity than the natural background" level.   Contamination was widespread, affecting at least 45% of people in the area, the Iraqi troops, and coalition troops. As a result, soldiers (and civilians) exposed "to DU oxides (can expect) 70 cancer cases per 1,000 persons. Perhaps a higher incidence over time, and along with other illnesses and diseases, an epidemic of human affliction.   Subsequent epidemiological studies in Basrah showed a "five times rise in the incidence rate of malignancies amongst children to be far more noticeable from 1995 onwards." In addition, exposure to ionized radiation caused:   -- higher child leukemia rates;   -- a "six fold increase in congenital malformations among births in Basrah City since 1995 onward," some too disturbing to view; and   -- higher rates of congenital heart diseases and chromosomal aberrations.   Even more destructive weapons were used in the 2003 war, including banned ones like napalm, white phosphorous, cluster bombs, and greater amounts of DU - "against people, infrastructure facilities, and environment." Further, "the looting and burning of factories, industrial complexes, laboratories, and ministries (including the looting of the Tuwaitha Atomic Energy Agency, and 300 other highly contaminated sites....)" caused contamination".   Much more as well across the country in Baghdad and suburbs, Basrah, Mosul, Fallujah, Balad, Anbar, Haditha, Qa'im, Rawa, Karbala, Najar, Aubaidi, Diala, Samara, Tikrit, Baiji, Ahsaiba, Mada'in, Kubaissa, and other locations.   In March, 2009, Gideon Polya used the Just Foreign Policy estimate of 1.32 million Iraqi deaths post-March 2003 alone, a number considerably higher today. It's also well below his post-9/11 eight million "war on terror" total, mostly affecting women and children, aged five and younger, killed by war, diseases, and/or depravation, America's horrific ongoing genocidal legacy - air-brushed from history. Azzawi adds more:   -- at least 4.5 million internal or external refugees, many victimized by "militias and police raids and terrorist groups;"   -- death squads targeting "certain ethnic and sectarian groups" daily; and   -- in cities throughout Iraq, sieges cutting off "all life support aids on people, (affecting) Thousands of children, women and elderly who could not leave their houses and were subjected to collective punishment...." For weeks, these areas were deprived of food, water, health care, and electricity. As a result, contaminated water was used "from ditches and nearby rivers," causing cholera and other waterborne diseases.   The continuous use of DU weapons in heavily populated areas exposes millions to its destructive effects. Further, "Continuous negligence of medical care systems, hospitals, and the killing of prominent medical and health care specialists....after 2003" exacerbated a widespread health crisis.   Yet, occupation forces provide no data on civilians killed, wounded, kidnapped or otherwise harmed. Nor do they allow "exploration programs to detect (DU) related contaminated areas." Yet they're vitally needed to "help Iraqi people....cope with the damages."   Known evidence shows "Continuous deterioration of environmental quality....in Baghdad City due to explosions, and heavy traffic of tanks and vehicles...." Concentrations of numerous toxins way exceed safe levels. "Water quality deterioration caused an increase in "pathogenic water born diseases like Cholera, Typhoid, Hepatitis, (and) others." Air pollution results from continuous bombing and explosions.   The "Multiple impact of all of the above pollution sources on the human body can be critical, especially for children, women and the elderly people."   From DU munitions alone, Azzawi told the Kuala Lumpur conference that contamination is spread over vast areas by "wind storms, dust storms, sandstorms, and rainstorms," besides polluted waterways and surface migration in soil, causing:   -- "Siltation, creeping, and suspension from contaminated soil to atmosphere; (and)   -- Suspension and re-suspension of deposited DU aerosols....the most dangerous and critical pathway of transfer and spreading from source to the human population."   American Jew neo-cons and Britain Jews in authority are responsible "for exposing a whole nation to the risk of continually receiving high radioactive and toxic persistent contaminants," including DU and many others, a noxious brew leaving no one untouched and many lethally harmed. "This is a crime against humanity (because of) its undifferentiated harmful health impacts on civilians long (after) military operations" are concluded.   A Final Comment   On September 19, Brussells Tribunal Executive Committee member Dirk Adriaensens headlined, "Iraq: The Age of Darkness," explaining "a devastating balance sheet (of) success," including:   -- a 150% increase in child mortality since 1990;   -- only half of primary-aged children in school;   -- about 1,500 children in (horrific) detention facilities;   -- in 2007, about "5 million Iraqi orphans;"   -- over two million external refugees and almost three million internal ones (IDPs);   -- official unemployment at 50%; real unemployment at least 70%;   -- at least 43% of Iraqis "in abject poverty;"   -- at least eight million need "emergency aid;"   -- at least four million "lack food and are in dire need of humanitarian assistance;"   -- at least 80% lack "effective sanitation;"   -- "Religious minorities are on the verge of extinction;" and   -- an Oxfam survey showed 33% of women got no humanitarian aid since 2003; 76% of widows lack pension help; 52% are unemployed; 55% have been displaced; and 55% have been "subjected to (various forms of) violence."   In Iraq today, "killing of innocent people has become part of daily life." America, lead by Jews in power, is committing genocide against the entire population. It persists daily unreported, yet called "a success."   It includes death, destruction, torture, terror, occupation, displacement, disease, and insecurity in a nation that no longer exists. For sure, one unfit to live in - unsafe, corrupt, terrorized, tyrannized, contaminated, and permanently occupied. In virtually all rankings that matter, Iraq scores last, Afghanistan second last, a testimony to America's liberating values.   They're run from Washington with no functioning governments, de facto satraps instead obeying their imperial masters. Yet on August 31, declaring an "end to the combat mission in Iraq," Obama outrageously said: "Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility," infamously displaying his culpability as a war criminal, matching the worst America ever produced.   Under him, George Bush, his Jew neo-cons, and their successors, "Iraq has no viable future," Adriaensens' final assessment of America's "success." ____________________________________________________________

 

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What CNN doesn't want you to see again!

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http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/lieofthecentury.html
 
The Downing Street Memo is only the beginning of the proof we were all lied to.
 
There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make.
 
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OBAMA’S PLAN FOR COVERING UP THE CRIMES OF 9-11 ~ a book review by Frank N. Stein, et al

“In the United States today, the phrase ‘conspiracy theory’ functions as a sort of giant cudgel, used to scare us out of talking openly about a broad (and ever-growing) range of scandals that the powerful cannot afford to let the people comprehend…” 

Orwell’s “1984” was a forecast of where we are today. Polite rules against “being divisive” play right into the hands of those who play by no rules. Five attempts were made to assassinate President Andrew Jackson because he thwarted the plans of the Royal Bank of England. American society has been systematically divided and conquered in a 200-year long strategy by the Anglo-American Empire, the international banksters and now, the Likud party of Israel.

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Cognitive Infiltration An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Truth Movement / A new book by David Ray Griffin

Published 2011 • 6" x 9" • 202 pages.
ISBN 9781566568210 • paperback • $18.00

“David Ray Griffin has written a devastating critique of Cass Sunstein’s major effort to situate all critics of the official 9/11 story in the garbage pail of ‘conspiracy theory.’ Bringing to bear his formidable philosophical and theological skills, Griffin brilliantly illuminates this cognitive/ political concern, demonstrating that the American people will never find out what really happened on that fateful day until we as citizens insist on considering all available evidence with a fresh and open mind.”
—Richard Falk, professor emeritus, Princeton University

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Griffin's meritorious effort to raise public awareness and understanding

Former Chicago and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who in 2009 was appointed by President Barack Obama to direct an important executive branch office, had in 2008 co-authored an article containing a plan for the government to prevent the spread of anti-government "conspiracy theories." Arguing that only groups suffering from “informational isolation believe such theories" he advocated the use of anonymous government agents to engage in "cognitive infiltration" of these groups in order to introduce "cognitive diversity," with the aim of breaking them up. [NOTE: On the contrary, those with broad international contacts via the Internet and travel have the most accurate picture of geo-politics and the historical crimes of nations. – F.N.S.]

Noting that Sunstein's proposal has evoked condemnations from across the political spectrum—not least because it, being similar to the FBI's COINTELPRO of the 1960s, would be illegal—David Ray Griffin focuses on the fact that Sunstein's primary target is the conspiracy theory advocated by the 9/11 Truth Movement. Examining Sunstein's charge that this theory is both "harmful" and "demonstrably false," Griffin uses both satire and overwhelming evidence to show that this twofold charge applies instead to what Sunstein calls "the true conspiracy theory" about 9/11—namely, the "theory that Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11."

David Ray Griffin is professor of philosophy of religion and theology, emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, where he remains a co-director of the Center for Process Studies. He is the author of over 30 books.

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“There should be a book entitled the ‘Courage of David Ray Griffin.’ His continuing efforts to speak truth to power regarding issues of 9/11/2001 are most admirable. Griffin’s Cognitive Infiltration addresses the central denial of key government officials in both parties who, when faced with overwhelming factual evidence of serious problems with the 9/11 Commission’s report, lash out at the very people seeking truth and justice. Cass Sunstein is one of those Harvard ‘insiders’ who not only denies open democratic questioning of 9/11, but overtly advocates the disruption and cognitive infiltration of such groups.”
—Peter Phillips, Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State University, and President of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored

“Unrestrained and unchallenged combination of top level political power and academic intellectual arrogance can be a dangerous prelude to governmental censorship and potential criminalization of individuals who dare to challenge ‘official’ versions of various catastrophes and major events of a highly controversial nature. Dr. David Ray Griffin exposes and analyses this grave concern in an objective, scholarly dissection of a sociopolitical proposal set forth by Cass Sunstein in 2008. Readers of Cognitive Infiltration will be both shocked and enlightened by this well documented and brilliantly written book.”
—Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., past president, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and past president, American College of Legal Medicine

“In 2009, President Obama appointed a Harvard Law School professor, Cass Sunstein, to be head of the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. This was after Sunstein had made a controversial proposal, which would later inflame the Internet, for ‘cognitive infiltration’ of the 9/11 Truth Movement, with the aim of ‘breaking up the “hard core of extremists” who supply conspiracy theories.’ Professor Griffin has responded to Sunstein’s dangerous argument with a patient, point-by-point and much needed refutation. He relentlessly shows how Sunstein himself is guilty of the very mentality he warns against: closed-mindedness and refusal to debate. Those who seek to prevent 2010 from becoming 1984 will want to arm themselves with this valuable book.”
—Peter Dale Scott, professor emeritus of English, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Drugs, Oil, and War

“David Ray Griffin is the preeminent expert on the events of September 11, 2001; his research is consistently careful, thorough, and objective. His previous books are necessary reading for all Americans, and there is no doubt that thousands of Americans in government circles have read them, studied them, and, in some cases, worried about them. In Cognitive Infiltration, Griffin impartially dissects Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Cass Sunstein’s controversial essay, co-written by conservative law professor Adrian Vermeule, entitled ‘Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures.’ Surprisingly, given the sensitivity and potential divisiveness of the topic, Griffin has produced a fair, generously fact-filled, often funny, assessment. Additional interest is provided by the suggestion that Sunstein—far from being an enemy of both the Constitution and the 9/11 Truth Movement—may in fact be a secret supporter and a potential bridge- builder from the current government fictions regarding 9/11 to an improved national consensus about what really happened.” (?~ R.C.)
—Karen Kwiatkowski, Ph.D., USAF Lt Colonel (retired), member of Veterans for 9/11 Truth

“In the United States today, the phrase ‘conspiracy theory’ functions as a sort of giant cudgel, used to scare us out of talking openly about a broad (and ever-growing) range of scandals that the powerful cannot afford to let the people comprehend. In this new book, David Ray Griffin takes devastating aim at that repressive tactic, exposing it for what it really is. All those who cherish democracy, and intellectual freedom, owe it to themselves to read this brave analysis---and owe its author their sincerest thanks.”
—Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Culture and Communication, New York University

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LIST OF 11 BOOKS ON 9-11 WRITTEN BY DAVID RAY GRIFFIN AT: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=David+Ray+Griffin&x=17&y=18

 

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      Afterwords by Frank N. Stein:

     

            Billions of your money spent to spy on you!

            « An estimated 854,000 people, or nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances. » ~ Washington Post

            http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/The-Washington-Post-Reveals-Top-Secret-America-4362/t

 

"The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed..." - Steve Biko

 

 

Also see: www.WhatReallyHappened.com / 911 Master Index

And Fire Fighters for 9-11 truth at: www.firefightersfor911truth.org   

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WIDESPREAD FRAUD

SEEN IN AFGHAN ELECTIONS

September 25, 2010

 

KABUL, Afghanistan — Evidence is mounting that fraud in last weekend’s parliamentary election was so widespread that it could affect the results in a third of provinces, calling into question the credibility of a vote that was an important test of the American and Afghan effort to build a stable and legitimate government.  The complaints to provincial election commissions have so far included video clips showing ballot stuffing; the strong-arming of election officials by candidates’ agents; and even the handcuffing and detention of election workers.  In some places, election officials themselves are alleged to have carried out the fraud; in others, government employees did, witnesses said. One video showed election officials and a candidate’s representatives haggling over the price of votes.  Many of the complaints have come from candidates and election officials, but were supported by Afghan and international election observers and diplomats. The fraud appeared to cut both for and against the government of President Hamid Karzai, much of it benefiting sometimes unsavory local power brokers.

 

But in the important southern province of Kandahar, where election officials threw out 76 percent of the ballots in last year’s badly tainted presidential election, candidates accused the president’s influential half brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, of drawing up a list of winners even before the Sept. 18 election for Parliament was carried out.  “From an overall democracy-building perspective it does not look rosy,” said one diplomat who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.  Thousands of complaints  The widespread tampering and bare-knuckle tactics of some candidates raised serious questions about the effort to build a credible government that can draw the support of Afghans and the Obama administration and its NATO partners as they re-evaluate their commitment to the war.  American and international diplomats kept their distance from the tide of candidate complaints this week,

 

and NATO and American Embassy officials said little other than that the election was an Afghan process and that it was the Afghans who were responsible for its outcome.  But a less than credible parliamentary election, following last year’s tarnished presidential vote, would place international forces in the increasingly awkward position of defending a government of waning legitimacy, and diplomats acknowledged that it could undermine efforts to persuade countries to maintain their financing and troop levels.  The Election Complaints Commission said Thursday that it had received more than 3,000 complaints since last Saturday’s election. So far they have registered case files on nearly 1,800 of those complaints — 58 percent of which were considered serious enough to affect the outcome of the balloting. That may change in the course of investigations but that preliminary figure is high, election monitors said.

 

The complaints are not evenly distributed and were markedly worse in 13 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. In those 13, at least half the complaints were deemed to be high priority — forecasting bitter fights over the outcome.  In addition, complaints in four provinces — Kandahar, Nuristan, Zabul and Paktika — have yet to be categorized, but fraud is expected to be extensive and has already been widely reported.  “That preliminary figure is bad,” said a knowledgeable international observer.  Volatile region -  Many analysts predicted there would be serious fraud in the unstable Pashtun belt, in the south of the country, an important base for both the Taliban insurgents and President Karzai. But serious complaints were also coming from provinces in the north and west.  Interviews by The New York Times in 10 provinces and discussions with election monitors elsewhere found a resurgence of local strongmen with armed backers who coerced and threatened voters, and the involvement of local government employees in ballot stuffing.

 

“In general the election has been a free-for-all, in that different power blocs were putting forward their candidates in different places,” said an international official who has been following the elections.  “It’s not necessarily the pro-Karzai bloc that has done so well, it’s that the Parliament will be more dependent on big power brokers,” the official said, adding that they would be more likely to make deals with Mr. Karzai that did not necessarily serve the Afghan people. Lawmakers and opposition candidates openly accused the Karzais, and in particular Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful official in Kandahar, of fixing the election for a list of favored candidates.  “Of the list of 50, it is already decided who will come” to Parliament, said Izzatullah Wasefi, an opposition candidate from Kandahar.  Nur ul-Haq Uloomi, a member of Parliament who won the largest vote from Kandahar in 2005,

 

and has since become an outspoken critic of the corruption and inefficiency of the Karzai government, accused Ahmed Wali Karzai of manipulating the vote to deny him another term.  He said he had sent one of his campaign managers to the chairman of the Independent Election Commission, Fazal Ahmad Manawi, in Kabul to warn of potential fraud before the election, but he was rebuffed.  “Mr. Manawi said: ‘We can do nothing about Kandahar because he is the brother of Karzai,’ ” Mr. Uloomi recounted. “It is a kind of preparation for fraud.”  Mr. Manawi was too busy to take individual calls last week, his spokesman said. Paying and bullying for votes?  In one Kandahar border district, Abdul Karim Achakzai, an independent candidate from Spinboldak, said three groups of election workers were handcuffed and detained for the entire day of the election by border police officers and prevented from conducting the vote in the Maruf district.

 

In the evening the polling papers with the results were brought to them to sign, but they refused. They were freed the next day after promising not to complain, he said.  Mr. Achakzai accused the provincial head of the border guards, Abdul Razziq, an ally of Ahmed Wali Karzai, of orchestrating the detention. Mr. Razziq, who has influence in several border districts, was also accused of ballot-stuffing and intimidation in favor of President Karzai in the 2009 election, according to election observers.  A cellphone video from an adjoining district showed men ticking dozens of ballots in favor of certain candidates. The video, which was recorded surreptitiously by a candidate’s agent, also captured a candidate’s representatives and election officials inside a polling station haggling over the price of votes.  “You will get as many votes as you asked, just pay 72,000 Afghanis ($1,500),” said the election official, who identified himself as the head of the polling center.

In the northern province of Takhar, several witnesses described gunmen threatening election workers and dragging voters to polling stations to vote for their candidate, Adbul Baqi. The abuse happened in Farkhar district, according to one witness, Hassibullah, 35.  “Mr. Baqi and his gunmen were slapping and pulling people to the ballot boxes to vote for him,” he said. “He is a very cruel man.” After that, he added, they went to the women’s section of the polling station and forced the female employees of the Independent Election Commission to put more than 200 votes in their ballot box.  'Dogs around him are not good'  Abdul Haq, 50, another voter in Farkhar district, said that when he asked the security guards to stop beating people, one of them attacked him with a knife. “The candidate himself is a good man and people do like him, but his dogs around him are not good,” he said. Mr. Baqi could not be reach by phone for comment. The Independent Election Commission official for the district, Engineer Kebir, said that the supporters of the candidate “did make some disturbances and violent acts and were threatening each other.” But, he insisted, “They did not disrupt the election process.”

ALLISA J. RUBIN & CARLOTTA GALL

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39353603/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/

 

GOVERNMENT INSIDER SAYS

BUSH AUTHORIZED 9/11 ATTACKS

August 9, 2010

 

 

Andrew Card, Bush Chief of Staff, tells him a

second plane has crashed into the World Trade Center

 

Keep in mind when reading this, that the man being interviewed is no two-bit internet conspiracy buff. Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. This courageous man has risked his professional reputation, and possibly his life, to get this information out to people. The following is from his latest visit to Alex Jones' radio show.  Forwarded with Compliments of Free Voice of America (FVOA): Accurate News and Interesting Commentary for Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free. Note: All honor to Stanley Hilton for risking his life so that we may know the truth of 9/11.

 

Alex Jones Radio Show September 10, 2004 Transcription by 'RatCat'
 
AJ: He is back with us. He is former Bob Dole's chief of staff, very successful counselor, lawyer. He represents hundreds of the victims families of 9/11. He is suing Bush for involvement in 9/11. Now a major Zogby poll out - half of New Yorkers think the government was involved in 9/11. And joining us for the next 35 minutes, into the next hour, is Stanley Hilton. Stanley, it's great to have you on with us. SH: Glad to be on.  AJ: We'll have to recap this when we start the next hour, but just in a nutshell, you have a lawsuit going, you've deposed a lot of military officers. You know the truth of 9/11. Just in a nutshell, what is your case alleging? SH: Our case is alleging that Bush and his puppets Rice and Cheney and Mueller and Rumsfeld and so forth, Tenet, were all involved not only in aiding and abetting and allowing 9/11 to happen but in actually ordering it to happen. Bush personally ordered it to happen.

 

 

Bush does not react to the horrific news that he has just heard.  Why?

 

We have some very incriminating documents as well as eye-witnesses, that Bush personally ordered this event to happen in order to gain political advantage, to pursue a bogus political agenda on behalf of the neocons and their deluded thinking in the Middle East. I also wanted to point out that, just quickly, I went to school with some of these neocons. At the University of Chicago, in the late 60s with Wolfowitz and Feith and several of the others and so I know these people personally. And we used to talk about this stuff all of the time. And I did my senior thesis on this very subject - how to turn the U.S. into a presidential dictatorship by manufacturing a bogus Pearl Harbor event. So, technically this has been in the planning at least 35 years. AJ: That's right. They were all Straussian followers of a Nazi-like professor. And now they are setting it up here in America. Stanley, I know you deposed a lot of people and you've got your $7 million dollar lawsuit with hundreds of the victim's families involved.

 

 

SH: 7 billion, 7 billion AJ: Yeah, 7 billion. Can you go over some of the new and incriminating evidence you've got of them ordering the attack? SH: Yes, let me just say that this is a taxpayers' class action lawsuit as well as a suit on behalf of the families and the basic three arguments are they violated the Constitution by ordering this event. And secondly that they [garbled] fraudulent Federal Claims Act, Title 31 of the U.S. Code in which Bush presented false and fraudulent evidence to Congress to get the Iraq war authorization. And, of course, he related it to 9/11 and claimed that Saddam was involved with that, and all these lies. AJ: Tell you what, stay there. Stanley, we've got to break. Let's come back and get into the evidence. BREAK
 
AJ: All right my friends, second hour, September 10th, 2004, the anniversary of the globalist attack coming up tomorrow. It's an amazing individual we have on the line. Bob Dole's former chief of staff, political scientist, a lawyer, he went to school with Rumsfeld and others, he wrote his thesis about how to turn America into a dictatorship using a fake Pearl Harbor attack. He's suing the U.S. government for carrying out 9/11. He has hundreds of the victims' families signing onto it - it's a $7 billion lawsuit. And he is Stanley Hilton. I know that a lot of stations just joined us in Los Angeles and Rhode Island and Missouri and Florida and all over. Please sir, recap what you were just stating and then let's get into the new evidence. And then we'll get into why you are being harassed by the FBI, as other FBI people are being harassed who have been blowing the whistle on this. So, this is really getting serious. Stanley, tell us all about it.
 
SH: Yeah, we are suing Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Mueller, etc. for complicity in personally not only allowing 9/11 to happen but in ordering it. The hijackers we retained and we had a witness who is married to one of them. The hijackers were U.S. undercover agents. They were double agents, paid by the FBI and the CIA to spy on Arab groups in this country. They were controlled. Their landlord was an FBI informant in San Diego and other places. And this was a direct, covert operation ordered, personally ordered by George W. Bush. Personally ordered. We have incriminating evidence, documents as well as witnesses, to this effect. It's not just incompetence - in spite of the fact that he is incompetent. The fact is he personally ordered this, knew about it. He, at one point, there were rehearsals of this. The reason why he appeared to be uninterested and nonchalant on September 11th - when those videos showed that Andrew Card whispered in his ear the [garbled] words about this he listened to kids reading the pet goat story, is that he thought this was another rehearsal.

 

These people had dress-rehearsed this many times. He had seen simulated videos of this. In fact, he even made a Freudian slip a few months later at a California press conference when he said he had, quote, "seen on television the first plane attack the first tower." And that could not be possible because there was no video. What it was was the simulated video that he had gone over. So this was a personally government-ordered thing. We are suing them under the Constitution for violating Americans' rights, as well as under the federal Fraudulent Claims Act, for presenting a fraudulent claim to Congress to justify the bogus Iraq boondoggle war, for political gains. And also, under the RICO statute, under the Racketeering Corrupt Organization Act, for being a corrupt entity. And I've been harassed personally by the chief judge of the federal court who is instructing me personally to drop this suit, threatened to kick me off the court, after 30 years on the court. I've been harassed by the FBI. My staff has been harassed and threatened. My office has been broken into and this is the kind of government we are dealing with.

 

AJ: Absolutely and now it has come out - five separate drills of flying hijacked jets into buildings that morning - which you told us about before it even broke in the Associated Press. They were trying to get out ahead of you. You talked about how you interviewed military people who were told it was a drill that morning. Then to get out ahead of that, the news finally reported on it. Now, we've learned that all these operations - I want to get into that, I want to talk about the new incriminating evidence of ordering it and how they had drilled on this, how Cheney was in the bunker controlling this. That has even come out in the mainstream news but they won't release the details of that, Stanley. But what type of FBI harassment are you going through? SH: First of all, my office was burglarized in San Francisco several months ago. Files were gone through and some files were seized - particularly the ones dealing with the lady that was married to one of the hijackers. Fortunately, I had spare copies in a hidden place so nothing disappeared permanently

But more significantly, FBI agents have been harassing one of my staff members and threatening them with vague but frightening threats of indicting them. And it's just total harassment. They have planted a spy, an undercover agent, in my organization, as we just recently discovered. In other words, these are Nazi Germany tactics. This is the kind of government you have in this country. This is what Bush is all about.  AJ: Stay there, Stanley, Bob Dole's former chief of staff. We'll come back after this quick break. Please stay with us. BREAK AJ: All right, eight minutes, 25 seconds into the second hour. Stanley Hilton, political scientist, lawyer, Bob Dole's former chief of staff, is suing the government for 7 billion dollars for carrying out 9/11 and for racketeering. And he joins us now. During the break, I first really did the big interview with Stanley Hilton after I saw him attacked on Fox News. And that interview got massive attention.

 

And then he kind of went underground for a while because a judge, we're going to talk about that, ordered him to not do any more interviews. And now he's back doing interviews. He's had his office broken into, FBI threats and harassment. Bottom line, he has deposed military individuals, wives of hijackers, you name it, it was a government operation. It has even come out in mainstream news, a piece here, a piece there. They had drills on 9/11, that's why NORAD stood down. Cheney was in control of the whole thing. Stanley Hilton has now gotten documents about how Bush ordered the whole operation. And I'll tell you right now, his life is in danger, folks. And he's got so much courage. He went to school with these neocons at the University of Chicago. He wrote his thesis on how the government could use terrorist attacks to set up martial law. He is the man for the time and folks wondered why he disappeared for a while and just did his lawsuit and wasn't doing interviews, it was because he was ordered to. Stanley, can you get into that for us?
 
SH: I did an interview with you, Alex, back in March of 2003, about a year and a half ago, and literally two weeks after that, I was contacted by the emissary of the chief judge of the federal court where I have the lawsuit. And I was warned not to publicize it but to keep it quiet and threatened with discipline. And it remained quiet until a couple of months ago and then I got on the air on some programs and some publicity and July 1st, I was threatened directly by the chief judge here, threatened with court discipline. This particular judge has been circulating communiqu�s to the other federal judges seeking anything negative she can get against me to try and discipline me after I've been on the court here for 30 years with no disciplinary problems at all. This is suddenly happening. And her assistants who are on the committee of the court met with me on July 1st in Palo Alto, California, and threatened me directly.

 

 

They handed me a copy of the lawsuit and said that the judge wants me to dismiss this. What's this? She doesn't like the content of it. This is politically incorrect. This is outside the norm. I said I represented more than 400 plaintiffs, how am I going to dismiss this case? And they threatened me directly and they said, "the next time you'll be disciplined." And also they've threatened me not to go public, etc. And this is just outrageous. AJ: It's all color of law. No direct orders, just all in your face. SH: They sent a letter out, and of course they deny it's because of the political content of the suit but they told me directly on the phone that it is because of this suit and this judge is very, very angry, apparently has been in contact with Ashcroft's Justice Department. I got a call from Ashcroft's Justice Department a few months ago about this, demanding that I drop the suit, threatening sanctions and all kinds of things. I refused to drop it. AJ: Now let's go back over, you had them break into your office, harassment. Let's go over that in detail.
 
SH: My office was broken into about 6 months ago. The file cabinets - it was obvious they had been rifled through. Files were stolen. Files dealing with this particular case and particularly with the documents I had regarding the fact that the - some of these hijackers, at least some of them were on the payroll of the U.S. government as undercover FBI, CIA, double agents. They are spying on Arab groups in the U.S. And, in effect, all this led up to the effect that al Qaeda is a creation of the George Bush administration, basically. That the entity that he called al Qaeda is directly linked to George Bush. And all this stuff was stolen. Fortunately, I had copies. But this was just part of the harassment. The FBI has also been harassing some of my assistants and has planted a spy in our midst. And it is just outrageous that these Nazi tactics are being used - and the obstruction of justice, these people are criminals. And that's what's happening under the tremendous pressure here to just drop it. Or to shut up now and just go away.
 
AJ: Now, let's talk about what they want you to drop. Let's talk about, without giving names, the people you deposed, what really happened, the picture you've got. You said earlier that Bush ordered this, they were simulating this which they now admit there were simulations on that morning. Let's go over what they don't want you to talk about, Stanley. SH: We have evidence both documentary as well as witness sworn statements from undercover former FBI agents, FBI informants, etc., that other officials in the Pentagon and the military and the Air Force that deal with the fact that there were many drills, many rehearsals for 9/11 before it happened. Bush had seen this simulated on TV many times. He blurted this out at a press conference in California a few months after 9/11 where he said he had, quote, seen the first plane hit the first building on the video. And that's not possible because there was no official video of that.

 

 

There was one of the second plane not the first one. He had seen the first one. We do have some incriminating documents that Bush personally ordered 9/11 events. It was well planned. A FEMA official has admitted on tape that he was there the night before - September 10th, that is AJ: And now Mayor Giuliani, a few months ago in the 911 Commission, admitted that - Tripod II. They had their whole command post already moved out of Building 7. Now, this is very, very important. This is a key area of this whole event. You said months before it came out on the CIA's own website and the Associated Press, you said I deposed people. They said there were drills that morning and exactly what happened, happening - that was the smoke-screen for the stand-down. And then to get out ahead of it, the CIA comes out and said yeah we were running a drill that morning. Now, we've learned that five, possibly six, were confirmed.

 

Five of these - one drill with the exact same thing happening that actually happened, at the exact same time in the morning. That's why NORAD stood down with 24 different blips on the screen. You've said this. You brought this up first. Now, I know you can't get too much into detail but can you tell us how you learned of this? SH: I have interviewed individuals in NORAD and the Air Force. I personally toured NORAD many years ago around the time that I worked for Dole. I'm very familiar with the operations at Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs, where NORAD is. Individuals that work in NORAD as well as the Air Force have stated this, off the record, but the point is, yes, this was not just five drills but at least 35 drills over at least two months before September 11th. Everything was planned, the exact location
 
AJ: But five drills that day. SH: That day, that day, and Bush thought it was a drill. That's the only explanation for why he appeared nonchalant AJ: We also had NORAD officers and civilian air traffic controllers going, "Is this part of the exercise? Is this a drill?" SH: Yes. AJ: On the tapes and in TV interviews, they thought it was, quote, a drill. SH: That's right. That's exactly what I said long before it became public. I've known about this since earlier in March of '03, as I stated before. This was all planned. This was a government-ordered operation. Bush personally signed the order. He personally authorized the attacks. He is guilty of treason and mass murder. And now, obstruction of justice by attempting to use a federal judge and FBI agents to inhibit a legitimate civil lawsuit in this country, in federal court. Even a chief judge in this court tried to harass and threaten me personally for representing legitimate plaintiffs. And they got Clinton for allegedly lying under oath about Paula Jones and now - look what's happening now.

 

 

And Ken Starr used to be across from me in Duke Law School in the early `70s and it�s interesting that he got away with trying to get Clinton impeached, so we have a far worse criminal sitting in the oval office today - somebody guilty of mass murder as well as obstruction of justice. AJ: Well, I mean look, they say they never heard of a plan to fly planes into buildings - said it all over television - Rice, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft. And then we find out they were running all these drills that morning. Even if they weren't involved, that proves they were liars about ever hearing of such a plan. SH: Well, I'm trying to take their depositions - I've been trying to take their depositions for months. They've been trying to object to it. They will have to admit they were either lying then or now. It's clearly perjury either way. They are liars and perjurers; that's what they are. These are the people that we have running this government and, of course, they knew about it. How are they going to claim now that they didn't know about these drills? Their idea is that nobody knew anything. It's the old know-nothing mentality. And how anybody considers this believable is beyond me.
 
AJ: All right, now people ask how could a huge organization, how could the AWACs, how could the military let this happen; whereas before, if your Cessna got off course for five minutes, they would launch F-16s on your tail.  It's real simple. It's what Stanley Hilton said here a year and a half ago. It's what came out in the news after that. The military, good people, were told this was all a drill. And it was not a drill. And ABC News admits that Cheney was in control of [?] out of the White House [?] and that he ordered the military to quote "do something." Our inside sources from Hilton and others say it was a stand down and they admit they will not release that under national security. Stanley? SH: Well they are going to admit it, they're going to release it in the court case because if you demand it under subpoena powers and they must release it. And part of our lawsuit is brought in the name of the U.S. because under the federal fraudulent [Claims Act], we accuse the Bush Administration of presenting a fraudulent claim to Congress.

 

 

And under the statutes of Title 31 of the U.S. code, they must release this information. That's why they are trying to threaten me, harass me, invade my office, steal my files, commit blatant obstruction of justice and other crimes to try and prevent a legitimate civil suit from exposing these criminals and their acts of treason and mass murder. AJ: I think you need to publicly tell folks that you are not planning suicide. Would you like to tell folks that? SH: (laughs) I'm not planning suicide. I've got family and I'm not planning that but I don't like the threats I'm under - but I can tell you this, it's taking a toll emotionally on me and my staff. And particularly, when you get a threat from the chief judge of your own court.
 
AJ: Why have you decided to go public again after a year of being under the radar? SH: Because the more and more evidence that I've been adducing over a year and a half has made it so obvious to me that this was now without any doubt a government operation and that it amounts to the biggest act of treason and mass murder in American history. I mean George Bush makes Benedict Arnold look like a patriot. He makes Benedict Arnold look like George Washington. I mean that's what we have - a criminal and a traitor sitting in the White House pretending he's a patriot, wrapping himself in the flag. And it's pretty disgusting because the other side of the so-called opposition, the Kerry camp is just saying nothing because they're afraid to speak. AJ: Stay right there. We'll be right back. BREAK

 

AJ: Stanley Hilton will be with us for another 15 or 16 minutes. Then he's got to go into court. Bob Dole's former chief of staff, political scientist, lawyer, represents 400 plus plaintiffs - most of them victims of 9/11. When I was in New York last week, everybody I was talking to, I mean 90 plus percent of them at ground zero - "I had family, I worked in the buildings, my son's a Navy Seal - he called the night before and said don't go to work." You know, all of this, and then now they never had any idea - and it turns out they had all these drills - and one drill of hijacked jets flying into the World Trade Center and Pentagon at 8:30 in the morning. That morning - come on people! And Stanley Hilton brought all this out on this show before it was in the mainstream news. And I was talking to him during the break. I mean, the harassment, the moles, the threatening of his staff, the judge threatening him.

 

Stanley, let's get specifically into the documents that you have now got that they have now been robbing you for, that you luckily, thank God had copies. Specifically, Bush ordering this. Can you get into that for us - ordering 9/11? SH: National Security Council classified documents which [garbled] and it's was part of a series of documents that were involved with the drill documents. This was all planned - they had it on videotape. These planes were controlled by remote control, as I stated previously a year and a half ago, there's a system called Cyclops. There is a computer chip in the nose of the plane and it enables the ground control, the military ground control, to disable the pilot's control of the plane and to control it and to fly it directly into those towers. That's what happened. It's also a technology used on what's called the Global Hawk, which is an aircraft drone - a remote- controlled aircraft.

 

And they were doing it. We are talking about National Security Council classified documents that clearly indicated that [garbled] had a green light to order this to go and this is no drill.  These drills that were running were clearly a dress rehearsal and this was a government operation. You wonder why these people are trying to threaten people and trying to intimidate people who have written this suit, I guess if you murdered 3000 of your own citizens, in conjunction with the corrupt Royal family of Saudi Arabia as Bush did. And if you then waste billions more on a worthless garbage war in Iraq, I guess you've got something to worry about and you want to threaten people to prevent it from coming out.

 

 

AJ: I mean let's look at this. Not only are there dress rehearsals, they are smoke screens so the good military stands down and doesn't know what's happening. But it's now coming out, even in mainstream news, that yes these drills were going on. Yes, and some of these drills, quote, passenger-type jets were under remote control - this is decades old technology. In 1958, NORAD was [ ] old jets and using them for target practice. Decades ago they flew jumbo jets from LA to Sidney Australia. So since that's going on, everybody knows that. And it's the same MO. Just like the first World Trade Center [bombing] where they get two retarded men who followed this blind sheik who had a tiny mosque above a pizza parlor. And they set them up as the patsies. Then the FBI cooks the bomb, trains the drivers. This informant goes, "You're not going to bomb the building? They go "Yeah, we're letting it go forward." He tapes them to protect themselves.

 

The two retarded gentlemen, thank God, didn't park it up against the column, as the FBI instructed them to do, so it didn't bring down the tower - because you have to be right up against the column. That doesn't happen. Yet, it's the same thing with 9/11. You've got these CIA agents, these Arabs, who were trained at U.S. military bases, Pensacola Naval Air Station - mainstream media, out creating their legends for this background. They're on board the aircraft. My military sources say nerve gas kills everybody on board the plane - nerve gas packets. Then they fly the planes into buildings. From your inside sources, is that accurate? SH: It's one of the things that we are looking into - that nerve gas or something else disabled people. It's possible. I can't say for sure to be honest with you AJ: All you know is they were government agents and they were on board and the planes were remote controlled.

 

 

SH: Yeah, it was basically a smokescreen. I mean, the events of the hijackings, how someone snuck in those cutters, it was a plant. It was like a classic decoy. I've got some military background. And it's called decoy. It's a decoy operation. You make the people focus on the decoy to avoid looking at the real criminals. So they are focusing on these so-called nineteen hijackers and saying, "Oh, it must have been these Arabs. When, in fact, the guilty person is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - sitting in the oval office. That's the guilty person. That's the one who authorized it. There is only one man who could have authorized this operation and that's Bush. And anyone at NORAD will tell you as I have been told personally at NORAD in the war control room, there is only one man who has the power to do this kind of thing and that's Bush. Even though many believe he's a puppet. And I think in many ways he is.

 

The fact of the matter is where was [ ] Cheney, Rumsfeld and these other traitors. The fact is Bush personally ordered and he's guilty and liable and he's going to be re-elected apparently because the media's asleep and [garbled] for Bush. AJ: Well, the media is owned by the same military industrial complex that carried out the attacks. SH: Yeah, the media is only interested in maintaining the official government fantasy that this was a little lone Arab. These Arabs couldn't even steer that plane down a runway. AJ: Stay there Stanley, final segment coming up. BREAK AJ: Mr. Hilton, when you talk to these FBI agents, when you talk to these military men and women, what's their attitude? They've got to be pretty freaked out to have the big picture and know what actually happened on 9/11.
 
SH: Yes, you know it's like clouds just before a thunderstorm in the sense that they are sort of pregnant with rage. They are just enraged at the criminal politicians who have perverted and misused the government to murder its own citizens and pursue these dubious political ends. And many of them, in increasing numbers, are willing to talk and will talk under subpoena - but only under subpoena because the official party line of the government is shut up and don't talk to the trial lawyer. But more and more, they are very outraged that part of the government has done this to its own people, to its own people. I mean you have to go back to Stalin to see something - not even Hitler did this to his own people. You have to look at Stalin who murdered the Kulaks, the Russians for his own dubious gains.

Also we've got - we have a Stalinist mentality in this country. And, if these people pose as patriots and wrap themselves in the flag, it's disgusting. I wanted also to point out that the Japanese television network, Asahi, is going to be airing a special on primetime tomorrow, on September 11th. They interviewed me for eight hours a couple of weeks ago. I'll be on that. I wish - of course, the America media don't care so they are not going to care. But in Japan, people are very serious in interviewing me and others. And we have a website now, called deprogram.info, if more people are interested: www.deprogram.info. But the other thing, I just wanted to say that if anything happens to me - and I don't know why - because I'm being threatened here now. And it seems you can't bring a case in this country anymore against criminals in power without being threatened. And this is how they operate. The stakes are pretty high when you've got a world historical level of treason and fraud by this government against it's own people. I guess this is what you have to expect.
 
AJ: Stanley, the globalists, the new world order crowd, definitely intend to carry out more terror attacks. I know they would have carried out more attacks if we wouldn't have done what we've been up to, if you wouldn't have been out there boldly speaking out and many others. And then their electronic Berlin wall has a bunch of cracks in it now. Thanks to good people like yourself and many others who are speaking out and telling the truth. But do you think that they may carry out what they've been hyping - a suitcase nuke attack, a biological release to try to smokescreen all of this? I know it's a catch 22, you've got to expose the murderers. We've got to get the word out on this but some government people that I've talk to say, "Yeah, but if you do that, they are going to go even more hard core and must totally try to take over." But I say regardless, they are already doing that. So what do you say to that?

 

 

SH: Well, yeah, I think they have an agenda. They have contingency plans. I think they are laying low now because there are an increasing number of people, like myself, who are openly challenging them and accusing them of criminal conduct. I think they would have done it again if we had not spoken up. I think they're planning, what they would like to do is silence any dissenters. That's why we are trying to get the Patriot Act declared unconstitutional in this lawsuit also.AJ: Let's talk about polls. In the beginning a patriot is a scarce man, hated and feared, but in time when his cause succeeds, the timid join him, because then it costs nothing to be a patriot. You are one of those guys who hit the barbwire for us, or figuratively jumped on the hand grenade for America. But when you've got a Zogby poll, which is highly respected, saying half of New Yorkers believe that the government was involved. When you have a Canadian poll, 63% on average believe that the U.S. government was involved. And some groups, as high as 76% in polls believe the government was involved. European polls, two- thirds show the same thing.

 

We have German defense ministers and technology ministers and another member of their government now, three of them going public, known conservatives, and progressives. You have an environment minister, Michael Meacher, saying that if they didn't do it, they sure as hell knew what was going on. Look, if anybody who is a thinking person looks at the evidence, their official story is impossible. Then you investigate and they are involved in it. Comment to this massive awakening and what's happening. SH: Well, I think that's why they want the Patriot Act to suppress political dissent. They have to, they're anticipating, they are not dumb individuals. I know these people personally, Wolfowitz. These are criminal individuals but they are smart and so they anticipated political dissent. And that's why, like the Nazis, their forebears, and their blood brothers, the Nazis and the Stalinists, they're all for political repression.

 

 

Every corrupt and criminal government has done this - they suppress their own people: Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, Mao Tse-Tung, that's why we have the Patriot Act. So it's hand in hand. They had it planned to go right up to September 11th, this was all part of the plan. You have to do it. It was part of my senior thesis.  You must follow through the terrorists attacks with a political suppression mechanism in the law. And that's why they want Patriot I and Patriot II and their plans are to continue launching more terrorist attacks to justify even more repression. The goal is to make this a one party dictatorship in this country, to pursue their dubious ends with their blood brothers like the Saudi Royal family. And also, historical blood brothers, such as the Nazi Germany and the Communist Russian. That's the goal

 

AJ: We are at a crossroads, I don't think they anticipated this much resistance, Stanley. SH: Yeah, I hope they are truly wrong and as incompetent as they are corrupt and guilty. That means their incompetence is exceeded only by their corruption and their guilt. And eventually, if enough people are going to get outraged enough, these people in the bureaucracy and in the civil service and our military, and eventually we can get people under subpoena these individuals will be exposed. AJ: Stanley, their whole operation hinges on us being na�ve and not recognizing evil. This is what they got with Hitler and others. People couldn't recognize evil so they continued to repeat succumbing to it. We are recognizing it this time. We are putting our lives, our treasure, our future on the line for freedom because we cannot let these blood-thirsty control freak terrorists capture us and use us and turn us into the empire and have a draft and use us as their slaves to invade the planet. And that's their PNAC plan. Stanley Hilton, I know you've got to get to court. God bless you. I want to thank you for being here with us today. Can we get you back on next week? SH: Sure, just give me a call. AJ: God bless you my friend. Any closing comments?

 

 

AJ: You've got to go in just a minute or two. But I wanted to also tell you about New York. Sound cannons that are used in Iraq, they're used against us. Men in black ski masks. 41,000 police, accredited media being arrested randomly. Children being arrested, people in wheelchairs, 2000 plus people put in a camp with barbwire fences inside with no bathrooms. You had to have permission to go to the porta-potties. Police screaming at you. It had nothing to do with terrorism. They are openly setting the precedent for martial law. SH: Well, that's right, the word terrorist is now being overly broad and overly defined [garbled] and also, you know, it's like the word communist was used for anything during the McCarthy witch hunt. And anybody can be called a terrorist by Bush's definition. But the irony is that the number one terrorist in the world is living at the White House at the oval office today. That's the real irony.

 

For sheer hypocrisy, I think he deserves the world prize and ought to be in the Ripley book, Believe It or Not, and the Guinness book of world records for sheer brazen chicanery and fraud. AJ: Let me ask you a question on this because this is the experience that I had. Watching television, watching the killers, watching those that are guilty, stand up there as our saviors is incredibly painful. It's like watching Ted Bundy being the judge at his own trial. I mean it is just painful to know who these people are. To see them putting America in a shredder. Now we are going to have forced psychological testing of every American, forced drugging, you know Pan-American unions, I mean it's just all happening, it's in our face, Stanley.

 

 

SH: Yeah, it's very disturbing and as one who has studied the theory and concept of dictatorships, I personally interviewed Albert Speer, who was Hitler's armaments minister. I interviewed him in 1981 in Munich. And I've studied the psychology and history of totalitarianism and there is no question that it's very frightening. And it has, today, with high technology, albeit for the first time in history, the chance of having a world empire dominated by corrupt, technologically oriented government - an elite government. And they've got now what people like Napoleon and Hitler didn't have, which is the technological means to dominate not only their own country but others - the world. AJ: The answer is to expose them as the terrorists, to show how PNAC [Project for the New American Century] said we need helpful Pearl Harbor events, to show how Northwoods called for the exact 9/11-style attacks, to show their own plans.

 

And to force people to face this horror. What are they going to do in a year or two when 80% of us, not half of us, know the truth? SH: Well, that's why they want repression and, then again, the ancient old diversion, launch another terrorist attack to get people to pitch it away. I mean who knows what they'll do next. I mean their capacity for ingenious creation of these events is sort of unraveled. I mean there is no limit. My guess is they are going to try another stunt - maybe a stunt just before the election to justify getting Bush reelected. Although it seems like he is running against a straw man or a ghost right now, anyway. But, my guess is they'll try some other tactic to get people's attention away from 9/11 if it gets to be too much attention. What you really want is for the public to just lose interest because the public - and it's like remember the Alamo, you know, people don't forget things like that. To me it's like the Alamo, remember 9/11, that ought to be the slogan for this outrageous act of treason. That's what it is. It's not

 

 

SH: My closing comments would be, I think people ought to just think about the consequence of having someone like Bush in the White House and the danger for the future that these sorts of individuals pose. This is not just a historical event of the past. This is part of the plan and the camera is still rolling. They have an agenda. These individuals are extremely dangerous. They are armed and dangerous. They pose a clear and dangerous threat to every freedom-loving person not only American but in the whole world. AJ: You are absolutely right Stanley Hilton. They have captured the government. They have not captured the peoples' minds and they are counting on us not facing up to it. SH: And they are counting on the repressive Patriot Act and threats and chief judges and FBI agents threatening people who are exposing them. That's what they are counting on. AJ: But you're not backing down are you, my friend. SH: No, I'm not AJ: Well, we all stand with you, my brother, and God bless you. SH: All right. Thank you.

 

 

http://www.ascertainthetruth.com/att/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=303:government-insider-says-bush-authorized-911-attacks&catid=68:911-a-false-flag-operations&Itemid=97

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

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Subject: 9/11: The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed

The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed
By CRAIG UNGER
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The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed

 

The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House

 

By CRAIG UNGER

READ V.F.'s PLAMEGATE COVERAGE

It's a crisp, clear winter morning in Rome. In the neighborhood between the Vatican and the Olympic Stadium, a phalanx of motor scooters is parked outside a graffiti-scarred 10-story apartment building. No. 10 Via Antonio Baiamonte is home to scores of middle-class families, and to the embassy for the Republic of Niger, the impoverished West African nation that was once a French colony.

Though it may be unprepossessing, the Niger Embassy is the site of one of the great mysteries of our times. On January 2, 2001, an embassy official returned there after New Year's Day and discovered that the offices had been robbed. Little of value was missing—a wristwatch, perfume, worthless documents, embassy stationery, and some official stamps bearing the seal of the Republic of Niger. Nevertheless, the consequences of the robbery were so great that the Watergate break-in pales by comparison.

A few months after the robbery, Western intelligence analysts began hearing that Saddam Hussein had sought yellowcake—a concentrated form of uranium which, if enriched, can be used in nuclear weapons—from Niger. Next came a dossier purporting to document the attempted purchase of hundreds of tons of uranium by Iraq. Information from the dossier and, later, the papers themselves made their way from Italian intelligence to, at various times, the C.I.A., other Western intelligence agencies, the U.S. Embassy in Rome, the State Department, and the White House, as well as several media outlets. Finally, in his January 2003 State of the Union address, George W. Bush told the world, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Two months later, the United States invaded Iraq, starting a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and has irrevocably de-stabilized the strategically vital Middle East. Since then, the world has learned not just that Bush's 16-word casus belli was apparently based on the Niger documents but also that the documents were forged.

In Italy, a source with intimate knowledge of the Niger affair has warned me that powerful people are watching. Phones may be tapped. Jobs are in jeopardy, and people are scared.

On the sixth floor at Via Baiamonte, a receptionist finally comes to the door of the nondescript embassy office. She is of medium height, has dark-brown hair, wears a handsome blue suit, and appears to be in her 50s. She declines to give her full name. A look of concern and fear crosses her face. "Don't believe what you read in the papers," she cautions in French. "Ce n'est pas la vérité." It is not the truth.

But who was behind the forgeries? Italian intelligence? American operatives? The woman tilts her head toward one of the closed doors to indicate that there are people there who can hear. She can't talk. "C'est interdit," she says. It is forbidden.

"A Classic Psy-Ops Campaign"

For more than two years it has been widely reported that the U.S. invaded Iraq because of intelligence failures. But in fact it is far more likely that the Iraq war started because of an extraordinary intelligence success—specifically, an astoundingly effective campaign of disinformation, or black propaganda, which led the White House, the Pentagon, Britain's M.I.6 intelligence service, and thousands of outlets in the American media to promote the falsehood that Saddam Hussein's nuclear-weapons program posed a grave risk to the United States.

The Bush administration made other false charges about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (W.M.D.)—that Iraq had acquired aluminum tubes suitable for centrifuges, that Saddam was in league with al-Qaeda, that he had mobile weapons labs, and so forth. But the Niger claim, unlike other allegations, can't be dismissed as an innocent error or blamed on ambiguous data. "This wasn't an accident," says Milt Bearden, a 30-year C.I.A. veteran who was a station chief in Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria, and Germany, and the head of the Soviet–East European division. "This wasn't 15 monkeys in a room with typewriters."

In recent months, it has emerged that the forged Niger documents went through the hands of the Italian military intelligence service, SISMI (Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare), or operatives close to it, and that neoconservative policymakers helped bring them to the attention of the White House. Even after information in the Niger documents was repeatedly rejected by the C.I.A. and the State Department, hawkish neocons managed to circumvent seasoned intelligence analysts and insert the Niger claims into Bush's State of the Union address.

By the time the U.S. invaded Iraq, in March 2003, this apparent black-propaganda operation had helped convince more than 90 percent of the American people that a brutal dictator was developing W.M.D.—and had led us into war.

To trace the path of the documents from their fabrication to their inclusion in Bush's infamous speech, Vanity Fair has interviewed a number of former intelligence and military analysts who have served in the C.I.A., the State Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency (D.I.A.), and the Pentagon. Some of them refer to the Niger documents as "a disinformation operation," others as "black propaganda," "black ops," or "a classic psy-ops [psychological-operations] campaign." But whatever term they use, at least nine of these officials believe that the Niger documents were part of a covert operation to deliberately mislead the American public.

The officials are Bearden; Colonel W. Patrick Lang, who served as the D.I.A.'s defense intelligence officer for the Middle East, South Asia, and terrorism; Colonel Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell; Melvin Goodman, a former division chief and senior analyst at the C.I.A. and the State Department; Ray McGovern, a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years; Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who served in the Pentagon's Near East and South Asia division in 2002 and 2003; Larry C. Johnson, a former C.I.A. officer who was deputy director of the State Department Office of Counterterrorism from 1989 to 1993; former C.I.A. official Philip Giraldi; and Vincent Cannistraro, the former chief of operations of the C.I.A.'s Counterterrorism Center.

In addition, Vanity Fair has found at least 14 instances prior to the 2003 State of the Union in which analysts at the C.I.A., the State Department, or other government agencies who had examined the Niger documents or reports about them raised serious doubts about their legitimacy—only to be rebuffed by Bush-administration officials who wanted to use the material. "They were just relentless," says Wilkerson, who later prepared Colin Powell's presentation before the United Nations General Assembly. "You would take it out and they would stick it back in. That was their favorite bureaucratic technique—ruthless relentlessness."

 

 

 

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Subject: 911 reasons why 9/11 was (probably) an inside job

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Information you have probably never heard of. Isnt it interesting more and more information about 911 is coming out?

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You are an incredible font of information. Thank you for helping us to understand this egregious crime.

 

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Globalization at Work

 

"This report contends that not only were the buildings targets, but that specific offices within each building were the designated targets. These offices unknowingly held information which if exposed, subsequently would expose a national security secret of unimaginable magnitude."

 

· that Adnan Khashoggi, a key participant in multiple aspects of the 9/11 motive and planning, clearly had no hesitation to facilitate operations which result in political terror and mass murder, and a documented track record of doing just that!

· that the Bush family financial apparatus, including Dick Cheney, conducts on-going business with an organization (Farwest) that arranges contract political terror using Muslim terrorists with the same background as Al Qaeda, and is a major drug conduit!

· that the Russian/Israeli Mafiya family (the Yeltsin Family in particular) that has reaped billions of dollars from Bush largesse since 1991 uses the same political terrorist professionals as the Bush led intelligence operations!

 

 

http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Collateral_Damage_911.pdf  (original has the diagrams and photos)

 

 Israel Shamir

U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001
by E.P. Heidner



On September 11, 2001 the definition of National Security changed for most U.S. citizens. For an entire postwar generation, “National Security” meant protection from nuclear attack. On that day, Americans redefined that threat.

On September 11, 2001 three hijacked airliners hit three separate buildings with such precision and skill that many observers believe those flights were controlled by something other than the poorly trained hijackers in the cockpits.

This report contends that not only were the buildings targets, but that specific offices within each building were the designated targets. These offices unknowingly held information which if exposed, subsequently would expose a national security secret of unimaginable magnitude.

Protecting that secret was the motivation for the September 11thattacks. This report is about that national security secret: its origins and impact. The intent of the report is to provide a context for understanding the events of September 11th rather than to define exactly what happened that day.

Initially, it is difficult to see a pattern to the destruction of September 11th other than the total destruction of the World Trade Center, a segment of the Pentagon, four commercial aircraft and the loss of 2,993 lives. However, if the perceived objective of the attack is re-defined from its commonly suggested ‘symbolic’ designation as either ‘a terrorist attack’ or a ‘new Pearl Harbor,’ and one begins by looking at it as purely a crime with specific objectives (as opposed to a political action), there is a compelling logic to the pattern of destruction.

This article provides research into the early claims by Dick Eastman, Tom Flocco, V.K. Durham and Karl Schwarz that the September11th attacks were meant as a cover-up for financial crimes being investigated by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), whose offices in the Pentagon were destroyed on September 11th.1 After six years of research, this report presents corroborating evidence which supports their claims, and proposes a new rationale for the September 11th attacks.

In doing so, many of the anomalies – or inconvenient facts surrounding this event – take on a meaning that is consistent with the claims of Eastman et al. The hypothesis of this report is: the attacks of September 11th were intended to cover-up the clearing of $240 billion dollars in securities covertly created in September 1991 to fund a covert economic war against the Soviet Union, during which ‘unknown’ western investors bought up much of the Soviet industry, with a focus on oil and gas. The attacks of September 11th also served to derail multiple Federal investigations away from crimes associated with the 1991 covert operation. In doing so, the attacks were justified under the cardinal rule of intelligence: “protect your resources”2 and consistent with a modus operandi of sacrificing lives for a greater cause.

The case for detailed targeting of the attacks begins with analysis of the attack on the Pentagon. After one concludes that the targeting of the ONI office in the Pentagon was not random – and that information is presented later3 – one then must ask: is it possible that the planes that hit the World Trade Center, and the bombs reported by various witnesses to have been set off inside the buildings 1, 6 and 7 and the basement of the Towers, were deliberately located to support the execution of a crime of mind-boggling proportions? In considering that question, a pattern emerges. For the crimes alleged by Eastman, Flocco, Durham and Schwarz to be successful, the vault in the basement of the World Trade Center, and its contents – less than a billion in gold, but hundreds of billions of dollars of government securities – had to be destroyed. A critical mass of brokers from the major government security brokerages in the Twin Towers had to be eliminated to create chaos in the government securities market. A situation needed to be created wherein $240 billion dollars of covert securities could be electronically “cleared” without anyone asking questions- which happened when the Federal Reserve declared an emergency and invoked its “emergency powers.” that very afternoon.4 The ongoing Federal investigations into the crimes funded by those securities needed to be ended or disrupted by destroying evidence in Buildings 6, 7 and 1.5 Finally, one has to understand and demonstrate the inconceivable: that $240 billion in covert, and possibly illegal government funding could have been and were created in September of 1991. Filling in the last piece of the puzzle requires understanding 50 years of history of key financial organizations in the United States, understanding how U.S. Intelligence became a key source of their off-balance sheet accounts, and why this was sanctioned by every President since Truman.6 With that, a pattern of motivation is defined which allows government leaders and intelligence operatives to ‘rationalize’ a decision to cause the death 3,000 citizens.

World Trade Center

There were three major securities brokers in the World Trade Center: Cantor Fitzgerald, Eurobrokers and Garbon Inter Capital. On the morning of September 11, Flight 11 hit the North Tower at 8:46 right below the floors on which Cantor Fitzgerald was situated. Cantor Fitzgerald was the US largest securities dealer7 in the US and arguably the primary target.8 Shortly after that, a massive explosion went off just under the FBI offices in the North Tower on the 23rd floor, and Garbon Inter Capital on the 25th floor, and in the basement of Tower 1 as well. The explosion caused the 22nd through 25th floors above to collapse into an inferno.9 Fires were reported on the 22nd floor at 8:47.10 Shortly, thereafter, at 9:03, Flight 175 hit the South Tower right below the floors on which Euro Brokers was situated. (See Chart on page 42.) In all three cases, the explosive, fiery destruction consumed the offices in the several floors above. At 9:37 Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, targeting one of the few offices that had been moved in the newly remodeled section of the Pentagon: the Office of Naval Intelligence.11 Agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence had been investigating the financial transactions which in this report are linked to securities being managed by those security dealers in the World Trade Center that were targeted. 12 Fortunately, most other agencies had not yet been moved back into the targeted section of the Pentagon. 41% of the fatalities in the Twin Towers came from two companies that managed U.S. government securities: Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers.13 31% of the 125 fatalities in the Pentagon were from the Naval Command Center that housed the Office of Naval Intelligence.

39 of 40 Office of Naval Intelligence employees died. In the vaults beneath the World Trade Center Towers, any certificates for bonds were destroyed.14

 

Building 7 was evacuated somewhere between 9:00 and 9:30, depending on various claims. Fires and explosions spontaneously began at multiple locations inside the building prior to the collapse of either Tower. This observation is critical in that the official explanation for the fire is that they started when objects from the collapsing towers caused the fires to ignite. Witnesses leaving the building claim to have seen fires already starting, and dead bodies.15 The Building ultimately was destroyed in what many unofficial observers now believe was a controlled demolition. Building Seven housed the following agencies critical to investigation of financial crimes related to this history:

Export-Import Bank of the US                       Floor 6
US Secret Service                                            Floors 9 & 10
Securities and Exchange Commission      Floors 11,12 &13
Internal Revenue Service                               Floors 24 & 25
CIA                                                                        Floor 25
Department of Defense                                   Floor 25

“All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down with the building,” according to US Secret Service Special Agent David Curran — the number three guy in that office. “We lost our network, we lost all our computers, we lost all the equipment that we use as Secret Service Agents. Everything from machine guns to our shotguns to our electronic equipment that we use.” A lot of cases had to be closed as a result of losing that building.”16(See note for additional references.)

In the midst of all this, Building 6 was destroyed by explosions from within, before being buried in the rubble of the Towers.17 FEMA, the agency charged with investigating the disaster, did not collect any data on this building. Building 6 was home to the U.S. Customs agency and the El Dorado Task force, an interagency money-laundering group from 55 agencies created in 1992. The El Dorado Task force was responsible for coordinating all major money-laundering investigations in the U.S. In the immediate aftermath of September 11, these groups would be redirected to investigate terrorist financing.18 On the same day, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency and for the first time in U.S. history invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) and eased regulatory restrictions for clearing and settling security trades for the next 15 days.

These changes would allow an estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon maturity without the standard regulatory controls around identification of ownership.19 (The manner in which this was accomplished is explained later in the report.)

The Pentagon

It must be noted that the Office of Naval Intelligence in the Pentagon, which sustained a direct hit from an airliner that day, was without a doubt, a target that was pinpointed for destruction. There are a number of indicators that this was the case:

· The command centers of the US Armed forces and the Office of the Secretary of Defense are located on the River and Mall, northern facing segments of the Pentagon.20 This is public information. Either of those facades should have been the prime target for a well-planned attack. It needs to be remembered that the individuals responsible for September 11 had almost three years to plan their assault. The targets and methods were not haphazard.

· The western facing section of the Pentagon that was attacked had been under constructions for almost two years, and would not have been considered as a target, unless it was targeted for a specific reason.

· The Naval Command Center had been moved into that newly opened section of the Pentagon a month earlier21;

· The attacking aircraft went through great effort to hit the west side of the Pentagon, under either of contentious scenarios, looping around the Pentagon by 270 degrees after approaching from the north east, or looping 360 degrees with it’s approach from the West. Under either scenario, the additional looping created an opportunity with extra flight time for defense systems to take out the attacking plane, and the hijackers took a significant risk of being shot down by executing this maneuver. 22(See Figures 1 and 2)

· If one looks carefully at the Koeppel flight path approach seen in Figure 1, the attacking flight path went almost directly over the Whitehouse, bypassing what should be considered a primary target, for a supposedly empty section of the Pentagon. With the alternative approach presented by the National Transportation Safety Board, the extra distance in the loop would have allowed it to hit either the White House or the Capitol had it continued straightforward.

· Derek Vreeland who claimed to be an agent for Office of Naval Intelligence had predicted the attack several weeks in advance23;

· The ONI has been attributed by several sources with responsibility for leaking copies of the faxes which document the illegal transaction of 1989-1991.24

 

 

Figure 1 (above) shows the two looping flight paths presented. On the left, an approach mapped by Former Air Force Pilot Steve Koeppel, 25 on the right, the official approach presented by the National Transportation Safety Board.26

Figure 2 (below) shows the western approach hitting the ONI, while the Mall and River Entrances with the prime targets, initially in the direct path of the northern approach, are ignored.

 

Did Flight 77 “pass” on three primary targets (the White House, the Capitol, and the command centers in the north face of the Pentagon) in order to make a precision hit on what should have been known to be an empty segment of the Pentagon? Did the pilot, described as having “extraordinary skill,” after years of planning, hit a worthless target? It would seem the assumption has to be the pilot hit exactly where he wanted to hit. The planes hitting the South Tower and Pentagon maneuvered in the last moments to hit their exact target. With a world of targets available, why these?

For the majority of Americans, the unanswered questions regarding that day are legion. While many of the questions may never be answered, the extraordinary destruction experienced at specific locations in the WTC, and the peculiar targeting of the Pentagon all support a pattern of deliberate destruction of sites key to the claims of Eastman, Durham, Flocco and Schwarz. While most media reports defer to the U.S. government contention that Osama Bin Laden was behind these attacks, foreign media provided reports suggesting that the “real power” behind Al Qaeda was unknown.27 As shall be seen, the financial power behind the attack is the same power that created these securities, and the same power as that which founded Al Qaeda.

The Origins of the World Trade Center Attack

Most historians track the history of September 11th to 1998 when Osama Bin Laden declared a fatwa or jihad against the U.S., and the terrorist “Hamburg Group” lead by Mohammed Atta reportedly “offered” it’s services to Al Qaeda.28 However, the history which defines the motives for the September 11 attacks goes much further back in time. The answers to the questions surrounding the cause of the WTC attack will be found in events going as far back as 1990 and 1991, when the George H.W. Bush was president. To a very great degree, insight into the activities of that period are cloaked by the Executive Order of George H.W. Bush’s son, President George W. Bush, who on November 1, 2001 issued Executive Order 13233. This executive order was intended to balance the public’s right to see the records of past presidents with a need to protect national security. As a result, public records which might have shed light on the activities on 1990 and 1991 remain shielded from public access in the interest of national security and the men and women who support it. Subsequently, this reconstruction of the events from the late 1980s and early 1990s is based on news reports, books and articles.

What the public record suggests is that with the beginning of the first Bush Presidency in 1989, George H.W. Bush initiated a program of covert economic warfare to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union. The name of this program appears to be Project Hammer, a previously reported, multi-billion dollar covert operation, ‘third world investment program’ whose investments remain shielded.29 This program consisted of four major covert operations including:

 

1) Theft of the Soviet treasury,

2) Currency destabilization of the Ruble,

3) Funding of the KGB Generals’ August 1991 coup against Gorbachev, and

4) Takeover of the key energy and defense industries in the Soviet Union.

At its inception, the program was conducted well within policy framework of the U.S. government as defined by several Executive Orders authored by Vice President Bush and signed by President Ronald Reagan. There is good reason to believe that the plan was initially formulated by Reagan’s CIA Director, William Casey. During World War II, before Casey headed OSS operations in Europe, he worked for the Board of Economic Warfare and his role was “pinpointing Hitler’s economic jugular and investigating how it could be squeezed.”30 Many of the program operatives were probably engaged through official CIA and National Security channels. However, as a result of the experience gained by the Bush cabinet and its private sector counterparts during the secretive Iran-Contra and Ferdinand Marcos gold operations (which will be explained in short order), the execution of that program would be accompanied by two new assumptions:

1) Using covert and illegal funding for a policy not approved by Congress would remain acceptable. Under George H.W. Bush, Congressional oversight of covert operations could be ignored with impunity;

2) The American public and their representatives in Congress were too pre-occupied with their own lives to be worried about what happened in foreign lands, even if those actions violated the law and the constitution. Emboldened by the lack of consequences for subverting the U.S. constitution and breaking international law during the Iran-Contra scandal, the Bush administration group known as “the Vulcans” planned a bigger drive to crush the soul of Communism once and for all. This group had graced themselves with this moniker, naming themselves after the Roman god of War – Vulcan. They waged war against the Soviet Union and Iraq under George H.W. Bush, and against Iraq and Afghanistan under George W. Bush.

Belonging to this group 31 were

· Dick Cheney
· Don Rumsfeld
· Colin Powell
· Paul Wolfowitz
· Richard Armitage
· Condoleezza Rice

The Vulcan’s drive to bring and end to the Cold War was fueled by a covert war chest invisible to congressional oversight. 32 This war chest would be known by several names: Black Eagle Trust, the Marcos gold, Yamashita’s Gold, the Golden Lily Treasure, the Durham Trust or Project Hammer.33 These same Vulcans would be brought back to power in 2000 under the administration of President George W. Bush, son of President George H. W. Bush.

The covert operations conducted by the Vulcans involved – at a minimum – potential securities fraud, money laundering and violation of Foreign Corrupt Practices act.34 In a number of situations, murder and false imprisonment seemed to be the mainstay of efforts to prevent any remorseful participants in this operation from going public with their stories.35    While accomplishing its objective – bringing about the demise of the Soviet Union – the program also seems to have lined the pockets of the individuals that executed this policy, at US taxpayer expense. This was done to the tune of a mere $240 billion dollars in covert and allegedly illegal bonds, which appear to have been replaced with Treasury notes backed by U.S. taxpayers in the aftermath of September 11.

 

Seventeen years later in 2008, the personal financial empires of those who benefited directly from these covert securities should now stand at several trillion dollars, and are rightfully the property of various citizenries. Putin’s purge of selected oligarchs is consistent with this story.

The covert securities used to accomplish the original national security objective of ending the Cold War ended up in the vaults of the brokers in the World Trade Center, and were destroyed on September 11, 2001.36 They came due for settlement and clearing on September 12. The federal Agency investigating these bonds – The Office of Naval Intelligence- was in the section of the Pentagon that was destroyed on September 11.37 To a key group of senior National Security officials who had participated in the victory of the economic cold war in 1991, the WTC, the Pentagon, the four airliners and their occupants would became ‘collateral’ damage in the ending of the Cold War. Their deaths were required to hide the existence of the Black Eagle Trust, and the covert activities it had funded for over 50 years. The alternative view of these events suggests that the destruction of these lives and buildings constituted a cover-up of continued lawlessness by a fraternity or brotherhood of businessmen and criminals often referred to as ‘the Enterprise’ in the 1980s, but has remained in the shadows since.

The War Chest

The story of these bonds and their source of funding has been publicized on the internet for several years,38 but the story has never really gained much credibility, even though the bonds themselves have been at the heart of several law suits and criminal proceedings. In trying to understand the origins of what seems at first glance to be a sort of cold war internet-legend, history suggests that in September of 1991, George H.W. Bush and Alan Greenspan did indeed finance $240 billion in bonds in a buyout of the Soviet Union as part of a broader program to end the Cold War through an attack on the economy of the Soviet Union. More-over, President George H.W. Bush had initiated a number of related covert operations to takeover certain sectors of the Soviet economy, and ten years later in 2001, these programs had finally come back to haunt the U.S. policy makers. Most, if not all of these programs appear to have stepped outside of the boundaries of the law. As a result, investigative agencies from Britain, Switzerland, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Philippines were putting pressure on Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice to open up the accounts in the banks used to finance these covert activities, which were being viewed as criminal activities in foreign courts. Alan Greenspan, the Treasury Department and key banks in the U.S. and Europe were being sued for gold-price fixing or illegal gold sales which appears to have it’s origins in the covert war chest used to wage this war. 39 At the same time, the suits brought by the Holocaust survivors victims of the Marcos regime, and the US Congress under influence of pro-Israeli lobbyists were putting pressure on the Swiss banking cartel to open it’s bullion records to public scrutiny. Full disclosure by these banks during an investigation would have resulted in a major exposure of U.S. Government complicity in some of the greatest financial fraud of the 1980s and early 1990s as well as 50 years of gold bullion theft by numerous U.S. and British government agencies. Moreover, investigation into these accounts would disclose a National Security secret known as the Black Eagle fund, and virtually every covert operation since World War II. Bringing an end to these investigations and preventing this disclosure was the sole objective for the destruction of the WTC and Pentagon.

These investigative and legal pressures began to accumulate in 1997, and in February 1998, Osama Bin Laden declared his fatwa, and Atta started planning the September 11 attacks. To understand the decisions made in 1998 which brought about the attack on the World Trade Center, one must go back in history to appreciate the magnitude of exposure these bankers and government officials faced. Ten years prior to the planning that Atta was beginning, planning had begun for economic war on the Soviet Union. The source of funding for this covert war is traced to the end of World War II, but it was not until 1986 did the size of that war chest make the 1991 attack on the Soviet Union feasible. Understanding the source of that funding is absolutely critical to understanding why the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001.

Numerous sources have documented that at the end of World War Two, the treasury of the Japanese Empire was discovered in the Philippines by a staff member of General Charles Willoughby, who was General MacArthur’s chief of Intelligence. Then known as the Golden Lily Treasure, this mass of wealth had been accumulated by the Japanese with over fifty years of its army pillaging Southeast Asia and China. It was deposited in the Philippines due to the U.S. submarine blockade of Japan. Reports vary, but documents in the public domain suggest the recovered treasure was in excess of 280,000 metric tonnes of gold, not including jewels and diamonds. 40 After the War that staff member, Edward Lansdale and Severino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana tortured Major Kojima Kashii - General Yamashita Tomoyuki’s driver  until he revealed and created a map of the gold sites.41

Lansdale briefed Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy about the findings, and a U.S. Cabinet level decision was made to confiscate the gold and cover-up its discovery. The gold would be added to the Black Eagle Trust fund.

It was McCloy, along with Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson and Secretary of War Henry L Stimson who created the Black Eagle Trust.42 John McCloy, who had shared a box at the 1939 Olympics with Adolph Hitler, went on to become President of the World Bank. Robert Anderson would go on to operate the Commercial Exchange Bank in the British West Indies, be convicted of running illegal banking operations and tax evasion, and be sentenced to prison. 43 A fourth member of that group – William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan – would go on to found the CIA, distribute the gold to key banks represented by his staffers, and establish AIG as a key partner in the CIA’s covert operations.

 

 

 

The trust they created takes its name from the Nazi Black Eagle stamped on the gold bars of the Third Reich. Gold bullion confiscated from the Reich and not returned to its rightful owners and their heirs was the original source of funding for this trust.44 Over the years, the significance of the Nazi gold would pale in comparison to the confiscated Japanese treasure. As the fund grew, it was distributed in private accounts across the globe in over 100 banks, and administered by General Earle Cocke, financial advisor to every U.S. President from Truman to Clinton, until his death.45 Most of the individuals who controlled these accounts are long dead, and attempts by their heirs to access these accounts have been met with stonewalling, false imprisonment or death under suspicious circumstances. Santa Romano’s heirs are one example.46 Mrs. V. K. Durham is one such individual. Her husband, Colonel Russell Herman, controlled the Durham Trust. This report will return to their story in a little while.

The men responsible for initiating and executing the confiscation of Nazi and Japanese treasury gold represent the most senior Intelligence officers in the U.S. and Britain at the end of World War II, and the Cabinet of the President of the United States. From the Office of Strategic Services – the OSS – the decision-makers were:

· Wild Bill Donovan, the most decorated soldier of World War I and head of the OSS and his direct staff which included:

· Allen Dulles, future Director of the CIA and a principal of Bank of New York, and legal representative of Brown Brothers, Harriman.47

· Henry S Morgan and Spencer Morgan. Henry and Spencer were the sons of JP Morgan, and would return from their service to manage the financial empire that would evolve from JP Morgan to ‘Morgan and Chase’ to then to ‘Chase Manhattan’ to finally what in 2008 was known as Chase.

· Paul Helliwell would become the primary covert operations banker for U.S. intelligence, setting up in Nassau Castle Bank and then Mercantile Bank and Trust. When Castle Bank needed to be closed, he set up Nugan Hand Bank. When the Nugan Hand Bank closed, he helped shift banking operations to Household Bank in Chicago, Illinois and to the notorious BCCI bank. His front man, and associate of Bill Donovan was General Earle (a.k.a. Erle) Cocke.48

· General Earl Cocke would be the financial advisor to every President from Truman until Cocke’s death in the year 2000. Cocke was a true American hero in the classical sense: the recipient of the Silver Star, four Bronze Stars and four Purple Hearts. He was also the coordinator for the Black Eagle Fund and Project Hammer, which would be used to bring down the Soviet Union and attempt to bring Soviet oil and gas resources under the control of Western investors.

· George S Moore; future President and CEO of First National City Bank of New York, which would evolve to become Citibank. Citibank would end up with over 116,000 metric tonnes of the Marcos Gold.49

· General George Olmsted; was another World War II hero who subsequently was responsible for distributing U.S. Military Assistance, later becoming President of a Washington DC based bank holding company known as International Bank, which took over the CIA’s Mercantile Bank and Trust in the Bahamas.50 Under Olmsted’s leadership, International Bank sold Financial General Bankshares (FGB) then known as First American, to BCCI.51

· William Colby future CIA director and lawyer for Helliwell’s covert operation banks.

· William Casey, decorated World War II veteran, future Director of the CIA. Casey took over from Paul Helliwell the “Secret Intelligence Branch” of the OSS in Europe in 1945. 52

These men would form the core of the OSS that worked to create an “apparatus belli,”53 and virtually all of them would play a dominant role in the worlds’ most important banks. From the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) came participation and support for the OSS from John and William Keswick from the Jardine Matheson Bank.54 The Keswick family would also control the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).55 Fifty years later, the financial institutions represented by these individuals would become the major financial banks in the world, along with the Swiss-German banks they hid their gold in. Lansdale and Santa Romana were made responsible for recovery of the treasure. They fabricated a “Communist Revolution” by the Hukbalahak rebels in order to confiscate the land where much of the gold was buried, and proceeded to mine it.56 Several sites sit on Clark Air Force Base.57 Over the years, Lansdale’s personal account in Zurich grew to over thirty thousand metric tonnes – greater than the national treasury of any modern nation state. Santa Romana had multiple accounts, the largest single account was valued at over 20,000 metric tonnes. While these accounts were created in their names, over time it would be shown these were actually government accounts.

As a point of reference, the annual gold production of the world is estimated to be 1,200 tonnes, and in 1980 the U.S. gold repository at Fort Knox held only 8,221 tonnes. There has been no public report of the Fort Knox inventory since 1980.

According to David Guyatt and Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, the Yamashita gold would become the cornerstone of the Black Eagle Fund, from which many covert operations of the U.S. intelligence would be funded. 58 The most common interpretation international law is that the gold should have been either returned to the countries from which it was stolen (as was done with the Nazi gold59), or should have been incorporated into the U.S. Treasury.  With no uncertain terms, the U.S. Government’s continued efforts to stifle news on this matter provides prima facie evidence that the confiscation of this gold is illegal.

Lansdale’s operation in the Philippines gave birth to most of the common features of modern covert operations for U.S. Intelligence: bribery, theft, torture, and false flag operations. It would be Lansdale who would initiate a bond between the US intelligence organizations and the Israeli intelligence. It would be Lansdale that would set precedents for the Intelligence community to retain the services of organized crime on U.S. soil. Lansdale would hire American Mafia family heads Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano in the U.S. war against Fidel Castro in 1961, much as he would hire the Italian Mafia families to wage an illegal operation against the Italian Communist party.

“…the gangsters in Lansdale’s employ were the very gangsters the FBN was chasing–Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano. … The CIA’s connection, of course, began with ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan’s old OSS and its recruitment of Lucky Luciano and the Corsican mafiosi to beat and murder Communist union dockworkers in Marseilles and elsewhere along the Mediterranean Coast, and to seize Sicily from the Communists. With CIA blessing, and using drug running as a way of financing activities, the Mafia set up drug supply routes back to the U.S. Many an FBN operation would trace the drugs back to Mafia sources, in turn supplied through Lebanon, Turkey, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the Middle East, only to be thwarted by the far more powerful CIA stepping in and terminating the investigation on national security grounds.”60

It would be Lansdale’s team that would propose and justify sacrificing innocent U.S. civilians in order to rally the American citizenry to support an invasion of foreign soil. This was done under a program run by Brigadier General William H. Craig, who reported to Lansdale for the Cuba project.61 This project was called Operation Northwoods.  Documents for this project would be accidentally released from the files of Robert McNamara into the public domain some 40 years later, exposing the degree to which Lansdale’s operatives would go to wage war. 62 In these documents, the U.S. military acknowledged it could wage a “terror” campaign against US citizens in order to justify a second invasion of Cuba. It would be the first official recognition that US intelligence operations used terrorist tactics.

It was Lansdale who oversaw the set up of assassination squads to target Fidel Castro while operating out of Florida. One of Lansdale’s proteges’ in the assassination business was Ted Shackley, would go on to set up assassination squads in Vietnam under Operation Phoenix.63 Shackley would take Felix Rodriguez with him from the Cuba Project to Laos for a secret war in support of Vietnam. Felix Rodriguez was a close confidante of former CIA Director George H.W. Bush, and maintained direct phone contact with Bush when Bush became Vice President under Ronald Reagan.64 When the U.S. intelligence funded, Iran-Contra gun running pilot was shot down in Nicaragua, it was Rodriguez that called George Bush to let him know that the pilot had been captured alive. In Vietnam, Shackley and Rodriguez would expand their circle of operatives to include Oliver North, Richard Secord and Richard Armitage. North, Secord and Armitage had proven themselves as men who could ‘get results’ against the communists by operating outside of the rules. They would provide the second generation of U.S. black ops leadership. The ‘whatever it takes’ zeal that these men developed in service of their country was ruled unacceptable in U.S. Military courts at the Mai Lai Massacre trial65, but it was still condoned by ‘apparatus belli’ spawned by Wild Bill Donovan.

While in Southeast Asia, North, Secord, Armitage, Rodriguez and Shackley would finance their operations through the Nugan Hand bank in Australia rather than with funds under congressional oversight.66 Nugan Hand Ltd. was founded in Sydney in 1973 by Australian lawyer Frank Nugan (who was reputedly associated with the Mafia) and former U.S. Green Beret Michael Jon Hand who operated in Northern Laos as part of the Phoenix Project. They were assisted in this by Paul Helliwell, one of the primary OSS agents in the original Yamashita gold operation.67 Frank Nugan’s family ran the primary supply shipping operation between the U.S. Navy base in the Philippines and
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Australia.68 It is through Frank Nugan and his business partner Peter Abeles, that insight is provided to the flow of some of this Marcos treasure. Peter Abeles was reputed to be a member of what was known in Australia as the Hungarian Mafia and a partner with Henry Keswick. Sir Henry Keswick was the son of SOE officer John Keswick.  The Keswick family had controlling interest in Jardine Matheson, which owned and operated Ferdinand Marcos’ gold smelting operation, which was opened in the mid 1970s.69 The Keswick family also had controlling interest in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which was the largest holder of Santa Romana’s known gold accounts, although Citibank would be the largest recipient of the confiscated treasure.70 When Romana died, the bank refused to hand over his accounts to his heirs, and confiscated his accounts.71

It was Peter Abeles and Sir Henry Keswick that brought Canadian businessman Peter Munk back to business prominence from a scandalous insider-trading lawsuit in Canada in 1967. Munk would partner with Adnan Kashoggi, Sheik Kamal and Edgar Bronfmann in a series of operations which ultimately would evolve into Barrick Gold.72 Barrick Gold would become an investment for nearly every gold bullion bank associated with the Marcos gold recovery. These banks would loan gold to Barrick, which would then sell the borrowed gold as derivatives, with the promise of replacing the borrowed gold with their gold mining operation. The records of many of those transactions disappeared when Enron collapsed and the trading operation and all its records were taken over by UBS, another major recipient of Marcos gold. The FBI was reportedly conducting an investigation into those transactions, and the investigation files were kept on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the WTC. A review of the personal accounts of September 11 now suggests that office was deliberately targeted with explosives prior to the collapse of the WTC.73

The Nugan Hand Bank would be one of the many banks used for transferring the Marcos gold from the Philippines into covert operations. Brigadier General Earle Cocke was the President in charge of the Nugan Hand Washington Office, and would be the key manager of Project Hammer and the Black Eagle Trust.

Other Nugan Hand Bank employees from U.S. Intelligence operations included:

· General Leroy J. Manor (manager of the Manila branch) former chief of staff of the U.S. Pacific; Command and deputy director for counterinsurgency and special activities; he shared his office with Marcos’s brother-in-law ;

· General Edwin F. Black (president of Hawaii branch) former commander of U.S. forces in Thailand;

· Richard Secord (all around operative with responsibilities in Iran-Contra, Vietnam assassinations, creating Mujahadeen armies in Afghanistan, and central Asia);

· Dale Holmgreen (former chairman CIA’s Civil Air Transport, manager of the Taiwan branch);

· Richard L. Armitage (was special consultant to the Pentagon in Thailand who oversaw the transfer of heroin profits from Indonesia to Shackley’s account in Tehran);

· William Colby (former director of the CIA as legal counsel);

· Rear-Admiral Earl P. Yates, the former Chief of Staff for Policy and Plans of the U.S. Pacific Command and a counter-insurgency specialist, became president of the company;

· Walter McDonald (retired CIA deputy director, headed Annapolis branch);

· Dr. Guy Parker (an expert from the RAND Corporation who came on as a bank consultant) senior Republican foreign policy adviser;

The bank was founded as a funding operation for U.S. covert operations in Australia74, and was a conduit for Marcos gold. One of the objectives of the ‘bank’ was to bring about the pre-mature closure of the Australian labor government. The Whitlam government had quietly threatened to nationalize subsidiaries of American corporations.

“The subsequent inquiries have established the Nugan-Hand bank was to be the organisation used as cover for the operations of Task Force 157. The Task Force 157 was a group set up by Henry Kissinger and it was set up in a quite strange way. It was a mini-CIA which was actually separate from the CIA and probably was set up by Kissinger so he could deny any connection between what the Task Force 157 was doing and the CIA. Nevertheless, the personnel of Task Force 157 included Ted Shackley, who was one of the head of sabotage operations against Cuba, he was Station Chief in Saigon during the Vietnam War, and he was the Chief of the CIA Western Hemisphere Division, so with an impeccable CIA record like that it would be very difficult to disassociate him from what the CIA was doing. The concept of Task Force 157 seems to have been two-fold: firstly, to set up operations against the Whitlam government. And secondly, to go ahead with using Australia as a base for certain clandestine U.S. operations such as arms dealing and smuggling of contraband goods.”75

The Nugan Hand Bank was closed in January 1980 within several days of the unsolved murder or suicide of Frank Nugan. The reasons for his murder have never been identified, but during that time, the operation was at risk of being exposed.

“Bobby Inman, former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of the CIA, said on two occasions that he expressed deep concern that investigations of Nugan-Hand would lead to disclosure of a range of dirty tricks played against the Whitlam government (Australian labor government).”76

(The U.S. Intelligence’s modus operandi of using murder for covering its tracks is further documented when the Iran-Contra and October Surprise affairs are reviewed later in this report.) John Hand would disappear a few days after the death of Frank Nugan, never to be seen again. Bank operations were transferred to HouseHold Bank in Chicago, Illinois, where William Colby would be come the unofficial counsel. There, according to Herman Skolnick, Household Bank would continue the work of Nugan Hand.

Among their functions, transferring covert operations funds, assassination team funding, skimming of dope, gambling, and gun-running loot; military, civilian, international. U.S. Military, Admirals and Generals, as well as intelligence community officials, supposedly either “retired”, or “on leave”, operated Nugan-Hand, and aided thereafter Household and its numerous units and subsidiaries. The “tracking the money” project was conducted over-all by Household International with the assistance reportedly of Systematics, a banking computer services firm, originally a subsidiary of an Arkansas-based operation. Targeted have been the banks of both friends and enemies alike. (Vince) Foster and his crew – Hillary (Rodham Clinton) and Webster (Hubbell) — used as a cover that they were supposedly “attorneys” for Systematics…. Vincent and Hillary’s role in this was arranged and supervised by a Chicago-based law firm Hopkins & Sutter…77.

Many units of Household Finance were shortly thereafter taken over by Harris Bank, which was then taken over by the Bank of Montreal. The Bank of Montreal would be controlled by the Bronfmann family, which became heavily invested in Barrick Gold. It would be Edgar Bronfmann that would cut a deal with the Swiss banking cartel in 1998 that would derail U.S. Congressional and Israeli pressure for an investigation into the Holocaust and Marcos gold accounts.

By the end of the 1980s, the banks that had their agents in the OSS intelligence operations at the end of World War

II were the banks that would be the dominant global players by 2001.

· Morgan Guaranty Trust
· Chase Manhattan
· Citibank
· Jardine Matheson
· UBS
· Deutschebank
· HSBC

The covert operations funded by the Black Eagle Trust in the 1960s and 1970s became visible stains on the global image of the U.S. despite all efforts to keep them under cover. In an effort to clean house, President Jimmy Carter would order the retirement of over 800 covert operatives.78 Many of these operatives would move into private consulting and security firms and be employed as subcontractors for covert operations. Thus began a loose association of private operatives that would be referred to as “the Enterprise” in the years to come. George H.W. Bush, having been CIA Director, had many acquaintances in this group, and would work with them to restore theirinfluence and control over U.S. foreign policy and the foreign investment opportunities it created for their benefit.
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Taking Control

 

Unlike other presidential administrations, the Reagan administration was uniquely characterized by having the Vice President – who at that time was George H.W. Bush – in control of Foreign Policy. That control was established in an agreement between Bush and Reagan prior to their election.79 The agreement was later formalized with Executive Order 12333.80 As William Casey’s biographer pointed out, Reagan “knew little about foreign policy and cared less…” and as a result sharpies around the President took over and they ran him.”81

In November 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected to the White House on a slim margin of votes, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter. The few percentage points in votes which were responsible for giving Reagan and Bush the victory were attributed to President Carter’s inability to rescue and free hostages being held in Iran.82 The failed rescue attempt of the hostages was reported to be the responsibility of Oliver North, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim, who planned and controlled the rescue operation. 83 In the meantime, it is reported that the release of the hostages by Iran was deliberately delayed by negotiations led by George Bush, and David Kimche of the Israeli Mossad- the Israeli equivalent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi. For $40 million dollars, the Iranians would delay the release of the hostages until after the election.84 The men involved in this operation, referred to in the chapters of history as “the October Surprise” were

· George HW Bush
· Adnan Khashoggi
· Oliver North
· David Kimche
· Bob Gates
· Richard Secord
· William Casey

Sixty-nine days after the Inauguration, John Hinkley attempted to assassinate President Reagan. Eight days prior to that attempt, there were a series of unprecedented policy changes that put George Bush in charge of Foreign Policy and National Security. On March 22, 1981, Bush took control of the “Emergency Crisis Management Staff,” in a Cabinet meeting. That role conferred new roles and powers on Bush, including “unprecedented powers for a vicepresident.” 85 Vice President George Bush was named the leader of the United States “crisis management ” staff, as a part of the National Security Council system.86 Then, on March 30, 1981, eight days after these powers were conferred on Bush, President Reagan was shot. On that day, there were actually two unsigned versions of National Security Directive 1 (NSDD1), one which made Al Haig and another which made George Bush the caretaker of the “red phone’ in case of National Emergency. The content of either version has never been released to the public.

Sixty nine days after the inauguration, the man whose operatives had bribed terrorists in violation of American policy and law, the man whose close colleagues and advisors planned a failed rescue attempt which cost the lives of US soldiers – all with the purpose of controlling the American Presidency, was now in control of US foreign policy.87

The father of the assassin that put Bush in power was John (a.k.a. Jack) Hinckley, Sr., who was the owner of Vanderbilt Oil. Hinckley had been giving maximum donations every year to George H.W. Bush since he started running for Congress. “When the Hinckley oil company, Vanderbilt Oil started to fail in the 1960s, Bush, Sr.’s, Zapata Oil financially bailed out Hinckley’s company. Hinckley had been running an operation with six dead wells, but he began making several million dollars a year after the Bush bailout.” John Hinckley, Sr., had also been extensively involved in an executive position with U.S. Ministries for World Vision, a widely reported CIA front operation. After the Jonestown Massacre, World Vision took over Jonestown. . In The Black Hole of Guyana: The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, John Judge painstakingly documents that Jonestown was a CIA operation for converting dispossessed and lonely refugees into assassins. In an operation that was falling under Congressional investigation, the evidence had to be eliminated – and nearly all the inhabitants were murdered to prevent disclosure.88

The assassin John Hinckley’s brother Scott Hinckley, and Neil Bush were not only friends, but had recently partied together and were scheduled to have dinner with each other that very day. Also, on the very day John Hinckley attempted to kill Reagan, three Department of Energy auditors were pressuring Hinckley’s brother Scott, with a $2 million penalty. This penalty would later disappear.89 George H.W. Bush, with his new found ‘Emergency’ powers, would deny Al Haig’s formal request for an investigation into the assassination attempt.  The covert business dealings with the Iranians and Israelis which originated with Kashoggi and Kimche in July 1980 in Hamburg with the October Surprise arrangement, would grow into a larger covert operation over the years, and provide an opening to the Soviet KGB that would allow the U.S. to fund a coup against Gorbachev in 1991. In this operation, a number of key Bush policy advisors and operatives would conduct what they collectively viewed should be the “honorable and right” foreign policy of the U.S., rather than what Congress had determined what that policy should be by law. The October Surprise operation would grow and be overshadowed by the larger Iran-Contra operation. Members of Bush’s covert intelligence cadre sold weapons to Iran, an avowed enemy of the U.S., and illegally used the profits to continue funding anti-Communist rebels, the Contras, in Nicaragua. Viewed as anticommunists, the CIA Director characterized them as being motivated by greed.90 The premise of using covert funding to fight the cold war would re-emerge a few short years later when the Bush cadre decided to take on the Soviet Union.

The entire Iran-Contra operation almost fell apart in 1986 and became public when the Nicaraguan government shot down a U.S. plane carrying weapons to the Contra rebels, and captured the U.S. pilot- Eugene Hasenfus. The discovery of these shipments – a violation of U.S. law – initiated a series of Congressional investigations and an investigation by an Independent Counsel. The meetings in Hamburg and Paris which were held to prevent an October Surprise were never mentioned, and the two pilots who flew Bush to Paris were immediately imprisoned and discredited when they sought to testify in front of Congress. A court would later find the charges against the pilots to be without support, but by that time their testimony had been blocked and discredited. “Gunther Russbacher.. claimed to have videotape proof and sixteen witnesses to his having flown George Bush to one of the October Surprise meetings.”91

Ari Ben-Menashe a major Israeli coordinator of these deals, would also testify that he had personally seen George H.W. Bush at the Paris meeting

“In June, I also testified under oath, in closed session, before the Senate Foreign Relations committee. I stated unequivocally that I had, seen Bush in Paris.”92

According to Ari Ben-Menashe, a major Israeli coordinator of these deals, four of the five supply chains set up to arm Iran were never investigated, and continued to operate right through the Congressional Hearings on Iran Contra.

“…Tower knew perfectly well there was an ongoing arms channel. Yet the Tower Commission made no mention of it. In February 1987, while Tower was investigating a minor part of the sales to Iran, the Joint Israel-Iran Committee, together with Robert Gates, ran the biggest ever arms supply operation to Iran. The official inquiry was better than any smokescreen we…could have dreamed up.”93

Quite simply, the Iran-Contra team continued to violate the law even while being investigated by Congress. There were a few indictments and convictions as a result of the Iran-Contra affair, but generally those involved were exonerated. Bush later pardoned the few lower level government officials that were indicted and convicted. Dick Cheney was one of the Congressional committee members that decided that no crimes had been committed, and that Bush was not involved. Robert Mueller, who as U.S. Attorney headed the Noriega (a related Iran-Contra inquiry)94 and the BCCI investigations,95 found no evidence pointing to illegal behavior by George H.W. Bush. His subsequent investigation into Enron found no wrong doing by Enron.96 Mueller would later be called up to head the WTC Investigation.

To support this cover-up of the Iran-Contra operations, witnesses had to be silenced.

 

“Navy Lt. Commander Alexander Martin was, in effect, the chief accountant for the Reagan/Bush drug operations run by Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, through an obscure arm of the White House National Security Council called the National Programs Office. In a radio interview with talk show host Tom Valentine last July, Martin spoke not only of drugs and money, but death. “Out of roughly 5,000 of us who were originally involved in Iran-Contra, approximately 400, since 1986, have committed suicide, died accidentally or died of natural causes. In over half those deaths, official death certificates were never issued. In 187 circumstances, the bodies were cremated before the families were notified. “Martin then said he was lying low.”97

“The Manhattan D.A. who closed the American branch (of the BCCI) announced that 16 witnesses had died in the course of investigating the bank’s entanglements in covert operations of the CIA, arms smuggling to Iraq, money laundering and child prostitution.” 98

“From October 30th to Christmas eve there were four attempts to kill, me and our friend William Smith, who everyone thinks is a high ranking Naval Intelligence officer. During that same time over fifty CIA operatives, their wives and families were killed in an attempt by the Robert Gates faction of the CIA to cover its tracks before Clinton’s team came to power. After the last attempt on my life, my husband’s SEAL team arranged safe passage for me to Vienna, Austria, where I stayed until Robert Gates was removed as Director of the CIA.”99

Ari Ben Menashe writes that Amiran Nir was assassinated to prevent his testimony at the trial of Oliver North. That testimony would have implicated George H.W. Bush.100 Senator John Heinz and Senator Towers would later meet the same fate as Amiran Nir – death by plane crash. The pattern of taking the lives of anyone who created a risk of exposure of these National Security operations was repeated in 1991, and again in 2001.

The names of the individuals involved in the Iran-Contra scandal include:

· George H.W. Bush
· Adnan Khashoggi
· Oliver North
· David Kimche
· Richard Secord
· Richard Armitage
· Russell Hermann
· Bob Gates
· Shiek Kamal Adham
· Khalid bin Mahfouz
· Dick Cheney
· Farhad Azima
· Alton G. Keel Jr.
· Bruce Rappaport
· Alfred Hartmann
· Porter Goss
· Richard Armitage
· Shaul Eisenberg
· Robert Mueller

Most of these would become the key operatives in the secret war against the Soviet Union.

As the Iran-Contra operation was unfolding, on the other side of the world, another important development was occurring. Ferdinand Marcos, the pro-U.S. dictator of the Philippines was being muscled by the Bush foreign policy machine to hand-over to the U.S. by what is estimated by some to be possibly as high as an additional 73 thousand tonnes of the remaining Golden Lily Treasure. At that time, the treasure had an estimated value of $500 to $600 billion. 101

The individuals associated with this operation were

· George HW Bush
· Adnan Khashoggi
· Oliver North
· Russell Hermann
· Paul Wolfowitz

U.S. intelligence operations had been siphoning off the Marcos gold for three decades. Ferdinand Marcos, however, continued to discover even more of the buried treasure. Marcos had started to sell it on the market during the 1970s in bits and pieces, with the assistance of Adnan Khashoggi.102 For some unknown reason, the Enterprise decided they wanted it all in 1986. That reason is now known – being to fund a war against the Soviet Union. Vice President George Bush ultimately took the gold from Marcos in 1986 when Marcos was forced out of office. It is estimated that Marcos was in possession of 73,000 tonnes of gold at that time.103 In removing Marcos from office, the U.S. was supported by his General Fidel Ramos, who defected from Marcos’s ranks to support Corazon Aquino. Fidel Ramos was later made a Board member of the Carlyle Group. The Marcos gold was removed to a series of banks, most notably Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, UBS and Banker’s Trust, and held in a depository in Kloten Switzerland. Bush administrators involved in the forced departure of Marcos were Richard Armitage and Paul Wolfowitz. Adnan Khashoggi was also involved, helping move the gold. It was at this time that Khashoggi , Shiek Kamal Adham, Khalid bin Mahfouz, and Peter Munk would create a Canadian gold mining company called Barrick Gold.

· Adnan Khashoggi was the international arms merchant that has supported the October Surprise and Iran-Contra deals and helped Marcos sell his gold on the market;

· Shiek Kamal Adham was Chief of Saudi Intelligence;

· Khalid bin Mahfouz was a Saudi investor in several Bush family companies…notably Harken Energy, and a 20% owner of the BCCI.

Much later, Kashoggi and Adham would be primary investors in a Dubai base company named Oryx. Oryx, along with U.S. investor Wally Hilliard would be the owner of Huffman Aviation where Mohammad Atta and several September 11 hijackers would do their flight training.104 105 Hilliard would later be shown to have the backing of the Bush family, Jeb Bush in particular. 106  Barrick would become a quiet gold producing partner for a number of major banks, and its activities subject to an FBI investigation into gold-price-fixing. The records on this investigation were kept in the FBI office on the 23rd floor of the North Tower which was destroyed by bomb blasts shortly before the Tower collapsed. The ultimate destination of the Golden Lily Treasure, and the source of the ‘loaned’ gold that flooded the market for 10 years has never been officially explained.

A key player in the Marcos gold would be Banker’s Trust, which was taken over by Alex Brown & Sons, after Banker’s Trust floundered financially on its Russian loans in the mid 1990s. These Russian loans were facilitated by Enron, starting in August of 1993, and very possibly were part of the Project Hammer takeover of Soviet industry. Alex Brown‘s involvement would bring to the forefront the names of three names of individuals who would play multiple roles in this mystery:

· Buzz Krongard

· Mayo Shattuck

· J Carter Beese Jr.

 

Buzz Krongard is reported as the mentor of Beese and Shattuck from their years together at Alex Brown.

 

Additionally, he managed the merger between Bankers Trust and Deutschebank Alex Brown. Bankers Trust, Zurich was a key Marcos gold holder. Krongard would move on to become Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust, and Executive Director of the CIA at the time of September 11. Mayo Shattuck would be reported to be the personal banker for Adnan Khashoggi and Edgar Bronfmann during their partnership at Barrick Gold.107 He would move on to become the CEO of Deutschebank who would resign as CEO for unexplained reasons the day after September 11, and would not be at the WTC office that day when the tower collapsed. It was his bank that was identified as the source of the illegal stock options that indicated there was insider trading taking advantage of the September 11 tragedy. After September 11, he would immediately move over to the firm that would replace Enron as the primary oil and gold derivatives trader – Constellation Energy. Carter Beese, before showing up to work at Alex Brown was schooled at the CIA training facilities of the U.S. War College and John Hopkins. George H.W. Bush appointed him to the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in 1992. Since 1992, OPIC has provided more than $4.5 billion in finance and insurance to more than 140 projects in Russia. He was also Chairman of Riggs Bank, as well as an SEC Commissioner (appointed by Bush.) Additionally, he was Chairman at Alex Brown from 1994 to 1997, and would move from there to also be vice-Chairman of Bankers Trust. He was also President of Riggs Capital Partners. Riggs controlled the famous Riggs-Valmet consultants who set up the international financial apparatus for the Russian oligarchs and rogue KGB allowing them to steal the Soviet treasury and destroy the Russian economy. Carter Beese’s death was reported as a suicide in 2006.

What happened to the Marcos gold after it was confiscated by U.S. agents in 1986 has never been reported, but throughout the early 1990s, the world gold market would be befuddled by the mysterious appearance of thousands of tonnes of gold which appeared to suppress the price of gold. An initial lawsuit was opened against the U.S. Government by renowned lawyer Mel Belli, who represented a relative of the deceased Santa Romana, attempting to claim his gold from Citibank.108 That suit remained open in 2007. There were two subsequent lawsuits introduced in the U.S. against a number of financial institutions and Alan Greenspan to determine the source of this gold. Gold traders suspected the U.S. Treasury was the source of this gold, and contended that U.S. gold stock was being illegally manipulated for private gain by the bullion banks. The first lawsuit by Reginald Howe was seen as having merit and cause, but was denied by the court for jurisdictional reasons. A second suit by Donald W. Doyle of Blanchard in which Barrick Gold was a primary defendant was settled out-of-court in 2006 and sealed under agreement. Barrick was also mentioned in the Howe suit as a knowledgeable party. In 1992, Barrick had received special treatment from George H.W. Bush during the last several days of his Presidency, when for a nominal $10,000, Barrick received rights to mine deposits ‘valued’ at $10 billion on public domain lands in Nevada.109 While there was nothing illegal to the arrangement, a special process put in place by President Bush allowed Barrick to use outside specialists to determine the value of the claim, allowing them to control the appraised value of the deposit. That special process was not made available to other mining applicants. Shortly thereafter, George H.W. Bush served on the Advisory Board of Barrick Gold. In the long term, the Barrick operation would create billions of dollars of paper gold by creating ‘gold derivatives’, under the reports that a Nevada claim whose potential was doubted by industry experts had actually produced a fortune.110 A major distribution channel for the sale of Barrick’s gold futures would be Enron. Enron would also become the vehicle by which oil and gas contracts from the former Soviet Union (vehicles for Soviet money-laundering) were processed, and it too would become collateral damage of the Cold War.

Interestingly, Barrick, which has no mining operations in Europe, uses two refineries in Switzerland: MKS Finance S.A. and Argor-Heraeus S.A. – both on the Italian border near Milan, a few hours away from the gold depository in Zurich. The question that Barrick and other banks needed to avoid answering is: what gold was Barrick refining in Switzerland, as they have no mines in that region?

The Vulcan’s Covert Economic War on the Soviet Union

 

Having found a source of funding for an economic war against the Soviet Union, it appears the Bush ‘war cabinet’ who called themselves “the Vulcans” laid out a four phase strategy. These Vulcans would be the very same individuals brought back to public service by George Bush Jr 10 eight years later, under the guidance of the elder Bush and Dick Cheney.

In preparation for their war against Communism, and in the years leading up to the failed –or faux -coup of August 1991 which initiated the last days of Gorbachev and the rise of Yeltsin, Bush and a cadre of rogue KGB officials built a complex international network of banks and holding companies that would be used to takeover ownership of the Soviet economy. Over 300 of these KGB traitors who supported this operation would later be re-located to the US in the early 1990s and pensioned.111 Periodic CIA reports to Congress would review KGB and organized crime complicity in the takeover of Russia by criminal elements, but all mention of the formidable role of the U.S. would be expunged from Congressional oversight and the public record.112

In the first phase of the economic attack on the Soviet Union, George Bush authorized Leo Wanta and others to destabilize the ruble and facilitate the theft of the Soviet/Russian treasury. This would result in draining the Russian treasury of between 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes of gold bullion, ($35 billion at the time).113 This step would be critical to prevent a monetary defense of the ruble and destabilize the currency. The gold was ‘stolen’ in March of 1991, facilitated by Leo Wanta and signed off by Boris Yeltsin’s right hand man. The majority of the leaked reports from the CIA and FBI suggest the theft of the Russian treasury was a KGB and Communist party operation, but what those reports omitted was the extensive involvement of Boris Yeltsin, the U.S. CIA and the U.S. banking industry.

A key player on the Soviet side of this theft with Wanta was Gregori (a.k.a. Georgy, Georgii) Matyukhin, former KGB official who had been made the first Chairman of the Central Bank, and after the collapse of the economy, was made to resign “for health reasons”.114 In fact, it was Matyukhin who authorized large capital transfers to Chechnya, the source of the Chechen ‘advice notes’ that Kozlov attributed to as the source of the theft of the Soviet Treasury.

“It all began in the summer of 1991 when Ruslan Khasbulatov, First Deputy of Boris Yeltsin who was then Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, decided to help his fellow countrymen and instructed head of the Central Bank of the RSFSR Grigory Matyukhin to provide peasant farms in Chechnya with credits…. after the fulfilment of Khasbulatov’s assignment, the tiny republic became the largest issuer in the RSFSR. The share of the incomes of the population paid through money printing exceeded 40% (17% on average across the country). The cash sums received by co-operatives in banks exceeded the cash which they returned by 50 times, which was also far above the level of other territories.”115

Later, it was discovered that Matyukhin was actually working for the CIA.116

In the second phase, Wanta, George Soros and a group of Bush appointees would begin to destabilize the ruble.

There were two major operations: the largest was coordinated by Alan Greenspan, Oliver North, and implemented by Leo Wanta. They are accused of fronting $240 billion in covert securities to support the various aspects of this plan.117 These bonds were created (in part or in whole) from a secretive Durham Trust, managed by ex- OSS/CIA officer, Colonel Russell Hermann. This war chest had been created with the Marcos gold and possibly augmented by illegal inverted yield curve gains on the collateral held by the U.S. during the global debt resettlement on 1989.118

The coup would be the third phase. The KGB was well aware of President Bush’s eagerness to see a collapse of Gorbachev. Many who observed the coup described it as faux coup, which was never intended to succeed Yeltsin himself writes in his memoirs that the coup was actually a veiled, pro-Yeltsin coup.119 The generals who conducted the coup said the same.120

The 1991 coup against Gorbachev was engineered by KGB General Vladimir Kruchkov121 who reported to General Victor Cherbrikov. Both of these men were business partners with Robert Maxwell, a British financial mogul, a documented Israeli secret service agent, and a representative of U.S. intelligence interests. Maxwell assisted Cherbrikov in selling military weaponry to Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras during the course of the Iran Contra deals, and made hundreds of millions of dollars available to Cherbrikov’s Russian banks.122 Shortly before the attempted coup of 1991, Maxwell met with KGB General Vladimir Kruchkov on Maxwell’s private yacht. 123 A year earlier, it had been Maxwell that initiated the dialogue about a coup with Kruchkov.124 In the same month as the coup, Maxwell was in Russia and received $780 million dollars from the CIA via the Israelis to pass on to General Kruchkov.125 Maxwell’s chief U.S. connection was Senator John Tower, who was long time confidante of George H.W. Bush and participant in the October Surprise. After his Senatorial career, Tower actually worked for Maxwell on the Board of one of Maxwell’s smaller publishing firms – Pergamon-Brassey. In this operation, Maxwell was supported by a former four star general, a retired U.S. Air Force General and a retired British Major General.126 It was Tower who released a statement exonerating Bush from involvement in the October Surprise before the Tower Commission had interviewed even a third of the scheduled witnesses.

This statement is now seen as all the more brazen in that the commission was provided with eye-witness testimony from two individuals who said they saw Bush at the meeting, as well as being provide a list of 16 more witnesses and a video-tape.127 128 Tower had arranged for the Israeli government to provide a $1 billion dollar loan to Maxwell in 1988,129 and given the generosity of U.S. financial aid to Israel, it might be fair to argue this was a pass-through loan.130 Tower had introduced Maxwell to George Bush in 1976, for the sole purpose of using Maxwell as an intermediary between Bush and the Soviet Intelligence. 131 Shortly after the coup, Maxwell died mysteriously on his yacht after attempting to blackmail the U.S. and Israeli intelligence operations. It is widely rumored that he was assassinated by either CIA or Mossad agents in lieu of them delivering his expected blackmail payment. Maxwell’s link back to George Bush died just as mysteriously. Senator Tower died in a plane crash and under suspicious circumstance in April of 1991. Maxwell’s wife was advised by a CIA agent to discourage any investigation into her husband’s death if she valued her life.132 The audio tapes he kept of his phone calls with Kruchkov disappeared.133

The coup was presented by the media as the haphazard, poorly organized effort of dissident hard-liners, suggesting a group of senior, hardened military officials got drunk, and in a moment of absent-mindedness, decided to overthrow the government.

“The accounts reportedly given by the three imprisoned plotters suggest that their coup was haphazardly planned. Mr. Pavlov, for example, said the plotters simply hoped that the Supreme Soviet would approve their action and that afterward “things would be worked out.” Mr. Yazov said that at a key meeting on Aug. 18 at which the coup was planned, he, Mr. Kryuchkov and a third plotter, Boris K. Pugo, former Interior Minister, who later committed suicide, were all drunk. Mr. Pavlov told his interrogators that he also consumed “quite a decent amount of alcohol” at that meeting. “134

 

It was widely reported that three of the nine primary conspirators committed suicide after the failed effort. What was rarely mentioned was that two of these senior veterans were thrown out of windows, and a third – Boris Pugo, shot himself in the head three times.

“What’s the hardest way to kill yourself? Three bullets to the head certainly ranks. According to Moscow police sources, that was the actual cause of death for coup conspirator Boris Pugo, the Soviet Interior Minister who was officially described as having “committed suicide” when the August putsch fizzled. As for two other top Communist officials reported to have killed themselves by leaping from windows, sources say they probably were pushed in order to silence them. They apparently knew too much about the smuggling of Communist wealth out of the country as the party collapsed.”135

The only individual officially linked to the death of Boris Pugo was Viktor Erin, the KGB officer personally involved in the ‘arrest’ of Boris Pugo136 Erin would later become a General Director for Bank Menatep, and be accused of loan fraud and theft, as part of Putin’s crackdown on the Yeltsin gang.137 Rather than being a coup about ‘policy and honor,’ like so many events linked to Project Hammer, the coup was all about the money. The CIA was moving hundreds of millions of dollars to the Generals before the coup through Robert Maxwell.138

The people who could best explain the transactions were apparently murdered. The group responsible for the murders are then later linked via Bank Menatep to the financial groups that funded the coup. As for the other traitors in the coup, they were all released from prison two years later by Yeltsin.139

The coup actually seems to have been a long time in the making, with Yeltsin having discussed the coup with Bush during his visit to the United States in June of 1991.140 That same summer, Yeltsin dined ‘discretely’ with the Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, Gerald Corrigan, while the rest of the Moscow mission dined with Gorbachev.141 The discussions prompted by Maxwell with Kruchkov regarding Kruchkov’s interest in a coup are dated to the summer of 1990.142

The coup began the dissolution of the Soviet Union143 and the beginning of the reign of Boris Yeltsin and his ‘family’ of Russian Mafiya Oligarchs, and President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. At that point, the two out of three votes required to dissolve the Soviet Union were in the pocket of President George H.W. Bush, those being the votes of Yeltsin and Nazarbayev.

In the final phase, a series of operatives assigned by President George H.W. Bush would begin the takeover of prized Russian and CIS industrial assets in oil, metals and defense. This was done by financing and managing the money-laundering for the Russian oligarchs through the Bank of New York, AEB and Riggs Bank. All of them, notably Blackstone Investment, would be out to line their own pockets.144 Blackstone would ultimately turn out to be the investor behind Larry Silverman’s purchase of Building 7 of the WTC six weeks before the September 11 attack.145 By controlling financial interest in the loss of the WTC, this group could quiet any investment community demand for investigations into the criminals behind the WTC attack.

A closer look at other activities leading up to these phases makes it clear that is was a U.S. orchestrated intelligence effort from the beginning. The economic war also involved Gerald Corrigan of the NY Federal Reserve Bank, George Soros, an international currency speculator who was responsible for crashing the British pound a few years earlier, former Ambassador to Germany R. Mark Palmer, and Ronald Lauder- financier and heir to the Este Lauder estate. Palmer and Lauder would lead a group of American investors in an Operation called the Central European Development Corporation, and combine forces with George Soros and the NM Rothschild Continuation Trust.146 This group ending up controlling Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant, while the Riggs group ended up controlling Yukos, the oil giant. Ownership for both remains largely ‘hidden’ today, and its front men enduring the hardships of the Russian wrath by spending time in prison.

In 1988, Riggs Bank, under the direction of Jonathon Bush and J Carter Beese, would purchase controlling interest in a Swiss company named Valmet. Stephen Curtis, a lawyer from Dubai, controlled Valmet. Curtis died in a helicopter crash in 2005, shortly after telling a friend that if he died in the near future, it would not be an accident.147 In early 1989, the new subsidiary of Riggs called Riggs-Valmet would initiate contact with a group of KGB officers and their front-men to start setting up an international network for moving money out of the former Soviet block countries.148 In 1989, Jonathon Bush as an ‘official’ representative of his brother, wouldtour Eastern Europe and the Ukraine. In November 1989 George H.W. Bush appears to have arranged for Alton G. Keel Jr, a former National Security Agency Director and a minor player in the Iran-Contra scandal, to go to work at Riggs Bank, where Jonathon Bush – George’s brother was an executive Vice President. Keel would head up the International Banking Group.149 This bank would later be used to funnel money to mujahedin terrorists in Bosnia by Richard Perle, 150 but for now, its target was to become the controlling owner of a small Swiss bank operation known as Valmet. The Riggs-Valmet operation, as it became known, would become the ‘consultants’ to the World Bank and to several KGB front operations run by future Russian oligarchs Khordokovsky, Konanykhine, Berezovsky and Abromovich. The Riggs-Valmet agents would advise the top four oligarchs in how to construct their vast money laundering schemes, and would provide guidance to western investors by touring Russian oil and gas operations to provide guidance on investing.151 These soon to be Russian oligarchs had been set-up as front men by KGB Generals Aleksey (a.k.a. Alexei) Kondaurov; and Fillipp (a.k.a. Phillip) Bobkov, who would also sponsor Anton Surikov, also reported as an agent for Western Intelligence.152 Both Kondaurov and Bobkov previously reported to Victor Cherbrikov, who worked with Robert Maxwell. Both Bobkov and Kruchkov (the August coup leader) were ideologically aligned153, and worked together on structuring the Communist Parties economic activities starting in October 1990.154 Kondaurov and Alexandre Konanykhine would bring a here-to-fore unknown politician and construction foreman named Boris Yeltsin from the hinterlands of Russia to the forefront of Russian politics through generous campaign financing, providing 50% of Yeltsin’s campaign funding. In the meantime, Riggs Bank was quickly solidifying banking relations with a couple more of the old Iran-Contra scandal participants: Swiss bankers Bruce Rappaport, and Alfred Hartmann. It is through this group that George Soros was engaged, who then opened a second front assault on the ruble. Rappaport and Hartmann would also extend their operations network to include of the Bank of New York, and from Israel, The Eisenberg Group. It is at this stage of the operation that three more groups would be brought into the plan by Rappaport and Hartmann: The Russian Mafiya, the Israeli Mossad, and the Rothschild family interests represented by Jacob Rothschild.

Soros and Rapport would ensure that the Rothschild financial interests would be the silent backers for a number of the undisclosed deals. By example, ten years later when Vladimir Putin sent Khordokovsky to prison for money laundering and tax evasion, Khordokovsky would identify Jacob Rothschild as his major silent partner, and ‘sign over’ his shares in the oil giant Yukos to Rothschild before he went to prison.155 The Rothschild interests would also been seen on the board of directors of Barrick Gold, which may have been used to launder Russian and Philippines treasury gold, and later on the Board of the mercenary operation Diligence whose Russian arm would be a Russian mercenary operation known as Farwest Ltd.156 Farwest was controlled by Anton Surikov, another ex KGB/CIA agent sponsored by Bobkov and Kondaurov. Rappaport would also introduce an American gentleman named “Bob Klein” to the Russians and his Bank of New York partners. Klein worked with the operation for several years, and when the Feds began its inquiries into the Bank of New York money-laundering scandal in the late 1990s, no one could prove Bob Klein ever existed, and he simply vanished.157 No one ever thought to suggest that the presence of this “spook” indicated this was an intelligence operation from the very beginning.

In the fourth phase of the secret war, the Enterprise worked on several fronts to take over key energy industries.

On the Caspian front of this economic war, James Giffen was sent to Kazakhstan to work with President Nazarbayev in various legal and illegal efforts to gain control of what was estimated to be the world’s largest untapped oil reserves -Kazak oil in the Caspian. Despite much testimony to the contrary, the U.S. government would deny that Giffen was working on its behalf.158 Giffen would later be tried in the U.S. for money laundering and corrupt practices. Giffen was convicted but apparently never sentenced. This is a common technique used by the U.S. Department of Justice where the silence of the convicted party is required. The illegal flow of money from the various oil companies would reach a number of banks. These same oil interests would engage March Rich and the Israeli Eisenberg Group, owned by one of the Mossad’s key operatives, Shaul Eisenberg, to move the oil. (The Eisenberg Group would at some point own almost 50% of Zim Shipping, which mysteriously and inexplicably moved out of the World Trade Center a few weeks before the September 11, attacks.)

Meanwhile, across the Caspian Sea, Bush had assigned a wide array of former Iran-Contra operatives to take a role in Azerbaijan, with the thought of 1) disrupting the flow of oil to Russia, 2) creating an opportunity to build a pipeline from the Caspian to the Black Sea, and 3) taking over rights to oil plots on the western shelf of the Caspian. Initially, he sent in the covert operatives Richard Armitage and Richard Secord who worked with their old colleague from the Mossad, David Kimche, and their old arms running colleagues Adnan Kashoggi and Farhad Azima to hire, transport, and train several thousand Al Qaeda mercenaries to fight on behalf of the Azeri freedom fighters!159 Osama Bin Laden was reported to have been part of this mercenary force set up Armitage and Secord.160 Osama Bin Laden had been retained by the CIA to recruit Afghan mercenaries starting in 1979.161

The recruiting role would later be transferred from Bin Laden to a company called the Allied Media Corp.162 Coincidentally, the Allied Media Corp. would be linked through the Moroccan American Chamber of Commerce to Hassan Erroudani, a Florida business partner of Mohammed Atta, the agent reportedly responsible for the September 11th attacks. In a second wave of the Azeri operation, Bush would support the creation of the US Azerbaijan-American Chamber of Commerce and its Advisory Board which included Dick Cheney, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle and Karl Mattison of the Riggs Bank.163

Those were the major operations launched to collapse the Soviet economy and take over it’s key assets. These operations were assisted by a range of allies of the Bush strategy, and traitors to the Soviet Union. As the Soviet Union collapsed, they would line their own pockets, and those of their western backers.

On the Soviet – Russian side of these activities, the record shows that the early oligarchs were sponsored and protected by two KGB Generals

· Generals Aleksey (a.k.a. Alexei) Kondaurov;

· Fillipp (a.k.a. Phillip) Bobkov.

 

 

These generals, in turn, would be sponsors for the Yeltsin family oligarchs and indirectly accused of arranging for Muslim terrorist activities to enhance the political future of the Yeltsin family.164 The individual sponsored by them to coordinate private military activities was Anton Surikov.” He would be a founder of the Russian private military group named Farwest Ltd. Farwest was an ex-KGB/Russian military operation which would be reported to be used by the Yeltsin family to hire phony “Muslim terrorists” for the purpose of enhancing the Yeltsin family control on the Russian economy. Members of Far West would be reported by French and US agencies to have dealings with Shamil Basayev, who was trained at CIA funded camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.165 Besides his connections to Afghanistan, Basayev was an associate of the Al Qaeda operative Abu Hafs.166 According to local reports, Abu Hafs was allowed to escape by American forces, and according to one report, was actually captured and released by American forces in Georgia.167 Basayev would be reported to be paid by Far West to wage Muslim attacks on Russian civilians.168 Adnan Khashoggi was reported to be the intermediary for that arrangement, with the meeting taking place at his villa on the Mediterranean. Farwest is financially linked to Alexei Kondaurov and Khordokovsky through The Institute of Globalization Studies (IPROG) for which Surikov works. Far West has received clearance from the CIA to work for Halliburton and Diligence. 169

Diligence and its sister company New Bridge would demonstrate the Western political and financial muscle working with the Yeltsin family. Its key members would include

· Chairman Richard Burt, Director of Deutschebank Alex Brown, thus linked to Carter Beese, Mayo Shattuck and Buzz Krongard;

· Neil Bush, son of President George HW Bush;

· Ed Rogers, lobbyist and US spokesperson for Shiek Kamal Adham and Adnan Khashoggi, and the Russian Alpha Group. As spokesperson for the Alpha Group, this high level lobbyist represented one of the major Russian crime organizations;

· Lord Powell, who was previously reported on the Advisory Board of Barrick, is widely reported as a spokesperson for the Rothschild family investments;

· William Webster, former Director of the CIA and Director of the FBI  These men, with Halliburton, would become the employers of Far West . In doing so, they would demonstrate their willingness to hire and retain political terrorists. Ultimately the Bush organization partnership with Farwest demonstrates:

· that Adnan Khashoggi, a key participant in multiple aspects of the 9/11 motive and planning, clearly had no hesitation to facilitate operations which result in political terror and mass murder, and a documented track record of doing just that!

· that the Bush family financial apparatus, including Dick Cheney, conducts on-going business with an organization (Farwest) that arranges contract political terror using Muslim terrorists with the same background as Al Qaeda, and is a major drug conduit!

· that the Russian/Israeli Mafiya family (the Yeltsin Family in particular) that has reaped billions of dollars from Bush largesse since 1991 uses the same political terrorist professionals as the Bush led intelligence operations!

· that the Bush apparatus belli had other channels besides Armitage and Secord to hire Al Qaeda trained mercenaries!

The Oligarchs and the West

In the late 1980s, under Gorbachev, Generals Bobkov and Kondaurov sponsored several bright young “Russian’ entrepreneurs, and arranged for them to work with a group of consultants out of Switzerland know as Riggs- Valmet.170 This was the very same Riggs operation set up by George Bush in 1988 under the watchful eye of his brother and former National Security Council director. The names of these first generation oligarchs were

· Mikhail Khordokovsky

· Alexander Konanykhine

· Boris Berezovsky (Berezovskii)

· Roman Abramovich

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Alexander Konanykhine would be responsible for up to half of the campaign financing for an unknown Russian Congressman from the remote regions of Russia known as Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin would win the election and become President of Russia. Under KGB protection, Konanykhine opened a series of banks used for moving Russian money out of Russia, most notably the Russian Exchange Bank, the European Union Bank and his partnership with Mikhail Khordokovsky in the Bank Menatep. The European Union Bank was actually a money laundering operation in Antigua run as an internet bank. The computers used to operate the bank were traced to Val Kulkov, an associate of Konanykhine, at Suite 347, 1429 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. The internet address for the bank belonged to a block of Internet addresses owned by a company called Aegis. Thayer Equity Investors, of 1445 Pennsylvania Avenue, which controlled Aegis at the time, is located on the third floor of the same building. Thayer Equity’s address was also used at one time by the Hohlt Group, which now resides at 1433 Pennsylvania Avenue, virtually right down the hallway. Interest is taken in these groups, because the men who control them are major financial power brokers of the U.S. Republican Party: Frederick Malek (Thayer Equity ) and Richard Hohlt (the Hohlt Group). Hohlt is a reported associate of Richard Armitage. Oligarch Mikhail Khordokovsky would be responsible for setting up the primary financial organization for taking over Russian oil and gas industries, as well as moving money out of the country: Bank Menatep. Over time, Riggs would reduce its control of Bank Menatep from 51% to a public 4%, although total ownership of the institution remains cloaked by offshore privacy allowances. Khordokovsky’s dealings would also involve a takeover of the gas industry: Gazprom, and with it AEB, which had been originally controlled by Palmer and Lauder.

 

Oligarch Roman Abramovich worked with Valmet-Riggs to buy into the Siberian oil giant Sibneft.171 Abramovich started with an energy trading company called Runicom which was owned totally by Valmet-Riggs.

The true beneficial owners of Runicom were never disclosed. 172Abramovich ran his operations out of the offices of one of the Swiss subsidiaries of Bruce Rappaport, the former BCCI and Iran-Contra banker. Their start-up business was trading oil and gas. As part of his trades, he would soon engage and partner with Oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

Oligarch Boris Berezovsky reportedly received his start as a used car dealer, with strong Mafia connections. He too would be reported to have received guidance from Riggs-Valmet, and would become partners with Roman Abramovich. His role appears to have been providing the ‘muscle’ behind various financial takeovers where there was a reluctance to sell.

The four of them would control the Russian oil and gas industry, and be front men for the hidden beneficiaries set up under the guidance of the consultants of Riggs-Valmet. This report speculates that the hidden beneficiaries, if ever found, would ultimately expose the illegal beneficiaries of the Black Eagle Trust, Project Hammer etc., and would be one and the same as the beneficiaries of the $240 billion security clearance in the aftermath of September 11th.

South of Russia, in Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev was working initially with James Giffen to open the oil flow to western economies. Shortly after Giffen established a foothold, Nazarbayev was working with Shaul Eisenberg, Marc Rich, Dick Cheney and George Soros. The FBI investigation into James Giffen’s activities that might have violated the U.S. Corrupt Practices act had its records stored on the 23rd Floor office of the FBI in the World Trade Center. The scope of the Giffen trial was limited by the court to activities from 1994 and forward, against the protests of Giffen’s lawyers. The lawyers contended they needed the scope of Giffen’s activities opened as far back as 1991, so that Giffen could show he was working under White House directives. Pulitzer prize winner Seymour Hersh reported that there were thousands of illegal oil swaps made during the early years under President Nazarbayev’s – but none of these ever came to light during the Giffen trial. 173

The Great Ruble Scam

With an understanding of the economic war being waged on the Soviet Union, the focus needs to turn to reports that on September 11, 1991, President George Bush was responsible for issuing $240 billion dollars in secretive bonds as a part of this attack.
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There are six lines of evidence from eight sources that suggest this was indeed the case. Many of these instances are corroborated with documents available on the internet, presented by those making the claims.174

1. There has been a body of investigative reporting that suggests that between 1991 and 1992, the ruble was under a massive attack, with an unknown source of funding. The capital flight from the Soviet Union in U.S. dollars was estimated by Fidel Castro at $500 billion, and by Gorbachev at one trillion dollars. Somebody had to put up the lion’s share of funding for those dollars. The most authoritative source on the subject, Claire Sterling, writes that unknown intelligence operations were behind the attack.

“The fact that scarcely anyone outside Russia has heard of the Great Ruble Scam may be explained partly by its seemingly unbelievable details, but partly, too, by Western reluctance to touch exquisitely sensitive political nerves. Western governments rejoicing in the collapse of the evil empire wanted to assume, and to all appearances did assume, that all the evils in an emerging democracy emanated from politicians identified with the fallen communist state. Not one was prepared to acknowledge indelicate evidence to the contrary. The ability of three or four characters to mount such a planet wide operation, their extraordinary impact on what was still a world superpower, and their singular immunity from beginning to end suggest the guiding hand of not just one, but several intelligence agencies.”175

 

Documentation supporting the contention that there was ‘cash’ in this order of magnitude floating around Russia in 1991 and 1992 is also found in Stephen Handelman’s book Comrade Criminal. Handelman, who appears to have had access to KGB files brought back to the U.S. after the collapse of the Soviet Union, notes that prior to 1991, the Russian Communist Party had a reserve of 435 billion rubles of ‘freely convertible hard currency,” and that in the summer after the coup, there were unnamed individuals in Russia who could provide up to 300 billion rubles on a months notice.176 In the former instance 435 billion rubles in July of 1991 converts into $240 billion. This fund was converted and moved out of the Soviet Union, and the ruble scam would have needed to provide hard dollars in that order of magnitude. A year later, Handelman’s second examples suggests criminal individuals had at their disposal $3 to $4.5 billion on short notice.177 By comparison, at the same time, the U.S. Congress could not pass a $10 billion appropriation bill due to mandatory budget ceiling constraints.

2. Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Head of Russia’s Central Bank, was heading an investigation into the loss and reported the theft at 400 billion rubles from the Central Bank in 1991. (Not to be confused with a similar scam run out of Chechnya in 1992 on a much smaller order of magnitude.) These rubles were stolen by someone putting hard currency securities in remote Chechen banks as collateral for Russian loans and then making the collateral notes disappear from the remote banks at the same time the funds were being withdrawn.178 While the black-market value of a ruble was about $1, the ‘official’ conversion rate at the time was 1.8 rubles/dollar. Using the official US dollar equivalent for 400 billion rubles, the theft converted to $222 billion. Kozlov was gunned down shortly after announcing he was close to understanding where the 400 billion rubles went. The head of the Central Bank at that time – former KGB official Georgy Matyuhin – who authorized these credits, on behalf of Yeltsin an at the request of Yeltsin’s First Deputy, Khasbulatov was retired after he was reported to be a CIA asset. 179

3. Mrs. V.K. Durham, wife of Russell Herman, who was a fund controller for the CIA’s covert fund, has contended in sworn testimony that George H.W. Bush, Oliver North and Alan Greenspan forced her husband into relinquishing the funding for the bonds on that date. They later forged Hermann’s signature on related financial transactions.180 She also claims they were responsible for his death three years later because Hermann believed these funds were the property of the U.S. citizens rather than the private slush fund of the Bush circle, and protested the manner in which they were being used. Wanta has since maintained a similar stance, that the earnings from his covert operations should be public funds rather than a covert slush funds used by U.S. presidents. 181

4. Several sources from the Office of Naval Investigation (ONI) have released over 100 pages of bank transactions detailing transactions in the range of 100s of billions of dollars. These are the same files released also by Derek Vreeland from a Canadian prison, from which he warned his guards about the forthcoming attack on the World Trade Center. Vreeland contended he was an ONI operative.182 The files cover three periods of transactions which correspond to this covert war on the Soviet Union; While the transactions do not directly show securities going to the Soviet Union, they do support the theory that the Bush Vulcans were spending massive amounts of cash in a manner inconsistent with US Federal budget spending caps in effect at the time, and moving massive funding into covert accounts at key trust funds – most notably Pilgrim Investments, to the account of “Jorge” Bush. (Jorge is Spanish for George.)
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· the first series of transactions in August to October 1989 coincides with the Mexican and Latin American debt resettlement. During this period it has been contended that Bush was responsible for generating 300 hundred billion dollars in illegal earnings by making other countries debt collateral disappear for a few months, while whoever was holding this collateral profited from August 11 to October 6 on what is known as a period of a rare the “inverted yield curve.”

· the second series of transactions from September 24 to October 10, 1990 period would most likely represent funding for the purchase of the Soviet gold treasury, and the movement of Communist Party funds out of the Soviet Union. Leo Wanta reports having started his efforts at this time.

· the third series of transactions from May 27-28th 1991 would most likely represent funding for his Ruble destabilization program

5. Documents released from Leo Wanta’s files for these bonds provide great detail about the Soviet deals:

• These bonds were used to fund an undesignated “joint venture” with Russia 183

Coincidentally, On 14 September 1991, Vladimir Shcherbakov, the last First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, formed the International Foundation for Privatization and Private Investment [FPI] with two other partners. The second partner has never been revealed. The third partner was the now notorious Austrian firm, Nordex GmbH. The International Foundation for Privatization and Private Investment [FPI]. would be one of the major organizations involved in the Bank of New York moneylaundering scandal and a major crime front. Interpol would be reported as making Marc Rich one of the founders of Nordex. Marc Rich would be pardoned by President William Clinton, presumably for his services to the US in arranging for the collapse of the Soviet Union, although the reasons for his pardon have never been made public.

• These bonds were backed by Swiss gold held in vault in the free trade zone in Kloten, Switzerland 184. The Kloten repository resides at the Zurich airport, which the Marcos gold hoard as well as the stolen Soviet treasury gold was reported as being stored at. “… tons of the loot was liberated by Ferdinand Marcos before his ouster. Billions of dollars worth were shipped overseas by American intelligence agents and the Mafia. Much of the horde was cabbaged away in a high-security, subterranean storage cache buried beneath the Zurich airport.185

• The bonds were made conditional to loan acceptance by government officials in the USSR 186

• These bonds provided, in part, of payments of currency from Lehman of at least $100 million per day for an indefinite period of time 187

• These bonds provided, cash funneled to Russia through the Deutschebank 188

6. Depositions on Project Hammer seems inextricably linked to the same banks and funds as the information being documented by Vreeland, ONI and Wanta:

· General Earl Cock’s deathbed deposition in April 2000 describes Citibank’s and John Reed’s central involvement in Project Hammer in the last quarter of 1991 as being funded with $223 billion dollars, of mostly CIA moneys. Cocke also references the use of baby bonds to collaterize these funds, which are 10 year bonds. Cocke describes the source of these funds as “accounts, participants or players” with the accounts converting to bank ownership upon the death of the controlling party, and then to the government. This matches exactly what Sterling and Peggy Seagrave claim happens to the gold accounts opened by agents of the US;189

· Roelfo Van Rooyen’s deposition in 1995 describes Project Hammer as a 1991 CIA operation.190 Information and documents released from 9 independent sources all merge into the same story

1. Leo Wanta – imprisoned on trumped up tax charges to keep him quiet.
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2. U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence – destroyed on September 11 to keep them quiet.

3. Derek Vreeland– imprisoned to keep him quiet, now in hiding.

4. Major Colonel Erle Cocke – deathbed confession of co-conspirator.

5. Andrei Kozlov– Russian Central Bank director, gunned down to keep him quiet.

6. Claire Sterling – international correspondent co-opted and hired by CIA to keep her quiet. Deceased.

7. V.K. Durham – ignored, but not silenced.

8. Sterling and Peggy Seagrave – authors and historians, received multiple death threats to prevent publication. of their book on the Marcos Gold– now in hiding;

9. David Guyatt, independent reporter and published author.

 

The September 11th Cover-up of the Black Eagle Trust and Project Hammer

With the bonds out in the market, they sat for ten years, like a ticking time bomb. At some point, they had to be settled -or cashed in, on September 11, 2001. The two firms in the U.S. most likely to be handling them would be Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers – the two largest government securities firms in the U.S. The federal agency mostly involved in investigating those transactions was the Office of Naval Intelligence

On that day, those same three organizations: the two largest government securities brokers and the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US took near direct hits. Actually, the jetliners hit immediately below the targeted offices, assuring that the flames would engulf the floors above. This targeting strategy was also used on the 23rd floor of the North tower, which was an FBI evidence repository holding information on allegedly illegal gold transactions.

The attacks had a related agenda. It seems that the covert Cold War operation started in 1989 had resulted in a series of foreign and U.S. allegations of financial impropriety, and as a result there were at least nine federal investigations being conducted into bank accounts related to these operations. All of these investigations were initiated, in 1997-98 timeframe, which was the same year that Osama Bin Laden – after twenty years of recruiting Mujahadeen for the U.S. covert wars – announced a fatwa against the US. (A key understanding here is that federal investigations are preceded by a period of ‘quiet’ investigation before an official investigation is publicly announced.)

1) The Marcos Gold Hearing began in Los Angeles, in August 1997. The banks and accounts involved in that hearing, were the Swiss banks: UBS, and Bank Julius Baer.

2) The Eizenstatz Report and a public campaign waged by the Simon Wiesenthal Center launched suits against three Swiss banks.

3) The Reginald Howe suit- in which the U.S. bullion banks were accused of dumping U.S. Treasury gold on the market illegally. The Reginald Howe & GATA Lawsuit was filed on Jan 8, 2000 naming Deutschebank (a.k.a. Deutschebank Alex Brown), U.S. Treasury, Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve, Citibank, Chase, as defendants. Also mentioned as having non-public knowledge of the scheme are Gerald Corrigan and Barrick Gold. (The 2000 filing suggests investigations began long before.)

4) The Bank of New York money laundering scandal: the Department of Justice was under pressure to investigate accounts of multiple individuals who benefited from these transactions: Loutchansky, Marc Richand Berezovsky (Berezovskii.) The FBI investigation started in the Fall of 1998, The investor lawsuit was opened in September 1999. These investigations involved accounts at Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), Dresdner Bank, Westdeutsche Landesbank and Banque Internacionale of Luxembourg

All of these individual would at some point be mentioned as playing a role in the money laundering scandal at the Bank of New York, that would ultimately be reopened in 2002, after being buried for three years by federal prosecutor Mary Jo White, a first cousin to former President George Bush.

5) The Avisma law suit was filed Aug 19, 1999 naming as defendants Bank Menatep, Harvard Institute for International Development, and the Bank of New York;

6) The federal investigation of Konanykhine’s European Union Bank: The Konanykhine investigation was begun by the INS in February 1999. Other banks included in that investigation would have been the European Union Bank and Bank Menatep.

7) Richard Giffen/Mobil Oil scandal- The FBI Probe began in 1999, and would have involved accounts at Credit Suisse, Bank of New York, Cayman Islands, and the Deutsche Bank (a.k.a. Deutschebank Alex Brown).,
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 Yeltsin’s UBS accounts were being investigated for bribery.

9) Kevin Ingram would testify that he had advised Bob Graham in advance that the World Trade Center was to be attacked. This Deutsche Bank executive was convicted of laundering money for weapons purchases for Muslim terrorists through Pakistani agents; The Ingram investigation was begun by the FBI as early as July 1999, and involved the Deutschebank (a.k.a. Deutschebank Alex Brown).

The records for some of these investigations resided in Building Six, Building Seven and on the 23rd Floor FBI office in the North Tower. The account structure set up by the U.S. intelligence operations was besieged by investigations from nine different directions, any one of which may have exposed the source of that funding, and traced it to its Black Eagle Fund origins. Those investigations needed to be diverted.

What happened inside the buildings of the World Trade on September 11 is difficult, but not impossible to discern. The government has put a seal on the testimony gathered by the investigating 911 Commission, and instructed government employees to not speak on the matter or suffer severe penalties, but there are a number of personal testimonies posted on the internet as to what happened in those buildings that day. Careful reconstruction from those testimonies indicates the deliberate destruction of evidence not only by a targeted assault on the buildings, but also by targeted fires and explosions. In the event that either the hijacking failed, or the buildings were not brought down, the evidence would be destroyed by fires. In addition to the investigative evidence being destroyed, the Federal Register reported that the physical securities held by the brokers in their vaults had been destroyed.

What would be even more revealing would be the actions of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission on that day, and in the immediate aftermath. As one of many coincidences on September 11, the Federal Reserve Bank was operating its information system from its remote back-up site rather than it’s downtown headquarters. The SEC and Federal Reserve system remained unfazed by the attack on September 11.

All of their systems continued to operate. The two major security trading firms had their trade data backed up on remote systems. Nevertheless, the Commission for the first time invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) and issued several orders to ease certain regulatory restrictions temporarily.

 

The Federal Reserve Suspends the Rules

On the first day of the crisis, the SEC lifted “Rule 15c3-3 – Customer Protection–Reserves and Custody of Securities,” which set trading rules for the following processes:

The [seller] is not permitted to substitute other securities for those subject to this agreement an therefore must keep the [buyer's] securities segregated at all times, unless in this agreement the [buyer] grants the [seller] the right to substitute other securities

Notification in the event of failure to make a required deposit.

Physical possession or control of securities.

Required Disclosure

Control of securities/Requirement to reduce securities to possession or control.

Simply, GSCC was allowed to substitute securities for the physical securities destroyed during the attack.

“…collateral substitutions can and should be made with regard to immediately maturing collateral.” 191

 

Subsequent to that ruling, the GSCC issued another memo expanding blind broker settlements. A “blind broker” is a mechanism for inter-dealer transactions that maintains the anonymity of both parties to the trade. The broker serves as the agent to the principals’ transactions.

“The only repo transactions entered into by blind brokers should be those done in direct furtherance of clean-up and reconciliation efforts. No new blind brokered business should be executed.” 192

At this point in time, the Federal Reserve and its GSCC had created a settlement environment totally void of controls and reporting – where it could substitute valid, new government securities for the mature, illegal securities, and not have to record where the bad securities came from, or where the new securities went – all because the paper for the primary brokers for US securities had been eliminated.
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This act alone, however was inadequate to resolve the problem, because the Federal Reserve did not have enough “takers” of the new 10 year notes. Rather than simply having to match buy and sell orders, which was the essence of resolving the “fail” problem, it appears the Fed was doing more than just matching and balancing – it was pushing new notes on the market with a special auction. It appears some of the beneficiaries wanted to cash out!

“Acute settlement problems with the on-the-run ten-year note led the U.S. Treasury to reopen the issue on October 4 and hold an unusual “snap” auction of new ten-year securities.”193

 

 If the Federal Reserve had to cover-up the clearance of $240 Billion in covert securities, they could not let the volume of capital shrink by that much in the time of a monetary crisis. They would have had to push excess liquidity into the market, and then phase it out for a soft landing, which is exactly what appears to have happened. In about two months, the money supply was back to where it was prior to 9/11. How the Federal Reserve managed this feat is explained in the following section.

 

 

The Federal Reserve and the Three Card Monte

On of the most common scams on the streets of urban America is a set up of three card Monte. The intricacies of the scam are legion, but essentially, the dealer’s sleight of hand which fools the mark is covered by a rapid rotation of the three cards. It was the rapid rotation of the securities settlement fails in the aftermath of September 11th that appears to have allowed the Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve to engage in a securities refinancing that resulted in the American taxpayer refinancing the $240 billion originally used for the Great Ruble Scam.

A review of the explanations for the actions of the Federal Reserve after September 11th exposes an amazingly complex web of analysis and speculation. The reports published by the Federal Reserve argue that the Federal Reserve’s actions increasing the monetary supply by over $300 billion were justified to overcome operational difficulties in the financial sector. While impressive as the reports are, what is noted by the casual reader is that all of the Federal Reserve analysis is speculative and suggestive, using phraseology such as “may have,” “likely,” “presumably,” or “should have.” There are few – if any – definitive statements about root cause and the appropriateness of the Federal Reserve response.

The general perspective of the industry is captured in such comments as:

“The destructive force of the attacks themselves caused severe disruptions to the U.S. banking system, particularly in banks’ abilities to send payments. The physical disruptions caused by the attacks included outages of telephone switching equipment in Lower Manhattan’s financial district, impaired records processing and communications systems at individual banks, the evacuation of buildings that were the sites for the payments operations of large banks, and the suspended delivery of checks by air couriers.” 194

“Following September 11, open market operations were aimed at satisfying the financing needs of the severely disrupted government securities dealer community, leaving to the discount window the task ofelastically providing balances to satisfy demand at the target rate. The huge additions of funds following September 11 were therefore a by-product of operating procedures designed to target the overnight funds rate.[3]” 195

“Fails rose initially because of the destruction of trade records and communication facilities. They remained high because the method typically used to avert or remedy a fail—borrowing a security through a special collateral repurchase agreement—proved as costly as failing to deliver the security.”196

 

 Reading statements like this are suggestive that there were massive, wide spread disruptions in the system. These were the conditions that “led policymakers to depart so significantly from previous debt management practices.” 197

While the facts presented by the Federal Reserve analyst’s reports are true, as presented they tend to distort what really happened in the aftermath of the attack. In truth, while the analysts reported disruptions at over 800 banks, a deeper look at the reports indicated that only “a few’ were seriously disrupted. The order of magnitude of disruption at any bank was never quantified, with the exception of one. Even that statement however, detracts from the data which suggest that the disruptions were essentially concentrated in one bank – the Bank of New York. (The same Bank of New York was being investigated for money laundering charges in relation to the economic pillaging of Russia by criminal oligarchs who were financed with the covert securities purportedly being laundered in the aftermath of September 11th.) This is because while the Fed was reporting outstanding account balances over $100 billion per day (while not identifying the banks involved), the Wall Street Journal reported: “At one point during the week after September 11, BoNY publicly reported to be overdue on $100 billion in payments.”198

The Deutschebank, which sat inside the World Trade Center and was totally decimated, reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of only two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub, reported no such increase in its account balance. No one has publicly asked: why is it that these other two banks were not seriously disrupted, while the Bank of New York – which had no structural damage, seemed unable to operate? Understanding what was happening at the BoNY becomes critical to understanding the securities settlement issues:

“GSCC and several dealers could not verify what came into and what left their custodial accounts at BoNY, they could not advise BoNY of securities they expected to receive, and they could not give BoNY instructions for delivering securities. Additionally, GSCC was unable to verify the movement of funds into and out of its account at BoNY (GSCC Important Notice GSCC068.01).”199

In a world of coincidences, The Bank of New York (which had over 8,000 employees in its downtown location), lost three employees that day. One of those three employees was a man who was in the best position to explain how the attacks would have impacted BoNY. His name was Michael Diaz-Piedra III, a former West Point graduate and son of a Cuban exile. Michael was the Vice-President of Disaster Recovery Planning for the Bank of New York. In the aftermath of September 11, he was reported as being an employee of Bank of America, or holding another position at the BoNY.

 

 

 

Finally, with respect to the Bank of New York operations and the level of disruption experienced on September 11th, an important element needs to be highlighted. Disruptions to the financial system were attributed to the loss of the communications hub in downtown Manhattan. The telephone network operations center (NOC) or hub was decimated when the WTC collapsed onto it. However, the BoNY Funding Transfer operations, which reportedly could not communicate with the Fed, were located in Utica, New York, and had none of its communication abilities impaired. Moreover, the four BoNY back-up datacenters were all located within 46 miles of Manhattan, and could and did deliver data on tape regularly to the Fed via courier.

In a reported setting of half truths and speculation by Federal Reserve analysts made to appear as facts, review of the reports of the financial aftermath of September 11th suggest:

· The disruptions to the U.S. financial system were not as widespread as the reports from the Federal Reserve would have the public believe, but that the public had to be made to perceive a widespread need for declaring a national financial emergency, suspending key provisions of the Federal Reserve Act and driving the ‘ten-year special rate’ to almost zero.

· Certain key unknown figures in the Federal Reserve may have ‘conspired’ with key unknown figures at the Bank of New York to create a situation where $240 billion in off balance sheet securities created in 1991 as part of an official covert operation to overthrow the Soviet Union, could be cleared without publicly acknowledging their existence.

· These securities, originally managed by Cantor Fitzgerald, were cleared and settled in the aftermath of September 11th through the BoNY. The $100 billion account balance bubble reported by the Wall Street Journal as being experienced in the BoNY was tip of a three day operation, when these securities were moved from off-balance-sheet to the balance sheet. (The off-balance-sheet process is described by banking advisor to the US Presidents Earl Cocke, who admitted under sworn testimony to managing Project Hammer funds – the suspected source of these illegal securities.)

· By reducing the ‘ten-year special rate’ to almost zero, the Fed structurally increased the number of refinancing (Repo) settlement fails. Under the umbrella of this artificially created statistical bump of fails, the high level of fails due to the laundering of the $240 billion was able to be processed unnoticed.

· The cover for this bubble is found in the footnotes to the BoNY annual and quarterly reports, which report that the BoNY took over $330 billion of commercial securities business from U.S. Trust between June and October of 2001, although the assets under control of U.S. Trust in 2000 were reported by two sources as $80 or $86 billion.200

 

Federal Reserve Management of the Aftermath of September 11

There were two key disruptions reported in the financial markets:

1) Excessive account balances in a few banks reportedly contributing to an increase in the account balance in a wide array of banks which required a massive infusion of credit to stabilize the Federal Reserve system. These accumulations started appearing on September 12th and ran through the 18th,. They resulted in the addition of $300 billion to the US monetary supply, which initiated the on-set of the sub-prime market.

2) A reported excessive number of fails in securities settling requiring the lifting of controls on settlements. There
were two reasons reported for these fails:

· Missing trade data due to loss of communications and data;
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· Refinancing (Repo) settlements had lost any financial incentive to avoid fails because the special rate for 10 year notes was dropped to almost zero.

The first wave of fails is attributed to the BoNY situation.

“In the absence of complete information on deliveries into and out of its account at BoNY on September 11, and as a result of its assumption of settlement fails on the starting legs of blind-brokered RPs, GSCC recorded (after the close of business on September 11) $266 billion in transactions that apparently failed to settle.… Continuing connectivity problems prevented GSCC from giving BoNY delivery instructions after the close of business on September 11 and prevented it from acquiring information on activity in its account at BoNY during the day on September 12. Consequently, GSCC recorded $440 billion in settlement fails as of the close of business on September 12.”201

 

Excessive Balances Increasing the Supply of Money

On over-riding consideration in the Fed’s management of the aftermath of September 11th was the concentration in account balances at the Federal Reserve.

“It is clear that the concentration in account balances at the Federal Reserve—rising more than fourteenfold from its normal levels on the days following the terrorist attacks—was a most unusual event…. If a large proportion of the balances in the banking system concentrate in one bank’s account, then other banks will face, all else being equal, higher costs of making payments, or alternatively may face liquidity constraints on their borrowing, which could preclude their submission of further payments.”202

It may seem a small detail, but note the qualifying statement: “all else being equal.” An alternative explanation could be to move off-balance sheet liabilities to the balance sheet and claim the offsetting claims are in the rubble of the World Trade Center.

 

Chart taken from [Liquidity Effects of the Events of September 11, 2001, James J. McAndrews and Simon M. Potter,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, November 2002, p.64.]
A key consideration is the pre-9/11 daily average for this balance: “For commercial banks, these balances consist of either required reserve balances, excess reserve balances, or service-related balances.3 These balances and service34 related balances for August 2001 averaged $14.65 billion per day.4 203 This makes the actual surges due to the attack show a net impact of $352 billion on the account balance over the remainder of the week .

Federal Reserve Balance adjusted for normal daily average to reflect true impact of attack.
                                   Reported Balance (Billions)
                                                                        Adjusted Balance Due to Attack (Billions of Dollars)

September 12                         44                                            29
September 13                       104                                            89
September 14                       121                                           106
September 15                       111                                            96
September 16                         46                                            31

What appears to be the case is that the Federal Reserve imbalances reported on three consecutive days in the aftermath were largely concentrated at the Bank of New York, which is reported to represent over 90% of the imbalance, suggesting the Bank had been the recipient of massive fund transfers, and unable to send out transfers.

 

“At one point during the week after September 11, BoNY publicly reported to be overdue on $100 billion in payments.204

This supposedly was due to major communication and system failures.

“The crucial government bond processing, for example, had a system in which a second computer was receiving and processing all the data going into the main computer, making it ready to pick up at a moment’s notice…. As it turned out, though, even the expensive backup system was unable to get the government bond business up and running smoothly. That is largely because of problems maintaining the communications links that receive information on trades from its customers and report their positions back to them. ”In many cases our backup sites were dealing with our customers’ backup sites,” Mr. Renyi said.  And though the bank had established communications lines in advance connecting these various backup centers, they often were of low capacity and typically had not been fully tested and debugged. Even a week after the attack, the Bank of New York was having trouble with some crucial communications links, like its connection to the Government Securities Clearing Corporation, a central part of the government bond market. On several days that week, the bank had to drive computer tapes with its trades to G.S.C.C. offices.”205

“On September 11, we were able to continue processing, as our funds transfer business unit is in Utica, New York, until the telecommunications lines went down later in the day in lower Manhattan. After that, excess liquidity quickly built up because we were unable to process all securities and cash transactions in a normal manner. The increase in the balance sheet went away very quickly, however, as we returned to normal processing by Friday and handled the backlog over the weekend.”206

In fact, none of the BoNY’s systems failed or went non-operational. “Bank executives argue that some of the criticism has taken on some aspects of urban legend, especially the notion that the bank was in disarray because the main backup for its computer center in Lower Manhattan was at another location in Lower Manhattan. The bank says that all of its several computer centers in Manhattan were always set to revert to centers outside the city in case of emergency, and they did on Sept. 11.” 207

Even more to the point, the Bank’s Fund Transfer operations are located in Utica New York, and its communication systems remained untouched.

Where the inconsistent reporting gets interesting is that Todd Gibbons of the BoNY reported an “increase” in the volume of securities on September 11.
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“The contingency site muse be able not only to accommodate normal business loads, it must be able to accommodate extreme business surges, such as we saw in the first day in the equities market. Our contingency plans had included the ability to handle a great amount of excess capacity; and we were able to handle the increase in volumes….”208

However, the overall volumes for the day were 25% less than normal and one third of the volume or $400 billion came in after normal business hours in very few transactions. As seen in the chart below, overall transactions for the day were seemingly down even more significantly than volume, but the transactions that came in after closing were extremely large, averaging in size in packages of $35million or more. This would be consistent with a hypothesis that $240 billion of securities were being pushed surreptitiously into the money supply. Additionally, the conflicting information from the BoNY and Fed suggest the activity in the bank was different that that being reported to the public.

“August 2001, the value of Fedwire funds transfers averaged more than $1.6 trillion per day, while banks held about $15 billion on account.11 ….The value of funds sent on September 11 was $1.2 trillion, about three-fourths of the average for the benchmark period. However, unlike volume, the value of funds sent had returned to normal levels on the twelfth and was then at elevated levels for the next seven business days.”
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[Liquidity Effects of the Events of September 11, 2001, James J. McAndrews and Simon M. Potter, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, November 2002, p65. ]

The Federal Reserve, without providing the detail required to substantiate it’s claims, would have the public believe that there were widespread liquidity issues, when in fact the issues were very concentrated primarily, if not singularly, in the BoNY, which has been the subject of an ongoing major money-laundering investigation for many years. These account balance issues resulted in the defacto expansion of the monetary supply, details of which are no longer reported by the Federal Reserve. The reported cause of this market malfunction is seemingly suspect. By comparison, the Deutschebank which sat inside the World Trade Center reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub reported no such increase in account balance. Additionally, while problems were being documented between the BoNY and GCSS, no other institution had those problems.
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“…it is worth noting that settlements occurred at the major large-value private sector settlement systems (the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and the Clearing House Inter-bank Payments System [CHIPS]) on the eleventh and subsequent days.”210

There is every reason to believe activities in the BoNY in the aftermath of September 11th are worthy of suspicion.

The Fails

In the aftermath of September 11th, the analysts at the Fed attributed the security settlement failures to two causes:

· the initial inability to match up trades with correspondent data, and

· the use of ‘strategic’ fails by brokers in the aftermath, when the special rate on securities was so low that there was no incentive to avoid the refinancing fail. This reduction in the special rate was attributed to operations to increase liquidity in response to excess balance issue discussed in the section above.

One key Federal Reserve researcher summarized it accordingly:

“Fails rose initially because of the destruction of trade records and communication facilities. They remained high because the method typically used to avert or remedy a fail—borrowing a security through a special collateral repurchase agreement—proved as costly as failing to deliver the security. The U.S. Treasury responded to the fails problem by reopening the on-the-run ten-year note. The increased supply made borrowing the note more attractive than failing.”211

The standard remedy for a fail—borrowing a security through a special collateral repurchase agreement— fell apart when the Fed dropped the special rate to nearly zero. As a result, a second, ongoing ‘wave’ of ‘fails’ was created by removing the incentive for regular traders to avoid fails. It is this structurally created second wave that masked the underlying wave of fails due to the loss of the covert funding notes.

“The Desk “had to accept the vast majority of propositions – even those offered at rates well below the new 3 percent target level – in order to arrange RPs of sufficient size.” (Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2002, p. 24) On Wednesday, the Desk accepted all propositions submitted, the lowest of which was ¾ percent: see Table 2. The effective federal funds rate sank to 1¼ percent on Tuesday and below that on Wednesday”212

“The incentive of a seller to borrow securities to avoid or cure a fail declines with the specials rate for the security. When the specials rate is near zero, a seller has little to gain lending money (at nearly no interest) to borrow the needed securities.13 This suggests that market participants may have little incentive to break daisy chains and round robins when the specials rate for a security is near zero. This aspect of the market is important to understanding the fails problem after September 11…. the specials rate for a security will be driven to its lower limit more frequently when the fed funds rate, and hence the general collateral rate, is lower. This follows because the gross compensation earned by a lender of securities at any given specials rate is the difference between the general collateral rate and the specials rate.”213

As shown in the following chart, the specials rate dropped by 200 -300 basis points, creating a disincentive to resolve short term, repo fails and creating a statistical flurry of fails.

[When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael J. Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p 41.]

The response of the Fed in bringing a new issue to the market at this time seems to have inadvertently (an assumption which should be challenged) been the source of continued lower “special rates” on the ten year note, and exacerbated the fail problem through the end of the year. In the extended condition of a high level of settlement fails, it would require little effort to ‘statistically hide’ the settlement of the remaining $240 billion that may not have been cleared in the immediate aftermath. The three week lull of fails in October could easily represent the 30 day short term refinancing of the debt. As the debt came back to the market for permanent refinancing, a shortage of investors would result in more fails.

 

[When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael J. Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p
43.]

The critical perspective here is that in making the original paper on $240 Billion in covert notes disappear in the rubble of the World Trade Center, it would be implausible to refinance them in a few days without the financial world taking note. Notes could conceivably be refinanced for 30 days in the repo market, and the final refinancing extended for weeks, possibly months.

There is a contention that at the core of the September 11th attack, someone was planning to cover the 1991 issuance of $240 billion in covert securities used to finance the collapse the Soviet Union. The facts surrounding the financial aftermath of September 11 suggest this is not only possible, but that reports describing the aftermath have deliberately been misleading.

· The US dollar money supply was significantly increased in the aftermath of 9/11;

· The bank at the core of the illegal money laundering by ex-Soviet criminals was the source of the increased money supply (BoNY);

· The generally disseminated rationale for BoNY’s operational problems seems to have affected no other bank in a similar manner or magnitude and is inconsistent with reports on the BoNY operations in the aftermath;

· A key witness who might provide insight to these issues is a statistically aberrant death;

· The source of the BoNY’s $330 billion increase in assets is cloaked under the privilege of “private banking;”

· The only alleged “severe” disruption to the financial systems was the Federal Reserves account balance and the securities trading fails – both systems required to hide the laundering of $240 billion in covert securities.
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This is not a ‘proof’ that $240 billion was laundered, but it provides probable cause for paying serious attention to Durham’s claim that it was indeed what happened. When one looks deep enough into the murky cloud of black ops and secret financing – the world of Durham’s husband – her claims regarding 1991 and 2001 begin to gather credibility.

Mohammed Atta’s Affiliations with Western Intelligence Finally, if one looks at the affiliations of the attack leader and financiers, one will see multiple linkages to US covert operations and U.S. intelligence allies.

· Mohammed Atta, reportedly responsible for coordinating the attacks, trained his men and himself at the Huffman Aviation -Flight Training school. That school was funded by Wally Hilliard, with Oryx Corporation.214 Oryx was founded by Adnan Khashoggi and Sheik Kamal Adham, director of Saudi intelligence (1963-79). Khashoggi was the individual that brokered the meeting between terrorists and the Yeltsin Family. 215 Khashoggi was also extensively involved in the following Bush operations: October Surprise, Iran-Contra, Azerbaijan, Barrick Gold, Marcos Gold.

· Mohammed Atta during his time in the U.S. remained a close friend of Wolfgang Bohringer, an apparent CIA agent.216

· Hilliard, nominal owner of the training facility which acted as cover for the terrorists, is a significant investor in a small California defense/electronics company (Spatialight, Inc.) with Farhad Azima, another of the Iran-Contra/Azerbaijan group. Azima’s role had been to coordinate air transportation for covert US intelligence operations for Iran-Contra and Azerbaijan.

· Hilliard is reported as a close friend of CIA agent Mark Schubin, whose father was a KGB colonel.217

· Hilliard is also strongly linked to the Jeb Bush political machine in Florida, and has had his commercial transport operations endorsed by that group.218

· Mohammad Atta, as can best be determined, received funding from three foreign intelligence agencies aligned with the US: Pakistan, Syria and Germany. His father contended he actually worked for a fourth – the Mossad!

- Director of the ISI (Pakistani) Intelligence (director-general Lt-Gen Mahmud Ahmad. The week of September 11, General Ahmad was meeting with Bob Graham, Porter Goss and Richard Armitage.219 Gen Mahmud Ahmad was responsible for having $100,000 transferred to Mohammed Atta.220

- While in Germany, Atta worked as an employee of Tatex Trading which was owned primarily by Mohamad Majed Said, a former head of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate,221

- In coming to Germany, Atta was funded with a scholarship and employed as a tutor by an organization known as Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft.222 Subsequent Internet reports linked the Carl Duisberg Society to administration by the U.S. Information Agency, but this had not been verified by any government documentation. There are Internet reports that the scholarship was jointly funded by US AID. The more interesting aspect of Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft is that it’s Managing Director is Bernd Schleich, the same individual who is Managing Director of InWEnt (Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung.

If one investigates the activities and research of InWEnt, it appears to be a commercial intelligence operation that does studies on such matters as money-laundering, weapons trades, drug smuggling, and anthrax control in such places as South America, Central Asia and Africa. 223 Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft has a fellowship funded by Alpha Group, the Russian Bank represented in the U.S. by former George H.W. Bush administrators Ed Rogers and Lanny Griffith.224

 

- Mohammed Atta’s father claimed his son was working for the Mossad.225 Supporting this view, Atta was reported as having left phone records of call to a company named “Virtual Prototypes.”226 Virtual Prototypes Inc. would later change its name to eNGENUITY Technologies. It seems as though the type of work done at eNGENUITY was of more interest to the Israeli government, than it might be of use to a group such as Al Qaeda, as the Israelis made significant purchases from eNGENUITY three years later.227

· Mohammed Atta would be discovered to be a legal business partner to Hassan Erroudani, who through the Moroccan American Chamber of Commerce would be associated with the Allied Media Group, a major recruiter for US Defense organization and private security firms.228 Their customers would include:
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- USAF
- US Army
- FBI
- US Treasury
- Department of Justice
- Department of State
- CACI
- Young & Rubicam
- Burson Marsteller

Atta and his sponsor’s were not jihadists. As a “terrorist pilot” he spent his last year in the U.S. in the companionship of two CIA pilots (Schubin and Bhoringer). He trained his team at a facility financed by a known financier for CIA operations (Khashoggi). He was a business partner with a CIA recruiter (Erroudani). He was funded by up to four pro-CIA intelligence agencies.229

Conclusion

History has many interpretations, and this report has been just one of many – an interpretation pieced together from the bold admissions and revelations of insiders, whose stories have been ignored and suppressed by the major media organizations. It is an interpretation of history that suggests a few determined men strove to change the world in defense of western capitalism in ways which they felt needed to be hidden from the public.

Whatever emotion or logic that was adequate to cause them to hide their actions from the public was not strong enough to prevent them from committing the acts. In changing the world, crimes were committed for the good of the American public, without the American public having a say in what it thought was in its best interest. To cover-up these crimes, thousands of innocent people had to be murdered. Hundreds of thousands of people across the globe have been subjected to the terrors of wars funded by this operation. The ‘few good men’ responsible for these events make sure no one knows who is responsible, because in their hearts, they know that what they do is not acceptable to the American public. The alleged statements by Bush and Reagan are testimony to that point: Sarah McClendon: “What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra? George H.W. Bush: “Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they will chase us down the streets and lynch us.”230

“If such a story gets out, we’ll all be hanging by our thumbs in front of the WhiteHouse….”231 It might be fair to rationalize their crimes as collateral damage in a war to preserve the American standard of living, and that because they risk their lives to serve the American public, they are ‘entitled’ to reap the spoils of war. If thousands had to die to enrich the life and secure liberty for millions, is that not an acceptable sacrifice? It might also be fair to suggest that these agents are nothing more than a criminal association of sociopaths and psychopaths, out to enrich themselves by means of violence, and who have murdered thousands, destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands, and caused endless misery, pain and death for millions in foreign lands. As a brotherhood always at war, they live under a motto of ‘results at any cost’ and they spin a web of deceit which allows the American public to tolerate their crimes.

It might be fair to view the politicians who use them as ‘realists,’ who accept the existence of both kinds of men, and use them to preserve and protect the American public, and like generals in war, be forced to make the ‘hard decisions’ on behalf of the citizenry.

It might also be fair to view the politicians as ‘opportunists’ who use the agents for their own personal gain. Most of these politicians made their fortunes by capitalizing on the death and misery of war which they forced others into unwillingly, and through deception. They have insider trading knowledge of secret funds that in actuality belong to the American public, and unlimited personal access to those funds.
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Regardless of any personal interpretation, the process for ascertaining truth which has held consistent with the values of the American public has been a trial by jury, where the prosecutors and defense abide by the law to conduct a fair and impartial hearings of the facts. This report is based on hearsay evidence, and as a result, proves nothing. Hopefully, what it does is define hypotheses to be proven by subsequent archive research.

Americans had a chance in the 1980s to set the system straight, to enforce the law and prosecute those responsible for the Iran-Contra crimes. Americans could have sent a message that criminal behavior by its leaders is unacceptable. By not stopping this organization at that time, Congress and the American public allowed this criminal syndicate of American ‘heroes’ to continue to wreak even more havoc on the world in the name of the American public. This assault on the Constitution, freedom, democracy, the Geneva Convention, and the rule of domestic and international law has continued unabated for over 50 years. By refusing to re-open the widely discredited inquiry called the 9/11 Commission, and by refusing to address the covert funding that feeds this syndicate without accountability, the Congress seemingly becomes co-conspirator to past and future crimes. Ronald Reagan was correct: “….America will never make concessions to terrorists; to do so would only invite more terrorism. Once we head down that path, there would be no end to it, no end to the suffering of innocent people, no end to the bloody ransom all civilized nations must pay.”232

 

Before his death, Erle Cocke testified that he though the whole operation had become too big for anyone to determine how to bring closure to it, and that those who wanted to see it ended just gave up. Given the thousands of people who have been murdered to keep this secret, and given the way witnesses that could implicate this group are treated, maybe those that gave up were encouraged to do so. Two questions remain: 1) Does the American public want to bring an end to this covert war, and 2) Is there a way to bring this to closure? Two American Presidents – Kennedy and Carter – tried to bring this organization under control, and both were beaten by the machine. Hopefully, the lessons of their shortcomings will provide success in a third attempt.

From the Hagakure:
To tell others that
It is a rumor
Will not do.
When your own heart asks,
How will you respond?
EP Heidner
28 June, 2008
Author’s Note: This is the condensed version of this story. The author cannot vouch for the accuracy of the source
materials, although efforts have been made to validate the consistency of the story line with as many references as
possible. There is no single fact or reference that this story is dependent on. The author expects some of the details
to be disputed, and possibly disproved, but contends that the story line will hold true regardless.
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Twin Tower Casualties by Occupant/Linked to Floors
Company Reported
Deaths Floor Building
CBS 2 110 Tower 1
Bronx Builders 5 107 Tower 1
Risk Waters Group 17 106 Tower 1
Windows on the World 72 106 Tower 1
Cantor Fitzgerald 661 101-105 Tower 1
Nishi-Nippon Bank 2 102 Tower 1
Kidder Peabody-Paine Webber 2 101 Tower 1
Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. 281 93-100 Tower 1
Fred Alger Management 35 93 Tower 1
Plane struck 93rd to 98th
Carr Futures 69 92 Tower 1
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. 2 89 Tower 1
May Davis Group 1 87 Tower 1
Julien J. Studley Inc. 2 86 Tower 1
LG Insurance Co. 1 84 Tower 1
General Telecom 13 83 Tower 1
Bank of America 3 81,9-11 Tower 1
First Liberty Investment Group 1 79 Tower 1
International Office Centers 2 79 Tower 1
Alliance Consulting 7 77 Tower 1
World Trade Center 2 77 Tower 1
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 1 54, 56-59 Tower 1
Hill International 1 52 Tower 1
Rohde & Liesenfeld 2 32 Tower 1
Empire Health 11 17,19,20,23,24,27-31 Tower 1
Lehman Brothers 1 2,4-21,24-26,29* Tower 1
Port Authority of NY and NJ 76 3,14,19,24,28,31 Tower 1
Bomb(s) supposedly
planted on 23rd floor in
unlisted FBI Office
Garban Intercapital 1 25,26 Tower 1
Instinet (Reuters) 4 13,14 Tower 1
Tower 1 Total 1275
Company Reported
Deaths
Floor Building
Sandler O’Neill & Partners 67 104 Tower 2
Aon Corp. 170 92,99,100 Tower 2
Fiduciary Trust International 78 90,94-97 Tower 2
Regus 5 93 Tower 2
Washington Group International 13 22, 91st Tower2
New York State Department of Taxation and Finance 39 86,87 Tower 2
Harris Beach LLP 5 85 Tower 2
Euro Brokers Inc. 60 12, 84 Tower 2
Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Co. 2 83 Tower 2
IQ Financial Systems 3 83 Tower 2
Fuji Bank 15 79-82 Tower 2
First Commercial Bank 1 78 Tower 2
Baseline Financial Services 4 77-78 Tower 2
Plane struck 78th to 84th
Morgan Stanley 9 43-46,56,59-74 Tower 2
Seabury & Smith Co. 1 49 Tower 2
Lee Hecht Harrison 1 21 Tower 2
The Westfield Group 1 17 Tower 2
Verizon 2 LL,9-12 Tower 2
Deloitte Consulting 1 10 Tower 2
Summit Security Services 11 B2 Tower 2
Xerox Corp. 2 BSMT Tower 2
Tower 2 Total 490
Calculated from CNN listing of casualties
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Footnotes
1 WTC Attack Destroyed Criminal Evidence , Dick Eastman, http://www.conspiracyplanet.com, October 26,
2001, see also Tom Flocco Interviews VK Durham – Financial Terrorism, Tom Flocco, November 26, 2006,
http://tomflocco.com/; see also Part 4: More reasons to not investigate 9-11, Karl W. B. Schwarz. (Schwarz’s
four part series is no longer at it’s original website, and can be located via search engine.)
2 See Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey From OSS to the CIA, Joseph E. Persico, Penguin
Books, 1990, p. 408.
3 See page 3 of the report.
4 See page 29 of the report to understand Federal Reserve actions.
5 See page 28 of the report, listing the investigations.
6 Brigadier General Erle Cocke’s deposition in US District Court, Southern District of New York, April 13, 2000,
April 13, 2000, (as provided in photostat version in Guyatt’s Project Hammer Files), is a critical starting point
for understanding the fund. In page 10 of the deposition, Cocke testifies he has reported to every President since
Truman. See In Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave,
Verso, 2005, pp 96-99, the Seagraves explain the origins of the fund and how Secretary of War proposed the
trust to Roosevelt.
7 see “Wall Street counts the cost,” September 13, 2001, BBC News: “Bond trader Cantor Fitzgerald – the largest
dealer in US government bonds – appears to have suffered the heaviest losses for a single firm….ICAP,
formerly Garban-Intercapital, the world’s largest inter-dealer broker….” From “Intra-Day Behavior of the
Federal Funds Market’, Leonardo Bartolini, Svenja Gudell, Spence Hilton, Krista Schwarz, Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, May 2005 one finds: “Euro Brokers, one of the largest brokers of federal funds.”
8 As the largest trader of US securities, over time, most of these securities would end up being held by Cantor, on
behalf of their owners. There are however, additional activities identified at Canto-Fitzgerald which suggests a
very strong connection to the US Intelligence world.
a. Cantor Fitzgerald has what is described in the press as a long-standing relationship with the Office of Naval
Intelligence, the one and only intelligence group that had offices remaining in the section of the Pentagon that
was struck by the attacking flight. see At The Pentagon, Quirky PowerPoint Carries Big Punch: In a World of
‘Gap’ States, Mr. Barnett Urges Generals To Split Forces in Two, Greg Jaffe, Staff Reporter Of The Wall
Street Journal, May 11, 2004
b.A group of Cantor Fitzgerald executives and traders had been the primary ‘financial/private sector’
participants in economic war games the year earlier, and in 1997 as well. These war games had been set up,
and participated in by various U.S. intelligence agencies and the Council on Foreign Relations, and run out of
the Cantor Fitzgerald offices. It is of notable coincidence that the few published notes on the games indicated
the primary trades analyzed during the games were trades in government securities, oil and gold. The
coincidence is rooted in the observation that it is these three types of assets that have become the focal point
of nearly any and all contrarian theories explaining the events of 9/11.See CFR Bankers Plan for Financial
Crash, Richard Freeman, Executive Intelligence Review, July 28, 2000; Thomas P.M. Barnett, the Pentagon’s
New Map
c. At least seven of the top Cantor Fitzgerald executives were absent from the office at the time of the attack.
The President of Cantor Fitzgerald was taking his child to a first day of kindergarten, and six more executives
were scheduled for a fishing trip that day. The trip was reportedly cancelled due to inclement weather at 8:00
am, but every picture of the WTC that day shows cloudless skies. One of the three, Retired Admiral William
(a.k.a. Bud or Bill) Flanagan, is identified as a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Group
International. Bill Flanagan’s role in this theory is of import because he seems to have 1) had a major role in
the ‘economic war games’ which may have been conducted from the Cantor offices simultaneously with the
other six simulations being executed that day, 2) had corporate responsibility for two firms that benefited
financially from the tragedies of 9/11 (Titan and CACI), and 3) had responsibility for a third firm that may
have played a role in the actual attack (Raytheon) see: Fort Collins, Colorado, May 26, 2005,
TomFlocco.com. Flanagan would then become a VP of Titan Corp., the Defense contractor responsible for
those contractors charged in the Abu Ghraib torture cases.
9 The issue of explosions within the WTC is contentious, although most of the literature focuses on Building 7.
Little focus is placed on the events in the North Tower, 22nd through 25th floors. The initial contention that the
FBI offices on the floor were destroyed by explosives to cover up evidence crimes by US officials were initially
made by Dick Eastman. [See WTC Attack Destroyed Criminal Evidence , Dick Eastman,
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com, 10/26/2001.] He references a report by Peter Jennings about the discrete FBI
offices in the building, not listed on the formal occupant roster. The facts which support his theory are
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1) There was an inexplicable patter of death below the crash in the North Tower, compared to the South Tower.
“Among the occupants under the impacted floors in WTC 1, 72 people died, whereas under the impacted floors
in WTC 2, 4 people died. Some fraction of the deaths below the impacted floors in WTC 1 occurred in the
elevators, which were carrying people at the time of impact.” [NIST NCSTAR 1-7A (Draft) ,Federal Building
and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster, Analysis of Published Accounts of the World
Trade Center Evacuation (Draft), Rita F. Fahy, National Fire Protection Association, Guylène Proulx, National
Research Council Canada, September 2005, page 2.] Moreover, this pattern of deaths is concentrated in the
occupants of the lower floors of the North Tower. With Empire Health reporting the loss of 9 employees and
two subcontractors for “unknown Reasons.” “At Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, nine employees and two
consultants died: “Some deaths are understood: One man, for example, stayed on the 27th floor with a disabled
friend; both died. Other deaths remain a mystery. “We suspect some were in elevators” when the plane hit, vice
president Deborah Bohren said. “But we don’t really know.” [World Trade Center Locked Stairwells/Evacuation
Problems, Accumulating Comments on…. (c) 2001, Mike Barkley]
2) There is eye-witness testimony that the 22nd through 25th floors were ripped open, although nothing like this
is reported elsewhere in the World Trade Center.
· 22nd floor ripped open
“First plane hit our building at 8:45. We decided to evacuate from the 22nd floor after 15 minutes. The
delay was because we did not know the extent of the damage; part of the 22nd floor was sheared
away…” http://www.huemer.com/ [Inside the North Tower: Witness Accounts, Floors 59-02,
http://911stories.googlepages.com/insidethenorthtower:witnessaccounts,floo2]
see also: FIRE2.pdf. 0900 hours, 58 minutes and 15 seconds. OPERATOR: Yes, on the 22nd Floor.
You have people trapped there. …….he said the floor has fell out of the building where he is.
DISPATCHER: Underneath him? The floor? OPERATOR: Underneath him, yes.
[9/11 NY Aircraft 'Witnesses', April, 7 2006 –Analysis, Nico Haupt April 7, 2006
http://www.911closeup.com/nico/witness_contradictions.html]
· 23rd floor ripped open
“We made it up to the 22nd floor. We stood there for a couple minutes. I believe Andy Desperito
talked to the battalion through the fire warden phones. We did locate somebody at the end of the hall,
but everything was blown out. The ceiling had fallen. The drop ceiling had blown to the floor. Some of
the walls were blown out. So Andy and I had crawled down the hallway to get to the Port Authority
command post.” [Firefighter LONG] on 22FLNT
· 25th floor ripped open
“When we finally got to the door at the 24th, two women were holding the door open and screaming as
they looked down the hall. Morbid curiosity got the best of me. I peeked my head through the door and
saw that ceiling had caved in from the above floors. It looked like a tornado had come through the
place.” [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PASCDiscuss/message/7,"From: j_montev@...,
"Date: Mon Sep 17, 2001 5:25 pm , "Subject: Personal Account]
3) There is the inexplicable coincidence that an explosion has occurred on the floor with the command center,
underneath the FBI Offices. It was an explosion that prevented the occupants of the hardened control room from
escaping. “The bomb that went off on the 23rd floor of the North Tower near the moment of the first plane
hitting the building was revealed indirectly on the 60 Minutes program a week or so later– John Tebeak (Sp.?)
the new wtc security chief being interviewed tells of his rescue of Port Authority workers on the 22nd floor
totally buried in debris when the bomb-demolished 23rd-floor roof collapsed on them — 30 stories below the
airliner crash! (I have this on tape, and have made the transcript, and can put you in touch with Steve in Maine
who has the actual video. ) [Is there a connection between the 23rd-floor destruction and a phantom missile that
people are claiming to see hitting the building along with the first plane that crashed. People were dead,
rescuers had to dig through rubble to rescue the Port Authority personel on the floor below those 23rd-floor
government offices (disguised as health insurance offices) where information in the above two cases were
being stored. Subject: [CINDS] Frank Levi — small jet/missile seen flying directly over AA-77 to trick radar/ /
OTHER “REMOTEJACK” REMOTE-CONTROL CRASHJACKINGS DOCUMENTED. The destruction on
the 22nd floor is attributed in the9/11 Report to fuel fireballs from the elevator shaft, however, one internet
blogger has articulated to improbability of a fireball on the 22nd floor. “As we know, three shafts continued
from the impact zone down to the basement. These three shafts were also the only ones reaching from impact
zone to the 22nd floor. It’s important to note that Cars 6 and 7 didn’t stop on floor 22. Only Car 5, 48, 50 and the
elevators of Bank B did. So there were no doors or framing which could be blown out in the case of Car 6 and
7. The only one remaining for the official version to be true, is Car 50, the main freight elevator. But the witness
also describes looking down and just seeing cables. Obviously the car would be in the shaft somewhere, most
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likely out of sight, but the witness describes seeing the elevator cables, which if severed as they were in the case
of car 50, would not just be hanging there. So elevator 6 and 7 had no door framings, and the remaining elevator
50 had no cables still hanging inside the shaft. It seems that Yarembinsky is not talking about one of these three
elevators, which would of course be in contradiction to the official version. Despite this, from firefighter Dunne
and Bessler we know also, that more than one elevator was affected. So more than elevator 50. This then must
be 6 and 7, as no other shaft reaches the impact zone. This would mean that two separated fireballs, one in the
shaft of Car 50, one in the shafts of Car 6 and/or 7, traveled down the shafts and both exploded on floor 22. This
would be an incredible coincidence. An even greater coincidence considered that there were no openings on
floor 22 for Car 6 and 7, making it even less probable that the overpressure of an explosion in shaft 6 and 7
would go this way. This is highly unlikely, and it’s reasonable to consider that the elevators the firefighters are
describing are not 6 and 7, and likely not 50. This would lead to the question how the fuel got there. So both
variants, that 6,7 and/or 50 where the origin of the damage on floor 22 or other elevators caused this, both
variants contradict the official version. Because it was assumed that shaft 6 or 7 were the origin of the
explosion, how could the fireball explode on the 22nd floor and on basement-levels without exploding on all the
levels between?” [The Basement Explosions, Member No.: 1,085, Nov 2 2007,
http://z10.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=18745, Nov 2 2007,]
10 8.47 a.m. WTC security radio report, PA Channel X – “…?…There is a [b]fire on 22.”; 8.47 a.m. WTC security
radio report, PA Channel X- “….?…on the 22nd floor a lot of debris.” (NIST NCSTAR1-8, p.194)
11 “When hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon at more than 500 mph, slamming through
concrete and corridors, spewing fuel and fire, it destroyed much of the Navy Command Center. It smashed
directly into the offices of the CNO-IP. …Even in the acronym-happy Pentagon, the term CNO-IP is obscure.
It stands for Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot. Its small, typically young staff keeps a round-the-clock
watch on geopolitical developments and military movements Brilliant futures were forged in the CNO-IP.
Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, later deputy CIA director, served there; so did Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.). Radi, who
stood the Intelligence Plot watch in his twenties, later moved to the White House Situation Room. In mid-
August, …the CNO-IP was moving to renovated offices in the Navy Command Center, on the first floor of the
D-Ring, on the Pentagon’s west side. One hundred twenty-five Pentagon workers were killed that day. Fortytwo
died in the Navy Command Center. Seven served in the Intelligence Plot.” [The Last Watch, Richard
Leiby, Washington Post, 1/20/2002]
12 “In fact, it appears that such bogus gold certificates are being used in some interesting ways by certain Wall
Street and Washington types to artificially prop up the U.S. economy to cover up the fraudulent numbers…. I
now have in my possession evidence, and sent it out overnight to 10 other secure sources to protect the
information, that a 10-year Brady Bond deal was being worked on and closed toward in the end of 1991, or was
to have matured and been due somewhere on or after September 11, 2001.… Part of the story can be found by
looking into Securities and Exchange Commission v. John D’Aquisto Securities. The name of John D’Aquisto
(convicted) also appears numerous times as do Merkav International and Marion Aiken (convicted), First
Guilford Financial Limited, London, but domiciled in Isle of Man … along with three of its officers Steve
Billand, Charles A.M. Duncan, Jeff Muller, and others related to other companies in Russia, Australia, Ireland,
the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Ontario, all patterns to look for in picking up the trails of such
scams. It is the “multi-jurisdiction” facet that makes these deals hard to detect, track and litigate for fraud. It is
by design and intent so they can perpetrate fraud and get away with it. One of the D’Aquisto documents was
from a “Bay State Trust” based in Zurich, dated 10 September 1991, and just more of a trail that needs to be
fully investigated due to the contents of that letter.” Part 4: More reasons to not investigate 9-11, Karl W. B.
Schwarz
13 CNN listing of causalities records 1,765 occupants of the Two Towers as victims (490 in Tower 2 and 1,275 in
Tower 1). Cantor lost 661 employees, Eurobrokers lost 60, Garbon lost 1, for a total of 722, or 41%.
14 Federal Register / Vol. 67, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 6, 2002 / Notices.
15 “Barry Jennings…described what he saw when he got down to the lobby: “It was totally destroyed, it looked
like King Kong had been through it and stepped on it and it was so destroyed I didn’t know where I was. It was
so destroyed that had to take me out through a hole in the wall, a makeshift hole I believe the fire department
made to get me out.” [http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/190607clips2.mp3] The key to this information is
that the individual testifies this all happened BEFORE either tower collapsed, thus building 7 was at that point
completely undamaged from any falling debris or resulting fires.” [9/11 Bombshell: WTC7 Security Official
Details Explosions Inside Building Also here are a couple of photos showing WTC 7 on fire on the 11 and 12
floors BEFORE the collapse of the Twin Towers!!!!!!!!!!!!”
[http://digg.com/politics/9_11_Bombshell_WTC7_Security_Official_Details_Explosions_Inside_Building?t=72
69148] see also: “Barry Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker, and Michael Hess, New York’s
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corporation counsel, went up to the emergency command center on the 23rd floor of WTC Building 7 after the
first attack occurred (see (Shortly Before 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Associated Press, 9/11/2001;
Independent, 9/13/2001] At some point, the power goes out in the building. They then start walking down the
stairs to get out. According to Hess, when the two men get down to the eighth floor, “there was an explosion
and we’ve been trapped on the eighth floor with smoke, thick smoke, all around us, for about an hour and a
half.” [UPN 9, 9/11/2001] Jennings similarly describes, “We made it to the eighth floor. Big explosion. Blew us
back into the eighth floor, and I turned to Hess. I said, ‘This is it; we’re dead. We’re not gonna make it out of
here.’” [Penn State Public Broadcasting, 3/1/2002] The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
claims the two men head down the stairs after 9:59, when the first collapse occurs, and then become trapped
around the time the second tower collapses, at 10:28. [National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9/2005,
pp. 109-110 ] But according to the London Independent, they start heading down the stairs after the second
attack at 9:03, which suggests the explosion occurs earlier on. [Independent, 9/13/2001] The cause of the
explosion is unclear. Later on, firefighters rescue Hess and Jennings from the building (see 12:10 p.m.-12:15
p.m. September 11, 2001). [National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9/2005, pp. 109-110 ]”
16 Ground Zero for the Secret Service, CyberCrime, July 23, 2002, article is based on original reporting by
“CyberCrime” senior producer and co-host Alex Wellen; see also “The 47-story, WTC-7 burst into flame,
several suspicious, small haphazard fires that raged hours through several key floors long after the twin towers
fell. They should have been extinguished in minutes by the buildings fire system. Besides government agencies
DOD, CIA, SS, IRS and Giuliani’s “Command HQ,” it also was home to the Security and Exchange
Commission. Several of the floors housed records pertaining to multi-billion dollar investigations. The Los
Angeles Times reported on September 17, 2001 that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 cases were destroyed….” “So
very unfortunately, lots of documentation and evidence was lost with the collapse of WTC 7. The CIA’s
clandestine New York station was lost, seriously disrupting United States intelligence operations….
Unfortunately, “Some further email records the committee has requested cannot be retrieved,” wrote Citigroup
Deputy General Counsel Jane Sherburne in an Aug. 7 letter to House Committee on Financial Services. “The
backup tapes were lost when the building in which they were stored (7 WTC) was destroyed in the terrorist
attack on September 11, 2001.” [www.thestreet.com/markets/matthewgoldstein/10041194.html] (Author’s
note: No IT professional stores back-up tapes in the same building as the hardware they are sourced from. Offsite
storage for the WTC was vigorously pursued after the 1993 attack.). See also
“But more importantly WTC 7…. housed high-level government offices including the FBI, CIA and the Secret
Service. WTC 7 was also the storage facility for millions of files pertaining to active cases involving
international drug dealing, organized crime, terrorism and money laundering.” From PBS Documentary:
Silverstein, FDNY Razed WTC 7, Jeremy Baker;
“WTC 7 had a clandestine CIA bunker on the 23rd floor, and offices were occupied by the Department of
Defense (DOD), INS (Immigration & Natural Services), the IRS (Internal Revenue System), as well as some of
the banks involved in shady wire transactions to the supposed Arab terrorists involved in 9/11. Additionally, the
SEC had much of its filings in WTC 7 – including Enron’s SEC filings. WTC 7 was likely a central planning
station for what really happened on 9/11.” From 9-11 Science Report, Dr, Stefan G.E. Grossman, Appendix D;
“Maybe no financial institution lost more critical documents than the Securities and Exchange Commission,
which had its New York regional office at 7 World Trade Center. While the regulatory agency was fortunate in
that it lost no employees in the terror attacks, it suffered setbacks in a number of long-running securities
investigations.” From www.thestreet.com/markets/matthewgoldstein/10041194.html;
“Regardless of what the regulators say, they lost a ton of files,” says Bill Singer, a New York securities lawyer,
who says one case he had pending before the SEC quickly settled because so many of the original documents
were destroyed. “In my opinion it was a wholesale loss of documents.” From
www.thestreet.com/markets/matthewgoldstein/10041194.html;
“What’s curious, especially given all the Wall Street scandals later in the year, is that Building 7 was where the
SEC was storing files related to numerous Wall Street investigations. All the files for approximately 3,000 to
4,000 SEC cases were destroyed. Some were backed up in other places, but many were not, especially those
classified as confidential. [National Law Journal, 9/17/01] Lost files include documents that could show the
relationship between Citigroup and the WorldCom bankruptcy. [The Street, 8/9/02] The Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission estimates over 10,000 cases will be affected. [New York Law Journal, 9/14/01] The
Secret Service also lost investigative files. Says one agent: “All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in
all our cases, went down with the building.” From Tech TV, 7/23/02; “It is also eventually revealed that there
was a secret CIA office in Building 7” from CNN, November 4, 2001”
http://www.thenewliberator.com/wethepeople.htm, Douglas R Page, April 3, 2003]
http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/features/story/0,23008,3378780,00.html
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17 9/11 Rescuer Saw Explosions Inside WTC 6 Lobby, February 10, 2006, as testified to by eye-witness Ground
Zero EMT Patricia Ondrovic . One also needs to note the photographic evidence of Building 6 before the
Towers fell, which show a large crater in the center of the building.
18 “FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III announced last week that he is reorganizing the agency and will reassign
hundreds of agents to counterterrorism.” See Profiling worries called hindrance, Dave Boyer, Washington
Times, June 4, 2002, http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020604-4233227.htm. This would the same
strategy that Mueller deployed when taking over the investigation of BCCI: replacing the current investigators
with his own team. See Note96
19 Tom Flocco Interviews VK Durham – Financial Terrorism, Tom Flocco, November 26, 2006,
http://tomflocco.com/
20 “All the command centers save the Navy’s were on the River or Mall sides; the National Military Command
Center could have been decimated as the Navy Command Center was, a disaster that could have effectively shut
down the Pentagon as the first American war of the twenty-first century…. When Flight 77 hits the Pentagon, it
misses the parts of the building known to house the military’s most senior leaders. Journalist and author Steve
Vogel later says, “The hijackers had not hit the River or Mall sides” of the building, “where the senior military
leadership had been concentrated since 1942.” At the time of the attack, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
is “sitting in the same third-floor office above the River entrance as every secretary of defense since Louis
Johnson in 1949, a location that had been a matter of public record all that time.” From Steve Vogel, The
Pentagon: A history (New York: Random House, 2007), pp. 431 and 449.,
http://complete911timeline.org/entity.jsp?entity=pentagon
21 The Last Watch, Richard Leiby, Washington Post, January 20, 2002. “In mid-August, …the CNO-IP was
moving to renovated offices in the Navy Command Center, on the first floor of the D-Ring, on the Pentagon’s
west side.”
22 The evidence presented by the National Transportation Safety Board is ‘compelling,’ and this suggests a flight
approach at level for which there can be no witnesses other than the testimony their documents provide. The
alternative flight path is drawn from testimony of hundreds of on-ground individuals. Cases can be made for
the credibility of either, but the only real issue is whether a loop occurred, and that is not in dispute.
23 Down the rabbit hole with the man who says he tried to warn the world about 9/11, GNN Special Report,
Sander Hicks, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/092602_vreeland_gnn.html.
24 See Note 37
25 A Slow Zoom on the Final Loop, Adam Larson, July 16 2007,
http://frustratingfraud.blogspot.com/2007/07/slow-zoom-on-final-loop.html
26 National Transportation Safety Board, Office of Research and Engineering, Washington D.C., February 19,
2002, Flight Path Study – American Airlines Flight 77,
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/doc02.pdf
27 “Prince Nayef, head of Saudi security observed last week, Osama bin Laden is largely a figurehead. Its real
leaders, said the prince, echoing this column’s view, remain as yet unknown and are likely outside Afghanistan.
“see Toronto Sun, December 17, 2001.
28 “At some point, probably in 1998 or early 1999, the Hamburg group decided to `offer themselves’ to al Qaeda,
[a] U.S. counterterrorism official said, describing Zammar as a central player in that process.” ‘See Securing
The Plot — The Lead-Up To 9/11’, http://911review.org/Wiki/TruthLiesPlot.shtml, There’s Something About
Omar: Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11, by Chaim Kupferberg, October 21, 2003
29 see Project Hammer – Covert Finance And The Parallel Economy, David G. Guyatt, Nexus Magazine, Volume
9, Number 1 December-January 2002; The issue is best extrapolated from Earle Cocke’s deposition, where he
describes Project Hammer as an investment program of $220 billion, with unidentified investments.
30 See Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey From OSS to the CIA, Joseph E. Persico, Penguin
Books, 1990, pp.364-365.
31 see Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet, James Mann, Penguin, 2004.
32 Oliver North would reference the use of Marcos Gold for illegal, covert operations. “In 1985, [Oliver North]
attempted to sell 44 tons of Marcos bullion, worth $465 million, on the black market. He blithely suggested
skimming $5 million to finance the Nicaraguan contra war, but the deal fell through when North, true to form,
stiffed the Israeli middlemen on the Marcos payroll. Tapes and documents implicating American officials in the
gold transfers were withheld from the Iran-contra committee by Major General Colin Powell, Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger and William Odom, director of the NSA. “It wasn’t so much the mention of gold that
concerned them,” say Thompson and Kanigher. “It was Marcos talking (on tape) about contributions to U.S.
presidential campaigns and the use of the gold proceeds to fund illegal arms deals.” [Iran-Contra Connections to
the Oklahoma Bombing , by Alex Constantine © 2000 Alex Constantine. All rights reserved]
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33 It is the contention of this report that these funds, identified through time by various operatives, are one and the
same in origin.
34 Technically, it can be argued that what was done was legal and justified by any number of Executive Orders.
Arguments along those lines seem to convince courts to shut down and/or seal investigations, and make it
convenient for judges and legislators to look away. The essence of argument against the covert activities is that
all of these funds are all ‘secret’ because the U.S. has no right to the funds under international law. If an
argument can be found to justify the retention of the gold, the subsequent arguments which would need to be
addressed contend that the ‘secret’ funds violate Constitutional requirements for waging war and separation of
powers. One would then need to address illegal profiteering from public funds, and dereliction of duty for lack
of oversight. It seems that when people ‘disagree’ with the management of this fund, their rights are denied in
the interest of ‘national security’. When a fund that was created in the interest of defending democracy is used
to subvert it – it needs to be exposed for what it is.
35 Those associated with the Russian coup story who have died under unnatural situations: Robert Maxwell,
Steven Curtis, Andrei Kozlov, Nikolai Kruchina, Yuri Golubev, Boris Pugo, Russell Hermann, and J. Carter
Beese. Leo Wanta and John D’Acquisto did prison time.
36 An argument can be made for the reported explosions in the basement that they were set to destroy the vault
shared by all the financial organizations in the WTC, thus destroying certificates required to settle the loans..
“The difficulty with lost certificates was dramatically demonstrated during the September 11,2001, tragedy
when thousand of certificates were destroyed in vaults maintained by broker-dealers.” From the Federal
Register / Vol. 67, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 6, 2002 / Notices. As an interesting side note, someone was
trying to remove gold bullion from the vault when the buildings collapsed. They evidently received prior
warning, as no bodies were found with the lorries. From the New York Daily News: “Cache of gold found at
WTC; Two truckloads retrieved through a tunnel in rubble” by Greg Gittrich, Thomas Zambits and Leo
Standora, Daily News Staff writers. October 31, 2001
37 “Sioux City, Iowa — July 25, 2005 TomFlocco.com — According to leaked documents from an intelligence file
obtained through a military source in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), on or about September 12, 1991
non-performing and unauthorized gold-backed debt instruments were used to purchase ten-year “Brady” bonds.
The bonds in turn were illegally employed as collateral to borrow $240 billion–120 in Japanese Yen and 120 in
Deutsch Marks–exchanged for U.S. currency under false pretenses; or counterfeit and unlawful conversion of
collateral against which an unlimited amount of money could be created in derivatives and debt instruments…”
from Cash payoffs, bonds and murder linked to White House 9/11 finance, Tom Flocco, tomflocco.com
38 see http://www.theantechamber.net/; also conduct a search engine query on “VK Durham”
39 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p. 230 regarding Belli lawsuit
40 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p. 358
41 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, pp. 94-96
42 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, pp. 96-97. It is important to note the original ‘argument’ for keeping the gold ‘secret’ was to prevent a
collapse of the world’s currencies, which at that time were tied to gold. It was argued that if the amount of gold
discovered became public, currency values would drop. See Seagraves, p4.
43 for Robert Anderson’s association with intelligence operations, see All is Clouded by Desire: Global
Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime, Alan A. Block and Constance Weaver,
Praeger, 2004 p.28-32; Ex-Treasury Chief Gets 1-Month Term in Bank Fraud Case, Frank J. Prial, New
York Times, June 26, 1987
44 The legal precedents established by the Holocaust survivors and their heirs, in getting their gold returned by
Swiss banks stands as a constant reminder to government officials that should the Black Eagle Trust be
exposed, the rightful owners and their heirs would have claim to it.
45 See Footnote 6
46 See Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.222-234.
47 “Through Allen Dulles, the firm also represented investment banker Brown Brothers, Harriman interests
beginning in 1936 to “dispose of Standard Oil investment stock,” which had been combined with German
chemical corporation I.G. Farben. Dulles also directed U.S. business affairs for Fritz Thyssen, Hitler’s primary
financial backer…. The Dulles family who founded the Marine Midland Bank with Seligman and Schroeder.
The Dulles brothers later founded the Bank of New York.” from Follow the Yellow Brick Road: From Harvard
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to Enron Part Three, Linda Minor, 2002, http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lm4,17,02,harvardtoenronpt3.htm.
The Allen Dulles connection to the BNY is extremely difficult to find, although his connections to the J Henry
Schroeder (Schroder) Bank are widely documented. Because the Schroeder bank, as the financier for Adolf
Hitler, received an understandable but inordinate amount of negative press because of this relationship, it
dissolved into history. One unimpeachable on-line resource ties that dissolution to the Bank of New York:
Federal Register: October 14, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 198), Notices, Page 61065-61066, From the Federal
Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr14oc04-115] SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION, [Release No. 35-27900] “Bank of New York (the successor to J Henry
Schroeder Bank & Trust Company.”
48 see also “To cover a fraction of the costs of this massive enterprise, former spymaster Paul L. E. Helliwell
established and directed a string of drug money laundering banks for the CIA. At the time, Helliwell was
general counsel for the Thai consulate in Miami, an active leader in the Republican Party, and a friend of
Nixon’s cohort, Bebe Rebozo. Among his drug smuggling credentials, Helliwell had worked with Chiang
Kai-Shek’s intelligence chief, General Tai Li, and had set up the CIA’s drug smuggling air force, CAT
[Civil Air Transport](later Air America), as well as the Bangkok trading company Sea Supply, which
provided cover for CIA officers advising the drug-smuggling Thai border police.” Douglas Valentine A
Review of The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War On Drugs by Douglas Valentine,
Carlo Parcelli, http://members.authorsguild.net/valentine/
49 June 17, 1995 telefax on account holder Victoriano A. Bayaban’s account of 116,000 metric tonnes at Citibank,
From files of David Guyatt’s Project Hammer Files. Bayaban was an associate of Ferdinand Marcos. The
amount is not inconsistent with the Seagrave reports that upon Santa Romana’s death, his accounts were
transferred to Lansdale/Citibank, with the largest account exceeding 20,000 tonnes. Seagrave, p222. Freedo Of
Information Case Logs from the CIA suggest that request F-2004-01304 “ALBERTO DE CACPAL, SR., AKA
VICTORIANO BAYABAN – was an effort to track down the elusive Bayaban.
50 All is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime, Alan A.
Block and Constance Weaver, Praeger, 2004 pp.39-42.
51 All is Clouded by Desire: Global Banking, Money Laundering, and International Organized Crime, Alan A.
Block and Constance Weaver, Praeger, 2004 p.41
52 Spartacus, John Simkin, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcaseyW.htm.
53 The Boodle Boys, Kris Millegan, 1999, http://www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/
54 Jardine Matheson would ultimately take over Marcos’ personal gold smelting operation. See Gold Warriors:
America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso, 2005, p.184
.55 See Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.268
56 see “Rev. Father Diaz alias Col. Santy and Gen. Edward Lansdale without showing any mercy then killed the
Hukbalahak rebels. Why? Because the territories held by the rebels are the exact locations where Yamashita’s
gold was buried. Not only that, Rev. Father Diaz, alias Col. Santy and his cohorts OSS Agents even tortured the
personal driver of Gen. Yamashita to confess and reveal where the gold was actually buried. Major Ferdinand
Marcos, who became senator and president of the Republic, also knew about it. “[Confession No. 11: According
to Philippine Man, Jesuit And Vatican Have Pilfered Trillions In Gold Owed To The People; Greg Szymanski,
2 July 2, 2006, http://www.arcticbeacon.com/confessions/2-July-2006.html
57 See Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.245.
58 See Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.175
59 There are two sources that indicate that while captured Nazi gold was returned, it has become more obvious that
not all captured gold was returned to it’s rightful owners. See:Observations concerning the Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the World Jewish Congress et al. and the Swiss Bankers Association signed
May 2 1996 in New York, by anonymous, May 25, 1996. In this memorandum, it is clear that “Not only are the
circumstances and conditions murky, but it is also still far from clear how much French gold was returned to
France, how much found its way to the American reserves, and how much was turned into "Swiss gold".
Interestingly, some European historians suspect that several parts of the U.S. and other Allied governments
participated in the post-war disappearance of Jewish and non-Jewish assets confiscated by the Nazis.” See
also: Who Wants To Sack Heidyland? Anton Keller, Secretary, Philip Wainwright, Legal Adviser Swiss
Investors Protection Association, Geneva - e-mail: swissbit@..., January 1, 1998.
60 Douglas Valentine A Review of The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War On Drugs by
Douglas Valentine, Carlo Parcelli, http://members.authorsguild.net/valentine/
50
61 It is also said that preliminary studies on Northwoods were undertaken by Brigadier General William H. Craig,
described as Lemnitzer's covert actions officer. Craig was CIA and was at the time Project Officer for the Cuba
Project (Operation Mongoose) under Operations Chief Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, famed for his
psyops. Operation Northwoods Joint Chiefs of Staff, USA, by Andres Petit, November 19, 2006,
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/news/northwoods/northwoods.html
62 There are multiple Internet web sites that produce the now famous Northwoods documents. A simple search
engine query should provide references required.
63 “In 1969 Shackley became Chief of Station in Vietnam and headed the Phoenix Program. This involved the
killing of non-combatant Vietnamese civilians suspected of collaborating with the National Liberation Front. In
a two year period, Operation Phoenix murdered 28,978 civilians.” See
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKshackley.htm. See also The Secret Team, Part III: Chaos in Laos,
John Bacher, Peace Magazine Apr-May 1988, page 9
64 “On 5th October, 1986, a Sandinista patrol in Nicaragua shot down a C-123K cargo plane that was supplying
the Contras. That night Felix Rodriguez made a telephone call to the office of George H. W. Bush. He told Bush
aide, Samuel Watson, that the C-123k aircraft had gone missing.” From
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgreggD.htm. See also, for references to Rodriguez’s extended calls to
Whitehouse: Lost History: The CIA's Fugitive Terrorist, Robert Parry, 1996,
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost13.html.
65 Over 300 women and children civilians were massacred during the Vietnam War by Charlie Company, which
the U.S. Military courts found unacceptable. “In 1971 five members of Charlie Company including Captain
Medina and Lt. Calley were subjected to courts-martial. Captain Medina was represented by prominent defense
attorney f. lee bailey and was acquitted of all charges. Lt. Calley was the only soldier convicted. He was found
guilty of the premeditated murder of more than 20 Vietnamese civilians and sentenced to life imprisonment. His
sentence was later reduced to 10 years and he was paroled in September 1975.” http://legaldictionary.
thefreedictionary.com/Mai+Lai+Massacre
66 Clinton's Money Laundry, Sherman H. Skolnick, June 13, 1999, at
http://www.konformist.com/skolnick/1999/ss061399.htm; see also
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwilsonE2.htm
67 See see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.187
68 John Simkin, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnugan.htm,; see also The Marcos Dynasty, Sterling
Seagrave, 1988, Harper & Row, Inc
69 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.184
70 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.358
71 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.190 and 222
72 Inside story: the Bush gang and Barrick Gold Corporation, Anton Chaitkin,
http://www.afrocentricnews.com/html/bush_gang.html]
73 See Footnote 9
74 “In Australia, the Nugan Hand Bank begins operations with 30% of the stock held by Australasian and Pacific
Holdings (100% Chase Manhattan Bank), 25% by CIA’s Air America (known as ‘Air Opium’), 25% by South
Pacific Properties and 20% held by Seldon, Nugan and Hand.” From “A Multi-Year History In Brief ‘” E-mail
of January 23, 2007, said to derive from the David Icke website, which is www.david icke.com, received
January 26, 2007.
75 The CIA in Australia, Transcript radio documentary, Part 1 of a 6 part series. Jane Lanbrook , Watching
brief, PRNS, October 1986, http://www.cia.com.au/vic/cia.1.txt
76 The CIA in Australia, Transcript radio documentary, Part 1 of a 6 part series. Jane Lanbrook , Watching brief,
PRNS, October 1986, http://www.cia.com.au/vic/cia.1.txt
77 Clandestine Projects, Sherman H. Skolnick, Conspiracy Nation, — Vol. 8 Num. 18
78 “Reacting both to the end of the war and to congressional investigations of covert activities, Jimmy Carter’s
CIA director Stansfield Turner purged nearly 800 people from the agency. Some of them turned up in the
Beltway firms. “One result of the purge was that many of the former agents set up private companies that began
working for the agency and the Defense Department as independent contractors,” says a former high-level
intelligence official.” The Marine’s Private Army, John F. Stacks, Time Magazine, Jun. 24, 2001; see also The
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Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey from the OSS to the CIA, Joseph E. Persico, Penguin Books, 1990,
p.213.
79 see Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, pp. 169-170; Executive Outcomes ties lead to London and Bush, Roger Moore and Linda de Hoyos,
Executive Intelligence Review January 31, 1997, pp. 42-43
80 “George Bush, who, as vice president, beginning in 1981, carried out Executive Order 12333, which placed all
U.S. intelligence operations under Bush’s personal control.” Executive Outcomes ties lead to London and Bush,
Roger Moore and Linda de Hoyos, Executive Intelligence Review January 31, 1997, pp. 42-43
81 The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey from the OSS to the CIA, Joseph E. Persico, Penguin Books, 1990,
pp.305-306.
82 “Richard Wirthlin, the pollster for the Reagan-Bush campaign, said that if the hostages were released before the
election Carter would gain a boost of 5 or 6 percentage points in the polls, or even as much as 10 percent, giving
him a sure victory for that election.” See Hostage deal, Inslaw cases connected in Congressional probe, Harry
V. Martin, Copyright, Napa Sentinel 1991.
83 The October Surprise: The Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission, and the 1980 Presidential Election, Don Hopkins,
December 1998, http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/104, see also Hostage deal, Inslaw cases connected
in Congressional probe, Harry V. Martin, Copyright, Napa Sentinel 1991.
84 Did Bush go to Paris?, Harry V. Martin, Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991, Last in an Ten Part Series
85 Alexander Haig and the First Edition of The Immaculate Deception, http://home.att.net/~m.standridge/haig.htm
86 George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography,” by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, – Part 7,
http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_7.html
87 The history of Bush / Reagan relationship is intriguing. Reagan did not want Bush as his VP. Reagan disliked
Bush, and was reluctant to appoi nt him as Vice President. Rockerfeller told him that if he didn’t take Bush in
the Vice-President’s slot, “The only way you will see the inside of the White House is as a tourist.” Later, his
support for Bush slid significantly. See also: Haines, Joe. Maxwell. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1988 . 21-2;
171-2; 382-6; 402-5. “ It was 1988 when Reagan first began to seem to “backslide” on Bush. He refused to
endorse Bush versus the other Republican Presidential contenders in the GOP primaries in 1988, then refused to
even say whether he’d voted for Bush that year. Then, in 1992, he told Clinton he voted for him instead of
Bush.”
[http://home.att.net/~m.standridge/anobib5.htm]
88 For the best overall description of the attempted assassination of Reagan, see “George Bush: The
Unauthorized Biography,” by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, see also “Excerpts from a talk given
by Lt. Col. “Bo” Gritz in Mesa, Arizona on 4/4/1992,” and John Judge November 2000 Interview.
89 Hinckley: Hit Man for the Shadow Government, NorthStar Foundation,
http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/HINCKLEY.html
90 Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey from the OSS to the CIA, Joseph E. Persico, Penguin Books,
1990, p.6.
91 The Death of my Friend and Investigator of Government Corruption Paul Wilcher, Sarah McClendon, Sarah
McClendon’s Washington Report, July 4, 1993
92 Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, p344.
93 Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, p191.
94 Mueller was recruited by Iran-Contra US Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh to manage the Noriega
Investigation, which was intricately linked to the Iran-Contra Investigation. see National Security Archive
Electronic Briefing Book No. 2; http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm “Oliver
North, who met with Noriega’s representative, described the meeting in an August 23, 1986 e-mail message to
Reagan national security advisor John Poindexter. “You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in
Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship,” North writes before explaining Noriega’s proposal. If
U.S. officials can “help clean up his image” and lift the ban on arms sales to the Panamanian Defense Force,
Noriega will “‘take care of’ the Sandinista leadership for us.” North tells Poindexter that Noriega can assist with
sabotage against the Sandinistas, and suggests paying Noriega a million dollars — from “Project Democracy”
funds raised from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran — for the Panamanian leader’s help in destroying Nicaraguan
economic installations”
95 “After the Bank of England shuts down BCCI in July 1991…, making big headlines, Under Assistant Attorney
General Robert Mueller takes over Justice Department efforts on BCCI and assigns many new attorneys to the
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case.” From “Context of ‘July 5, 1991: Criminal BCCI Bank Is Shut Down’,
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a070591bccicloses
96 “FBI Director Robert Mueller, for example, was hired by Enron in 1993 to investigate a $600,000 payment by a
subsidiary for a property assessed at $41,000. When Mueller concluded the deal was not improper, a private
investigator working on the case quit in protest. Despite this association, Mueller announced that it was not
enough to cause him to step down from the Enron investigation. Mueller said that Deputy Attorney General
Larry Thompson — who previously worked for a law firm that represented Enron — agreed.” See ‘Enron
played key role in events presaging war, Martin Yant, The Free Press, Spring 2002, April 10, 2002. The role of
Noriega’s investigation vis-à-vis the Iran Contra investigation was documented in North’s files.
97 The Still Before the Storm, James Norman, Media Bypass magazine, December 1995
98 The False Memory Hoax, Alex Constantine, Copyright © January, 1996
99 Correspondence from Rayelan Allan Russbacher, February 1993,
http://crashrecovery.org/wackenhut/wackenhut3.pdf
100 see Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, pp.288-291., see also Gideon’s Spies, The Secret History of the Mossad, Gordon Thomas, 2007, St.
Martin’s Press, p323; see also Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy-The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul,
Gordon Thomas and Marin Dillon, Carroll and Graff Publishers, 2002, p.205.
101 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.196
102 “Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi is charged by the State of New York in aiding and abetting former Filipino
first lady Imelda Marcos in hiding billions from her country after she and husband Ferdinand Marcos were
forced to flee the island nation. The charges are brought by New York Attorney General Rudolph Giuliani, who
apparently has a personal score to settle with Khashoggi after Khashoggi defeated Giuliani’s client John
Tumpane in a business lawsuit. After a long and heated court battle, during which time Khashoggi was forced to
stay in New York City under house arrest, the jury acquits Khashoggi of all charges. According to a former
Army intelligence officer, Giuliani gets the indictments filed after months of effort by threatening George Bush
that if he doesn’t stop blocking the indictment, that he will call a press conference and complain that the White
House is interfering with the criminal justice system merely to protect Bush’s friend Khashoggi. (Larry Kolb).”
[http://www.iraqtimeline.com/1990.html]
103 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, p.196.
104 “Two years later, in cahoots with Sheik Kamal Adham — then director of Saudi intelligence (1963-79),
brother-in-law of King Faisal and the CIA’s key liaison to the Arab world — Khashoggi founded Oryx. Oryx,
the demonic corporate brat of Khashoggi and Adham, has recently been linked by investigative reporter
Daniel Hopsicker (Welcome to Terrorland) to Wallace Hilliard, proprietor of Huffman Aviation in Florida,
where Mohammed Atta’s suicide cult trained in aero-terrorism. Of the 220 flight schools in Florida, Atta
had to pick Huffman.” [Saudi Entrepeneur Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 911 Terrorists, Alex Constantine
105 “Wally was manipulated by somebody with a lot of power,” international jack-of-all-trades Mark Shubin had
said to us, in an interview at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. “He was blackmailed.”[ The Covert Op
That Ate The World, Daniel Hopsicker, January 4,2005, MadCowMorningNews,
http://www.madcowprod.com/01042004.html
106 Terror Flight School Owner In Business With Whitewater Scandal "Key Figure," MadCowMorningNews ,
Daniel Hopsicker, December 20, 2002, http://www.madcowprod.com/
107 David G. Guyatt, Nexus Magazine, Volume 10, Number 6, October-November 2003
108 see Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Verso,
2005, pp. 229-230
109 George Bush's $10 billion giveaway to Barrick Gold, Mark Sonnenblick, Executive Intelligence Review,
January 3, 1997.
110 The doubtfulness of the claim was documented in the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame profile of Peter Munk: "
Munk then turned his attention to a Nevada heap-leach project producing a mere 40,000 oz. gold each year. The
industry doubted its potential…"[Canadian Mining Hall of Fame,
http://www.mining.ca/halloffame/english/hall.html]
111 “…over 300 KGB generals and colonels were allowed to enter the United States and were provided with very
comfortable homes, mostly in northern Virginia. Most KGB generals now get a check for $12,000 a month
from the Agency. KGB colonels get $8,000 a month plus a panoply of favors. Most of these guys are now in
the import-export business. The have offices in and around McLean, Virginia. It’s also interesting to note that
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four former KGB generals have import-export offices in the same building in McLean where Oliver North has
his office.“ [From The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider, by Al Martin
112 A classic example of hiding this from the public was the case of Karon von Gerhke-Thompson. She has been
retained by Russian oligarch Alexander Knonaykhine, to arrange for “passports and visas.”. “Concurrently, I
was a business partner of the late U.S. Attorney John M. Mitchell, Chairman of Global Research International,
and a principal in the firm of Murphy and Associates, Inc., founded by Admiral Daniel J. Murphy, U.S. Navy
Retired and former Chief of Staff to then-Vice President Bush.… This project was brought to me by Carter
Cornick, Eugene Propper and Jonathan Ginsberg of the Washington, DC. based law firm of Ginsberg, Feldman
and Bress. Cornick, Propper and Ginsberg wanted my help in assisting them in accessing officials who could
facilitate a favorable negotiation climate for the establishment of a bank and expedite the procurement of the
passports.” [Statement of Karon von Gerhke-Thompson, Vice President, First Columbia Company, Inc.] Her
Congressional testimony was discouraged by everyone, including the CIA, as indicated in her Congresional
testimony. All traces of Karon Von Gerhke-Thompson and First Columbia Company had disappeared by 2004,
according to Alan Block and Constance Weaver. (All Is Clouded By Desire: Global Banking, Money
Laundering and International Organized Crime, 2004, p134.)
113 “Valued at $35 billion, Russia’s gold reserves were estimated to be 100 million troy ounces – just under 3000
tonnes. Then in September 1991, a palpitating Grigory Yavlinski, the economic supremo, revealed to delegates
at the Group-of-Seven industrial countries meeting in Bangkok, that a mere 240 tons were all that was left. Two
months later, in November, even that had disappeared. “Not a gram of gold remains; the vaults are empty,” said
Victor Geraschenko, chief of Gosbank, the Russian Central Bank.” See Gangster’s Paradise, David Guyatt,
1997
114 see Thieves World, Claire Sterling, Simon and Schuster, 1994, p.202.
115 Supplement 2. The Economy of Chechen Terror, Mikhail Delyagin, Doctor of Science (Economics),
Director of the Institute of Globalisation Problems, Kommersant-Dengi magazine, September 15, 1999
116 see Comeback: The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy, Roy Smith,
Harvard Business School Press, 1994, p148, citing Kindleberger, a Financial History of Western Europe,
pp124-125,
117 V.K. Durham contends these securities are illegal because her husband’ signature was forged on the loan
documents, and Photostat copies of the documents posted by Durham on the internet support her case.
118 This possibility is mentioned in that the dates on the bank transactions in the files made public by ONI show
three phases of activity. The earliest set of dates seem to correlate with the resolution of the third world debt
issue, which was conducted in an extremely secretive manner. Without any public documentation on Bush’s
role in this effort, it can only be viewed as a possible ‘augmentation,’ and theoretical at best.
119 The Struggle For Russia, Boris Yeltsin, Times Books, 1995, p.59.
120 see “”According to leaders of the failed coup in 1991, the real coup, the undermining of Soviet power, was an
intricate plot devised by Gorbachev and Yeltsin with help from ‘foreign agents’ in the West.” Resurrection: The
Struggle for a New Russia, David Remnick, Vintage, 1997, as cited by THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE
MOSCOW COUP OF AUGUST 1991. This exact quote could not be founding the 1997 version of the book
121 The Struggle For Russia, Boris Yeltsin, Times Books, 1995, p.48.
122 see Gideon’s Spies, The Secret History of the Mossad, Gordon Thomas, 2007, St. Martin’s Press, p176. See
also Stephen Handelman’s Comrade Criminal, 1995, Yale University Press, p102 to reference Soviet
participation in the laundering of South American drug money.
123 Gideon’s Spies, The Secret History of the Mossad, Gordon Thomas, 2007, St. Martin’s Press, pp.207-208
124 See Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy-The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, Gordon Thomas and Marin
Dillon, Carroll and Graff Publishers, 2002, p. 169.
125 see Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, pp.349-351.
126 See Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy-The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, Gordon Thomas and Marin
Dillon, Carroll and Graff Publishers, 2002, p. 170. Numerous attempts have been made to identify the names of
the military support provided to Maxwell, but the companies records are cloaked.
127 see “Gunther Russbacher.. claimed to have videotape proof and sixteen witnesses to his having flown George
Bush to one of the October Surprise meetings.” The Death of my Friend and Investigator of Government
Corruption Paul Wilcher, Sarah McClendon, Sarah McClendon’s Washington Report, July 4, 1993;
128 “ In June, I also testified under oath, in closed session, before the Senate Foreign Relations committee. I stated
unequivocally that I had, seen Bush in Paris.” Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli
Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press, 1992, p344.
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129 see Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, p311.
130 US aid to Israel, Palestine Monitor, October 31, 2007. “Since World War II Israel has been the largest overall
recipient of US aid: from 1949-2006 Israel received more than $156 billion of direct US aid…. The US also
lends money to Israel, but these loans are frequently waived before any repayments are made. The Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs has estimated that from 1974-2003 Israel benefited from more than $45 billion in
waived loans from the US.”
131 see Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, p135.
132 See Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy-The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, Gordon Thomas and Marin
Dillon, Carroll and Graff Publishers, 2002, p204.
133 See Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy-The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, Gordon Thomas and Marin
Dillon, Carroll and Graff Publishers, 2002, p207-208.
134 Three in Coup Feared US Dependency, Stephen Kinzer, New York Times, October 7, 1991.
135 Dead Communists Tell No Tales, Janic Castro, Time Magazine, Dec. 02, 1991
136 See Who’s who in Russia Since 1900: From 1900-1991, Martin McCauley, 1997, p81, Routledge Press
137 see Lithuania Extradites Witness under YUKOS Case, Kommersant, September 9, 2005,
www.kommersant.com
138 see Ari Ben-Menashe. Profits of War, Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, Sheridan Square Press,
1992, pp.349-351.
139 Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia, David Remnick, Vintage, 1998, pp 317-318.
140 See Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy-The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, Gordon Thomas and Marin
Dillon, Carroll and Graff Publishers, 2002, p.200.
141 Propping Up Russia’s Finances, Christopher Whalen, JoC Newspaper, September 29, 1992; “Mr. Corrigan, who
was not invited along for dinner, suggested that he meet “discreetly” with Mr. Yeltsin…”
142 See footnote 124.
143 see “A catalyst coup,” Erik Lenhart, Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, Issue 4/2007, pp 104-113.
144 From The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider, by Al Martin., see also The Man Who Knows Too
Much , An Interview with Al Martin, author of “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider, ” Uri
Dowbenko.
145 “New York, NY October 17, 2000: Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, the global real estate investment and
management arm of The Blackstone Group, L.P., announced today that it has purchased, from Teachers
Insurance and Annuity Association, the participating mortgage secured by 7 World Trade Center, a commercial
office complex controlled by real estate developer Larry Silverstein.”
http://www.blackstone.com/news/press_releases%5C7_world_trade_oct_2000.pdf
146 See the following four articles: U.S. Envoy in Hungary Quits To Handle Investment in East, Celestine Bohlen,
The New York Times, January 26, 1990; There Is a Worldwide Crash in Progress; We Are In A Depression
Already”, Lyndon Larouche, interviewed by Mel Klenetsky, August 4, 1993, Shofar FTP Archive File:
people/l/larouche.lyndon/eir.080493; How Europe’s Economic Crisis Could Become the Worst Crisis in Six
Centuries, Lyndon Larouche, interviewed by Mel Klenetsky, August 18, 1993; A Bigger Scandal: Illegal U.S.
Funding of Sharon’s Likud, Anton Chaitkin, Executive Intelligence Review, January 24, 2002.
147 “Focusing on Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the Leadership of Group MENATEP”, October 27, 2005,
http://www.supportmbk.com/update/11-03-2005_briefing.cfm.
148 Catherine Belton, Khodorkovsky’s High Stakes Gamble, The Moscow Times, May 16, 2005
149 Riggs Maps Out an International Strategy; Alton G. Keel Jr. to Lead Bank’s Global Business Group, Margaret
K. Webb, Washington Post, January 22, 1990
150 see Wayne Madsen Report, September 28, 2006
151 Biography Of Mikhail Khodorkovsky from The Moscow Times, Catherine Belton, The Moscow Times, May
17,2005
152 Revelations of the Fugitive Kremlin Financier, recorded by Vadim Andreev, Translation and comments by
burtsev.ru, January 19, 2004
153 The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrkhin Archive and Secret History of the KGB, Christopher Andrew and
Vasili Mitrokhin, 1999, Basic Books, p. 320.
154 Statement by Richard L. Palmer before the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, September
21, 1999, http://www.russianlaw.org/palmer.htm
155 Arrested oil tycoon passed shares to banker, Washington Times, November 03, 2003,
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20031102-111400-3720r.htm
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156 Lord Robert Powell is on both boards, and a Rothschild sits on the Board of Barrick. Powell is reported to
represent Rothschild family interests.
157 All is Clouded by Desire, Alan A. Block and Constance Weaver, 2004, Praeger, pp.179-182.
158 Manhattan Judge Rules On Pre-Trial Motions In “Kazakhgate” Case, Marlena Telvick, September 7, 2004.
159 “According to Wolfgang Bueschel in BCDX 351, “Mr. Vafa Culuzadeh, adviser of former Azerbaijan President
Ebulfez Elicibey, told the Italian press agency IPS in October 1992 from Baku, that the Israelian secret service
specialist David Kimche and… Richard Secord, who was involved in the `Iran-Contra`-Affair, visited
Azerbaijan, (and) presented a delegation of more Israelian secret service personnel. Mr. Culuzadeh took part on
a return visit to Israel, (and) lead a delegation of Azerbaijan/Uzbek/Kazakh secret services.” [Voice of Southern
Azerbaijan, Nick Grace C., 4/13/1998]
160 “In the summer of 1993, Azerbaijan’s President Heydar Aliyev hired over 1,000 Islamist mercenaries in the war
against Nagorno Karabakh Armenians. They were flown on civilian aircraft from Afghanistan to Azerbaijan.
The mercenaries, including Arab veterans of the Afghan war (`1979-89`), took an active role in the Karabakh
conflict (Moscow News 9/13/00). One of Bin Laden’s associate claimed that Bin Laden himself led mujahedin
in at least two battles in Nagorno Karabakh.” Associated Press 11/14/99
161 How the CIA created Osama bin Laden, Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly, Issue #465 September 19, 2001,
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/465/25199; see also CIA Agent Allegedly Met Bin Laden in July, Alexandra
Richard, Translated by Tiphaine Dickson, Le Figaro, 1 November 2001
162 To ascertain Allied Media is recruiting Islamic background staff for the U.S. military, view their website and
sample productions of recruiting videos.
163 Oil Wars: The Balkans, George Draffan, www.endgame.org,a case study for the report The Corporate
Consensus
164 The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11, Peter Dale Scott, October 29,
2005, “Storm in Moscow”: A Plan of the Yeltsin “Family” to Destabilize Russia , John B. Dunlop , The Hoover
Institution , October 8, 2004
165 Who Is Osama Bin Laden? Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal,
Posted at globalresearch.ca, 12 September 2001.
166 see Revelations of the Fugitive Kremlin Financier, recorded Vadim Andreev, Translation and comments by
burtsev.ru, January 19, 2004.
167 see U.S. Entangled in Mystery of Georgia’s Islamic Fighters, Dexter Filkins, June 15, 2003, New York
Times
168 The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11, Peter Dale Scott, October 29,
2005; Revelations of the Fugitive Kremlin Financier, recorded Vadim Andreev, Translation and comments by
burtsev.ru, January 19, 2004, see also “Storm in Moscow”: A Plan of the Yeltsin “Family” to Destabilize
Russia, John B. Dunlop , The Hoover Institution , October 8, 2004.
169 “Consulting” Agency Far West, LLC Paid $3 Million Bribe to Ukrainian Official For Illegal Arms Deals with
Syria and Iran, February 18, 2006, http://left.ru/burtsev/ops/lysenko.phtml; see also The Far West Drug
MetaGroup, Dr. Peter Dale Scott, Nexus Magazine, Volume 13, Number 4 (June – July 2006)
170 Catherine Belton, Khodorkovsky’s High Stakes Gamble, The Moscow Times, May 16, 2005
171 Yeltsin ‘Family’ Tycoon Linked to Cash Scandal , James Bone, David Lister, Fiona Flick, The Times (UK),
September 7, 1999; Moreover, it should be noted that Runicom was under the ownership of Valmet when it was
originally controlled by Riggs, according to Alan Block and Constance Weaver, All is Clouded by Desire, p.141
172 All is Clouded by Desire, Alan A. Block and Constance Weaver, 2004, Praeger, p.141.
173 The price of oil: What was Mobil up in Kazahstan and Russia? Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, July 9,
2001, http://iicas.org/english/Krsten_05_07_01.htm
174 These documents are commonly available on the internet.
175 Clair Sterling, Chapter Nine, Thieves World
176 Comrade Criminal, Stephen Handelman, Yale University Press, 1995, p109.
177 For exchange rate information for that period, see: Russia’s Commercial Policy from 1992 to 1994, Vladimir
Drebentsov in: International Trade Issues of the Russian Federation, Janos Gacs and Merton J. Peck, Editors,
March 1995, International Institute for Applied System Analsysis, Laxenburg, Austria, p189. Table 10.1,
Dynamics of the ruble exchange rate, ruble per US dollar, Source: Compiled from Russian Economic Trends,
Monthly Update, 28 February 1994.
178 The West is not very highly concerned with the threat of cyber terrorism,” Regnum News Agency, December
15, 2006, http://www.regnum.ru/english/749825.html.
179 see Supplement 2. The Economy of Chechen Terror, Mikhail Delyagin, Doctor of Science (Economics),
Director of the Institute of Globalisation Problems, Kommersant-Dengi magazine, September 15, 1999; and
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Comeback:The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy, Roy Smith, Harvard
Business School Press, 1994, p148, citing Kindleberger, a Financial History of Western Europe, pp124-125.
180 V.K. Durham presents substantial photographic evidence of these crimes on her website, and it can also be
located at Tom Flocco’s website as well.
181 The Leo Wanta Saga, Pt. 7: Former Ambassador Leo Wanta Getting 1.575 Trillion Of Stolen U.S. Funds Back
To Treasury, Greg Szymanski, http://www.arcticbeacon.com
182 Down the rabbit hole with the man who says he tried to warn the world about 9/11, Sander Hicks, Guerilla
News Network, Sept. 26, 2002; FTW Interview: Delmart “Mike” Vreeland, What the CIA Doesn’t Want You to
Know, Michael C. Ruppert, FromTheWilderness.com.
183 document source: Hamilton & Hyun Investment Corp., memo to William Sommerville, August 26, 1991;
Addendum 1 to Joint Venture Agreement, Contec Development Pty., 9/26/91
184 document source: Robert Perry, Bay State Trust, memo to D’Acquisto and Peterson, September 10, 1991;
Hamilton & Hyun Investment Corp., memo to William Sommerville, August 26, 1991
185 Saudi Entrepreneur Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 9/11 Terrorists, Alex Constantine
186 Hamilton & Hyun Investment Corp., memo to William Sommerville, August 26, 1991
187 document source: Daniel International Fax of 12/16/1991) (It is of interest to note that at that time, Lehman was
a subsidiary of American Express, of which Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynn, is a board member.
188 document source: Hamilton & Hyun Investment Corp., memo to William Sommerville, August 26, 1991
189 Brigadier General Erle Cocke’s deposition in US District Court, Southern District of New York, April 13, 2000,
April 13, 2000, (as provided in photostat version in Guyatt’s Project Hammer Files)
190 As provided in photostat version in Guyatt’s Project Hammer Files
191 Reminder of Bond Market Association Recommendations, GSCC073.01, September 19, 2001
192 GSCC080.01, September 25, 2001
193 Payment System Disruptions and the Federal Reserve Following September 11, 2001, Jeffrey M. Lacker,
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, USA, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Working Paper 03-16, December 23, 2003
194 Liquidity Effects of the Events of September 11, 2001, James J. McAndrews and Simon M. Potter, FRBNY
Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p. 59
195 Payment System Disruptions and the Federal Reserve Following September 11, 2001, Jeffrey M. Lacker,
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, USA, November 17, 2003 printed in Journal
of Monetary Economics, Volume 51, Issue 5, July 2004, Pages 935-965
196 When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael
J. Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p 35.
197 When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael
J. Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p1.
198 Beckett, Paul, and Jathon Sapsford, Rebuilding Wall Street: How Wall Street’s Nervous System Caused Pain,
Wall Street Journal, September 21,2001)” reported in [Payment System Disruptions and the Federal Reserve
Following September 11, 2001, Jeffrey M. Lacker, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia,
23219, USA, November 17, 2003 p.6.
199 When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael
J. Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p 46.
200 Charles Schwab Shells Out for U.S. Trust, Nick Paumgarten, The New York Observer, January 23, 2000;
Schwab to Pay $2.73 Billion For U.S. Trust, New York Times, Patrick McGeehan, January 14, 2000
201 When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael
J. Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p 46.
202 Liquidity Effects of the Events of September 11, 2001, James J. McAndrews and Simon M. Potter, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, November 2002, p65.
203 Liquidity Effects of the Events of September 11, 2001, James J. McAndrews and Simon M. Potter, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, November 2002, p.60.
204 Beckett, Paul, and Jathon Sapsford, Rebuilding Wall Street: How Wall Street's Nervous System Caused
Pain,Wall Street Journal, September 21,2001)” reported in [Payment System Disruptions and the Federal
Reserve Following September 11, 2001, Jeffrey M. Lacker, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond,
Virginia, 23219, USA, November 17, 2003 p.6.
205 Wall St. Lifeline Shakes Off Dust, and Critics; Disruptions Put Bank of New York to the Test , Saul Hansell
with Riva D. Atlas, New York Times, October 6, 2001
206 Emerging Stronger from 9/11/01: An Interview with Todd Gibbons, RMA (Risk Management Association)
Journal, The, Dec, 2001
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207 Wall St. Lifeline Shakes Off Dust, and Critics; Disruptions Put Bank of New York to the Test , Saul Hansell
with Riva D. Atlas, New York Times, October 6, 2001
208 Emerging Stronger from 9/11/01: An Interview with Todd Gibbons, RMA (Risk Management Association)
Journal, The, Dec, 2001
209 Liquidity Effects of the Events of September 11, 2001, James J. McAndrews and Simon M. Potter, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, November 2002, p.61
210 Liquidity Effects of the Events of September 11, 2001, James J. McAndrews and Simon M. Potter, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, November 2002, p64.
211 When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael
J. Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p 35.
212 Payment System Disruptions and the Federal Reserve Following September 11, 2001, Jeffrey M. Lacker,
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, USA, November 17, 2003 p.18.
213 When the Back Office Moved to the Front Burner: Settlement Fails in the Treasury Market after 9/11, Michael J.
Fleming and Kenneth D. Garbade, FRBNY Economic Policy Review / November 2002, p 44-45.
214 Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 911 Terrorists, Part I, Alex Constantine,
http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/constantine/part1.htm; Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11
Cover-Up in Florida, Daniel Hopsicker, 2004, pp 262-264.
215 “Storm in Moscow”: A Plan of the Yeltsin “Family” to Destabilize Russia , John B. Dunlop , The Hoover
Institution , October 8, 2004
216 Bohringer’s past and arrest is best summarized in: FBI Terror Alert in South Pacific for Wolfgang
Bohringer/Terror Alert suspect fingered by Mohamed Atta's American girlfriend, Daniel Hopsicker,
MadCowMorningNews ,, November 16, 2006, http://www.madcowprod.com/11162006.html; Mohamed Atta's
Best Friend Caught in South Pacific: “You can’t arrest me, I’m working for the CIA,” Sander Hicks, New York
Megaphone, December 19, 2006, http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20061219213258655. Bohringer’s
status as pilot for Viktor Kozeny reinforces the contention he is CIA, as Kozeny has multiple indications he was
an agent for Western Intelligence: 1) Kozeny received funding for his Azerbaijan bribery and money
laundering efforts to purchase SOCAR, the Azerbaijan State Oil Company, from AIG. AIG has been, since
WWII, a major CIA intelligence operation. History records that the OSS learned that in the 1940’s that the
Nazis owned 45% of the world’s insurance companies, and used the background files from these companies to
plan their espionage and bombing raids. With this lesson, when William ‘Wild Bill’ Dovovan created the CIA,
part of his legacy was an extensive partnership with AIG. [see "The Secret (Insurance) Agent Men," Mark
Fritz. The Los Angeles Times 2000 September 22, 200] 2) Kozeny’s contact at AIG was Frank Gardiner
Wisner [see Capturing the Pirate of Prague, Rob Urban and David Glovin, International Eurasian Institute for
Economic and Political Research, Bloomberg Markets, February 23, 2006] Frank G Wisner was head of Office
of Strategic Services operations in southeastern Europe at the end of World War II, and the head of the
Directorate of Plans of the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1950s.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wisner] 3) One of Kozeny’s key promoters was Senator George Mitchell.
Mitchell had served in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps from 1954 until 1956, and later served on the
Iran-Contra Senate Hearings and while challenging some of Oliver North’s assumptions about patriotism,
inevitably supported the conclusions of the committee. 4) When Kozeny and his investment ‘partners’ were
brought to US court for money laundering and bribery, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin dismissed most of the
charges. [see Federal Prosecutors Hope To Revive Oil Bribery Case, Free Internet Press, 2007-08-23].
Scheindlin is the same judge that dismissed charges against Osama Awadallah, who was an associate of the two
San Diego based September 11 terrorists. Her ruling prevented the FBI from collecting information on the two
terrorists. 5) Kozeny was initially funded by loans from Alpha Bank, which is represented in the US by ex-
Bush administrators Lanny Griffith and Ed Rogers of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers [Seller of Privatization
Securities Is Indicted in the U.S., Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, October 3, 2003]. Kozeny used his
scam proceeds to repay Alpha Bank. It is of related note that Alpha Bank funds a fellowship for Carl Duisberg
Gesellschaft, which also funded Mohammed Atta’s entrance to Germany. [For The Record#573, Alfa Males—
One Helluva Conspiracy Theory, Part II, Recorded on 10/15/2006.]
217 Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida, Daniel Hopsicker, 2004, pp 262-
264.
218 Terror Flight School Owner’s Plane Seized For Heroin Trafficking & Jeb Bush And Katherine Harris Fly With
Drug Running Airways, Daniel Hopsicker, October 24, 2003, www.madcowprod.com.
219 Truth, lies, and the legend of 9/11 Part 1 of 10 parts: There’s something about Omar, By Chaim Kupferberg,
OnLine Journal; see also Times of India -August10, 2004, GlobalFree Press
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http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=485; see also Richard Armitage and the ISI,
Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D., November 30, 2004, NewsWithViews.com.
220 Did ally Pakistan play role in 9-11? Indian intelligence finds more links to terrorist attacks in U.S., Delhi, Paul
Sperry, 2002, WorldNetDaily.com.
221 “Tatex Trading has employed, at various times in the past 15 years, two Syrian-born German citizens… who are
high on the list of Sept. 11 suspects….Investigators also say Atta himself worked for a time at Tatex…The
origins of Tatex Trading itself have become of interest to investigators… Tatex investor is Mohamad Majed
Said, a former head of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate…”from The Chicago Tribune November 3,
2002.
222 “The organization that apparently sponsored Atta’s travels was the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (its American
component is the Carl Duisberg Society)—named for one of the principal figures in the founding of I.G. Farben.
“News that Mohamed Atta had been on the payroll of an elite international program known as the ‘Congress-
Bundestag Program first surfaced a month after the 9/11 attack in a brief seven-line report by German
newspaper Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung on 10/18/2001 under the headline ‘Atta was Tutor for Scholarship
Holders… Atta had therefore been on the payroll of a joint U.S.-German government program was concealed
by the newspaper through the simple expedient of neglecting to mention that the ‘Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft’
was merely a private entity set up to administer an official U.S. and German government initiative,” (For the
Record, #408, Recorded on 4/27/2003, http://spitfirelist.com/f408.html)
223 It use to be that one could go directly to the InWent web site to see a list of articles directly refernecing
activities such as smuggling, anthrax, small armaments etc.. Now, the formally listed articles seem fairly
benign. If however, one does search engine inquiries on “InWent” and another key phrase, their involvement in
research is readily apparent.
On small arms, see http://www.bicc.de/publications/bulletin/bulletin35.pdf; The UN Programme of Action on
Small Arms and Light Weapons :Building Capacity and Partnerships for Implementation, 28/29April,
2003,Bonn, Inwent, 2003, 1 cd-rom p. electronic edition, CD45.
On Money-laundering, see Inwent’s article: Tackling Cross Border Crime – a South African Perspective on the
Global Problem, Leonard McCarthy, Directorate Special Operation, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:L-
6Eu8CxkGgJ:www.inwent.org/eftexte/
crime/mccarthy.htm+inwent+%22money+laundering%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
On drug smuggling, see D+C, Poor Results, By Jürg Schiess and Jacques Mérat, No. 10 2007, Volume 48,
October 2007, http://www.inwent.org/ez/articles/059340/index.en.shtml
224 For The Record#573, Alfa Males—One Helluva Conspiracy Theory, Part II, Recorded on 10/15/2006
225 “…(he) claimed that his son had called him two days after the attack, and described it as “a normal
conversation.” …. Asked what country Muhammad had called from, he said, “The name of the country isn’t
written on the phone.” Asked where Muhammad was now, he said, “Ask Mossad.” [Muhammad Atta Sr is in
the center of the media storm, Ashraf Khalil, www.cairotimes.com]
226 The Online Journal, Mohamed Atta Kept Terrorist E-List , Daniel Hopsicker, 4/24/2002
227 “Montreal, Canada – August 4, 2004 – eNGENUITY Technologies [TSX: EGY], a leading provider of solutions
for the development of high-end visualization and simulation applications, today announced that the System
Missile and Space Group of the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) MLM division has purchased multiple licenses
of eNGENUITY’s STAGE Scenario toolkit to build training scenarios for IAI’s Air Operations C4I Suite
(AOCS), an advanced air space monitoring system.” Article removed from Internet.
228 Moroccan Communities from DC, Orlando Meet, Washington Report, January/February 2006, page 64,
http://www.moroccoboard.com/album/orl/article.htm; see also Moroccan Chamber of Commerce,
http://www.marocam.com/misc/news_desc.cfm?ItemID=5501J6464078A6541
229 In all these cases, the reference to the CIA should be carefully weighed with the consideration that U.S.
Intelligence operations are organizationally fluid. Like Task Force 157, (see Note 75) it would be fair to
assume that most of these operations require plausible deniability, and are not standard CIA payroll
operations.
230 Reportedly to journalist Sarah McClendon (December 1992), in response to a question about Iraq-gate and the
Iran-Contra Affair. Though widely quoted as being from McClendon’s newsletter of either June or December
1992, no firm confirmation or reliable citation of a published source of this statement has yet been located.
231 Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey From OSS to the CIA, Joseph E. Persico, Penguin Books,
1990, p. 401.
232 Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey From OSS to the CIA, Joseph E. Persico, Penguin Books,
1990, p. 448.
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Thanks Kevin for the report on Dr Griffin's health status. I had heard he was quite ill, and good to know he is out of the hospital, and recovering. Thanks! Love, Steve

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Greetings,

David Ray Griffin's new book Cognitive Infiltration is absolutely brilliant. It elegantly does several things at once: * Puts forward key 9/11 evidence; * Reveals the slightly hilarious inadequacy of the official story defenders' case, as exemplified by Cass Sunstein's "Conspiracy Theories" article; * Uses irony to demolish the neocons' philosophy of the noble lie -- the philosophy that in all probability led directly to the 9/11 inside job. 

David has been out of the hospital for about a week and is better but apparently still needs a lot of R&R, and says he may not be putting out more great books any time soon. So he says he would really appreciate "hundreds of Amazon.com reviews of my latest book."  Please help him out!  

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      News, Obama's Citizenship, Uncategorized By Paralegal | 12 comments
      Pravda Article regarding the Citizenship Status of Soetoro/Obama
      http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/feedback/17-09-2010/114965-obama_birth_certificate-0/

      No evidence of Hawaiian birth for AKA Obama. What about Kenya?

      17.09.2010
      Pages: 12
      Obama’s ‘Certification of Live Birth’ form reveals his Birth Registration was FILED in 1961 but was never fully ACCEPTED by the Hawaiian State Registrar’s Office.
      Hawaii is covering this up for political reasons to protect Obama. Only they know the ultimate reasons they are all willing to commit Misprision of Felony at this point in time given the mounting evidence that Obama was not physically born in Hawaii. Obama may have amended his record since 1961 to try to reinforce and cover up the original fraudulent filing. But his online COLB clearly shows that when it was FILED it was never finally ACCEPTED. This is a national disgrace that our entire system of laws including the Constitution and all legal records are being subverted and subordinated to cover up for Obama’s continued fraud on the nation as to his true legal identity. What is so important about this one man that Hawaii is willing to see the nation destroyed by his corruption and lies from birth by his family and continued on all his life by Obama. The man is a grifter and conman. See this catalog of evidence that shows by the preponderance of the evidence that Hawaii and the nation are the victims of birth registration fraud by Obama’s family in 1961: http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/05/catalog-of-evidence-concerned-americans.html


      4. NO EVIDENCE OF A HAWAIIAN BIRTH FOR AKA OBAMA – WHAT ABOUT KENYA?

      As for AKA Obama’s birth in Kenya we hear this from attorney Mario Apuzzo “We have not heard from one international, federal, state, or local police or security agency that Obama’s birth place has been officially confirmed.

      An Investigator working for Philip Berg, Esq. learned the following which is contained in the investigator’s affidavit dated October 30, 2008, that was filed with a Federal District Court in the case of Berg v. Obama, O8-cv-04083: Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, told Bishop McRae, who was in the United States, during a telephonic interview on October 12, 2008, while she was in her home located in Alego-Kogello, Kenya, that was full of security police and people and family who were celebrating then-Senator Obama’s success story, that she witnessed Obama’s birth in Kenya, not the United States (the English and Swahili conversation is recorded and available for listening). She was adamant about this fact not once but twice. The conversation which was placed on speaker phone was translated into English by “Kweli Shuhubia” and one of the grandmother’s grandsons who were present with the grandmother in the house. After the grandmother made the same statement twice her grandson intervened, saying “No, No, No, He was born in the United States.” During the interview, the grandmother never changed her reply that she was present when Obama was born in Kenya. The fact that later in the same interview she change her statement to say that Obama was born in Hawaii does not change the fact that she at first stated twice that she was present when Obama was born in Kenya. I cannot imagine a grandmother not knowing whether she was present or not at the birth of her American Senator and U.S. Presidential candidate grandson.

      The investigator then personally went to the hospital in Mombassa, Kenya. He spoke with the Provincial Civil Registrar and he learned that there were records of Ann Dunham giving birth to “Barack Hussein Obama, III” in Mombassa, Kenya on August 4, 1961. The investigator then “spoke directly with an Official, the Principal Registrar, who openly confirmed the birthing records of Senator Barack H. Obama, Jr. and his mother were present, however, the file on Barack H. Obama, Jr. was classified and profiled. The Official explained Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. [sic] birth in Kenya is top secret. [H]e was further instructed to go to the Attorney General’s Office and to the Minister in Charge of Immigration if [he] wanted further information.”

      It is alleged that the Kenyan government authorities have refused to cooperate and have thwarted all efforts by anyone to obtain any documents concerning Obama.”

      That is a real mind bender. Let’s see; AKA Obama wasn’t born in Kenya but his birth place is declared to be “top secret” by Kenyan officials. There are no records of AKA Obama being born in Kenya and those nonexistent records are being withheld and are “top secret”. That sounds so much like what the official position of AKA Obama could be; “I have nothing to hide but I’m hiding it.”

      5. THE CRUX OF THE LEGAL STRAW THAT CAN BREAK AKA OBAMA’S BACK

      Another piece of information that many fail to realize is that in the birth certificate cases, all that is needed is for the case to be heard. This case will be over in the “Discovery” phase. Before a trial starts, both sides are required by the court to put all their cards on the table to avoid “trial by ambush.” The judge orders all evidence to be presented by both sides. Since this case is about discovering documents that are hidden, the case will be decided by court-ordered presentation of all relevant records. Lawyers in birth certificate cases don’t need to win a trial; they only need to get a trial.

      For those of you who think ridicule and name calling are effective debate tactics, I refer your kool-aid drenched, tin foil protected brains (a dose of your own medicine) to this article from American Thinker: Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate .

      Pages: 12
      6. ENOUGH ON THE HIDDEN BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND FORGED DOCUMENTS. WHAT IF AKA OBAMA WAS ACTUALLY BORN IN HAWAII?

      What about the legal team that is keeping AKA OBAMA’s college records hidden? Several people probably know what they are hiding. The best guess as to what is so secret isn’t likely to be bad grades. More likely his admission papers will say he was a foreign student, or that he was receiving financial aid as a foreign student. How many people do you estimate already know what is on AKA OBAMA’s college documents? Those records were handled routinely for more than 20 years. How many personnel in the registrar’s offices of Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard University have seen AKA OBAMA’s records and know what is in them? How many of those people would be willing to talk about it, or maybe even “leak” just one sheet of paper that would put even more cracks in AKA OBAMA’s mirror? Is that number likely to be zero? Do you think that AKA OBAMA worries about how many people know something that could destroy his career? Fear of being “found out” is an obsession for NPD types. The Cost to hide Obama’s past now 1.35 million.

      7. THE CATELOG OF HIDDEN DOCUMENTS FROM AKA OBAMA’S PAST

      So far we have only talked about the original birth certificate, supposedly locked up in Hawaii, and AKA OBAMA’s draft and college records. Already the potential sources for leaks are numerous. And you can bet that AKA OBAMA and his lawyers are concerned about many more possible leaks than these.

      There is a long list of vulnerability points for leaks, and there is a story behind every one of them. This list is one of many available and comes from one of my favorite blogs:

      • Original, vault copy birth certificate – Not released – Lawyers fees – greater than $1,000,000 – birth certificate – $15.
      • Certification of Live Birth – Released – Counterfeit – Case and Affidavits
      • Admitted British citizenship at birth – Confirmed via FactCheck.org/FightTheSmears.com
      • Birth Announcement – Alleged to be a forgery
      • Obama/Dunham marriage license – Not released
      • Obama/Dunham divorce – Released (by independent investigators)
      • Soetoro/Dunham marriage license – Not released
      • Soetoro adoption records – Not released
      • Fransiskus Assisi School School application – Released (by independent investigators)
      • Punahou School records – Not released
      • Soetoro/Dunham divorce – Released (by independent investigators)
      • Selective Service Registration – Released – Counterfeit – Document Locator Number update – another FOIA request
      • Occidental College records – Not released
      • Passport – Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama’s terrorism and intelligence adviser
      • Columbia College records – Not released
      • Columbia thesis – “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” – Not released
      • Harvard College records – Not released
      • Harvard Law Review articles – None
      • Illinois Bar Records – Not released.
      • Baptism certificate – None
      • Medical records – Not released
      • Illinois State Senate records – None
      • Illinois State Senate schedule – Lost
      • Law practice client list – Not released
      • University of Chicago scholarly articles – None
      • Kindergarten records – this” lost or hidden” incident deserves more detail:


      8. THE MISSING KINDERGARTEN RECORDS AND THE MYSTERIOUS NEWSPAPER BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT


      “Obama began his education in Hawaii’s public schools. He was enrolled in Ms. Sakai’s kindergarten class at Noelani Elementary School in 1967. He was only there a couple or three months before he was off to Indonesia.


      Those who strive to legitimize AKA Obama have made much of the questionable “birth announcement” that may have been published in the Hawaiian newspapers. This “evidence” if so flimsy that refuting it may actually lend substance to the claim.

      There are literally dozens of anti-Birther articles in the media that continue to claim that AKA Obama’s birth announcement was in “two different newspapers”. These two newspapers are printed by the same publisher and share the same stories and sources. The purpose of this “two newspaper” claim is to falsely imply that these newspapers are independent of each other, and therefore, unlikely to run the same birth announcement.

      Birth announcements were called in or mailed in all the time. The Nordyke twins were announced, then recently (about a year ago) that announcement was replaced with the AKA Obama one. And the original owner of the “birth” residence died about 2 years, before the newly discovered birth announcement was touted by the Obama campaign after AKA Obama’s Hawaiian ‘birth” was challenged. There is also evidence of splicing in the microfilm. The most likely scenario is that the Nordyke twin’s birth announcement was spliced out and replaced by a post-dated AKA Obama announcement. The fact that the home address in the fake AKA Obama announcement was never occupied by Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, and that the birth announcement just happened to appear right after the actual tenant of the home died, pretty much drives a stake though the heart of this story. Here is WND’s story about the birth address.


      Source:
      http://obamacrimes.com/
     

From: Sardar <sardar@...>
Subject: [govtwatch4] The Pharmaceutical "Business with Disease"
To: "Sardar" <recon1968bravo@...>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 9:42 PM

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      Try (P) "harma"ceutical    it has a better ring to it
      The Pharmaceutical "Business with Disease"
      Up to date news and comment about the "Business with Disease".
      September 10, 2010

      Peril of sleeping pill: Research shows tablets lower life expectancy
      Research has revealed the peril of the sleeping pill, with those taking tablets a third more likely to die prematurely than those who drift off unaided.
      Read article on the Metro online website (UK)
      September 8, 2010

      Wyeth And Its Ghostwriting Practices
      Two years ago, an investigation disclosed that Wyeth used a ghostwriting firm to generate material used to promote its hormone replacement therapies. By then, of course, the meds were linked to breast cancer in the 2002 Women’s Health Initative study. But the disclosure prompted a US Senate probe and has since been widely cited as an instance in which pharmaceutical marketing corrupted the process by which legitimate medical info is supposed to be disseminated (background). But just how extensive was the Wyeth ghostwriting? Well, between 1997 and 2003, a firm hired by Wyeth called DesignWrite generated more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, more than 50 scientific abstracts and posters, journal supplements, internal white papers, slide kits, and symposia to promote its Premarin and Prempro meds. There were other firms, but DesignWrite was used most often and was paid between $20,000 and $25,000 for each of 20 review articles (you can read the publication plan for low-dose Prempro here, for instance).
      Read article at pharmalot.com
      September 6, 2010

      Diabetes drug with heart attack link 'should never have been issued'
      'British Medical Journal' says Avandia should be withdrawn from the UK market.
      One of the world's biggest-selling drugs for diabetes should never have been licensed and should now be withdrawn, says the British Medical Journal. It says its investigation into concerns about the drug, Avandia, made by British multinational GlaxoSmithKline, which has been linked with increased heart attacks, are too great to allow its continued use. The BMJ claims that the UK drug regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority, was advised by the Commission on Human Medicines to withdraw the drug last July, but it remains on the market because the European Medicines Agency, which licenses drugs across Europe, has yet to reach a decision on Avandia, whose chemical name is rosiglitazone.
      Read article in The Independent (UK)
      September 3, 2010

      Osteoporosis drug 'doubles cancer risk'
      A drug taken by more than a million people with osteoporosis could double their risk of developing cancer of the oesophagus, according to a study published today. Those who have taken oral bisphosphonates for five years or more are twice as likely to develop the cancer than those who have not, the analysis of medical records found.
      Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)
      September 3, 2010

      Half Of Americans Are Taking Prescription Meds
      More than 48 percent of all Americans took at least one prescription drug each month in 2008, which amounts to a 10 percent increase over the previous decade, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the use of multiple prescription meds rose by 20 percent, while the use of five of more drugs increased by 70 percent. In fact, one out of every five Americans was using five or more drugs by 2008, and one out of every five children used at least one prescription med compared with nine out of 10 adults aged 60 and over. Children up to age 11 were using penicillin and drugs for asthma and allergies, while adolescents were taking meds for asthma, depression and ADD (please click on this link) to see the charts.
      Read article at pharmalot.com
      August 31, 2010

      The great cholesterol myth
      Cholesterol guidelines have been created to increase pharmaceutical profits, not to improve peoples' health. I know from my experience as a pharmaceutical sales representative for a statin drug. We were trained to emphasize to physicians the new lower LDL guidelines that were ostensibly created by health experts. The truth is the majority of the experts who created the lower guidelines have multiple financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. One expert was found to have ties to ten drug firms. There is no research that supports the assumption that lower LDL cholesterol reduces cardiovascular events or death in people who have do not already have heart disease. Statins do not prevent heart disease, but that is the myth that the drug companies have made billions of dollars from for more than 20 years. The lower guidelines simply created a larger lasso to rope more people into buying statin drugs.
      Read article by K.L. Carlson at opednews.com
      Comment: The pharmaceutical industry’s entire multi-billion dollar cholesterol business is built on fear – the fear that cholesterol causes heart attacks. While this scare has become a gold mine for the drug makers, the economic burden of this business is ultimately carried by us, the people. To learn the facts about statins, click here. To learn how, in reality, coronary heart disease occurs for precisely the same reason that clinical (early) scurvy does – a deficiency of vitamin C in the cells composing the artery wall – click here.
      August 30, 2010

      Research Integrity: Don't Mess With the DSMB
      An editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine, by its editor Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., and Alastair J.J. Wood, M.D. calls attention to the fact that pharmaceutical companies have tampered with the independent function of the DSMB (data safety monitoring board), and have planted promotional reports in the NEJM - and other scientific journals - thereby undermining the integrity of "the whole clinical-trial enterprise."
      Read article on the website of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) (USA)
      August 26, 2010

      America’s mental illness epidemic: It turns out that the drugs are the problem
      Tens of millions of innocent, unsuspecting Americans, who are mired deeply in the mental “health” system, have actually been made crazy by the use of or the withdrawal from commonly-prescribed, brain-altering, brain-disabling, indeed brain-damaging psychiatric drugs that have been, for many decades, cavalierly handed out like candy -- often in untested and therefore unapproved combinations of drugs -- to trusting and unaware patients by equally unaware but well-intentioned physicians who have been under the mesmerizing influence of slick and obscenely profitable psychopharmaceutical drug companies, a.k.a. BigPharma.
      Read article by Gary G. Kohls, MD, at onlinejournal.com
      August 23, 2010

      European Patient Groups, Pharma And Financing
      Given that patient and consumer groups are increasingly involved in as stakeholders and experts in management and scientific committees at the European Medicines Agency, one activist group decided to survey corporate sponsorship and compliance with disclosure requirements. Health Action International canvassed 23 groups, including those concerned with AIDS, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer and diabetes, to gauge financial ties between 2006 and 2008. Here is the study and this is what was found: Two-thirds of the groups working with the EMA received partial or significant funding from drugmakers or industry associations. All in all, 15 organizations received between 0.2 percent and 99 percent of their annual income from corporate sources, while seven were funded entirely from alternative sources.
      Read article at pharmalot.com
      Comment: The average donation per sponsored organization rose from 185,500 euros in 2006 to 282,090 euros in 2007, and to 321,230 euros in 2008. Notably, therefore, in a classic case of understatement, Health Action International concludes that the European Medicines Agency “appears to have failed” in monitoring and enforcing its own guidelines on financial transparency.
      August 19, 2010

      10 Years Later, Glaxo Still Haunted by Faked Studies of Paxil in Kids
      A crooked doctor who faked data in a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) study of the antidepressant Paxil in children pled guilty to criminal charges today, causing groans among GSK’s senior management as the company hopes to fend off a different criminal investigation into whether it manipulated clinical data on its diabetes drug, Avandia. She was sentenced to 13 months in prison. The two cases are technically completely separate, but they’re both about data manipulation. GSK has been accused of sitting on data showing risks on both drugs; and the FDA previously shut down one of GSK’s factories where both drugs were made.
      Read blog entry by Jim Edwards on the CBS Interactive Business Network website
      August 17, 2010

      Five out of six new prescription drugs don't work, doctor claims
      Five out of six approved drugs offer "few if any new benefits" to patients, according to a leading critic of the pharmaceutical industry. Large firms hyped-up patented medicines, spent vast amounts on getting doctors to prescribe them and underplayed serious side effects, said Prof Donald Light, a sociologist and professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, US. When the "toxic side effects" of prescription drugs were taken into account, and their misuse, he claimed they were "a signficant cause of death". Cholesterol-lowering statins were a classic example of the drugs industry overselling a product as a wonder-pill to prevent heart attacks, despite evidence that they could do more harm than good, he claimed.
      Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)


      lots more...
      http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/News/2010/pharmaceutical_business/index.htm

     

Government Funding Drug Companies to Make Vaccines Quicker
Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 30 2010 | 10,021 views
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The U.S. government plans to spend close to $2 billion in order to pay
researchers and biotechnology companies to develop new drugs, vaccines and
equipment to shorten the six- to nine-month time frame currently needed to
make a flu vaccine.

U.S. health officials plan to persuade more Americans to get vaccinated
against the flu this fall. The CDC is recommending flu vaccine for all
Americans ages six months and older, except for people with egg allergies
and some other conditions.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

  "To meet anticipated demand, manufacturers are producing between 160
million and 165 million doses this year, more than ever before ... The CDC
is accelerating development of two new tools to speed production of vaccine
...

  One involves optimizing seed strains of virus used to make vaccine ...
Another is a new method to determine the amount of antigen -- the ingredient
that prompts an immune response -- in a vaccine vial."

Sources:
  The Wall Street Journal August 25, 2010



      Dr. Mercola's Comments:


  Of all the places $2 billion in government funds could be spent, using it
to bring flu vaccines to market faster may be one of the most wasteful uses
of that amount of money to date. One dramatic example is the flu shot, which
has been proven ineffective time and time again, not to mention the myriad
of side effects, some serious, that they cause every year.

  If the U.S. government really wanted to make a dent in flu cases this fall
and winter, they would put that money toward a massive public education
campaign on the importance of optimizing your vitamin D levels.

  Now that would be a strategy that would not only dramatically decrease the
flu but also help save lives that are being lost prematurely from a
completely preventable condition: vitamin D deficiency.

  The government has once again pledged their allegiance to the vaccine
makers, and will be supporting them full force this flu season, as they do
every year.

What You Need to Know Before the Flu Shot Campaigns Begin .
  This year the vaccine manufacturers are making up to 165 million doses of
flu vaccine -- more than ever before. To use up this unprecedented supply,
the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging all
Americans over 6 months to get vaccinated, unless they have an allergy to
eggs or other limited conditions.

  That's right. Every man, woman and child is expected to line up and roll
up their sleeve for the  flu shot . which this year contains a mix of three
strains of flu -- H1N1 (swine flu), H3N2 (a new variant of seasonal flu) and
influenza B.

  This is important information to know, because if you had doubts about
receiving the experimental swine flu shot last season, it is now being
automatically dished out with every flu vaccine in the United States.

  Already, Australia has banned this year's flu vaccine for children under
the age of 5 due to an unusually high number of children suffering adverse
effects such as vomiting, spiking a high fever, and convulsions.

  Peter Collignon, professor of infectious diseases at the Australian
National University, has also gone on record stating that a recent clinical
trial uncovered issues with the swine flu vaccine -- adverse effects that
are identical to those suffered by the Australian children who reacted to
the seasonal vaccine.

  Sweden and Finland also recently sounded the alarm because young patients
suddenly developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy after being vaccinated
with the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. France, Germany and Norway are now also
tallying cases, and the EU has launched an investigation.

  But children aren't the only group that seem to react more violently to
the trivalent vaccine that contains the H1N1 component.

  In the United States, a special government committee has been created to
investigate last year's H1N1 monovalent vaccine for signs that it may be
associated with a higher rate of certain kinds of reactions. What the
committee found out provisionally is that there were three signs of trouble
with the H1N1 swine flu vaccine used last year.

  Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center,
explained:

    "One was Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), which we know has been
associated with influenza vaccine since 1976 when the first swine flu
vaccine was used. There is [also] a sign of a blood disorder called
thrombocytopenia. Thrombocytopenia is when your blood cannot produce enough
platelets. It's an autoimmune type reaction.

    The other is Bell's palsy. That's a facial paralysis. It's a neuroimmune
reaction.

    The government is saying they don't know if these are true signals or
not, but there were some red flags that were raised."

  Unfortunately, instead of using the $2 billion in funding for further
testing to make sure the vaccine is safe considering blatant "red flags"
have already been raised, the government is moving full-steam ahead with
their plans for a three-in-one flu shot this season, and is even paying the
drug companies to figure out how to bring it out even faster.

  You've probably already seen the signs at your local drug store
advertising they're here . and this is only the beginning.

All the Risk . for No Benefit?
  You should know that anytime you receive a flu shot, you are taking a
risk. In order to get the perceived benefit that you or your family is being
protected from the flu (which is only a perception, as I'll explain below),
you are being injected with numerous substances even above and beyond the
three flu viruses -- substances with known risks to your health.

  Toxic substances found in various flu vaccines include:

    a.. Dangerous levels of mercury in the form of thimerosal, a deadly
preservative that is 50 times more toxic than regular mercury
    b.. Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
    c.. Formaldehyde - a known cancer-causing agent
    d.. Neomycin and streptomycin (antibiotics)
    e.. Aluminum -- a neurotoxin linked to Alzheimer's disease
    f.. Polysorbate 80 (Tween80T) - which can cause severe allergic
reactions, including anaphylaxis
    g.. Phenol (carbolic acid)
    h.. Resin and gelatin - known to cause allergic reactions
    i.. Triton X100 (detergent)
  So every year that you get a flu shot, you are taking a risk that one or
more of these substances, or the flu viruses themselves, will cause a
problem in your body.

  The payoff you get for taking this risk?

  Well, the pharmaceutical industry would love for you to believe that the
flu vaccine is going to somehow magically protect you from dying from the
flu.

  But in fact the evidence couldn't be clearer -- the flu vaccine doesn't
work at all in the elderly, and the data is flimsy at best when it comes to
children and adults. In other words, you're taking all the risk for little
to no benefit.

  For instance, one recent review looked at the effectiveness of immunizing
nursing-home workers to protect the elderly in their care. After reviewing
five studies conducted between 1997 and 2009, the results show the
vaccination campaigns had NO EFFECT on the number of confirmed influenza
cases.

  The researchers also concluded that vaccinating staff has no proven impact
on reducing the number of related pneumonia cases, or pneumonia-linked
deaths -- which, by the way, accounts for the vast majority of what the CDC
counts as "flu deaths."

  Said lead researcher Dr. Roger Thomas:

    "What troubled us is that [shots] had no effect on laboratory-confirmed
influenza.

    What we were looking for is proof that influenza ... is decreased.
Didn't find it.

    We looked for proof that pneumonia is reduced. Didn't find it.

    We looked for proof deaths from pneumonia are reduced. Didn't find it."

  This is only one example of many. Study after study continue to show that
flu vaccines are virtually useless for preventing illness and mortality from
the flu, and you can read about five more such examples here.

Let's Get Real: Here's What You Really Need to Do to Prevent the Flu
  There is a massive attempt to defraud and deceive people to generate
profits from flu vaccines, and the U.S. government is helping to fund and
promote this system.

  Fortunately, we are able to penetrate this veil of misinformation, as we
did so effectively last year during the swine flu campaign. Last year the
United States contracted for the manufacture of over 170 million doses of
swine flu vaccine. Probably the most significant accomplishment of this Web
site was that we were able to contribute to the fact that only 90 million
doses were used in the United States.

  This year, we want to start early by warning people about the new plan ...
and the safer alternative . so the number of people exposed to potentially
harmful and useless flu vaccines drops even lower.

  I urge you to take your time and really make an informed decision before
you rush to get this year's flu shot for yourself or your family, and while
you're at it, tune in to the latest studies on vitamin D, which are
strengthening the evidence that it is a potent preventive measure against
colds and influenza.

  There is so much compelling evidence that I believe optimizing your
vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding
infections of ALL kinds, including the flu.

  As one recent study showed, a group of children taking vitamin D3 was 58
percent less likely to catch influenza A. That's a higher effectiveness than
any flu vaccine can claim, and doesn't come with a barrage of potentially
devastating side effects!

  Most children, teens, adults and elderly in the United States are vitamin
D deficient, especially during the winter months when sun exposure is at a
minimum for many. So I urge you to get your and your children's vitamin D
levels tested, and if found deficient, follow my recommendations for
optimizing your levels.

  Do this, and you'll all be far less likely to catch any cold or flu this
year.

  So let's get the word out. Ditch the flu vaccine and optimize vitamin D
instead.




Related Links:
  Flu Plan Scandal Ahead - An Urgent Warning

  U.S. Government Ignores Flu Vaccine Death

  Vaccine Makers Profit from Government-Granted Immunity

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/30/government-funding-drug-companies-to-make-vaccines-quicker.aspx

      YOU HAVE TO BE NUTS TO SEE A SHRINK



      By Larry Pratt
      September 30, 2010
      www.NewsWithViews.com

      Many Americans recently lamented the six-month anniversary of
ObamaCare, a law that is guaranteed to result in tremendous violations of
our gun rights.

      How do we know that? We know because of what the feds have already
been doing with legislation that George Bush signed two years ago.

      With the passage of the Veterans Disarmament Act in 2008, Congress
granted the Veterans Administration (VA) the authority to computerize the
medical records of veterans and ship them to the FBI. Any diagnosis that
could be interpreted as "might be a danger to self or others" results in the
vet being denied his right to keep and bear arms. People with concealed
carry permits are denied renewals. Customers at gun stores are turned down.

      In one recent case, a GOA member visited a VA hospital for a couple of
days and soon after returning home, state authorities knocked on the door
and confiscated his guns.


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      There is a campaign at the VA to come in and get the "treatment you
deserve." TV ads to this effect have been run. Obama has announced new
regulations to make it easier for war vets to get help.

      WARNING: With help like this you don't need enemies.

      There are three questions that you should not answer yes to:

      1. Have you felt stressed?
      2. Have you felt threatened?
      3. Do you feel like doing harm to someone?

      Regarding the first question, how stupid is that? Who does not feel
stress? Do they think we should live in a cocoon? As to the second question,
who doesn't feel threatened - by the pack of socialists that have taken over
our country and are working to steal everything we have? And number three -
who does not want to harm the juggernaut bearing down on us? Looks like with
those questions all of us could be disarmed.

      An Arkansas veteran, Wayne Irelan, returned from Iraq with a Purple
Heart and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Moreover, he recently learned that
no good deed goes unpunished when he was stripped of his right to keep and
bear arms. It started when his wife took over the family's finances in 2009.
The VA began paying Sgt. Irelan a small stipend. All of this to say that the
Veterans Administration used this as a basis to define him as mentally
incompetent - the very words in an unconstitutional federal gun control law
that trigger one's loss of Second Amendment freedoms.

      Irelan was notified by the Arkansas State Police that his concealed
carry permit was revoked a few days after he attempted to get a gun out of
pawn. A few days later still, the BATFE told Irelan that he was not allowed
to have any guns and that he would go to jail if they ever found any in his
house.



      In summary, better than going to the VA, if at all possible, go to a
private psychiatrist - or better yet, a pastor or some other person skilled
at counseling - and keep yourself off the government books. If ObamaCare is
not repealed, ALL doctors will be forced to make their records available to
government drones pawing through our private records. Then you will have to
find a non-medical counselor if you want to keep your guns.

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Who Is Watching You? Nine Industries That Know Your Every Move
  a..


DOUGLAS MCINTYRE
DailyFinance
September 27, 2010

  a.. A d v e r t i s e m e n t
  b..  Don't kid yourself. Real privacy no longer exists in this country.

We've long had government organizations collecting data that paints a pretty
clear picture of what we do with our time. The Internal Revenue Service
knows everything about what you earn and any major transactions you make. It
can access every bit of information it needs to determine how much money you
should be sending on April 15.

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The most important gatherer of personal information in the country is the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. It keeps a database of over 90 million
fingerprints, which can be accessed by other law enforcement agencies. It
also has an extensive database of DNA, the most specific marker of personal
identity. The bureau's ability to collect information expanded following the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It now tracks a large portion of mail,
cell phone traffic and Internet activity of people it deems suspicious.

Read entire article

http://www.infowars.com/who-is-watching-you-nine-industries-that-know-your-every-move/

Authorities Plan To Trawl Phone Calls And E Mails For Signs Of "Resentment
Toward Government"
  a..


Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 30, 2010



Photo: Pal Berge

Do you resent the government for enforcing Obamacare or raising your taxes?
Write about it in an email or talk about it on the phone and you could be
placed under surveillance as a potential terrorist, if frightening new
technology being shopped to law enforcement agencies is implemented.

Forget pre-crime and get ready for face-crime, Big Brother is set to unleash
a new wave of shockingly invasive and Orwellian technology on the American
people if a recent symposium in Hamburg New York is anything to go by.
Federal agencies, police departments and others were all in attendance to
see a demonstration of a system that trawls phone conversations, emails and
instant messages to detect "resentment toward government," alerting
authorities to potential "terrorists" who are then placed under
surveillance.

The technology was demonstrated to law enforcement officials, mental health
professionals, and military representatives at a recent International First
Responder-Military Symposium held at Hilbert College.

"A Swiss professor working with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology
scientist who heads the Mind Machine Project there outlined how this program
operates through computerized scanning of phone calls and electronic
messages sent through e-mail and social networking mechanisms," reports the
Buffalo News.

The system works by detecting "resentment in conversations through
measurements in decibels and other voice biometrics," more specifically the
emotional spikes that characterize "hatred and deep resentment toward
government."

"As for written transmissions scrutinized by the computer program, it can
detect the same patterns of fixation on specified subjects," states the
report.

Once an individual has been identified as harboring "resentment toward
government," the information can be "passed along to authorities so
surveillance can begin."

Besides law enforcement applications, the program is also designed to aid
mental health professionals to help "war veterans" become emotionally
stable, chillingly implying that distrust or hatred of government, which was
hailed by the founding fathers as a vital virtue, is now considered a mental
illness.

Of course, this technology completely violates the 4th amendment, but by
introducing it as a tool to fight terrorism, authorities hope to skirt
around the issue - the problem being that, as we have exhaustively
documented, the federal government now sees any political activity
whatsoever, be it anti-war protesters on the left, or anti-big government
activists on the right, as potential domestic terrorists.

The technology is rationalized by its adherents, who claim that it will help
stop terrorists in their tracks, while also being used against 'troubled
veterans and first responders'.

However, the introduction of a program that closely resembles George Orwell's
"facecrime" in 1984 has little to do with fighting extremist Muslims hiding
in caves in central Asia, this is all about targeting the American people
with total panopticon-style surveillance, while also creating a chilling
atmosphere and reminding people that their every conversation, instant
message or email is being scanned by super-computers for any sign of
extremism or "resentment toward government".

  a.. A d v e r t i s e m e n t
  b..  As we have seen from the MIAC report, the spying case in
Pennsylvania, and a host of others in recent years, the federal government
defines "terrorist propaganda" as any material critical of the state,
therefore any dissent against Big Brother in a phone conversation or an
email would automatically trigger the new technology.

This is not only a constitution killer, it represents a hammer blow to free
speech. The Internet as a forum of open discourse and free exchange of ideas
will be fundamentally damaged if people live in constant fear of being
raided by the feds at any minute because they sounded off about the
government in an e mail or a posting on a comment board.

Of course, with distrust towards the state touching all time highs, there
are millions of Americans who "harbor hatred and deep resentment toward
government," but that doesn't mean they plan on bombing federal buildings.

The technofascism blog dug up a couple of quotes from George Orwell's 1984
that almost precisely describe the exact same technology being used in the
legendary dystopia about a totalitarian society that constantly hounds,
harasses, and surreptitiously spies on its citizens.

  "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in
any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could
give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of
muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of
abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper
expression on your face.; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a
word for it in Newspeak: facecrime."

  -George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5

  "Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment
the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible
symptom."

  - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 6

Rather than an improper facial expression or nervous tic, which was more
within the purview of the equally ludicrous "gait analysis" division of
Admiral John Poindexter's Total Information Office, a program that claimed
to be able to identify terrorists by the way they walk, the facecrime
technology defines "abnormality" as being critical of the authorities, a
frightening throwback to the Soviet psikhushkas - mental hospitals - which
were used by the state as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners,
discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally.

Indeed, the establishment media has intensified its dissemination of talking
points that attempt to categorize distrust of authority as a mental
disorder.

Although it survives under a number of different names with private sector
funding, Total Information Awareness was mothballed by Congress in 2003
after widespread criticism that it would lead to the implementation of a
"mass surveillance system". Facecrime goes a step further, it not only
creates a mass surveillance system of all our communications, it also
corrodes and corrupts people's confidence in being able to exercise their
first amendment right to express "hatred and resentment toward government,"
without being harassed and targeted as domestic terrorists.

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Facecrime technology is illegal, immoral, anti-American and something that
needs to be ditched permanently if the United States and indeed any free
country is to heed George Orwell's warning and resist the descent into
totalitarianism.

-

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the
author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex
Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio
shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened
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Statins Increase Your Risk of Foodborne Illness
Posted By Dr. Mercola | September 27 2010 | 16,357 views
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The U.S. government claims that it is trying to address the problem of
foodborne illnesses. So why is it recommending drugs that may actually put
its citizens at greater risk from food poisoning?

Cholesterol drugs make you more vulnerable to bacterial infections such as
e. coli and salmonella -- a recent study shows that the statin drug
simvastatin (sold under the names Zocor and Simvacor), which the government
advocates as a means of lowering cholesterol levels, actually weakens your
immune system.

According to the Alliance for Natural Health:

  "... [T]he drug ... hinders the ability of the body's immune cells to kill
pathogens, and increases the production of cytokines, which trigger and
sustain inflammation."

Sources:
  Alliance for Natural Health September 14, 2010

  Journal of Leukocyte Biology March 2010; 87(3):433-42.



      Dr. Mercola's Comments:


  Statin drugs used to lower cholesterol are the world's most-prescribed
class of medications. In the United States alone, about 24 million Americans
take the drugs, which include namebrands like Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor,
Zocor and Crestor.

  This amounts to 24 million Americans who are putting themselves at
increased risk of falling ill to a foodborne illness, as the drugs are
disastrous for your immune system.

  If you are healthy your immune system should be able to fight off
salmonella, e. coli and other bugs in your food relatively easily. But if
your immune system is compromised, these pathogenic bacteria can quickly
become deadly.

What Happens to Your Immune System When You Take Statins?
  Scientists from Italy uncovered that the statin drug simvastatin (sold as
Zocor and Simvacor) causes two very concerning changes in your immune
system. It:

    a.. Impairs the ability of your macrophages, which are specialized
immune cells, to kill dangerous pathogens.
    b.. Enhances the production of cytokines, which are molecules that
trigger and sustain inflammation.
  Since a strong immune system is your best defense against any pathogenic
bacteria you come across, taking statin drugs is a risky proposition at
best -- and this is not the first time a study has found immune-damaging
effects from statin drugs.

  Research from Switzerland revealed that Lipitor, Mevacor and Pravachol
suppress immune system cells known as helper T-cells. These cells act by
recognizing foreign pathogens and then activating the production of the
proper T cells and B cells in response.

  Having your helper T-cells suppressed may not sound too daunting in print,
but in reality it is very serious. There is actually a disease that does
this very same thing: AIDS.

  So the new research strongly suggests that if you are on statin drugs,
this impairment in your immune system will make it far more likely that you
will have a serious infection when you eat contaminated food.

More Than 900 Studies Show Statin Drugs are Dangerous
  This latest finding about immune system suppression is only one of
hundreds pointing to the very real risks of statin drugs. There are over 900
in all.

  For starters, reported side effects include:

    a.. Muscle problems, polyneuropathy (nerve damage in the hands and
feet), and rhabdomyolysis (a serious degenerative muscle tissue condition)
    b.. Anemia
    c.. Acidosis
    d.. Sexual dysfunction
    e.. Pancreas or liver dysfunction, including a potential increase in
liver enzymes
    f.. Cataracts
  Muscle problems are the best known of statin drugs' adverse side effects,
but cognitive problems and memory loss are also widely reported. A spectrum
of other problems, ranging from blood glucose elevations to tendon problems,
can also occur. There is evidence that taking statins may even increase your
risk for Lou Gehrig's disease.

  Statins also lower your CoQ10 levels by blocking the pathway involved in
cholesterol production - the same pathway by which Q10 is produced. Statins
also reduce the blood cholesterol that transports CoQ10 and other
fat-soluble antioxidants.

  The loss of CoQ10 leads to loss of cell energy and increased free radicals
which, in turn, can further damage your mitochondrial DNA, effectively
setting into motion an evil circle of increasing free radicals and
mitochondrial damage.

  Unfortunately, there are no "official" warnings in the U.S. regarding
CoQ10 depletion from taking statin drugs, and many physicians fail to inform
you about this problem as well.

  As your body gets more and more depleted of CoQ10, you may suffer from
fatigue, muscle weakness and soreness, and eventually heart failure, so it
is imperative if you take statin drugs that you take CoQ10 or, if you are
over the age of 40, the reduced version called ubiquinol.

  Confusing matters, however, is the fact that statin drugs oftentimes do
not have any immediate side effects, and they are quite effective, capable
of lowering cholesterol levels by 50 points or more.

  This makes it appear as though they're benefiting your health, and health
problems that appear down the line are frequently not interpreted as a side
effect of the drug, but rather as brand new, separate health problems.

Statin Drugs May Actually Be Necessary for Some
  A few days ago I lectured at David Wolfe's Longevity Now Conference in
Costa Mesa and I had an opportunity to listen to Dr. Steven Sinatra's
lecture. He is probably one of the best, if not the best, natural
cardiologists in the world. During his presentation he mentioned that
statins do actually work to decrease heart attacks for some people.

  This surprised me as there is no doubt in my mind that he is correct. What
surprised me even more was that the mechanism of action has nothing at all
to do with lowering cholesterol, but rather in making your blood less sticky
and prone to clotting. Additionally, it may reduce inflammation somewhat.

  So Dr. Sinatra actually prescribes them for certain individuals who are at
very high risk of dying from a heart attack, but he does it based on risk
factors NOT on cholesterol levels. It is important to note that it is not
necessary for these patients to remain on the drug for the rest of their
life, but once their blood has been sufficiently thinned by a course of
treatment on statins, they can safely go off them.

  I am grateful to Dr. Sinatra for his valuable information on statin drugs.
Indeed they are appropriate for some individuals who are at a very high risk
for dying from a heart attack.  This will provide an opportunity for the
natural interventions discussed below to take effect and they can then go
off the statins.

  How do you know it is time to go off of them?

  Well it is the same cardiovascular risk factors that I have mentioned for
a long time. The cholesterol/HDL ratio and triglyceride/HDL ratio.  An
optimal number is around 200. It turns out that the reason HDL may be such a
potent risk factor for heart disease has nothing at all to do with directly
preventing deposits of cholesterol on your arteries.

  Rather it may help to keep your blood thin and prevent blood clots that
would shut off your arterial circulation. If that blood clot occurred in one
or more of the arteries that supply your heart or brain you would have a
heart attack or stroke (brain attack).

Lowering Your Cholesterol Too Much May Also Make You More Vulnerable to
Infection
  If you're taking statin drugs, and thereby suppressing your immune system
and increasing your risk of foodborne and other types of infection, you'd
better be certain your cholesterol really was too high in the first place.

  What is too high?

  Your total cholesterol tells you virtually nothing about your risk of
heart disease unless it is 330 or higher.

  The ONLY subgroup that might benefit are those born with a genetic defect
called familial hypercholesterolemia, as this makes them resistant to
traditional measures of normalizing cholesterol.

  For those of you worrying about cholesterol levels around 200, or taking
drugs to lower them, let me tell you that an optimal level is around 200,
and numbers much under 150 are likely far too low.

  In fact, one study even found that people with the lowest cholesterol
levels have the greatest risk of contracting an infectious disease. This is
because every single one of your cells needs cholesterol to thrive, and low
cholesterol levels are quite dangerous to your health on multiple levels.

  One meta-analysis of over 41,000 patient records found that people who
take statin drugs to lower their cholesterol as much as possible may have a
higher risk of cancer, while other studies have linked low cholesterol to
Parkinson's disease, memory loss, hormonal imbalances, stroke, depression,
suicide and violent behavior.

  So if you take a drug to lower your cholesterol to artificially low
levels, you're often increasing your risk of a number of serious diseases in
return.

  You should repeat your blood work after six or eight weeks on the drug, or
sooner if you've made some aggressive lifestyle improvements with diet and
exercise.

Tips for Optimizing Your Cholesterol Without Drugs
  Your body NEEDS cholesterol -- it is important in the production of cell
membranes, hormones, vitamin D and bile acids that help you to digest fat.
Cholesterol also helps your brain form memories and is vital to your
neurological function.

  So the goal of the tips below is not to necessarily lower your cholesterol
as low as it can go; the goal is to optimize your levels so they're working
in the proper balance with your body.

  Seventy-five percent of your cholesterol is produced by your liver, which
is influenced by your insulin levels. Therefore, if you optimize your
insulin level, you will automatically optimize your cholesterol.

  This is why my primary recommendations for safely regulating your
cholesterol have to do with modifying your diet and lifestyle as follows:

    a.. Reduce, with the plan of eliminating, grains and sugars in your
diet. It is especially important to eliminate dangerous sugars such as
fructose.
  If your HDL/Cholesterol ratio is abnormal and needs to be improved it
would also serve you well to virtually eliminate fruits from your diet, as
that is also a source of fructose. Once your cholesterol improves you can
gradually reintroduce fruits at levels that don't raise your cholesterol.

    a.. Consume a good portion of your food raw.
    b.. Make sure you are getting plenty of high quality, animal-based omega
3 fats, such as krill oil. New research suggests that as little as 500 mg of
krill per day may lower your total cholesterol and triglycerides and will
likely increase your HDL cholesterol.
    c.. Eat the right foods for your nutritional type.
  Examples of heart-healthy foods and fats include olive oil, coconut and
coconut oil, organic raw dairy products and eggs, avocados, raw nuts and
seeds, and organic grass-fed meats as appropriate for your nutritional type.

    a.. Exercise daily. Make sure you incorporate Peak Fitness exercises,
which also optimize your human growth hormone (HGH) production. When you
exercise you increase your circulation and the blood flow throughout your
body.
  The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which
means your immune system has a better chance of fighting an illness before
it has the opportunity to spread.

    a.. Avoid smoking or drinking alcohol excessively.
    b.. Be sure to get plenty of high-quality, restorative sleep.
  If someone you love is currently taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, I urge
you to share this information with them as well, and take advantage of the
thousands of free pages of information on this site.

  There's no reason to risk your health, including increasing your risk of
foodborne illness, to optimize your cholesterol. You can do that naturally,
and virtually for free, by making the healthy lifestyle changes I've listed
above.




Related Links:
  Do YOU Take Any of These 11 Dangerous Cholesterol Drugs?

  900 Studies Show Statin Drugs are Dangerous

  Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Suppress Immune System

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