Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Friday, June 8, 2007

Americans are all crazy conspiracy theorists

The Theories about 911 (Chapter 6 p.80 by Daniele Ganser)
It is important to stress that all of the theories about 911 are conspiracy theories. A conspiracy theory is a secret agreement between two or more persons to engage in a criminal act. Conspiracies are nothing unusual or new in the field of historical research. Al least since the assassination of Julius Ceaser in classical Rome more than 2,000 years ago, conspiracies have been the element of the political fight for influence and power. As 9/11 was a criminal act which was definitely not planned and carried out by one single person alone but by at least two or more persons who agreed on the plan before it was implemented, 911 must be classified as a conspiracy. Once we realize that none of the theories can be dismissed on the grounds that it is a "conspiracy theory," the real question becomes: Which conspiracy theory correctly describes the 9/11 conspiracy?

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Wouldn't you know it?

I go to New York a month ago, and took the little harbor cruise to see the Statue of Liberty and while on it decided to take a picture of this annoying helicopter that was above me. I didn't think about it until last night when I was showing my husband some of the pictures I took on my trip, and he saw this one and we enlarged it and noticed its not only black but unmarked. What's next for me a foil hat? No I refuse to go that far and I'm just going to chalk this up as a black unmarked helicopter making noise pollution in NY. But, boy; I wish I hadn't done a websearch on black unmarked helicopters last night to find out more. I feel like Fox Mulder today. ;P

Saturday, June 2, 2007

I'm the President!!

Bush's growing madness shocks even his friends

By DOUG THOMPSON

President George W. Bush's paranoid megalomania is so rampant that close friends and supporters worry about the man's sanity and fear he has lost his tenuous grip on reality.

Bush, whose arrogant stubbornness knows no bounds, is so wrapped up in his obsession with being President and "commander-in-chief" that his behavior shocks his most ardent supporters.

Writes syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer:


Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny."

Arnaud de Borchgrave, the rabid Bush supporter who edits the right-wing Washington Times and runs what is left of United Press International, also reports on the meeting:


The self-described "Decider" is the antithesis of self-doubt. Like an old seadog, he relishes the idea of plowing into rough seas.

When a recent visitor asked him what assurance he could give about his successor in 2009, President Bush replied, "we'll fix it so he'll be locked in." The visitor left perplexed and wondered whether that might mean the U.S. would be in a wider war in the region by then. In any event, it didn't sound like twilight time for Mr. Bush.

A Texan friend of longstanding called on him recently and confided to his Washington hosts that Mr. Bush had said three times, bringing a clenched fist to his chest, "I'm the president." Reminding visiting political opponents of this would be normal, but the close friend said he was a taken aback a bit as he had never before seen Mr. Bush in this mode.

What these close friends see is a madman on the edge, a delusional paranoid whose brain is fried by too many years of hard drinking and probably too much cocaine up his nose.

Compared to Bush, Richard M. Nixon appears sane and stone cold sober. Hell, history will probably cast legendary drunk Ulysses S. Grant as a President more in control of himself.

Not only is he wrapped up in the aura of "I'm the President," but he is now determined that anyone who follows him will have to live with his legacy of lies, deceit and despair - his failed war in Iraq, his cancer on "our country's destiny."

The fate of this nation - and indeed the fate of the world - may well depend on the deranged mind of a truly insane President of the United States.

If Bush can't handle his high as good as Clinton or his dad did theirs, shouldn't Americans at least do an intervention on him? Call it tough love...gag."
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Friday, June 1, 2007

Assessing the CIA's involvement in Latin-American politics

Assessing the CIA's involvement in Latin-American politics. Where do we begin? How about with the illegal drug trade or the War on Drugs (illegal) drugs mind you. It was never called a war on pharmaceuticals, or cocaine, but on ILLEGAL drugs, the kind that attract the poor because they see it as a way to make money. The kind that the CIA dole out to the dirt poor non-addicted dealers south of the border because its a way for them to make money and feed their children. How has this aspect of the CIA affected Latin-American politics? Well, the kids are eating a little bit more, some are missing dads who have been assassinated though. But, all in and all they are no less oppressed than before the CIA pushed illegal drug profits as a money making opportunity on to the most vulnerable. Of course Nicaragua is still fighting a civil war that we started over our CIA operative turned swelled headed drug lord Noriega and his drug dealings. That fool almost blew the lid off the Iran Contra Affair to the point that Alzheimer's wouldn't have saved Reagan as a legal defense! The CIA made it look good though. Good enough to start a war with them, capture the Tony Montana of Nicaragua and lock him away for good in a cushy federal prison, which took the heat off the Contra affair main suspects who were about to be presidents for the next 20 years. They sacrificed the senile one who was on his way out the white house doors anyway and all was forgotten in the U.S. anyway, but not down South. They still fight.

What else does the CIA do? It has to do something with all that unaccounted for drug money doesn't it? For example in the early 70's it was used to giving military, political and financial support to General Pinochet, the Central Intelligence Agency had already been engaged in a long campaign to defeat democracy in Chile: for instance by distributing money to groups planning the military overthrow of the government, which duly took place in 1973.

Public records suggest that the CIA assisted in the assassination in Washington of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier in 1976, in order to reinforce the rule of General Pinochet, who presided over a period of terror in Chile in which thousands died or disappeared.

These were the policies of a particularly hysterical period of anti-communist sentiment in the USA, but even so, the public were clearly not to be trusted when it came to interfering in the internal affairs of another state like this. Democracy plays no role in this kind of policy-making. But does anyone care? Will anyone try to do anything about it?

Let us remember the case of the School of the Americas. This institution, founded in 1946 and moved from Panama to Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1984, is close to the front line in the U.S. government's attempts to keep the Generals in power in Latin America. Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri of Argentina and Roberto D'Aubuisson of El Salvador were all graduates of the school, and the death and torture squads of half a dozen countries Chile included - were led and organized by U.S.-trained officers.

The dreadful record of the School of the Americas in turning out murderers and gangsters was largely uncovered through the efforts of one man, U.S. Navy officer turned Roman Catholic priest Roy Bourgeois. He had served in Latin America, and was so shocked by what he saw being done there in the name of the United States that he devoted years of effort to making the public aware of some of the worst excesses. In 1998 and 1999 this protest reached the national and international level.

U.S. involvement in Latin America is still significant, although the focus has changed. It is now Drugs and not Communism that are soaking up the tax dollars. The School of the Americas is still doing its gung-ho thing, but we are told that there are no more covert operations connected with the School these days. The CIA has moved with the times too, and runs web pages and information services, and has even recently got involved in peace negotiations in the Middle East.

What is so shocking about the CIA campaign in Chile in particular is that it was completely counter-productive. There was no need to install a military dictatorship in Chile. Soviet Communism did not take over Latin America. It was never going to. We see in retrospect that the trade union and other left-wing movements there prepared the ground for the democracy that is now more generally established. The threat to liberty in Latin America comes from the right and not from the left: from the Noriegas and the D'Aubuissons; from American-trained killers and thieves with braids on their hats and their money in Switzerland.

Why not assess the CIA's involvement with the world including the United States and kill that 50 year old bastard like Kennedy wanted to while it was still in its youth!