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April 26 commentary "For links to the articles I read on
the air, guest websites, archived shows, my commentaries, a
listener's discussion forum, and the text of Mark Stanneart’s
latest commentary, visit: www.rabblerousing.org."
Kvmr morn news reported that nev county is out of compliance
with fed election law hava which mandates touch screen voting
machine for every county. Regis of voters Catherine smith is
trying to get them for our county from touch screen voting
machine mfgr e s and s. this company has been accused of
producing fraudulent voting machines used in elections all over
the country. And our supervisors are hell bent on installing
these odious machines. . Personal opinion: this is madness. If
you want to insure fair and honest elections you’d better do
something. In my opinion we should be resisting complying with
hava, and stalling as long as possible. We all know how good
govt is at stalling when they want to. I say stall the feds as
long and as strenuously as possible. Its only our entire
election process that is at stake.
READ HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS ARTICLE
Next item: The following is the first few pp of THE IRAN
PLANS Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting
the bomb? by SEYMOUR M. HERSH http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy
in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has
increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified
planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former
American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force
planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of
American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover,
to collect targeting data and to establish contact with
anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that
President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the
opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring,
to enrich uranium. American and European intelligence agencies,
and the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.), agree
that Iran is intent on developing the capability to produce
nuclear weapons. But there are widely differing estimates of how
long that will take, and whether diplomacy, sanctions, or
military action is the best way to prevent it. Iran insists that
its research is for peaceful use only, in keeping with the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that it will not be
delayed or deterred. There is a growing conviction among members
of the United States military, and in the international
community, that President Bush’s ultimate goal in the nuclear
confrontation with Iran is regime change. Iran’s President,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has challenged the reality of the Holocaust
and said that Israel must be "wiped off the map." Bush
and others in the White House view him as a potential Adolf
Hitler, a former senior intelligence official said. "That’s
the name they’re using. They say, ‘Will Iran get a strategic
weapon and threaten another world war?’ " A government
consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the
Pentagon said that Bush was "absolutely convinced that Iran
is going to get the bomb" if it is not stopped. He said
that the President believes that he must do "what no
Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the
courage to do," and "that saving Iran is going to be
his legacy." One former defense official, who still deals
with sensitive issues for the Bush Administration, told me that
the military planning was premised on a belief that "a
sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious
leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the
government." He added, "I was shocked when I heard it,
and asked myself, ‘What are they smoking?’ " ok, the
article is very lengthy so I’ll stop reading it here. I think
you get the idea.
Next item: this one is speculation, but I find it relavant
because of the status of the person doing the speculating. The
article is Reported by Paul Joseph
Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com
The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program
under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the
official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main
suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick
Cheney.
Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret. flew 101 combat
missions in Vietnam. He is the recipient of the Eisenhower
Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President’s Medal
of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold
Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and
honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from
Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is
one of the country’s foremost experts on National Security.
In an interview with The Alex Jones Show aired nationally on the
GCN Radio Network, Bowman stated that at the bare minimum if
Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were involved in 9/11 then the
government stood down and allowed the attacks to happen. He
said it is plausible that the entire chain of military command
were unaware of what was taking place and were used as tools by
the people pulling the strings behind the attack.
Bowman outlined how the drills on the morning of 9/11 that
simulated planes crashing into buildings on the east coast were
used as a cover to dupe unwitting air defense personnel into not
responding quickly enough to stop the attack.
"The exercises that went on that morning simulating the
exact kind of thing that was happening so confused the people in
the FAA and NORAD....that they didn't they didn't know what was
real and what was part of the exercise," said Bowman
"I think the people who planned and carried out those
exercises, they're the ones that should be the object of
investigation."
Asked if he could name a prime suspect who was the likely
architect behind the attacks, Bowman stated, "If I ha to
narrow it down to one person....I think my prime suspect
would be Dick Cheney."
You got to just love this next item Senators Object to
One-Sided Enron Settlement its From YubaNet.com,
U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
led a bipartisan coalition of all ten senators from
Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana calling
on federal energy regulators to abandon a proposed settlement
with bankrupt energy trader Enron. The proposal would commit the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to keeping evidence
against Enron under wraps. It would also seal off one avenue of
relief for the Western businesses and utilities still trying to
avoid paying Enron more—for power the bankrupt energy trader
never even delivered.
Cantwell, a member of the Senate Energy Committee. said
"This settlement could keep audiotapes, emails, and other
incriminating evidence against Enron under permanent lock and
key. With Enron still demanding millions in payment from
businesses and ratepayers for electricity it never delivered, we
need to keep this evidence available to make absolutely certain
that Enron's victims get a fair chance at justice."
Senator Feinstein said "The proposed settlement with Enron
falls short,". "I am particularly concerned about the
provision that would prevent public access to audiotapes and
emails collected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
during the investigation of the company's manipulation of
Western energy markets. We have spent hundreds of thousands of
public funds transcribing the Enron tapes. The time has come for
these tapes to be released to the public. American taxpayers
deserve to know the truth." My comment:
Ferc is supposed to be acting in the public Interest. So My
question is a simple one. What possible excuse is there for
sealing these incriminating documents other than to protect
friends of the bush crowd from prosecution? And we still got to
pay enron for what they never delivered? Isn’t American
Capitalism terrific/? . Where are the tar and feathers when we
need em? Meanwhile mainstream media entertains and diverts us
with reportage of the circus trial of Kenny boy lay, king geo’s
good buddy and the architect of the enron fiasco.
Next item: From a listener: Don't waste your time watching
the new smarmy, propoganda movie out on Flight 93 that crashed
in PA. Instead, check this free video out! The truth,
investigated thoroughly, showing the detailed planning leading
up to this horrific event years in advance -- all documented.
This is the best video I've seen on 9/11, it's awesome. Download
the Google viewer first, it's clearer than letting it play in
the browser. And PASS IT ON! Everyone should see this.
Copy/paste to your browser (if this link gets broken up in the
email and is not all on one line, cut & paste each part of
it to make it whole): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848&q=loose&pl=true
You can also order a high-res dvd version on the site.
Next item: Neil Young is coming out with a CD titled Living
With War and the featured track is Impeach The President.
Alright Neil!
From a listener: . Wondering if it might be possible to send
all elected representatives to Iraq to take care of that problem
first before they get to talk about anything else? You know, put
'em in a uniform and a Humvee and make them do the dirty work
for once. That would be my perfect world: the entire US Congress
(except for the tiny handful who voted against it) shipped the
hell over there and told to take care of it--and no fun plane
rides back to the USA until it's done. He goes on.
As I see it, slavery is not the problem, the problem is that the
wrong people are enslaved. Maybe someday we humans will be
highly evolved enough to be rid of slavery forever, but until
then there is an atonement issue. A thousand years ago, slaves
where those who lost wars and did bad things to other people and
needed to pay back those they oppressed (just think, hardly any
costly prisons!). It's time to bring back that old tradition.
I'd love to have a coffle of people who think geo bush is gods
answer to all their problems to be helping me with my organic
garden and doing chores around the house, with mandatory charity
work every Thursday afternoon--cleaning safe houses for the
local domestic violence coalition for example. How bout you?
Now an item for all you bush lovers out there. Earthlink
business news reported that Halliburton corp profits for the
first qtr of this year were up 33%. Oil companies have been
reporting record profits while our gas prices go thru the roof.
It seems the conquest and slaughter in iraq has been good for
some folks. How is your stock portfolio doing?
Next item: Important new product announcement; in honor of
our 43rd president, cambells soup has announced the
introduction of a new variety. . Its called w soup and consists
of a weenie in hot water.
Nrxt item: Don’t recall if I mentioned it, but when I came
back from costa rica, I had to change planes in Miami. I noticed
a curious phenomena. Whenever you enter the us after visiting a
foreign land, you must go thru 2 vcheckpoints. Immigrartion and
customs. In the past, immigration has been a formality, while
customs could be a real hassle. After all, customs is where they
can search your luggage to see if you are bringing in illegal
rutabagas, drugs or clever explosive devices. Well things have
changed a bit. As I changed planes in Miami, customs was a
breeze, while immigration had such lengthy lines that it took
over 2 hours. When you finally reached the front of these
incriedfible lines, it was the usual absurd formality. He didn’t
even ask where id been or for how long. I could have been
attending a terrorist training school in Pakistan. So why the
long lines? To pass the time while we waited, I joked with
fellow passengers. Hey, remember when flying from one place to
another consisted in going to an airport and getting on a plane?
I notice an interesting phenomena. When I made that joke to
older passengers they either gave me a wry smile or began a
conversation. But when I tried that line on younger air
travelers, they gave me blank stares. This was normal for them.
Their generation is being trained that it is normal to wait in
long lines until some uniformed official demands "you vill
show me your papers now". The police state cometh, while
amereicans slumber..
READ DROLETTE ARTICLE
Next item: here is a Chinese story I found interesting: An
elderly woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a
pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a
crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered
a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the
stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing
home only one and a half pots of water.
Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But
the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own
imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what
it had been made to do. After 2 years of what it perceived to be
bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.
"I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side
causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are
flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's
side?" "That's because I have always known about your
flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and
every day while we walk back, you water them." "For
two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to
decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are,
there would not be this beauty to grace the house." Each of
us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we
each have that make our lives together so very interesting and
rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are
and look for the good in them. SO, to all of my crackpot
friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on
your side of the path.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_723.shtml
Special Reports
Who is behind "Al Qaeda in Iraq"? Pentagon
acknowledges fabricating a
"Zarqawi Legend"
By Michel Chossudovsky
Online Journal Guest Writer
Apr 21, 2006, 01:03
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi has been presented both by the Bush
administration
and the Western media as the mastermind behind the
"insurgency" in Iraq,
allegedly responsible for the massacres of Iraqi civilians.
Zarqawi is the outside enemy of America. The Bush administration
in
official statements, including presidential speeches, national
security
documents, etc. has repeatedly pointed to the need to "go
after" Abu
Musab Al Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden.
"You know, I hate to predict violence, but I just
understand the nature
of the killers. This guy, Zarqawi, an al Qaeda associate -- who
was in
Baghdad, by the way, prior to the removal of Saddam Hussein --
is still
at large in Iraq. And as you might remember, part of his
operational
plan was to sow violence and discord amongst the various groups
in Iraq
by cold- blooded killing. And we need to help find Zarqawi so
that the
people of Iraq can have a more bright -- bright future."
(George W.
Bush, Press Conference, 1 June 2004)
The official mandate of US and British occupation forces is to
fight and
win the "war on terrorism" on behalf of the Iraqi
people. Zarqawi
constitutes Washington's justification for the continued
military
occupation of Iraq, not to mention the brutal siege of densely
populated
urban areas directed against "Al Qaeda in Iraq" which
is said to be led
by Zarqawi.
Coalition forces are upheld as playing a "peace keeping
role" in
consultation with the United Nations. The Western media in
chorus has
consistently upheld the legitimacy of the "war on
terrorism". It has not
only presented Zarqawi as a brutal terrorist, it has also failed
to
report on the Pentagon's disinformation campaign, which has been
known
and documented since 2002.
Pentagon PSYOP Zarqawi Program
In an unusual twist, the Washington Post in a recent article,
has
acknowledged that the role of Zarqawi had been deliberately
"magnified"
by the Pentagon with a view to galvanizing public support for
the US-UK
led "war on terrorism":
"The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the
internal military
documents. "Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia
response," one U.S.
military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods:
"Media
operations," "Special Ops (626)" (a reference to
Task Force 626, an
elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for
senior
officials in Hussein's government) and "PSYOP," the
U.S. military term
for propaganda work . . ." (WP. 10 April 2006)
The military's propaganda program, according to the Washington
Post, has
"largely been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled
over into the
U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic
communications" in
Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S.
commander
in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six
major targets of
the American side of the war." (WP, op cit.)
An internal document produced by U.S. military headquarters in
Iraq,
states that "the Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most
successful
information campaign to date." (WP, op cit).
The senior commander entrusted with Pentagon's PSYOP operation
is
General Kimmitt who now occupies the position of senior planner
at US
Central Command (USCENTCOM), responsible for directing
operations in
Iraq and the Middle East.
"In 2003 and 2004, he coordinated public affairs,
information operations
and psychological operations in Iraq -- though he said in an
interview
the internal briefing must be mistaken because he did not
actually run
the psychological operations and could not speak for them.
Kimmitt said,
"There was clearly an information campaign to raise the
public awareness
of who Zarqawi was, primarily for the Iraqi audience but also
with the
international audience."
A goal of the campaign was to drive a wedge into the insurgency
by
emphasizing Zarqawi's terrorist acts and foreign origin, said
officers
familiar with the program. "Through aggressive Strategic
Communications,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi now represents: Terrorism in Iraq/Foreign
Fighters
in Iraq/Suffering of Iraqi People (Infrastructure
Attacks)/Denial of
Iraqi Aspirations," the same briefing asserts . . .
It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the
Zarqawi
campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be
ongoing. U.S.
propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that
included
extensive building of offices and residences for troops
involved, as
well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of
leaflets with
Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background
. . .
The Zarqawi program at the Pentagon was run concurrently with a
related
operation "led by the Lincoln Group, a U.S. consulting
firm, to place
pro-U.S. articles in Iraq newspapers, according to the officer
familiar
with the program who spoke on background." According to The
Washington
Post, however, there was no relationship between the Pentagon's
PSYOP
program and that run by the Lincoln Group on behalf of the
Pentagon.
(WP, 10 April 2006)
Disinformation and war propaganda are an integral part of
military
planning. What the Washington Post fails to mention, however, is
its own
role in sustaining the Zarqawi legend , along with network TV,
most of
the printed press, and of course CNN and Fox News, not to
mention a
significant portion of the alternative media. Disinformation
regarding
the War on terrorism has been fed into the news chain by a
limited
number of "top feeders":
A relatively few well-connected correspondents provide the
"scoops" that
get the coverage in the relatively few mainstream news sources -
the
four TV networks, TIME, Newsweek, CNN - where the parameters of
debate
are set and the "official reality" is consecrated for
the bottom feeders
in the news chain. In other countries, this is what is known as
propaganda - or, put less politely, psychological warfare. (
Chaim
Kupferberg, The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11)
Zarqawi has been identified by the US media as being behind the
"insurgency" in Fallujah, Tal Afar and Samara. He was
held responsible
for the Amman hotel bombings as well as terrorist attacks in
several
Western capitals.. He is indelibly behind the suicide bomb
attacks in
Iraq as confirmed by the Washington Post: " The ruling
Shiite leadership
has Zarqawi squarely in its sights. He has led the suicide
bombers whose
Shiite victims are now climbing into the thousands." ( 11
December 2005).
The Pentagon's PSYOP is a cover-up for US sponsored atrocities
by the US
media, which has upheld the "villainize Zarqawi" focus
in its news and
editorials coverage of the Iraqi resistance movement.
The top U.S. military intelligence officer in Iraq said Abu
Musab
Zarqawi and his foreign and Iraqi associates have essentially
commandeered the insurgency, becoming the dominant opposition
force and
the greatest immediate threat to U.S. objectives in the country.
"I think what you really have here is an insurgency that's
been hijacked
by a terrorist campaign," Army Maj. Gen. Richard Zahner
said in an
interview. "In part, by Zarqawi becoming the face of this
thing, he has
certainly gotten the funding, the media and, frankly, has
allowed other
folks to work along in his draft." (WP, 25 September 2005)
Amid the continuing bloodshed in Iraq, there is evidence of
fresh
thinking. The change is, ironically, brought about by Abu Musab
Zarqawi
himself, whose indiscriminate terrorism appears to have
succeeded in
uniting people there against his global jihad ideology. Since
the hotel
bombings in Zarqawi's native Jordan, more and more Sunni Iraqis
and
Arabs have condemned the terrorist leader's nightmarish vision
for their
societies -- one that promises further "catastrophic"
suicide attacks.
(WP, 4 December 2005)
Immediate withdrawal from Iraq is not an option the U.S.
administration
can or should entertain. It would give Abu Musab Zarqawi and his
small
band of foreign fighters the opportunity to claim victory and to
announce that they have successfully defeated a superpower. This
would
strengthen al Qaeda's hand across the Middle East and elsewhere,
and
lead to greater instability throughout the region. (WP, 11
December 2006)
The US media has identified the nature of the insurgency,
centering on
the key role of Zarqawi and his ties to the former Baathist
regime:
"The backbone of the insurgency appears to be an alliance
between the
die-hard Baathists and the network of terrorists mostly under
the
command of Abu Musab Zarqawi. It is a partnership of
convenience; both
groups are fighting the same battle, but for different reasons
and with
different goals. (WP, 8 May 2005)
[S]enior officials at the Pentagon and in Iraq say they believe
that Mr.
Zarqawi and the insurgency's ''center of gravity'' is now in the
bends
and towns of the Euphrates River valley near the Syrian
border.(New York
Times, 17 September 2005)
In Fallujah, the siege of the city, which resulted in thousands
of
civilian deaths was described as a battle against the "Zarqawi
network":
U.S. forces have conducted four airstrikes on what have been
described
as targets associated with Zarqawi's network in and around the
city.
Among them was a housing compound in an agricultural area about
15 miles
south of Fallujah where the U.S. military said as many as 90
foreign
fighters were meeting. The military said the strike, which
occurred on
Thursday evening, killed about 60 foreign fighters.
Witnesses and hospital officials disputed the account, saying
that about
30 men were killed, many of them Iraqi. They said 15 children
and 11
women also died in the attack.
Neither version of the strike could be independently verified.
The following night, the U.S. military said in a statement that
it
conducted "another successful precision strike" on a
meeting of
"approximately 10 Zarqawi terrorists" in central
Fallujah. "There was no
indication that any innocent civilians were in the immediate
vicinity of
the meeting location," the military said in the statement.
(WP, 21 Sept
2004)
Concluding Remarks
If indeed Zarqawi's role was fabricated as part of the
Pentagon's PSYOP,
what is the accuracy of these media reports?
The internal military documents leaked to Washington Post
confirm that
the Pentagon is involved in an ongoing propaganda campaign which
seeks
to provide a face to the enemy. The purpose is to portray the
enemy as a
terrorist, to mislead public opinion.
Counterterrorism and war propaganda are intertwined. The
propaganda
apparatus feeds disinformation into the news chain. The
objective is to
present the terror groups as "enemies of America."
responsible for
countless atrocities in Iraq and around the World. The
underlying
objective is to galvanize public opinion in support of America's
Middle
East war agenda.
US military-intelligence has created it own terrorist
organizations. In
turn, it has developed a cohesive multibillion dollar
counterterrorism
program "to go after" these terrorist organizations.
To reach its
foreign policy objectives, the images of terrorism in the Iraqi
war
theater must remain vivid in the minds of the citizens, who are
constantly reminded of the terrorist threat. The Iraqi
resistance
movement is described as terrorists led by Zarqawi.
The propaganda campaign using the Western media, presents the
portraits
of the leaders behind the terror network. In other words, at the
level
of what constitutes an "advertising" campaign,
"it gives a face to terror."
The "war on terrorism" rests on the creation of one or
more evil
bogeymen, the terror leaders, Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi,
et
al, whose names and photos are presented ad nauseam in daily
news
reports. Without Zarqawi and bin Laden, the "war on
terrorism" would
loose its raison d'être. The main casus belli is to wage a
" war on
terrorism".
The Pentagon documents leaked to the Washington Post regarding
Zarqawi
have revealed that Al Qaeda in Iraq is fabricated.
The suicide attacks in Iraq are indeed real, but who is behind
them?
There are indications that some of the suicide attacks could
have been
organized by the US-UK military and intelligence. (See
references below
pertaining to the British Special Forces Soldiers, caught
planting bombs
in Basra.)
Related articles
British Chief Police Investigator in Basra dies under mysterious
circumstances - by Michel Chossudovsky - 2005-10-17
Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra? -
by
Michael Keefer - 2005-09-25
British "Undercover Soldiers" Caught driving Booby
Trapped Car - by
Michel Chossudovsky - 2005-09-20
Did Al-Zarqawi Really Bomb Amman? - by Dr. Elias Akleh -
2005-11-15
The Al-Zarqawi 11/9 Amman Bombings: More Holes in the Official
Story -
by Michel Chossudovsky - 2005-11-15
Fabricating an Enemy: "Al Qaeda in Iraq". Who is Abu
Musab Al-Zarqawi?:
- by Michel Chossudovsky - 2005-09-30
Al Qaeda and the Iraqi Resistance Movement - by Michel
Chossudovsky -
2005-09-18
Reprinted from GlobalResearch.ca.
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky is director of the Centre for Research
on
Globalization (CRG) and editor of GlobalResearch.ca. Email him
at
crgeditor@yahoo.com.
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