In this video is a picture of Saddam Hussein where it is stated that he was a 33rd. degree Mason.

Author: Rove could hold key to Gonzales' future as Attorney General

Rawstory

Author: Rove could hold key to Gonzales' future as Attorney General

David Edwards and Nicholas Burkett
Published: Tuesday July 31, 2007

With the recent incidence of Bush officials coming to each other's rescue, one is prompted to ask how far, exactly, these loyalties run.

The question seems particularly appropriate in the wake of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' trouble with the Senate Judiciary Committee. Involved in warrantless wiretaps and data-mining, the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys, and subsequent conflicting statements, Gonzales is taking a lot of heat -- including a bill introduced today by a liberal Democrat seeking his impeachment.

So what of Gonzales' loyal compatriots? And what impact are Gonzales' allegiances likely to have on his political career? Keith Olbermann asked this question Monday in an interview with James Moore, co-author of Bush's Brain and contributor to the Huffington Post.

Olbermann pointed out that "in [Gonzales'] five appointments to public positions - spanning over a decade - he has never been chosen by anyone other than George W. Bush."

The question, then, was what the outcome of such a long string of demonstrable loyalties will be; that is, how likely is Bush to tell Gonzales to step down, and how likely is Gonzales to step down if instructed to do so?

Moore identified Karl Rove as the key determinant in Gonzales' future. In response to rumored suggestions that this will be Gonzales' last week, Moore said, "I don't really see that happening unless there's a calculus where Rove says to the President, 'We gotta cut him loose.'"

The following video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast on July 30.

VIDEO INSIDE

Chuck Norris: Proof positive that some of us are allready getting the chip

The rape of the American people

John Conyers Is No Martin Luther King

The Art of Intelligence

Needless to mention ex CIA anylist Ray Mcgovern is my favorite senior citizen as a fighter for truth and justice. He has been doing articles on antiwar.com since February 28, 2004, when he exposed the Pat Robertson, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

My favorite Mcgovern moment is when he nailed Rummy for lying about weapons of mass destruction.


by Ray McGovern

July 26, 2007

What do Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to trivialize an historic moment.

I’ll give this to President Bush. He makes no pretence when he disses. He would not meet with Sheehan to define for her the "noble cause" for which her son Casey died or tell her why he had said it was "worth it."

Conyers, on the other hand, was dripping with pretence as he met with Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and me yesterday in his office in the Rayburn building. I have seldom been so disappointed with someone I had previously held in high esteem. And before leaving, I told him so. Throwing salt in our wounds, he had us, and some fifty others in his anteroom arrested and taken out of action as the Capitol Police "processed" us for the next six hours.

As we began our discussion with Conyers, it was as though he thought we were "born yesterday," as Harry Truman would put it. With feigned enthusiasm he began, Let’s hold a Town Hall meeting in Detroit so we can talk about impeachment. Get out my schedule; let’s see, we need to hear from everyone about this.

Been there, done that, I reminded the congressman. On May 29, 2007 Col. Ann Wright and I were among those who flew to Detroit for a highly advertised Town Hall meeting on impeachment, because we were assured that John Conyers would be there.

That Town Hall/panel discussion was arranged by the Michigan chapter of the National Lawyers Guild less than two weeks after the Detroit City Council passed a resolution, cosponsored by Conyers’ wife Monica Conyers – calling for the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. We had hoped that Monica’s clear vision and courage might be contagious.

I had to remind the congressman that he did not show up for the Town Hall, preferring to put in a cameo appearance and quickly leave a half-hour before it began.

Apparently, that incident was of such little consequence to the congressman that he had completely forgotten about it and was about to try to resort to the same subterfuge. And that was less than two months ago. Small wonder, then, that he has apparently forgotten the oath he took, much longer ago, to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

US & Saudi Arabia to discuss $20 billion arms deal & also concerns over Saudi insurgents

Robert Gates and condoleeza Rice will be meeting with Saudis next week to discuss concerns over Sunni insurgents, nearly half of whom are coming from Saudi Arabia, and the kingdom is doing nothing stop it. Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars that are used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles.

The Iraq Study Group mentioned that the Saudi's are a source of funding for Sunni insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq.



I know that Robert Gates is deeply concerned with events in Iraq lately, but he still has to do the bidding of Bu$hco. So in addition to expressing his concerns about Saudi insurgents, Gates and Condi will be discussing a 20 billion dollar arms deal, that will include satellite-guided bombs known as JDAMs. The sale may include a 500-pound and a 2,000-pound version of the aerial bomb.

There is also an interesting artical in the India Times about concerns over Saudi Arabia's role in Iraq.

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth!

This association of professional people is a breath of fresh air for those of us that have been combing the innertubes for certified truth about the destruction of the World Trade Center. This is what is needed to bring about a real investigation by an outside source. As it stands there are far too many unanswered questions to believe the explanations of the 911 commision.

~VIDEO~

We are a non-partisan association of Architects, Engineers, and affiliates , who are dedicated to exposing the falsehoods and to revealing truths about the “collapses” of the WTC high-rises on 9/11/01.

We call upon Congress for a truly independent investigation with subpoena power. We believe that there may be sufficient evidence to conclude that the World Trade Center buildings #1 (North Tower), #2 (South Tower), and #7 (the 47 story high-rise across Vessey St.) were destroyed not by jet impact and fires but by controlled demolition with explosives.

We believe that this website, as well as the other referenced sites, contains the information necessary to demonstrate to all with an open mind that this is the case, and that such an investigation is warranted and overdue. We believe that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story of these “collapses”.

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth are encouraged to take an active role by reporting the results of their research on 9/11 by means of lectures, articles, and methods of disseminating the truth about the 9/11 WTC building “collapses”.

Richard Gage, AIA is the founding member of ae911Truth.org. He has been a practicing Architect for 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings. He is employed with a San Francisco Bay Area architecture firm and has most recently performed Construction Administration services for a new $120M High School campus including a $10M steel-framed Gymnasium. Currently he is working on the Design Development for a very large mixed use urban project with 1.2M sq.ft. of retail and 320K sq.ft. of high-rise office space — altogether about 1,200 tons of steel framing.

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." Duhbya Sept. 2006

"In my line of work you gotta keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda." Dubya, May 24, 2005

TPMtv: The New Al Qaeda Bamboozle

The Bush administration has really been pushing the Al Qaeda in Iraq line recently, constantly citing 9/11 in reference to the enemy that we face in Iraq, an enemy that essentially all military and intelligence experts agree is far more complicated and heterogenous a force than simply Al Qaeda. Will the media start drawing the distinction?

Juan Cole's Informed Comment

Key Judgments of National Intelligence Report on Al-Qaeda Declassified

Dems call for probe of Gonzales’ statements

WASHINGTON


WASHINGTON - A group of Senate Democrats called Wednesday for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales perjured himself regarding the firings of U.S. attorneys and administration dissent over President Bush's domestic surveillance program.

"We ask that you immediately appoint an independent special counsel from outside the Department of Justice to determine whether Attorney General Gonzales may have misled Congress or perjured himself in testimony before Congress," four Democratic senators wrote in a letter Wednesday, according to a draft obtained by The Associated Press.

"It has become apparent that the Attorney General has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements" to the Judiciary Committee, they added.

'Impeachment' top YouTube debate question

Impeachment Progress News, South Carolina

July 23, 2007

www.ImpeachforPeace.org

A YouTube member who goes by "lonelygirl115" asked "Impeachment of GW Bush;Necessary to
thwart future abuses?" and it has received the highest number of votes of any question so will be addressed (or danced around) by every Democratic Presidential/Unitary Executive candidate during tonight's debate to be broadcast on CNN as shot live in Charleston, South Carolina.

But actually this didn't happen because CNN didn't go by the most votes , but selected the questions that they judged would be the best, which IMHO would be a form of media control...):

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TIME FOR THE ADULTS TO TAKE CHARGE!" REP. PETER DeFAZIO

Classified info - The congressman
wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack

DeFazio asks, but he's denied access
Classified info - Friday, July 20, 2007JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian Staff

WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.

As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents.

On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED.


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Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran?


Global Research, June 24, 2007

by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky May 16, 2007

"Another [9/11 type terrorist] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets" (Statement by Pentagon official, leaked to the Washington Post, 23 April 2006)

Concepts are turned upside down. War becomes Peace. "Offense" becomes a legitimate means of "self-defense". In the words of President Bush:

"Against this kind of enemy, there is only one effective response: We must go on the offense, stay on the offense, and take the fight to them." (President George W. Bush, CENTCOM Coalition Conference, May 1, 2007)

The intent is to seek a pretext to wage a preemptive war.

A "terrorist attack on America" could be used to justify, in the eyes of an increasingly credulous public opinion, on "humanitarian grounds", the launching of a major theater war directed against Iran and Syria.

Defense Authorization: DeFazio on Andrews Amendment on Iran



Dems fail to rein in Bush’s war-making powers with Iran

By Roxana Tiron
May 17, 2007

House Democrats failed by a narrow margin to pass legislation that would rein in the president’s war-making powers with Iran, despite showing more unity on the controversial issue.
An amendment to the defense authorization bill, introduced by Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.), a member of the armed services panel, failed Wednesday night by a vote of 216-202 with six Republicans voting in favor of the amendment together with 196 Democrats.

Andrews’ amendment, which had strong support from House Armed Services Committee chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), would have prevented funds authorized in the bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from being used to plan a contingency operation in Iran.

Among the Republicans voting for the amendment were Roscoe Bartlett (Md.), Ron Paul (Texas) and Walter Jones (N.C.).

An amendment introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) was met with more opposition by Democrats and Republicans alike and failed by a vote of 288-136. DeFazio sought to clarify that no previously enacted law authorizes military action against Iran. It also sought to prohibit funding authorized by the bill or in any other legislation from being used to take military action against Iran without specific authorization from Congress unless there is a “national emergency created by an attack by Iran upon the United States, its territories or possessions or its armed forces.”

Among the 129 Democrats who voted against the amendment were Skelton and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), who both voted in favor of the Andrews amendment.

The 300th Sludge Report~ALL HAIL BUSH!

Allright...Billy Bob Joe, totally cool...You are actually doing what most people only talk about. We should all of course be using our Yankee ingenuity to spread the word and protest in every way we can against this evil cabal that has stolen our government. Hope you don't mind that I do an artical on my blog. Needless to say, I am pretty damned impressed by your fiery senior rhetoric. Keep up the good fight brother...G:

BILLYBOBJOE SINGS TO IRAN

Bu$h meets with his base to build support for staying in Iraq

President Bush Meets with Organizations that Support the United States Military in Iraq and Afghanistan

Please don't be too concerned with Duhbya's performance, he is probably reminiscing about the experience he just had with his proctologist...( :


The Roosevelt Room

VIDEO

Office of the Press Secretary
October 20, 2006, 2:35 P.M. EDT

In Focus: Defense

THE PRESIDENT: I've had an uplifting and heartwarming conversation with fellow citizens of all ages from across our country who are supporting our troops. These folks don't really care about politics; what they care about is how best to send a strong message to the men and women who wear our uniform that America supports them.

Meanwhile Darth Cheney is busy spreading fear to the National Guard in Indiana.


We understand the objectives of the terrorists. They want to seize control of a country in the Middle East, so they can acquire a base for launching attacks, and the oil wealth to finance their ambitions. They want to target and overthrow other governments in the region, and eventually to establish a totalitarian empire that encompasses the region from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way around to Indonesia. They have declared, as well, their ultimate aims: to arm themselves with chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons, to destroy Israel, to intimidate all Western countries, and to cause great harm here in the United States.

Vice President's Remarks at a Rally for the Indiana Air and Army National Guard

Camp Atterbury
Camp Atterbury, Indiana

For Immediate Release
Office of the Vice President
October 20, 2006


Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Seymour hersh: "We're in the business of creating ... sectarian violence."

Bush Administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon

Video Interview with Seymour Hersh and transcript

by David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Global Research, May 25, 2007

In an interview on CNN International's Your World Today, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh explains that the current violence in Lebanon is the result of an attempt by the Lebanese government to crack down on a militant Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam, that it formerly supported.

Last March, Hersh reported that American policy in the Middle East had shifted to opposing Iran, Syria, and their Shia allies at any cost, even if it meant backing hardline Sunni jihadists.

A key element of this policy shift was an agreement among Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national security adviser, whereby the Saudis would covertly fund the Sunni Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon as a counterweight to the Shia Hezbollah.

Music in the wind and Pythagorean philosophy

On the Aeolian Harp.

It was observed above, that as action and re-action are equal, the effect is the same, whether the sonorous body strikes air, or the air strikes the sonorous body. In the case of a musical pipe this is plain enough: but it was not so well known, nor could it be so familiarly proved, till of late years, that the air can begin of itself to produce the effect, and fetch music out of a string, as a string fetches music out of the air.
We have now a curious illustration of this fact from the instrument called an Eolian harp. How far the ancients were masters of this experiment, is uncertain: but it has long been known, that the wind would bring musical sounds from the strings of an instrument. In the Jewish Talmud, where we should scarcely expect to find any thing valuable in philosophy, the wind is reported to have brought music out of the harp of David; which, as it is there said, "being every midnight constantly blown upon by the north wind, warbled of itself." (Talmud in Berae, fol.6.)

This of course gives me an excuse to once more mention the behaviour of sound and light waves or any other waves we can think of for that matter, and the guy who explained a lot about it both philosophycly and mathematically.
Pythagoras was a Greek Mathematician born in 569 B.C. who studied math, music, and astronomy.

Pythagoras left Samos in disgust for its ruler Polycrates. He settled in Cretona, a Greek colony in southern Italy. There he founded a movement with religious, political and philosophical goals. To facilitate his movement, he created a school where his followers lived and worked. He had many devoted followers who were called Pythagoreans. They had to adhere to certain strict rules. Obedience, silence, abstinence from food, simplicity in dress and possessions, and the habit of frequent self examination were required of the Pythagoreans. They also believed in immortality and transmigration of souls.

The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color

To Pythagoras music was one of the dependencies of the divine science of mathematics, and its harmonies were inflexibly controlled by mathematical proportions. The Pythagoreans averred that mathematics demonstrated the exact method by which the good established and maintained its universe. Number therefore preceded harmony, since it was the immutable law that governs all harmonic proportions. After discovering these harmonic ratios, Pythagoras gradually initiated his disciples into this, the supreme arcanum of his Mysteries. He divided the multitudinous parts of creation into a vast number of planes or spheres, to each of which he assigned a tone, a harmonic interval, a number, a name, a color, and a form. He then proceeded to prove the accuracy of his deductions by demonstrating them upon the different planes of intelligence and substance ranging from the most abstract logical premise to the most concrete geometrical solid. From the common agreement of these diversified methods of proof he established the indisputable existence of certain natural laws.

Having once established music as an exact science, Pythagoras applied his newly found law of harmonic intervals to all the phenomena of Nature, even going so far as to demonstrate the harmonic relationship of the planets, constellations, and elements to each other. A notable example of modern corroboration of ancient philosophical reaching is that of the progression of the elements according to harmonic ratios. While making a list of the elements in the ascending order of their atomic weights, John A. Newlands discovered at every eighth element a distinct repetition of properties. This discovery is known as the law of octaves in modern chemistry.

I admit that this is a long artical, but I would feel remiss if I omited Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi tribe, who befriended the white man in 1911. He was the subject of much study, and was asked about music. Ishi recorded over 60 songs between 1911 and 1914.

According to Ishi, a bow left strung or standing in an upright position, gets tired and sweats. When not in use it should be lying down; no one should step over it; no child should handle it, and no woman should touch it. This brings bad luck and makes it shoot crooked. To expunge such an influence it is necessary to wash the bow in sand and water.

In his judgment, a good bow made a musical note when strung and the string is tapped with the arrow. This was man's first harp, the great grandfather of the pianoforte.

By placing one end of his bow at the corner of his open mouth and tapping the string with an arrow, the Yana could make sweet music. It sounded like an Aeolian harp. To this accompaniment Ishi sang a folk-song telling of a great warrior whose bow was so strong that, dipping his arrow first in fire, then in the ocean, he shot at the sun. As swift as the wind, his arrow flew straight in the round open door of the sun and put out its light. Darkness fell upon the earth and men shivered with cold. To prevent themselves from freezing they grew feathers, and thus our brothers, the birds, were born.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot..over: Too many war ships in the Persian Gulf

U.S., Iran do Persian Gulf squeeze

The stakes are big and the waterway is small, so communication between the two sides is a must to keep a lid on tensions.
By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer
July 11, 2007

ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS — Iran and the United States remain so far apart on so many issues that they refuse to talk about them.

But in the cramped sea routes of the Persian Gulf, U.S. and Iranian warship sailors and fighter pilots speak to each other daily.

"We are operating very close to their territorial waters in a very confined space with a tremendous amount of traffic, be it the small dhows, be it the supertankers going up to the oil platforms," said U.S. Navy Capt. Sterling Gilliam Jr., commander of air operations for this nuclear-powered supercarrier and its associated ships.

"The margin of error is smaller in that the space is more confined. That would be the case even if anyone was your ally, just because of the sheer small size of the Arabian Gulf," Gilliam said, using an alternative name for the body of water.

Even mundane changes of direction require chitchat with Iranian counterparts. When sedate gulf winds fade to a whisper, for example, this 100,000-ton carrier whips up to the 25 knots required to hurl jets into flight from the 1,092-foot flight deck.

But first the vessel alerts nearby forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the organization's navy.

"We would do the standard international maritime measures," said Capt. Bradley Johanson, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier.

"We would call them on their radio and say, 'Sir, I just wanted to let you know that we're going to be turning to port and be coming to this course so that we're into the wind in support of our flight operation."

The Iranians respond professionally and courteously, Johanson said: " 'Thank you very much for the information. We will move off to the starboard position. We very much appreciate the heads-up.' "

Nearly half of the U.S. Navy's 277 warships are stationed close to Iran, alongside most of Tehran's estimated 140 naval surface ships and six submarines, according to GlobalSecurity.org. More than five dozen aircraft are aboard the Stennis, along with dozens more aboard the Nimitz, another U.S. aircraft carrier in the gulf.

Kashiwazaki officials acknowledge more radiation leaks

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (Reuters) -- Officials at the world's biggest nuclear power plant acknowledged Tuesday there had been more radiation leaks after an earthquake in Japan that killed nine people and forced thousands from their homes.

The admissions by Tokyo Electric Power Co. have reignited fears about nuclear safety in a country that relies on atomic power for one-third of its electricity but has faced repeated cover-ups of

A small fire in a transformer at TEPCO's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant Monday was quickly extinguished. The fire was sparked when a 6.8-magnitude quake that struck Monday.

But while TEPCO had initially said that the lethal earthquake had not caused any leaks, it revealed later on Monday night that 1,200 liters of radioactive water had sloshed into the sea from its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata.

The company added that the quake was stronger than its reactors had been designed to withstand.

Then on Tuesday, a TEPCO official told a news conference that about 100 of the 22,000 drums containing nuclear waste at a warehouse had fallen over and "several" lost their lids.

Only about half the drums had been inspected so far, and it was not immediately clear from the official's comments whether there was any impact on the environment or people. See how the quake left parts of Japan in shambles »

Also on Tuesday, the company admitted that a small amount of radioactive materials -- cobalt-60, iodine and chromium-51 -- had been emitted into the atmosphere.

The Lieberman Amendment passed and War with Iran is still on the table

Senate Passes Lieberman Amendment on Iran 97-0, War Draws a Bit Nearer

According to the Washington Bureau Chief, the Senate has passed the “Lieberman Amendment” on Senate Bill 1547: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. With a final vote of 97-0, the bill is passed and the possibility of another war has just inched forward.

WASHINGTON - The Senate Wednesday put aside a growing schism over the conduct of the Iraq war and rallied around a strongly-worded warning to Iran authored by Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.


Holy Joe has been busy drumming up his case that Iran has been supplying explosives for car bombs in Iraq, while ignoring where the suicide bombers are coming from and
the evidence that he uses is questionable.

Sunni extremists from Saudi Arabia make up half the foreign fighters in Iraq, many suicide bombers, a U.S. official says

Saudis' role in Iraq insurgency outlined

Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping insurgents and militias here, the largest number of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from a third neighbor, Saudi Arabia, according to a senior U.S. military officer and Iraqi lawmakers.



Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are the only two in the U.S. House of Representatives who voted against the horrible war propaganda resolution, H CON RES 21.

TOUGH TALK ON IMPEACHMENT

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL explores the talk

of impeachment with Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote

the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton,

and THE NATION's John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF

IMPEACHMENT


VIDEO

VIDEO part two

North American union plan headed to Congress in fall

An hour with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft & Henry Kissinger

All three are on the Board of Trustees and Counselors for the "Center for Strategic & International Studies", a powerful think tank in Washington DC.

PREMEDITATED MERGER



~Article compliments of Dads house of tinfoil~

North American union plan headed to Congress in fall

Powerful think tank prepares report on benefits of integration between U.S., Mexico, Canada

Posted: May 24, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc.

The final report, published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

CSIS boasts of playing a large role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 – a treaty that set in motion a political movement many believe resembles the early stages of the European Community on its way to becoming the European Union.

Strange pre 911 speech by Paul Wolfowitz

From liveleak.com

Wolfowitz chilling speech
Few months before 911 Wolfowitz gave a chilling speech at west point. It was all doom and gloom. It sounded strange. I recently acquired a copy of the speech and I do not know what to make of it.

Remembering intelligent design

This is from a post I did a year or so ago and is dedicated to the 21%ers Who are still buying the Bu$h ideology. It's about what was called intelligent design and is part of the strange history of this administration. I guess Karl Rove was trying to explain evolution from the perspective of the religious right.


As a new concept of religion called "INTELLIGENT WORSHIP" the liberals have introduced the possibility of evolution being an important part of religion. This will even things out throughout the country, with religion in the schools, and science in the churches, much to the dismay of the neoconservative administration. George W Bush is calling for an investigation of the Grand Canyon to prove that it is relatively new, and is the result of intelligent design, while Pat Roberts, republican senator from Kansas,
back-peddles from his statements about Hugo Chavez and Arial Sharon', as he attempts to rationalise the outing of Chavez using scientific logic, and come up with a scientific theory as to why Sharon' had a stroke.
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Bush Administration Muzzled Surgeon General

Another ex military man speaking out against abuses of power by the Bu$h administration. Well, there's nothing new here except that he was also a doctor and was the U.S. Surgean General. He was appointed by Bu$h in 2oo2 and quietly left office at the expiration of his term in July, 2006.

Add one more to the list.

Posted on: July 11, 2007 9:27 AM, by Nick Anthis

Yesterday, former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona testified before congress that he was subjected to extensive and systematic political interference in his work by the Bush Administration. From Gardiner Harris of The New York Times:

Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.

The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues. Top officials delayed for years and tried to "water down" a landmark report on secondhand smoke, he said. Released last year, the report concluded that even brief exposure to cigarette smoke could cause immediate harm.

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Sacrifice and Bliss: Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth is a book and six part television documentary first broadcast on PBS in 1988 as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. ... The documentary comprises six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers

Video on torture issues: Not a pretty picture

Is this what the military teaches the troops? Once again, a soldier acts like Iraqis are at fault for the WTC. Bush needs to get the hell out of Iraq and people like these soldier are downright sickening.

Complements of teak

This video has adult content and requires authentication.
It tells much more about the torture issues than anything I have seen to date.

Bu$h's support on Iraq War is Slip Slidin Away

Bush loses GOP support for war

Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., latest to call for movement toward troop withdrawal

By MATT MYGATT and ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press
First published: Friday, July 6, 2007

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sen. Pete Domenici on Thursday withdrew his support of President Bush's Iraq war policy and embraced a proposal to bring home most troops by March.
The longtime New Mexico senator is the latest of several Republican stalwarts who have abandoned Bush on Iraq in the past 10 days.


Last week, Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and George Voinovich, R-Ohio, said the U.S. should significantly reduce its military presence in Iraq while bolstering diplomatic efforts. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., this month is expected to propose a new approach.

MSNBC VIDEO

The Neocon game of "Executive Privilige" drags on

Bu$h and Co. can tie this up in the courts untill these idiologues are replaced in 2008. They are obviously miss-using the powers of the president and the solidarity of the judicial department. It looks like they will use the questionable claims of exutive privilige to deny access to witnesses and records. Now it's up to the House and Senate committees to seek contempt citations against the White House.

The White House will undoubtedly lose the game, but will not concede to the obvious outcome, untill all vestiges of real power are removed.

Bush invokes executive privilege to deny testimony

Last Update: Jul 9, 2007 11:29 AM

WHITE HOUSE (AP) - President Bush has invoked executive privilege to deny requests by Congress for testimony from two former aides in connection with the firings of federal prosecutors.

However, the White House has again offered to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews.

In a letter to the heads of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, White House counsel Fred Fielding insisted that the president was acting in good faith. Fielding also refused demands from lawmakers that the president explain the basis for invoking the privilege.

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy says Taylor may testify as scheduled before the Senate panel on Wednesday. Congressional aides say the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled Miers' testimony for Thursday, but it is unclear whether she will appear.

Bill Maher outspoken on Dick Cheney

Bill Maher is sometimes outspoken when the subject is about the Bu$h administration, as he was in march of 2007 when there was supposedly an attempted assisination on Dick Cheney. On his show Maher asked his panel why it was necessary for the Huffington Post to remove comments by readers concerning their disappointment that the attempt failed.

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Strange disappearance of the Domestic Honey Bee

Buzz off
Apr 26th 2007
From The Economist print edition

Investigating colony collapse disorder


IT IS a mystery that would tax the minds of the world's greatest detectives. Across America beekeepers are finding hives abandoned. What appear to be normal, healthy adults suddenly disappear within two days, leaving their queen, their food stores and the young. In the past, a mass exodus would leave the hive to be ransacked by honeybees from neighbouring colonies. This time, not only is the retreat more common, but nearby bees seem strangely reluctant to enter the abandoned hives. There are no dead bodies, but scientists who have studied the corpses of the occasional remaining live adult report that they are ravaged by disease.

What could be going on? The Department of Agriculture in America this week convened a workshop of apiarists and federal and university scientists to suggest some answers.

Colony collapse disorder, as the phenomenon has become known as, was first reported in America in mid-November 2006. It spread rapidly, with beekeepers reporting heavy losses of between 30% and 90% of bees. Some 24 American states have now reported cases of colony collapse disorder. It has also been seen in Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.


Because the living bees that the scientists were able to study carried almost every virus and parasite known to infect honeybees, researchers are working on the idea that the insects' immune systems have failed. Reducing the body's ability to fight disease allows infection by a host of pathogens. But exactly why this should happen is unclear. It could be that one disease, perhaps a new type of lurgy, invites the others to infect the bee, or that a pesticide performs this role.

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I like this one...G:

garden_mermaid
Sunnyvale, CA
(Zone 9b)

Jun 7, 2007
10:46 AM

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We have had honey bees as well as wild mason bees, bumble bees, burrowing bees, and beneficial pollinating flies that resemble bees, at our community garden since the weather warmed up. There are cells phones en mass around here, and they don't seem to be bothering the bees. Our community garden is organic, and many of the surrounding homes do not use toxic sprays. So the mystery continues.


And you'll need to put on your tinfoil hat for this site:

The Bees' Needs

INTRODUCTION: NEW SCIENCE REVEALS THE SOLUTION

It's the Physics, Stupid!

By Richard C. Hoagland and David Wilcock

2007 The Enterprise Mission

VITAL SIGNS OF A WARMING WORLD

MSNBC steps up to the plate

Bob Dylan - The Times they are A-changin' -1965

Some called him the prophet back in those times. His name was Robert Zimmerman and he was an admirer of the poet Dylan Thomas. He is now more well known than thomas, and writes some fine poetry himself.

Oregon Sunset

Evening in the foothills of the Cascade mountain range with the sun shining under the cloud layer onto freshly plowed red soil.

What I didn't know about Reagans Star Wars Plan

President Ronald Reagan awarded physicist Edward Teller Ph.D., the National Medal of Science in 1983. Image courtesy Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

I kinda stumbled upon this information while exploring some parts of the internet introduced to me on "Dads house of tinfoil" an excellent blog on subjects that really makes me think about my mundane existence here on planet earth. I remember Ronnie Raygun and his Star Wars project, but thought it was a joke, just like the fact that he was our presiden't. I guess I was smoking too much wacky weed or else was just plain asleep* Anyways since I got my fiberoptic connection I seem to be getting a more in depth history than I was getting on the telly back in those days, but there isn't much more information in the here and now either.

Earthfiles © 2007 by Linda Moulton Howe

Star Wars Physicist edward Teller, Outer Space Menace And Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs)

June 15, 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico - The following alleged government document is reprinted in full. Originally leaked to Bob and Ryan Wood for their Majestic-12 documents project at majesticdocuments.com. The document is entitled “Edward Tellers Pitch to
President Reagan for SDI" (Strategic Defense Initiative). The date is July 2, a year or two after Ronald Reagan became president in January 1981.

[ Editor's Note: The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD).

The research and technologies of SDI paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense for the Strategic Defense Initiative. It gained the popular name "Star Wars" after the title of the 1977 George Lucas feature film, the first in a series. Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, SDI was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense; from global to regional coverage. BMDO was later renamed Missile Defense Agency (MDA).]

Bush equates Iraq with the U.S. War for Independence

Bush urges resolve for Iraq fight in holiday address

Says he will not hand the enemy a victory by walking away and putting American security at risk.

By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer
2:10 PM PDT, July 4, 2007


MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — President Bush equated the war in Iraq today with the U.S. war for independence. Like those revolutionaries who "dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty," Bush said, American soldiers were also fighting "a new and unprecedented war" to protect U.S. freedom.

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*Have a safe and happy Fourth Of July*

From Wikipedia:

Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, generally exercising sovereignty.

The term independence is used in contrast to subjugation, which refers to a region as a "territory" —subject to the political and military control of an external government. The word is sometimes used in a weaker sense to contrast with hegemony, the indirect control of one nation by another, more powerful nation.

Independence can be the initial status of an emerging nation (often filling a political void), but is often an emancipation from some dominating power. It can be argued that independence is a negative definition: the state of not being controlled by another power through colonialism, expansionism or imperialism. Independence may be obtained by decolonization, or by separation or dismemberment. Although the last three can often coincide with it, they are not to be confused with revolution, which typically refers to the violent overthrow of a ruling authority. This sometimes only aims to redistribute power—with or without an element of emancipation, such as in democratization—within a state, which as such may remain unaltered. The Russian October Revolution, for example, was not intended to seek national independence; the United States Revolutionary War, however, was.

Autonomy (in slight contrast) refers to a kind of independence which has been granted by an overseeing authority that itself still retains ultimate authority over that territory (see Devolution). A protectorate refers to an autonomous region that depends upon a larger government, for its protection as an autonomous region. The dates of established independence (or, to a lesser degree, the commencement of revolution), are typically celebrated as a national holiday known as an independence day.

Sometimes, a state wishing to achieve independence from a dominating power will issue a declaration of independence, the earliest surviving example being Scotland's Declaration of Arbroath dating from 1320, and the most famous being the U.S. Declaration of Independence issued in 1776.

Keith Olbermann: Bush Cheney should resign

~VIDEO~

Congress needs to hold Cheney accountable

Subject: Congress needs to hold Cheney accountable

Hi,

Did you see the news? President Bush let Scooter Libby, the one man who was convicted for the lies around the Iraq war, go free.

And the obstruction of justice doesn't stop there. The Senate recently subpoenaed documents from the Vice President's office around the illegal wiretapping program and so far he has not complied. It's clear this administration thinks it's above the law. That's un-American, and I think it's time for Congress to hold them accountable.

I just signed a petition urging Congress to force Vice President Cheney to respond to its subpoenas. If he doesn't, Congress has to begin impeachment proceedings against him. Can you join me by clicking the link below?

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Thanks!

More media spin on London Car Bombings...):?

U.K. attempts seen as model for future attacks

MSNBC

Assaults may be designed to cause panic more than loss of life

By Karen DeYoung

Updated: 2 hours ago

The next terrorist assault on the United States is likely to come through relatively unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks -- similar to those attempted in Britain over the weekend -- designed more to provoke widespread fear and panic than to cause major losses of life, U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials believe.

Full international coverage

Such attacks require minimal expertise and training and are difficult to prevent. Although British investigators have not claimed al-Qaeda involvement in the latest incidents, officials here said they may constitute a "hybrid" phenomenon, in which al-Qaeda inspires and guides local groups from afar but establishes no visible operational or logistical links.

The connection, several officials said, is made through a growing network of al-Qaeda intermediaries and affiliates who are far removed from the organization's leadership.

Prison Planet

Charlie Rose Video

MSNBC VIDEO

~The Nonrenewal of Venezuela's RCTV~

An interview with Venezuelan historian and political analyst Vladimir Acosta

Global Research, June 23, 2007

The nonrenewal of RCTV license is a revolutionary act because it touches the core of world power

Autor: Marcelo Colussi, 4 June, 2007

Traductor: Translated by Eufemia Zapata


The nonrenewal of RCTV license has caused widespread political repercussions both in Venezuela and worldwide. So far, it has sparked an unusual media stir that has given the right grounds to claim that the revolutionary government is a dictatorship where human rights are violated. Based on such claim, a huge campaign is being organized to request not only the renewal of RCTV license, but plainly and simply put the resignation of President Hugo Chávez.

To know all the details about what is at stake and what this decision entails, as well as the future perspectives on the issue, Argenpress’ correspondent in Caracas, Marcelo Colussi, interviewed Vladimir Acosta, Venezuelan historian and political analyst, one of the sharpest observers of the current Bolivarian process.

The revolution behind “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

Merle Travis and Thom Bresh

Lieberman Uses Foiled British Terror Plot To Push For Greater U.S. Domestic Spying

Well...Believe it or not Lie-berman is using the latest terrorist fiasco to call for increased domestic spying here in the US, and that the Senate Judiciary Commitee shouldn't be issuing subpoenas over such a petty issue.
Bring your barf bags because there is a video of this little #*%@$!

Think Progress

Posted by Faiz at 11:22 am

Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used the foiled terror attempts in London to call for greater domestic spying here in the United States. Lieberman said, “I hope these terrorist attacks in London wake us up here in America to stop the petty partisan fighting going on about…electronic surveillance,” in apparent reference to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subpoenas for documents related to Bush’s NSA warrantless wiretapping program.

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