Ronald Wieck's 911 skeptic show~starring Arthur Scheuerman

Well here it is folks, right out here in front of God and everybody. These nerds from the JREF blog have been very busy on the innertubes, even setting up web sites like the ones of Mark Roberts. Ronald Wieck claims that he can find no one from the Truth Movement (his term) that "has the stones" to accept an interview on his show. What a laugh. He probably doesn't have enough paper to send copies to all of the Architects, Engineers, Scientists, Generals in the military, Ex CIA men, etc. etc. I think the trick here is....you have to first be invited to accept...G:

They also showed up on Susie-Q's blog on the post Who is Arthur Scheuerman? Pomaroo & Gravy (the nerds in the video) in spite of their smug condemnation of what they call troofers and their proclamation that they can't get one to accept their invitation are indeed interviewing someone from Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, who is a member and holds a Fire Science Technology AAS Degree.

Pop up some popcorn, pull up a chair, enjoy the show

Open your mind, let down your hair, get in the know


9/11 Physics: "You Can't Use Common Sense"


They say everything changed on 9/11, and they sure weren't whistling Dixie! We all learned something about physics we would never have guessed.

Here is an early reference paper (pdf file) written originally on 9/13/01 called...

Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse ? - Simple Analysis

By Zdenek P. Bazant1, Fellow ASCE, and Yong Zhou2

Abstract: This paper3 presents a simplified approximate analysis of the overall collapse of the towers of World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. The analysis shows that if prolonged heating caused the majority of columns of a single floor to lose their load carrying capacity, the whole tower was doomed. The structural resistance is found to be an order of magnitude less than necessary for survival, even though the most optimistic simplifying assumptions are introduced.

This was used as reference in Arthur Scheuermans...

The Towers, Fire- Induced Collapse and the Building Codes Summary;

The Towers, Fire- Induced Collapse and the Building Codes Summary;
A preliminary interpretation of the evidence in the analysis of the cause of the large loss of life and collapse of the World Trade Center Towers & and recommended code changes to mitigate the chance of a recurrence, in high-rise office buildings.
July 17, 2003 Draft #13

By: Arthur Scheuerman, Battalion Chief FDNY (Ret.), Former Instructor Nassau County Fire
Training Academy and high-rise Fire Safety Director NYC.

Press Conference: Whats the delay on the replacement of Homeland Security Adviser?

White House press conference

Elaine.

Q Mr. President, you've stressed over and over in recent days particularly the importance of FISA reform to help keep America safe, and yet you have not yet filled a key national security post. Fran Townsend announced her resignation months ago, in November. What is the delay there, and what are Americans to make of that delay? Is America less safe because of it?

THE PRESIDENT: We got a fine man named Joel Bagnal working that office right now. He's a professional. I trust his judgment. He's a real good guy. And no, they shouldn't worry about Joel. He knows what he's doing.

John.

Q But, sir, the American --

THE PRESIDENT: John.

Q The Homeland Security Advisor is a key post. What's taking so long?

THE PRESIDENT: Joel Bagnal has occupied the position, Elaine. He's doing the job, and I've got confidence in him. And so should the American people have confidence in him. He's a fine professional. He knows what he's doing. And I'm very comfortable in saying, on your cameras, that our staff in the White House, led by Joel Bagnal, knows what they're doing when it comes to advising the President on matters of homeland security.

Well, Bu$h is right about one thing, this guy knows what he is doing, and he doesn't have an internet presence like Fran Townsend had. Mr. Bagnal came to the White House after serving as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Homeland Security Task Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense. Prior to this position, he served as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs of the United States Army from June 2000 to September 2001. He served as a Domestic Preparedness Officer from September 1999 to May 2000 training First Responders on weapons of mass destruction consequence management in the nation's largest cities. From August 1998 to August 1999, Mr. Bagnal served as Chief of Operations for Multinational Division North and Task Force Eagle in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Kosovo Air Campaign.


JOEL BAGNAL...He is at the bottom of the page on this link

Charlie Rose - An hour with William F. Buckley, Jr.

William F Buckley Jr: A retrospective...We take a look at the conversations we have had on this program, including the most recent one.


Fox News Version

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

William Buckley shakes President Bush's hand.

NEW YORK — William F. Buckley Jr., the erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald who showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House, died Wednesday. He was 82.

This is the media spin that is used by Bu$hco instead of a simple (Rest in Peace) to the most outspoken and eloquent representative of conservatism of our times.
Whether you are a Liberal, Conservative, or just a free thinker, he is a man to be admired and above all respected. Here is an artical that shows how popular Duhhbya is with defenders of Conservative thought. It was aired on CBS on July 22, 2006 and had two videos (now missing) of the interview where Buckley says that Bush is not a true conservative.

Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative

President Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative." And he continues to nurture his conservative base — even issuing his first veto this week against embryonic stem cell research.
But lately his foreign policy has come under fire from some conservatives — including the father of modern conservatism, William F. Buckley.
CBS Evening News Saturday anchor Thalia Assuras sat down for an exclusive interview with Buckley about his disagreements with President Bush.
Buckley's Stamford, Conn., home is a tranquil place that allows Buckley to think, write and spend time with his canine companion, Sebastian. "He's practically always with me," Buckley says.

Buckley finds himself parting ways with President Bush, whom he praises as a decisive leader but admonishes for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy.
In particular, Buckley views the three-and-a-half-year Iraq War as a failure.
"If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign," Buckley says.

Talking about the Straight Talk Express

Is there still a Republican party?

Opium big business in Afghanistan

Bill Moyers Journal

February 15, 2008

Recent official reports have touted many successes in Afghanistan, but the country still faces many problems. Back to back bombings in one week of February 2008 left over 140 dead — leading to calls from NATO leadership for troop increases. In addition, Afghanistan's government ranks high on indices of corruption and more and more Afghans are turning to opium production for money and the Taliban for security. According to the U.S. Department of State, "Afghanistan is the world's leading producer of illicit opiates."

For Sarah Chayes, who came to Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban as a reporter for National Public Radio, it's a frustrating turn of events. Chayes left NPR to stay and help rebuild the country, first working with Qayum Karzai, President Hamid Karzai's older brother to start Afghans for Civil Society, an organization designed to teach civics as a basis for sound economic development and later starting the Arghand Cooperative.


While Chayes agrees with many people that Afghanistan's hopes rest in part on its ability to develop some alternative to the poppy plant, she disagrees with many in the international aid community about the solution. Chayes notes that Afghan farmers are turning to opium not out of ideology or strong-arming by the Taliban, but as a business decision. As she explains to Bill Moyers on THE JOURNAL:

~VIDEO~

CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS EXPOSED

Ask the Reporter and Producer:

Exposé on Bill Moyers Journal

This week BILL MOYERS JOURNAL and the PBS series EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS offer a hard and fresh look at how earmarks really work. The broadcast profiles SEATTLE TIMES reporters on the trail of how members of Congress have awarded federal dollars for questionable purposes to companies in local Congressional districts—often to companies whose executives, employees or PACs have made campaign contributions to the legislators. The segment also focuses on how earmarks for some products were added to the defense appropriations bill even in cases in which the military didn’t want them in the first place. Example: a $4.65 million patrol boat the Coast Guard hadn’t even asked for and decided it couldn’t use was eventually given away by the Coast Guard to a California Sheriff’s office. David Heath of the SEATTLE TIMES says: “They're selling a product to the military that they're not even using.”

~VIDEO~

What 911 Truth skeptics ignore about Judy Wood

The cars shown in these pictures are setting in a car lot at a considerable distance from the event, yet some of them are toasted while others are hardly affected. Interestingly there is a line of sight between part of the parking lot, but some of it is in the shadow of WTC6, a 9 story building. It's like a heavy duty energy force was eminating from the direction of WTC1. This is just a small part of the weird stuff that went on that day, and there is plenty of documentation on Judy's site that should raise questions about EMF technology, Boing, and the military.

Parking lot from upper left of above picture

Some cars from the same parking lot. Note paper etc. that did not burn?

Behind WTC7 looking toward WTC1

This is from Judy Woods site: "WTC7 looks REALLY good here! (It's the building on the right, a block away from where the camera person is standing.) It looks like those could be body parts on the sidewalk (arm or leg?). I believe this is after WTC1 goes poof, but am not sure. I have pictures from the next block up, next to WTC7, and it didn't look nearly as bad as this! So, I'm thinking that this part of the street got toasted when they did WTC1 and the other one (posted on http://janedoe0911.tripod.com/StarWarsBeam5.html) was after WTC2 and before WTC1."

Could SAR (synthetic aperture radar) reveal 911 evidence?

NASA TO PROVIDE SHARPER UNDERGROUND VIEW OF WORLD TRADE CENTER AREA

SpatialNews Press Release

Aug 30, 2002 Feb 27, 2003

NASA will apply its image-processing expertise to enhance underground radar images of the area around the World Trade Center in New York, providing a clearer picture of what's beneath the surface.

"Our image-processing techniques will provide the first enhanced subsurface images of the area around 'ground zero,'" said Dr. Amir Fijany, principal scientist and supervisor for the Ultracomputing Technology Research Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. "Our goal is to pinpoint utility lines and improve the overall sharpness of the images."

Witten Technologies, Inc., of Boston, will supply JPL with underground images from lower Manhattan created with ground- penetrating imaging radar in surveys done for Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) in August 2001 and January 2002.

JPL has been conducting remote sensing and image processing of Earth and other planets for more than four decades. Fijany led a similar assignment in subsurface imaging to detect unexploded ordnance for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During this assignment, radar data collected by high-altitude airborne ground-penetrating synthetic aperture radar was used for subsurface imaging. Advanced image-processing techniques were then applied to the radar images.

The results from that work showed this type of remote sensing technology could detect very small features below the surface. Similar subsurface imaging technology will be applied to the images collected by Witten to enhance their overall quality.

The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.


Well, this was about five years ago and who knows if this study was completed or if the results now exist? But it would be really interesting to know if there have been any SAR images released of the World Trade Center after the disaster. Especially those using long wave lengths that in some cases can map all the way to bed rock. In the absence of evidence, most of which was either hauled away to the dump or smelted, the radar images could possibly contain some clues.

Development and Application of Small Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radars (1998)

The Committee on Earth Studies (CES) of the Space Studies Board is a standing committee charged with examining all areas of remote sensing of the Earth from space for civilian and related purposes. The charter includes the satellite-based Earth observation programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as the merged polar-orbiting environmental satellites of NOAA and the former Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. In 1995, at the request of NASA's Office of Earth Science (formerly Office of Mission to Planet Earth), the committee began a two-part study on issues related to the development and utility of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

The potential of SAR for Earth science commercial and civil applications is being advanced by several satellite systems, including Shuttle-based SAR flights (SIR [Shuttle Imaging Radar]-A, SIR-B, SIR-C/X-SAR1) and the European Space Agency's (ESA's) ERS-1 and ERS-2. Significant contributions are also being realized from Japan's JERS-1 and Canada's Radarsat. Future systems such as ESA's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) and Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) SAR-2 and Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR), an instrument proposed for the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), promise to add even more data and processing knowledge to the global pool of SAR experience (Table 1.1). Aircraft support data from NASA's AIRSAR, Germany's E-SAR, and the Netherlands' PHARUS, among others, are used to complement these space measurements but also have helped to advance general understanding of radar reflection from the ground. These airborne systems continue to validate earlier NASA and commercial airborne radar applications and to expand understanding of signal-terrain interactions.

Nevertheless, the development of satellite SAR systems has lagged behind electro-optical systems popularized by the Landsat program inaugurated in 1972. The Landsat paradigm reoriented the remote sensing community toward detection of temporal change and away from the 1960s paradigm of spectral analysis of landscapes. The inertia generated by more than a decade of such focus translates today into a nation whose familiarity with SAR data lags far behind its understanding of data sets derived from sensors operating in the visible near-infrared (VNIR) and thermal infrared (TIR) spectra. Data from all spectral regions, including the microwave region, produce unique and, in some cases, vital information for Earth system science. Determination of the potential information content, however, and means of extracting that information from SAR

McCain's blonde bombshell

Article from: Herald Sun

Stefanie Balogh

February 22, 2008 12:00am

REPUBLICAN John McCain has denied bombshell allegations romantically linking him to a female political lobbyist eight years ago.

Senator McCain yesterday described as a "smear campaign" a report in The New York Times that alleges during his first run for the White House he was allegedly involved with 40-year-old blonde Vicki Iseman.

His aides at the time were so convinced the relationship had become romantic they blocked the Washington lobbyist's access to Senator McCain, warned her to keep away and intervened to "protect the candidate from himself", the Times reported.

It anonymously quoted two of Senator McCain's former associates, who said they "joined in a series of confrontations" and warned him he was risking the 2000 campaign and his career.

"Both said Mr McCain acknowledged behaving inappropriately and pledged to keep his distance from Ms Iseman," the report said. The senator lost the 2000 nomination to George Bush.

Senator McCain, married to second wife Cindy McCain, and Ms Iseman denied they were ever romantically involved, or that Senator McCain had shown her or her telecommunications clients any favouritism when he chaired the powerful Senate commerce committee.

The Times had been sitting on the story for several weeks, and apparently chose not to run the expose before the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential nominating contests in January after intense lobbying from the McCain camp.

McCain Under Fire ~MSNBC VIDEO~
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Beer and Coke

Stephensville Texas UFO Sightings

Retired FDNY battalion chief Arthur Scheuerman slated for Feb. 26th on BBC's 911 Documentory

By Pomeroo

Hardfire News

17th January 2008

The BBC is planning a follow-up to the documentary on 9/11, concentrating on the collapse of WTC 7. The producer wants to use parts of a 'Hardfire' debate. I am planning to tape on February 26, and I assume that I will feature the redoubtable Mark Roberts and retired FDNY battalion chief Arthur Scheuerman for the rationalist sdie. As regulars here are aware, my search for fantasist opposition has proved fruitless. Jim Fetzer has volunteered for a rematch with Mark, and claims he can bring along an "expert" on WTC 7. Personally, I'm willing to go with Fetzer (maybe you'd prefer Les Jamieson--see what I mean?). Unlike every other prominent conspiracist, he doesn't get an attack of vapors whenever Mark's name is mentioned. Like soldiers for the Confederacy, he displays courage in the service of a bad cause.

To members of the fantasist community: If you don't feel comfortable with Jim Fetzer being presented as the face of your movement, then it's high time a new champion, someone with cajones, stepped up to the plate. No guts, no glory.

Hmm, most interesting that Pomeroo chooses Arthur Scheuerman for the rationalist side, yet calls Fetzer a conspiracy theorist. Arthur Scheuerman is listed as a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice as well as Dr. James Fetzer. I guess this speaks volumes for the 911 Truth Movement, who can be seen for exactly what they are. Unbiased seekers of the truth, but only indicates a lopsided discussion to me, unless maybe Pomeroo plans on bringing in a truth seeking ex General, and maybe an Architect or Engineer (hard to find?) who questions the NIST report.

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I hadn't heard of AFRICOM either

Rumble in the Jungle: The AFRICOM Boondoggle

Antiwar.com

December 15, 2007

by Werther

The government's assaults on our common sense, our wallets, and our dignity are becoming so numerous that one is hard pressed to keep up. The media pivot like a herd of wildebeests from one scandal to the other – from illegal wiretapping, to torture, to mercenaries, to saber rattling in the Persian Gulf, to $4 billion lost at Homeland Security, to $9 billion stolen in Iraq.

Amid such a blur of perfidy, major events that portend disaster in the future can slip by with barely a notice by the media, by Congress, or by the public at large. For example, does one voter in a hundred know that the Department of Defense has quietly activated a new regional military command? Just type in the acronym "AFRICOM" into a search box, and the reader will find a DOD website that presents the new United States Africa Command, in the same boosterish manner that Microsoft rolls out a new operating platform.

~MORE~


AFRICOM Commander and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Africa Policy Meet with Egyptian Military LeadershipDiscuss the importance of Egypt to the continent

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb 19, 2008 — General "Kip" Ward, commander of United States Africa Command, and Theresa Whalen, deputy assistant secretary of defense for U.S. Department of Defense policy in Africa, met February 17 with senior Egyptian leadership in the capital city to discuss the special relationship of Egypt with the developing command

AFRICOM Public Affairs Office

United States Africa Command, AFRICOM, is one of six of the Defense Department's regional military headquarters. When fully operational beginning October 2008, AFRICOM will have administrative responsibility for U.S. military support to U.S. government policy in Africa, to include military-to-military relationships with 53 African nations.

Commander: General William E. "Kip" Ward, United States Army
Deputy to the Commander for Military Operations:
Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller, United States Navy
Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities:
Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates, United States Department of State

Chain of Command: The commander of AFRICOM reports to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, who reports to the President of the United States. In individual countries, U.S. Ambassadors continue to be the President's personal representatives in diplomatic relations with host nations.

THE DEATH OF THE DOLLAR. 1

What don't you get about the 10,000,000 pages of the NIST Report?

Loose Change Debate 911 Program 1 Part 1




Loose Change Debate 911 Program 1 Part 2



Loose Change Debate 911 Program 1 Part 3




Loose Change Debate 911 Program 2 Part 1



Ronald Weick (aka Pomeroo...self proclaimed gubmint shill) and Mark Roberts are here to tell us that The NIST report is pretty much the bible when it comes to what really happened on 911. If you really want to have any credibility at all in an interview with Hardfire, then you had better damned well read it and understand everything about the 10,000,000 pages of explanations about how Fire in the Skyscraper brought down the World Trade Center.

In program 2 part 1 Pomaroo makes a little slip of the tongue, but I suppose that is to be expected from someone with so many facts spinning around in his head.

Ronald Weick: "Now we're going to pick off,uh, pick up from where we left a week ago"

He later says at 5:04 into the video...

Weick: "Mark has read all 10,000,000 pages of the NIST report" blah blah...

Mark Robertson: "I'm not exagerating I've actually read"...blah blah (garbled) "misconceptions about what's in that report and uh I think that's partly in due ahh due to the fact that people haven't really gotten (garbled) and are really intimidated by the 10,000,000 pages"...blah blah


Loose Change Debate 911 Program 2 Part 2



Loose Change Debate 911 Program 2 Part 3



Here's an interesting viewpoint for Mark Roberts to use
on his BBC interview that explains the whole collapse theory.

9/11 Physics: "You Can't Use Common Sense"

G: .....zzzzzzZZZZZ

Rep. Wexler Confronts Condoleezza Rice on Bush Administration's 935 Iraq War Lies

AlterNet

Posted by Matt Corley
Think Progress February 14, 2008.

Last month, the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism released a study finding that the Bush administration made "at least 935 false statements" preceding the invasion of Iraq. Condoleezza Rice, who served as National Security Adviser at the time, made 56 false statements.

During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) pressed Rice to explain the inconsistencies, asking "isn't it true that you had intelligence that cast doubt on your repeated claims?" "No, it's not true," replied Rice tersely.

Wexler then pointed out that Rice was lying when she said it was "not true" and that there had been "intelligence that cast doubt" on the administration's pre-war claims:

Bu$h saysNoose Displays "Deeply Offensive"

WASHINGTON (AP) Feb. 12. 2008

President Bush said Tuesday that recent displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that blacks have endured across the nation.

"The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history," Bush said at a black history month event at the White House, which began with serious comments about prejudice and ended with music performed by The Temptations.

"The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice," the president said. "Displaying one is not a harmless prank. Lynching is not a word to be mentioned in jest."

As a civil society, Americans should agree that noose displays and lynching jokes are "deeply offensive," Bush said. "They are wrong," the president said, referring to such displays and jokes. "And they have no place in America today."

George Duhbya Bu$h praised the Iraqis for giving fair trial.

Well, the thing that Bu$h is not talking about is the burning cross, which is the real symbol of racial inequality, and is associated with the KKK, an offshoot of the illuminate.

The Noose always has been a sore subject in my book, but has played a big part in bringing justice in the old West. It has not so much been a symbol of prejudice, as it has been for public display of the execution of notorious criminals of every color and stripe. Especially useful for doing away with criminal leaders who have done crimes against humanity.

Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator who spent his last years in captivity after his ruthless regime was toppled by the U.S.-led coalition in 2003, was hanged before dawn for crimes committed in a brutal crackdown during his reign.

So George Duhhbya Bu$h, probably, is offended by the sight of the noose, which has been used more than a few times to hang unpopular leaders in history, because it represents justice in a world where nothing else will work.

I've always wondered why? Pappy Bush & Bubba hung out together

Yep, thats George in the middle of the picture. This is how he makes his jumps.
They probably cover him up in bubble wrap before he hits the ground.

George H.W. Gets Jump on Bill Clinton, Tells Sarkozy: "Oui, mon fils est un idiot"

Huffington Post December 20, 2007

George HW Bush today began a world tour to tell people the US is again open for business and cooperation. Although Bill Clinton had planned to do this tour together with Bush in November, 2009, Bush decided to get a jump on the process, parachuting into Paris.

HW said that he had been miffed ever since George W. told Woodward that he only appealed to a higher father. "Well, when you saw me in the parachute --that's the highest father that's ever done anything for him. And, believe me, he needed a lot of help...When he prayed to get into prep school, then into college, then into the National Guard to avoid combat service, then into business school, then into the oil business, then getting out of the oil business leaving others to suffer financial loss, then into the Texas Rangers organization, I am here to tell you that I was the father that did all of that for him."

I've always wondered why Pappy Bu$h & Bill Clinton were hanging out together doing humanitarian projects and being portrayed as good guys on the cover of Time magazine. Well, it's becoming a little clearer to me now, as they have known each other for a long time, going back to when Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas.


Compromised is the true story of Bill Clinton’s political sell-out to the CIA. Clinton’s unbridled political ambitions and his campaign pledge to create "jobs for Arkansans" led him to compromise his ideals in exchange for CIA support in his bid for the Presidency. He permitted the "Agency" to use Arkansas factories to make untraceable weapons and he allowed CIA contract agents to train Contra pilots on rural airstrips in support of the war in Nicaragua – effectively evading the Congressional ban on military aid to the Contras. This expose unfolds through the eyewitness account of Terry Reed, a former CIA asset whose patriotism transformed him into a liability when he refused to turn a blind eye to the Agency’s drug trafficking. While helping the CIA set up its secret "black" operations, he unwittingly compromised his family’s safety, ultimately forcing them to become fugitives. Realizing that Reed witnessed the making of a counterfeit President and knew too much about its drug operations, the Agency set out to destroy him and his family. This Arkansas-CIA connection became Clinton’s darkest secret – a secret he shared by then Vice-President Bush, who himself was compromised by his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. Their shared guilt kept them silent and tied their hands as they faced off in the 1992 Presidential election with neither mentioning Iran-Contra. The Justice Departments of Reagan, Bush – and now Clinton – have orchestrated an ongoing cover-up of the Arkansas-CIA connection, which has gone undetected for eight years with Bill Clinton its major beneficiary. Clinton's reward for this Faustian pact? The White House. Reed puts Clinton directly in the "Iran-Contra loop". Both attended a secret meeting where CIA arms arrangements, illegal Contra training and money laundering were discussed. Involved with Clinton in this cabal were Colonel Oliver North, William Barr (George Bush’s attorney general), Felix Rodriguez (Bay of Pigs veteran and George Bush’s CIA contact) and CIA contract agent Barry Seal, who used the cover of a high-profile drug trafficker to carry out his missions. "Compromised" reveals the details and names of all who were involved, including these faceless power brokers now in positions of public prominence in Washington, D.C. When the CIA learned Reed had more patriotism than they bargained for, forces within President Bush’s Justice Department, the CIA and the State of Arkansas decided he had to be neutralized. People close to Clinton conspired to set Reed up on false federal criminal charges, forcing him and his family into hiding. But Reed was acquitted, and now wages a one-man legal war to bring those who framed him to justice. Found innocent by a court of law, Reed was then convicted by TIME Magazine, which aligned itself with a Clinton campaign consumed with protecting its candidate from scandals. Why did Terry Reed, who performed intelligence services for the US Air Force, FBI, and CIA, come forward with these revelations now? – to set the record straight and to clear his name. "Compromised" reveals one of the most clandestine operations in recent U.S. history. It also offers behind-the-scenes insights into the sordid world of intelligence, where things are seldom what they seem and powerful people disguise greed and ambition behind the convenient mask of national security.



Clinton, Bush and the CIA, (NY: S.P.I. Books, 1994), that Barry Seal made deposits of cash from the Mena drug operation directly to Lasater & Co. Reed also says that Lasater introduced Seal to him once as a client of his, although Lasater's attorney denies the charge. This drug money laundering was in addition to services ADFA was providing to channel large amounts of cash to POM and other companies. Former ADFA marketing director Larry Nichols claims that no one was actually buying these bonds, that they were instead sold to out-of-state banks, two with connections to BCCI. The losses from these junk bonds were then mixed into the vortex of vanishing money in the S&L crisis.[14]
Nichols and other witnesses state that ADFA used BCCI branches in Florida and Georgia, as well as Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago. That bank is partially owned by indicted congressman Dan Rostenkowsi.[15] Other shady deals known to be made by the ADFA included the transfer of $50 million into Fuji Bank in the Caymen Islands and using a trading account belonging to Dennis Patrick to move another $50 million in junk bonds.[16]
Awash in drug money and good connections, Lasater became a heavy user of cocaine. The noose tightened when his friend Roger Clinton, who was then working as Lasater's driver, came under scrutiny by narcotics police. Lasater sent him to his Florida horse-farm to lie low, but to no avail. The pair were eventually arrested and indicted on drug charges.
Lasater was charged with "social distribution" of drugs and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. He served only six months, until Governor Clinton pardoned him. (Lasater is now back in Little Rock and still active in business. His aptly-named Phoenix Corporation has been bidding on assets being sold off by the Resolution Trust Company. Some of these very S&Ls collapsed precisely because of Lasater & Co.'s illegal bond trading.)

“The Free Trade Area of The Americas.”

An interesting clip from the John Birch Society’s 2004 video 2004 video: “The Free Trade Area of The Americas.” where Dick Cheney, former director of CFR, talks to David Rockefeller.

Free Trade Area of the Americas

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce the trade barriers among all countries in the Americas. In the latest round of negotiations, trade ministers from 34 nations met in Miami, United States, in November 2003 to discuss the proposal. The proposed agreement was an extension of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Against the market are positioned Cuba, Venezuela and later Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, which entered the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas in response.

Know your candidate's views on the North American Union

This information compliments of Know Your Rino

Estimates suggest that around 70-80% of Americans want our borders secured, and likely even higher percentages within the Republican party.

While this topic seems to baffle most members of Bush's own party, and has radio talk show hosts making up creative explanations, it is really very simple . . .once you understand his "Broader Agenda.

This plan was created by a New York political think-tank called THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR). If surrendering some of our sovereigntyfor the creation of a"European Union" style government in North America sounds good to you,
consider voting for any of the following Presidential Candidates.

They are all members or affiliates* of the CFR that drafted this plan!

Fred Thompson
Rudy Giuliani
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Jim Gilmore
Mike Huckabee
Michael Bloomberg
Newt Gingrich
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
Joe Biden
Chris Dodd
Bill Richardson
Mike Huckabee
Michael Bloomberg

Who Opposes the CFR?

RON PAUL

Scotland Yard: Bhutto killed by bomb, not bullet

What with the upcoming elections in Pakistan on Feb. 18th the time honored institution has came up with an astounding conclusion for the Bhutto murder investigation. Who's to say that there is a cover-up going on when the reputation of people like Sherlock Holmes is on the line?

Benazir Bhutto at the moment of Death



Bhutto report stirs political hornets' nest

British detectives have earned little gratitude in Pakistan for their report into the death of Benazir Bhutto, writes Declan Walsh

Declan Walsh in Lahore
Friday February 8, 2008
Guardian Unlimited

Today's keenly awaited Scotland Yard report casts some clarity on the manner of Benazir Bhutto's death but does nothing to answer the more essential question: who ordered the assassination?

The narrowness of the British findings come as no surprise: under the terms of reference agreed by both governments the detectives were working in an investigative straitjacket.

And as they fly home in the coming days the British detectives may find their toil has earned them little gratitude in Pakistan and has instead stirred a political hornets' nest in which they stand accused of lending credibility to a controversial investigation.

The recriminations erupted within minutes of the publication of the report when Bhutto's party issued an immediate rejection. Their leader died from a bullet, a spokesman said, and not a bomb blast as the British detectives claimed.

The controversy injects a fresh element into a political arena already pumped with trauma after Bhutto's death, anger at Musharraf, and a generous dose of conspiracy theories.

"This report does little else other than compromise the credibility of Scotland Yard," said Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch.

Fear grips Pakistan as election approaches

CNN February 7, 2008

The parliamentary elections in Pakistan are scheduled for February 18, less than two weeks away. But attendance at rallies has plummeted. People openly admit fear is keeping then from participating. And politicians voice concern about their own safety.

"It is of paramount importance that the political leadership is sensitized about the looming threat and asked to adopt a security conscious approach," said Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry.

His advice to political leaders: Avoid unnecessary public exposure.

Since Bhutto's death, political leaders have heeded the suggestion, albeit reluctantly.

Rallies and marches that normally draw tens of thousands of supporters -- once a staple of Pakistani politics -- have all but disappeared.

In this climate, voters turn to Pakistan's media to fill the void. But freedom of expression has become another casualty of the permeating fear.

"Anything seen to be critical of the government [is] likely to land the channel in trouble," said Talat Hussein, an anchor for private television channel Aaj TV.

Aaj and other stations were yanked off the air when President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule last year. The government later allowed them to resume broadcast but only after they agreed to a mandatory code of conduct. Among other stipulations, the stations are now banned from live broadcasts -- political or not.

Late Wednesday, Hussein's show was again indefinitely pulled off the air after it aired a segment on Bhutto's assassination.

Bu$h & Bu$h Lite on video one month ago...

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001

Credit for this informative information goes to...911Truth.org



THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001: PROF. PAUL ZAREMBKA (SUNY Buffalo)

On August 9, 2007 at Chautauqua Institution, Paul Zarembka confronted Philip Zelikow. exec. director of the official 9/11 investigation, with a couple of uncensored questions. Professor Zarembka had done his homework. He is the editor of The Hidden History of 9-11-2001. In this video, Zarembka outlines the book's chapters: What we now know about the 9-11 hijackers (Jay Kolar); Initiation of the 9-11 operation, with evidence of insider trading beforehand (Zarembka); The destruction of the World Trade Center: why the official account can't be true (David Ray Griffin); The military drills on 9-11: bizarre coincidence or something else? (Four Arrows aka Don Jacobs); Terrorism and Statecraft: Al-Qaeda and western covert operations after the Cold War (Nafeez Mossaddeq Ahmed); September 11 as Machiavellian State Terror (David MacGregor); Making History: the compromised 9-11 Commission (Bryan Sacks); Islamophobia and the War on Terror: the continuing pretext for US imperial conquest (Diana Ralph). Filmed Aug 9, 2007, Chautauqua, NY by snowshoefilms and Chautauqua Books.

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Willie Nelson on 9/11



Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded On 9/11

American icon tells Alex Jones Show he questions official story

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, February 4th, 2008


Straight talking American icon Willie Nelson today told a national radio show that he thought the twin towers were imploded like condemned Las Vegas casino buildings, as the country music superstar forcefully voiced his doubts about the official 9/11 story.

Agreeing with host Alex Jones that he questioned the official story, Nelson elaborated, "I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas - there's too much similarities between the two, and I saw a building fall that didn't get hit by nothing," added Nelson, referring to WTC Building 7 which collapsed in the late afternoon of September 11

Wall Street: Where does it go from here?

CNNMoney.com

Stocks tank after an economic report and comments from a Fed official amplify recession panic. Dow loses 370 points.

By Alexandra Twin, CNNMoney.com senior writer
February 5 2008: 5:40 PM EST

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks tanked Tuesday, after a report showing a big slowdown in the services sector of the economy and cautionary comments from a Fed president amplified fears that a recession is underway or imminent.

The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost about 370 points, seeing its worst one-day point loss since mid-October. The decline equaled a drop of 2.9%.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) index lost 44 points, its worst single-day point loss in almost 6 months. The decline equaled a drop of 3.2%.

The Nasdaq composite (COMP) fell 73 points and saw its worst single-day point loss since mid-October. The decline equaled a drop of 2.6%.

"The pebble in the pond this morning was the ISM report and then the comments from [Fed President] Lacker came out and that kind of pushed people over the edge," said Kim Caughey, senior equity analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Partners.

"This is a very volatile time, everyone is nervous and the volatility shows the degree of nervousness," Caughey added.

Stocks tumbled in January, with the Nasdaq seeing its worst start to the year ever, on fears that the credit and housing market crises will send the economy into recession, if it isn't there already.

Americana Dreaming

Burning Man 2008

2008 ART THEME: AMERICAN DREAM

This year's art theme is about nationality, identity and the nature of patriotism. One species of the patriotic urge conflates the nation state with mass identity. Governments, as actors on a worldwide stage, become a surrogate for self, a vast projection of collective ego. And yet, there is another type of patriotic feeling that attaches us to place and people, to a home and its culture. Both these feeling states (and their attendant ironies) are relevant to this year's theme.

In 2008, leave narrow and exclusive ideologies at home; forget the blue states and the red; let parties, factions and divisive issues fall away, and carefully consider your immediate experience. What has America achieved that you admire? What has it done or failed to do that fills you with dismay? What is laudatory? What is ludicrous? Put blame aside, let humor thrive, and dare to contemplate a larger question: What can America, this stumbling, roused, half-conscious giant, still contribute to the world?

Cyber-Warfare = Will China Elect US President?

Hat tip to Betmo for sending this kewl article from BlueBloggin

In May 2001, Chinese launched their Hack the USA campaign.

Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by bosskitty

Now its 2008, Web sites in China are being used heavily to target computer networks in the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies, successfully breaching hundreds of unclassified networks, according to several U.S. officials. Intel Brief by Rachel F Kesselman for ISN Security Watch tracks the Cyber-War timeline.

The scope of this thing is surprisingly big,” said one of four government officials who spoke separately about the incidents, which stretch back as far as two or three years and have been code-named Titan Rain by U.S. investigators.

Online Systems From Hackers, Spies And Terrorists Computer systems, vital to national defense, are under a growing assault from Internet hackers, cyber terrorists and foreign spies looking to steal secrets and disrupt government operations.

“All around the country, there are literally thousands of attacks every day,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. DHS, Departments of State and Commerce and DOD computer networks have already been compromised.

But, what about all the computers used for election purposes?

Continued

Meltdown of US Banks is due to Bu$hco

American Dream Downpayment Act of 2003

Expanding Homeownership Opportunities for All Americans

On December 16, 2003, President Bush signed into law the American Dream Downpayment Act of 2003, which will help approximately 40,000 families a year with their down payment and closing costs, and further strengthen America’s housing market. This legislation complements the President’s aggressive housing agenda announced in 2002 to dismantle the barriers to homeownership.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Census Bureau released data showing that new home construction in November reached its highest level in nearly 20 years. Overall housing starts rose 4.5 percent from October and rose 17.6 percent from November of 2002. Single-family housing starts totaled 1,695,000 (SAAR) in November, up 3.3 percent from October and up 20.8 percent from November 2002 – a record for single-family starts.

The strong housing market is beneficial for communities across the Nation. America’s families have been refinancing due to the lowest mortgage rates in 45 years, saving hundreds of dollars a month on their home payments. The U.S. homeownership rate was 68.4% in the third quarter—its highest level ever.


Source: Whitehouse.gov

Hat tip to Billybobjoe

GOOGLE: The Columbia River Security Risk

How the datacenter boom in Oregon could send Google and the NSA offline simultaneously.

June 25, 2007

What Google tried to keep secret for most of 2006, the NSA had known for decades: the Columbia River Valley is the perfect place to crunch high volumes of data.

Back in the 90s, the forward-thinking taxpayers of Oregon built an $11 million datacenter in the city of Quincy, population 85,000, along the banks of the Columbia River, where a number of hydroelectric dams generate lots of cheap, clean, renewable energy, but the dot-com bubble burst before the investment was put to good use. So it sat there mostly empty until Yahoo rented some of its space. Then, in 2006, Google began its super-secret data center construction in nearby The Dalles, population 12,000, to take advantage of the preinstalled fiber optic infrastructure and cheap power within the same geographic region as its northern California headquarters.

Soon, other big Internet companies headquartered in the Northwest – Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask and Intuit, for starters – began to relocate their data centers to the Columbia River Basin. In early 2006, the Associated Press also revealed that the NSA, the national eavesdropping agency, had its own facility on the Columbia River in neighboring Washington State on the Army’s gigantic Yakima Training Center. NSA’s Yakima facility, along with its sister installation in Sugar Grove, W. Va., operate within a surveillance network called Echelon, that includes America, the UK, and the remnants of the British Empire: Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

But has the bottleneck in datacenters in one centralized spot caused a security risk that could risk the health of the Internet as we know it? Could a terrorist strike on a brick-and-mortar facility or its geological surroundings send Google and the NSA offline simultaneously?

It seems unlikely, but the region’s two precious commodities would be the most likely targets: the fiber-optic infrastructure, which connects all those giant datacenters with end users around the world; and the series of massive hydroelectric dams that provide the Columbia River datacenters with the cheap power they need.

Google’s 650,000-core warehouse-size computer

ZDNET

October 23rd, 2007

Posted by Robin Harris @ 12:42 pm

My quad-core tower suddenly feels wimpy
What does it take to power the world’s most popular search engine? Lots of CPU cycles. Which is just what Google’s new data centers provide. No one is talking, thanks to Google’s tight NDA policy, but with satellite imagery and some deft estimation we can figure it out.

Powering a warehouse-sized computer?
OK, how big is a warehouse-sized computer? Google wrote a paper about it (see Google’s warehouse-size power problem), but they were vague on details like the number of processors.


Take Google’s new data center on the banks of the Columbia river in The Dalles, Oregon. The area had been hurting since the aluminum smelters shut down after power went over $30 per megawatt. Pricing is complex, but it looks to be about $45/mw today.

If that sounds cheaper than what you pay, it is. A lot cheaper. That’s why Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are building data centers in the hydropower-rich Columbia river basin. The world’s best windsurfing is just a bonus.

GOOGLE: The Columbia River Security Risk

How the datacenter boom in Oregon could send Google and the NSA offline simultaneously.

on June 25, 2007

What Google tried to keep secret for most of 2006, the NSA had known for decades: the Columbia River Valley is the perfect place to crunch high volumes of data.

Back in the 90s, the forward-thinking taxpayers of Oregon built an $11 million datacenter in the city of Quincy, population 85,000, along the banks of the Columbia River, where a number of hydroelectric dams generate lots of cheap, clean, renewable energy, but the dot-com bubble burst before the investment was put to good use. So it sat there mostly empty until Yahoo rented some of its space. Then, in 2006, Google began its super-secret data center construction in nearby The Dalles, population 12,000, to take advantage of the preinstalled fiber optic infrastructure and cheap power within the same geographic region as its northern California headquarters.

Soon, other big Internet companies headquartered in the Northwest – Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask and Intuit, for starters – began to relocate their data centers to the Columbia River Basin. In early 2006, the Associated Press also revealed that the NSA, the national eavesdropping agency, had its own facility on the Columbia River in neighboring Washington State on the Army’s gigantic Yakima Training Center. NSA’s Yakima facility, along with its sister installation in Sugar Grove, W. Va., operate within a surveillance network called Echelon, that includes America, the UK, and the remnants of the British Empire: Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

But has the bottleneck in datacenters in one centralized spot caused a security risk that could risk the health of the Internet as we know it? Could a terrorist strike on a brick-and-mortar facility or its geological surroundings send Google and the NSA offline simultaneously?

It seems unlikely, but the region’s two precious commodities would be the most likely targets: the fiber-optic infrastructure, which connects all those giant datacenters with end users around the world; and the series of massive hydroelectric dams that provide the Columbia River datacenters with the cheap power they need.

Microsoft and Yahoo's shotgun marriage

If Yahoo agrees to the deal with Microsoft, it will be a shotgun marriage, but it will be Google holding the shotgun

Is this Bill Gates' last big throw?

Tim Weber - Friday, 1 February 2008
Business editor, BBC News website

Microsoft's proposal to buy internet veteran Yahoo for a whopping $44.6bn (£22.4bn) certainly grabs the attention.

But does it make business sense?

In a way this won't be the Microsoft founder's problem. This summer Mr Gates will leave the company to work full-time on fighting global poverty and diseases like Aids, Malaria and TB.

But the Microsoft managers who have to make it work will be asked whether this is a case of one failing giant trying to prop up another.

The Google factor

Yahoo has been on the ropes for a long time.

Once the top dog of the internet, the company has been haemorrhaging users and money. With advertising income not anywhere near where it should be, Yahoo's share price is stuck in the doldrums.

Last June Yahoo's board chucked out chief executive Terry Semel and brought back co-founder Jerry Yang to recapture the firm's dominance - to little avail.

One word explains all of Yahoo's troubles: Google. While Yahoo invested in content to lure its audience, the search engine rival simply focused on delivering what users really wanted: good search results.