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CONGRESSIONAL ANTIAMERICANISM INVESTIGATIONS?

2008-10-19T02:29:00.001-04:00

The whole enchilada..........

Katrina Vanden Heuvel Responds to Bachman's Call for McCarthy like Investigation of Members of Congress

2008-10-19T02:26:00.001-04:00

Bachman[R-MN]I've had to listen to this McCarthyesque vision from a GD jr. Rep.!
The damning of others to allow your "Party" to condemn an entireity of another Party is the occupant @ 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue dreams of sugarplums.
You must hear this Michelle Bachman and look at her, that F$$KING smirk! The GOP and that damned smirk, WTF is wrong with that lot? Issa, Trent Frank, Lufgren, Poe, sick sick sick psychotic word abusers. They will be responsible for the death(s)of someone, one must take care with words.
I am too sickened...

First Amendment, WE DON't NEED NO STEENKIN' FIRST AMENDMENT!!!!

2008-10-18T13:39:00.009-04:00

Md. Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists
Surveillance's Reach Revealed By Lisa Rein Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 8, 2008;
A01The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists asterrorists and entered their names and personal information into stateand federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state policechief acknowledged yesterday.Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislativehearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents of thedeath penalty and the Iraq war, was far more extensive than was knownwhen its existence was disclosed in July.The department started sending letters of notification Saturday to theactivists, inviting them to review their files before they are purgedfrom the databases, Sheridan said."The names don't belong in there," he told the Senate JudicialProceedings Committee. "It's as simple as that."The surveillance took place over 14 months in 2005 and 2006, under theadministration of former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R). The formerstate police superintendent who authorized the operation, Thomas E.Hutchins, defended the program in testimony yesterday. Hutchins said theprogram was a bulwark against potential violence and called theactivists "fringe people."Sheridan said protest groups were also entered as terroristorganizations in the databases, but his staff has not identified which ones.Stunned senators pressed Sheridan to apologize to the activists for thespying, assailed in an independent review last week as "overreaching" bylaw enforcement officials who were oblivious to their violation of theactivists' rights of free expression and association. The letter,obtained by The Washington Post, does not apologize but admits that thestate police have "no evidence whatsoever of any involvement in violentcrime" by those classified as terrorists.Hutchins told the committee it was not accurate to describe the programas spying. "I doubt anyone who has used that term has ever met a spy,"he told the committee."What John Walker did is spying," Hutchins said, referring to JohnWalker Jr., a communications specialist for the U.S. Navy convicted ofselling secrets to the Soviet Union. Hutchins said the intelligenceagents, whose logs were obtained by the American Civil Liberties Unionof Maryland as part of a lawsuit, were monitoring "open publicmeetings." His officers sought a "situational awareness" of thepotential for disruption as death penalty opponents prepared to protestthe executions of two men on death row, Hutchins said."I don't believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wishto disrupt the government," he said. Hutchins said he did not notifyEhrlich about the surveillance. Ehrlich spokesman Henry Fawell said thegovernor had no comment.Hutchins did not name the commander in the Division of Homeland Securityand Intelligence who informed him in March 2005 that the surveillancehad begun. More than a year later, after "they said, 'We're not gettingmuch here,' " Hutchins said he cut off what he called a "low-leveloperation."But Sen. James Brochin (D-Baltimore County) noted that undercovertroopers used aliases to infiltrate organizational meetings, rallies andgroup e-mail lists. He called the spying a "deliberate infiltration tofind out every piece of information necessary" on groups such as theMaryland Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the Baltimore Pledge ofResistance. When Hutchins called their members "fringe people," theaudience of activists who filled the seats in the hearing room inAnnapolis sighed.Some activists said yesterday that they have received letters; otherssaid they were waiting with anticipation to see whether they were on thestate police watch list.Laura Lising of Catonsville, a member of the Baltimore Coalition Againstthe Death Penalty, received her notification yesterday. She said shewants a hard copy of her file, because she does not trust the police topurge it. "We need as much protection as possible," she said.Both Hutchins and Sheridan said the activists' names were entered intothe state police database as terrorists partly because the softwareoffered limited options for classifying entries.The police also entered the activists' names into the federalWashington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database,which tracks suspected terrorists. One well-known antiwar activist fromBaltimore, Max Obuszewski, was singled out in the intelligence logsreleased by the ACLU, which described a "primary crime" of"terrorism-anti-government" and a "secondary crime" of"terrorism-anti-war protesters."Sheridan said that he did not think the names were circulated to otheragencies in the federal system and that they are not on the federalgovernment's terrorist watch list. Hutchins said some names might havebeen shared with the National Security Agency.Although the independent report on the surveillance released last weeksaid that it was part of a broad effort by the state police to gatherinformation on protest groups across the state, Sheridan said thedepartment is not aware of any surveillance as "intrusive" as the spyingon death penalty and war opponents.The police notified the protesters at the recommendation of former U.S.attorney and state attorney general Stephen H. Sachs, who was appointedby Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) to review the covert monitoring. In a reportlast week, Sachs also recommended regulations that forbid such spying onprotest groups unless the state police chief believes it is justified."I can't imagine getting a letter that says, 'You've been classified asa terrorist; come in and we'll tell about it,'" said Sen. Bryan W.Simonaire (R-Anne Arundel). Two senators noted that they had beenarrested years ago for civil disobedience. Sen. Jennie Forehand(D-Montgomery) asked Sheridan, "Do you have any legislators on yourlist?" The answer was no.__._,_.___

Hofstra Univ: 3 injured, 15 arrested (Part 10 of Twelve)

2008-10-18T12:07:00.001-04:00

IVAW trying to get 2 members admitted to the final Presidential Debate to ask 1 question. They were beaten bloody, knocked out, arrested, because this is how WE treat our VETERANS. Way to go McCain, POW yeah, OBAMA!!!@!

Nir Rosen on Afghanistan from Democracy NOW!

2008-10-18T11:56:00.001-04:00

Amy Goodmans interview with Nir Rosen, after he ws IMbedded[not EMbedded]with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban are in the daylight, without any fear of US Troops.
Assasinations in the open, in the daylight regardless of any US presence. They are no longer afraid to react in the way Taliban approves of, there is zero human rights, beatings, drug dealing, which I could care less about, the poppy can eliminate much pain, yet Nir says as much as we in the pro-peace, grassroots, truth knowing groups are already aware of, US Troop increase and/or presence will inflame this situation.
Please listen to Amy in her words, Nir in his to understand what is TRUTH.
Peace

Liars, Torturers, Executive Over Reach, Fascist States!

2008-10-10T01:11:00.008-04:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainee_treatment/

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Hate Crimes Against Muslims in Ohio NOT a Hate Crime, so say the Police!

2008-10-01T00:43:00.005-04:00

Police: Gassing of Mosque in Ohio Was Not a Biased Crime
Police in Dayton, Ohio said no hate crime was committed when two men sprayed a gas inside a mosque filled with over 300 Muslims. On Friday night, two men reportedly approached a window at the mosque and began spraying a chemical irritant. A ten-year-old girl was sprayed in the face. According to a police report, the girl said she immediately felt burning on her face and felt “sick to her stomach.” Other children and a woman felt effects from the chemical, and the mosque had to be evacuated. On Monday, Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl said no hate crime was committed. He said, "The men didn’t say anything to her. There was nothing left at the scene or anything that makes us believe this is a biased crime.”

From the blog of Democracy NOW!

Why is this not a hate crime? Because of this McCain/Palin ticket terrorizing all of the good Christian folk? Allowing them to continue their anti-Islam speeches, all the while the good ol' boys and gals hoot up their hate index, creating an environment for violence against Muslims, again and again? Were it so, but it is not, liars the both of the folksy folks. Anyone that casts their vote for these two hateful, fearmongering persons deserves all of the atrocities they will welcome you with.

Deployment of Active Army Unit within the USA, Why, what are the REAL REASONS??

2008-09-23T14:30:00.004-04:00

Were the arrests and other police violence at the RNC a sign of things to come? Will we see another Kent State massacre?

From Democracy Now today (9/22/08)
Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations
Beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is training for domestic operations. The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control. The soldiers are learning to use so-called nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds.

THE BATTLLE FOR FALLUJAH-illegal White Phosphorus munitions

2008-09-22T17:09:00.003-04:00

Contained in this link is a PDF for Army Field Manual Pages 24-30, on page 26 is the proof. This is no longer in print. I wonder why, hmmmm. This is where Veterans Against Torture has it.

According To Our Source, [John Doe]USAF Col. Retired

2008-09-22T13:19:00.003-04:00

The Iranian news agency is reporting that last night in a clash with Jundollah a general and three other members of 'security' forces were killed. The fighting took place in the Sistan-Baluchistan province of Iran. Jundollah is a US supported group that operates out of Pakistan.

Compared to the other groups the US supports, Jundollah is particularly ruthless. Their pattern is to leave behind in Iran a DVD of some brutal act. I've seen one of these that came from Iranian intelligence. The video shows a Revolutionary Guard soldier on his knees being shot in the head with an AK-47. My source would not show me the other video also left behind which shows the beheading of a Revolutionary Guard soldier.

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I cannot reveal our source without his permission, I would not allow this to be publicized if it were not a reputable, trusted person whom knows what he/her speaks.
Check the Islamic Republic of Iran's Website, it allows an English version albeit if you don't speak Persian it may not be available.

Fwd: [vfp-all] Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq

2008-09-22T12:38:00.016-04:00

Satellite images show ethnic cleanout in Iraq

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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

The images support the view of international refugee organizations and Iraq experts that a major population shift was a key factor in the decline in sectarian violence, particularly in the Iraqi capital, the epicenter of the bloodletting in which hundreds of thousands were killed.

Minority Sunni Arabs were driven out of many neighborhoods by Shi'ite militants enraged by the bombing of the Samarra mosque in February 2006. The bombing, blamed on the Sunni militant group al Qaeda, sparked a wave of sectarian violence.

"By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left," geography professor John Agnew of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study, said in a statement.

"Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning," said Agnew, who studies ethnic conflict.

Some 2 million Iraqis are displaced within Iraq, while 2 million more have sought refuge in neighboring Syria and Jordan. Previously religiously mixed neighborhoods of Baghdad became homogenized Sunni or Shi'ite Muslim enclaves.

The study, published in the journal Environment and Planning A, provides more evidence of ethnic conflict in Iraq, which peaked just before U.S. President George W. Bush ordered the deployment of about 30,000 extra U.S. troops.

The extent to which the troop build-up helped halt Iraq's slide into sectarian civil war has been debated, particularly in the United States, with supporters of the surge saying it was the main contributing factor, and others arguing it was simply one of a number of factors.

"Our findings suggest that the surge has had no observable effect, except insofar as it has helped to provide a seal of approval for a process of ethno-sectarian neighborhood homogenization that is now largely achieved," Agnew's team wrote in their report.

Agnew's team used publicly available infrared night imagery from a weather satellite operated by the U.S. Air Force.

"The overall night light signature of Baghdad since the U.S. invasion appears to have increased between 2003 and 2006 and then declined dramatically from 20 March 2006 through 16 December 2007," their report said.

They said the night lights of Shi'ite-dominated Sadr City remained constant, as did lights in the Green Zone government and diplomatic compound in central Baghdad. Lights increased in the eastern New Baghdad district, another Shi'ite enclave.

Satellite studies have also been used to help document forced relocations in Myanmar and ethnic cleansing in Uganda.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1953066020080919

WTF???? Naomi Klein HELP!!!

2008-09-21T19:13:00.008-04:00

Ming the Mechanic: The unknown 20 trillion dollar companyThe NewsLog of Flemming Funch
The unknown 20 trillion dollar company
2003-10-30 17:3727 comments
by Flemming FunchThere is a busy little private company you probably never have heard about, but which you should. Its name is the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. See their website. Looks pretty boring. Some kind of financial service thing, with a positive slogan and out there to make a little business. You can even get a job there. Now, go and take a look at their annual report. Starts with a nice litte Flash presentation and has a nice message from the CEO. And take a look at the numbers. It turns out that this company holds 23 trillion dollars in assets, and had 917 trillion dollars worth of transactions in 2002. That's trillions, as in thousands of thousands of millions. 23,000,000,000,000 dollars in assets. As it so turns out, it is not because DTCC has a nice website and says good things about saving their customers money that they are trusted with that kind of resources. Rather it is because they seem to have a monopoly on what they do. In brief, they process the vast majority of all stock transactions in the United States as well as for many other countries. And - and that's the real interesting part - 99% of all stocks in the U.S. appear to be legally owned by them. In the old days, when you owned stocks you would have the stock certificates lying in your safe. And if you needed to trade them, you needed to get them shipped off to a broker. Nowadays that would be considered very cumbersome, and it would be impractical to invest via computer or over the phone. So the shortcut was invented that the broker would hold your stocks instead of you. And in order for him to legally be able to trade them for you, the stocks were placed under their "street name". I.e. they're in the name of the brokerage, but they're just holding them in trust and trading them for you. And you're in reality the beneficiary rather than the owner. Which is all fine and dandy if everything goes right. Now, it appears the rules were then changed so the brokers are not allowed any longer to put the stocks in their own name. Instead, what they typically do is to put the stocks into the name of "Cede and Company" or "Cede & Co" or some such variation. And the broker might tell you that it is just a fictitious name, and will explain why it is really more practical to do that than to put it in your name. The problem with that is that it appears that Cede isn't just some dummy name, but an actual corporation that DTCC controls. And, well, if you ask anybody about this, who actually knows about it, they will naturally tell you that it is all a formality. To serve you better, of course. And, well, maybe it is. DTCC seems like a nice and friendly company. It is a private company, owned by the same people (major U.S. banks) who own the Federal Reserve Bank. And if they all stick to their job, and just keep the money and your stocks flowing smoothly, I'm sure that is all well and good. But if somebody at some point should decide otherwise, and there's a national U.S. emergency and/or the U.S. government becomes unable to pay its debts, well, they might just not give you your stocks back. Because legally they own them. Something to think about. An fascinating article about this whole thing is here. I will include it at the bottom too, in case it should disappear. Not that I can vouch for or agree with everything the guy is saying, and some of it is a little whacko, but obviously he's been researching this quite a bit. You'll find very little about it on the net otherwise.
The Unknown $19 Trillion Depository Trust Company by Anthony Wayne Part I of II This exclusive report is a compilation of interviews and background research from October 1995 through April 1999. The Depository Trust Company (DTC) is the best kept secret in America. Headquartered at 55 Water Street in New York City, the average American has no clue that this financial institution is the most powerful banking corporation in the world. The general public has no knowledge of what the DTC is or what they do. How can a private banking trust company hold assets of over $19 trillion and be unknown? In a recent press release dated April 19, 1999, the Depository Trust Company stated: The Depository Trust Company (DTC) is the world's largest securities depository, holding nearly $19 trillion in assets for its Participants and their customers.... Last year, DTC processed over 164 million book-entry deliveries valued at more than $77 trillion. In dealing with the trust department of Midlantic Bank, N.A. in New Jersey [now PNC Bank, N.A.], this writer was authorized, as trustee and power of attorney, to transfer original trust assets comprising of common stocks and bonds to a new trust set up in another jurisdiction. An Assistant Vice President from the Trust & Financial Management Office of Midlantic Bank said to me "it will take at least 6 weeks to do this as the majority of the stocks and bonds are not held in the name of the trust". This same Midlantic Bank Assistant V.P. also stated in a letter dated November 17, 1995, "Of the 11 municipal bonds, 8 are held in book entry only. This means they cannot be physically re-registered with a certificate sent to the new trustees." (* these are not the actual figures quoted in the letter in order to protect the privacy of the account holder, at their request. Also, we were asked not to name the Midlantic Assistant V.P. in order to protect her privacy Rights. We respect these requests with full moral compliance). In disbelief, I brought this matter to the attention of our research assistants at the Christian Common Law Institute [formerly the North Bridge News] and we began our lengthy investigation into the matter. After 3 years, the can of worms we've opened up should frighten every American. With the advent of reported Y2K computer glitches and the possible collapse of our 'paper asset' economy, every person who has a stock or bond in their portfolio had better read this report and act on the information we are disclosing here. In November 1995, after encountering numerous "no comments" and a myriad of "that's not my department" excuses via telephone, I eventually spoke with Mr. Jim McNeff who told me his position was Director of Training for the DTC. He said he'd been employed there for 19 years and was "very proud" of his employer. During my initial telephone interview, either Jim's employer or some other unknown person or persons were illegally listening or taping our telephone conversation according to the electronic eavesdropping equipment we have installed on our end. Why did anyone feel it was necessary to illegally record our conversation without advising us? Was some federal alphabet agency monitoring DTC calls to safeguard National Security? That in itself is suspicious enough to warrant a big red warning flag. Jim informed me back then (1995) that "the DTC is the largest limited trust company in the world with assets of $ 9.1 trillion". In July 1998, I spoke with Ms. Rose Barnabic of the DTC Finance Department who said that "DTC assets are currently estimated at around $11 trillion". As of April 19, 1999, the DTC itself has stated that their assets total "nearly $19 trillion" (see above). Mr. McNeff had also stated "the DTC is a brokerage clearing firm and transfer center. We're a private bank for securities. We handle the book entry transactions for all banks and brokers. Every bank and brokerage firm must secure their membership with us in case they become insolvent, so your assets are secure with DTC". Yes, you read that correctly. The DTC is a private bank that processes every stock and bond (paper securities) for all U.S. banks and brokerage houses. The big question is this; Just who gave this private bank and trust company such a broad range of financial power and clout? The reason the public doesn't know about DTC is that they're a privately owned depository bank for institutional and brokerage firms only. They process all of their book entry settlement transactions. Jim McNeff said "There's no need for the public to know about us... it's required by the Federal Reserve that DTC handle all transactions". The Federal Reserve Corporation, a/k/a The Federal Reserve System, is also a private company and is not an agency or department of our federal government, according to the 1998 Federal Registry. The Federal Reserve Board of Governors is listed, but they are not the owners. The Federal Reserve Board, headed by Mr. Alan Greenspan, is nothing more than a liaison advisory panel between the owners and the Federal Government. The FED, as they are more commonly called, mandates that the DTC process every securities transaction in the US. It's no wonder that the DTC (including the Participants Trust Company, now the Mortgage-Backed Securities Division of the DTC) is owned by the same stockholders as the Federal Reserve System. In other words, the Depository Trust Company is really just a 'front' or a division of the Federal Reserve System. "DTC is 35.1% owned by the New York Stock Exchange on behalf of the Exchange's members. It is operated by a separate management and has an independent board of directors. It is a limited purpose trust company and is a unit of the Federal Reserve." -New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Now, let's see how this effects the average working American family. If you're not aware how the system works, you should visit or call a stock broker or bank and instruct them you want to purchase some shares of common stock or a small municipal bond, for example. They will set up a brokerage account for you and act as your agent with full durable power of attorney (which you must legally sign over to them) to conduct business on your behalf, upon your buy or sell instructions. The broker will place your stock or bond purchase into their safekeeping under a "street name". According to Mr. McNeff of the DTC, no bank or broker can place any stock or bond into their firm's own name due to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations. The broker or bank must then send the transaction to the DTC for ledger posting or book entry settlement under mandate by the Federal Reserve System. Remember, since your bank or broker can't use their name on the certificate, they use a fictitious street name. "Since the DTC is a banking trust company, we can't hold the certificates in our name, so the DTC transfers the certificates to our own private holding company or nominee name." states Mr. McNeff. The DTC's private holding company or street name, as shown on certificates we have personally examined from numerous certificate holders, is shown as either "CEDE and Company", "Cede Company" or "Cede & Co". We have searched every source known to learn who CEDE really is, but have been unable to get any background information on them. Is Cede Company fictitious or is their identity perhaps a larger secret than DTC? We must presume that the information Mr. McNeff gave us was correct when he confirmed that Cede Company was a controlled private holding company of the DTC. We have now found the following proof that CEDE is real from the Bear Stearns internet site: NEW YORK, New York - March 16, 1999 - Bear Stearns Finance LLC today announced that it will redeem all of the 6,000,000 outstanding 8.00% Exchangeable Preferred Income Cumulative Shares, Series A ("EPICS") of Bear Stearns Finance LLC, liquidation preference of $25.00 per Series A Share, CUSIP number G09198105. All of the Series A Shares are held by Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository Trust Company, and the payment of the redemption price will be made to Cede & Co. by ChaseMellon Shareholder Services, LLC, as paying agent, whose address is: 85 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey 07660. The banks and brokers are merely custodians for their clients. By federal law (SEC), they cannot hold any assets in the customer's name. The assets must be held in the name of DTC's holding company, CEDE & Co. That's how DTC has more than $19 trillion dollars of assets in trust... or is it really in "trust" if the private Federal Reserve System is technically holding it in their "unknown" entity's name? Obviously, if stock and bond certificates you've purchased aren't in your name, then the "holder" (the Federal Reserve System) could theoretically refuse to surrender them back to you under a "national emergency" according to the Trading with the Enemy Act (as amended). Is this the collateral being held by the private Federal Reserve System to pay off the national debt owed to them by our federal government, first initiated by Lincoln's debt bonds of 1864? According to Mr. McNeff, the DTC was a former member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and "Our sister company is the National Securities Clearing Corporation... the NSCC" (they have since merged). He was correct since we now know that the NYSE holds 35.1% of the "ownership" of the DTC on behalf of their NYSE members. Simply put, the Depository Trust Company absolutely controls every paper asset transaction in the United States as well as the majority of overseas transactions, and they now physically hold (as of April 1999) 99% of all stock and bond book-entrys in their street name, not the actual owner's names. If you have stock or bond certificates in your name buried in your back yard or under your mattress, we suggest you keep them there. If not, it might be very wise to cancel your brokerage account and power of attorney status, re-register the stocks and bonds in your name (if you still can), and keep them hidden where only you know their location. Otherwise, you have absolutely no control over them (see Part II of our exclusive research report on the DTC for more information on beneficial ownership status). However, getting a stock or bond certificate these days is not so easy if possible at all: "For the most part, issuers know little about the role of the Depository Trust Company (DTC). The DTC was created in 1973 as a user-owned cooperative for post-trade settlement. Our members are banks and broker/dealers, whom we refer to as participants. We handle listed and unlisted equities, including 51,000 equity issues and 170,000 corporate debt issues, equating to more than 78% of shares outstanding on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). We also have more than 95% of all municipals on deposit. In the 1980s, the "Group of 30" [business leaders] recommended that stock certificates be eliminated, because physical certificates create risk. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a concept release in 1994 to gradually decrease certificates, providing optional direct registration on the books of the issuer instead of a certificate.... this enhances the portability of shares between transfer agents and brokerage accounts. With the direct registration system, brokers transmit instructions to purchase through DTC, which the issuer or transfer agent then registers, so shares can be delivered electronically." -John D. Faith, Manager, Corporate Trust Services, The Depository Trust Company (1996) Now we're about to reveal to you the most shocking discovery we came across during our research into this matter. Most of us remember a few years back the purported computerized selling of stocks that resulted in Wall Street's "Black Monday": Dow Dives 508.32 Points in Panic on Wall Street "The largest stock-market drop in Wall Street history occurred on "Black Monday" -- October 19, 1987 -- when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508.32 points, losing 22.6% of its total value. That fall far surpassed the one-day loss of 12.9% that began the great stock market crash of 1929 and foreshadowed the Great Depression. The Dow's 1987 fall also triggered panic selling and similar drops in stock markets worldwide" -Source: Facts on File World News CD ROM The stock exchanges had dramatic record losses, and a record volume of shares were traded on that infamous Monday in October 1987. We all asked ourselves how computers could have done this by themselves without someone knowing about it. After all, someone has to program a computer to tell it what to do, what not to do, or even when to do or not do it. During my telephone conversation, Mr. McNeff was trying to assure me that they [the DTC] have "never lost a certificate or made a mistake in a book ledger transaction". In attempting to give me an example of how trustworthy the DTC is when I asked him how he could back up such a statement, he replied "DTC's first controlled test was 4 or 5 years ago. Do you remember Black Monday? There were 535 million transactions on Monday, and 400 million transactions on Tuesday". He was very proud to inform me that "DTC cleared every transaction without a single glitch!". Read these quotes again: He stated that Black Monday was a controlled test. Black Monday was a deliberately manipulated disaster for many Americans at the whim of a controlled test by the DTC. What was the purpose of this test? Common sense tells you that you test something before you intend to use it. It's quite obvious that the stock markets are going to 'crash and burn' at some future date and for some 'unknown' reason since the controlled test was so successful. Was this just one of the planned tests for a Y2K internationally planned worldwide economic meltdown? The Great Depression is about to be repeated, and it will be as deliberate and manipulated as the first one that began with the stock market crash of 1929. We are, without a doubt, on the brink of the Mother of all economic Depressions. As of May 3, 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) went above a record 11,000 points. Just prior to the 1929 stock market crash, Wall Street was posting record prices, record earnings, and record profits.... just like the scenario we are experiencing today. Will Y2K be a manipulated and deliberate a financial meltdown? Too many facts already support this probability. On June 7, 1995, the federal government issued a new regulation requiring stock and bond certificate transfers to be cleared in three days instead of the previous five day time period. It coincided with the infamous Regulation CC that purportedly gave us faster three day availability of funds from deposited checks. This means that brokers and banks must get your stock or bond transaction into the street name (Cede & Co.) of the DTC within 3 working days. That's hard to do considering banks claim it takes 3 or more days to clear a check that you've submitted to pay for a stock purchase. But, there's a reason for this new regulation and it coincides with the introduction of the new FRS "dollars". On February 22, 1996, "the DTC will flip the switch" according to Mr. McNeff. "What switch?", I asked. "This is the day that clearing house funds will no longer be accepted for stock or bond transactions" was my reply from Jim. "Instead, only Fed Funds will be accepted". Fed Funds, or a Fedwire, are electronic computer ledger debit transfers between Federal Reserve System member banks. No checks or drafts have been allowed from that day, just as Mr. McNeff accurately stated. This is more commonly called a 'cashless transaction'. I call it the reality of the mark of the beast. This is the manifestation of the new international god, the New World Order [I prefer the term 'New World DISorder' as a more accurate description]. Consider this my fellow Christian Americans: All pension funds and other institutional 'managed funds' are comprised of paper asset investments such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. These certificates are technically in the name of DTC's private holding company, CEDE and Company. The DTC is owned by the private Federal Reserve System owners (Click for a complete list of names). Congress has attempted, on no less than two occasions since 1995, to pass legislation allowing pension funds to be used by the government as purported 'loans'. All the Federal Reserve System has to do is hand it over. But, what happens to the people counting on those pension fund investments in order to feed themselves in their retirement? Too bad for them.... they're out of luck because for the 'good of the nation', they may be forced to share or relinquish their lifetime of hard-earned wealth. This can be done without the consent of Congress under an Executive Order based on the War and Emergency Powers Act and a state of National Emergency, just like we are already under (See further Executive Orders). Since the Federal Reserve System already holds our stocks and bonds in their fictitious DTC "street name", CEDE, then perhaps they'll cash them in for the federal government's failure to repay the loans that have become way overdue. Heck, some of Lincoln's gold backed bonds from 1864 have not been repaid yet.... and for a reason. On March 6, 1933, all bullion gold and gold coins were forcibly taken from the hands of private citizens (see New York Times). Under the War Powers Act, President Roosevelt declared a national emergency touted as a "Banking Holiday". It was declared due to the deliberately calculated stock market crash that preceded the Great Depression. Where did this gold end up? Into the hands of the Federal Reserve System owners. The majority is stored in the impervious rock vaults they own beneath New York City. Is it any surprise that the DTC physically holds all the remaining non-book entry issued stock and bond certificates in the same place? Technically, our entire nation is still under the Executive Order declaration of the War Powers Act and in a continual state of national emergency (See Clinton's 1994 Executive Order 12919). The President can enforce any new emergency at any time under Executive Order or Presidential Directive. In 1995, we [the former North Bridge News] published that we expected a new national "dollar" emergency to be declared within a year or two. Just like we thought at the time, they have now blamed it on the purported drug dealers who are allegedly destroying our currency by money laundering schemes. Since late 1996, old U.S. $100 FRB notes issued by the Federal Reserve Bank are being exchanged for new $100 FRS issued by the Federal Reserve System. These new notes have scanable magnetic platinum encryption on the plastic strips embedded inside the bills. The U.S. Treasury claims this is for "the blind". Now, new $20 and $50 FRS's are replacing the older notes as well. What people don't realize is that very soon, the older FRB notes will no longer be 'legal' and there will be a penalty for hoarding them. This is what happened to those Americans holding gold and gold coins after 1933. "We are most gratified with the successful introduction of the new $100 and $50 notes and look forward to the same success with the new $20s," Chairman Greenspan said. For the first time, a machine-readable capability has been incorporated for the blind. A new feature in the $20 will facilitate the development of convenient scanning devices that could identify the note as a $20. -U.S. Treasury, Office of Public Affairs, RR-2449 released May 20, 1998. Why new paper 'money' and for what purpose? Because the new FRS notes in your pocket can be scanned and whoever scans them can know exactly how much money you have on you. The older FRB notes are not encoded to do this. This writer knows firsthand of at least one machine, manufactured by Diebold, Inc. (a/k/a InterBold) that scans the money in your pockets, wallet or purse no different in theory than a credit card scanner, but much more sophisticated. I participated in a 'test' of this machine at a U.S. international airport in 1998. To me, it looks much like the standard metal detector scanners you walk through at all airports. I was asked (by who I believe was a U.S. Treasury Agent, as he introduced himself and flashed his ID quickly in my face so I couldn't read it) if I had any of the new $100 or $50 bills in my pockets. I looked in my wallet and saw I had one new $100 FRS note. I told him "yes", then he said "Good, but don't tell me how much". After saying he would "really appreciate it" if I would help them with a test, he asked me to walk through what looked like a typical airport scanner. No beeps. No noise. No sound at all. He looked at a computer screen and said "Do you have a new $100 bill?". When I confirmed that was true, he thanked me and told me to please move on. I tried to ask him how the machine knew that, but he ignored my question. I took a good look at the scanning system and believe I have now spotted them at Kennedy, Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles airports. The odd part about this is that these machines seem to all be located in the customs areas where you enter the U.S. from a foreign country. Obviously, they want to know if someone is carrying more than $10,000 into the U.S. Common sense dictates that they should be more concerned about people leaving with more than $10,000 if they're really trying to thwart the drug dealers.... until you begin to realize that there must be some other hidden agenda: They are apparently going to stop money from entering the U.S. for a reason. Will the President call for the confiscation of all gold bullion and bullion coins as Roosevelt did? Who will end up with it? The Federal Reserve System owners, just like before. Since June 1998, international gold supplies have been so low that some private Swiss Banks have been paying a premium above the market wholesale value for gold bullion. This was confirmed to us by a gold and diamond mining Chief Executive from Rex Mining in Guinea, West Africa, who supplies raw gold to a major Swiss Banking company smelter and processor The spot gold market has been manipulated to keep the price low so that the Federal Reserve System owners can purchase all that is available through their various trusts and corporations. World gold availability on the open market is now at a record low and mining production of gold is also at a record low output. What happened to 'supply and demand' with gold and silver? Normally, when supply is high the price decreases. When supply is low, precious metal prices increase. Perhaps the private FED will peg the new dollar to gold prices, as many experts have already speculated. What will stocks and bonds purchased with old dollars be worth then? Pennies to the dollar, so to speak. Who ends up being the only winner? The Federal Reserve System stockholders. They control the circulation amounts of paper money in the U.S. Combine that with the new scanner to stop large amounts from entering into the U.S., and the scenario amounts to a planned shortage of paper FRS notes, the banning of the older FRB notes, and the soon to be astronomical price of gold which most Americans will be forbidden to have or hoard, once again. The facts we've presented in this report all point to this. People will be at the mercy of the federal government for daily food and for jobs. Checks are soon to be totally phased out. Banks issue ATM debit cards and tell you they must charge more for your account if you use a real live human teller instead of the machine. The switch is being turned on. This is not speculation. This is the truth of reality. It's already been tested, and their new system works. Just ask Jim McNeff of the DTC. The day has come when you must decide to accept or reject the beast and the New World Disorder. Part II of II- You don't own your Stocks....or any of your Bonds...The Depository Trust Company does. by Anthony Wayne In Part I of this series, excerpts of which were first published in November 1995 by the former North Bridge News, we exposed The Depository Trust Company (DTC) as the Unknown $ 9.1 Trillion Company. It appears that our startling discoveries of the inner-workings of the DTC had only scratched the surface. We'd like to add more fuel to this blazing fire by further exposing the DTC and those behind it. The Depository Trust Company has grown since October 1995. On July 1998, this amount was estimated by a DTC employee at more than $11 Trillion. As of April 19, 1999, the DTC itself has stated in a press release that their asset value is nearly $19 trillion. In 3 1/2 years, their assets increased nearly $ 10 Trillion. That's a lot of stocks and bonds supposedly held in trust. The latest trend over the past ten years is for stock and bond brokers to offer "book-entry ownership" only. Every book-entry stock or bond is literally owned by the DTC. Since 1985, most bond and many stock issuers have converted from the issuance of certificates to book-entry systems administered and controlled by the DTC. As of March 1999, the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) and the Participants Trust Company (PTC) are now merged into the DTC. Practically, there isn't one stock or bond issued that is not controlled by the DTC. If you purchase any stock or bond through a broker, it is being held for you under a "street name" by the DTC unless you have specifically requested to hold the certificate yourself. If you have a book entry stock or bond, you won't be issued a certificate. It's important to note that you have purchased that particular stock or bond without becoming a registered holder of the actual stock or bond certificate. Instead, you have become a beneficial owner. The difference between the two is like night and day. Take the time to absorb and understand the following definitions: REGISTERED HOLDER- A Registered Holder literally possesses, owns, and holds, his stock or bond with his name appearing on the face of the certificate. The company that issued the certificate has registered the owner's (holder's) name on their official books. This is the safest way to own a paper asset. You literally possess the fully registered certificate and only you can transfer or sell it. By all Rights and definition of law, you are the owner. You have it, you hold it, you possess it, and you keep it. You have the complete control over it. BENEFICIAL OWNER- A Beneficial Owner is nothing more than a beneficiary, "One who is entitled to the benefit of a contract"- A Dictionary of Law, 1893. All book-entry stocks and bonds you purchase make you the beneficial owner, not the registered holder. The owner of a book-entry stock or bond is the entity or name that it is registered under. The DTC owns that bond or stock, not you. Rather than in your name, it's registered (as the legal Registered Owner or agent) in their "street name", Cede & Company. (In the past, it may have been registered in your broker's street name, but this is no longer allowed). The DTC is the Registered Owner - holder - of your stock or bond. The DTC is the legal property-holder, share-holder, stock-holder, owner and purchaser. Your name appears nowhere on the book entry or certificate as the actual owner. Instead, you have been designated by the legal registered owner, the DTC, as the Beneficial Owner. This means that your lawful Rights in that stock or bond are confined to that of a successor or heir. At the University of Utah College of Law, we found the following examination question about Cede & Co.: The common stock of LargeCo, Inc. is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Over 2/3rds of the shares are registered on LargeCo's books in the name of Cede & Co. Cede is a depository company which holds the shares as nominee on behalf of brokerage firms, mutual funds and other active traders. The brokerage firms in turn are also nominees with respect to some of the shares, which they hold on behalf of their customers. Nominees, such as Cede and brokerage firms holding for customers, view the customer as the beneficial owner of the shares and consider the customer to be the one with the right to vote the shares; mutual funds, however, view the fund as the owner of the shares it holds and vote the shares themselves. Most of the remainder of LargeCo's stock (26% of the total) is held by the Large family, which is still actively involved in management. LargeCo is aware that the beneficial owner of about half the stock registered in Cede's name is the Small family, who live next door to the Larges in downtown Rome, and that the remainder of the Cede stock is beneficially owned by several well known mutual funds. According to the DTC, under the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules, you only have the right to "receive proceeds or other advantages as the beneficiary". You are not the owner... you are the consignee, "One who has deposited with a third person an article of property for the benefit of a creditor"- A Dictionary of Law, 1893. In legal terms, you are considered the heir presumptive or heir at law to the stock or bond you paid for. The DTC controls, possesses as creditor, holds and owns your book-entry stock or bond. This is a difficult pill to swallow for those who have placed their assets in stocks and bonds over the past decade. Your broker sends you a fancy accounting every month of your purported holdings, along with dividend and interest payments paid. The fact is, you only receive the benefit of ownership (interest and dividends) without holding title to your property. You are at the mercy of the registered owner, the DTC. If you don't believe this is true, then call your broker right now and ask them who's name is listed as the Registered Holder of your book-entry stocks and bonds. If you're lucky, the broker will tell you "why of course you're the Beneficial Owner", then you'll know the truth. He may emphasize to you that the stocks and bonds are being held in "safe keeping" for your own protection. This is broker language for "your stocks and bonds are held by the DTC in their street name as the creditor". From J.P. Morgan's internet site: Registered and beneficial shareholders There are two types of shareholders: registered, who hold an ADR in physical form, and beneficial, whose ADRs are held by third-parties and are listed under a "nominee" or "street" name. Registered shareholders are listed directly with the issuer or its U.S. transfer agent. The transfer agent handles the record-keeping associated with changes in share ownership, distribution of dividend payments, and investor inquiries; it also facilitates annual meetings. An issuer's depositary bank can provide the identities of registered shareholders on a regular basis. However, this may not provide the level of shareholder identification required for a successful investor relations effort. Registered shareholders are typically individual investors who have physical possession of their share certificates, generally in lots of 100 shares or fewer. The registered list also includes nominee names such as Cede & Co., which represent the aggregate position of the Depository Trust Company (DTC), the primary safekeeping, clearing, and settlement organization for securities traded in the United States. DTC uses electronic book-entry to facilitate settlement and custody rather than the physical delivery of certificates. Beneficial shareholders, which can include individual as well as institutional investors, do not have physical possession of their certificates; third-party broker-dealers or custodian banks hold their securities on their behalf. These shares are said to be held in street name because they are kept with the DTC in the name of the broker-dealer or the custodian bank - not the underlying shareholder. Lists of beneficial shareholders who do not object to disclosing their holdings are available from banks and broker-dealers. These lists, called NOBO for Non-Objecting Beneficial Owner, typically provide the names of individual investors. To help identify institutional investors, who do not usually disclose their holdings, issuers use publicly available filings. Large holders, including investment managers, are required to make periodic filings - such as 13-F, 13-G, and 13-D - with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing the name and value of the positions in their portfolios. Which brings us to the street name used, registered, and designated by the DTC as the registered owner of over $19 Trillion (USD) of our stocks and bonds... CEDE & Co. Everyone in the brokerage business keeps pronouncing this name as "See Dee" and Company, but it's spelled C-E-D-E and pronounced "Seed". This is where the real irony comes. According to Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, 1990, the word Cede is defined as "To yield up; to assign; to grant; to surrender; to withdraw. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another". In the Black's 1951 Fourth Edition, it lists the following as supportive case law; Goetze v. United States, C.C.N.Y., 103 Fed. 72. Have you made the connection yet? Your book-entry stocks and bonds and all stock and bond certificates purchased through your broker and held by them under your brokerage account are owned by CEDE & COMPANY (the DTC) as the registered owner. You have surrendered, assigned and granted ownership to someone else other than yourself. Their name says it all. How ironic and sarcastic can they be? "CEDE- To surrender possession of, especially by treaty. See Synonyms at 'relinquish'." -American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd Edition of 1992 If Americans had any idea that they have relinquished the lawful ownership of their stocks and bonds to someone or something else, there would be a revolution. In a sense, that's why we are exposing this paper asset scam to you. The point is, now that you know the truth, do something about it and get your assets back into your name. Our suggestion to you is this: If you don't literally have every stock and bond registered certificate in your possession, then promptly call your broker and tell him you want all your securities transferred and re-registered into your name as the Registered Holder and Owner. If he says he can't do that because your stock or bond is a book-entry transaction only, we strongly suggest, for your own security, that you sell your book-entry assets immediately. Don't let the broker tell you that it's "safer" for you if they keep your certificates. Remember, you know the truth. Even if all your stock and bond certificates were burned in a fire, the process to have them replaced is simple. If someone were to steal your certificates, you simply report them stolen to the company that issued them and they're automatically cancelled, just like a stolen credit card. Replacement certificates are then issued to replace the lost or stolen originals. Most people don't realize that when they open a brokerage account, they have entered into an contractural agreement allowing the broker to assign the stocks and bonds to an undisclosed creditor, the DTC. (We suggest you read the small print on your brokerage agreement). This gives the broker your express written permission to place all your securities into the ownership of the DTC. Your broker is an agent for the DTC through mandatory Securities and Exchange Commission regulations and mandates by the Federal Reserve System private bank. Your broker represents them, not you. Your brokerage account is nothing more than a ledger of accounting. It reflects no assets held in your name. The assets are registered in a "street name" that is not you or your name. Sure.... you receive the interest and dividends, but you do so as a beneficiary to the real owner. Your brokerage account in no way, shape, or manner reflects who literally owns your securities. What you own is a brokerage account and nothing more. A greater consideration is just exactly who does the DTC hold these securities for? As the owner, who has the DTC pledged these securities to? Our research points to the Federal Reserve System, an international private banking cartel with major offices found in Moscow, London, Tokyo, and Peking. By treaty with the United Nations and in compliance with the Bretton Woods Agreement, the DTC under regulation of the Federal Reserve System has pledged all those stocks and bonds to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These are the same paper securities found in your IRA and pension fund accounts, as well as in your brokerage account. Remember, you don't own them.... you're just a beneficiary. The truth is, the securities you purchased and paid for with your hard earned money is collateral for the United Nations which is backed by the Federal Reserve System and it's associated agencies, such as the International Monetary Fund. Is it any wonder that the UN can operate year after year with increasing budgets, but without sufficient funds? The UN has nearly $19 Trillion of backing and reserves, thanks to millions of duped Americans. We are financing the New World Dis-Order with our stocks and bonds. -- Expose evil. http://www.wanttoknow.info/

To Be a True Patriot!

2008-09-21T13:47:00.006-04:00

The article below is from the Huffington Post and the Writers name appears and this article is wonderful and thrilling to anyone that is a True American and a Great Patriot. One that proves OUR, WE THE PEOPLE, Constitution shall forever be the document WE MUST ABIDE BY!!!

Welcome to the final stages of the FASCIST coup...
Larisa Alexandrovna
Posted September 20, 2008
In 2000, the long fought for and long admired democracy of the United States of America began a slow and steady decline toward fascism - a Bush family tradition - with the installment of a president - a man the citizens overwhelmingly rejected (although the funny math told a still believed myth) - by a few corrupt judges on the US Supreme Court. That coup is now nearly complete and checkmate is all but unavoidable.

Let me first point you to the Bush administration's so-called Wall Street bailout bill, here, so that you can see for yourself that this treachery is being conducted in the light of day. Fascism is finally and formally out of the right-wing closet even if the F word is not yet openly being used (although it should be, and often).

Now, if you do not yet understand that the Wall Street crisis is a man-made disaster done through intentional deregulation and corruption, I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you (or Sara Palin does anyway). This manufactured crisis is now to be remedied, if the fiscal fascists get their way, with the total transfer of Congressional powers (the few that still remain) to the Executive Branch and the total transfer of public funds into corporate (via government as intermediary) hands.

Adam Davidson of NPR blogs about the so-called bailout bill as follows:

I would guess that this has to be one of the biggest peacetime transfers of power from Congress to the Administration in history. (Anyone know?). Certainly one of the most concise.

The Treasury Secretary can buy broadly defined assets, on any terms he wants, he can hire anyone he wants to do it and can appoint private sector companies as financial deputies of the US government. And he can write whatever regulation he thinks are needed.

Most importantly, Davidson points to this passage in the bill:

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

The Bush family, in the form of Prescott Bush, has tried a more aggressive coup before in order to install fascism in this country. This treasonous plot was called "the Business Plot," because the high-level plotters - including Prescott Bush - were Wall Street men who openly supported fascism.

It seems this time around, the Bush family is trying the more subtle approach to open bloodshed: first create a crisis, then under the guise of addressing that crisis, overthrow democracy. Yes, it does sound terribly conspiracy-theory-esque when explained just this way. But what else does one call a criminal conspiracy to destroy Congressional powers permanently, alter Judicial powers permanently, and steal public funds?

As I see it now, we have but two options and I have long alluded to hoping against hope that one of these options would not be the only one left to a peaceful people. The first and frankly most preferable option is for Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against the members of this latest Business Plot.

No time needs to be wasted on hearings as we already now have in writing, formally as presented to Congress, the intentions of this administration to nullify Congressional powers permanently, to alter Judicial powers permanently, and to openly steal public funds using as blackmail the total collapse of the US economy if these powers are not handed over. You do see how this is blackmail, do you not? You do see how this is a manufactured crisis precisely designed to be used as blackmail, do you not?

The other option, the one I have long prayed we would never need to even consider, is a total revolution. But, If Congress won't act in its own self-defense, in the defense of democracy, in defense of us - the people who have elected them to protect us from this very danger - then what is left for us to do? I don't want to see it come down to this, but I fear that it will. Put your party politics aside right now. We are in a crisis so dangerous that should these people succeed in their coup, your party affiliation will no longer matter, your American flag will be a nice collectible item of something that once was, and your version of God will be worshiped in secrecy because your freedoms will be owned by the few.

You are no longer Republicans, Democrats, or any shade of voter. You do not live in a swing state or a solid colored state. You are simply this: an American. That is the only side that matters. So call your members of Congress and demand, no, declare that unless they do their duty to the Constitution and to us, we will move to the streets - not because we want to, but because our founding fathers demanded this duty of each and every citizen in the face of such a domestic enemy. Demand - as is your right - that this bill be voted against and demand - as is your right - that the people plotting this treachery be held to account. We are either a nation of laws or we are no longer a democracy. Pick a side, because there won't be another time, another moment, another chance to be a patriot.

FOX Attacks Obama Like Kerry

2008-09-21T12:23:00.001-04:00

WTF? May be French re;Kerry, why? Barack Hussein Obama, so what? FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT you obtuse, script readers, liars and FILTHY Abusers of OUR Constitution, remember that?? That piece of paper that the MURDERER uses to wipe his tush? Amendment.I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof:[snip]....
Why are these persons of the lowest portion of humanity still on the tube??? Fear mongerers and Hate Speech, this is their job. They should be under indictment, after that one whatever person from FOX was going to read from her teleprompter Usama, said Obama and said, "We should just kill him", the other reader of scripts asks her if she means Usama or Obams, she replies, "Oh, we should kill them both.", this is punishable by up to 6 years in Federal Prison according to U.S. Code, but what happened? Nada, Zero, Zip, Zilch...
What they did to Kerry, Swift Boater's were something honorable until those PIGS in '04 used the term to denigrate Kerry!
Go to Brave New Films on YouTube and sign on the___________.
Peace
Rhoda VFP Muslim with blonde hair and green eyes.

FreeGaza This is What Really Happens to Palestinians!

2008-09-20T18:25:00.006-04:00

This report on fishing & farming in the Gaza Strip is from Donna Wallach,
an ISM and Free Gaza Movement volunteer in Gaza:

(GAZA) On Monday, 15 September 2008, international human rights volunteers
with the International Solidarity Movement & Free Gaza Movement joined the
Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in symbolically
planting trees in the buffer zone in Fukharee, north of Rafah.

The buffer zone was established by Israeli Occupation Forces in one of
Gaza's prime agricultural areas. The zone is a "no-go" area roughly 300
meters wide along the entire eastern border of the Gaza Strip. In this
"buffer" zone, farmers are violently prohibited from farming their land,
and these areas have become very dangerous for the Palestinians to live
and farm in.

The Israeli buffer zone is another form of siege that denies the
Palestinians right to livelihood, feeding their families, freedom of
movement and to live in Peace. This is all happening during the so-called
cease fire.

ISM volunteers met at UAWC office in Khan Younis before joining with a few
hundred UAWC activists. Two buses and four cars transported all the
volunteers, the trees and the shovels to Fukharee, close to the border
with Israel. Upon arriving some people noticed the tell-tale dust of an
Israeli tank as it appeared from behind some trees off in the distance.

All the volunteers got off the buses and started walking toward the fields
holding 3 banners and chanting "Free, Free Palestine" in Arabic. Various
news agencies and independent video cameras recorded the event.

We dug holes and managed to plant about 100 plant olive, guava and citrus
trees. Although the ISM volunteers were there to both join Palestinians as
they reclaimed their land and demand that Israel stop destroying the crops
in the area, the action was a primarily symbolic. The UAWC plans to
continue doing various similar actions throughout the Gaza Strip in and
near the buffer zones.
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(GAZA) On Wednesday 17 September 2008, I (along with two other
international volunteers) went out with three different fishing boats from
the Gaza City port to trawl for fish. We left the port at about 8:30am.

I was on a boat with fishermen I already knew. We went out about seven and
a half miles, put out the net and began to trawl. It wasn't long before an
Israeli Naval gunboat approached, and circled around. The fishermen
requested from me to speak with the Israeli Navy. I did make contact with
them, telling them that "we were Palestinian fishermen fishing in Gazan
waters. Palestinians have the right to fish in Gazan waters, they have the
right to a livelihood and to feed their families."

Someone on the Israeli Naval gunboat said in Hebrew that it was forbidden
for the Palestinian fishermen to be out past six miles. I replied that
according to International Law, the Palestinian fishermen had the right to
fish beyond twelve miles in their territorial waters. His response was to
call me "bitch". Soon after that the gunboat opened fire on the fishing
boat, aiming, what appeared to me to be toward the center of the boat. The
fishermen quickly pulled in their net, not wanting their boat or any of
the equipment to be damaged by the gunfire.

We drove back towards the Gaza coast until we reached about six miles out
and began trawling again. The gunboat came by again and circled around
menacingly. Off in the distance we saw the large Israeli Naval gunboat
that has the water cannon stationed at the fore of the boat. We were
expecting to get drenched, but were pleasantly surprised when it continued
past us without stopping or even aiming the water cannon at us. Other
boats were not so lucky, and Vittorio Arrigoni (an international human
rights monitor from Italy) was injured by flying glass when an Israeli
water cannon was aimed at the boat he was on.

The Israeli Navy contacted our boat via VHF again reiterating that it was
forbidden for them to fish out beyond six miles. This is an abomination!
The large quantities of fish are out beyond the six mile limit, as are the
larger fish. The fishermen need to be able to fish in their territorial
waters, when and where they want.

It is an outrage that Israeli Naval gunboats patrol the Territorial Gazan
Waters at will. They harass, threaten, shoot, damage and terrorize the
Palestinian fishermen, their boats and fishing equipment. The Israeli Navy
often limits the Palestinian fishermen from fishing beyond three or four
miles, and sometimes they aren't permitted to fish at all.

This would not be tolerated any place else in the world.

Fishing is one of the few sources of Palestinian food left in Gaza. The
Israeli Occupation Forces have destroyed much of the farm land and have
established an illegal buffer zone on much of the agricultural farm land
within Gaza, denying Palestinian farmers their livelihood and the right to
feed their families. This has made 80% of the Palestinians living in Gaza
Strip totally dependent on food aid from the UN.

It is time that these collective punishments upon the entire population of
Gaza Strip end. The Palestinian people have the human right to live in
freedom. Parents have the human right to provide for their children.
Children have the human right to go to school and students have the human
right to attend University. Farmers have the right to farm their land and
fishermen have the right to fish in their own territorial waters. This
siege must end.

Please, be creative - put pressure on the Apartheid State of Israel to end
the siege now – tell your families, your friends, your co-workers that
this situation can no longer be tolerated. Ban the Israeli Navy from Gazan
Territorial Waters!

--Donna Wallach, international human rights monitor, writing from Occupied
Gaza.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ITALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR INJURED BY ISRAELI NAVY OFF GAZA COAST

For More Information, please contact:

(Gaza) Vittorio Arrigoni, +972 59 882 6516 / guerrillaingaza@gmail.com
(Gaza) Donna Wallach, +972 59 883 6420 / cats4jazz@gmail.com

To view video of Israeli forces opening fire on unarmed fishing boats (1
Sept) see:
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2008/09/04/israeli-army-open-fire-of-gazan-fishermen-and-international-activists/

GAZA STRIP (17 September 2008) - An Italian human rights worker with the
Free Gaza Movement and International Solidarity Movement was injured today
by the Israeli navy while monitoring human rights abuses against
Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip.

Vittorio Arrigoni was hit by flying glass when the Israeli navy used a
high-power water cannon against the unarmed boats. The water canon smashed
the glass surrounding the steering section of the boat, with shards
lacerating Arrigoni's back. He was taken to hospital immediately upon
reaching shore, requiring stitches.

The Israeli navy has imposed severe restrictions on fishing in Gazan
waters, regularly attacking any boats attempting to fish over 3 nautical
miles. With international accompaniment, fishermen have been attempting to
fish their own waters, outside of Israeli imposed limits.

40,000 people in Gaza make a living from the fishing industry, a community
that has been decimated both by violent Israeli attacks on unarmed
fishermen, as well as through the general blockade of fuel and other
needed supplies. According to the Fishing Syndicate in Gaza, fishermen
need 40,000
litres of fuel and 40,000 litres of natural gas each day to operate
throughout the high fishing season.

In the last year, over 70 fishermen have been arrested by Israeli forces
for fishing in their own waters. At least 14 unarmed fishermen have been
killed since 2000.
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NYTimes.com: Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian in West Bank

2008-09-20T15:03:00.005-04:00

I had printed emails from pro Peace Activists that went to Gaza to remove very ill Palestinians', they were fired upon by the Israeli Navy, they killed innocent Fishermen from Gaza I will again provide you with the first hand accounts from this group. They have an elderly woman, a Holocaust survivor, many Ethnicities, British citizens', Americans', Arab Palestinians', many different people. Doctors, Laypeople, Human Rights Observers, many people that only want to stop the Genociding of the Palestinians. The emails will follow.

INTERNATIONAL / MIDDLE EAST September 20, 2008
Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian in West Bank
By REUTERS
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian militant in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army said.



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Article.II.Section.4.: I am a CONSTITUTION Voter!! Yup, Article.II.Section.IV. Per chance???

2008-09-19T22:20:00.000-04:00

Article.II.Section.4.: I am a CONSTITUTION Voter!! Yup, Article.II.Section.IV. Per chance???

How 6700 Tons of Radioactive Sand from Kuwait Ended Up in Idaho

2008-09-19T12:55:00.009-04:00

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted September 17, 2008.

Questions remain about how depleted uranium waste from the first Gulf
War was transferred, and whether health risks were posed.

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet. Posted September 17, 2008.On April 26, 2008,
the BBC Alabama arrived in Longview, Wash., carrying 6,700 tons of
Kuwaiti sand. The sand had become contaminated with depleted uranium
when U.S. military vehicles and munitions caught fire at Doha Army base
in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War. The depleted uranium was being
repatriated. The sand was a gift of the Kuwaiti government.

So was the cost of repatriation. Neither government will discuss just
how much the tab was.

The Longview Daily News reported that Mike Wilcox, vice president of the
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 21,
initially had been "concerned about the safety of longshoremen and the
entire community when he heard a shipment of depleted uranium was coming
into Longview."

But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission determined that the sand
contained "unimportant quantities" of radioactive material, and
officials from the Department of Health would be available to test
radiation levels -- just in case any of the sand spilled.

At the last minute, the Army notified port authorities that tests had
revealed that the sand was also contaminated with lead -- in fact, four
times more lead than the EPA's limit for hazardous materials.
Transshipment was delayed for a few days awaiting a green light from the
EPA.

Wilcox told the Daily News that he hoped the delivery would be a
one-time thing.

Over the next month, longshoremen loaded 160 containers onto railcars
bound for an Idaho-based waste disposal site owned by a company called
American Ecology. When the sand arrived at the Idaho site, the company
did its own tests and, as Chad Hyslop, project director for American
Ecology, told the Daily News, "found no hazardous levels of lead."

Doug Rokke, who quit his job directing the cleanup of radioactive
battlefields for the Army, contacted American Ecology and discovered
"that they had absolutely no knowledge of U.S. Army Regulation 700-48,
U.S. Army PAM 700-48, U.S. Army Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278, and all
of the medical orders dealing with depleted uranium contamination,
environmental remediation procedures, safety and medical care."

Hazardous materials storage has become a lucrative and growing business,
especially since Donald Rumsfeld began implementing his plans for a
sleek new "global cavalry" capable of swift and lethal response from
strategically placed "frontier stockades" to punish bad guys whenever
and wherever they have been bad. According to the Pentagon's annual
"Base Structure Report," which itemizes its foreign and domestic
military real estate, the Department of Defense currently operates more
than 800 such bases around the world; 5,311 if you count the ones in
American territories and on the U.S. mainland; probably well over 6,000
if you count the ones, like Doha in Kuwait, that for some reason didn't
make the list. (Similarly omitted are all U.S. bases in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar and Uzbekistan.)

Rumsfeld, coyly switching metaphors, referred to them as "lily pads,"
which is about as convincing a euphemism as "American Ecology." Lily
pads may sound greener and friendlier than, say, "footprint," which
makes one at least think of boot heels, but it is safe to assume --
because there has never been an exception -- that every one of those
bases is an environmental disaster area. The U.S. military is the most
profligate polluter on the planet.

The Thule base in Greenland, for example, was sort of a pioneer lily
pad. In the '40s, it was a convenient hop, skip and a bomber run to
Berlin, and later it was part of the Cold War surveillance network. In
1953, the U.S. Navy sailed into Thule Harbor and informed the local
Inughuit community that they had 48 hours to leave. Sorry for the
inconvenience, folks, but there are houses 100 miles north of here with
your names on them. We promise.

"Everyone packed what they could on their dogsleds and set off north
across the ice," remembers Aron Qaavigaq, who was 12 at the time. "After
a while, my father stopped and looked back. He and my mother were
crying. ... We were young and very excited to be going somewhere new.
But they kept crying, so we knew there was something wrong."

There were no houses. Qaavigaq and his family spent the winter in tents
695 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The hunting and fishing was lousy,
and now the ice is melting. After 55 years, Qaavigaq and the rest of the
Inughuit still want to go home. But first they want the United States to
clean up the mess they have made: thousands of barrels of toxic
chemistry, rubbish heaps, electrical equipment contaminated with PCBs,
and one whole hydrogen bomb -- serial number 78252 -- which was never
recovered when a B-52 crashed upon landing in 1968.

Unfortunately, unlike the emir of Kuwait, the Inughuits are poor and not
very many of them survived the transplant. In a deal struck with the
Danish government in 2003, the Bush administration agreed to return the
original Inughuit community land in return for continued use of the base.

But the administration insists it is not responsible for any cleanup.
"They said if they were to clean up after themselves at Thule, then they
would be met by similar demands in the Philippines, Japan and elsewhere
in the world," Svend Auken, Denmark's former minister of the
environment, told the Christian Science Monitor in August. "They didn't
want to set that precedent." CSM also quotes Cheryl Irwin, a spokeswoman
for the secretary of defense, opining that cleanup costs "reflected a
shared burden with our host nation for our contribution for defense of
the free world." The United States has, however, agreed to forgo "any
claims for residual value of improvements made while there."

There is a growing resistance to the omnipresence of U.S. military
installations around the world. The coalition, though practically
invisible in the United States, is evident elsewhere. NOBASES seeks "an
end to military domination and intimidation and an end to the social,
environmental and economic consequences of these bases in the host
countries." The coalition has recently organized massive demonstrations
in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and elsewhere, and though few have
ultimately been successful, they have made acquiescing to American
military expansion an increasingly expensive political choice for
foreign leaders.

Here at home in Idaho, however, raping the land is cheap. American
Ecology supplies the lubricant, and Idaho's Republican officials bend
over. Senators Mike Crapo and Larry Craig, Representatives Mike Simpson
and Bill Sali, and Gov. Butch Otter and Lt. Gov. Jim Risch have all
benefited from American Ecology's generosity.

In the first quarter of 2008, American Ecology reported a record
disposal volume and a $13.4 million profit, a 17 percent increase over
the same quarter last year.

Asked if the sand is dangerous, Hyslop said, "It's not something you
want laying around in Kuwait." So, send it to Idaho instead!

If American Ecology were really thinking outside the litter box, it
would be supporting the NOBASES effort to repatriate all our military’s
leavings.

See more stories tagged with: kuwait, military bases

Penny Coleman is the widow of a Vietnam veteran who took his own life
after coming home. Her latest book, Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War, was released on Memorial Day,
2006. Her Web site is Flashback.

Case for Impeachment and Prosecution Laws violated...

2008-09-19T12:55:00.007-04:00

....by President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, public officials under their authority, and members of the U.S. Military under their command, sufficient for impeachment:

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Veterans for Peace

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Squadron 13 and Veterans Against Torture

NYTimes.com: The Cases

2008-09-18T18:29:00.003-04:00

I can no longer remain in check, I can no longer live in this country. I've the heart and head to empathize because I am an Honorably Discharged Disabled Veteran, USAF, 75 - 77, the tragedy that comes to the young. The MURDERER has taken our Constitution, our Jobs, Money, Homes and our Children.....

US January 12, 2008
The Cases
The New York Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war.



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NYTimes.com: American G.I. Held in Killings of 2 Fellow Soldiers

2008-09-18T18:23:00.008-04:00

It doesn't make me shake My head in wonder, YOU? When, when.......

INTERNATIONAL / MIDDLE EAST September 19, 2008
American G.I. Held in Killings of 2 Fellow Soldiers
By STEPHEN FARRELL
The cause of the crash was unclear, but there was no immediate suspicion of enemy activity, according to American and British military officials.

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2. Op-Ed Columnist: ‘Barbies for War!’
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Dennis Kucinich Shouts the Truth at the Democratic Convention

2008-09-18T18:02:00.001-04:00

HOLLAAAA' Dennis, WAR CRIMES and IMPEACHMENT! Sing it Dennis!!!
Peace
WE LOVE YOU ALWAYS!!!!!

John Ashcroft and Gonzo F'ed UP!!!

2008-09-18T07:56:00.023-04:00

I cannot comprehend how we continue to have such babbling boobs working as AG's and PRESIDENTS! This country is so overdone its way burnt! Why is it they bother to break law after law, to conceal, to LIE knowing they WILL be caught, I s'pose its because we don't do SHIT!

The Attorney General's Guidelines for FBI National Security Investigations and Foreign Intelligence Collection (U)

Classified by: John Ashcroft, AG EFFECTIVE: October 31, 2003

Reason: 1.4(c)

Declassify on : October 31, 2028

SECRET[with X's thru it]

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/nsiguidelines-2003.pdf

Then we have a Gonzo redux , Classification Modified by: Alberto R. Gonzales, AG

August 2, 2007

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/nsiguidelines.pdf

Gonzo has a pretty stamp, says :SECRET a big ass X then I can only make out OFORN. Whether you knew or not on 20 July 2007 the MURDERER released a PDD re;Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of "Detention and Interrogation Operated by the CIA"

Just rewrote CAT3 according to Geneva, because the Murderer said he knows best and we have that ole' thang the Constitution, so no worries...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/release/2007/07/print/20070720-4.html

On page 529 of TITLE 18-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Chapter 118-WAR CRIMES

Sec.

2441

then here the MURDERER comes, Page 531, Implementation of Treaty Obligations
Pub. L.109-366, sS 6(a), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2632, provided that:"(1)
................................."(3) INTERPRETATION BY THE MURDERER[my words].-
then the Psychopath in chief goes about telling Geneva and hes the Prez he has the authority of the US to interpret it whatever the F$$K way he feels like just because...additionally he HIMSELF has higher standards and such and will do with it what he will...

I apologize this hasn't a link, you'll actually have to learn and teach at once, go to http://www.thomas.gov/ and on the left side of the Home Page choose Law Library of Congress, in search box enter Title 18-Crimes and Criminal procedure, Chapter 18-WAR CRIMES, Sec 2441.
I handed you 3 years worth of research, okay?

Please go to http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs17.htm this will bring you to Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Fact Sheet No.17, The Committee against Torture.
This contains among many explainations, CAT3 and 4, along with Annex V, Model communication, this is what is transmitted to the UN regarding CAT 3 and 4 violations to be considered vnder the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Now point by point: The 9/11 attacks, the first released AG's guidelines for the FBI which was bullshit, it was blatant violations of CAT3, War Crimes, Treason, wiretap, arrests of US Citizens and just what the heck is an USA Terrorist org comprised mostly of Citizens and what do we call it? This is 2003. Next we start Torturing and cruel and unusual, to an even greater intensity, adding that damned adjective so "Extraordinary" Rendition, ergo secret flights with 99 % innocent civilians, leaving them in countries that Torture for, with and by us. this increases but things are rolling downhill, this gets bad in 2006, ergo rewrite of CAT3, no PDD publicly released until 20 July 2007, same time Gonzo makes his f$$k up of the "Supposed NEW and First time ONLY, never ever heard of before "The AG's Guidelines blah blah..", 2 August 2007. All hell is breaking loose and here we sit, in a Depression, now the Repugs are saying that "The Palin thing was an entire strategic move by the GOP to take the focus off McCain a bit, so then the SMARTY PANTS THE SMARTIEST EVER GOP will bring this discussion back in line to Obama v McCain", then we dumbass Democrats will surely learn, surely.
Stick with the timeline, go with the evidence, write a GD petition, walk your ass around and DO SOMETHING why are we so reticent? Why are we allowing this? No damn sure as hell NO we do not just have to weait until November what the fuck ever because NO ONE should EVER be ALLOWED to WALK away from such overeach of the Executive branch. The decimation of a nation, a wee poem, WTF. Later..............

NYTimes.com: Casualties of the Afghan War

2008-09-18T01:54:00.004-04:00

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The NAMES of the WAR, they Sicken me. The names of our Murdered Troops they shame and sadden me, as the widowed woman at age 40 whose village is once again run by Taliban she begs by the roadside for food for her daughters. She is pelted with rocks and called obscenities, whore, filthy daughter of a bitch, all the while in Burqa and head bowed. She makes her way home a reporter asks, "Would she be offended if she asked her to show her face inside?" well 4 walls a thatched roof, she gingerly lifts the veil of the Burqa and with eyes down cast you still are thrown into NOW, she appears 74. From sheer humiliation.... Our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters our Moms and Dads are dieing quickly there, the Afghani women are dieing slowly all the while praying to Allah that it would hasten. Two weeks later her 14 year old daughter was murdered by Taliban for trying to help her Mother beg for a pittance........ OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM..................freedom for whom is all we want to know, whom..........

US
US: Casualties of the Afghan War
by ANDY LEHREN, GABRIEL DANCE, MATTHEW ERICSON and BEN KOSKI
A listing of the 563 American service members who have died in Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those deaths, 510 occurred in Afghanistan or are directly linked to the war.

1. A Year of Heavy Losses

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