The independent commission on the Sept. 11 attacks announced an agreement Wednesday with the White House that would allow the review of classified intelligence documents previously withheld by the Bush administration.
The 10-member panel will designate a subcommittee that will examine the most sensitive documents and report back, commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste said. The four-person subcommittee will review some of the documents, but only two of those four commissioners will review others. The commission has not yet appointed the subcommittee. . . .
Bush said last month that the dispute concerned "the presidential daily brief," a classified written intelligence report he gets each morning.
The White House confirmed last year that one such report in August 2001, a month before the attacks, mentioned that al-Qaida might try to hijack U.S. passenger planes. . . .
Another commissioner, former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer, criticized the arrangement, saying the panel should have issued a subpoena rather than agree that only some members will see documents. "Either the commissioners have access or they don't," Roemer said.
There may be a possibility Roemer is somewhat serious about his job, though heavily compartmentalized. Anyone trying to bring information to the Commission would be advised to work through him, I think.
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Oliver Letwin sees no reason why he should quit his directorship with a top merchant bank.
Labour MP Kevin Brennan says a possible conflict of interest with his new post means he should leave NM Rothschild. . . .
"I can't give any kind of guarantee of a particular tax cut at a particular time, partly because we absolutely have to get structural reform of the public services first," [Brennan said.]
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After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.
Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman. . . .
Documents from The National Archives and Library of Congress confirm that Bush and his partners continued their Nazi dealings unabated. These activities included a financial relationship with the German city of Hanover and several industrial concerns. . . .
W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the toughest years of the war. . . .
The records also show that Bush and the Harrimans conducted business after the war with related concerns doing business in or moving assets into Switzerland, Panama, Argentina and Brazil - all critical outposts for the flight of Nazi capital after Germany's surrender in 1945. Fritz Thyssen died in Argentina in 1951. . . .
Much detail about these business dealings at link.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Kucinich on The Power Hour
Topics include 9/11, chemtrails
Congressman, and candidate for the Democrat Presidential nomination, Dennis Kucinich was on The Power Hour radio show this morning. He took calls during the interview. Highlights included:
Reiteration of desire to removie US troops from Iraq.
Argued for relative merits of UN.
Reiterated opposition to PATRIOT Act.
Distanced himself from notion there were planted charges at the World Trade Center, but expressed need for more investigation and transparency regarding 9/11.
Denied membership in Democratic Socialists of America.
Said he would renew federal 'assault weapon' ban.
For 'decriminalizing' marijuana.
Managed to take a strong stance against chemtrails without saying the word "chemtrail."
Warned about computer voting and called for open source software and paper trails
The Democratic Socialists of America issue seems to have arisen from an association that organization may have had with the "Progressive Caucus" in the U.S. House of Representatives, of which Kucinich is a member.
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Margie Schoedinger of Missouri City, Texas has filed a lawsuit against George W. Bush in Fort Bend County Court. In her suit she is alleging "race based harassment and individual sex crimes committed against her and her husband." The suit lists numerous offenses and asks for actual damages, punitive damages and judgments against George W. Bush.
An anonymous report on Rense.com indicates that the death may be what was known during the Clinton years as 'Arkancide':
I called the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, which lists her cause of death as a "gunshot wound to the head" and "suicide." Anyone versed in CIA/Mafia lingo knows that "suicide" sometimes means "murder" or at least carries with it some pressure to commit suicide by outside parties, such as those against whom that person has filed a lawsuit. I'm not yet saying this is a murder - you draw your own conclusion.
When I talked to Schoedinger in July she sounded in good health. She was only 38. It's another weird tragedy surrounding the Bush administration - and this one has received NO mention from the media.
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Votescam update
Having commissioned and ignored a lite audit PDF] from a defense contractor, Maryland will be ordering thousands more Diebold touchscreens for the March Presidential primary. Meanwhile, in California, evidence of Diebold tampering emerges as the Secretrary of State orders audits of his own.
The court-ordered probe into the breakdown of 10 new touch-screen voting machines in Fairfax County on Election Day. . .
[A lawsuit] was filed yesterday by the Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland, which wants state election officials to reconsider a $55 million contract with [AVS].
Maryland election officials . . . said they will go forward with plans to install 11,000 new touch-screen electronic voting machines in time for the March presidential primary.
Fairfax County earlier this year bought 1,000 new laptop touch-screen computer voting machines from Texas-based Advanced Voting Solutions (AVS). . . vote returns came in slower, machines broke down in nine precincts and Republicans filed a lawsuit that challenges the results.
[S]tate and local governments are spending tens of millions of dollars to overhaul their systems for recording votes. Under the federal Help America Vote Act, [b]localities must upgrade manual voting machines by 2006[/b].
Citing concerns that Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on some electronic voting systems in a California county without the state's knowledge, officials are forcing the company to pay for an audit of all the company's voting machines used in the state in order to win certification for a new model. . . .
The software was installed in Alameda County . . .
[State] certification is contingent on Diebold paying for an independent audit of all its hardware and software used in 13 other California counties to determine if uncertified components have been installed elsewhere.
Diebold must also cooperate fully with the independent auditors and with the secretary of state's office during its investigation of the certification violation . . . Three have already signed contracts with Diebold for TSx machines. . . A fourth county, San Diego, is negotiating with Diebold to purchase over 10,000 TSx units.
Starting in 2004, the state will also conduct random audits of voting systems to ensure that all software and hardware is certified. And in the future, the state will require CEOs of vendors to affirm under penalty of perjury that the company will not change systems without obtaining written approval from the secretary of state. Failure to do so may result in de-certification and possible criminal charges
This California SecState Kevin Shelly is talking a good game. Is he for real? The answer will be in who is selected for the "independent" audit.
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This is a CIA document that appeared sometime in the early 1990s and has been (unwittingly) authenticated by the CIA itself, in that when Dr. Donald R. Burleson, author of UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, filed his appeal of the CIA's refusal to release transcripts of government wiretaps on Marilyn Monroe's telephones, the appeal, which was based largely on the 3 August 1962 document in question, was accepted; ultimately no transcripts were released, but the acceptance-of-appeal process did demonstrate that the document is of authentic CIA provenance. (The CIA could have denied the authenticity of the document and could thus have turned the appeal down, but they did not. Tacitly, they acknowledged that the document is genuine.)
The 3 August 1962 CIA document, written only a day before Marilyn Monroe's death, reveals that some high government officials were in a state of extreme anxiety over the fact that the Kennedy brothers (Jack and Bobby) had been imparting sensitive information to Marilyn, and that she was writing a lot of it down in her little red "diary of secrets." Of special interest is the CIA document's mention of the fact that one of the secrets everyone was afraid Marilyn might have written down had to do with "the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space." . . .
When the Kennedys started distancing themselves from Marilyn, she grew angry and (mentioning it on the telephone, unfortunately) started planning to hold a news conference and "tell all." . . .
The UFO connection becomes all the more compelling with the discovery, described in Burleson's UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, of an imprint to the left of the "TOP SECRET" stamp near the top of the document; the imprint [or "bleed-in"], when Burleson enhanced it by computer imaging techniques, turns out to contain the name of Brigadier General George Shulgen, who was formerly the chief UFO investigation-coordinator for the U.S. Air Force. . . . makes a clear connection between her murder and the question of UFO secrecy, as someone, somewhere at some time, evidently thought it logical to archive the documents together.
Check out the link for image and graphic of the document.
(Dr. Burleson runs a laboratory at Eastern New Mexico University.)
Reading between the lines of the ICRC statement and the various press reports, there are indications, although no official evidence, that Red Cross vehicles were targeted by Coalition forces. As mentioned earlier, Iraqi forces had no reason to target ambulances which were collaborating with Iraqi health officials.
The ICRC was careful not to openly accuse US forces:
" The ICRC said it was not known whether the convoy had been deliberately attacked or had been caught up in crossfire between American and Iraqi forces." (Independent, 10 April 2003)
According to Roland Huguenin-Benjamin, of the Red Cross mission in Baghdad:
'Casualties have been seen on the roads, on some bridges and there was no immediate possibility of evacuating them, for the reason that there was immediate fire as soon as anybody was trying to approach. The problem is the lack of respect for ambulances and respect for casualties - to give allow a minimum of security for people to be evacuated.'" (Ibid, emphasis added)
. . . By reducing the ICRC's presence, it also undermined the implementation of the ICRC's mandate in Iraq under the Geneva Convention. . .
Under its mandate, the ICRC "visits to prisoners are aimed at preventing or putting an end to disappearances, extra-judicial killings, torture and ill-treatment, and improving conditions of detention," in accordance with the Geneva Convention
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In light of an "eighteen-fold increase" in TWA 800 documents released by the FBI during settlement negotiations, the 1st circuit Appeals Court in Boston vacated a recent Springfield District Court ruling that favored the FBI. The case has been remanded back to the lower court to "resolve the FOIA issues raised by Sephton."
Graeme Sephton, an Engineer at U-Mass Amherst, filed the suit in 1998 as FOIA officer for [FIRO]. He requested from the FBI, data from forensic analyses of "foreign bodies" found during autopsy examinations of victims of the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.
Some of the documents unearthed by Sephton describe pellets consistent with those used in missile warheads. No less than twenty such pellets were recovered during victim autopsy exams. The FBI report describing the pellets was classified "Secret" and dated after the FBI officially suspended its investigation into the crash.
FBI whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst submitted a supporting affidavit, which named two FBI laboratory databases where responsive records would most likely be stored. None of three affidavits submitted by the FBI describing its search method mention searching any FBI Laboratory database.
Source has links to trial transcript and ruling.
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War, depression and genocide in the past century were not accidental or inevitable but the result of malevolent design.
Shocking evidence is a 1938 Stalinist police (NKVD) interrogation of a founder of the Communist International, Christian G. Rakovsky, 65, who was facing the firing squad for plotting to overthrow Stalin.
The 50-page transcript of his interrogation, dubbed "The Red Symphony," was not meant to become public. It confirms that the Rothschild-Illuminati planned to use Communism to establish a world dictatorship of the super rich. . . .
Rakovsky refers to the Illuminati as "they" or "them." He claims he does not know them but I suspect he does.
He explains that the "Illuminati" is a Masonic secret society dedicated to Communism. Significantly, its founder Adam Weishaupt took the name from "the second anti-Christian conspiracy of that era, gnosticism." (249) . . .
A doctor Jose Landowsky was the only other person present. . . .
Landowsky doubts if the mild euphoric he put in Rakovsky's drink had much effect. . .
The content was so mind boggling that Landowsky made an additional carbon for himself. . ..
the first half of "Red Symphony" on the Internet.
The whole transcript was published in English in 1968 as "The Red Symphony: X-Ray of Revolution." You can find it in Des Griffin's "Fourth Reich of the Rich." (1988) . . .
"Money is the basis of power," Rakovsky says, and the Rothschilds manufacture it thanks to the banking system.
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Sunday, November 09, 2003
Jessica Lynch: The dead witnesses
The live 'witnesses,' are Lynch, who signed a big book deal, and the Iraqi lawyer who was allowed to defect and has cut a deal with NBC for the movie of the week tonight. Now check out the four dead witnesses.
A big payoff vs. death. Cf. any mafia film -- this is "an offer you can't refuse."
Sure enough, Pfc Lynch has selective amnesia and cannot remember the events of her capture and rescue . . .
When the Department of Defense insisted on keeping up their official version of the rescue, I knew that inevitably some of Lynch's rescuers would be hushed. After all, here is a woman who endured a few broken limbs from a vehicle accident and is rewarded with a million bucks, while her rescuers continue to live without toilets and running water in a Depleted Uranium wasteland. . . .
Four of Pfc. Lynch's rescuers and colleagues have met an early demise.
JESSICA LYNCH DISPUTES ARMY ACCOUNT OF DRAMATIC RESCUE!
Jessica Lynch criticized military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and recasting her ordeal as patriotic fable... MORE.. Asked by ABCNEWS anchor Diane Sawyer if military's portrayal of rescue bothered her, Lynch said: 'Yeah, it does. It does that they used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff. Yeah, it's wrong'... Asked how she felt about reports of her heroism: 'It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about. Only I would have been able to know that, because the other four people on my vehicle aren't here to tell the story. So I would have been the only one able to say, Yeah, I went down shooting. But I didn't'... Asked about claims the military exaggerated danger of the rescue mission: 'Yeah, I don't think it happened quite like that'...
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was on The Power Hour radio show this morning. He took calls during the interview. Highlights included:
written only a day before Marilyn Monroe's death, reveals that some high government officials were in a state of extreme anxiety over the fact that the Kennedy brothers (Jack and Bobby) had been imparting sensitive information to Marilyn, and that she was writing a lot of it down in her little red "diary of secrets." Of special interest is the CIA document's mention of the fact that one of the secrets everyone was afraid Marilyn might have written down had to do with "the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space." . . .