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Devastating News...

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:06:55 GMT

Please Contact Your Local, State and National Representativces and DEMAND that Chen Guangcheng and ALL State Prisoners of Conscience be FREED NOW!

China: Chen Guangcheng is prisoner of conscienceHuman rights activist Chen Guangcheng was today sentenced to four years and three months in prison. In reaction, Catherine Baber, Deputy Asia Pacific Director at Amnesty International said:

"We condemn utterly the sentence imposed on Chen Guangcheng and consider him a prisoner of conscience. Chen has been imprisoned solely because of his peaceful defence of human rights and he should be released immediately."

"The charges against Chen were politically motivated and the trial was grossly unfair from start to finish. Chen's lawyers were obstructed at every step of the way, from collecting evidence to representing him in court. By some accounts the trial lasted only two hours; and the courtroom was filled with official representatives preventing members of the public and most of Chen's relatives attending."

Chen was charged with "damaging public property and gathering people to block traffic" in June 2006, after he had been detained incommunicado for three months. He had been arbitrarily confined to his home since September 2005. Before his detention Chen had been helping local villagers in their attempt to sue the local authorities in Linyi City, Shandong province, for carrying out an illegal policy of forced abortions and sterilizations which reportedly affected thousands of local women.

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For more information please call Amnesty International's press office in London, UK, on +44 20 7413 5566
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Blue Rose Report #3 - Open Lines for Callers

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:07:15 GMT

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Chen Guangcheng Updates

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:34:40 GMT

Washington Post - Chinese Rights Activist Stands Trial After Police Detain Defense ...
Washington Post, United States - Aug 18, 2006
Chen Guangcheng, 34, appeared pale and thin when he showed up at a county courthouse in eastern Shandong province wearing a black T-shirt, gray pants and

Arrests of Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Condemned
Christian Post, CA - 6 hours ago
... Gao demanded the release of Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist who has campaigned against China[base ']s harsh population control measures. ...

Chinese Government Must End Crackdown on Lawyers
BBSNews, NC - 38 minutes ago
... On August 18, the trial of another legal activist, Chen Guangcheng, turned into a mockery of justice when his lawyers were physically assaulted and then ...

Chinese Court May Issue Verdict on Times Researcher Friday
New York Times, United States - Aug 21, 2006
... At the same time, officials in Shandong Province last week held a secret trial for Chen Guangcheng, a legal expert and peasant rights advocate. ...

China court may rule soon in Times researcher's case
International Herald Tribune, France - Aug 21, 2006
... At the same time, officials in Shandong Province last week held a secret trial for Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal expert and peasant rights advocate. ...

Archive of Blue Rose Report #2 Now Online

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:14:12 GMT

Check out the Audio Archive of the ...

Second BLUE ROSE REPORT.

You'll hear Guest Adam Gorightly as well as calls from Mack White and Greg Bishop.

We talked about Consciousness, Psychedelics, UFOs and Contactees like Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson and John C. Lilly. Gorightly talked about his three books: Shadow Over Santa Susanna, The Prankster and the Conspiracy as well as his most recent tome, The Beast of Adam Gorightly - Collected Rantings '92 to '04.

Gorightly also educated us about another connection for explaining the name of our show ... The Blue Rose Report. Seems there is a Contactee saucer cult leader, the Rev. Bob Short who founded The Blue Rose Ministry and ministered for years out at the Giant Rock, Joshua Tree, Landers, California vortex with some of the original 50s / 60s Contactees.

Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:06:59 GMT

Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth

Submitted by Somebigguy on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 4:53am. Religious | Video

Seems that religious leaders are finally stepping up to the plate. We truly have hit the mainstream...

Video available here:
video.google.com

An article available here:
jonesreport.com

Loehr delivered a sermon regarding 9/11 as early as September 16, 2001, but from a rather different perspective. Loehr utilized his first sermon in a 'post-9/11' world to highlight the effects of "blowback"--consequences for the adverse effects of U.S. foreign policy from the eyes of many foreign nations, particularly in the Mid-East region.

Thanks to Stacy for sending this in.

Perry Aide Working for TTC's CINTRA and More

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:45:05 GMT

PERRY AIDE WORKING FOR TTC's CINTRA and More

MORE NEWS ARTICLES: PERRY AIDE WORKING FOR CINTRA BELOW:

DALLAS NEWS TODAY: Perry's Transportation Advisor rehired by Cintra

CorridorWatch TODAY: Cintra's Inside Man - Dan Shelly

-DALLAS NEWS: Perry's Top Donors Get TTC related Appointments-

Who profited from Cintra's public stock offering?

Top Aide to Perry Worked for Cintra

Shelley's previous employment for Cintra adds questions about the Trans-Texas Corridor.

Account of aide's role at Cintra contradicted

Perry's office downplays ties to corridor firm

Perry aide was at toll road meetings

Revolving roles stir concerns in Austin

"Governor's motives are open to question in light of the large campaign contributions he received from interests boosting the privatized corridors."

- Sal Costello [The Muckraker]

New Article Regarding Ongoing 9/11 Family Lawsuits

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:39:09 GMT

New Article Regarding Ongoing 9/11 Family Lawsuits.

Sept. 11 plaintiffs wait for answers, resolution - boston.com

Now, nearly five years after the historic disaster, roughly 60 lawsuits are still grinding their way through court. And the families pushing ahead with litigation, including numerous New Englanders, are mired in a massive legal case that has become a complicated behemoth for the federal judge overseeing it.
..
The case pits those who consider the day's events an unpreventable tragedy against others who believe government and aviation officials ignored clear warnings that such an assault was possible. That lapse, in their view, led to the deaths of beloved friends and relatives, and they now want accountability and answers.

For some litigants, their decision to sue was met by public disapproval from skeptics who questioned their motives and dismissed their quest for justice as futile. But in interviews with the Globe, many family members said they are committed to pursuing the case until government, airline, and security officials are held responsible for their roles in the attacks. And they are aware that litigation is a gamble that could produce neither answers nor money, they said.
..
Still, many of the firm's clients say they sued not for financial gain, but because they believe litigation will fully reveal whether government and aviation officials could have anticipated and prevented the events of Sept. 11. Some also sued because life insurance and other "offsets" would have reduced their payments from the compensation fund, which awarded $2 million in death cases and $400,000 in injury cases, on average.

Thanks Revolution Corporation for the heads up!

By noemail@noemail.org (dz). [911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News]

FCC opens inquiries into television stations caught airing fake news

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:37:07 GMT

Media Minutes: August 18, 2006. The FCC opens inquiries into television stations caught airing fake news, and more evidence of continued journalistic deception is on the way. The Supreme Court agrees to hear an anti-trust case involving the nation's dominant phone companies. A federal judge strikes down the NSA's warrentless wiretapping program as unconstitutional, while several lawsuits alleging telecom complicity in the scheme are consolidated. [Media Minutes Podcast]

Homeland Security nabs Free Stater

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:34:52 GMT

Homeland Security nabs Free Stater. Mark Frauenfelder: Anonymous says:

A member of the Free State Project, Russell Kanning, was arrested recently for attempting to distribute a flyer to IRS agents in his home town asking them to quit their job. The flyers contain anti-war content, criticism the Bush administration for its erosion of civil rights, and a form resignation letter addressed to President Bush, which he is asking IRS agents to sign. Kanning remains in a maximum security and will not be allowed visitors. The Free State Project recently passed 7,250 members more than 1/3 of its 20,000 person goal.

Link

By noemail@noemail.org (Mark Frauenfelder). [Boing Boing]

Swingin' big band song about rejecting surveillance

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:33:21 GMT

Swingin' big band song about rejecting surveillance. Cory Doctorow: Rickie Lee Jones and former members of The Squirrel Nut Zippers, a great big-band revival act, have recorded a jumpin' number about rejecting surveillance and voting for a government that won't spy on us and take away our freedom. This is handily the catchiest political song I've ever heard, and certainly the most danceable.

MP3 Link, Link

(Thanks, Cindy!)

Update: Tom Maxwell, author of this song sez, "Ken Mosher and myself are former Squirrel Nut Zippers. The band no longer exists, and its name is owned by a candy company that might not look kindly on political content. We did the song as Maxwell/Mosher and not as the Zips."

By noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow). [Boing Boing]

Houston paper sees the light, wants paper

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:21:39 GMT

Houston paper sees the light, wants paper.

Ballot backstop
Houston Chronicle editorial

In in an electronic age haunted by computer viruses and hackers, many people cling to paper security blankets, whether they come in the form of ATM receipts, itemized credit card charges or monthly bank statements.

Yet in the essential civic exercise of choosing our representatives, Texans who use electronic machines are forced to trust a fallible computer program with no way to check the accuracy of the results. Such a system amounts to faith-based voting.

Always happy to see people grasping what we have been saying for slmost four years.

With the knowledge that no computer is tamperproof and a growing list of malfunctions by direct recording electronic machines (DREs) during elections, 27 states have enacted laws requiring voting systems that produce paper ballots that voters can verify (VVPBs). After individuals make their selections and cast their vote electronically, a hard copy of the ballot is printed showing the selections. The voter views the results to make sure their vote is accurate, and then drops the ballot into a sealed box, providing a record independent of the electronic machine that can later be audited.

Texas, unfortunately, has no such requirement, and Harris County, which uses the Hart Intercivic machine and also conducts municipal elections, has no plans to purchase the company's optional printer system to create a paper trail. County Democratic Party officials are clamoring for such a system, as well as increased security and voting machine tests for accuracy.

"If folks can hack the Pentagon," Harris County Democratic Chairman Gerry Birnberg said, "they can certainly hack a machine in Harris County."

Again, I would like to point out that the greatest threat from these machines is the fact that the software is so poorly written, failure is inevitable.

County Clerk Beverly Kaufman, a Republican, says such concerns are unfounded. "There's this kind of cavalier attitude on these folks' part that all you've got to do is just bolt on a printer and there it is," said Kaufman, who estimates that it would cost up to $8 million to buy equipment and reprogram the system with the capability to print ballots in three languages. "We're just not at a point here where we're able to do it if we wanted to, which we don't."

No, the cavalier attitude comes from folks like you who insist on faith in a system that has been repeatedly shown to be unreliable and inaccurate. Also, you were warned about these problems LONG before you bought these systems. You chose to listen to the vendors rather than the voters, so if more money is required, look in the mirror for someone to blame.

Kaufman also contends that the current system has the capability to produce a paper copy of results after the election is concluded. However, whatever would be printed out would simply reflect what the system recorded and would not detect computer malfunctions, erased votes or fraudulent manipulation of programming.

In a report this year on electronic voting machines entitled "Malfunction and Malfeasance," researchers for the nonpartisan group Common Cause concluded that DRE machines "are vulnerable to malfunction and also to tampering in which a computer-savvy hacker with minimal access to the machine could introduce malicious code to the DRE software and change the results of an election."

The report cites an incident during this spring's Texas primary in which voting machines in Tarrant County, which uses the same system as Harris, recorded 100,000 votes that were never cast. Hart Intercivic officials took responsibility for the programming mistake that caused the overcount but discounted the incident because votes for all candidates were boosted equally.

The software FAILED. It failed in a spectacular fashion, which was good. Next time it can fail in a subtle fashion which will be harder to detect, but will thwart the will of the voters all the same.

Last year the Commission on Federal Election Reform led by former Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican, and former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, issued election reform recommendations that included a call for a federal law requiring all electronic voting systems to be equipped with paper printouts. Legislation died in the last session of Congress but has been reintroduced by Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J. A similar bill, the Voter Integrity and Verification Act, has been introduced in the Senate by Republican John Ensign of Nevada.

Since Texas has yet to approve paper trails that voters can verify, it is not Kaufman's responsibility to make that decision. The Texas Legislature and Congress should pass legislation mandating the installation of paper audits on all electronic voting machines.

They are more expensive and might create more work for election officials, but VVPBs are necessary to boost voter confidence in system and give candidates recourse to recounts.

Again, if you had listened to us in the first place, you wouldn't have wasted money. [Black Box Voting]

CIA's Secret UK Bank Trawl May Be Illegal

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:13:20 GMT

CIA's Secret UK Bank Trawl May Be Illegal. 'A covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed to the CIA with the full knowledge of the government may breach both British and European law, the Guardian has learned.

'The information commissioner, who is responsible for enforcing the Data Protection Act, is investigating the arrangement, which has seen details of computerised transactions from around the world passed to the CIA in an attempt to spy on the financiers of jihadist terrorism.' (Guardian article). [Disinformation]

Real Threat Or Fake Terror?

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:08:45 GMT

Real Threat Or Fake Terror?. 'Attorney Nabih Ayad drove two hours north from the Arab-American enclave of Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, to tiny Caro, Mich., last Wednesday in hopes of springing three of his clients from the Tuscola County jail.

'The clients, three young Palestinian-Americans from Texas, had been arrested while driving their van from Wal-Mart to Wal-Mart buying cheap cellphones. The county prosecutor had filed state terrorism charges against the trio, believing they were jihadis plotting to blow up the Mackinac Bridge. Though Ayad knew that the terrorism case was already collapsing, and expected his clients would soon be in the clear, he still wanted to get them out of jail on bond in the interim.' (Salon Magazine article). [Disinformation]

The Loose Cannon Of 9/11

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:56:16 GMT

The Loose Cannon Of 9/11. 'It took two governors, four congressmen, three former White House officials and two special counsels two years to compile. They reviewed over two and half million pages of classified and declassified documents, consulted 1,200 sources in 10 countries, and spent over $15 million of the taxpayers' money in the process. And on July 22, 2004, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report on the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Is it possible that two twentysomethings from "a small hippie town that time forgot" could undermine that entire effort with $8,000 and a laptop?

'Yes, if you ask ex-Army specialist Korey Rowe. The 23-year-old from Oneonta, New York returned home from two tours -- one to Afghanistan, the other to Iraq -- to help his best friends, Dylan Avery (director) and Jason Bermas (researcher), produce the sensational 80-minute, Web-based documentary "Loose Change," which seeks to establish the government's complicity in the terror attacks by addressing some very tough questions: Why wasn't Ground Zero treated like a crime scene? How did both towers "free-fall" to the ground "in 9.2 seconds" in just under two hours? And where are the black boxes from American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175?' (AlterNet article). [Disinformation]

9/11 Special

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 04:53:16 GMT

9/11 Special.

Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story.

Former UK Government Minister Michael Meacher: "The war on terror is bogus"

Former German Secretary Of Defense Andreas Von Bulow: "The official story is so inadequate and far fetched that there must be a different one". (Information Clearing House video stream).

media-underground.net

[media underground]

Graphic Evidence In US Troops' Rape & Murder Trial

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:39:15 GMT

Graphic Evidence In US Troops' Rape & Murder Trial.

'An Iraqi medic has provided graphic testimony against four American soldiers who stand accused of raping a 14-year old Iraqi girl and killing three of her relatives.

'The US military hearing in Baghdad is expected to last several days and will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to take the case to a court martial.

'The medic, who was not named for his own safety, told the hearing he was the first to arrive at a house in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad after the 12 March attack.

'He said he found the girl, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, lying naked in the house, her torso and head burned. She had a single bullet wound beneath her left eye. In the next room, he said he found the body of Abeer's sister, Hadeel, the back of her head blown out by a bullet. Qassim and Fikhriya, the children's parents, were also dead, their mother's torso riddled with bullets.

'After witnessing the scene, he said he was ill for weeks.

'Sergeant Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker, Private Jesse Spielman and Private Bryan Howard face charges of rape and murder.' (New Zealand Herald article).

media-underground.net

[media underground]

MSNBC's Olbermann Exposes Nexus Of Politics And Terror

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:45:02 GMT

Olbermann Exposes Nexus Of Politics And Terror
Details ten clear examples where Bush admin. alerts preceded by damaging revelations

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 15 2006

During a prime time segment on his MSNBC show last night, anchor Keith Olbermann presented ten clear examples where the Bush administration had issued terror alerts days after politically damaging revelations and questioned the credibility of each of the alleged plots' authenticity in light of astounding evidence to the contrary.

Read entire article HERE or view the VIDEO below.

Listen to guest Adam Gorightly on The Blue Rose Report

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:39:46 GMT

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Flashback - ParaPolitical News 11/21/02 - Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:31:44 GMT

Please Read: Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks

Dear Friends and Fellow Americans,

Why am I sending this to you now? I have decided to send this to you NOW because of an under-reported item in Sunday's Los Angeles Times newspaper by Willaim Arkin (October 27th). In that article Rumsfeld is alleged to be making efforts to provoke more terror attacks as part of a plan to flush terrorist groups out into the open in order to find and destroy them.

I am speaking of their "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group, (P2OG)":

"Among other things, this body would launch secret operations aimed at 'stimulating reactions' among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction -- that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to 'quick-response' attacks by U.S. forces.

Such tactics would hold 'states/sub-state actors accountable' and 'signal to harboring states that their sovereignty will be at risk,' the briefing paper declares."

More important than Arkin's article is Chris Floyd's article in CounterPunch that connects the dots, citing the Operation Northwoods documents (see below) and what's really going on here and abroad as the direct intended result of the 911 events which were allegedly allowed to happen.

Surely, you can see the parallels between the events of 911, Rumsfeld's plan to instigate terror attacks and the documented plans of Operation Northwoods.

What is Operation Northwoods ... ?

Since before September 11th 2001, I was aware of documents declassified and uncovered in 2000 that demonstrate efforts on the part of the 1962 Joint Chiefs of Staff to stage terrorist attacks against American civilians to start a war with Cuba. Researcher James Bamford (The Puzzle Palace) was made aware of documents found during a search of declassified JFK assassination docs. Bamford then published these documents in his 2001 book Body Of Secrets. It was on the New York Times bestseller list in early 2001.

These explosive documents show that the Joint Chiefs of Staff plotted to initiate a "remember the Maine" terrorism campaign against the American people by "Cuba" - staging attacks on Guantanimo Bay, blowing up US airliners filled with American citizens, bomb Washington DC, and much much more - so that "casualty lists in US Newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation" and a pretext for invasion and war with Cuba. John F. Kennedy opposed this plan and was dead within a few months.

Shortly after I heard about this book in early 2001 it was covered by the Baltimore Sun newspaper and then by Peter Jennings on prime time ABCNews. (See links to those articles below) PDF copies of the original documents are available at the National Security Archive (see link below) as well as the archive link at my site
here:

Operation Northwoods Documents (archived at Elfis.Net)
<elfis.net/parapolitics/northwoodsdoc1.pdf>

In May 2001 local parapolitical investigator and radio host Alex Jones interviewed author James Bamford about these documents. Note that during this pre 911 interview Alex alludes to other plans mentioned in the docs that intimate sniper attacks in US cities.

Alex Jones interviews James Bamford 5/9/1 (File Size = 5mb)
<elfis.net/parapolitics/aj050901pmJamesBamford1.mp3>

Over a year and a half after the above interview wherein Jones and Bamford discuss the documented plans for fake terror attacks against American citizens (including sniper attacks) Alex would suddenly put two and two together and issue a press release on October 23rd in which he draws the connection between certain passages of the Northwoods docs that suggest the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington DC.

Alex Jones' Operation Expose the Govt Snipers Press Release
<http://www.infowars.com/northwoods.htm>

In less than 24 hours the alleged snipers were apprehended by authorities following their surreal Manchurian Candidate-esque "cue" televised to the sniper using the Cherokee folktale of the fox and the:

"You have indicated that you want us to do and say certain things. You've asked us to say,'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.' We understand that hearing us say this is important to you."
--Montgomery Co. Police Chief Charles Moose, Oct. 23, at a televised news briefing addressed to the sniper.

Just weeks before Alex Jones' realization I had a conversation with one of my other local parapolitical writers/researchers who had already drawn the same conclusion, that the sniper attacks were the continued implimentation of the Northwoods plan.

Whether you think of this as absolute fact, complete fantasy, or disinfo from some unknown group, the fact remains that no-one is addressing the obvious parallels between the 911 "intelligence failure" ***

*** Or was it an Intelligence Success ... see W199EYE released by former FBI deputy director John O'Neill (before his murder on 911) and published by Greg Palast in his book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. W199EYE is an alleged Executive Order signed by President Bush before September 11th 2001, pulling all FBI agents from investigation of the very terrorists who would allegedly carry out the 911 attacks. This order and the resulting lawsuits by 911 victims families have been deemed a "threat to National Security".
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AND NOW .... Big Brotha is getting everything he wants ...

From the Federation of American Scientists at <www.FAS.org>

SECRECY IN THE NEWS

The pending Homeland Security Act includes "the most severe weakening of the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] in its 36-year history," Senator Patrick Leahy told the Washington Post. See "Disclosure Curbs in Homeland Bill Decried" by Dan Morgan, Washington Post, November 16:
<washingtonpost.com>

... and "Homeland bill's secrecy rules criticized" by Tamara Lytle, Orlando Sentinel, November 15:
<orlandosentinel.com>

A November 14 New York Times column by William Safire galvanized public concern about the privacy implications of DARPA's "Total Information Awareness" initiative that would probe databases of private transactions in search of terrorists. A November 16 Washington Post editorial put the matter in some perspective:

<washingtonpost.com>

By creating a new Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Pentagon has done approximately the opposite of what was recommended by a classified review of U.S. intelligence headed by Brent Scowcroft last year. See "New Intelligence Post Consolidates Rumsfeld's Clout" by Vernon Loeb in the Washington Post online, November 18:

<washingtonpost.com>

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OPERATION NORTHWOODS
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ABCNews Coverage:

Friendly Fire - Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba By David Ruppe

N E W Y O R K, May 1 In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

<abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662>

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Baltimore Sun Coverage:

New book on NSA sheds light on secrets - U.S. terror plan called Cuba invasion pretext By Scott Shane and Tom Bowman Sun Staff
Originally published April 24, 2001

WASHINGTON - U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the ouster of Communist leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book about the National Security Agency.

<baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.nsa24apr24.story>
<web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.baltimoresun.com>
<prisonplanet.com>
<infowars.com>

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Original Official NSA Declassified Documents:

The National Security Archive
April 30, 2001

In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS. This document, titled "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods. Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington," including "sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated)," faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a "Remember the Maine" incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods "may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government."

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba [includes cover memoranda], March 13, 1962, TOP SECRET, 15 pp.

<gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20010430/>
<gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf>

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CounterPunch

November 1, 2002

Into the Dark - The Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
by CHRIS FLOYD

This age: layers of lime harden in the sick son's blood... There's nowhere to run from the tyrant-epoch... Who else will you kill? Who else glorify? What other lies will you invent?

Osip Mandelshtam,
"1 January 1924"

This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large?

Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.

This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times. There--in an article by military analyst William Arkin, detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon--came the revelation of Rumsfeld's plan to create "a super-Intelligence Support Activity" that will "bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception."

According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization--the "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)"--will carry out secret missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to "counterattack" by U.S. forces.

In other words--and let's say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld's plan--the United States government is planning to use "cover and deception" and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Let's say it again: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the other members of the unelected regime in Washington plan to deliberately foment the murder of innocent people--your family, your friends, your lovers, you--in order to further their geopolitical ambitions.

For P2OG is not designed solely to flush out terrorists and bring them to justice--a laudable goal in itself, although the Rumsfeld way of combating terrorism by causing it is pure moral lunacy. (Or should we use the Regime's own preferred terminology and just call it "evil"?) No, it seems the Pee-Twos have bigger fish to fry. Once they have sparked terrorists into action--by killing their family members? luring them with loot? fueling them with drugs? plying them with jihad propaganda? messing with their mamas? or with agents provocateurs, perhaps, who infiltrate groups then plan and direct the attacks themselves?--they can then take measures against the "states/sub-state actors accountable" for "harboring" the Rumsfeld-roused gangs. What kind of measures exactly? Well, the classified Pentagon program puts it this way: "Their sovereignty will be at risk."

The Pee-Twos will thus come in handy whenever the Regime hankers to add a little oil-laden real estate or a new military base to the Empire's burgeoning portfolio. Just find a nest of violent malcontents, stir 'em with a stick, and presto: instant "justification" for whatever level of intervention/conquest/rapine you might desire. And what if the territory you fancy doesn't actually harbor any convenient marauders to use for fun and profit? Well, surely a God-like "super-Intelligence Support Activity" is capable of creation ex nihilo, yes?

The Rumsfeld-Bush plan to employ murder and terrorism for political, financial and ideological gain does have historical roots (besides al Qaeda, the Stern Gang, the SA, the SS, the KGB, the IRA, the UDF, Eta, Hamas, Shining Path and countless other upholders of Bushian morality, decency and freedom). We refer of course to Operations Northwoods, oft mentioned in these pages: the plan that America's top military brass presented to President John Kennedy in 1963, calling for a phony terrorist campaign--complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans--to provide "justification" for an invasion of Cuba, the Mafia/Corporate fiefdom which had recently been lost to Castro.

Kennedy rejected the plan, and was killed a few months later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but on a far grander scale, with resources at his disposal undreamed of by those brass of yore, with no counterbalancing global rival to restrain him--and with an ignorant, corrupt president who has shown himself all too eager to embrace any means whatsoever that will augment the wealth and power of his own narrow, undemocratic, elitist clique.

There is prestuplyeniye here, transgression, a stepping-over--deliberately, with open eyes, with forethought, planning, and conscious will--of lines that should never be crossed. Acting in deadly symbiosis with rage-maddened killers, God-crazed ranters and those supreme "sub-state actors," the mafias, Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of black ops, retribution, blowback, deceit, of murder and terror--wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that's best in us, of all that we've won from the bestiality of our primal nature, all that we've raised above the mindless ravening urges and impulses still boiling in the mud of our monkey brains.

It's not a fight for freedom; it's a retreat into darkness.

And the day will be a long time coming.

Chris Floyd is a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular contributor to
CounterPunch. He can be reached at: cfloyd72@hotmail.com

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P2OG: LATIMES - The Secret War - William Arkin

<www.latimes.com>

The Secret War

Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically
expanding its 'black world' of covert operations

By William M. Arkin

William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for
Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc.org

October 27 2002

SOUTH POMFRET, Vt. -- In what may well be the largest expansion of covert action by the armed forces since the Vietnam era, the Bush administration has turned to what the Pentagon calls the "black world" to press the war on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

The Defense Department is building up an elite secret army with resources stretching across the full spectrum of covert capabilities. New organizations are being created. The missions of existing units are being revised. Spy planes and ships are being assigned new missions in anti-terror and monitoring the "axis of evil."

The increasingly dominant role of the military, Pentagon officials say, reflects frustration at the highest levels of government with the performance of the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies and much of the burgeoning homeland security apparatus. It also reflects the desire of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to gain greater overall control of the war on terror.

Insulated from outside pressures, armed with matchless weapons and technology, trained to operate below the shadow line, the Pentagon's black world of classified operations holds out the hope of swift, decisive action in a struggle against terrorism that often looks more like a family feud than a war.

Coupled with the enormous effort being made throughout the government to improve and link information networks and databases, covert anti-terror operations promise to put better information in the hands of streamlined military teams that can identify, monitor and neutralize terrorist threats.

"Prevention and preemption are ... the only defense against terrorism," Rumsfeld said in May. "Our task is to find and destroy the enemy before they strike us."

The new apparatus for covert operations and the growing government secrecy associated with the war on terrorism reflect the way the Bush administration's most senior officials see today's world:

First, they see fighting terrorism and its challenge to U.S. interests and values as the 21st century equivalent of the Cold War crusade against communism. Second, they believe the magnitude of the threat requires, and thus justifies, aggressive new "off-the-books" tactics.

In their understandable frustration over continued atrocities such as the recent Bali attack, however, U.S. officials might keep two points in mind.

Though covert action can bring quick results, because it is isolated from the normal review processes it can just as quickly bring mistakes and larger problems. Also, the Pentagon is every bit as capable as the civilian side of the government when it comes to creating organization charts and bureaucracy that stifle creative thinking and timely action.

The development of the Pentagon's covert counter-terror capability has its roots in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The Army created a highly compartmentalized organization that could collect clandestine intelligence independent of the rest of the U.S. intelligence community and follow through with covert military action.

Known as the Intelligence Support Activity, or ISA, when it was established in 1981, this unit fought in drug wars and counter-terror operations from the Middle East to South America. It built a reputation for daring, flexibility and a degree of lawlessness.

In May 1982, Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci called the ISA"uncoordinated and uncontrolled." Though its freelance tendencies were curbed, the ISA continued to operate under different guises through the ill-starred U.S. involvement in Somalia in 1992 and was reportedly active in the hunt for Bosnian Serbs suspected of war crimes.

Today, the ISA operates under the code name Gray Fox. In addition to covert operations, it provides the war on terrorism with the kind of so-called "close-in" signals monitoring -- including the interception of cell phone conversations -- that helped bring down Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Gray Fox's low-profile eavesdropping planes also fly without military markings. Working closely with Special Forces and the CIA, Gray Fox also places operatives inside hostile territory.

In and around Afghanistan, Gray Fox was part of a secret sphere that included the CIA's paramilitary Special Activities Division and the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command.

These commands and "white" Special Forces like the Green Berets, as well a Air Force combat controllers and commandos of eight different nations report to a mind-boggling array of new command cells and coordination units set up after Sept. 11.

An Army brigadier general commands the Joint Interagency Task Force at Bagram air base north of Kabul to coordinate CIA, Defense Department and coalition forces in Afghanistan. A new Campaign Support Group has been established at Ft. Bragg, N.C. The Special Operations Joint Interagency Collaboration Center has been created in Tampa, Fla.

In Europe, the Joint Interagency Coordination Group handles information-sharing and logistical support with NATO. Hawaii's Pacific Command stood up a Joint Interagency Counter-Terrorist Group this summer.

Meantime, old commands are being morphed into new ones for the covert war. The two Joint Interagency Task Forces in the United States previously devoted to fighting drugs now have the war on terrorism as their highest priority.

The epicenter of the Pentagon's covert operations remains the North Carolina-based Joint Special Operations Command, often referred to as Delta Force. The super-secret command is still not officially acknowledged to exist. Its two-star commander, Army Maj. Gen. Dell L. Dailey, who spent much of the Afghan war in Oman, has no public biography.

Among Dailey's assets is a fleet of aircraft specially equipped for secret operations -- conventional and covert military planes and helicopters, and even former Soviet helicopters. The bulk of those craft, including the reconfigured Russian choppers, fly from airfields in Uzbekistan and from two Pakistani air bases, Shahbaz and Shamsi.

The Air Force and the CIA collect additional intelligence from unmanned Predator and Global Hawk drones. They also have low-profile reconnaissance assets that look like transport planes and operate under such code names as ARL-Low, Keen Sage, Scathe View and Senior Scout.

Not to be left out, the Navy's Gray Star spy vessel, reminiscent of the old Pueblo, captured by North Korea in 1968, now sweeps up sophisticated -- and obscure -- "measurements and signatures intelligence" to monitor the ballistic missile capabilities of Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

Even with all this, the Pentagon wants to expand covert capabilities.

Rumsfeld's influential Defense Science Board 2002 Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism says in its classified "outbrief" -- a briefing drafted to guide other Pentagon agencies -- that the global war on terrorism "requires new strategies, postures and organization."

The board recommends creation of a super-Intelligence Support Activity, an organization it dubs the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group, (P2OG), to bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception.

Among other things, this body would launch secret operations aimed at "stimulating reactions" among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction -- that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to "quick-response" attacks by U.S. forces.

Such tactics would hold "states/sub-state actors accountable" and "signal to harboring states that their sovereignty will be at risk," the briefing paper declares.

Never to be outdone in proposing hardware solutions, the Air Force is designing its own Global Response Task Force to fight the war on terrorism. The all-seeing, all-bombing Air Force envisions unmanned A-X aircraft capable of long-range, nighttime gunship operations and an M-X covert transport, as well as hypersonic and space-based conventional weapons capable of delivering a "worldwide attack within an hour."

Who says the arms race is over? Rumsfeld's science board warns against overemphasis on equipment even as it recommends more. Washington is well on its way to an arms race with itself.

And for those who worry that all these secret operations and aggressive new doctrines will turn the United States into the world's policeman, there is a ray of hope.

Rumsfeld is now the field marshal of the war on terrorism, but the Pentagon is also creating new layers of bureaucracy that may save it from itself. Not to mention the rest of us.

Copyright 2002 Los Angeles Times

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DOD EXAMINES "PREEMPTIVE" INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS

One way to invigorate U.S. intelligence would be to "Develop an entirely new capability to proactively, preemptively evoke responses from adversary/terrorist groups," according to the Defense Science Board, a Pentagon advisory group.

Such an approach would "improve [intelligence] information collection by stimulating reactions" from the target.

One hundred "highly specialized people with unique technical and intelligence skills such as information operations, PSYOP, network attack, covert activities, SIGINT, HUMINT, SOF, influence warfare/deception operations" could constitute a new, elite "Proactive Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)," reporting to the National Security Council with an annual budget of $100 million.

The proposal is the latest sign of a new assertiveness by the Defense Department in intelligence matters, and an indication that the cutting edge of intelligence reform is not to be found in Congress but behind closed doors in the Pentagon.

The Defense Science Board recommended creation of the preemptive operations group in its "DSB Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism."

The findings and recommendations of the DSB Summer Study were set forth in an August 16, 2002, PowerPoint briefing. The first thirty pages of the unclassified 78 page PointPoint presentation are posted here:

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The DSB briefing was first reported by Dan Dupont in Inside the Pentagon on September 26. It was also discussed by William M. Arkin in the Los Angeles Times on October 27.

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The Secret War
Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically expanding its 'black world' of covert operations
By William M. Arkin
William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for
Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc.org

October 27 2002

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Flashback: Elfis eLetter - 11/07/02

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:07:49 GMT

Flashback - November 7th, 2002

-Greetings one and all!

Welcome to the first ever weekly Elfis eLetter from SMiles Lewis, aka ELFIS. "We" are going to be trying to actually pull off a weekly electronic newsletter featuring all the wonderful news that catches the jaundiced eye of your host, Fortean Anomalist Informationalist ... Elfis. What kinds of things hook the eye of Elfis? The strange, the synchronistic, the ParaPolitical (aka Conspiracy, Corruption, Deep Politics), frontier science, anomalous phenomena, mind, parapsychology, dreams, lucidity and much much more. This eLetter will feature news and views on all these arenas and more. Also, news and updates related to the Elfis Network and its brethren.

So if you sign up for the eList be advised you are agreeing to be a party to the viewing of a wide variety of subject matter.

In fact, let's just get on with the...

Elfis Network News

Anomaly News RoundUp

AnomalyNews.com and ParaPolitics.info are the two main places I post the news articles I find most important within the Paranormal and Conspiracy Research venues.

At Anomaly News you will see posts covering the paranormal gamut of Anomaly Television projects, Anomalous Humans, Anomaly Science, Conspiracy, Cryptozoology, Entities, Haunted Places and Sacred Spaces and UFOs & Related Phenomena.

This week's headlines...

-Martian rock 'does contain life' BBC News Online
-Venus may have bugs, say scientists BBC News
-Does the Sun have a doomsday twin? Daily Telegraph (UK)
-Your Brain May Soon Be Used Against You Philadelphia Inquirer / SiliconValley.com
-Computer program to send data back in time UPI Science News
-International SETI launches new detection scale (Houston) South African Broadcasting Corporation

Podesta / Rothschild / SciFi Channel / Spielberg Alliance
-Outing UFO Clues Good for Ratings WIRED magazine
-UFOs: Seeking the Truth Through Savvy Marketing Space.com
-Greer vs Spielberg:The Politics of Disclosure Disclosure Project
-Charlie Smith on John Podesta and his connection to scandalous use of his own brother for exporting high tech computer secrets to China and more... VirtuallyStrange.net UFO UpDates

ParaPolitical UpDate

-Lawyer Defends White House Information Freeze Editor and Publisher
-UFO Cult Resurfaces Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy

UFO CULT RESURFACES

The UFO cult that is fixated on the notion that "secret government documents" contain "the truth" about otherwise "unexplained aerial phenomena" is, on balance, no friend of freedom of information or government accountability.

Neverending requests for documentation on UFOs, the remains of Noah's Ark, and similar obsessions clog up the narrow channels of public access to government information and make a mockery of the Freedom of Information Act.

Their latest publicity stunt, featuring no less than former White House chief of staff John Podesta, is reported in "Clinton Aide Slams Pentagon's UFO Secrecy" here:

cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/22/ufo.records/

Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists.

And the apology...

-A Word On UFOs Secrecy News

A WORD ON UFOS

The item entitled "UFO Cult Resurfaces" in the previous edition of Secrecy News included regrettable errors of commission and omission, such as these:

Proponents of UFO-related declassification are not literally a "cult," and it was gratuitously insulting to use that term; there are at least some historically or otherwise significant documents that remain classified (e.g. records on Project Moondust) that could be considered UFO-related; there is nothing intrinsically disreputable in the investigation of peripheral phenomena; and under the Freedom of Information Act, anyone is free to ask for anything, as they should be.

But the fact remains that the interests of those focused on UFOs are not the same as those concerned with the larger problem of public access to government information. Though UFO disclosure advocates have acquired the internet domain name "freedomofinfo.org," it does not accurately represent their narrow goals. (For a more faithful match between domain name and content, see www.freedominfo.org, the online network of freedom of information advocates.)

The latest UFO declassification campaign is again reported in "UFOs: Seeking the Truth Through Savvy Marketing," by Leonard David in Space.com, October 25:

space.com/news/ufo_poll_021025.html

Since that story repeats the unfortunate "UFO cult" remark, let this serve as an apology for that as well.

-Robert Kennedy Skeptical on UFOs PresidentialUFO.com
-Chlidren Stolen by Franco Family Finally Learn the Truth The Guardian
-Kim Jung Il's Abduction of South Korean and Japanese Entertainers

"This regime not only abducted thousands of South Korean citizens during the Korean War (3) but it continued to abduct South Korean fishermen and Japanese citizens up until the 1980's. (4) Many South Koreans and Japanese have been personally devastated by missing family members and live with the agony of not knowing their fate."
Congressional Human Rights Caucus

-U.S. Ambassador praises Russian handling of hostage crisisYahoo / Associated Press
-Troubled soldiers keep quiet Fort Bragg killings probe cites stigma USA Today
-The United States of the World
-Officer Makes Fatal Error, Shoots Suspect The Fresno Bee

Flashback to 2002 - Blue Beam Dream

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:43:33 GMT

Flashback: Sunday, August 4th, 2002 - Blue Beam Dream

Well well well... last night (in the dreamtime) I found myself at my GrandMother's house in San Antonio. We're inside when something calls our attention to go outside. Not sure if it was noises outside or a strange glow that drew our attention.

But once outside the spectacle was magnificent... In all directions around us the sky was lit up with glowing visions and wonders. For a split second we wondered whether it was a giant space ship. Our neighbors all down the street were out in there yards gawking at the signs in the sky.

As we watched a car accident occurred down the street, apparently the drivers were watching the spectacle and not the road.

At first these brilliant lighted visions in the sky had appeared as huge three dimensional structures with identical copies in each of the compas directions. Yet they were giving the impression that you could have gone in any direction and actually seen a different perspective on them, perhaps actually peering up INTO some of the more craft like visions.

As the display in the sky changed repeatedly, they went from glowing architectural structures (like those computer generated displays you might see in the background of the evening news or as transitions between news stories on same) to more obvious human origin messages, including words to the effect that the spectacle (I actually think it said SPECIAL) would only
last for twelve days.

Throughout the displays I KNEW what this was...

OPERATION BLUE BEAM

Project Blue Beam is a plan to use holography in the skies of the world to convince huge portions of the population that the Apocalypse or the Rapture is occurring. The plans for this clandestine world dominating scheme had there origins in the "German attempts at projecting the image of the Virgin Mary on the bottoms of clouds against the French in WWII" (X-Files - "Jose Chung's From Outer Space") and the American plan to surface a sub off the Cuban coast projecting the Second Coming of Christ in the sky to create an opportunity for a coup / invasion of Cuba. (Jacques Vallee 1979 - Messengers of Deception)

But Blue Beam's ultimate goal is to fullfil the plans of the New World Order. Perhaps in conjunction with the scheduled reappearance of "Maitreya" whom some believe is the real current Christ while others actually suspect him of being the AntiChrist incarnate.

Whatever the reality behind Blue Beam, I was witnessing it - or at least some variation of it's base technologies.

It quickly became apparent that these signs in the sky were not going anywhere. And as the people in my community continued oooing and aaaahing I began to become very concerned.

Were we to have starless nights forever? Was this the new commercially exploited night sky? Glowing holographic billboards in the sky?

I tried to impart my fear and anger to my family and neighbors.... "This is awful. Do you really want these glowing atrocities in our night skies forever? That's what this is! Soon there will be projections of Big Brother and his Pop Star minions staring down at us from on high!"

They didn't hear me. Or, perhaps they heard my voice but I was being tuned out. Rational alarm was being tuned out in favor of dazzling spectacle.

It wasn't till I awoke and wrote these words that I wondered.... Where was the moon in all of this? Probably looming overhead, perhaps blocked out by the razzle dazzle of the blue beam holograms, but no doubt emblazened with the Neon Blue logo of the United Nations... or perhaps the all seeing eye of AOL Time Warner.

Elfis SMiles

Mack White's Operation Blue Beam
Blue Beam Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4
Holograms and UFOs? by Graham W. Birdsall, Editor - UFO Magazine UK

Bush Admin Asks China to Release Forced Abortion Activist Chen Guangcheng

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:33:01 GMT

One of the only decent things I think I've ever seen the Bush administration do ...
For more background on my acquaintance with Chen and his plight follow these links or search this blog.

Bush Admin Asks China to Release Forced Abortion Activist Chen Guangcheng

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 11, 2006

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Bush administration has asked China to release an activist who is being held by local officials in the eastern city of Linyi after exposing a brutal campaign of forced abortions and sterilizations there. This is the second time Bush representatives have pressed for his release, this time more formally.

Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey said she made the request during a meeting of the China-U.S. Global Issues Forum, going on in Beijing.

"We believe that there has been a certain violation of normal standards and are urging China to release him from imprisonment," Sauerbrey said, according to a Washington Post report.

Sauerbrey, a pro-life advocate, is the head of the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

"For China's own reputation," Sauerbrey said, "our hope is just that if we keep a focus on the issue, that China will recognize that it is in their best interest to release this gentleman from jail."

According to the Post, Sauerbrey said that China and the United States are both members of the U.N. Commission on Population and Development, which says families have the right to determine on their own how many children they have.

However, China has a family planning policy saying couples can only have one child and those who disobey the policy have been forced to have abortions, jailed, sent to labor camps, and their families have been beaten and threatened with job losses.

"We encourage China at every opportunity to live up to that commitment and to not involve itself in coercive measures, abortion, sterilization," she said, the Post reported.

Chen exposed a family planning campaign that involved officials forcing as many as 10,000 women to submit to abortions or sterilizations.

Anyone who attempted to flee the brutality was apprehended, beaten, and held hostage in city prisons until their relatives came forward and paid large fines for their release.

Chen was later arrested on trumped up charges related to a protest of the house arrests of his family and others. Last year he was organizing a class action lawsuit against the Linyi government when he started coming under persecution.

Local officials were prepared to hold a trial last month, but delayed it for unknown reasons.

Chen's attorneys say the Chinese government is turning a blind eye because it often allows local governments great leeway in putting down political unrest. They also say leading Chinese officials have been lied to about Chen's situation.

Linyi officials have persuaded some top Chinese leaders that Chen's efforts are supported by overseas groups and they successfully lobbied the Foreign Ministry and the powerful Propaganda Department to ban any discussion of Chen's case in the state media or on the Internet.

Chen and his wife and 70 year-old mother were under house arrest beginning in September last year. The officials cut his telephone lines and used specialized equipment to prevent him from using his cell phone.

Linyi police have placed Chen's mother, wife and child under house arrest.

Top U.S. diplomats previously pressed the Chinese government to release Chen, but national officials have not intervened. Linyi officials, in late May, prevented two senior U.S. diplomats from trying to visit Chen's wife.

ACTION: Contact China's embassy in the United States and encourage officials there to help Chen Guangcheng. You can find contact information at
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxx/dfzygy/t44338.htm

Out The Rabbit Hole - 911 Precognition Podcast

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:22:21 GMT

Archived / Podcast of Out The Rabbit Hole radioshow with Host Robert Larson talking with Guest SMiles Lewis about ParaPsychedelic Consciousness and 911 Precognition, including a variety of bizarre and intense pre-9/11 altered state of consciousness reports from several sources that seemed to have a predictive nature about that event.

We also discuss Alex Jones' launching of Operation Expose the Government Terrorists Part-2. Besides reading the parapolitical data points that lead to his July 25th, 2001 prediction of and "call to arms"over the impending September 11th False Flag attacks, Alex has rarely discussed his apparently precognitive dream of 911 that was a large part of the impetus behind his July 25th Alert.

Reuters Photo Scandal - Taxonomy of Fraud

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:37:32 GMT

The Reuters Photo Scandal

A Taxonomy of Fraud

A comprehensive overview of the four types of photo fraud committed by Reuters, August, 2006

The recent discovery that the Reuters news agency released a digitally manipulated photograph as an authentic image of the bombing in Beirut has drawn attention to the important topic of bias in the media. But lost in the frenzy over one particular image is an even more devastating fact: that over the last week Reuters has been caught red-handed in an astonishing variety of journalistic frauds in the photo coverage of the war in Lebanon.

This page serves as an overview of the various types of hoaxes, lies and other deceptions perpetrated by Reuters in recent days, since the details of the scandal are getting overwhelmed by a torrent of shallow mainstream media coverage that can easily confuse or mislead the viewer. Almost all of the investigative work has been done by cutting-edge blogs, but the proliferation of exposés might overwhelm the casual Web-surfer, who might be getting the various related scandals mixed up. In this essay I hope to straighten it all out.

It's important to understand that there is not just a single fraudulent Reuters photograph, nor even only one kind of fraudulent photograph. There are in fact dozens of photographs whose authenticity has been questioned, and they fall into four distinct categories.

The four types of photographic fraud perpetrated by Reuters photographers and editors are:

1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.

2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.

3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.

4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.

All of these forms of fraud have the same intent: to serve as propaganda for Hezbollah, and to make the Israeli attacks look as brutal as possible. And, taken together, they raise a very serious question: Can any of the coverage by the entrenched media be trusted?

The ever-growing scandal now involves other news services as well; at the bottom of this page are numerous examples of bias and fraud by other agencies, including Associated Press, The New York Times, and others.

Let's examine each type of fraud, with the photographic evidence itself:

Read the analysis HERE.

Computer Guru / Contactee Joseph Firmage is 911 Truther

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:19:55 GMT

Former Computer Company CEO Turned Contactee Joins Ranks of 911 Researchers
Joseph Firmage writes essay for Journal of 9/11 Studies

"One of the challenges in comprehending the circumstances of 9/11 is the sheer volume of material spanning two decades that must be studied for one to become comfortable reaching any conclusions.

Intelligent people new to this controversy feel a sense of drowning when they begin to study what happened on 9/11. Having explored this subject deeply, I thought it might be useful to create a summary accessible to larger numbers of people. That is the purpose of what follows."

Download and Read the entire PDF Essay at Journal of 911 Studies & World Trade Center Truth.