Are You Ready For Nuclear War?

Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control the result of the last election in Pakistan, the result of which gave Pakistanis a bigger voice in their government than America’s.

It was obvious to anyone with any sense–which excludes the entire Bush Regime and almost all of the “foreign policy community”–that the illegal and gratuitous US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel’s 2006 bombing of Lebanon civilians with US blessing, would result in the overthrow of America’s Pakistani puppet.

The imbecilic Bush Regime ensured Musharraf’s overthrow by pressuring their puppet to conduct military operations against tribesmen in Pakistani border areas, whose loyalties were to fellow Muslims and not to American hegemony. When Musharraf’s military operations didn’t produce the desired result, the idiotic Americans began conducting their own military operations within Pakistan with bombs and missiles. This finished off Musharraf.

When the Bush Regime began its wars in the Middle East, I predicted, correctly, that Musharraf would be one victim. The American puppets in Egypt and Jordan may be the next to go.

Back during the Nixon years, my Ph.D. dissertation chairman, Warren Nutter, was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. One day in his Pentagon office I asked him how the US government got foreign governments to do what the US wanted. “Money,” he replied.

“You mean foreign aid?” I asked.

“No,” he replied, “we just buy the leaders with money.”
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(Source: http://crossingpointoflight.blogspot.com/2008/08/are-you-ready-for-nuclear-war.html)

(Original Article: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20555.htm)

More accusations against Bush, Cheney and the administration

Boom! Another crushing testimony on accusations against Bush and the administration!

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency (Humor)

The shocking truth mixed with humor! Unfortunately, Bush is just the puppet.

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

(Source: http://www.theonion.com/content/index)

Countdown: McBush War Lie’s 6-5-08

More truth seeing the light. Bush/Cheney lies officially exposed.

Countdown: McBush War Lie’s 6-5-08

More truth seeing the light. Bush/Cheney lies officially exposed.

Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush’s “surge” in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Sub prime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress.

The American people’s attempt in November 2006 to rein in a rogue government, which has committed the US to costly military adventures while running roughshod over the US Constitution, failed. Replacing Republicans with Democrats in the House and Senate has made no difference.

The assault on the US Constitution by the Democratic Party is as determined as the assault by the Republicans. On October 23, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by California Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman [http://www.congress.org/bio/id/52], chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and assembly.

The bill passed the House on a vote of 404-6. In the Senate the bill is sponsored by Maine Republican Susan Collins [http://www.congress.org/bio/id/283] and apparently faces no meaningful opposition. Harman’s bill is called the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act.”When HR 1955 becomes law, it will create a commission tasked with identifying extremist people, groups, and ideas. The commission will hold hearings around the country, taking testimony and compiling a list of dangerous people and beliefs. The bill will, in short, create massive terrorism in the United States. But the perpetrators of terrorism will not be Muslim terrorists; they will be government agents and fellow citizens.

We are beginning to see who will be the inmates of the detention centers being built in the US by Halliburton under government contract.

Who will be on the “extremist beliefs” list? The answer is: civil libertarians, critics of Israel, 9/11 skeptics, critics of the administration’s wars and foreign policies, critics of the administration’s use of kidnapping, rendition, torture and violation of the Geneva Conventions, and critics of the administration’s spying on Americans. Anyone in the way of a powerful interest group–such as environmentalists opposing politically connected developers–is also a candidate for the list.

The “Extremist Beliefs Commission” is the mechanism for identifying Americans who pose “a threat to domestic security” and a threat of “homegrown terrorism” that “cannot be easily prevented through traditional federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts.”

This bill is a boon for nasty people. That SOB who stole your girlfriend, that hussy who stole your boyfriend, the gun owner next door–just report them to Homeland Security as holders of extreme beliefs. Homeland Security needs suspects, so they are not going to check. Under the new regime, accusation is evidence. Moreover, “our” elected representatives will never admit that they voted for a bill and created an “Extremist Belief Commission” for which there is neither need nor constitutional basis.

That boss who harasses you for coming late to work–he’s a good candidate to be reported; so is that minority employee that you can’t fire for any normal reason. So is the husband of that good-looking woman you have been unable to seduce. Every kind of quarrel and jealousy can now be settled with a phone call to Homeland Security.

Soon Halliburton will be building more detention centers.

Americans are so far removed from the roots of their liberty that they just don’t get it. Most Americans don’t know what habeas corpus is or why it is important to them. But they know what they want, and Jane Harman has given them a new way to settle scores and to advance their own interests.

Even educated liberals believe that the US Constitution is a “living document” that can be changed to mean whatever it needs to mean in order to accommodate some new important cause, such as abortion and legal privileges for minorities and the handicapped. Today it is the “war on terror” that the Constitution must accommodate. Tomorrow it can be the war on whomever or whatever.

Think about it. More than six years ago the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked. The US government blamed it on al Qaeda. The 9/11 Commission Report has been subjected to criticism by a large number of qualified people– including the commission’s chairman and co-chairman.

Since 9/11 there have been no terrorist attacks in the US. The FBI has tried to orchestrate a few, but the “terrorist plots” never got beyond talk organized and led by FBI agents. There are no visible extremist groups other than the neoconservatives that control the government in Washington. But somehow the House of Representatives overwhelmingly sees a need to create a commission to take testimony and search out extremist views (outside of Washington, of course).

This search for extremist views comes after President Bush and the Justice (sic) Department declared that the President can ignore habeas corpus, ignore the Geneva Conventions, seize people without evidence, hold them indefinitely without presenting charges, torture them until they confess to some made up crime, and take over the government by declaring an emergency. Of course, none of these “patriotic” views are extremist.

The search for extremist views follows also the granting of contracts to Halliburton to build detention centers in the US. No member of Congress or the executive branch ever explained the need for the detention centers or who the detainees would be. Of course, there is nothing extremist about building detention centers in the US for undisclosed inmates.

Clearly the detention centers are not meant to just stand there empty. Thanks to 2007′s greatest failure–the Democratic Congress–there is to be an “Extremist Beliefs Commission” to secure inmates for Bush’s detention centers.

President Bush promises us that the wars he has launched will cause the “untamed fire of freedom” to “reach the darkest corners of our world.” Meanwhile in America the fire of freedom has not only been tamed but also is being extinguished.
The light of liberty has gone out in the United States.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

Vermont towns vote to arrest Bush and Cheney

I LOVE IT! Cheers!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for “crimes against our Constitution,” local media reported.

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(Full Article: http://www.reuters.com)

IN CASE OF MARTIAL LAW, BREAK GLASS

IN CASE OF MARTIAL LAW, BREAK GLASS, By Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Monday, 17 September 2007
Reprinted from MOUNTAIN SENTINEL

Bush now has the ability to declare martial law at his own discretion, and in so doing dissolve the other branches of government, throw out the constitution, and suspend elections. He appropriated the right to do this largely by executive order. He can declare martial law whenever he deems there is sufficient cause; cause being an act of terrorism, an economic crisis, an act of war, civil unrest, or a natural catastrophe. For more information about the executive orders and legislation granting Bush these rights, please watch the short video at mountainsnetinel.com (What We Choose to Ignore), or visit the US Martial Law Timeline.

Hard as it might be to believe, there is a very real possibility that Bush will exercise these rights before his term ends. All he needs is an excuse. At present, the economy is on the verge of collapse, the Iraqi Occupation is going badly no matter what Bush and his chosen generals say, energy supplies are unable to keep pace with demand, disapproval of the Bush administration is growing, and Bush wants to attack Iran and so complete his Middle East conquest. He has all the reason in the world to declare martial law. All he lacks is a sufficient excuse.

Many people who follow the news are worried that Bush will declare martial law sometime in the months ahead. If natural crises prove insufficient, they are afraid that he will stage another 9/11. The current economic climate is very similar to the climate at the time of 9/11, though the present brewing economic hurricane will be much worse than the dot.com bust. The economic crises we currently face could very well result in bank closings, the crash of the US dollar, and the impoverishment of a large segment of the US population. What is more, with peak oil and the dawn of a new era of energy depletion it is unlikely that we will be able resuscitate our economy once the collapse is complete.

In the past couple weeks, we have heard about nuclear weapons being “mistakenly” shipped across the country onboard B-52 bombers. These weapons, which have a very limited capacity, were accidentally shipped to one of the bases that coincidentally functions as a staging grounds for the Middle East. While it is possible that these weapons were intended to be used for tactical strikes against Iran, I think it more likely that they were going to be used on US troops in Iraq, or perhaps even citizens within the US. A nuclear terrorism attack would clear the way for an immediate attack on Iran and provide a sufficient excuse to declare martial law within the US. (See Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak? by Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D.)

This sounds far-fetched and paranoid, doesn’t it? Well, word is circulating around Wall Street that billions in put options were made at the end of August. Put options are short term bets that a corporation will do poorly. From the number and size of these puts, some big players are betting that the stock market is going to take a major fall before the end of September. The last time there was a move in put options this large was just prior to 9/11.
(See Dispelling the ‘Bin Laden’ Options Trades, ‘Bin Laden’ Options Trades Have Wall Street Whispering, and $4.5b bet on another 9/11 within 4 weeks)

Whether or not there are plans to stage another terrorist event, the fact remains that Bush has cleared a path towards establishing a dictatorship within the US. Given Bush and Cheney’s psychological profiles, it is unlikely that this pathway was cleared for altruistic purposes, and it seems equally unlikely that they will not now take advantage of it. Nor did Bush clear this pathway for some future president. Bush and Cheney are both far too selfish and egotistical for that. So it is likely that Bush will walk this path sometime before the next election.

Now the question arises, what will we do if Bush declares martial law and usurps our government?

(Source: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20070917100242936)

Analyzing conspiracy theories after September 11 attacks

Recently television’s THE HISTORY CHANNEL aired a special analyzing the various conspiracy theories that have emerged since the events of September 11, 2001 (hereinafter 9/11), when passenger airplanes commandeered by hijackers, allegedly operating under the directions of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, struck the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Although this special initially claimed that it would present “both sides” of the issue, it quickly became clear that its sole purpose was to debunk the conspiracy theorists.

However, in its zeal to do so, this special glossed over the fact that two schools of thought have emerged to challenge the “official” version of 9/11. The first school, which this special took great pains to discredit, has argued that the Bush dictatorship played an active role in the planning and execution of the events that occurred on that fateful day. The second school has argued that the Bush dictatorship’s culpability in the 9/11 attacks was not through act, but through omission, by allowing the 9/11 attacks to occur.

Both schools appear to agree that the Bush dictatorship had two motives for desiring the attacks of 9/11: 1). To create the fear and outrage necessary so Americans would unquestioningly swallow the lies that led to the Iraqi war; 2). To compel Americans to sacrifice their civil liberties by making them more concerned about “safety” and “security” than freedom and democracy.

It is this second school of thought that this HISTORY CHANNEL special failed to debunk, and ironically it is the one that has the most evidence supporting it.

First there are the characters of two of the principal players: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Many pundits have argued that these two men are not “evil” enough to sacrifice the lives of thousands of Americans for self-serving political and economic gain.

However, Bush’s cavalier attitude regarding the potential death of innocents rebuts this argument. While governor of Texas, Bush presided over the executions of more than one hundred and fifty people. While vile enough in itself, Bush also routinely denied thirty day reprieves to death row inmates so DNA testing could be conducted that might exonerate them. Also, while governors in other states were permitting such testing, or declaring moratoriums on the death penalty altogether because of the number of wrongfully convicted people cleared through DNA tests, Bush was boasting that “no innocent person had been executed under his watch,” a relatively easy boast to make considering that in Texas all evidence is destroyed immediately after an execution, thereby making posthumous DNA testing impossible.

Meanwhile Cheney is the paradigm of a bullying coward, who demands sacrifices of others he refused to make himself, and who lusts for the blood of those weaker than him. To avoid serving in the Vietnam War, Cheney received five deferments, because he lacked the courage to face an adversary who could shoot back. Now Cheney “bravely” engages in the “sport” of caged hunts, where helpless animals are penned in with no means of escape while Cheney and his ilk gun them down.

Then there are the actions of the Bush dictatorship. These were people who lusted for power so badly they were willing to defy the will of the American people and undermine democracy to steal not one, but two elections. And the bellicose cries for war against Iraq echoed throughout the Bush dictatorship long before the events of 9/11 even occurred.

After 9/11, the Bush dictatorship eagerly, and without compunction, lied about Saddam Hussein’s alleged involvement in 9/11, and Iraq’s alleged “weapons of mass destruction” in order to start the war it had covertly clamored for since the election theft of 2000.

To date thousands of Americans, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, have died because of these lies. So do Bush and his minions sound like people who would hesitate to sacrifice a few thousand lives on American soil to infect the nation with the fear and anger necessary to launch their illegal war?

And one should not forget that the now disgraced, and possibly perjurious, former Attorney General of the United States, Alberto Gonzales, was so desperate to carry out the Bush dictatorship’s directive to undermine civil liberties in the United States that he actually visited his hospitalized predecessor John Ashcroft in the intensive care unit, where he was recovering from gallbladder surgery, in order to force Ashcroft to recertify a domestic spying program that the Justice Department had determined was illegal.

Add to this the CIA torture chambers, secret prisons and detention camps the Bush dictatorship has scattered throughout the world, and mix in the willingness to imprison and torture American citizens that the dictatorship labels “enemy combatants,” and it is not difficult to conceive that Bush and his minions are capable of doing anything to achieve their corrupt political ends.

However, as I’ve argued in previous Pravda.ru articles, even if one does not believe that George W. Bush and his minions are capable of destroying the lives of American citizens on a mass scale, this does not mean that the Bush dictatorship escapes all guilt for the events of 9/11. After all, the use of airplanes in the United States in the manner employed on 9/11 was unprecedented. In the past, terrorist actions using aircraft either involved force or threat of force to compel a plane to fly to a country that the hijacker(s) believed harbored a sympathetic government, or became a hostage taking scenario where hijackers demanded certain concessions in exchange for the release of captives.

Therefore it was highly probable that the Bush dictatorship, having knowledge of a pending terrorist action involving airplanes, simply concluded that any hijacking would be of the “traditional” variety, and that this style of hijacking alone would be enough to whip Americans into the jingoistic frenzy necessary to launch the illegal invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately, by the time the magnitude of the 9/11 events became evident, it was too late to do anything about them.

Whatever the explanation, one fact is clear: the events of 9/11, as nightmarish as they were, tragically blinded far too many Americans to the greater nightmare that had hijacked the nation one year earlier, during the infamous coup of 2000—the nightmare known as the “presidency” of George W. Bush.

David R. Hoffman
Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru

(Source: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/96935-0/)