A while ago I saw a documentary on electrodynamics and free energy, where Tom Bearden was interviewed explaining the concept behind free (or radiant) energy. The documentary is titled “Hidden electrodynamics and the final secret of free energy” and is the fifth part of the Energy from the Vacuum series. If you’ve never heard of this series, I highly recommend you check it out. In the interview Bearden explains how it’s possible to get energy out of the vacuum, seemingly out of nowhere, by creating a charge and having the environment (or vacuum) react to that essentially trying to neutralize that charge. It’s important to understand that this isn’t just theory anymore, as there are working concepts of machines that demonstrate how this works. All of this can be seen in the documentaries.

This knowledge exists for a long time now, ever since the time of Nikola Tesla. If Tesla could have had enough funding for his research, the world we live in today would have looked very different. Instead Tesla’s research was sabotaged and stopped because J. P. Morgan, who was financing most of Tesla’s research at the time, didn’t want free energy technology to become available to everyone. That would have been against his financial interests (see the movie “The Secret of Nikola Tesla” for more on this). So instead, all of this technology (free energy, anti-gravity etc.) was held back from reaching the public and today the world is being financially milked by those in control with alternative energy sources that are expensive, finite, pollute the planet and create artificial scarcity. Even today, as Bearden explains, people are experiencing all kinds of resistance when they try to research free energy and try to develop technology that makes use of free energy. It’s either difficult to get funding for it, or scientists end up missing or are assassinated. Meanwhile the entire population of this planet is being held back so that a small group that’s in control can profit. Millions of people are living in poverty and are dying because, supposedly, there are not enough resources to feed them and take care of them.

An electron surrounded by positively charged particles

But the reason I’m writing this is because I think the theory behind free energy, based on electromagnetism, can be used to explain the concept of karma and the way the universe works. I think the goal in this universe, or in nature, is to constantly have balance. If things aren’t balanced, then the universe reacts and makes sure balance is restored. So in the case of the theory behind free energy, as Bearden explains, once you’ve created a negative charge in a vacuum, seemingly out of nowhere positive particles appear and surround the negative charge. What was thought to be empty space around the negative charge, suddenly isn’t empty anymore. This process is called “broken symmetry,” particles that were previously not observable appear and are now observable. This is easier to understand once you realize that what we think of as empty space or vacuum really isn’t empty at all. The reality is that there’s a lot of matter even in what we think of as empty space, but we’re just not capable of seeing or detecting it. Consider that humans are only capable of seeing a fraction (3.5 x 10^-26 %) of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Imagine how much exists around us that our senses and our technology simply cannot detect (not unless it enters our range of observable reality).

So once a negative or positive charge exists, the universe responds by supplying the energy to bring back balance. And I believe that in our daily life this is also the case. I’ll try to explain this by using an simple example with two persons, person A and person B. Each person is made up of energy (we’re all essentially energy, positive and negative) and in an ideal situation there’s balance.

Balance

In their daily interactions person A and person B exchange energy with each other. Consider what happens when person A decides to do something negative to person B (for example misleading or hurting person B).

Person A does something negative to person B

By doing so, person A projects some of his negative energy onto person B. The result is that person A becomes positively charged (more positive energy present), and person B becomes negatively charged (more negative energy present).

Balance is lost, person A has more positive energy and person B has more negative energy

So you can probably imagine what happens next. Since the goal in the universe is to have balance, the universe responds to this situation by sending negative energy to person A and positive energy to person B.

The universe brings back balance

And that’s when what people refer to as ”karma” comes into play. If you project negative energy out onto people, you’re going to get negative energy back. If you do something bad to someone, you should expect to get it back. On the other hand, if you’re hurt or otherwise need help, the universe will respond by sending help. It’s difficult to say how fast the universe reacts, but usually it takes time and maybe things are brought back into balance by other events and other persons also interacting with person A and B even before the universe responds. It’s also important to note that things like conscience and intention may also play an important role in all of this. Whether or not the energy person A projects onto person B is negative or positive from the perspective of person A, may depend entirely upon person A’s intention and conscience. Was person A’s intention to really hurt person B, did he know the consequences? Or was it to help, or was person A not even aware of what was caused to person B? Similarly, the way person B perceives the energy projected onto him by person A may influence the way the universe responds to person B.

Consider what happens when person A projects positive energy onto person B from a neutral starting position, for example by helping person B or by giving something to person B.

Person A does something positive to person B

The result of that is that person A becomes negatively charged (more negative energy present) and person B becomes positively charged (more positive energy present).

The universe responds

The universe then responds to this by sending positive energy to person A and negative energy to person B in order to achieve balance. So for person A we see the concept of “do good and you will receive it back.” However, in this particular example, person B ends up with too much positive energy and even though he may have done nothing wrong, the universe sends negative energy his way. We could argue that since person B was in a neutral/balanced state before receiving positive energy from person A, person B didn’t really need it and should have declined. Or, person B could have accepted the positive energy, but then make sure that he gives back as much of it as possible to someone else who needs it instead of holding onto it.

And so what we see here is that if you think that you’re going take a lot more than you give in life things will get difficult for you. Life is about giving and receiving and the balance between those two. The universe will always try to maintain balance. So when it comes to giving and receiving, we all should strive to maintain a balanced life. Don’t take more than you need but also think of others. If you’re blessed with a lot of positive things in life, consider giving back to those who are in need.

This is exactly what happens if we go back and look at the example of the electron in a vacuum. Being negatively charged, the universe responds by surrounding this negative charge with positive particles. What happens, as Bearden explains, is that the electron continuously absorbs these positive particles but as soon as it has absorbed enough, it releases the absorbed energy again in the form of a photon. It keeps absorbing energy, but it also keeps giving back energy, at such a rate that everything appears to be balanced and static. In reality there’s a continuous process of give and take going on at incredible speed.

All the universe really wants is balance. It makes no distinction between positive and negative, or good and bad. Those are labels that we put on things depending on how we perceive them and depending on our understanding of our reality. To the universe everything just is. Nobody gets rewarded, and nobody gets punished. The universe doesn’t pick sides. The only thing that really matters is balance. This concept is also used in the Matrix movies, where the Architect character is tasked with maintaining balance in the Matrix:

In The Matrix Revolutions, the Oracle explains to Neo that the true purpose of the Architect is to balance the mathematical equations that make up the programming of the Matrix, and he is unable to see the world as anything beyond a series of equations. It is also because of this that he is unable to comprehend choice and free will and cannot see the results of such choices as they are no more than variable factors in an equation to him.

So karma is essentially just the universe trying to maintain internal balance of energy.

In the second Matrix movie, “Matrix Reloaded,” the Architect says to Neo:

“Hope… it is the quintessential human delusion - simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.”

And he would know, because he had been abusing this weakness for the sixth time up to that point if you follow the story in the movie. In fact, Neo was part of the problem: An intentional creation by the Architect with the purpose of giving humans inside the Matrix hope so they could continue to be exploited for as long as possible. As explained by the Architect, he found out that humans would only “accept the program” if they were given a choice. By giving them a choice, not only do you make them feel in control (while in reality they have no control), but if the choice also promises a better future, you also give them hope. If there’s no choice and no hope, there’s no reason to continue and so the entire system comes to a halt and, as agent Smith put it in the first Matrix movie: “entire crops are lost.” To keep the system going and to have everyone accept their current situation, you have to give them something positive to look forward to, you have to give them a reason to make the choice to continue… you have to give them hope. And Neo served that purpose in the Matrix as the savior everyone was waiting for to help them escape from the Matrix and to bring them better times. And the “prophecy” of the coming of the One (Neo) kept everyone going and kept the system running.

The Matrix movies tell us a lot more about life than most people will realize. It is another one of those Hollywood movies that shows us how we are being controlled and manipulated while being disguised as entertainment. There’s a lot more to say on this subject, but I’ll leave that for another post. The important thing for now is that you realize that the story in the Matrix movies is based on real life.

In the same way that ”the machines” used Neo to give all the humans they were manipulating  a false hope, so too are people around the world being manipulated on a large scale with, for example, the many different religions. They are being manipulated to accept their current reality, or life, in the hope that things will be much better in the near future. For some it is until they die and “go to heaven/paradise”, for others it’s until their savior (Jesus, etc.) returns to earth whenever that may be, and there can be many more reasons. Whatever is needed to get people to believe and to give them hope. In the meantime, people choose to “accept the program” that’s forced upon them and continue to live life and keep the system going while hoping for better times. And this is of course exactly what those in control want everyone to do.

A more blatantly obvious example was during the election campaign of Barack Obama. Obama got associated, even literally (how much more in your face can they get?), with the hope everyone in the USA and around the world needed. After all the devastation that was caused in the USA and around the world during President George W. Bush, everyone was hoping for a change and for better times. So Obama became the Neo everyone (especially those in the USA) was waiting for. Those in control knew exactly what they were doing when they associated Obama with “change” and “hope.” You could say that it was brilliant manipulation, but it’s not so brilliant when you consider the fact that this kind of manipulation is business as usual for those in the know. In fact, they have done this many times before, just like the Architect in the Matrix. And just like he says in the movie, they have become “exceedingly efficient at it.” You just have to look at how the world swallowed the message of hope from Obama hook, line and sinker to see just how efficient they’ve gotten at this game. What this means is that, apparently, you can cause all kinds of devastation to people and manipulate them as much as you want, as long as you give them a reason to go through all of that (at the same time the illusion of choice) and give them hope for a better future.

While everyone has accepted the message of hope and thinks that things will actually change soon, in reality and especially behind the scenes nothing at all changes and those in control continue with their own agenda. The manipulation continues while everyone “accepts the program.” Since Obama became president of the USA, has anything really changed? If you do even a little bit of research, you’ll find that nothing of any significance has really changed, and things have continued exactly as George W. Bush left them. Just watch the documentary “Obama Deception” by Alex Jones for more information on this.

So the reason why hope is humanity’s greatest weakness is simply because it can be used to deceive us and make us a passive herd of sheep, even if just for a while until we are given another reason to have hope again (thus continuing the cycle of manipulation). This is why it is important to be very critical of everything around you and not easily accept things without hard verifiable evidence, facts, and certainly not on blind faith as, for example, religion expects from you. If you have any hopes, always make sure they are based on realistic expectations, which themselves are based on verifiable facts and measurable progress. You have to be as objective as possible, very honest to yourself and very rigorous and ruthless when it comes to this.  Critical thinking is very valuable here and I cannot stress this enough. If you’re able to apply all of this in your daily life, then you will be capable of getting the most out of your hopes in life and you can really make having hope one of your greatest strengths instead of weaknesses. Yes, you can.

Loreena McKennitt

More than 10 years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to music by Loreena McKennitt (Wikipedia). I instantly fell in love with her music. The very first song by her that I heard back then was titled “The Mummer’s Dance” and to this day it is still one of my favorites. She has a very beautiful voice, and her music has a Celtic and Middle Eastern/Arabic feel to it, able to carry you away to another world in seconds.

Listening to her music is one thing, actually seeing her and her crew perform is even more amazing. I recently saw her recorded performance at the Alhambra (Spain) in 2006, which you can order here on Amazon on DVD, and it was an absolute joy watching it. Seeing all those musicians perform with so much joy using so many exotic instruments, and watching Loreena sing is just incredible. I can only imagine what it would be like to actually sit there in the audience watching it live.

If you want to see some clips of that performance, here are some of the songs on YouTube: All Souls Night, The Mummer’s Dance, The Bonny Swans.

I highly recommend Loreena McKennitt’s Nights from the Alhambra DVD.

No we can't

A while ago I wrote a post titled “Barack Obama: More of the same,” and in that post I basically described how Barack Obama was not going to bring any kind of change compared to what the former President Bush was already doing. At least, no positive change.

There’s a new documentary out by Alex Jones titled “The Obama Deception” (Download here) which I saw recently. If you haven’t yet seen it, take the time to watch it. In that documentary you’ll see what I described in my previous post about Obama, plus you’ll see how Obama is basically deceiving people on a large scale, and that in fact, nothing is changing at all and it’s just business as usual. You’ll see evidence of him lying, and doing the exact opposite of what he promised to do before he was elected. It’s just like I said before:

Don’t mind what he has been saying during his campaign. Talk is cheap. To win the election, it’s neccessary to give people hope and to tell them what they want to hear. His actual actions in the coming years are going to show you where he really stands. Obama wouldn’t even be a candidate and have so much support from corporations and especially the corporate media if they didn’t know beforehand that he would be protecting and supporting their interests, just like Bush has been doing the last 8 years. Interests of a small but powerful group of people. Remember, today the mere fact that a person is allowed to be running for president in the USA and has the approval of the corporate media and widely backed by corporations, means that he’s one of them. This has been the giveaway of the whole plot but few noticed.

And now, just a few months after his election, it is already very clear who’s interests Obama is looking after. After watching the documentary, leave a comment and let me know if you still have hope,  if you still think that “yes, we can,” and if you still think that “change has come to America.”

I understand completely if you’re initially very surprised when you see the title of this post. The truth is, in your position, I’d be surprised myself, even though I’ve been known to cover a wide range of topics on my blog. Mostly anything that I feel I should write about. And guess what, it’s time to write about the ultimate weight loss program, which, after many years of research, I’m confident is ready to be revealed today.

Before I go on to explain what it is, let me tell you that there is absolutely nothing like this out there. My theory will put even Atkins Diet and all the other money making, consumption promoting schemes to shame. We live in a world today where consumption, and even more consumption, is being promoted everywhere (for more background on this, watch the first part of a BBC documentary titled “The Century of the Self“). This, as a lot of things that we view as being normal in society today, is by design. It didn’t happen by itself, but it’s being done by a small group who ultimately benefits. People are being manipulated into consumption to make them feel good about themselves. And the more they consume, the more money others make. I’m not going to go into details about this here, just check out the documentary.

The result is that everyone wants more, newer, bigger and “Super Sized!”. If you look at restaurants in the USA, such as the Mc Donalds and Burger Kings, the amount of food that they sell to a single person is unbelievable. Just check out a documentary called “Super Size Me.” And then ask yourself, does a single person really need THAT much food for a single meal? And then, people ask themselves how it is that there’s so much obesity and ask themselves what is causing that problem. Money is being spent on research to find answers to such questions, when it’s fairly obvious what the answers are. You don’t have to be a scientist for this.

And so this brings me to my theory, which if you ask me, is truly groundbreaking and radical in the time we live in today, because with the mindset that most people have today, I think very few would get such an idea. This is the ultimate way to lose weight and to very easily maintain the right weight. Forget everything you’ve learned from other weight loss programs – it’s all bullshit. So what, exactly, is this great theory of mine, you impatiently ask? Here’s what you need to do:

Eat when you’re hungry.

What? That’s it?

That’s it.

Simple, isn’t it? No complex theories about carbs, no complex lists of food and calorie amounts to maintain, no extra work. Simply eating when you’re hungry.

Can you still remember the feeling you get when you’re really hungry? A light pain in your stomach? Well when you feel that, that’s your body telling you that it’s time to eat. If you don’t have that feeling, then you shouldn’t eat because it’s highly likely that most of what you eat then will be too much for your body to process. You should only eat when you feel hungry, and even then, eat only enough to stop you feeling hungry. So no large meals, just what your body needs to keep you going, until you feel hungry again.

Like me, you’ve probably been brought up with the bullshit theories of eating at least 3 times a day, having breakfast at a fixed time in the morning, lunch at noon, etc. It has been taught to you ever since you were a child, and it has become a habit. Now, if you skip lunch you feel like you’re not taking care of yourself, even though you may not feel hungry at all, because you’ve been taught that it’s not healthy. Ofcourse it’s not healthy if you don’t eat when you don’t need it, not for you, but for the corporations who need you to eat/consume so they make even more money. Just look at Atkin’s Diet. Ofcourse everyone loves it, because it promotes eating all you can eat while still losing weight. And that’s exactly what people with their current mindset of consuming like.

Well, it’s crap. All of it. Just forget about it and simply eat when you’re hungry, or in other words, eat when you need it. If you don’t feel that pain in your stomach, you’re not hungry, even though you feel that you could really go for a Big Mac now after seeing that commercial.

And while this is a simple natural concept, I guarantee you that it won’t be easy to follow it. Why not? Because society, right now, and perhaps for centuries now, is designed to encourage you not to follow it.

I mentioned this before on my blog here, but it looks like it just got worse.

In case you didn’t know, Al Gore, the man who would like you to use less energy, think of the environment and is scaring everyone with global warming bullshit, owns a house that uses 20 times more energy per month than an average home! Yes, that’s 20 times MORE energy than an average home.

Even after changing his home to become more energy-efficient and environment friendly, his power usage has actually GONE UP. Imagine that. How the hell is that possible? Just check this out:

NASHVILLE – In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist, Gore won an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based free market think tank and watchdog organization, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service.

Looks like spreading all the global warming bullshit is making Gore a richer man. Good business as usual, it seems.

Don’t forget to watch a documentery titled “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” which you can download here with Bittorrent. You might learn something from it.

March 15th 2008 is Z-Day. That’s the day when there will be screenings of the movie Zeitgeist everywhere around the world. I wrote about this movie before. If you haven’t yet seen it, you should take the time to check it out. It’s available for download for free from the movie website. The movie brings into question many things that people in general have come to accept as their reality today, one of which is religion. It shows where the major religions originate from, and then goes on to expose what exactly is behind all the issues that are going on around the world.

Make sure to also check out the content I discussed in this post, and about religion in this post.

The second part of the movie “Steal This Film”, which I wrote about before, is now available for download. You should check it out.

It’s a real joy to see the donation meter on Ron Paul’s website climb almost every minute. Looks like he is very much on track to reach his 12 million goal by December 31st. Not only is he raising a lot of money, but he is currently the biggest GOP fundraiser:

Ron Paul is well on course to be the GOP presidential candidate frontrunner in terms of funds raised in this the fourth and most crucial quarter in the run up to the primaries in January.

With a month still to go, the congressman’s funds will today swell to over $10 million, double what was raised in the third quarter.

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Ron Paul is the only GOP candidate who has continued to attract popularity as the year has gone on. Paul raised more money in the third quarter than in the second quarter while none of the other candidates achieved this. With the 16th December “money bomb” coming up, it looks like the Congressman will raise more money this quarter than any other GOP candidate including Giuliani. This means he will have more cash on hand going into the primaries than any of his Republican opponents.

Yesterday saw Ron Paul soar above Fred Thompson’s $9,750,821 mark and Mitt Romney’s $9,896,719 mark earlier today (excluding money he has loaned to himself). Today will likely see Ron Paul pass a third milestone– that of Rudy Giuliani’s $10,258,019 fundraising mark for the end of the 3rd Quarter.

And of you check his website, you’ll see he is already well pass Giulliani. Keep in mind that Ron Paul is able to do this without having the advantages all the other candidates have, like donations from the rich class and big corporations and support from the mainstream media. It’s simply incredible what you can achieve when you promote the right message to people and can take advantage of the Internet. It’s like he said, put out the right message and people will find you, instead of you having to actively look for supporters.

Even around the world, Ron Paul is very popular:

A website which has collected over 72,000 votes from people in countries all over the world has revealed that the vast majority would elect Ron Paul if they had the opportunity to influence the 2008 US election.

At time of writing, the site at www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/ has collected 72,556 votes from people in countries across the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between.

The results reveal that the overwhelming favourite candidate in almost every corner of the globe is Congressman Ron Paul.

If you’re new to all this Ron Paul business, just check out his website and check out the video’s of him on YouTube.

However, like I wrote before, the more Ron Paul is gaining popularity, and the bigger his chances to get elected, the more he puts himself in danger. There are groups of people who are not going to allow Ron Paul to do what he is promising his supporters that he will do when he gets elected. They’re going to do everything they can to stop him. If it means stopping the next election, and declaring martial law in the USA, they’re going to do it. If it means killing Ron Paul, they’re going to do it. If it means sabotaging the elections, like they’ve been doing for a while now, they’re going to do it. These people are going to do everything to get Hillary Clinton elected.

Now if you don’t understand what and who I’m talking about, check out the following movies as soon as possible: Endgame, Zeitgeist, Loose Change Final Cut.

Alex Jones is about to release his latest movie titled “Endgame.” You can watch a trailer of it here. It’s said to be his best work yet, even better than “Terror Storm,” which if you haven’t seen yet, you absolutely should (you can watch it for free on Google Video or buy it on Amazon). Another one of his movies that you should watch, is “Martial Law 9/11“, which you can also watch on Google video, or buy from Amazon.

Hopefully those movies will continue to be available on Google Video. They’ve been caught censoring “Martial Law 9/11″ just a week ago. This was just one of many attempts at censoring Alex Jones movies by Google, as I wrote about before. I guess it’s no surprise when you consider the fact that Google seems to be controlled by the CIA, the NSA, DIA and who knows what other organizations.

Another movie that you should see is called “Zeitgeist.” You can view and download it from the movie website for free. I wrote recently about the end of religion, and recommended some movies and books in that post as well. Zeitgeist starts with exposing religion, then going on to current events and on to many of the plans for the future that I think are also going to be discussed in “Endgame.”

Ofcourse, we should not forget the movie by Aaron Russo called “America: From Freedom to Fascism” which you can watch for free on Google Video, or buy from Amazon. Aaron Russo recently passed away, and people were calling him a great hero for the work he did on this movie. While I agree that the movie is excellent and that he deserves the credit, I wonder why he waited this long to expose all the plans and talk about the problems. It seems to me that he decided to do it because he knew he was getting old and was going to die anyway. In other words, he probably thought he had nothing to lose anymore. This might also be the reason why you mostly see old retired professors fighting for 9/11 Truth, and old retired generals expressing their anti-war opinions. When the younger people who have their whole future in front of them and have lots of things to lose start to stand up and fight for what they believe in, then we’ll be able to talk about real heroes.

With regards to the many deceptions in the media, I already wrote about Outfoxed and Orwell Rolls in his Grave. But if you want to find out how it all started, you have to see a series done by the BBC years ago, titled “The Century of the Self.” There are 4 episodes and you can watch them for free on Google Video. You will then see how the mass (media) deception is based on research done by Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays. This is also mentioned at the end of “Terror Storm” by Alex Jones. It is also being used by the government to sell their ideas to the public. I wrote about this before in details. Also check out this article on Infowars about more examples of government propaganda and mass deception.

I woke up this morning, made some of my delicious award winning coffee, and sat down behind my computer to check out the latest news, when I came across this post by Robert Scoble. Scoble doesn’t seem to understand all the hype US presidential candidate Ron Paul is receiving these days on blogs. He goes on to mention a lot of stuff in that post leading me to doubt if he has any clue about what exactly is going on in the USA today, and what is causing all of it.

Let me illustrate what I mean. But before you continue reading, it’s important to read a previous post of mine about what’s going on these days in the USA.

Now assuming you’ve read it, let’s check out what Scoble has to say on his blog about Ron Paul:

I don?t get Ron Paul?s hype. His issues page is devoid of substance on issues that really effect most of us. He focuses on the divisive issues of immigration and abortion (great “wedge” issues) but doesn?t say a single word about the issues that are already driving the presidential campaign: our war strategy, our energy/global warming strategy, our health care strategy, etc. Not a single word is on his issues page about those issues.

What? Then what’s this, Scoble? Yeah, that’s Ron Paul’s opinion on the US war strategy. And guess where I found it? On his issues page! It seems to me that Scoble started his whole post totally biased and trying to make his case against Ron Paul from the beginning without actually wanting to take some time to really investigate the candidate. If he would have done so, he would have found this page, where Ron Paul talks about the Health Care system, by simply entering “ron paul health care” into Google. From someone who’s at the forefront of all the blogging and Web 2.0 stuff, I would have expected that Scoble would know how to find this kind of information if he was really looking for it. But as it seems, he wasn’t actually looking for it. His post was just anti Ron Paul from the start. Instead he goes on to mention how issues such has Health Care are not mentioned on Ron Paul’s issues website, making it look like Ron Paul never discussed these issues and doesn’t think they are important. How about visiting this website, Scoble, where Ron Paul is on video discussing all the three issues you mentioned?

Do you know why Ron Paul is so popular with bloggers, Scoble? Because they are able to find this stuff on the Internet, something I would have expected from you as a so called ‘A-list blogger’. Not only that, but Ron Paul addresses the right issues and knows which ones to give high priority. Do you know how many of the issues you can easily take care of if you just follow Ron Paul’s advice to get rid of the Fed? Ron Paul knows how to solve problems: By attacking them directly at their root cause. Ofcourse, it’s going to be a bit difficult to understand this if you’re out of touch with what’s actually going on in the USA, and what’s really causing all of those issues. Perhaps a good idea for Scoble would be to also keep himself updated on those issues by reading websites like Infowars.com on a daily basis, instead of focusing on the latest gadgets every day.

Scoble also mentions the energy crisis, and the fact that he needs to pay more for gas every day. At the same time, he wonders what Ron Paul’s position is on Global Warming. If you really believe the crap that Al Gore is putting out there these days, then why are you even worrying about gas prices? Shouldn’t you be using less gas anyway? This hypocritical stance on global warming, is exactly the same as Al Gore’s hypocrisy on the subject. Al Gore talks about using less energy, when he owns a fucking house that’s using 20 times more energy than the average home in the USA. And yet, Al Gore has the nerve to tell others to watch their energy consumption and think of the environment. Perhaps it’s a good idea to watch “The Great Global Warming Swindle“, Scoble. And while you’re at it, also take the time to watch “The Money Masters” and “America: From Freedom to Fascism.”

It’s simply incredible how much I agree with almost every one of Ron Paul’s opinions. People like Ron Paul and Bob Bowman are the kind of leaders that the USA needs. These are the people who have the courage to attack the ROOT causes of all the issues in the USA, unlike other candidates, who essentially talk about trying to take care of the symptoms of the real problem (mostly because they are benefitting from it themselves).

Having said all this, I doubt Ron Paul will actually stand a chance. He simply won’t be able to get the funds to be able to come even close to the full force of the brainwashing campaigns in the media that candidates like Hillary Clinton will be able to afford. The people with money, and that includes the mainstream US media, won’t support Ron Paul when they know he’s against all the crap they’re doing that makes them rich. Even if Ron Paul does somehow manage to become the Republican candidate, he won’t make it because the voting system in the USA has been compromised for years now. The American people don’t decide who becomes president for many years now and most of them don’t even know it. Even if Ron Paul does manage to get elected, he’s going to get assassinated in a record amount of time. If he actually does what he says he will do when he’s president, he’s going to be a major problem for the so called hidden government in the USA. And I’m quite sure he knows this. Another reason to admire his courage and to support him.

Also, if you’ve done your homework, you already know that Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president of the USA. It has already been decided. Those who have something to say about this (hint: not the American people), already know this. What’s going on right now is largely a show for the American people and the world. Watch it happen.

Update July 15, 2007: Here’s a nice video of Ron Paul being interviewed at Google. Also check out this one.

By now you’ve probably already heard of, and have likely already seen, the movie “The Secret.” If you haven’t yet seen it, the website for the movie is here. You should take a look for yourself in order to better understand what I’m going to talk about below.

The movie is put together really well visually, has nice directing and good marketing. It was designed to appeal to the masses. It attempts to make life look like a fairy tale, to make it seem like all can be nice and well if you just believe it to be so and want it badly enough. You don’t actually have to work for it, you see. All you have to do is forget about the bad or negative things in your life, just focus on what you like and have fun, and everything will magically take care of itself. Everything you need will automatically come your way. Yes, my dear reader, according to The Secret, you can even get rich that way. In fact, the central focus in The Secret is around how you can get rich easily.

But what this movie really is, is disinformation. While the movie does include common wisdom, and even mentions great people from the past like Albert Einstein in a way which would make you think Einstein actually endorses the message being communicated by the movie and agrees with it, it also contains lots of things that are just plain wrong and misleading. And that seems to be the purpose of the movie, to put people on the wrong path, to distract them by making them believe in things that lead to nowhere.

If you want to tell people a lie, and want to make it sound convincing so that they believe you, one way to do that is to mix a little bit of truth into your story together with the lies. That gives people bits of logic that they can hold onto as they follow your story from start to finish, accepting the lies in between as they go along. And if you can make the bits of truth seamlessly flow into the lies and back into the bits of truth, establishing a relationship between them in the process, it becomes even better and as a result a lot more difficult for someone to notice that something is wrong with your story. This is being done all the time these days to brainwash people on a large scale, and The Secret is merely an example.

Like I already said, The Secret exists to distract people from what really matters. To distract them from the things they should really be looking at. If you’re a leader bent on world domination, if you’re busy doing a lot of evil and causing loads of pain and destruction everywhere on the planet while you benefit from it, you’ll want people to ignore you and you’ll want them to look elsewhere for solutions to the problems you’re creating. You certainly don’t want them to focus on you! So what you do, is you pick up a small stone and throw it in a direction that is opposite of you as much as possible, and you send them on a wild goose chase while you continue making life worse for them. And that is exactly the purpose of The Secret. Most people have all kinds of issues in their lives these days which are mostly the result of policies which are decided by very few people who are in control and who benefit. Religion is falling apart right now, and doesn’t seem to be able to brainwash people anymore. A bit more time, and they’re actually going to wonder what the hell is going on and demand real answers. Those in control can’t let that happen. So what is the solution? Invent something new for them to believe in and hold onto, distracting them from what they should really be looking at to fix issues on this planet. Don’t let them look at the leaders who’re causing most of the problems, no no, let them focus on believing they can ignore that and have fun doing positive things and everything will be alright. Besides, they don’t want to focus on anything negative anyway, or anything that would require them to think about and to do tedious things. They want to focus on nice, easy, fun and positive things. So those in control give them that and keep them occupied with it, while they are free to do even more evil.

It’s sad but true. But what’s even sadder, is that most of the things discussed in The Secret are so obviously stupid, that I wonder how they’re still able to fool millions of people around the world with it. If you just look at it and ask some simple questions, it all falls apart in nanoseconds.

For example, the main concept being discussed in The Secret is “The Law of Attraction.” As described by Bob Proctor in the movie, “everything that comes into your life, you are attracting into your life.” And it appears that you do that largely by thinking about it, or desiring it so much, that the universe decides to give you what you want and creates situations for you which enable you to get what you need or desire. But let’s hold it right here. Does Bob Proctor want me to believe that those people in the Twin Towers who died on 9/11 all wished to die on that day under such terrible circumstances? Because it looks like the universe acted on their needs there, according to The Law of Attraction. Right? Bob wants me to believe those people attracted that horrible event into their lives. I find that a little hard to believe, Bob. And in the case of 9/11, we’re talking about 3000 people. Did the tens of thousands of people who died because of the tsunami in Asia a while ago also attract the tsunami into their lives? It’s kindof hard to imagine all those people wishing for death. There were tourists there from all over the world, Bob, and they were there to have fun! How the hell did they end up like that? Surely there had to be a big misunderstanding between them and the universe.

It’s so stupid it’s very disturbing to realize most people buy into this. According to The Law of Attraction, you should forget about your problems because if you think about them, you’ll only attract more problems into your life. But if there’s anything the universe or nature has taught us, it’s that opposites attract eachother. So if I think about my problems, shouldn’t I attract solutions? Strangely, The Law of Attraction wants us to think about positive things to change the negative things, and thus to create or attract positive things in our lives. But ofcourse, you can’t just think positive and hope to change something negative with it. If you want to turn a negative (bad) situation into a positive (good) one, you’re going to have to deal with the negative (bad) things and change them (make them positive (good)). You can’t ignore the negative things and just keep yourself busy with positive things and hope that the negative things will automatically turn positive. You’re going to have to concentrate or focus on them and put some effort into getting them positive. It’s just like in math, which is often called the language of nature. In math, you can’t multiply a negative number with a positive one, and hope to get a positive outcome. No no, you multiply the negative number by a negative number in order to get something positive out of it. This again shows that you’ll have to work with the negative to turn something negative to something positive. Now when you view the whole process, you might say that you’re overall doing something positive (good), because turning something negative (bad) to something positive (good) is a good (positive) thing to do. But take note of the fact that in the process, you’ll actually be focusing on the negative because that’s what you want to change. I wrote about this before.

Things like The Secret fool people into thinking that they can just focus on the positive things and all their problems (the negative things) will automatically take care of themselves and disappear, totally ignoring the fact that the only way to create something positive out of a negative situation, is to change the negative and thus, to focus on the negative. It’s the same thing as those who say “positive thinking” is the solution to all your problems. It’s brilliant disinformation. It keeps people looking for solutions to problems in the wrong places, or prevents them looking for solutions completely. And sadly most people buy into this stuff immediately, because it is the path of least resistance. “You mean I can just think positive, have fun and all my problems will go away automatically??? Wow! Awesome!!” Who wouldn’t love that? If it were really true, it wouldn’t surprise me that most people would rather choose to “think positive” instead of facing their problems and trying to solve them. This is one of the important reasons why the world is a complete mess today. People are too easy-going and don’t like to face problems. They’ll believe in fairy tales if it will allow them to ignore certain issues, to the advantage of those who create the issues and benefit from them.

That’s where things like The Secret come into play. To use the example I mentioned before: If you’re a leader bent on world domination, if you’re busy doing a lot of evil and causing loads of pain and destruction everywhere on the planet while you benefit from it, you’ll want people to ignore you (the negative) and you’ll want them to look elsewhere for solutions to the problems you’re creating by having them believe in The Secret and have them use that disinformation to pursue a better life (the positive) while they ignore you (the negative) so you can continue to do your thing in the background.

And that, my dear reader, is the REAL secret.

Anyway, if there really is such a thing as The Law of Attraction, the fact that nature has clearly shown us that opposites attract eachother means that according to The Law of Attraction you should be thinking about your problems in order for the universe to respond with solutions. You should be dissatisfied with your status quo and let that be known to the universe in order for the universe to respond with things that can help to get you satisfied. If you pretend to be satisfied, happy and think positive, which is what they encourage you to do in The Secret, the universe will respond by bringing negative things into your life. It’s all about maintaining balance in nature. If you’re leaning too much towards being dissatisfied and unhappy, the universe will try to get you more towards the side where you feel satisfied and happy. And the other way around. So the smart thing to do is to never be satisfied, think about your problems and deal with them in order for the universe to continue to respond with positive things in your life to help you improve.

You might already have heard about the fact that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez recently refused to renew a television license belonging to Venezuelan TV station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). I’ve seen a lot of reports everywhere the last few days that basically amount to accusations on restriction of freedom of speech. However, when you consider certain details, things start to look very different.

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know how I think about freedom of speech and about censorship. I absolutely HATE censorship. But what I hate just as much as censorship, is dishonest, incomplete, incorrect or in general, bad, information. I’ve written an entire post not too long ago about how we have to be very careful these days with where we get our information from. In that post, I also mentioned what’s needed in order for information to be useful to us.

I can imagine the decision not to renew RCTV’s license was not an easy one for Chavez. He must have known people would accuse him of trying to silence the opposition in his country and restricting freedom of speech. On the other hand, RCTV has been known to violate laws in Venezuela and has demonstrated questionable journalistic ethics for years now. From here:

Since 1999 RCTV has spread blatant lies and outlandish manipulations of information directly attacking Ch?vez. It has broadcasted sexually explicit and other inappropriate material in such violation of the law (652 cases) that any honest assessment leads to the conclusion that their journalism is an attack on public health and decency. Fox News is a kitten compared to RCTV.

Beyond this, RCTV were leaders in the 2-day coup in April 2002. This coup was not only one that used the military, but also the media. During the coup, RCTV cancelled their usual programs and broadcast a two-day string of black and white fuzziness, Hollywood movies, cartoons, and infomercials. This is widely confirmed by Venezuelans. When RCTV finally covered the coup, they reported that Ch?vez had signed his resignation and peacefully left his post as president after his supporters had opened fire on an innocent opposition march. The images RCTV broadcasted of the violence among the marchers were later proved to have been secretively arranged so to block from view the reality; pro-Ch?vez marchers were firing in self-defense after having been attacked by hidden gunmen. Meanwhile, their president had been violently kidnapped. RCTV`s action were part of a blatant and well-coordinated attempt by the major media to assist the coup leaders by blinding the public to what was actually happening.

And from here:

Along with the other four major corporate-owned dominant television channels (controlling 90% of the nation’s TV market), RCTV played a leading role instigating and supporting the aborted April, 2002 two-day coup against President Chavez mass public opposition on the streets helped overturn restoring Chavez to office and likely saving his life. Later in the year, these stations conspired again as active participants in the economically devastating 2002-03 main trade union confederation (CTV) – chamber of commerce (Fedecameras) lockout and industry-wide oil strike including willful sabotage against state oil company PDVSA costing it an estimated $14 billion in lost revenue and damage.

For one thing, I think Chavez has been extremely lucky in 2002. During the 2-day coup in 2002, which was planned by the CIA, a couple of Irish filmmakers were present and were able to capture a lot of footage. This footage made it into their documentary “The Revolution will not be Televised.” I wrote about this documentary here. You can watch it on Google Video. In this documentary, you can clearly see how RCTV manipulated footage to fool people into believing a completely incorrect version of what was going on during the 2-day coup. Were it not for these independent filmmakers, lots of people, including me, would probably not know, or doubt, what went on during the 2-day coup. So Chavez has been extremely fortunate to have had this documentary available as an independent and objective source of information to back him.

Even after Chavez came back to power after the coup in 2002, he merely asked the private media who openly supported the coup against him, including RCTV, to correct their behaviour and be honest. He didn’t ask them to lie and not to criticize him, but simply to be honest, objective and correct in their reporting. One can imagine that he could have shut them all down back then if he wanted to, and if he wanted to restrict freedom of speech and not tolerate criticism. But he didn’t, even though what they did to him in 2002 during the 2-day coup was very serious. If you watch “The Revolution will not be Televised,” all of this is very clear at the end. And ofcourse most of the private media, including RCTV, went on with their questionable journalistic ethics even after 2002 until the Venezuelan government decided not to renew RCTV’s license this year.

So is Chavez restricting freedom of speech? I think not. Like I said at the beginning of this post, I HATE censorship, but I also hate it when the media purposely manipulate information and are dishonest in order to promote their (political) agenda. I hate dishonest, incomplete, incorrect or in general, bad, information. So with regards to what RCTV had been doing, I think it was correct for the Venezuelan government to take back the license for channel 2 and give it back to the people of Venezuela. From here:

In Venezuela, as in most democracies, the right to broadcast TV and radio are public commons, which belong in the hands of the public in some way. Since representative democracy is such a predominant political model at this point in history, democratically elected governments like the one in Venezuela are supposed to control the public communications commons. The government gives concessions to private parties to use these commons responsibly, and the government has the right to take them away in the public interest at any time.

The decision not to renew the concession to RCTV was made after a thorough investigation of their journalistic ethics including accuracy, objectivity, and their compliance with the Law on Responsibility in Television and Radio (which was denounced by Human Rights Watch for being a restriction of free speech).

It is also important to note, that although RCTV lost its license to broadcast on channel 2, they are still able to operate via cable and satellite. This is an important fact the international press seems to ignore. I guess you have to ignore that if you want to make it seem like Chavez is restricting freedom of speech and completely shut down RCTV. From here:

In spite of their lawlessness, the Chavez government treated all five broadcasters gently opting not to prosecute them, but merely refusing to renew one of RCTV’s operating licenses (its VHF one) when it expired May 27 (its cable and satellite operations are unaffected) – a mere slap on the wrist for a media enterprise’s active role in trying to overthrow the democratically elected Venezuelan president and his government. The article explained if an individual or organization of any kind incited public hostility, violence and anti-government rebellion under Section 2384 of the US code, Title 18, they would be subject to fine and/or imprisonment for up to 20 years for the crime of sedition.

I, for one, agree with the fact that refusing to renew their license is “a mere slap on the wrist” when you consider everything they’ve done so far.

But does this stop them? Far from it. They seem to continue with plans to destabilize the government in Venezuela:

Caracas, May 26, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)? Several major Venezuelan journalists have received all-expenses paid trips to the U.S. for courses in an apparent effort of the U.S. State Department to influence the media in Venezuela, according to recently released documents. The Venezuelan-American attorney Eva Golinger, who released the information yesterday in a press conference in Caracas, also revealed evidence of a destabilization plan against the Chavez government to take place this weekend.

Golinger is the author of The Chavez Code, which documents U.S. funding of opposition groups and U.S. involvement in the 2002 coup attempt.

Under a program named International Business Leadership Program, many Venezuelan journalists, mostly from the opposition media, but also some from the Venezuelan government, have received “scholarships” from the U.S. government to attend training courses during the years 2001-2005.

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With the supposed intention of teaching journalists about the media and journalism in the United States, the program also has the purpose of influencing how Venezuelan journalists cover events related to the U.S. foreign policy. According to the documents released, the programs denominated “Journalism IV” seek to “influence the approach and ultimately the coverage given to issues of importance to U.S. foreign policy and to strengthen the Venezuelan democratic process.”

The State Department gave special attention to the Venezuelan news channel Globovisi?n, which they believe to be “the most influential channel” and to have the most positive coverage of the United States. The State Department sought a special relationship with this particular news network, and especially with one important journalist Maria Fernanda Flores.

Pay special attention to the fact that the US State Department is actively trying to influence the media in Venezuela. Also take note of the fact that Globovision is receiving “special attention.” Could it have something to do with the fact that they recently alluded to assassination of Chavez during a broadcast?

In an official broadcast over all the nation’s airwaves yesterday, President Chavez announced that his government would not allow the private media or political leaders to openly call for violence and incite chaos in the country. Chavez accused the private network Globovision of instigating violence and his assassination, and warned them to control themselves.

“Globovision, you watch how far you go, I just recommend that you measure it well,” warned Chavez. “If you all want, keep advancing, if you want to keep calling for disobedience, inciting assassination like you did last night.,” he said referring to a recent broadcast of Globovision that alluded to assassination.

Chavez also warned the country to be aware of any destabilization plans. He alerted both opposition and pro-government groups that certain opposition sectors are looking to cause deaths in the streets.

It is no surprise that the USA is trying to influence and even actively support the private, largely anti-Chavez, media in Venezuela. They’ve been supporting the opposition in Venezuela for years now. It’s pretty obvious what they’re trying to achieve. If you want to take over from the outside, you have to first destabilize from within which makes it easier. They’ve done the same thing in many, many other countries in the past, and are doing it right now in Iran as well.

It’s sad that many people still fail to notice what’s really going on.

The picture above was taken at one of the many Boston Tea Party events that were organized a while back in the USA. Many people came out at those events to reject the official story of what happened on 9/11 as released in the 9/11 Commission Report.

In a previous post I mentioned that I finally managed to get a couple of documentaries on 9/11 broadcasted on TV in Suriname (check here for a list of titles). The 6th documentary in a series of 10 was broadcasted just a few hours ago, and the response so far continues to be very positive. People are calling me to tell me how glad they are that they are getting this information and I’m getting lots of compliments. Even the TV station that’s doing the broadcasting, Trishul, is getting positive feedback. People called in to tell them how glad they are that Trishul had the courage to air these documentaries while other TV stations were afraid. There was one report of a woman who went out to buy an outdoor TV antenna specifically so she could have a better reception of Trishul to be able to see the documentaries.

The documentaries started to air on May 18th, on every Friday and Saturday at 3pm, with re-runs just after midnight. It seems that a lot of people who are not able to watch the documentaries during the day at 3pm watch them at night, since I’m getting feedback in the form of text messages on my mobile phone at 2am in the morning. Almost everyone who gives feedback also asks where they can get these documentaries on DVD. From all the reactions I got so far I have to say that there is quite some demand for this kind of information.

So I looked at other possibilities of reaching people with this information, and I came up with the idea of talking to DVD rental shops and having them include these documentaries in their collection. Then I could simply advertise to people where the movies can be rented and people can then go out and rent the movies and watch them whenever they want. I went to talk to a few DVD rental shops about this, and they were very interested. Last week I spent a great deal of time preparing DVDs for all the 10 documentaries to distribute to these DVD rental shops. Below you can see the poster I designed and the DVD covers for the 10 documentaries in this series, which I called “The Truth behind 9/11″:

In the coming days I will be advertising the availability of these documentaries at DVD rental shops not only during the broadcast on Trishul, but also in local newspapers. Meanwhile I’m already looking at possible follow up events I can do.

After a long while of trying, the first two of a total of ten documentaries on the issues surrounding the attacks on September 11, 2001 in the USA have finally been aired on TV in Suriname. I wrote about my experiences with trying to get these documentaries aired here and here.

The documentaries are being broadcasted by a TV station called Trishul (channel 20) in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. You can find information about the broadcasting schedule and the documentaries here (the language is Dutch). On that website I also report the latest news and coverage of the documentaries in the local media. Promotion of these documentaries started last week in various local newspapers. I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback ever since. I haven’t gotten a single negative remark so far. The only complaint people had was that the time at which the documentaries are being broadcasted (at 3:00pm) is not very convenient for them, since most people are still at work or are on the way home from work. Based on this feedback I arranged with Trishul to have the documentaries broadcasted again at midnight on the same day. That way some people still have a chance to watch them at night when they’re home, even though it’s quite late. Trishul could not offer me any better broadcasting times due to their busy programming schedule. The documentaries are being broadcasted on Friday and Saturday so it’s not that bad since most people don’t have to go to work the next day and can stay up late to watch them if they can’t watch them in the afternoon.

Unfortunately this is the best I could get so far, and instead of waiting I wanted to start getting the information out to people. Meanwhile I’m going to continue looking for better options at other TV stations. A lot of people also asked me if they can get the documentaries on DVD, so I arranged with Trishul to sell the documentaries on DVD to people who want to buy them. I’m also going to look at the possibility of having some local DVD rental stores rent the documentaries on DVD. Meanwhile I’ve been contacted by a TV station in another district, Nickerie, who are interested in broadcasting the documentaries for the people there. So I’ll also be looking at that possibility.

Based on the feedback I got so far, there’s a lot of interest for this kind of information. A lot of people have expressed how glad they are that someone is bringing this to their attention and making it available to them. Here in Suriname, most people do not have (good enough) access to the Internet and can’t get this material themselves. In addition, people don’t even know that it exists. Next Friday and Saturday, the really good info will start to air. I wonder what kind of feedback I’ll be getting…

Not too long ago I wrote about my efforts in trying to get a couple of documentaries about 9/11 broadcasted on TV in Suriname. In that post I went into details about my experiences with dealing with RTV, one of the local TV stations, and how the US Embassy in Suriname got involved and tried to intimidate RTV into not broadcasting the documentaries. As you will see when you read that post, the US Embassy succeeded in intimidating RTV enough for them to decide not to broadcast the movies because of the consequences it may have for them. Before that I had already successfully organized an event on 9/11, where I had screened all of the documentaries which I wanted RTV to broadcast.

After RTV said they couldn’t broadcast the documentaries, even though I was willing to pay for it and had sponsors lined up for it as well, I went on to the next TV station which was SKY TV. I found a company that was doing business with SKY willing to pay for the costs of broadcasting the documentaries on SKY. After about a month of waiting for SKY to finally make the time to talk about broadcasting the movies, they finally responded when the sponsor was getting a little angry and wanted to get things done faster. I had a meeting with Zurina Lallmohamed of SKY TV and the sponsor to talk about broadcasting the documentaries. At that meeting SKY agreed to broadcast the documentaries and a schedule was made and agreed upon. We would have started airing the documentaries the following week, but instead, I got a phone call from SKY the next day that they would not be able to air the documentaries. And the reason they gave was that they saw the material and found it to be too controversial, and were afraid they would get in trouble with the US Embassy. As far as I know, the US Embassy didn’t even talk to them about it, so this is even worse than RTV – they felt intimidated even before the US Embassy talked to them about it! They explained that they were afraid of getting boycotted by the US Embassy if they aired the movies because all their equipment comes from the USA and they do a lot of business with the USA. They also mentioned that they did agree with the content of the documentaries and knew they were taking a hypocritical position on the matter, but that they had no other choice.

After I kept insisting and calling up several people at SKY, including the director, about this, they said they could air the documentaries if I could get the US Embassy to participate with me in a debate about 9/11, which they would then organize and broadcast. According to them, they wanted to show that they are upholding journalistic ethics and were bringing both sides of the story to the public. But it was clear to me that they were essentially seeking the approval of the US Embassy, just like RTV did. I knew beforehand that the US Embassy would never agree to participate in a debate on 9/11, but I thought that if the US Embassy officially refused, SKY would have no choice but to go ahead and broadcast the documentaries. So I emailed Andy Utschig of the US Embassy in Suriname and asked him if they would want to participate in a debate with me on SKY TV about the issues surrounding 9/11. A day later he called me saying that “they could not participate in the debate because they did not want to give credence to the conspiracy theories.” I had ofcourse expected that answer, because the US Embassy wouldn’t be able to come up with any kind of argument against the content I was presenting that made sense, and any representative they sent would just make a fool out of him/herself on live TV if he/she would disagree with me. What this also shows is that given the opportunity for them to bring the other side of the story to people, as they pretended to require with RTV, they still refused, thus showing that their argument about journalistic ethics was just bullshit to scare RTV into not broadcasting the documentaries.

So I called SKY again, explaining to them that the US Embassy refused to participate, and then they said that in that case, they wouldn’t be able to broadcast the documentaries at all. They again went on to explain how afraid they are of the consequences if they do air the material (I’m not making this up). And keep in mind that I was willing to pay for the airtime and one of their own sponsors was willing to pay for it as well and was asking them to do it. It seems SKY would rather lose a good client and some business instead of making the US Embassy a little angry.

After SKY refused, I continued talking to SCCN about airing the documentaries. The director, Isfahany Nagessersingh, at first liked the idea of broadcasting the movies. During our first meeting, I explained to him what it was all about and he was willing to do it and seemed very enthousiastic about it mentioning how he “loved such controversial information.” I left a copy of the documentaries with him for screening purposes and during our second meeting, he told me that having seen the content, he didn’t think it was suitible to broadcast it on SCCN. So I asked why, and he went on to explain how he didn’t think viewers would be very interested in the material. I told him about the good feedback I was getting and how people kept asking me to see the documentaries, and that didn’t seem to change his mind. Then I suggested doing a poll in the local media to see if people would want SCCN to broadcast the documentaries. A bit surprised by my suggestion, he tried to talk his way out of it basically saying that it wouldn’t be neccessary because he was pretty sure his audience wouldn’t like it. Finally he came with the argument that at SCCN they only broadcasted entertainment (stuff like movies and music videos) and that the content in the documentaries wasn’t in line with their broadcasting policy. So that made me wonder why, if that was the case, he was so enthousiastic during our first meeting about broadasting the documentaries, because afterall, I had explained to him in details what they were about. Somewhere between our first and second meeting, he changed his mind about it. Not wanting to put too much pressure, I left it at that and continued to the next TV station.

I spoke to Henk Kamperveen, director at ABC TV about wanting to broadcast the documentaries and left him a copy for screening purposes. It took about 5 weeks before he was able to view some of the content, and after he did, he told me that ABC would not be able to broadcast the documentaries. When I asked why, he explained that “the documentaries expressed a certain point of view and that they wanted to be careful with what kind of material they broadcasted.” It seemed to me that ABC was just as afraid as the others, so I just accepted their answer and moved on.

I finally went to another TV station called Trishul, and they were interested to broadcast the documentaries. It appears that not too long ago, they had already aired a similar documentary on the various issues surrounding the events on 9/11. I made sure I explained to them in details what this is all about and left copies of the documentaries for them to have a look on the first meeting. At the second meeting they were still very much interested in broadcasting the documentaries after having screened the content, and so we went on to create the broadcasting schedule for the documentaries and talk about other details. If everything goes as planned, the first documentary will get aired on Friday May 18th. So I’m currently very busy preparing the material and getting the promotion of the documentaries started.

I continue to learn a lot from my experiences so far. It’s amazing how many of these companies who pretend to be independent and often very critical media start to shake in their boots when they come up against the US Embassy or other powerful people and organizations and refuse to talk about certain subjects. Who knows what else they don’t talk about while they pretend to report everything to the public and pretend to be very critical. In any case they’ve now been exposed, and I hope people find this information useful and get to know how independent some of the media in Suriname really are.

Update, May 14th: It’s important to note that the documentaries I’m talking about are listed in a previous post of mine, and that these documentaries are available for download all over the Internet. You’ll be able to find most, if not all of them, on Google Video. In addition, you can also buy most of them from various websites on the Internet. For example, “Terror Storm” is currently selling on Amazon.com.

I mention this because I want to make clear that even though these documentaries are accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, even in the USA, some TV stations are still too afraid to broadcast them. It’s just mind boggling.

I’ve written many posts already about the media and how they are being controlled or influenced these days everywhere around the world. My last post on this topic, which was very recent, discussed how we have to be more and more careful with where we get our information from. It’s one thing for the media to be owned and abused by people to forward their agenda, but it’s totally different, and in my opinion even worse, when the media allows itself to be told what to do, or simply ignore certain information, because they fear the consequences if they don’t. And I’m going to discuss a clear example of this below.

You may already know about the 9/11 event I organized back in November 2006 and which I reported about here. That event was a moderate success, and overall I’m satisfied with how things went. I’m still getting very good feedback from people, some of which didn’t even attend the event at that time, but know about the issues we discussed on that event and “are happy at least someone in Suriname is bringing it to our attention.” I’ve been planning to do follow ups on that event and one of the things I wanted to do was find a way to broadcast the movies which we screened on that event on TV so that we could reach even more people with the information. We had only a limited number of seats available for the first event and in addition there was a fee of about $40 per person, and some people complained that it was too expensive for them. So having the movies broadcasted seemed like a better thing to do next. The following is a list of the movies I wanted to broadcast (2 per week in the order as listed):

1. Outfoxed
2. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
3. Terror Storm
4. The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw
5. Everybody’s gotta learn sometime
6. 9/11 Eyewitness
7. 9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions
8. 9/11 Press for Truth
9. 9/11 in Plane Site (only first part about Pentagon) and Denmark Lecture by David Ray Griffin
10. CSPAN Coverage American Scholars Symposium

I found some sponsors who would be willing to help pay the broadcasting fees and so I went to talk to some local TV stations. One of them was RTV (Rasonic TV). They were at first willing to broadcast all 10 movies. We talked about the available dates and costs, and I went ahead and made a schedule of which movie would be broadcasted on which day and at what time. The ad which was going to be used to promote these movies was also made, containing the full broadcasting schedule of the movies. I presented this to RTV and they agreed with it. But later that same day, or the next day, I got called by RTV and they mentioned having spoken to the local US Embassy in Suriname, and told me that there were problems. It appeared the US Embassy didn’t like the fact that they were going to broadcast those movies, and RTV was being threatened with consequences.

So when I heard that, I immediately sent an email to Andy Utschig from the US Embassy in Suriname, basically asking if that was true and why they were doing this. I had met Andy Utschig, who is a Political/Economic Officer at the US Embassy, in December 2006 to discuss the 9/11 event I had organized the previous month, so that’s how I knew him (That meeting went very well by the way, and he seemed like a nice guy. On that meeting I also gave him 2 copies of the 10 movies which were screened on the 9/11 event).

Not very long after I sent my email to Utschig, he replied explaining to me that it was RTV who contacted him and that he had indeed spoken to them about broadcasting the movies. He first made clear that “they stood by free speech” and that “Suriname is a free country and they may broadcast whatever they like.” He then said that RTV would not have problems with the US Embassy if they would broadcast the movies. I was ofcourse very glad to read that. But then he went on to say that “the US Embassy would be disappointed if RTV broadcasted the movies,” because they considered them to be “onesided, erroneous and biased.”

To that, I replied the following:

The fact that you consider the videos to be one sided is your opinion and you are ofcourse entitled to that. Most of the video?s [sic] approach the issues based on the “official story”. They begin by first saying “the official story says this” and then go on to explain why there are problems with that version of the story, and then go on to discuss relevant facts. Even if you still say that they are one-sided, nothing stops you from also airing material with the official account. The goal is to have people see both sides of the story, as you said in your point. So let us have both of their [sic] aired. I?m doing my part, you do yours?

He also said that RTV wished to broadcast the movies based on commercial reasons, and that they “asked RTV to consider journalistic ethics before making their decision.” To this I replied:

Well the only way to broadcast things is for commercial reasons. I don?t think RTV or any other station would broadcast ANYthing if they didn?t make money from it somehow. If they would want to do it for free as sponsorship, I would ofcourse welcome that, but I have found some other companies instead who will sponsor the videos. In addition, these videos are being broadcasted also because of their educational value.

People already see the official story 24 hours a day everywhere. It is time that they also get a chance to look at alternative information from the other side. Both sides of the story have to get an equal chance? Then, people are free to make up their own minds.

You may also want to check this: http://blog.kareldonk.com/be-careful-with-where-you-get-your-information-from/

I did not get a reply back from him on this email at the time of writing this. But today RTV did tell me that they were not going to be able to broadcast the movies anymore. It appears the PR officer of the US Embassy, Cliff Djamin, called the owner/director of RTV all the way in India today, where he’s on a business trip, to talk about not broadcasting the movies. I’m not sure what was discussed, but based on that the decision was made to not broadcast the movies anymore.

From this whole experience we can note a few things. The first thing to take note of, is the fact that we need to buy commercial broadcasting time to get information to people which the media isn’t reporting on. In an ideal situation, I wouldn’t have to spend my time and resources trying to get this information out because the media would already have reported it. But even when you do try to buy commercial broadcasting time, they refuse to sell it to you because they fear the consequences. This is the same thing that happened to Jimmy Walter when he tried to buy space for an ad about 9/11 in the New York Times. They just refused to sell it to him.

The second thing to note is that even though the US Embassy was promoting free speech and the requirement to broadcast both sides of the story, they did not accept my offer to have both sides of the story broadcasted so that people could look at all the information and decide for themselves. Instead, they seemed to have went on with their Gestapo type activities to try and get RTV not to broadcast the movies at all. So take special note of this: For the US Embassy, not broadcasting the movies at all is better than broadcasting them along with their side of the story. The question that immediately comes to mind is: What do they want to hide from the public? Ofcourse, most of us already know the answer to that question. Also take even more special note of the fact that they are basically trying to censor this information, trying to not have it broadcasted and reach the public at all. Talk about journalistic ethics. What happened to showing people both sides of the story?

Another thing we can see is that people still allow themselves to be intimidated by the US Embassy in Suriname. Last year, I had a similar issue when “Residence Inn,” the hotel where I would first organize the 9/11 event, cancelled on me because “they did not want to hurt their relationship with the US Embassy in Suriname.” Why do these people allow themselves to be intimidated or to fear for consequences? Because they fear having something to lose. It seems that it’s all about protecting their interests, even at the cost of the greater good. If RTV has to basically agree with censorship to keep the US Embassy happy, they’re going to do it as they have demonstrated. And it seems this happens all the time. It’s one of the reasons the world is in such a mess today. People are being kept in the dark about many many things, and as a result make the wrong decisions, while those keeping them in the dark pretend to value journalistic ethics and free speech.

So right now, I’m going to do a little research project. I’m going to find out exactly how many TV stations in Suriname are going to refuse to broadcast these movies. That will give us a good indication of how free the media actually is in Suriname. At least, as far as the TV stations are concerned. I can’t wait to report on my findings.

Things haven’t been going well with the USA for a long while now, and recently it has only become more clear. If people were doubting certain developments before, they are going to find it increasingly more difficult to ignore what’s going on these days in not only the USA, but around the world. Most people don’t realize what’s going on because they can’t see the big picture. Unless you keep yourself updated on a daily basis and keep recent events in memory, it’s not easy to see the big picture. There often is a long period of time between events and most people are too busy with daily activities to remember certain information and be able to connect the dots. The example I often like to use is the frog in a pot of water. If you would throw a frog in a pot of hot water, it would try to jump out immediately. However, if you put the frog in a pot of water and very slowly increase the temperature of the water, the frog doesn’t notice the small increases in temperature and eventually dies when the water becomes very hot.

And basically the same thing is happening in the USA. Slowly but surely all kinds of things are being put into place that ultimately lead to a goal in the future, which is the transformation of the USA into a police state. And it seems most Americans are too occupied with their daily activities to even notice what’s going on around them. Indeed many of them don’t even seem to care about what’s going on. If they aren’t too busy working 2 to 3 jobs to be able to pay their bills every end of the month, they care more for having fun and wasting their time on unproductive activities. To be honest, this is not just a problem with Americans, but people in general. But in the case of Americans, it allows the people in control to gradually take their freedoms away while they are too busy to notice.

Not too long ago, the House of Representatives passed a bill that authorizes Bush to spy on US citizens without the need for a warrant while at the same time making it more difficult to legally challenge such actions by the government:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would provide congressional authorization for President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program but subject it to new rules.

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“Hidden in the fine print are provisions which grant the administration authority to maintain permanent records on innocent U.S. citizens, granting the administration new authority to demand personal records without court review, and terminating any and all legal challenges to unlawful wiretapping,” said Rep. John Conyers, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

Shortly after that, the Senate approved a detainee bill that not only enables the US government to torture suspects and prisoners, but also makes it impossible for them to challenge their detention:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bill for tough interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects, as President George W. Bush prevailed after a series of setbacks on his detainee policies.

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The bill sets standards for interrogating suspects, but through a complex set of rules that human rights groups said could allow harsh techniques that bordered on torture such as sleep deprivation and induced hypothermia.

It establishes military tribunals that would allow some use of evidence obtained by coercion, but would give defendants access to classified evidence being used to convict them.

The bill also expands the definition of “enemy combatants” mostly held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to include those who provide weapons, money and other support to terrorist groups.

After a high-stakes negotiation, Bush got much of what he wanted in the bill to continue the once-secret CIA program of detention and aggressive interrogations of suspects that critics said amounted to torture.

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said the right to challenge one’s detention was fundamental in American law, and the Supreme Court would reject the plan if it were stripped.

“This is wrong. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American,” said Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee’s top Democrat. He said it was intended to choke off access to Guantanamo to “ensure that the Bush-Cheney administration will never again be embarrassed by a United States Supreme Court decision reviewing its unlawful abuses of power.”

As soon as the bill was passed, the US government moved ahead quickly to implement it:

Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions Act (MCA), it said, provides that “no court, justice, or judge” can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone designated as an enemy combatant, now or in the future.

Beyond those already imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, the law applies to all non-U.S. citizens, including permanent U.S. residents.

The USA can now pick up anyone it labels as an “enemy combatant”, including US citizens, and ship them to Guantanamo Bay without a trial. These people can then be held there for as long as the US government wants, they can be tortured there and there’s nobody who can do anything about it. You can’t even go to court. It’s just incredible when you think about it. How could something like this be approved by the Senate? Not only that, how could most Americans just fail to realize what this means and do nothing about it? Where are the protests?

Some are calling this a total rollback of everything America stood for, and I have to agree:

The Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror. The legislation strips detainees of the right to challenge their own detention and gives the President the power to detain them indefinitely. The bill also immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for torturing detainees who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year.

Bush saved himself with that as well, since he was the one who gave the CIA authorization to detain and torture people:

WASHINGTON: The CIA has acknowledged for the first time the existence of two classified documents, including a directive signed by President George W. Bush, that have guided the agency’s interrogation and detention of terror suspects.

The CIA referred to the documents in a letter sent last Friday from the agency’s associate general counsel, John McPherson, to lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union.

The contents of the documents were not revealed, but one of them is “a directive signed by President Bush granting the CIA the authority to set up detention facilities outside the United States and outlining interrogation methods that may be used against detainees,” the civil liberties union said, based on its review of published accounts.

Others are calling this a constitutional shredding:

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, “unlawful enemy combatants.”

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Anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on Bush’s list of “terrorist” organizations, or who speaks out against the government’s policies could be declared an “unlawful enemy combatant” and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American citizens.

It is a constitutional shredding. It’s more easy to understand how all of this is possible when you realize Bush said that the constitution is “just a goddamn piece of paper.” Now when you know all this, you might want to worry about who the US government actually thinks is an “enemy combatant”:

There has been a great deal of discussion about the Military Commissions Act of 2006, recently passed by both houses of Congress, and most of it has to do with the provisions allowing torture of alien detainees, that is, of non-citizens apprehended in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq, and their treatment at the hands of their American captors. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner, all Republicans, grandstanded for weeks over the torture provisions, then capitulated. Another “Republican maverick,” Arlen Specter, zeroed in on the real issue, however, when he said the bill would set us back 800 years by repealing the habeas corpus protections against arbitrary arrest and jailings ? and then went ahead and voted for it, anyway. [Editor: You just can't make this stuff up.]

Liberal opposition mainly centered around the morality ? or, rather, immorality ? of torture, but the debate largely ignored the ticking time-bomb at the heart of this legislation, scheduled to go off, perhaps, in tandem with some future crisis, e.g., another terrorist attack on American soil: the redefinition of the “unlawful combatant” concept that lays the foundations for this administration’s reconstruction of the gulag. Here is the new, broadened definition, as enunciated in the legislation recently passed by the House:

“The term ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ means ? (i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, or associated forces); or (ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the president or the secretary of defense.”

It doesn’t say “alien” or “terrorist,” although it specifically includes members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It says “person” ? any person, including American citizens. As Bruce Ackerman, professor of law at Yale and author of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism, puts it:

“Buried in the complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.”

Congress has now granted the president the powers of a dictator. The rest of the story of our slide into absolutism is merely a matter of filling in the details.

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One suspects, however, that this administration will not be so easily deterred. To begin with, they won’t have to deal with a judge or bad publicity, because the “trial” will be conducted by a military tribunal, operating in secret. Secondly, the defendants will stand trial without benefit of constitutional protections normally afforded to all American citizens. I say “normally” because I am still living in the world before the passage of our modern-day Alien and Sedition Act, at least mentally. But it’s a new world, now.

The exact contours of this strange new world are vague, but they are fast coming into painfully clear focus. As the president equates criticism of the Iraq war with “enemy propaganda,” and the neocon media blares away at the theme of “dissent = treason” ? or, as Glenn Reynolds puts it, “they’re not antiwar, they’re on the other side” ? it isn’t hard to imagine that we have a few sedition trials in our future.

My expectations are dire, although this could simply be my own subjective impression, a mood that will pass. I can’t help feeling, however, a sense of gathering dread, attached not just to the Military Commissions Act but arising out of the political atmosphere surrounding its passage. I never could understand ? in the sense of share ? the fear of authority that emanates from my Arab friend every time he sees someone in uniform. Now, however, I am beginning to feel it myself ? as we all will.

Yep, it’s like Olbermann says: “Americans can kiss their freedom goodbye.” Ofcourse, this is all because the government has to take all of these measures to protect the freedoms of the American people, you see. Those damn terrorists just can’t stand all the freedom in America!

The real reason for all of this is to have better control over the American people. As one can clearly see, it is not to protect their freedoms because their freedoms are actually being taken away and their constitution is being systematically weakened. The US government is expecting things to get worse in the near future, and these measures are to ensure that they will be able to take care of anyone standing up to them. It’s like I wrote in a previous post, with the growing opposition including the 9/11 Truth movement and the income tax opposition, they are going to want to be able to stop these people somehow. Nothing will be easier than to simply label them terrorist supporters and as a result treat them like “enemy combatants” so they can be detained and shipped to Guantanamo Bay.

As you can imagine, Guantanamo Bay is soon going to be too small to be able to detain all those Americans there. But not to worry, the government is already on it. American prison camps are on the way, and they’re being constructed by none other than the mighty Halliburton:

Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush’s “unlawful enemy combatants.” Americans are certain to be among them.

How could that even be going on, you ask? Well it appears this was “enabled” by the Military Commissions Act:

Re-elected Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul joined Alex Jones on air last week to discuss the fallout of the midterm elections and what he sees transpiring over the next two years. He ended by ominously warning that if something is not done soon to overturn legislation such as the Military Commissions act, the law officially allows for citizen concentration camp facilities.

Not only are they building new camps, but they even seem to be restoring old internment camps, possibly to use them again in the future:

One of the last acts of Congress was to send President Bush a bill that establishes a $38 million program of National Park Service grants to preserve Japanese POW internment camps in Hawaii, California, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. Is this really in the name of historical interest or does it dovetail with programs on the books to intern hundreds of thousands of dissidents in a time of crisis?

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Precise details of exactly what the “restoration” of these camps will entail remain absent from news reports, but suspicions will undoubtedly be cast as to whether making the camps accessible again to process people in whatever form is part of a wider agenda to set up a network of internment camps that will be used to forcibly detain American citizens under emergency provisions.

During the Iran Contra hearings in the 80′s, previously classified information came to light about Continuity of Government (CoG) procedures in times of national crisis. The masterminds behind these programs were Oliver North, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and the Rex-84 ‘readiness exercise’ discussed the plan to round up immigrants and detain them in internment camps in the context of uncontrolled population movements across the Mexican border.

The real agenda was to use the cover of rounding up immigrants and illegal aliens as a smokescreen for targeting political dissidents and American citizens . From 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of persons to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the “ADEX” list.

Since 9/11 shadow government and CoG programs that were outlined in Rex-84 have been activated, including mass warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. The internment camp program is being readied for execution following the announcement on January 24th that Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Brown and Root) had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps.

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Following the news first given wide attention by this website, that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency, the Alternet website put together an alarming report that collated all the latest information on plans to initiate internment of political subversives and Muslims after the next major terror attack in the U.S.

The article highlighted the disturbing comments of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who encouraged torture supporting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to target, “Fifth Columnists” Americans who show disloyalty and sympathize with “the enemy,” whoever that enemy may be.

Respected author Peter Dale Scott speculated that the “detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.”

Daniel Ellsberg, former Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense, called the plan, “preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They’ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the ‘special registration’ detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.”

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Under the enemy combatant designation anyone at the behest of the US government, even if they are a US citizen, can be kidnapped and placed in an internment facility forever without trial. Jose Padilla, an American citizen, has spent over four years in a Navy brig.

In 2002, FEMA sought bids from major real estate and engineering firms to construct giant internment facilities in the case of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack or a natural disaster.

Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz went public three years ago with his contention that his county was set to be a location for one of the camps.

Alex Jones has attended numerous military urban warfare training drills across the US where role players were used to simulate arresting American citizens and taking them to internment camps. Actors scream out that they have constitutional rights as they are handcuffed and hauled off to the detainment facility.

This is all part of the process the US government seems to be in right now of “tooling up” for what’s to come in the near future:

The Bush Junta has quietly “tooled up” to utilize the U.S. military in engaging American dissidents after the next big crisis, with a frightening and overlooked piece of legislation that was passed alongside the Military Commissions Act, which greases the skids for armed confrontation and abolishes posse comitatus.

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Morales traced the ancestry of the bill back to “Operation Garden Plot” and the United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, now de-classified programs dating back to the 80′s which outlined how the military would be involved in suppressing domestic civil disobedience in America. The groups listed as potential non-conformist troublemakers included tax protesters, militia groups, religious cults, and various other general anti-government dissenters.

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Morales said that the authorities know full well that a widespread awakening is taking place and so the Defense Authorization Act was essentially part of a move to try and “tool up” for the reaction that will take place after their next lunge to destroy what’s left of American liberty.

Morales speculated that the trigger event for the push to use the U.S. military against American dissidents under the bill was right around the corner.

Others are seeing these recent events as a move by the Bush administration towards Martial Law:

Public Law 109-364, or the “John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007″ (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.”

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is “martial law.”

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For the current President, “enforcement of the laws to restore public order” means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against “disorderly” citizenry – protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.

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The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called “illegal aliens,” “potential terrorists” and other “undesirables” for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That’s right. Under the cover of a trumped-up “immigration emergency” and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration.

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Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007′s Defense Authorization Act contained a “widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation’s governors.”

Again, when you look at the growing civil unrest in the USA, it’s quite easy to understand why the US government is taking these steps. They know what’s coming and seem to be preparing for it. This civil unrest is only going to get worse when Americans find out in the near future about the plans for the creation of the North American Union, which the USA will be a part of, and which will mean the end of the USA as we know it today. Execution of these plans seems to be making a lot of progress as well, and it’s all being done mostly in secret without notifying the American people of what’s going on:

There he stood, a man with a captive audience of fellow anti-American neo-cons bent on one world government. His mission: to lay out the military and security integration of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The date: September 13, 2006. The place: Banff Springs Hotel, Alberta, Canada. The forum: a secret meeting of the powerful elite, a meeting that all of a sudden become not so secret. The man: Donald Rumsfeld, point puppet for the Bush administration?s planned integration known as the North American Union. This is serious government collusion behind the backs of the citizens of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It is government for the elite, not government representing the people.

Completely in line with the Bush administration’s current policy, this is being done without Congress officially knowing about it, even though it seems that this will have far reaching consequences for the USA:

Journalist Jerome Corsi has received the first documents pertaining to a FOIA request asking for full disclosure of the SPP office in its activities towards creating a Pan American Union.

According to a report by World Net Daily, the documents reveal that the Bush administration is running a “shadow government” without congressional oversight in conjunction with Canada and Mexico under the guise of a program “to increase security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation.”

Corsi asserts that a wide range of US administrative law is being re-written in stealth under this program to “integrate” and “harmonize” with administrative law in Mexico and Canada. The documents contain references to upwards of 13 working groups within an entire organized infrastructure that has drawn from officials within most areas of administrative government including U.S. departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Corsi has further reported that at a recent high-level confab in Banff, an assistant U.S. secretary of state, Thomas A. Shannon , chaired a panel that featured a presentation by Prof. Robert Pastor, author of a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.

The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan American Union networked by a NAFTA Super Highway has long been a Globalist brainchild but its very real and prescient implementation on behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations has finally been reported on by mainstream news outlets.

After nearly ten years of reporting by Alex Jones and the rest of the Patriot Movement, the establishment press is finally covering serious reports on the plan for a Pan-American Union, based on recent articles by Human Events columnist Jerome Corsi.

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“Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.”

This admission is as historical as it is concerning – the CFR moulds the foundational policy for the elimination of American sovereignty and it is passed as executive law within weeks. It is once again evident that the true vestiges of power lie within the ranks of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission who act on policy decided upon by the big brother of multinational semi-secret steering societies, the Bilderberg Group.

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The NAFTA Super Highway will allow vehicles, people and goods to travel from Mexico, into the heart of America and up to Canada with little impediment, effectively erasing America’s borders wholesale. Coupled with Bush’s blanket amnesty program, the Pan American Union is the final jigsaw piece for the total dismantling of America as we know it.

The NAFTA Super Highway? Yes, the NAFTA Super Highway:

WASHINGTON ? Rep. Ron Paul, a maverick Republican from Texas, today denounced plans for the proposed “NAFTA superhighway” in his state as part of a larger plot for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union.

“By now many Texans have heard about the proposed ‘NAFTA Superhighway,’ which is also referred to as the trans-Texas corridor,” he said in a statement. “What you may not know is the extent to which plans for such a superhighway are moving forward without congressional oversight or media attention.”

But fortunately, some congressmen have taken it upon them to officially get these developments discussed in Congress:

WASHINGTON ? While several members of Congress have denied any knowledge of efforts to build “NAFTA superhighways” or move America closer to a union with Mexico and Canada, four members of the House have stepped up to sponsor a resolution opposing both initiatives.

Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va., has introduced a resolution ? H.R. 487 ? designed to express “the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union (NAU) with Mexico and Canada.”

“Now that Congress is preparing to take up the issues of the North American Union and NAFTA superhighways, we are moving out of the realm where critics can attempt to disparage the discussion as ‘Internet conspiracy theory,’” explained Jerome Corsi, author and WND columnist who has written extensively on the Security and Prosperity Partnership ? the semisecret plan many suspect is behind the efforts to create a European Union-style North American confederation and link Mexico and Canada with more transcontinental highways and rail lines. “This bill represents a good first step.”

But will that help? I doubt it. Congress has already proven to be easily manipulated into supporting any boneheaded policy the Bush administration can come up with. It might be a bit more difficult to convince the American people about these ideas though, which is probably why all of this North American Union planning has been happening behind the scenes. It’ll probably remain that way until another big crisis that will help to “convince” the American people to choose for a North American Union:

Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Pastor, a professor at American University, says that in such a case the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP ? launched in 2005 by the heads of the three countries at a summit in Waco, Texas ? could be developed into a continental union, complete with a new currency, the amero, that would replace the U.S. dollar just as the euro has replaced the national currencies of Europe.

This is ofcourse similar to 9/11, the catalyzing event or new Pearl Harbor, which was needed to “convince” the American people about the need for the USA to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Does this help to make you realize why the US government feels the need to “tool up” as I discussed earlier? If not, how about this:

In May of 2005, a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force released “Building a North American Community”, a blueprint for merging the United States, Mexico and Canada into one country called “North America”. The plan, which is being implemented via the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement signed last year between the leaders of the three countries, will destroy the sovereignty of the USA. The United States will cease to exist as an independent nation. The United States Constitution , including the Bill of Rights, will be extinct. Implementation of such a plan is, therefore, by definition, an act of TREASON. No other word fits the crime.

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One has to wonder if the professors that the globalists are conning into spreading the glory of driving a knife into the back of America have any concept of what they are doing. This author is of the opinion that most college professors live in an academic bubble insulating them from the real world consequences of their actions and of the implementation of their pie-in-the-sky socio-economic theories and beliefs. Most of them, trapped by their own inflated opinion of their intellect, sadly, do not have a clue. Perhaps these people at Arizona State University would not be duped into teaching TREASON 101 if they had a clue, if they were given a copy of The United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Perhaps these professors need to be taught a lesson.in the rights and responsibilities of being an American.

It seems to me that most Americans would normally not choose to part with their constitution and the opposition against the North American Union in the future might be huge. All the more reason for the US government to make sure they can keep the opposition in control in the near future and all the more need for some kind of crisis to get people to accept those plans. It’s probably in that light that we should view recently developments such as this one:

DALLAS The first of many surveillance cameras has been installed in downtown Dallas. Once the system is up and running, the Dallas Police Department will be able to monitor 30-percent of the business district.

Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle says, “It will create an environment where people know they can’t do anything unlawful in the central business district, because the fact that the cameras are going to take away their anonymity.”

Or how about this:

OPINION In July last year, San Francisco began installing video surveillance cameras to monitor the public streets. What quietly started as a pilot program with two cameras in the Western Addition has quickly expanded, with more than 30 cameras throughout the city. The Mayor’s Office is seeking to install 22 more cameras at a number of locations, including heavily trafficked areas such as the 16th Street and Mission and 24th Street and Mission intersections.

Aah yes, nothing to worry about, ofcourse. It’s just to protect your freedoms and for your own safety. Privacy? What privacy? Oh wait, it seems they are actually doing something to protect your privacy:

The US Government signalled some willingness this week to address concerns over citizens’ privacy, but also launched a scheme which will analyse secret airline passenger risk profiles and keep them for 40 years.

The US Government released guidelines which it says will protect the privacy of US citizens in an era of increasing data collection and information sharing by and between Government bodies.

Congress had previously mandated greater information sharing within government and law enforcement, but there have been concerns that that process undermines individuals’ privacy.

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Meanwhile, however, the US Government began a planned scheme this week which creates risk assessments of airline passengers, assessments that passengers can ever see and which are kept on file for 40 years.

A programme has been identified by digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which collects information about individuals, stores it in a database and performs a risk assessment about whether or not the individuals concerned are likely to break US law.

“Personally identifiable information is collected to ensure that people and cargo entering or exiting the United States comply with all applicable US laws,” said a privacy impact report on the Automatic Targeting Scheme (ATS). “Relevant data, including personally identifiable information, is necessary for CBP to assess effectively and efficiently the risk and/or threat posed by a person, a conveyance operated by person, or cargo handled by a person, entering or exiting the country.”

Information will be gathered and stored on US citizens and foreigners, including EU citizens. A major source of data will be passenger name records (PNR), themselves the subject of data protection controversy in Europe.

Hmmm no, I guess not. Notice how they claim to be protecting the privacy of citizens with so called “privacy guidelines”, while at the same time collecting even more personal information from them and storing this for at least 40 years. Now where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, Microsoft came up with the same stuff not too long ago and I wrote about it here.

Expect it to get worse. Just check out what’s happening now in London:

POLICE and councils are considering monitoring conversations in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras, write Steven Swinford and Nicola Smith.

The devices are used at 300 sites in Holland and police, councils and transport officials in London have shown an interest in installing them before the 2012 Olympics.

The interest in the equipment comes amid growing concern that Britain is becoming a “surveillance society”. It was recently highlighted that there are more than 4.2m CCTV cameras, with the average person being filmed more than 300 times a day. The addition of microphones would take surveillance into uncharted territory.

The Association of Chief Police Officers has warned that a full public debate over the microphones? impact on privacy will be needed before they can be introduced.

It might already be happening in the USA as well while people don’t know it. Kindof like how Americans found out much later about all the NSA wiretapping going on. Plus, did you also know that the FBI can listen in on your conversation through the microphone in your mobile phone, even while you are not using it and while it is turned off? No? Then just check out this video. Still, only 66% of Americans think their government is spying on them. I would have expected it to be much more. I guess most of them are still not aware of Echelon (video). Even the Internet is being monitored. I wrote about this before in more detail. And when they check your webbrowsing history, they might be just as surprised as this principal:

The student was sent to the Principal’s office to face disciplinary measures. Steiner Ranch Elementary Assistant Principal Amy Moore was reportedly surprised that the school’s IP filters hadn’t blocked the sites.

“They should have,” the Principal said to Mark while at the office.

He says that his principal checked the web history in his school web account, and was ‘surprised.’

“I was going to websites that tell the truth about 9/11. She thought it was all a conspiracy; I confronted her,” Mark said. “‘No, it’s all the truth,’ you know. Bush– and its not just him, a lot of other people– and they’re just trying to cover it up.”

The assistant principal then told the 10 year-old, “Don’t talk back to me” before sending him to sit in the hall and later back to class.

Yep, it appears visiting such websites and even having certain opinions can get you kicked out of class these days. Well at least they don’t taser students yet. Oh wait, they do. I guess that’s a lot better than being run over by police on horses.

With all of this in mind, it seems the destruction of the USA is well underway:

Relatively few Americans are aware that the destruction of the United States is well under way. How can this be? It is because the federal government wants to entangle us in a North American Cooperative Security Act with Canada and Mexico.

This act will be used as a stepping stone to build a North American Union similar to the European Union. Our borders with Canada and Mexico will be erased, and we will be subjected to rulings from an unelected NAU governing body. We will lose our sovereignty and our constitutional protection.

Some are suggesting that the USA, as defined by its founding fathers, no longer exists:

The same kind of government that fires its own lawyers for doing their constitutional duty. Navy lawyer Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift was assigned the task of bringing Salim Hamdan to a guilty plea before the unconstitutional military tribunal that President Bush created for Guantanamo detainees. Instead, Cmdr. Swift did his duty and defended his client, winning in the US Supreme Court. The Bush administration retaliated by blocking Cmdr. Swift?s promotion, which killed his military career and sent the chilling message to all US military and government attorneys that constitutional scruples are career-enders in the Bush regime. Anyone who stands for the US Constitution is against Bush and his neocon regime.

The Bush regime is proceeding exactly as the Nazi regime proceeded. First, eliminate every person of conscience and integrity from the government. Second, redefine duty as service to the leader: “You are with us or against us”–a formulation that leaves no place for duty to the US Constitution. Patriotism is redefined from loyalty to country and Constitution to loyalty to the government?s leader.

Americans are too inattentive and distracted to be aware of the grave danger that the neoconservative Bush regime presents to American liberty and to world stability. The neoconservative drive to achieve hegemony over the American people and the entire world is similar to Hitler?s drive for hegemony. Hitler used racial superiority to justify Germany?s right to ride roughshod over other peoples and the right of the Nazi elite to rule over the German people. Neoconservatives use “American exceptionalism” and “the war on terror.” There is no practical difference. Hitler cared no more about the peoples he mowed down in his drive for supremacy than the neoconservatives care about 655,000 dead Iraqis, 100,000 disabled American soldiers and 2,747 dead ones.

When Bush, the Decider, claims unconstitutional powers and uses “signing statements” to negate US law whenever he feels the rule of law is in the way of his leadership, he is remarkably similar to Hitler, the Fuhrer, who told the Reichstag on February 20, 1938: “A man who feels it his duty at such an hour to assume the leadership of his people is not responsible to the laws of parliamentary usage or to a particular democratic conception, but solely to the mission placed upon him. And anyone who interferes with this mission is an enemy of the people.”

“You are with us or against us.”

Others seem to be a bit more optimistic and have compiled a list of 10 reasons why you won’t recognize America in 10 years:

The New Torture Bill
House bill H6166 (yup?) signed by the president, introduces, per the New York Times, “a dangerously broad definition of ?illegal enemy combatant??could subject legal residents ? to summary arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal.” It essentially broadens the term so that it can be applied to “whomever a military tribunal says so,” to paraphrase freedomunderground.org.

The PATRIOT Act
This law expands the government?s surveillance ability involving American citizens, particularly on-line and over voice communications via the use of wiretaps. It also greatly expands the definition of “terrorism” and allows the government to enter and search our homes without them informing us.

The REAL ID Act
This bill requires all U.S. citizens to carry a federal I.D. card to, as stated by CNET.com, “travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service.” Americans will hear some variant of “Your papers, please.” Will we accept it as necessary for our protection?

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North American Union
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America website states that it “was launched in March of 2005 as a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the United States, Canada and Mexico through greater cooperation and information sharing.” Reading between the lines of the lullaby rhetoric, the president has signed agreements with Canada and Mexico, without congressional approval, to merge the three countries into a single North American Union. Prepare yourselves for the formal dismantling of the United States as a sovereign entity.

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Suppression of Dissent
The government began revoking the tax exempt status of churches whose pastors do not genuflect to the administration. The homes of whistle-blowers are raided by the BATF or similar organizations. Surveillance of peaceful demonstrations and the compilation of political profiles of peaceful demonstrators by police in New York (as reported by the ACLU).

But it seems everyone agrees that all of this can only end in one way:

BIG PICTURE – The US is widely adored as the world’s greatest empire, yet few realise that the emperor has no clothes. As the masses look up to the nation in admiration, they are fooled into believing that it is swimming in wealth; the reality being that it is up to its eyeballs in debt. The US economy is living on borrowed time and judgement day is inevitable. No nation in history has ever managed to escape such economic imbalances and I suspect the US won’t get away with it either.

So if you’re Bush, what do you do when you know all of this? You buy land in South America to ensure you’ll be able to get the hell out of the USA when things start to get really bad:

Buenos Aires, Oct 13 (Prensa Latina) An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region.

Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia.

Well let me assure that Argentine official that it was absolutely no surprise to me! And most certainly not to any reader of this post, I’m sure.

But speaking of the bad US economy, it seems that not only Americans are going to feel the consequences of that, but the whole world. This is easy to understand when you realize the influence the US dollar has in world economy. Any serious issue with the US dollar is bound to have an impact on world economy. And unless you’ve only been listening to the mainstream media (What else are they lying about?), you probably already know there are serious issues with the US dollar.

When you see stories such as the following, you can probably already see trouble ahead:

SHANGHAI ? The Chinese yuan rose to a fresh high against the U.S. dollar Monday as reports cited officials urging diversified investments of the country’s $1-trillion in foreign exchange reserves.

The central bank’s official “parity” rate for the yuan was set at 7.824 per dollar Monday morning, compared with an official rate of 7.8331 on Friday. The yuan has gained about 3.5 per cent against the dollar since the current foreign exchange system was set up in July 2005.

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Meanwhile, China’s state-controlled media have carried reports noting the potential risks from the dollar’s overall decline to the country’s $1-trillion foreign exchange reserves, which are thought to be weighted toward U.S.-dollar denominated Treasuries and other investments.

Those reports have helped fan market speculation that a sell-off of dollar assets by China might drive the dollar’s value still lower.

It seems the US dollar is facing an imminent collapse and that much lies in the hands of the Chinese:

Even as the stock market is hitting new record highs almost every day, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department are quietly coordinating a devaluation of the dollar that the Bush administration hopes will be a slow decline rather than a dollar collapse.

This week, in an unusual move, the Bush administration is sending virtually the entire economic “A-team” to visit China for a “strategic economic dialogue” in Beijing Dec. 14 and 15.

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The Bush administration wants to get China’s cooperation in preventing a dollar collapse. That’s the conclusion of John Williams, an experienced professional econometrician, who writes the “Shadow Government Statistics” blog.

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Williams has re-created M3, a money-supply measure whose data the Federal Reserve simply stopped publishing after issuing a technically worded March 2006 announcement.

Williams reports M3 is currently growing at close to a 9.6 percent rate and trending higher, compared with an 8 percent rate early this year, when the Fed quit reporting the measure.

“The Fed is pumping liquidity into the U.S. economy,” Williams told WND, “and the Fed evidently did not want the markets to follow too closely what the Fed was doing with the money supply.”

China today now is holding a historically unprecedented $1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves. During the Thanksgiving holiday, an announcement by China that their central bank planned to diversify foreign-exchange holding away from the dollar caused the dollar to drop in value on international currency markets. Since then, the dollar has hit a 20-month low against the euro.

Some are linking the fall of the dollar with the introduction of the Amero with the creation of the North American Union. The Amero will then be positioned as the solution to the devalued US dollar, but not before those in control and in the know have benefitted from their early knowledge first, ofcourse:

As the dollar goes into free fall and the housing market accelerates in sales yet plunges in price, the quickening of an agenda of economic catastrophe allied to the “solution” of predatory globalism and the creation of a North American Union is afoot, and it spells potential disaster for the livelihood of all Americans.

Home prices have dropped 24% in the last year and most of that fall has happened in the last six months. The dollar has devalued around 35% against its level six years ago and is being trounced by the Euro and Sterling.

A false impression of a rosy economy is being spun with the rise of the stock market. Former fed chief Alan Greenspan’s doubling of the money supply and Bernanke’s promise that the money supply will be doubled again leads to only one outcome. Common sense tells us that a dollar sink is inevitable and if the housing market isn’t the place to put all these devalued dollars then that excess will chase the stock market. Taking into consideration the devalued dollar, the stock market is really at about 6,000 – not 12,000.

While most Americans don’t even know what’s going on, stock traders are already urging for a move to the Amero:

In an interview with CNBC, a vice president for a prominent London investment firm yesterday urged a move away from the dollar to the “amero,” a coming North American currency, he said, that “will have a big impact on everybody’s life, in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.”
Steve Previs, a vice president at Jefferies International Ltd., explained the Amero “is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.”

The aim, he said, according to a transcript provided by CNBC to WND, is to make a “borderless community, much like the European Union, with the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso being replaced by the amero.”

Along with the fall of the dollar, business in the USA seems to slow down:

The dollar suffered sharp falls on Thursday, hit by reports of weak US business activity and a benign inflation picture.

The euro rose 0.7 per cent against the dollar to $1.3247 by late afternoon in New York after data from Chicago purchasing managers indicated that business activity in the Midwest unexpectedly fell last month.

Sterling rose to its highest level against the dollar since its ejection from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992 as UK house prices continued to show rapid growth. The pound rose to $1.9699 before edging back to $1.9658, almost 1 per cent up on the day. The yen also gained, up 0.5 per cent against the dollar to Y115.77.

Still others are making good profits because of this:

British investors and homebuyers are rushing to cash in on the plunge in the dollar, which hit a 14-year low of $1.98 against the pound last week and could breach the key $2 mark within days.

The greenback?s decline hit the FTSE 100 index of leading shares because big firms such as Pearson, the publisher, and Carnival, the cruise operator, make most of their sales in America. These will now be worth less when converted into sterling. However, investors have found other ways to profit from the rout.

Top-level corporate insiders have also been selling their stocks in abnormally high quantities:

America’s corporate chiefs are unloading their own stocks at one of the boldest paces in 20 years.

In cases of the very rich, such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Google’s top brass, the executives are selling a whopping $63 for each $1 of stock they bought, says a report by Bloomberg.

In November alone, leaders of public companies dumped $8.4 billion worth of stock they owned as insiders, most of it awarded as compensation, bonuses or other management incentives.

But the vast majority of the executives put their windfall cash to work elsewhere, with just $133 million being plowed back into purchases of more company stock.

Analysts say a take-the-money-and-run flight from their own companies signals a growing lack of confidence in the economy’s future course, as well as fears of a possible global meltdown if the Iraq crisis escalates across borders.

It’s also a good time to take profits, with the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 15 percent this year, the S&P 500 ahead 13 percent, and the Nasdaq 11 percent higher.

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Billionaire Paul Allen also sold off 28 percent of his stake last month in DreamWorks Animation SKG for $224.2 million, keeping about 21 million shares.

Insiders at Seagate sold $311.8 million in November, while Google insiders unloaded $182.1 million in the four weeks.

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and its co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have usually led the insider-selling parade with sales of hundreds of millions as the stock rose steadily to break the $500 mark.

I don’t know about you, but when I see this kind of stuff happening, it looks like they are expecting things to get really bad soon. Why else try to cash in as much as possible right now? Even companies in the UK are slashing their IT budgets for 2007 because they seem to be worried about world economy and are expecting something bad:

UK BUSINESSES are so worried about the world economy they are slashing their IT budgets just in case it all goes pear shaped.

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Some of the reason is that UK companies spent too much last year, but it is also because they are worried that the world is becoming a more dangerous and unhappy place.

Again, I doubt they’re doing this just because they want to look cool and hip. If you also take note of the fact that a former World Bank Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner is seeing a global economic crash in the near future, it becomes really difficult to ignore all of this:

Former World Bank Vice President, Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has predicted a global economic crash within 24 months – unless the current downturn is successfully managed. Asked if the situation was being properly handled Stiglitz emphatically responded “no,” and also drew ominous parallels to the development of the NAFTA Superhighway and the North American Union.

Stiglitz caused controversy in October 2001 when he exposed rampant corruption within the IMF and blew the whistle on their nefarious methods of inducing countries to fall under their debt before stripping them of sovereignty and hollowing out their economies.

Speaking on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones radio show, Stiglitz defined the process of globalization as a system that was “rigged against the poor countries, rigged for the advanced industrial countries – the result of that is there were an awful lot of losers.”

The Columbia University Professor described how rampant privatization has crippled Mexico, in particular citing the sell-off of major infrastructure such as roads.

“They sold the roads to the private enterprise and the hope was that they would be more efficient but of course what happens is that they didn’t maintain the roads, they couldn’t generate enough revenue and they eventually had to default and give the roads back to the government.”

Stiglitz agreed that the process of hijacking and looting key infrastructure on the part of the IMF and World Bank, as an offshoot of predatory globalization, had now moved from the third world to Europe, the United States and Canada.

So I don’t know about you, but I’ve already converted most of my US dollars to Euros, and am pricing my products and services in Euros starting next month. It seems the longer you wait, the more you’re going to lose:

I know I said I was done for the year, and I’m sure I heard a collective sigh of relief all the way down here in Peru, but the subject of the U.S. dollar is just too tempting to put off until next year. A lot has happened since I last wrote about it back on October 10th and I believe it is the single most important market event we are facing at this point in time. Even more important than the non-confirmations we currently see between the Dow and other major indexes. What’s more, the ripple effects will reach all the way into the bond, stock, and commodities markets. The dollar is very important for what it is, i.e., a proxy for U.S. debt. It is not a ‘store of wealth? as so many believe. Instead it is a piece of paper backed by absolutely nothing, printed and emitted by the U.S. government as a way of postponing the settlement of its debts. Better yet, it is an ndeclared “bond”, which can never be redeemed, except by receiving more of the same.

All of this is certainly not very good news at the end of 2006, and it casts a shadow over 2007. I think it’s a good idea to be very cautious in the new year, just like those UK companies who slashed their IT budgets for 2007, and be prepared for things potentially getting (much) worse.

Yesterday was the fourth and last day of the 4-day 9/11 event I organized together with a friend who has lots of experience with organizing many different kinds of events. I am overall satisfied with how things went, although I had hoped it would have been much better. The event lasted from November 24th till November 27th, each day from 6pm to 10pm.

One of the things that I am not very satisfied with is the fact that the press did not show up, with the exception of two reporters from two of the leading local newspapers called “De Ware Tijd” and “Dagblad Suriname.” We had invited at least 10 different media companies. The reason why we invited them was not to receive publicity, but we wanted them to attend at least the first two days so they could see how the mainstream media in the USA has failed to do their jobs for many years now. The local media usually just copy newsarticles from the mainstream media in the USA and Europe, without realizing they have an agenda and allowing the large scale manipulation to reach the local population in Suriname. I wanted them to realize this and as a result to be more cautious with how they report international news and to encourage them to start looking at the non-mainstream sources for alternative information.

After looking at the movies on the first day of the event, which discussed the mainstream media in the USA, one of the journalists who attended the event said “I had absolutely no idea things were THIS bad with the media in the USA, no idea.” And this coming from a journalist. And many other people made similar remarks as well.

We had a total of between 40 and 50 people attending the event in the 4 days which is the number of people I hoped to reach with this first event. However some of them did not attend all 4 days. We had the most people on the last day. Overall we got a lot of positive feedback from everyone who attended. People were really glad to receive all the information they got from the movies and from the discussions. I’m not a very good presenter, mostly because I get very nervous, but the movies spoke for themselves. And in the end, David Ray Griffin really nailed it, as he always does.

The following movies were shown:

• Day 1: Outfoxed, Orwell Rolls in his Grave
• Day 2: Terror Storm, The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw
• Day 3: Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime, 9/11 Eyewitness
• Day 4: 9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions, 9/11 In Plane Site (first 30 minutes), Denmark lecture by David Ray Griffin

I’m also really glad I choose to do this event at Leaders Group Conference Room. The location looked very very nice and they have some really high-tech equipment. In addition, the service we received from them was very good as well. Many of the guests were very impressed.

Here are some pictures from the event:

Awesome.

Even more awesome.

Marciano, who helped to organize the event, checking his email while the guests are watching “Terror Storm” in the background.

Some of the guests during one of the breaks.

More guests.

Even more guests.

View from behind the bar. The good Mr. Leefmans and Mr. Attaoellah hard at work making everybody feel at home.

Me (on the right) having a discussion with two guests.

Watching “The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw.”

Watching “The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw” with Barry Zwicker.

Watching “9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions.”

Watching “9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions.” The ST911 logo looked as good as ever.

Watching “9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions.”

Radio 10 reporter Steven van Frederikslust (second from right) sneaked in on the last day to take a look. Radio 10 did not officially respond to our invitation.

Some of the guests having a discussion.

Watching the David Ray Griffin lecture all the way from the bar.

At the end of the fourth day I gave all the attendees a CD with some extra material which included a recording of the CSPAN broadcast of the American Scholars Symposium and some radio interviews with Prof. James Fetzer, Prof. Steven Jones, Prof. David Ray Griffin and Barry Zwicker among other things.

We also gave away 4 books by David Ray Griffin to 4 lucky winners, namely a copy of “The New Pearl Harbor,” a copy of “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” and two copies of “Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11.”

We asked all attendees on the last day to fill out a survey for us as well. The results are as follows:

1. What did you think of the way the event was promoted?
   Good: 33.33%, Reasonable: 42.86%, Bad: 23.81%
2. How did you like the location and facilities?
   Good: 95.24%, Reasonable: 4.76%, Bad: 0%
3. How did you like the quality of the sound and screen?
   Good: 71.43%, Reasonable: 28.57%, Bad: 0%
4. How did you like the quality of the food and beverages?
   Good: 85.71%, Reasonable: 14.29%, Bad: 0%
5. Did the event meet your expectations?
   No: 0%, Reasonable: 33.33%, Yes: 66.67%
6. Did the event give you new insights regarding the events on 9/11?
   No: 0%, Barely: 28.57%, It was a real eye-opener: 71.43%
7. How credible did you find the information?
   Not at all: 0%, Reasonable: 28.57%, Very credible: 71.43%
8. Would you recommend this information to others?
   No: 0%, Maybe: 9.52%, I’ll begin with it ASAP: 90.48%
9. Would you participate in follow-up events?
   No: 0%, Not sure: 9.52%, Absolutely: 90.48%

A final question asked what information had the most impact on the attendees. We got various answers here, but mostly people seemed to be impacted by the information in “Terror Storm” which made them realize that there is a long history of false flag operations. Many didn’t know about this. They also liked the footage in “9/11 Eyewitness” and “9/11 Mysteries Demolitions.” People seemed to especially appreciate the scientific research that was discussed in these movies and the information about the media.

And with that I conclude this report of the 4-day 9/11 event and look forward to the next one.

For the last 2 weeks I’ve been busy organizing the very first event on the truth behind 9/11 in Suriname (Rough Babelfish translation, TV commercial). As you may already know, I’m a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and as a member I’m helping to spread the information about 9/11 that the mainstream media refuses to discuss. The truth is that even if I wasn’t a member of ST911, I would still have done this because I think the information we’re going to show, certainly on this first event, is very very important to understanding what’s been going on and where this is leading to.

It’s going to be a 4 day event, about 4 hours each day with screenings of 2 to 3 movies and Q/A sessions. So far we’re getting positive reactions from people here, many already know something was up, but don’t know the full details. And we’re going to give them the details. We’ve tried to keep the costs for attendance as low as possible because we want many people to be able to attend, while also helping us to cover some of the costs we’re making. I’m pretty sure we’ll have to cover a good portion of it ourselves, but it’ll be worth it. Having said that, I still feel the costs for attending all 4 days (about US$40) is too high, but I wanted to do it in a good location and be able to provide “free” snacks and drinks. At 4 hours a day, 4 days in a row, it’ll be pretty exhausting so I wanted a nice comfortable location.

What’s also interesting is the reactions you get from people asking me if I’m not afraid and if I know what I’m doing. Even my dad called to confirm if I knew what I was getting into. But isn’t it sad that people have to react like this for something as normal as viewing evidence and facts about an event and wanting to be open minded about things? Isn’t it sad that these days you have to be afraid to talk about certain subjects? Others were warning me about getting on the US list of people to watch, and being monitored by the FBI and/or CIA. By the way, if those guys are reading this, and I know they are, I’d like to take this opportunity to invite them to join the 4 day event. It’s only $40.

So anyway, I’ll keep you updated on the event. If you notice a lack of updates for 3 weeks and/or if you hear the DEA “found” drugs at my house, I’m sure you’ll understand what’s going on. I also hear Guantanamo Bay is pretty nice this time of the year. Let’s see if I can win a free ticket.

The Inquirer’s Charlie Demerjian reports that we’re all about to become DRM roadkill. Or, at least the people who were stupid enough to buy DRM protected music. Microsoft is setting the example and is showing everyone what corporations can do to those who buy DRM protected content.

Just head on over to Microsoft’s PlaysForSure website and take a look at the companies listed there. If you bought music from any of those companies, you’re going to have trouble getting that music to play in the future, even on Microsoft’s own soon to be released Zune player (their iPod competitor). Zune will not support the version of Microsoft’s DRM that is used by PlaysForSure. This means that the songs you bought won’t play on Zune, and that you will likely have to buy them all again if you want to listen to them on a Zune player. They won’t even play on an iPod, since the iPod doesn’t support Microsoft’s DRM.

Even worse, as reported before, the new DRM version that Microsoft will use, will not allow you to transfer your licenses to another device at all or make backups of them. So if that device breaks, you lose your content as well.

Demerjian calls this one of the more massive screwings of customers by Microsoft. And I have to agree. They’re even screwing their partners with this as Michael Robertson writes here:

In spite of the larger display and capacity the Zune is inferior to the MusicGremlin because it zunes your entire purchased music library. Microsoft made a corporate decision to abandon their previous technology called “Plays for Sure” and turn it into “Screwed for Sure”. Anyone who purchased music from Rhapsody, Napster, Buy.com, Wal-mart, BuyMusic, etc. will discover that music is unplayable. (Of course iTunes music won’t play either because Apple doesn’t play nicely with others.) You’ll be required to re-purchase that music or go without.

The danger with DRM is that it gives corporations the power to change the rules of the game anytime they think it will benefit their bank account, even if that means zuning your music library. There’s no better illustration of this than when the world’s largest technology company curtails support of their OWN technology abandoning their hardware partners, music stores and most importantly customers they convinced to use Plays for Sure. Microsoft will surely claim that they’ll continue to support Plays for Sure, but their actions speak louder than their words – it won’t even play on their own music players! Plays for Sure is dead for sure and it’s going to its grave with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of music fans? digital music crammed into the coffin.

Let this be a good lesson to everyone. DO NOT BUY MUSIC OR VIDEO THAT IS IN ANY WAY PROTECTED OR RESTRICTED.

How do you know if music or video is protected or restricted? Here are some things to look for:

• The music or video (content) has copy restrictions. You can’t copy the files to another computer or device and play them there. You cannot make backups of the files and play them on another device or computer, even if the old one has been damaged. You are only allowed to make a very limited number of backups.
• The content has restrictions on the number of times you can play or look at it. Restrictions can also apply to the number of days you can use the content, or it can expire after a certain time after which it becomes unusable.
• The content is distributed in a proprietary file format and cannot be played on other devices or using other software. Apple iTunes is a good example of this – You can only play music you buy from Apple on their own devices using their own software. If you’re buying music, you should make sure it is in a format that is open and widely supported, such as MP3. If you’re buying video, DivX or XVid are good formats.
• Read the End User License Agreements and make sure you understand what kind of restrictions or limitations apply to the content you’re buying. Remember that these companies probably won’t refer to them as restrictions.
• Ask questions to the people selling content to you and make sure you can play them where ever you want for however long you want. Ask them about any limitations, restrictions or protection that applies to the content.

If you must buy devices such as iPod or Zune, only buy them when you see that they support open formats such as MP3, which will ensure you that you can use your existing music collection on them. I own an iPod nano, but I never bought any music from Apple. I only put MP3 songs on my iPod. When I want to use another MP3 player, I can simply copy the MP3 music files to the other player and use them there. DRM protected content will not allow this.

So be careful with what you invest your money in. As shown above, if you make the wrong decision and buy protected content, chances are you’re going to lose your investment in the future because it becomes unusable.

I hope the most evil team at Microsoft are proud of themselves and their accomplishments. Let’s see if they can top this in the future with even more boneheaded ideas.

In a previous post, I wrote about Google getting caught resetting viewer numbers on a few videos on it’s Google Video website. Prisonplanet reports that they’ve admitted to it, saying it was an error, but then did it again:

Google Video has re-imposed a crass censorship policy to intentionally stifle the growth of Alex Jones’ Terror Storm documentary and prevent it from reaching tens of millions of people by covertly editing viewer statistics and blocking the film from entering its popular categories.

Last week we highlighted how Google had reset viewing totals for Terror Storm from hundreds of thousands of views on several different video versions back down to zero for each one.

Following a complaint Google admitted that the numbers had been reset by mistake, despite the fact that the error only seemed to apply to Terror Storm, and assured us that the problem would not re-occur.

A brief appraisal of the viewership figures for the multiple different versions of Terror Storm again shows that Google have deliberately reset the viewership stats to prevent the film getting a foothold in the Popular, Featured, or Movers and Shakers categories. It is only when a film enters these prominent categories that it really begins to spread like wildfire and enter a cycle of exponential multiplication.

Figures that were heading towards 500,000 views for different uploads of the film are now back in the low hundreds and tens of thousands. The number of viewer submitted comments remains the same but the viewership numbers have clearly been unfairly doctored.

Indeed it is quite strange that if this was a mistake, that it only affected the “Terror Storm” videos on the website. That cannot be a software error. And then after they said it would not happen again, it happened again. This is most likely deliberate policy, as noted in the article:

From past behavior and clear evidence of statistical manipulation, it is reasonable to conclude that an executive level decision has been made to artificially trim the numbers for Terror Storm and prevent it from becoming an underground blockbuster.

That’s probably the case. If you read my previous article, you’ll see that Google has been consistently targeting similar content for censorship in one way or the other. And like I said before, this will only get worse. They’re going to censor information increasingly in a more open way until it will be very obvious what they’re doing and why.

In a previous post, I detailed why such centralized online services like Google Video and YouTube are not in our best interest. We should be looking at alternative ways of distributing our content, preferably ways where it’s very difficult or impossible for people to censor information or to have centralized control over it.

About 2 weeks ago, I wrote about why I thought that Peer to Peer would be the future of the Internet, instead of centralized services like Live.com and Google. I warned in that post about the fact that these kinds of centralized services take control away from the user and put it into the hands of a few, who can decide what gets published and what they do with all that data and content.

Alex Jones reported yesterday that he caught Google resetting viewer numbers on his video “Terror Storm” (you can also download it here) so that they wouldn’t make it into the most popular videos on the Google Video site. There is also a screenshot posted on Alex Jones’s website. Some from the article:

Following last week’s buzz about Terror Storm being available for viewing free on Google Video, numerous websites linked to our promo page and as a result viewing figures for all versions of Terror Storm at Google Video began to climb rapidly.

However, upon checking the same viewer figures on Sunday, Alex Jones noticed that many had been reset to zero and had only begun to climb into the hundreds and early thousands, nowhere near their previous levels of tens and hundreds of thousands for the previous days. The trends had been artificially reversed and this prevented Terror Storm from entering the top ten list of Google Video which would have ensured an explosion of further circulation of the video.

As you can see from the screenshot a reader e mailed us below, Terror Storm was being highlighted as one of Google Video’s most popular selections and was heading for the top ten, until late Saturday/early Sunday when viewership totals for the video were inexplicably reset.

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This is not the first time we have caught Google engaging in censorship of Alex Jones and his websites.

During our Charlie Sheen coverage, Google intentionally blocked news stories pertaining to Sheen’s comments which were first made on the Alex Jones Show and turned into a nationwide media spectacle.

Even after the story had gone supernova, and our original write-up had been linked all over the web, including the Drudge Report, Google’s main search engine did not list the article.

After we blew the whistle on this act of censorship, the story was re-listed and Google even began carrying some of our content in their news section – a practice that has now also ceased.

Google’s penchant for abandoning their founding principle of “don’t be evil” and kissing up to Communist China for privileged access into the world’s biggest untapped Internet market, was exemplified in February this when Google completely erased the Space War website from its search engine. Space War is a large mainstream news website that carries articles about geopolitics and the defense industry from AFP.

Space War speculated that it was their reporting on advancements in China’s military technology and missile programs that provoked a censorship order from the totalitarian Chinese government which Google acted upon. Again, after a mass e mailing campaign which we fully supported, Google re-indexed the Space War website.

When you see “Terror Storm”, you’ll understand why Google would want to make it appear less popular on its website. 9/11 Eyewitness, Rick Siegel, also seems to have caught Google censoring some information in its cache of webpages in the past.

Make sure you read my previous post on this subject, as it contains more information and insight into how these centralized services are ultimately not good for the user. When I read Alex Jones’s story, I wasn’t suprised at all. When you pay attention to the right information, you can see this stuff coming way in advance. And if I’m correct, it will get much worse in the future.

This is going to be another one of those long posts packed with great information, so take the time to read and watch all of it.

At the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, protesters gathered in New York at Ground Zero and around the world to take part in protests. People even seem to be quitting their jobs to dedicate themselves to getting the truth out about 9/11:

NEW YORK ? Striding into Washington Square Park with a fistful of photocopied circulars and an earnest expression, Eric Williams could have been an environmental canvasser or a hip missionary. In fact, he is a pastry chef ? or was until last week, when he quit his job to devote himself full time to proving that the World Trade Center attack was ordered not by terrorists but by officials in the U.S. government.

There were massive protests at Ground Zero with Alex Jones at the bullhorn. Here’s an article that also mentioned it:

Hundreds of 9-11 conspiracists paraded across the street from ground zero Monday with their brazen signs “9-11 WAS A U.S. BLACK OP” during the solemn reading of the names of the 2,749 who perished in the twin towers. A surprising many people stopped to listen and seriously consider the “proof” offered by members of the so-called 9-11 truth movement, who spent the day lecturing people about how the towers were felled by explosives.

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“The sleeping giant has arisen “we won’t be silenced,” declared Jones. He went on to explain to the media how the decision to stage a new Pearl Harbor on 9-11 was made not by Dick Cheney and the neocons, but was dictated from on high by David Rockefeller, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Elizabeth of England, and the other financiers of the secretive Bilderberg Group that controls world resources from behind the scenes.

I’d say Alex Jones is on to something there. There were also demonstrations in Stockholm, Sweden, and in London just outside the US Embassy. Here are some more pictures of the London protests. John Albanese released a short film from Ground Zero on the 5th Anniversary. Stuff was also going on in France (pictures).

At the same time, there were 9/11 conferences planned in countries in Europe and 9/11 researchers got coverage in the media in those countries and in the US as well. CBC covered the alternative 9/11 theories:

CBC Sunday covered in great detail 9/11 alternative theories. They referenced Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Loose Change, and the standard range of ‘conspiracy theory’ topics. The show featured interviews with Bob McIlvaine, Dr. David Ray Griffin, Dylan Avery, Lee Hamilton, and Jim Meigs (Popular Mechanics).

David Griffin and former MI5 agent David Shyler gave a presentation in London. They also appeared on a BBC program (if you watch nothing else, watch this!). Barry Zwicker gave a talk titled “9/11 Truth: Everybody Knows (except the mainstream media!)”. David Griffin also gave a presentation in Copenhagen, Denmark. Highly recommended. Griffin’s way of laying down the facts is beautiful. He was also in Italy for a 9/11 Truth conference, and was interviewed by Webster Tarpley (Part 1, Part 2).

Australian Channel 10 aired a 9/11 truth documentary and got attacked for it as well. MSNBC covered the 9/11 conspiracy theories. A Dutch program called Zembla aired an investigation into the 9/11 theories, which had an interesting part:

One of the more interesting moments in this documentary (about 46:25 minutes into it) is when they ask demolition expert Danny Jowenko (who has his own demolition firm and reportedly has been active in this business for 27 years) to comment on videos of the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC 7. His response to the WTC 7 video: “This is controlled demolition”.

What else could he have said? The Dutch Metro paper also covered 9/11 alternative theories, here is a translation. The Loose Change guys had a debate with people from Popular Mechanics. CNN seemed to have been interested in the Pentagon Conspiracy theories and also did an interview with the Loose Change guys on “Paula Zahn Now”. The LC guys, by the way, seem to be having it pretty busy:

“We had CNN last week, and we have CNN again on Sunday,” said Korey Rowe, 23, of Oneonta, pacing a house suitably cluttered by its three bachelor occupants. “It just goes on and on. We have so many different countries coming, sometimes I don’t even know who they are. . . . Yesterday, a buddy came over, and he’s like, ‘What reporters are these?’ And I say, ‘I don’t know France?’ And they were from Switzerland.”

President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, who recently referred to Bush as the devil, says it is plausible that US government was involved in the 9/11 attacks. Here’s a video where he says Bush planned the attacks on 9/11.

While the official story continues to fall apart,:

The government is getting desperate. Two major polls recently showed that a growing number of Americans doubt the official story around 9/11. On Aug. 28, the State Department responded with a direct assault against “misinformation,” by publishing a statement that attacked the fringes of the 9/11 Truth Movement. A major media brouhaha immediately followed. The New York Times published a sarcastic sniff at 9/11 activism, titled “U.S. Counters 9/11 Theories Of Conspiracy” on September 2. Time magazine ran a sympathetic but dismissive review of the popular 9/11 film “Loose Change.” ABC/Disney chimed in recently with a docu-drama based on the 9/11 Commission Report.

attacks on 9/11 researchers are growing:

The growing attack on critics of 9/11 has reached a crescendo this week. Not only has the public been exposed to multiple conspiracy debunkers on radio and television interviews as well as articles in national magazines, but this week Brigham Young University put Prof. Steven Jones on paid leave to stop any influence he might have on students pending an investigation into what BYU considers his “increasingly speculative and accusatory” statements concerning the real cause of the WTC collapse.

I wrote about Professor Jones being put on paid leave in a previous post. Scholars for 9/11 Truth addressed the attack here. They also wrote to BYU President Samuelson. USNews also wrote about the incident. According to Jones in an email to me, the key issue is the following:

“Jones had been relatively reticent to discuss the implications of his findings, but he created buzz on campus Tuesday with his appearance on KUER-FM 90.1. He expressed the opinion to talk-show host Doug Fabrizio that blame for the attacks rests with neoconservatives Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl and others.” quoted from DesNews.com, 9/9/06 article — major UT newspaper.

Some Jews even jumped in and are accusing Jones of anti-semitism:

The action came two days after Jones appeared on KUER-FM 90.1′s respected news talk show “Radio West.” On the show, he said it appeared responsibility for the attacks rested with Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and an “international banking cartel.”

The statement drew immediate response from Jews who said they were offended because references to international banking have for decades been used by anti-Semitic groups as codespeak to blame Jews for various problems. Hitler often blamed “international financiers” for Germany’s debt after World War I.

You just can’t get any stupider than that. A local chapter of the American Association of University Professors jumped in to support Jones:

(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY – It?s a local story ? with ties to September 11th ? that won?t go away.

Now, a BYU professor who believes a conspiracy was involved in the terror attacks on America is getting support from fellow scholars.

Physicist Steven Jones was put on administrative leave last week, because BYU officials were worried that his conspiracy beliefs are tarnishing the university?s image. The school also expressed concern over his research methods.

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A local chapter of the American Association of University Professors is criticizing BYU for its actions, saying that it restricts academic expression of thought.

“The way that our institutions are supposed to work is, to raise questions,” said AAUP local founder Larry Anderson. “Let everybody else attack if they must.”

“This will help the information about his case get out to other people who are interested in academic freedom,” he added.

Some are calling the latest wave of academic censorship signs of fascism, and I have to agree:

The White House?s desperate fingerprints are all over this ham-fisted attempt to silence an American physicist speaking in public about a topic on which he has expertise. One of the last things George Bush and Dick Cheney want before ending their presidency is to share an 8×12 jail cell for the rest of their squalid, greedy lives. But that certainly is an option if Jones?s compelling findings–along with similar findings by other academics cited in the postscript–are afforded enough public play to force a real congressional inquiry into 9/11 should Democrats, as poll pundits are predicting, win a House majority in the November elections.

The LA Times seems to agree, making comparisons to censorship in Iran:

The real agenda behind this so-called bill of rights has nothing to do with fostering intellectual pluralism and everything to do with marginalizing or eliminating academics who deviate from the right-wing party line.

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Last week, they insisted that universities be purged of liberals and “improved to serve national security,” and they urged students to “strongly criticize ? the continued presence of liberal and secular professors.”

Oh, wait ? whoops! Those quotes were from ? respectively ? Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani, the hard-line Islamist president of the University of Tehran, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Silly me, getting my militant conservative Islamic extremists mixed up with my militant conservative Judeo-Christian extremists! Though now that I think about it, they seem to have an awful lot in common.

Indeed. Project Censored, a media research group out of Sonoma State University in California, published its annual “Top 25 Censored Stories”. And guess what? They made Prof. Steven Jones’ paper “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?” their #18 in the list.

But this is just the beginning. The government now seems to be taking the next step, and is calling 9/11 conspiracy theorists Terrorist Recruiters. I guess you have to find an excuse to send these people to Guantanamo Bay without a trial somehow. But they’ve gone even further, and have raided a 9/11 whistleblower just after the 5th Anniversary of 9/11:

On the morning of September 12, McCormack’s tenant opened the door to see half a dozen detectives outside who began asking questions and demanding to search the building. The detectives didn’t have a warrant and needed McCormack’s signature to conduct the search.

Having nothing to hide and wanting to assist the police, McCormack signed the paper and the detectives entered the house.

“Three minutes later as I’m walking out of my office with one of the detectives, I have a federal SWAT team that comes in….men in black and all of a sudden they have 9 millimeter handguns and MP5 machine guns aimed at my head,” McCormack told the Alex Jones Show.

McCormack was ordered to leave the building as the 15-strong Darth Vader like SWAT team members verbally abused him and commenced ransacking his house for up to three hours “like a cyclone.”

The reason for the raid was said to be as a result of a complaint that the odor of chemicals was smelled coming from the house. McCormack was essentially being treated as a potential terrorist.

“Numerous firemen were telling me that they heard numerous secondary explosions all over the building – these guys are seasoned firefighting professionals – a lot of them have military backgrounds and they’re not stupid.”

“Everybody on the planet knew that not only was the World Trade Center hit – it was totally wiped out,” said McCormack.

McCormack said that around 75% of police, firemen and rescue personnel that he had personally spoke with now believe there is a cover-up pertaining to 9/11 and that many had been threatened that “if they ever open their mouth their pensions are at risk.”

They’re slowly but surely starting to use force. A US Air Force chief has recently suggested that they test weapons on US mobs:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.

Imagine that. It’s just unbelievable. ‘Testing weapons’ on people. But wait, here it comes: You think he is just now suggesting this? No no no, they’ve been doing it already!! A few months ago, I saw this article, and I honestly thought it had to be nuts:

In Court Documents, Federal Attorney Admits CIA Targeted Innocent Texas Citizen Who Is Also Being Targeted With Deadly Electronic Weapons
Jesus Mendoza. 52, recently filed his third lawsuit trying to get the U.S. government to cease and desist from using electronic weaponry on innocent citizens.
12 May 2006

By Greg Szymanski

Leslie Oliver is being “cooked alive” and Jesus Mendoza is dying a slow “electronic death,” as two more stories surface about torture and abuse at the hands of a totalitarian U.S. government using high-grade military weaponry against its own people.

Do you still have ANY doubt whatsoever that this stuff is happening? Seriously? If you read both articles, you’ll see they’re talking about the same weapons. Unbelievable.

But that’s not all. The government’s ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of US citizens without court approval is also being expanded soon:

A bill radically redefining and expanding the government’s ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday, and may be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week.

The police state is taking shape. Prepare to Sieg Heil, my dear reader. What will follow next are National ID cards, and chip implants. Watch a movie called “America: From Freedom to Fascism,” which I wrote about here.

And while the war in Iraq continues to get worse, and the ‘enemies’ are benefiting from that, the US government is following the same path they did with Iraq, and are making up evidence against Iran to justify military action:

Vienna – U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran’s nuclear work, calling parts of it “outrageous and dishonest”, according to a letter obtained by Reuters.

The letter recalled clashes between the IAEA and the Bush administration before the 2003 Iraq war over findings cited by Washington about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that proved false, and underlined continued tensions over Iran’s dossier.

Sent to the head of the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Intelligence by a senior aide to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, the letter said an August 23 committee report contained serious distortions of IAEA findings on Iran’s activity.

The letter said the errors suggested Iran’s nuclear fuel program was much more advanced than a series of IAEA reports and Washington’s own intelligence assessments have determined.

It said the report falsely described Iran to have enriched uranium at its pilot centrifuge plant to weapons-grade level in April, whereas IAEA inspectors had made clear Iran had enriched only to a low level usable for nuclear power reactor fuel.

You have to wonder, are they making this stuff up, or do they have reasons to believe that Iran has that technology? What if I told you that Darth Cheney sold Nuclear Technology to Iran himself when he was at Halliburton:

According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran?s largest private oil companies.

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During a trip to the Middle East in March 1996, Vice President Dick Cheney told a group of mostly U.S. businessmen that Congress should ease sanctions in Iran and Libya to foster better relationships, a statement that, in hindsight, is completely hypocritical considering the Bush administration?s foreign policy.

“Let me make a generalized statement about a trend I see in the U.S. Congress that I find disturbing, that applies not only with respect to the Iranian situation but a number of others as well,” Cheney said. “I think we Americans sometimes make mistakes . . . There seems to be an assumption that somehow we know what?s best for everybody else and that we are going to use our economic clout to get everybody else to live the way we would like.”

Cheney was the chief executive of Halliburton Corporation at the time he uttered those words. It was Cheney who directed Halliburton toward aggressive business dealings with Iran?in violation of U.S. law?in the mid-1990s, which continued through 2005 and is the reason Iran has the capability to enrich weapons-grade uranium.
It was Halliburton?s secret sale of centrifuges to Iran that helped get the uranium enrichment program off the ground, according to a three-year investigation that includes interviews conducted with more than a dozen current and former Halliburton employees.

That’s how they know! Wonderful, isn’t it??!?! It’s the same with Iraq. How did they know Saddam had to have chemical and biological weapons? Reagan and Bush Sr. sold it to him! Speaking of Darth Cheney, did you know his Halliburton stock rose over 3000 percent last year? War is big business for these people.

But those small details won’t stop the Bush administration, especially since Israel keeps pushing them to bomb Iran:

The Bush administration and the British government are under increasing pressure from the Israelis to conduct an illegal air strike against Iran?s nuclear facilities, according to a number of reports in Europe?s largest newspapers.

In London, The Sunday Telegraph and the daily Telegraph have reported that war clouds are spreading as Iran continues its nuclear development and Israel reacts to it.

According to The Sunday Telegraph Israel has appointed Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, commander of the Israeli air force, to direct military action against Tehran. Meanwhile, the Telegraph reports that Britain is holding secret talks “at which senior defense chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.”

The Pentagon is also drawing up plans for an attack. U.S. military ground forces are already bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in dozens of other deployments abroad.

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It is understood that any direct British involvement in an attack would be limited but may extend to the use of the RAF?s highly secret airborne warning aircraft. The belief in some areas of Whitehall is that an attack is now all but inevitable.

But even as the US government is seemingly trying to ‘convince’ others of the need to attack Iran, the truth is that they are already preparing for the attack:

As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment facilities, The Nation has learned that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have moved up the deployment of a major “strike group” of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran’s western coast. This information follows a report in the current issue of Time magazine, both online and in print, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1.

Indeed, the Pentagon has moved to second stage planning for the strike against Iran:

The Pentagon’s top brass has moved into second-stage contingency planning for a potential military strike on Iran, one senior intelligence official familiar with the plans tells RAW STORY.

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An April New Yorker report by Sy Hersh alleged that the nuclear option was on the table, and that some officers of the Joint Chiefs had threatened resignation.

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The senior intelligence official who spoke to RAW STORY, along with several military intelligence sources, confirmed that the nuclear option remains on the table. In addition, the senior official added that the Joint Chiefs have “come around on to the administration’s thinking.”

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With allegations of a plan in place and contingency scenarios in play, several military and intelligence experts see this as proof of a secret White House order to proceed with military action.

Last week, a military intelligence official described to this reporter the movement of Naval submarines and a deployment order sent out to Naval assets of strategic import, such as minesweepers, that could indicate contingency planning is already under way to secure oil transport routes and supplies.

On Sunday, Time Magazine confirmed much of what the military intelligence source had described.

“The first message was routine enough: a ‘Prepare to Deploy Order’ sent through Naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters,” Time’s Michael Duffy wrote. “The orders didn’t actually command the ships out of port; they just said be ready to move by October 1. A deployment of minesweepers to the east coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed, but until now largely theoretical, prospect has become real.”

Retired Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner also expressed concern about the deployment orders, but cautioned that these particular ships are slow-moving and would take “a month or so” to arrive in position.

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Attempts to contact members of the Senate Armed Services Committee provided little help in confirming allegations of the deployment order made to this reporter and Time. Senate offices that were available for comment would not do so on the record.

From all appearances, however, it would seem that at least some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have not been briefed on deployment orders or on any strike plans, even contingency plans. The Senate Intelligence Committee is attempting to get a grasp on what is and has been going on.

Even the Senate doesn’t know what’s going on, and as it seems, has nothing to say about all this. Looks like a dictatorship to me.

And as all of that is happening, Iran has no choice but to also prepare for war:

In Iran, the Intelligence Minister has warned that “enemies are seeking to create instability in Iran through different measures, including assassinations, explosions and extensive insecurities” and that “his forces, in cooperation and coordination with other governmental bodies, have defused enemies? plots in different Iranian provinces, including Tehran.”23

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The United States has already started to target both Iran and Syria?s financial bodies and institutions in an act of economic warfare. Syria has in step with Iran taken “preventative steps” in early 2006 by switching from using the U.S. dollar to using the Euro for all its transactions. The head of the state-owned Syria Commercial Bank has said that such measures have been taken to protect Syria from American sanctions (economic warfare).25

Actions have been taken against the large, state-owned Bank Saderat of Iran by the United States.26 The Bank Saderat has been cut off from the U.S. financial system and its network(s). This is part of a deliberate objective to financially cut off Iran from the rest of the world. Three large Japanese banks, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho Corporate Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation have followed in step and will terminate business with Bank Saderat.27

Looks like we’re heading for an interesting end of the year. I wrote before that the US government needs this attack to distract their citizens from the 9/11 lies and the income tax/IRS/Fed issues (watch “America: From Freedom to Fascism”), and to further be able to implement the laws that will enable them to complete their transformation of America into a police state. Watch it happen.

And finally, in a previous post, I mentioned how Pakistan said that they would leave Osama bin Laden alone and let him stay in Pakistan if he would lead a peaceful life. Well, it’s been revealed that Pakistan’s secret intelligence agency (the ISI), the same one that wired $100.000 to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker just before 9/11, has been helping Al Qaeda:

LONDON ? A major terrorism trial here was interrupted Tuesday when a defendant accused Pakistan’s intelligence service of threatening his relatives in the South Asian nation after he testified that the spy agency played a role in training Islamic militants.

It seems the world is just a giant circus. And in the same way, it’s also been revealed that UK intelligence agencies have been carrying out terror attacks and blaming it on others:

Former UK Intelligence Agent Kevin Fulton blows the whistle on how he and others were used by the British government to carry out false flag terror attacks that were blamed on the IRA.

Kindof like the CIA has also been doing for years. And so, does it surprise you, that the August terror plot was just bullshit to scare people:

“The idea that these people could sit in the plane toilet and simply mix together these normal household fluids to create a high explosive capable of blowing up the entire aircraft is untenable,” said Lt. Col. Wylde, who was trained as an ammunition technical officer responsible for terrorist bomb disposal at the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Sandhurst.

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“So who came up with the idea that a bomb could be made on board? Not Al Qaeda for sure. It would not work. Bin Laden is interested in success not deterrence by failure,” Wylde stated.

“This story has been blown out of all proportion. The liquids would need to be carefully distilled at freezing temperatures to extract the required chemicals, which are very difficult to obtain in the purities needed.”

Once the fluids have been extracted, the process of mixing them produces significant amounts of heat and vile fumes. “The resulting liquid then needs some hours at room temperature for the white crystals that are the explosive to develop.” The whole process, which can take between 12 and 36 hours, is “very dangerous, even in a lab, and can lead to premature detonation,” said Lt. Col. Wylde.

You’d think these people would come up with something more believable. It seems they’re not that smart afterall, or, they want us to find out what’s happening.

I’ll be discussing that last option a lot more in the future.

There’s some good content becoming available these days. Just a few days ago I posted about that new video discussing the controlled demolitions of the Twin Towers, called “9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions”, and today I have another link for you to a new movie.

It’s called “America: From Freedom to Fascism”. You might have heard of it already. Perhaps you’ve even already seen it. But if you haven’t, YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD. As soon as you can. You can download it here. You’ll need the DivX codec installed on your computer to view it.

I’m sure most Americans don’t enjoy paying income tax. Did you guys know that there is actually no law requiring you to pay income tax? The IRS is just a mafia organization robbing people from their money. The Federal Reserve System is just a private corporation owned by private banks, using your tax money for their own benefit. Get the details by watching the movie. There’s lots more being discussed there, including how America has been transformed into a police state. Yep, prepare to Sieg Heil in the near future.

For more in dept background information on the Federal Reserve System and how private bankers have controlled people through the financial system for decades now, watch a movie called “The Money Masters.” This is some incredible and very detailed research. It’s a good history lesson as well. Highly recommended. You can download it here, or from Conspiracy Central here (you’ll need to login to get the link to the .torrent file). You’ll need a BitTorrent client installed on your computer to be able to download from previous locations. An easier way is to just get it from here (DivX codec required).

Update 23/9/2006: Removed Google Video links to The Money Masters and added new ones.

A few days ago a new movie featuring 9/11 has been released, which focuses on the controlled demolitions of the Twin Towers and Building 7. It’s called “9/11 Mysteries”, and part 1 of this 3 part series, called “Demolitions”, is now available and can be ordered on DVD. You can also watch it FREE of charge on Google Video.

This video is an amazing piece of work. It is the best 9/11 video on controlled demolition yet. YOU SIMPLY MUST SEE IT. Here are some quotes from leading 9/11 Truth researchers:

“Excellent. The best of the 9/11 movies.” –David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor

“WOW! is my reaction to this movie. Great insight into demolitions and what really happened on 9/11/2001.” –Steven E. Jones, physics professor, Brigham Young University

“An outstanding contribution to understanding 9/11. Simply superb.” –James H. Fetzer, founder, Scholars for 911 Truth

Let me say it again: THIS IS A MUST SEE.

I can’t wait for the next 2 parts to be released.

A group of people, friends of those running the popular Bittorrent tracker called The Pirate Bay, have made a movie on filesharing called “Steal This Film“. You can visit the website and download the movie for free (various formats available) using a Bittorrent client.

As you may already know, organizations in the US like the Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) are constantly in the news with new lawsuits against (dead) filesharers and companies with filesharing software who don’t follow their rules. In May 2006 they finally got Swedish officials to raid the ISP where the Pirate Bay is being hosted and brought down the website. Orders came from top levels of the US administration to the Swedish Minister of Justice demanding that they do something about the Pirate Bay. However, that move massively backfired, causing protests in Sweden and the Swedisch government even being sued because of the raid.

Needless to say, the Pirate Bay website was back online in 3 days, and fully functional within a week. All of this and more is discussed in the movie. They’ve now even built in redundancy in their system, with backup systems in other countries ready to go online as soon as one of their locations gets taken down again.

Looks like the MPAA and RIAA are going to have a very difficult time with these guys. They’ve now even taken it a step further, and are internationally offering P2P anonymity on one of their latest filesharing services.

According to the Party, its new network is a ‘dark net’, which means that anyone will be able to use its service without fear of being monitored or logged. Users get an untraceable address in the darknet, where they cannot be personally identified.

In a statement, Rickard Falkvinge, chairman of the Pirate Party said there were many legitimate reasons to want to be completely anonymous on the Internet. He added that if the government can check everything each citizen does, nobody can keep the government in check.

The right to exchange information in private is fundamental to democratic society, Falkvinge said.

And I have to say, I thoroughly enjoy their attitude and their offensive and very humorous approach to dealing with organizations like the MPAA. It’s much needed. You’d hope consumers in the US and other countries would have more backbone instead of letting organizations like the MPAA do with them whatever they like. These guys are setting an example.

And this is just the beginning. Hopefully other companies and organizations take notice and don’t resort to boneheaded strategies to keep control over users. Sony recently got a serious beating too for their DRM software on certain music CD’s which was effectively a rootkit. And even Microsoft got into this stuff with their Product Craptivation and Genuine Crapvantage software in Windows and Office. Hopefully they’ll realize sometime soon that they can’t possibly hope to win this battle.

So in case you’re looking for something to download, like say… a movie… then visit The Pirate Bay and see if you can find what you’re looking for.

By the way, “Steal this Film” has the BEST INTRO EVER!!!!

There’s a documentary available for download right now called “Orwell Rolls in His Grave.” It contains a lot of good information about the way the corporate media seems to work right now, and how they all have links with the government and politicians and can easily be influenced by them in order to forward their own agenda. This is certainly a must see, and goes well with another documentary I mentioned before called “Outfoxed.”

Seeing both of those documentaries will change the way you look at the media today. The corporate media are very powerful, so powerful in fact, that they can essentially create reality. Because of the fact that they reach a large amount of people all over the world, they can influence public opinion, and indeed have people believe whatever they want. How else do you think that the majority of the people were convinced that Iraq should be invaded? How else did the majority come to believe that Iraq had WMDs, when in fact, there was no evidence for this? How else did more than half of the people in the USA come to think that Iraq was responsible for 9/11, when most of the alleged hijackers were from Saudi Arabia?

Also very interesting are two interviews, one with Professor Steven Jones, which you can download here, where he talks about the WTC controlled demolition possibilities and his research into that, and the second one with Professor James Fetzer, of which you can download the first part here, and the second part here. Fetzer talks about the attacks at the Pentagon and the WTC. Very interesting interviews. Both of these researchers are members and founders of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth.

And although the 9/11 Truth movement as a whole are making good progress, it seems the US government is fighting back, with one of their most recent hits being that it has become more difficult for government wistleblowers to come forward with any information that may expose the truth to the rest of the people, among other things. This, ofcourse, is to maintain the secrecy and keep valuable information from reaching the public, so that they can not make their own informed decisions. It should come as no surprise for example, when you see the various FBI and CIA agents who want to talk and come forward with the truth and are trying to do so for years now, not able to effectively do so because of gag orders placed by the government. Even the firefighters who witnessed what happened at the WTC had gag orders placed on them for obvious reasons. Americans are losing more of their rights every day. The new CIA director is even making plans for even more massive spying on Americans:

Now that he is officially sworn in as the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael Hayden plans to build a vast domestic spying network that will pry into the lives of most Americans around the clock.

President George W. Bush told Hayden to “take whatever steps necessary” to monitor Americans 24/7 by listening in on their phone calls, bugging their homes and offices, probing their private lives, snooping into their financial records and watching their travel habits.

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“This is not ‘total information awareness’ but ‘total information control’ aimed at watching Americans fulltime and ignoring the protections that are supposed to be guaranteed by the Constitution,” says an FBI agent familiar with the programs. “I didn’t sign on for this and I’m getting the hell out.”

In fact, resignations at major U.S. spy agencies are at an all-time high. Exact numbers are classified but sources say field agents, data analysts and others are leaving in droves rather than join the frenzy to spy on Americans.

Just recently a whistleblower came forward with evidence of AT&T helping the NSA to spy on Americans. This is all possible, ofcourse, due to the patriot act. And the patriot act is possible, because of the constant fear the government bestows on its people so that they willingly give away even more of their rights for the sake of protection. Didn’t you hear about the latest Osama Tape that’s supposed to make people afraid of another attack? Well, experts conclude that it’s fake.

And while all of that is taking place, you have Bush making remarks like:

Last week, Bush said he was concerned about the erosion of democracy in Venezuela and Bolivia. The White House has accused Venezuela of being uncooperative in the U.S. war against terrorism and of promoting instability in the region.

Forget about Orwell rolling in his grave. Chances are he’ll dig himself out of his grave in the near future to talk some sense into people.

Recently a new 9/11 video has been released titled “What’s the Truth: How indeed did the Twin Towers collapse.” You can download it here.

Yet another interesting video to add to the rest of the 9/11 videos already available. This one focuses on the WTC towers and building 7. It has a lot of footage taken from live broadcasts by the mainstream media where you can hear many people talk about hearing, seeing, feeling and even experiencing the explosions going off in the buildings before they collapsed. Very nice material, and I would highly recommend you take a look at the video.

As you may already know, the 9/11 Commission completely ignored the testimonies from firefighters about the explosions, and those were never mentioned in their final report. It’s as if those things never happened, when in fact they did. The 9/11 Commission also ignored the collapse of building 7, which was not hit by an airplane and had no significant damage, and they did not even mention building 7 in their report. Building 7 is an obvious case of controlled demolition.

A preview of a newer release of the ’9/11 Eyewitness’ video has also been released. You can watch it here. No wait. Let me rephrase that. You should watch it here. In the preview you can see the cutter charges going off while one of the WTC towers is collapsing. Remember that firefighters have repeatedly said that they could see those bright flashes going around the building before they came down.

A new movie about 9/11 has been released a few days ago, and is available for download free of charge. It’s called ‘Everybody’s gotta learn sometime’, and the website for the movie is here. The movie contains some new information about 9/11, the hijackers and ties with people in the USA, and shows that many people inside the government knew about the plans and the hijackers almost a year in advance. You’ll also see how many of those people tried (and still try) to get the word out about what is really happening, how investigations were stopped and people are being intimidated for wanting to talk about the truth.

It’s quite interesting, because you’ll also see how the mainstream media doesn’t cover any of this. These are the most important stories of our lifetime and the media chooses to talk about other unimportant things and entertainment instead. If you live in the USA, and you get your ‘news’ from TV, you are in serious trouble. To understand why, and to see how the corporate media works, watch a documentary called Outfoxed.

Fortunately, we have the Internet today, and that makes it a lot easier for independent researchers and journalists to provide everyone with real information. However, most people won’t go looking for information themselves when they think that what they get from Fox News is probably what’s happening. So that’s why it’s good that people organize screenings of movies like ‘Everybody’s gotta learn sometime’, ’9/11 Eyewitness’ and ‘Loose Change’ in their own community to get the word out. And this is happening around the world. Recently it’s been reported that Labour MP Michael Meacher has organized such a screening at the Houses of Parliament in the UK. And it will take a lot longer to inform everyone this way, but there’s good progress. In about 1-2 years from now, most people should be aware of what’s going on.

There are many around the world who question the official story about 9/11, and the number of people is growing every day as the information spreads. To quote from here:

World leaders suspect the Bush administration of involvement in the 911 attacks. The first skeptics to question what role the Bush administration played in the 9-11 terrorist attacks were a few Cabinet ministers in the governments of America’s NATO allies. They included German Science and Technology Minister Andreas Von Bulow and British Environment Minister Michael Meacher. They were joined by Belgian European Parliament Member Paul Lannoye.

However, in recent months the former Cabinet ministers have been joined in their skepticism about the “official” version of the 911 events by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. In March, Chavez said Venezuela will open an official investigation into the 9-11 attacks. Now, Chavez has been joined by Ahmedinejad, who in a recent letter to President George W. Bush, asked, “Why have the various aspects of the [9-11] attacks been kept secret?” Ahmedinejad indicated that the attacks could not have been carried out without the knowledge of the U.S. “security services.”

So if you still haven’t looked at the alternative information, begin today. Search my blog for 9/11 related posts and start watching the movies and listening to the interviews I mention.