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		<title>The Obama Deception</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I wrote a post titled &#8220;Barack Obama: More of the same,&#8221; 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&#8217;s a new documentary out by Alex Jones titled &#8220;The Obama Deception&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-obama-deception/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><div id="attachment_531" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 227px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-531" title="Obama Deception" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obamadec-217x300.jpg" alt="No we can't" width="217" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">No we can&#39;t</p></div>
<p>A while ago I wrote a post titled &#8220;<a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/barack-obama-more-of-the-same/" target="_blank">Barack Obama: More of the same</a>,&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a new documentary out by Alex Jones titled &#8220;<a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/barack-obama-more-of-the-same/" target="_blank">The Obama Deception</a>&#8221; (<a href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4765887/The_Obama_Deception" target="_blank">Download here</a>) which I saw recently. If you haven&#8217;t yet seen it, take the time to watch it. In that documentary you&#8217;ll see what I described in my previous post about Obama, plus you&#8217;ll see how Obama is basically deceiving people on a large scale, and that in fact, nothing is changing at all and it&#8217;s just business as usual. You&#8217;ll see evidence of him lying, and doing the exact opposite of what he promised to do before he was elected. It&#8217;s just <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/barack-obama-more-of-the-same/" target="_blank">like I said before</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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. <strong>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.</strong> 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.</p></blockquote>
<p>And now, just a few months after his election, it is already very clear who&#8217;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 &#8220;yes, we can,&#8221; and if you still think that &#8220;change has come to America.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Barack Obama: More of the same</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like it&#8217;s official now, Barack Obama is going to be the next President Bush. I watched some of the election coverage, and it&#8217;s simply amazing how many people still don&#8217;t seem to get it, thinking Obama is going to be bringing any kind of positive change for them.  It&#8217;s amazing how many people still don&#8217;t realize that today, it &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/barack-obama-more-of-the-same/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
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<p>Looks like it&#8217;s official now, Barack Obama is going to be the next President Bush. I watched some of the election coverage, and it&#8217;s simply amazing how many people still don&#8217;t seem to get it, thinking Obama is going to be bringing any kind of positive change for them.  It&#8217;s amazing how many people still don&#8217;t realize that today, it doesn&#8217;t matter which ones of the candidates win in the USA, because both parties are controlled by the exact same people in the background.</p>
<p>Do you think George Bush was really taking the decisions for the last 8 years? If you think so, you have a lot of research ahead of you. George Bush has been nothing more than a puppet. The real decisions are being made by powerful people who remain in the background, to forward their own agenda. An agenda that is in their own interests, not yours. Some call them the hidden government or the secret government, the illuminati, some call them the military industrial complex, and many other names, but they&#8217;re the same people behind Bush, the same people behind the attacks on 9/11 and the same people behind the Kennedy assassination.</p>
<p>Now Obama is their new puppet, and he&#8217;ll be continuing everything Bush has been doing. Don&#8217;t mind what he has been saying during his campaign. Talk is cheap. To win the election, it&#8217;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. <strong>Obama wouldn&#8217;t even be a candidate and have so much support from corporations and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">especially the corporate media</span> if they didn&#8217;t know beforehand that he would be protecting and supporting their interests, just like Bush has been doing the last 8 years.</strong> Interests of a small but powerful group of people. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">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&#8217;s one of them.</span> This has been the giveaway of the whole plot but few noticed.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that one of Obama&#8217;s advisors is Zbigniew Brzezinski. If you don&#8217;t know who Zbigniew Brzezinski is, Google him and prepare to be terrified of what you find. In his book &#8220;The Grand Chessboard&#8221;, he stated what <a href="http://www.911kemet.co.uk/PNAC.html" target="_blank">the Neocons who were behind the Bush regime said in their PNAC document well in advance</a>: &#8220;We need a Pearl Harbour event to unify the people behind the war for global Imperial conquest.&#8221; Take note of the fact that Brzezinski said this in 1997, about <span style="text-decoration: underline;">3 years before the Neocons came up with their PNAC document</span>. As we know, that new Pearl Harbour came on 9/11 and was an inside job, likely planned and executed by those same people backing the Neocons, if not the Neocons themselves. Now, those same people are advising and backing Obama. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Also note that Brzezinski together with David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission which was behind the Bush administration.</span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://obambi.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/obama-will-be-controlled-by-zbigniew-brzezinski-and-the-trilateralists/" target="_blank">more for you</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Obama will be controlled by Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Trilateralists, in other words Obama will be controlled by David Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations.</strong> More policies directed by the World Bank, a Trilateral project, as the last six out of seven World Bank presidents have been pulled from the Trilateral Commission, including the neocon Paul Wolfowitz. Actually, when it comes to globalism and imposing a slave and control grid on the whole world, there is little difference between neocons and neolibs. Neocons are obsessed with killing Arabs and Muslims, whereas the neolibs prefer to work behind the scenes with their color revolutions.</p>
<p>Trilats also control the Federal Reserve. Arthur Burns, Paul Volker, and Alan Greenspan all hailed from the Trilateral Commission, although the current chairman, Ben Bernanke, does not. Of course, it does not matter, as the chairman takes his marching orders from the Rockefeller clan.</p>
<p>As should be expected, there is a bit of crossover in the support for Obama. For instance, Joseph Nye, vice chairman of the Trilateral Commission, supports Obama. Nye is also a Bilderberger and a member of the CFR. Nye, along with Robert Keohane, developed theories on neoliberalism, theories now in play starving and immiserating millions around the world.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">In fact, Obama has gathered under his tent — that is to say, the tent erected for him — a regular melange of globalists and one-worlders. “The Obama campaign has thus far been shown to represent: the Ford Foundation, the Trilateral Commission, the New York Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberger Group, Skull and Bones, the RAND Corporation, the Soros foundations, the Rockefeller family, and the Friedmanite Chicago School of economic genocide,” writes Webster Tarpley. “Obama is the Manchurian candidate groomed and indoctrinated by these financier-controlled groupings. <strong>As president, Obama would impose a regime of crushing economic austerity and a new set of foreign wars far worse than what has been seen under Bush.”</strong></span></p>
<p>In other words, more of the same, but according to Tarpley worse. And that’s why it is disgusting to see corporate media whores such as Tim Russert and Keith Olbermann declare Obama the de facto winner. Russert and Olbermann are onboard with the Trilateral Commission, CFR, Skull &amp; Bones, the Bilderbergs, the Rockefeller eugenicists, the Ford Foundation, and their perpetual war, depopulation, and climate change agenda.</p>
<p>But then, if they were otherwise, you wouldn’t see them on television.</p></blockquote>
<p>Pay special attention to what Webster Tarpley says about Obama. He knows what he is talking about. Also <a href="http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/1497.html" target="_blank">read this interview with Tarpley about Obama</a>.</p>
<p>Did you also know that <a href="http://www.infowars.com/?p=2560" target="_blank">Obama and Hillary attended this year&#8217;s Bilderberg meeting together</a>? If you don&#8217;t know what the Bilderberg group is, Google them. You&#8217;ll find out that they are a secret group of powerful people around the world who meet with eachother each year <strong>in secret, behind closed doors</strong>, to discuss the real agenda they have for the world. The agenda you don&#8217;t hear about, but see implemented around you every day. Why would Obama meet with them? Not only that, why would <a href="http://www.infowars.com/?p=2308" target="_blank">someone from the Bilderberg group be selecting Obama&#8217;s running mate</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>It has been announced that Bilderberg luminary and top corporate elitist James A. Johnson will select Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s running mate for the 2008 election and in turn potentially act as kingmaker for America’s future President.</p>
<p><strong>Johnson also selected John Kerry’s running mate John Edwards in 2004 after Edwards had impressed Bilderberg elitists Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller with a speech he gave at the globalist confab in Italy that year.</strong></p>
<p>The news further puts to rest any delusions that Bilderberg is a mere talking shop where no decisions are made. In reality, the group is shaping some of the primary developments in the domestic and geopolitical arena today, particularly in the context of oil prices which continue to accelerate towards Bilderberg’s target of $200 dollars a barrel.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">It also ridicules once again any notion that an Obama presidency would bring &#8220;change&#8221; to the status quo of America being ruled by an unelected corporate and military-industrial complex elite.</span></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Pay special attention to the last part of the quote. Is it beginning to make sense now?</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s more, my dear reader.</p>
<p>Why are these people also suggesting, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">way in advance</span></strong>, that Obama will be facing foreign policy problems? Do they know something we don&#8217;t know? Have they got something planned for us that we don&#8217;t know about? Like they had 9/11 planned up to at least a year before it happened? <a href="http://www.infowars.com/?p=5708" target="_blank">Check this out</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Trilateral Commission co-founder and top Obama advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski told CNN yesterday that Barack Obama would be faced with “imminent problems” in the context of foreign policy once he takes office, echoing prophetic warnings made recently by Joe Biden, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Brzezinski’s warning that Obama will face immediate problems in the form of a foreign policy crisis echoes similar sentiments expressed by Obama’s running mate, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Senator Joe Biden, who last month told an audience in Seattle “We’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”</span></p>
<p>Biden was vehement in his proclamation, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>stating that it was a “guarantee” and a “promise”</strong></span> that Obama would face an international crisis and that “tough” and “unpopular” decisions would have to be made to combat it.</p>
<p>Colin Powell made similar statements when he endorsed Obama on Meet the Press, saying <span style="text-decoration: underline;">“There’s going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now.”</span></p>
<p>Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright also told CNN’s John Roberts, “It’s just a statement of fact…something unexpected, you always have to be prepared for that.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So the same guy, who said &#8220;America needed a new Pearl Harbor event to unify the people behind the war for global Imperial conquest&#8221; (and which came on 9/11) is now saying that Obama is going to be facing imminent foreign policy problems. Joe Biden, Obama&#8217;s running mate, who was chosen by the Bilderberg Group&#8217;s James A. Johnson, seems to be absolutely certain that this crisis will happen, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;a guarantee and promise&#8221; and that it will be a <strong>generated</strong> crisis. How can he be so sure?? And then Colin Powell even mentions the specific dates! How can Powell mention specific dates, and then go on to say &#8220;that we don&#8217;t even know about&#8221;?? It seems to me that if you can mention specific dates, you sure know about the crisis! And Madeline Albright further assures you of it by saying it&#8217;s a statement of fact. How on earth can these people know about a crisis and be so sure about it and specific? Please also remember that Madeline Albright said that <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084" target="_blank">567.000 children dying in Iraq because of US sanctions was worth it</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq:</strong> &#8220;We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that&#8217;s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Secretary of State Madeleine Albright:</strong> &#8220;I think this is a very hard choice, but the price&#8211;we think the price is worth it.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211;60 Minutes (5/12/96)</p>
<p>Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright&#8217;s quote, calmly asserting that U.S. policy objectives were worth the sacrifice of half a million Arab children, has been much quoted in the Arabic press. It&#8217;s also been cited in the United States in alternative commentary on the September 11 attacks (e.g., Alexander Cockburn, New York Press, 9/26/01).</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/what-will-obamas-international-crisis-be.html" target="_blank">more</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Joe Biden’s “guarantee” that an “international crisis” will unfold shortly after President Obama takes office conjures up several different possibilities, but it seems the likely outcome will revolve around an announcement that Iran has developed a nuclear bomb, prompting a potential military attack.</p>
<p><strong>“It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,” Biden told an audience in Seattle this past weekend.</strong></p>
<p><strong>“Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”</strong></p>
<p>The assured tone with which Biden delivered his forecast was staggeringly convincing, and left the observer in no doubt that there will be a major world crisis shortly after Obama takes office. “Mark my words, mark my words,” Biden stressed, adding that “tough” and “unpopular” foreign policy decisions will have to be made.</p>
<p>“I promise you it will occur,” Biden added, “As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it is going to happen.”</p>
<p><strong>Biden’s use of the word “generated” is even more startling.</strong> One of the dictionary definitions we find for the word “generated” is “to bring into existence; cause to be; produce,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>which begs the question, will this be another staged and manufactured crisis like the 9/11 attacks, which occurred less than 8 months after Bush took office?</strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p>Now, with all of this information, when you see the people backing Obama and the people who Obama has been with ever since his career (Brzezinski was his mentor), when you see the people who decide for Obama and go so far as to select his running mate (the vice president), and when you see what they are &#8220;predicting&#8221; for us, do you have any hope for change now?</p>
<p>With regards to Brzezinski, read <a href="http://coat.ncf.ca/articles/links/a_war_in_the_planning_for_4_yrs.htm" target="_blank">an article by Michael Ruppert here with some good insights</a>. And on <a href="http://www.takeoverworld.info/grandchessboard.html" target="_blank">this link</a> you can find some quotes from Brzezinski:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.</span>&#8221; (p. 211)</p>
<p>The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values (like liberty and democracy). <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.</span><br />
- Between Two Ages: America&#8217;s Role in the Technetronic Era, 1970</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.&#8221;</strong><br />
- Between Two Ages : America&#8217;s Role in the Technetronic Era &#8211; 1970</p></blockquote>
<p>Reading those quotes from 1970, it becomes clear that these people have been planning the global police state for many years now, and in 1970 already knew what today&#8217;s technology would enable them to do. How was this possible?</p>
<p>And finally, you might want to read this article titled: <a href="http://www.infowars.com/?p=5755" target="_blank">Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss</a>. This part is very interesting:</p>
<blockquote><p>The election of a new president should not be a mindless act of idolatry and fanfare, it should be a solemn commitment to find a leader who will follow the Constitution.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">But Barack Obama will ride into office with a gigantic approval rating to rival that of Bush after 9/11, along with a complete power monopoly over the executive, the legislative, the judicial as well as widespread media support.</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">This makes Obama more dangerous than Bush and certainly a damn site more dangerous than a McCain administration, because his policies for at least a year or two will enjoy universal acclaim and voices of dissent will be drowned out by a wave of droning acquiescence.</span></p>
<p>Obama has all the political capital he needs to implement the terrifying policies that he has already announced and beef the architecture of the police state crafted by Bush.</p></blockquote>
<p>It looks like with Obama, those in control have the perfect puppet through which to get their policies accepted by people. And before the people realize what&#8217;s going on, it will be already too late. This is the same situation that allowed the Patriot Act to get passed after 9/11, when Bush had so much support.</p>
<p>So again, do you still have any hope for change?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. David Ray Griffin, a man who I deeply admire because of his beautiful use of logic in his reasoning, has released his latest book titled &#8220;The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé.&#8221; Griffin is without a doubt one of the best 9/11 Truth researchers, and if you&#8217;ve read some of his previous books, I have &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-new-pearl-harbor-revisited/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>Dr. David Ray Griffin, a man who I deeply admire because of his beautiful use of logic in his reasoning, has released his latest book titled &#8220;<strong>The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé</strong>.&#8221; Griffin is without a doubt one of the best 9/11 Truth researchers, and if you&#8217;ve read some of his previous books, I have no doubt you know why I say this.</p>
<p>This latest book appears to be an updated version of one of his earlier books titled &#8220;The New Pearl Harbor.&#8221; Here&#8217;s some more information on it:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Citizens in many countries are waging a war on the cover-up of the basis for the so-called war on terror&#8212;this basis being the official interpretation of the 9/11 attacks. Along with the Internet, which has equipped both public figures and ordinary citizens to wage this war on the cover-up, David Ray Griffin has revealed dozens of omissions, distortions, and contradictions in the official story in a way that provides undeniable evidence of its falsity. The New Pearl Harbor Revisited presents a powerful exposé of the false narrative that has been driving the mainstream political agenda since 9/11. It is now up to politicians and journalists around the world to expose this truth to our peoples.”&#8212;<strong>Yukihisa Fujita</strong>, member of the House of Councilors, the Diet of Japan</p>
<p>“With this work, Dr. Griffin cements his place as the preeminent spokesperson for the growing number of people who demand answers to an expanding list of questions about 9/11. . . . Even those members of the 9/11 Truth Movement who have immersed themselves thoroughly in the subject will find new information here, presented in the precise and very readable style Dr. Griffin has brought to each of his books. . . . Absent a revival of investigative journalism&#8212;a dim prospect at best, in view of the media ownership concentration&#8212;books like this one, arming the informed citizen with solid information and providing a basis for demanding direct action, appear to be our best hope.”&#8212;<strong>Shelton F. Lankford</strong>, Lt. Col. US Marine Corps (Ret.)</p>
<p>“In The New Pearl Harbor, Dr. Griffin raised serious questions about the destruction of the World Trade Center&#8212;the part of the official conspiracy theory about 9/11 with which I have been especially concerned. Now, in The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, he continues to pierce the heart of the official story with his signature penetrating research, this time sharpened with arguments provided by physical scientists, architects, and engineers. He definitely delivers the technical goods. Message to authors of the NIST Report: The charade is over!”&#8212;<strong>Richard Gage</strong>, member of American Institute of Architects, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth</p>
<p><strong>PUBLISHER&#8217;S BOOK DESCRIPTION</strong><br />
In 2004, David Ray Griffin published The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11. Translated into several languages, it helped spark a worldwide movement demanding “9/11 truth.” Even as it became increasingly outdated, it continued to be widely cited as the best introduction to the issues.</p>
<p>Griffin has now written The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, which provides a chapter-by-chapter updating of the information provided in that earlier book. It shows that the case against the official account constructed by independent researchers&#8212;who now include architects, engineers, physicists, pilots, politicians, and former military officers&#8212;is far stronger than it was in 2004, leaving no doubt that 9/11 was a false-flag operation, designed to give the Bush-Cheney administration a pretext to attack oil-rich Muslim nations.</p>
<p>Taken together, these two books provide everything one needs to make an informed decision about 9/11&#8212;whether one is a journalist, a political leader, a religious leader, or an ordinary citizen concerned about truth, democracy, and the rule of law.</p>
<p><strong>MORE ENDORSEMENTS</strong><br />
&#8220;David Ray Griffin stands at the center of one of the most impressive citizen research projects in history. In this superb new volume, he  draws together a great quantity of recent evidence and demonstrates<br />
beyond question the fraudulent nature of the official account of 9/11.&#8221;&#8212;<strong>Dr. Graeme MacQueen</strong>, Founder of McMaster University&#8217;s Center for Peace Studies</p>
<p>“Nowhere is it clearer that truth is now considered quaint, obsolete here in Washington, than in the disingenuous non-answers to questions about the cavernous holes in the official version of 9/11—-and the flippant attempts to marginalize intrepid souls like David Ray Griffin, branded “blasphemous” by the likes of Tucker Carlson. Facing straight into this rancid wind, Griffin now provides a definitive account that updates and integrates his earlier findings. Will Congress ever authorize an honest investigation of the seminal event of our time?”&#8212;<strong>Ray McGovern</strong>, former CIA analyst and presidential briefer</p>
<p>“President Bush and Vice President Cheney have many questions to answer in light of this book. This time they should have to testify separately and under oath. Unlike their testimony at the 9/11 Commission, behind closed doors, this should be open testimony.”&#8212;<strong>Jesse Ventura</strong>, Governor of Minnesota, 1999-2003</p>
<p>“This latest book by David Ray Griffin is scholarly research at its best. Meticulous empirical investigation and painstaking analysis are combined to refute the official 9/11 narrative. Every event surrounding the tragic events of September 11, 2001, is subjected to close scrutiny, ultimately with a view to revealing the lies and upholding the truth. In this fascinating and skillfully researched exposé, Griffin demonstrates unequivocally that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job.”&#8212;<strong>Michel Chossudovsky</strong>, Professor of Economics and author of America’s War on Terrorism</p></blockquote>
<p>If you&#8217;re new to this whole 9/11 Truth business, <a title="Wake Up, 9/11 was an Inside Job" href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wake-up-911-was-an-inside-job/" target="_blank">check out this previous post of mine</a>. 9/11 was an inside job. Even the FBI admits that <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/fbi-no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-911/" target="_blank">they have no evidence that Bin Laden did it</a>. The twin towers and Building 7 were brought down by a controlled demolition. Everyone has been lied to. Why doesn&#8217;t Obama talk about this?</p>
<p>Griffin&#8217;s latest book can be <a title="The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé" href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Pearl-Harbor-Revisited-Cover-Up/dp/1566567297/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1220620840&amp;sr=1-6" target="_blank">ordered on Amazon</a>.</p>
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		<title>Looks like Ron Paul might be a Freemason</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 01:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Ron Paul might be a Freemason. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised. This explains why he could seem so intelligent and take good positions on many subjects, and yet, when it came to one of the most important subjects, sound completely stupid. This is what I wrote recently: While you may think that Ron Paul is a highly &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/looks-like-ron-paul-might-be-a-freemason/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>It looks like <a href="http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/ron-paul-and-freemasonry/" target="_blank">Ron Paul might be a Freemason</a>. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised. This explains why he could seem so intelligent and take good positions on many subjects, and yet, when it came to one of the most important subjects, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-end-of-ron-paul/" target="_blank">sound completely stupid</a>. This is what I <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-end-of-ron-paul/" target="_blank">wrote recently</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>While you may think that Ron Paul is a highly intelligent man, with some really brilliant views, somehow he isn’t capable of viewing the available evidence on 9/11, and seeing that there’s something wrong there. Any person that is able to think clearly, and objectively looks at all the information about the attacks on 9/11 can only come to one conclusion: <strong>That 9/11 was an inside job</strong>. At the very least, they should realize that the official story about 9/11 is completely ridiculous.</p>
<p>And yet, Ron Paul somehow can’t get himself to look at all the available evidence and see that there is something seriously wrong. In fact, he even says he wants nothing to do with people who believe 9/11 was an inside job, even though he’s quite happy to receive the millions in donations from those same people. Just look at <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=t-lxZmrqLxU" target="_blank">this video</a> and also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I13gK7EGWzg" target="_blank">this one</a> starting at 2:30. Is Ron Paul simply blind to the facts, or does he just really want to get elected and remain politically correct? There’s something seriously wrong and fishy about this. It appears he’s just another corrupt politician.</p></blockquote>
<p>And now it&#8217;s clear what was going on. Ron Paul is just another gatekeeper. His purpose is to appeal to a certain group of people and control their efforts to try and change things and ultimately defuse them, while at the same time robbing them from their money (via donations), which will ultimately be used by the organization of which he is a part of (and now we know what organization that is).</p>
<p>Again, the fact that Alex Jones is still supporting him, even while Ron Paul made his views on 9/11 Truth public, should make you wonder if Alex Jones himself isn&#8217;t another gatekeeper operating at another level.</p>
<p>And finally, I&#8217;m including <a href="http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/ron-paul-and-freemasonry/" target="_blank">the article</a> I linked above here just to make sure it doesn&#8217;t vanish from the Internet:</p>
<blockquote><p>I know this is a taboo subject among Ron Paul supporters, of which I was one myself in the very beginning of his presidential campaign. And even if it is proven beyond any doubt that he is a freemason, many will just put it aside and pretend it doesn’t matter “because he is such a decent and honest man” etc. But many others are very curious to know what RP’s status is regarding Freemasonry because it does matter, and I fully intend to find out myself. Therefore, it is high time we started talking openly about it and try to ascertain the truth, one way or another.</p>
<p>I just happened to stumble across this comment over at the Daily Paul yesterday, and thought that I should share it with whoever is interested in knowing whether or not Ron Paul is a Freemason.</p>
<p>This does not prove anything in that regard, however it makes the probability that he is a Freemason very much higher since Eastern Star members are generally married to Freemason husbands, Rainbow girls are generally children of masons and because Ron Paul’s father was also a mason. And in addition, according to the comment, he “respects the organization”, which is wholly uncharacteristic of anyone who is supposedly fighting against the masonically-inspired New World Order. Ron Paul is also an unofficial member of the John Birch Society, which was founded by masons, funded by Nelson Rockefeller and run by Jesuit-trained Knights of Malta. In other words, the JBS is a gatekeeper organization, designed to control the opposition and make sure nothing substantial is ever done to impede the New World Order system which just keeps on rolling over humanity. How about the Jahbulon Bullshit Society for a more appropriate name?</p>
<p>Here is the comment in full rebutting an anti-masonic posting:</p>
<p><em>Ron Paul and Freemasonry</em></p>
<p><em>On April 20th, 2008 the oak says:</em></p>
<p><em>Liberty Oak Ranch</em></p>
<p><em>Quit using Ron Paul as a forum for your bigotted beliefs. You don’t know anything about him or his ideals obviously. You also know nothing about the Freemason or Eastern Star organizations.</em></p>
<p><em>1. Ron Paul’s father was a Freemason and Dr. Paul has said himself many times that he respects the organization and has been to many of the open meetings in his district. I should know, I was his scheduler for ten years.</em></p>
<p><em>2. His wife, Carol is a member of the Velasco Order of the Eastern Star and maintains her membership in the Freeport area lodge.</em></p>
<p><em>3. Their daughters, Lori and Joy, were both Rainbow girls, another organization associated with Freemasonry.</em></p>
<p><em>Your hatefilled retoric regarding a benevolent, Biblically based organization is likened to those who have a fear of the unknown. It spawns lies and hate toward those who are innocent and have done good for others. Just try taking your child to the Shriner’s burn or crippled childrens hospital. They will take care of your child regardless of your ignorance and will do it free of charge. How many people has your paranoia helped?</em></p>
<p><em>Source: </em><a href="http://www.dailypaul.com/node/46310"><em>http://www.dailypaul.com/node/46310</em></a><br />
Unfortunately, the link now says “access denied” for whatever reason. Maybe you can explain to me why the link no longer works. I even tried to find the page again through a Google search (how I found it originally) and nothing. Poof! Gone. No trace. Not even a Google cache available. I wonder why? Hmmm….</p>
<p>If anyone knows the actual identity of this “scheduler” with the handle of “Liberty Oak Ranch”, please share it here with us to help confirm the validity of the comment.</p>
<p>I looked up the Eastern Star chapter being referred to if anyone wants to try and research this further:</p>
<p>Velasco Chapter No. 220 (District 4)</p>
<p>Worthy Matron: Mrs. Leota Romine<br />
Worthy Patron: Paul Romine<br />
Secretary: Mrs. Yvonne Huffhines<br />
1210 N. Avenue O<br />
Freeport Texas 77541<br />
2nd &amp; 4th Mon 7:30pm<br />
Ph. (979) 233-1567</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Then, one might assume that Ron Paul frequently goes (as the scheduler claims) to meetings at a masonic lodge in the same area, so I found this lodge listed with the Grand Lodge of Texas website which it would seem is a very likely candidate for being one of those lodges he attends:</p>
<p>Velasco Masonic Lodge #757</p>
<p>Douglas Raborn W.M.<br />
email Edward Garcia <a href="mailto:edgarcia005@sbcglobal.net">edgarcia005@sbcglobal.net</a><br />
Masonic District 31-C<br />
Located in Brazoria County<br />
115 year old Lodge ( Charter granted December 8, 1893)<br />
Members: 176<br />
Lodge Address: 1210 N. Ave. O, Freeport 77541<br />
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 757<br />
Meetings: First and Third Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.<br />
Lodge Phone: 979-233-3623</p>
<p>As I gather more information on what I am 90% sure is a fact, that Ron Paul is a high Freemason of the 33rd degree or above, who knows the masonic agenda and yet keeps it all a secret from his supporters (as Dick Cheney kept his CFR membership a secret from his constituents in Wyoming), I will immediately pass it on to you the public who have a right to know the truth.</p>
<p>PW</p>
<p>PS: Keep an eye on this post as I believe I will be updating it with new information over the next few weeks and months. If you have something definitive regarding Ron Paul’s membership in any secret society, please post a comment with specifics.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Z-Day is here!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 15th 2008 is Z-Day. That&#8217;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&#8217;t yet seen it, you should take the time to check it out. It&#8217;s available for download for free from the movie website. The movie brings into question many things that &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/z-day-is-here/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>March 15th 2008 is Z-Day. That&#8217;s the day when there will be screenings of <a href="http://zeitgeistmovie.com/" target="_blank">the movie Zeitgeist</a> everywhere around the world. <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/endgame-and-other-movies-you-should-see-asap/" target="_blank">I wrote about this movie before</a>. If you haven&#8217;t yet seen it, you should take the time to check it out. It&#8217;s available for download for free from <a href="http://zeitgeistmovie.com/" target="_blank">the movie website</a>. 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.</p>
<p>Make sure to also check out the content I discussed in <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/endgame-and-other-movies-you-should-see-asap/" target="_blank">this post</a>, and about religion in <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-end-of-religion/" target="_blank">this post</a>.</p>
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		<title>The End of Ron Paul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far I&#8217;ve written a few posts about Ron Paul here on my blog, all very positive, as I found myself agreeing with most of his views. His message of freedom is very popular, and many people have supported him because of that in the last few months. However, his recent comments about 9/11 have given me some serious doubts &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-end-of-ron-paul/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>So far I&#8217;ve written a few posts about Ron Paul here on my blog, all very positive, as I found myself agreeing with most of his views. His message of freedom is very popular, and many people have supported him because of that in the last few months. However, his recent comments about 9/11 have given me some serious doubts about what he really stands for.</p>
<p>While you may think that Ron Paul is a highly intelligent man, with some really brilliant views, somehow he isn&#8217;t capable of viewing the available evidence on 9/11, and seeing that there&#8217;s something wrong there. Any person that is able to think clearly, and objectively looks at all the information about the attacks on 9/11 can only come to one conclusion: <strong>That 9/11 was an inside job</strong>. At the very least, they should realize that the official story about 9/11 is completely ridiculous.</p>
<p>And yet, Ron Paul somehow can&#8217;t get himself to look at all the available evidence and see that there is something seriously wrong. In fact, he even says he wants nothing to do with people who believe 9/11 was an inside job, even though he&#8217;s quite happy to receive the millions in donations from those same people. Just look at <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=t-lxZmrqLxU" target="_blank">this video</a> and also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I13gK7EGWzg" target="_blank">this one</a> starting at 2:30. Is Ron Paul simply blind to the facts, or does he just really want to get elected and remain politically correct? There&#8217;s something seriously wrong and fishy about this. It appears he&#8217;s just another corrupt politician.</p>
<p>His stance on 9/11 Truth has cost him dearly, and <a href="http://www.rense.com/general80/goodbye.htm" target="_blank">he will continue to lose support from many people</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The last Ron Paul &#8216;money bomb&#8217; showed a substantial loss of support momentum&#8230;which was/is largely the result of his complete public disassociation and denouncement of the entire 911 Truth Movement during that national &#8216;debate&#8217; several weeks ago.  See: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=t-lxZmrqLxU" target="_blank">Ron Paul Disavows 911 Truth &#8211; &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Believe That</a><br />
 <br />
That was either a bald-faced, enormous, lie to try to keep himself politically &#8216;alive&#8217; &#8230; OR that is HIS truth.<br />
 <br />
Either way, it cost him a lot of support.<br />
 <br />
We know several Ron Paul backers who dropped him at that moment&#8230; and it was reflected in the failed, subsequent fundraising.<br />
 <br />
His poor showing (absolutely expected) in the primaries was the final truth his devoted supporters had to swallow: the system is totally owned and operated by the controllers. Period.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, and it looks like even Ron Paul is owned by the same controllers. What is also very interesting is that as all of this was happening, Alex Jones never mentioned any of this on his website and continued to interview and support Ron Paul, never asking him about his views on 9/11 Truth. Why did he not confront Ron Paul with this? Why did he not report this on his website and let his readers know about this? Is Alex Jones also owned and operated by the same controllers? It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if that&#8217;s the case.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Ron Paul has lost my support.</p>
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		<title>Ron Paul&#8217;s Assassination</title>
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		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently mentioned how I was afraid that Ron Paul might get assassinated when he becomes too big a threat to the current establishment in the USA. And now it appears that they are already discussing it: Best-selling author and Bilderberg sleuth Daniel Estulin says he has received information from sources inside the U.S. intelligence community which suggests that people from &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/ron-pauls-assassination/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>I recently mentioned <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/ron-paul-the-usas-only-hope/" target="_blank">how I was afraid</a> that Ron Paul might get assassinated when he becomes too big a threat to the current establishment in the USA. And now it appears that they are <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_estulin_bbg_consider_assassinate_rp.htm" target="_blank">already discussing it</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Best-selling author and Bilderberg sleuth Daniel Estulin says he has received information from sources inside the U.S. intelligence community which suggests that people from the highest levels of the U.S. government are considering an assassination attempt against Congressman Ron Paul because they are threatened by his burgeoning popularity.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hell is going to freeze over if Ron Paul gets a chance to do what he plans to do. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m a strong supporter of Ron Paul and his ideas, but there is a certain thing called reality in life. As much as we would all love to live in a world of freedom for everyone, those in control are not going to let it happen. As Ron Paul&#8217;s chances become more real, they are going to look at more drastic methods of trying to stop him. And that could mean assassination, or as I mentioned in a previous post, stopping the elections, or influencing the outcome in favor of their own candidates (Clinton and Obama).</p>
<p>Meanwhile Ron Paul is surprising everyone with his progress. He&#8217;s now getting close to having raised 20 million in the fourth quarter, which is a lot more than his 12 million goal. He&#8217;s also the <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_tops_google_zeitgeist_list.htm" target="_blank">most popular candidate on the Internet</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Congressman Ron Paul has topped the internet&#8217;s most formative list of popular searches in the category of 2008 presidential candidates, despite the fact that he started the year bottom of the pile.</p>
<p>Google announced its annual year-end &#8220;Zeitgeist&#8221; list for 2007 Thursday with figures the tell the story of the meteoric rise of Ron Paul in 2007.</p>
<p>In January Ron Paul was a virtual unknown, bottom of the list of most searched for presidential candidates. Mid way through the year the Congressman was on a par with the rest of the candidates, whose figures remained unchanged. Now the year end is here Paul has totally eclipsed every one of his rivals and continues to gain popularity whilst they remain stagnant.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Marissa Mayer, Google&#8217;s vice president of search products and user experience, expressed surprise at the results, noting how Paul has been shut out of the corporate mainstream but has flourished online. &#8220;He&#8217;s not nearly as covered [in the media] as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, but he has marketed himself online. He&#8217;s using the Internet to his advantage.&#8221; Mayer commented.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes that&#8217;s right, despite censorship by the mainstream media, Ron Paul is still the most popular candidate. So imagine what would happen if he was treated just like other candidates by the mainstream media. Their strategy of ignoring Ron Paul has failed. And I guess if we consider what Gandhi once said, their next step is going to be to fight Ron Paul. It&#8217;s not very likely however, that Ron Paul will win.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a real joy to see the donation meter on Ron Paul&#8217;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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/its-all-about-ron-paul/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>It&#8217;s a real joy to see the donation meter on <a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/" target="_blank">Ron Paul&#8217;s website</a> 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 <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_biggest_gop_fundraiser.htm" target="_blank">the biggest GOP fundraiser</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>With a month still to go, the congressman&#8217;s funds will today swell to over $10 million, double what was raised in the third quarter.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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 &#8220;money bomb&#8221; coming up, it looks like the Congressman will raise more money this quarter than any other GOP candidate including Giuliani. <strong>This means he will have more cash on hand going into the primaries than any of his Republican opponents.</strong></p>
<p>Yesterday saw Ron Paul soar above Fred Thompson&#8217;s $9,750,821 mark and Mitt Romney&#8217;s $9,896,719 mark earlier today (excluding money he has loaned to himself). Today will likely see Ron Paul pass a third milestone&#8211; that of Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s $10,258,019 fundraising mark for the end of the 3rd Quarter.</p></blockquote>
<p>And of you check his website, you&#8217;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&#8217;s simply incredible what you can achieve when you promote the right message to people and can take advantage of the Internet. It&#8217;s like he said, put out the right message and people will find you, instead of you having to actively look for supporters.</p>
<p>Even around the world, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/ron_paul_world_elects_ron_paul.htm" target="_blank">Ron Paul is very popular</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>At time of writing, the site at <a href="http://www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/">www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/</a> has collected 72,556 votes from people in countries across the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between.</p>
<p>The results reveal that the overwhelming favourite candidate in almost every corner of the globe is Congressman Ron Paul.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you&#8217;re new to all this Ron Paul business, just check out <a href="http://www.ronpaul2008.com/" target="_blank">his website</a> and check out <a href="http://youtube.com/results?search_query=ron+paul" target="_blank">the video&#8217;s of him on YouTube</a>.</p>
<p>However, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/ron-paul-the-usas-only-hope/" target="_blank">like I wrote before</a>, 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&#8217;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&#8217;re going to do it. If it means killing Ron Paul, they&#8217;re going to do it. If it means sabotaging the elections, like they&#8217;ve been doing for a while now, they&#8217;re going to do it. These people are going to do everything to get Hillary Clinton elected.</p>
<p>Now if you don&#8217;t understand what and who I&#8217;m talking about, check out the following movies as soon as possible: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Blueprint-Enslavement-Alex-Jones/dp/B000VSDNHS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1196546861&#038;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Endgame</a>, <a href="http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/" target="_blank">Zeitgeist</a>, <a href="http://lc911.com/lc911/catalog/Loose-Change-Final-Cut-DVD-p-44.html" target="_blank">Loose Change Final Cut</a>.</p>
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		<title>Wake Up: 9/11 Was An Inside Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many more people are waking up every day to the fact that the attacks on September 11 2001 in the USA were an inside job. And that&#8217;s not surprising at all because when you sit down and look at the available evidence with an open mind, it becomes really difficult to ignore it. It becomes really difficult to keep believing &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wake-up-911-was-an-inside-job/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
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<p>Many more people are waking up every day to the fact that the attacks on September 11 2001 in the USA were an inside job. And that&#8217;s not surprising at all because when you sit down and look at the available evidence with an open mind, it becomes really difficult to ignore it. It becomes really difficult to keep believing the official story of 9/11 as told by the US government and released in the 9/11 Commission Report.</p>
<p>Many scientists, experts and researchers around the world have come forward and stated that 9/11 was an inside job. Here&#8217;s a list:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.stj911.org" target="_blank">Scholars</a></li>
<li><a href="http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/06/justice-and-9-11.html" target="_blank">Legal Scholars</a></li>
<li><a href="http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/09/jones.html" target="_blank">Scientists</a></li>
<li><a href="http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/05/structural-engineers-question-collapse.html" target="_blank">Structural Engineers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ae911truth.org/" target="_blank">Architects and Engineers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/04/military-leaders-question-911.html" target="_blank">Military Leaders</a></li>
<li><a href="http://911proof.com/7.html" target="_blank">Members of Congress</a></li>
<li>Hollywood celebrities including <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/200306charliesheen.htm" target="_blank">Charlie Sheen</a> and <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/071206dambreaks.htm" target="_blank">others</a>.</li>
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<p>There is a wealth of research currently available on websites like <a href="http://www.journalof911studies.com/" target="_blank">Journal of 9/11 Studies</a> and <a href="http://physics911.net" target="_blank">Physics 9/11</a>. In addition, Dr. David Ray Griffin, one of the most respected researchers on 9/11 has written several books on the subject, titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Pearl-Harbor-Disturbing-Administration/dp/1566565529/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1189484730&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">The New Pearl Harbor</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/11-Commission-Report-Omissions-Distortions/dp/1566565847/ref=sr_1_2/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1189484854&amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank">The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions</a> and his latest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-11-Mechanics-Defenders-Conspiracy/dp/156656686X/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1189484730&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank">Debunking 9/11</a>. These books are works of art, and it&#8217;s not surprising that a member of the National Academy of Sciences <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_alan_mil_070906_national_academy_of_.htm" target="_blank">has recently mentioned them</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., has severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation, &#8220;I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of America?s most prominent scientists, Dr. Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts &#8211; Amherst.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>In her statement on PatriotsQuestion911.com, Dr. Margulis referred to 9/11 as this new false-flag operation, which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on research, education, and civil liberties.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>In her statement, Dr. Margulis cites &#8220;the research and clear writing by David Ray Griffin in his fabulous books about 9/11&#8243; as a useful source of information and analysis of problems with the official account of 9/11.</strong> She specifically lauded The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, &#8220;which provides overwhelming evidence that the official story is contradictory, incomplete, and unbelievable.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Griffin has given many talks around the world and is still busy traveling and spreading the information. <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-275577066688213413&amp;sourceid=docidfeed&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s a video</a> you can watch on Google Video where Griffin is kicking ass, as usual.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve written much more on the subject in the past, just check out the <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/category/politics/september-11/" target="_blank">September 11th category</a> here on my blog.</p>
<p><strong>Update September 13, 2007:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/09/911_the_big_coverup.html" target="_blank">This article</a> appeared in The Guardian in the UK recently:</p>
<blockquote><p>Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history.</p>
<p>What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never managed to ascertain the whole truth of what happened on September 11 2001.</p>
<p>The chair and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, respectively Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, assert in their book, Without Precedent, that they were &#8220;set up to fail&#8221; and were starved of funds to do a proper investigation. They also confirm that they were denied access to the truth and misled by senior officials in the Pentagon and the federal aviation authority;<br />
and that this obstruction and deception led them to contemplate slapping officials with criminal charges.</p></blockquote>
<p>So even the chairman of the 9/11 Commission admits that they were misled! More evidence that shows the 9/11 Commission Report is a big lie. A mainstream journalist also <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/120907_was_wrong.htm" target="_blank">had to admit that he was wrong about 9/11 Truth</a>. Looks like the 9/11 Truth movement is going more mainstream now. And in case you&#8217;re wondering: Yes, <a href="http://www.news.com/8300-10784_3-7-0.html?keyword=digital+forensics" target="_blank">the latest Bin Laden video is ALSO fake</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to recommend checking out a book by Barry Zwicker titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Towers-Deception-Media-Cover-up-11/dp/0865715734/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1189721612&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Towers of Deception</a>, showing how the mass media covered up what really happened on 9/11. Also a book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1189721625&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Crossing the Rubicon</a> by Michael Ruppert, who was one of the very first people to question what really happened on 9/11. David Griffin got started because of people like Michael Ruppert. Another good book on the subject is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/9-11-Synthetic-Terror-Fourth/dp/0930852370/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1189721625&amp;sr=8-3" target="_blank">9/11 Synthetic Terror</a> by Webster Tarpley and <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/node/3897" target="_blank">got a good review from a former CIA officer</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Steele&#8217;s statement that 9/11 was a &#8220;US-based conspiracy&#8221; may be a first coming from a senior US intelligence community figure. He came to this conclusion &#8220;with great sadness&#8221; after reading &#8220;9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA,&#8221; which he praises as &#8220;without question, the most important modern reference on state-sponsored terrorism.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Also check <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">this post</a> for a list of movies to watch on this subject. There&#8217;s lots more available. Just search Google and YouTube.</p>
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		<title>Endgame, and other movies you should see ASAP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Jones is about to release his latest movie titled &#8220;Endgame.&#8221; You can watch a trailer of it here. It&#8217;s said to be his best work yet, even better than &#8220;Terror Storm,&#8221; which if you haven&#8217;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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/endgame-and-other-movies-you-should-see-asap/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>Alex Jones is about to release his latest movie titled &#8220;<strong>Endgame</strong>.&#8221; You can watch a trailer of it <a href="http://www.infowars.com/endgame/trailer.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. It&#8217;s said to be his best work yet, even better than &#8220;<strong>Terror Storm</strong>,&#8221; which if you haven&#8217;t seen yet, you absolutely should (you can <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=terror+storm" target="_blank">watch it for free</a> on Google Video or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Terrorstorm-2nd-Alex-Jones/dp/B000QGE89W/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1189268565&#038;sr=8-2" target="_blank">buy it on Amazon</a>). Another one of his movies that you should watch, is &#8220;<strong>Martial Law 9/11</strong>&#8220;, which you can also <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=martial+law+9%2F11" target="_blank">watch on Google video</a>, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alex-Jones-Martial-Law-9-11/dp/B000RMOF8O/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1189268944&#038;sr=1-1" target="_blank">buy from Amazon</a>.</p>
<p>Hopefully those movies will continue to be available on Google Video. They&#8217;ve been <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/google_censors_another_911_doc.htm" target="_blank">caught censoring</a> &#8220;Martial Law 9/11&#8243; just a week ago. This was just one of many attempts at censoring Alex Jones movies by Google, as <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-admits-to-censorship-then-does-it-again/" target="_blank">I wrote about before</a>. I guess it&#8217;s no surprise when you consider the fact that Google seems to be <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-in-bed-with-cia/" target="_blank">controlled by the CIA</a>, the NSA, DIA and who knows what other organizations.</p>
<p>Another movie that you should see is called &#8220;<strong>Zeitgeist</strong>.&#8221; You can <a href="http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/" target="_blank">view and download it</a> from the movie website for free. I wrote recently about <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-end-of-religion/" target="_blank">the end of religion</a>, 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 &#8220;Endgame.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ofcourse, we should not forget the movie by Aaron Russo called &#8220;<strong>America: From Freedom to Fascism</strong>&#8221; which you can <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=from+freedom+to+fascism" target="_blank">watch for free</a> on Google Video, or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-Freedom-to-Fascism/dp/B000JVSUSE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3688124-8794220?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1189269660&#038;sr=8-1" target="_blank">buy from Amazon</a>. 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&#8217;ll be able to talk about real heroes.</p>
<p>With regards to the many deceptions in the media, I already wrote about <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/orwell-rolls-in-his-grave/" target="_blank">Outfoxed and Orwell Rolls in his Grave</a>. But if you want to find out how it all started, you have to see a series done by the BBC years ago, titled &#8220;<strong>The Century of the Self</strong>.&#8221; There are 4 episodes and you can <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=century+of+the+self" target="_blank">watch them for free</a> 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 &#8220;Terror Storm&#8221; by Alex Jones. It is also being used by the government to sell their ideas to the public. <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/be-careful-with-where-you-get-your-information-from/" target="_blank">I wrote about this before in details</a>. Also <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/neo_cons_enlist_bin_laden_help_counter_911_truth.htm" target="_blank">check out this article</a> on Infowars about more examples of government propaganda and mass deception.</p>
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		<title>9/11 Documentaries Aired on TV in Suriname: Update 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-documentaries-aired-on-tv-in-suriname-update-2/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
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<p>The picture above was taken at one of the many <a href="http://boston911truth.org/teaparty/" target="_blank">Boston Tea Party events</a> 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.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-documentaries-aired-on-tv-in-suriname/" target="_blank">In a previous post</a> I mentioned that I finally managed to get a couple of documentaries on 9/11 broadcasted on TV in Suriname (<a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">check here</a> 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&#8217;m getting lots of compliments. Even the TV station that&#8217;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 <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/getting-911-documentaries-broadcasted-on-tv/" target="_blank">while other TV stations were afraid</a>. 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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;The Truth behind 9/11&#8243;:</p>
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<p>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&#8217;m already looking at possible follow up events I can do. <img src='http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 20:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-documentaries-aired-on-tv-in-suriname/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>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 <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/getting-911-documentaries-broadcasted-on-tv/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://miraesoft.com/911event/" target="_blank">here</a> (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&#8217;ve been getting a lot of positive feedback ever since. I haven&#8217;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&#8217;re home, even though it&#8217;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&#8217;s not that bad since most people don&#8217;t have to go to work the next day and can stay up late to watch them if they can&#8217;t watch them in the afternoon.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;m also going to look at the possibility of having some local DVD rental stores rent the documentaries on DVD. Meanwhile I&#8217;ve been contacted by a TV station in another district, Nickerie, who are interested in broadcasting the documentaries for the people there. So I&#8217;ll also be looking at that possibility.</p>
<p>Based on the feedback I got so far, there&#8217;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&#8217;t get this material themselves. In addition, people don&#8217;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&#8217;ll be getting&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Getting 9/11 Documentaries broadcasted on TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 04:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/getting-911-documentaries-broadcasted-on-tv/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>Not too long ago <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">I wrote about my efforts</a> 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 <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">that post</a>, 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 <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/first-911-event-in-suriname-final-report/" target="_blank">organized an event on 9/11</a>, where I had screened all of the documentaries which I wanted RTV to broadcast.</p>
<p>After RTV said they couldn&#8217;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&#8217;t even talk to them about it, so this is even worse than RTV &#8211; 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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;they could not participate in the debate because they did not want to give credence to the conspiracy theories.&#8221; I had ofcourse expected that answer, because the US Embassy wouldn&#8217;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 <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">pretended to require with RTV</a>, they still refused, thus showing that <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">their argument about journalistic ethics</a> was just bullshit to scare RTV into not broadcasting the documentaries.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;loved such controversial information.&#8221; 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&#8217;t think it was suitible to broadcast it on SCCN. So I asked why, and he went on to explain how he didn&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t be neccessary because he was pretty sure his audience wouldn&#8217;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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;the documentaries expressed a certain point of view and that they wanted to be careful with what kind of material they broadcasted.&#8221; It seemed to me that ABC was just as afraid as the others, so I just accepted their answer and moved on.</p>
<p>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&#8217;m currently very busy preparing the material and getting the promotion of the documentaries started.</p>
<p>I continue to learn a lot from my experiences so far. It&#8217;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&#8217;t talk about while they pretend to report everything to the public and pretend to be very critical. In any case they&#8217;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.</p>
<p><strong>Update, May 14th:</strong> It&#8217;s important to note that the documentaries I&#8217;m talking about are listed in <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/" target="_blank">a previous post of mine</a>, and that these documentaries are available for download all over the Internet. You&#8217;ll be able to find most, if not all of them, on <a href="http://video.google.com" target="_blank">Google Video</a>. In addition, you can also buy most of them from various websites on the Internet. For example, &#8220;Terror Storm&#8221; is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Terrorstorm-History-Government-Sponsored-Terrorism/dp/B000HRJLM4/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-9652447-4780921?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1179193004&#038;sr=8-1" target="_blank">currently selling on Amazon.com</a>.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s just mind boggling.</p>
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		<title>Bad Influence of the US Embassy in Suriname</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;s one thing for the media to be owned and abused by people &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/bad-influence-of-the-us-embassy-in-suriname/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>I&#8217;ve written many posts already about the media and how they are being controlled or influenced these days everywhere around the world. My <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/be-careful-with-where-you-get-your-information-from/" target="_blank">last post on this topic</a>, which was very recent, discussed how we have to be more and more careful with where we get our information from. It&#8217;s one thing for the media to be owned and abused by people to forward their agenda, but it&#8217;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&#8217;t. And I&#8217;m going to discuss a clear example of this below.</p>
<p>You may already know about the 9/11 event I organized back in November 2006 and which I reported about <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/first-911-event-in-suriname-final-report/" target="_blank">here</a>. That event was a moderate success, and overall I&#8217;m satisfied with how things went. I&#8217;m still getting very good feedback from people, some of which didn&#8217;t even attend the event at that time, but know about the issues we discussed on that event and &#8220;are happy at least someone in Suriname is bringing it to our attention.&#8221; I&#8217;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 <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/first-911-event-in-suriname-final-report/" target="_blank">the movies which we screened</a> 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):</p>
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<li>Outfoxed</li>
<li>Orwell Rolls in His Grave</li>
<li>Terror Storm</li>
<li>The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw</li>
<li>Everybody&#8217;s gotta learn sometime</li>
<li>9/11 Eyewitness</li>
<li>9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions</li>
<li>9/11 Press for Truth</li>
<li>9/11 in Plane Site (only first part about Pentagon) and Denmark Lecture by David Ray Griffin</li>
<li>CSPAN Coverage American Scholars Symposium</li>
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<p>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&#8217;t like the fact that they were going to broadcast those movies, and RTV was being threatened with consequences.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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).</p>
<p>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 &#8220;they stood by free speech&#8221; and that &#8220;Suriname is a free country and they may broadcast whatever they like.&#8221; 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 &#8220;the US Embassy would be disappointed if RTV broadcasted the movies,&#8221; because they considered them to be &#8221;onesided, erroneous and biased.&#8221;</p>
<p>To that, I replied the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s [sic] approach the issues based on the &#8220;official story&#8221;. They begin by first saying &#8220;the official story says this&#8221; 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&#8217;m doing my part, you do yours?</p></blockquote>
<p>He also said that RTV wished to broadcast the movies based on commercial reasons, and that they &#8220;asked RTV to consider journalistic ethics before making their decision.&#8221; To this I replied:</p>
<blockquote><p>Well the only way to broadcast things is for commercial reasons. I don&#8217;t think RTV or any other station would broadcast ANYthing if they didn&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>You may also want to check this: <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/be-careful-with-where-you-get-your-information-from/">http://blog.kareldonk.com/be-careful-with-where-you-get-your-information-from/</a></p></blockquote>
<p>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&#8217;s on a business trip, to talk about not broadcasting the movies. I&#8217;m not sure what was discussed, but based on that the decision was made to not broadcast the movies anymore.</p>
<p>From this whole experience we can note a few things. The first thing to take note of, is the fact that <strong>we need to buy commercial broadcasting time to get information to people which the media isn&#8217;t reporting on</strong>. In an ideal situation, I wouldn&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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, <strong>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.</strong> Instead, they seemed to have went on with their Gestapo type activities to try and get RTV not to broadcast the movies<strong> at all</strong>. So take special note of this: <em>For the US Embassy, not broadcasting the movies at all is better than broadcasting them along with their side of the story.</em> 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, <strong>trying to not have it broadcasted and reach the public at all.</strong> Talk about journalistic ethics. What happened to showing people both sides of the story?</p>
<p>Another thing we can see is that people still allow themselves to be intimidated by the US Embassy in Suriname. Last year, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-event-update/" target="_blank">I had a similar issue</a> when &#8220;Residence Inn,&#8221; the hotel where I would first organize the 9/11 event, cancelled on me because &#8220;they did not want to hurt their relationship with the US Embassy in Suriname.&#8221; Why do these people allow themselves to be intimidated or to fear for consequences? Because <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-lose-you-can-only-win/" target="_blank">they fear having something to lose</a>. It seems that it&#8217;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&#8217;re going to do it as they have demonstrated. And it seems this happens all the time. It&#8217;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.</p>
<p>So right now, I&#8217;m going to do a little research project. I&#8217;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&#8217;t wait to report on my findings.</p>
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		<title>The Destruction of America is well underway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things haven&#8217;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&#8217;s going on these days in not only the USA, but around the world. Most people don&#8217;t realize what&#8217;s going on &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/the-destruction-of-america-is-well-underway/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p><img hspace="10" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/unclesam.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" border="1" />Things haven&#8217;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&#8217;s going on these days in not only the USA, but around the world. Most people don&#8217;t realize what&#8217;s going on because they can&#8217;t see the big picture. Unless you keep yourself updated on a daily basis and keep recent events in memory, it&#8217;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&#8217;t notice the small increases in temperature and eventually dies when the water becomes very hot.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s going on around them. Indeed many of them don&#8217;t even seem to care about what&#8217;s going on. If they aren&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Not too long ago, the House of Representatives passed <a href="http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=13638544" target="_blank">a bill that authorizes Bush to spy on US citizens without the need for a warrant</a> while at the same time making it more difficult to legally challenge such actions by the government:</p>
<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would provide congressional authorization for President George W. Bush&#8217;s warrantless domestic spying program but subject it to new rules.</p>
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<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; said Rep. John Conyers, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.</p></blockquote>
<p>Shortly after that, <a href="http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=13641489" target="_blank">the Senate approved a detainee bill</a> that not only enables the US government to torture suspects and prisoners, but also makes it impossible for them to challenge their detention:</p>
<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; 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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The bill also expands the definition of &#8220;enemy combatants&#8221; mostly held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to include those who provide weapons, money <strong><em>and other support</em></strong> to terrorist groups.</p>
<p>After a high-stakes negotiation, Bush got much of what he wanted in the bill to continue <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/15/news/intel.php" target="_blank">the once-secret CIA program of detention and aggressive interrogations of suspects that critics said amounted to torture</a>.</p>
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<p>Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said the right to challenge one&#8217;s detention was fundamental in American law, and the Supreme Court would reject the plan if it were stripped.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is wrong. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American,&#8221; said Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee&#8217;s top Democrat. He said it was intended to choke off access to Guantanamo to &#8220;ensure that the Bush-Cheney administration will never again be embarrassed by a United States Supreme Court decision reviewing its unlawful abuses of power.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>As soon as the bill was passed, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901692.html" target="_blank">the US government moved ahead quickly to implement it</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. <strong>The new Military Commissions Act (MCA), it said, provides that &#8220;no court, justice, or judge&#8221; 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.</strong></p>
<p>Beyond those already imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, the law applies to all non-U.S. citizens, including permanent U.S. residents. </p></blockquote>
<p>The USA can now pick up anyone it labels as an &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221;, <strong>including US citizens</strong>, 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&#8217;s nobody who can do anything about it. You can&#8217;t even go to court. It&#8217;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?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/29/150254" target="_blank">Some are calling this a total rollback of everything America stood for</a>, and I have to agree:</p>
<blockquote><p>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. <em>The bill also <strong>immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for torturing</strong> <strong>detainees</strong> who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Bush saved himself with that as well, <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/15/news/intel.php" target="_blank">since he was the one who gave the CIA authorization to detain and torture people</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s interrogation and detention of terror suspects.</p>
<p>The CIA referred to the documents in a letter sent last Friday from the agency&#8217;s associate general counsel, John McPherson, to lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union.</p>
<p>The contents of the documents were not revealed, but one of them is &#8220;<em>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 detaine</em>es,&#8221; the civil liberties union said, based on its review of published accounts. </p></blockquote>
<p>Others are calling this <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn09302006.html" target="_blank">a constitutional shredding</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>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, &#8220;unlawful enemy combatants.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on Bush&#8217;s list of &#8220;terrorist&#8221; organizations, or who speaks out against the government&#8217;s policies could be declared an &#8220;unlawful enemy combatant&#8221; and imprisoned indefinitely. <em>That includes American citizens.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>It <strong>is</strong> a constitutional shredding. It&#8217;s more easy to understand how all of this is possible when you realize <a href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml" target="_blank">Bush said that the constitution is &#8220;just a goddamn piece of paper.&#8221;</a> Now when you know all this, you might want to worry about <a href="http://www.etherzone.com/2006/raim100206.shtml" target="_blank">who the US government actually thinks is an &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221;</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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. <strong>Another &#8220;Republican maverick,&#8221; 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 ? <em>and then went ahead and voted for it, anyway.</em></strong> [Editor: You just can't make this stuff up.]</p>
<p>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 &#8220;unlawful combatant&#8221; concept that lays the foundations for this administration&#8217;s reconstruction of the gulag. Here is the new, broadened definition, as enunciated in the legislation recently passed by the House:</p>
<p>&#8220;The term &#8216;unlawful enemy combatant&#8217; 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.&#8221;</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t say &#8220;alien&#8221; or &#8220;terrorist,&#8221; although it specifically includes members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It says &#8220;person&#8221; ? 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:</p>
<p>&#8220;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. <strong>The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, <em>authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants</em>, 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.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong>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.</strong></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>One suspects, however, that this administration will not be so easily deterred. To begin with, they won&#8217;t have to deal with a judge or bad publicity, because the &#8220;trial&#8221; 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 &#8220;normally&#8221; because I am still living in the world before the passage of our modern-day Alien and Sedition Act, at least mentally. But it&#8217;s a new world, now.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;enemy propaganda,&#8221; and the neocon media blares away at the theme of &#8220;dissent = treason&#8221; ? or, as Glenn Reynolds puts it, &#8220;they&#8217;re not antiwar, they&#8217;re on the other side&#8221; ? it isn&#8217;t hard to imagine that we have a few sedition trials in our future.</p>
<p>My expectations are dire, although this could simply be my own subjective impression, a mood that will pass. I can&#8217;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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yep, it&#8217;s like Olbermann says: &#8220;<a href="http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/10/olbermann-to-america-kiss-your-freedom.html" target="_blank">Americans can kiss their freedom goodbye</a>.&#8221; 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&#8217;t stand all the freedom in America!</p>
<p>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&#8217;s like I wrote <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-truth-us-government-getting-desperate/" target="_blank">in a previous post</a>, 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 &#8220;enemy combatants&#8221; so they can be detained and shipped to Guantanamo Bay.</p>
<p><img hspace="10" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/guantanamo.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" border="1" />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. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/42458/" target="_blank">American prison camps are on the way</a>, and they&#8217;re being constructed by none other than the mighty Halliburton:</p>
<blockquote><p>Kellogg Brown &#038; Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush&#8217;s &#8220;unlawful enemy combatants.&#8221; Americans are certain to be among them.</p></blockquote>
<p>How could that even be going on, you ask? Well it appears <a href="http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/131106RonPaul.htm" target="_blank">this was &#8220;enabled&#8221; by the Military Commissions Act</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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. <strong>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.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Not only are they building new camps, <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/ps/concentration_camps_last_act_congress_preserves_ww2_camps.htm" target="_blank">but they even seem to be restoring old internment camps, possibly to use them again in the future</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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?</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Precise details of exactly what the &#8220;restoration&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>During the Iran Contra hearings in the 80&#8242;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 &#8216;readiness exercise&#8217; discussed the plan to round up immigrants and detain them in internment camps in the context of uncontrolled population movements across the Mexican border.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;ADEX&#8221; list.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>The article highlighted the disturbing comments of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who encouraged torture supporting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to target, &#8220;Fifth Columnists&#8221; Americans who show disloyalty and sympathize with &#8220;the enemy,&#8221; whoever that enemy may be.</strong></p>
<p>Respected author Peter Dale Scott speculated that the &#8220;detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.&#8221;</p>
<p>Daniel Ellsberg, former Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense, called the plan, &#8220;preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters. They&#8217;ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the &#8216;special registration&#8217; detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.&#8221;</p>
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<p><em>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. </em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is all part of the process the US government seems to be in right now <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/031106civilsuppression.htm" target="_blank">of &#8220;tooling up&#8221; for what&#8217;s to come in the near future</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The Bush Junta has quietly &#8220;tooled up&#8221; to utilize the U.S. military in engaging American dissidents after the next big crisis</strong>, 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.</p>
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<p>Morales traced the ancestry of the bill back to &#8220;Operation Garden Plot&#8221; and the United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, now de-classified programs dating back to the 80&#8242;s which outlined how the military would be involved in suppressing domestic civil disobedience in America. <em>The groups listed as potential non-conformist troublemakers included tax protesters, militia groups, religious cults, and various other general anti-government dissenters.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Morales said that the authorities know full well that a widespread awakening is taking place</strong> and so the Defense Authorization Act was essentially part of a move to try and &#8220;tool up&#8221; for the reaction that will take place after their next lunge to destroy what&#8217;s left of American liberty.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Others are seeing these recent events as <a href="http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/1732834.php" target="_blank">a move by the Bush administration towards Martial Law</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Public Law 109-364, or the &#8220;John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007&#8243; (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 &#8220;public emergency&#8221; 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 &#8220;suppress public disorder.&#8221;</p>
<p>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. <strong>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. </strong>Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is &#8220;martial law.&#8221;</p>
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<p>For the current President, &#8220;enforcement of the laws to restore public order&#8221; 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 &#8220;disorderly&#8221; citizenry &#8211; protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called &#8220;illegal aliens,&#8221; &#8220;potential terrorists&#8221; and other &#8220;undesirables&#8221; for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That&#8217;s right. Under the cover of a trumped-up &#8220;immigration emergency&#8221; 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.</p>
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<p><strong>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. </strong>On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007&#8242;s Defense Authorization Act contained a &#8220;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&#8217;s governors.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Again, when you look at the growing civil unrest in the USA, it&#8217;s quite easy to understand why the US government is taking these steps. They know what&#8217;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, <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron9.htm" target="_blank">and it&#8217;s all being done mostly in secret without notifying the American people of what&#8217;s going on</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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. <em>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.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Completely in line with the Bush administration&#8217;s current policy, this is being done without Congress officially knowing about it, <a href="http://infowars.net/articles/September2006/280906Union.htm" target="_blank">even though it seems that this will have far reaching consequences for the USA</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p><strong>According to a report by World Net Daily, the documents reveal that the Bush administration is running a &#8220;shadow government&#8221; without congressional oversight in conjunction with Canada and Mexico under the guise of a program &#8220;to increase security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Corsi asserts that a wide range of US administrative law is being re-written in stealth under this program to &#8220;integrate&#8221; and &#8220;harmonize&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan American Union networked by a <a href="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52684" target="_blank">NAFTA Super Highway</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>This admission is as historical as it is concerning &#8211; the CFR moulds the foundational policy for the elimination of American sovereignty and it is passed as executive law within weeks.</strong> 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.</p>
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<p><a href="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52684" target="_blank">The NAFTA Super Highway</a> 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&#8217;s borders wholesale. Coupled with Bush&#8217;s blanket amnesty program, the Pan American Union is the final jigsaw piece for the total dismantling of America as we know it.</p></blockquote>
<p>The NAFTA Super Highway? Yes, <a href="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52684" target="_blank">the NAFTA Super Highway</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON ? Rep. Ron Paul, a maverick Republican from Texas, today denounced plans for the proposed &#8220;NAFTA superhighway&#8221; in his state as part of a larger plot for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union.</p>
<p>&#8220;By now many Texans have heard about the proposed &#8216;NAFTA Superhighway,&#8217; which is also referred to as the trans-Texas corridor,&#8221; he said in a statement. <strong>&#8220;What you may not know is the extent to which plans for such a superhighway are moving forward without congressional oversight or media attention.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>But fortunately, some congressmen have taken it upon them to officially <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/021006Union.htm" target="_blank">get these developments discussed in Congress</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON ? While several members of Congress have denied any knowledge of efforts to build &#8220;NAFTA superhighways&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>Rep. Virgil Goode Jr., R-Va., has introduced a resolution ? H.R. 487 ? designed to express &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;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 &#8216;Internet conspiracy theory,&#8217;&#8221; 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. &#8220;This bill represents a good first step.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>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&#8217;ll probably remain that way until another <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53378" target="_blank">big crisis that will help to &#8220;convince&#8221; the American people to choose for a North American Union</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>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. </strong></p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is ofcourse similar to 9/11, the catalyzing event or new Pearl Harbor, which was needed to &#8220;convince&#8221; 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 &#8220;tool up&#8221; as I discussed earlier? If not, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/treason_101_ua_promotes_destruction_usa.htm" target="_blank">how about this</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In May of 2005, a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force released &#8220;Building a North American Community&#8221;, a blueprint for merging the United States, Mexico and Canada into one country called &#8220;North America&#8221;. 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. <strong>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.</strong></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>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&#8217;s probably in that light that we should view <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/cameras_dallas_installs_surveillance_cameras.htm" target="_blank">recently developments such as this one</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle says, &#8220;It will create an environment where people know they can&#8217;t do anything unlawful in the central business district, because the fact that the cameras are going to take away their anonymity.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Or how about <a href="http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=2093&#038;catid=4&#038;volume_id=254&#038;issue_id=263&#038;volume_num=41&#038;issue_num=07" target="_blank">this</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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&#8217;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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Aah yes, nothing to worry about, ofcourse. It&#8217;s just to protect your freedoms and for your own safety. Privacy? What privacy? Oh wait, it seems they are actually <a href="http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/071206_b_privacy.htm" target="_blank">doing something to protect your privacy</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The US Government signalled some willingness this week to address concerns over citizens&#8217; privacy, but also launched a scheme which will analyse secret airline passenger risk profiles and keep them for 40 years.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Congress had previously mandated greater information sharing within government and law enforcement, but there have been concerns that that process undermines individuals&#8217; privacy.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;Personally identifiable information is collected to ensure that people and cargo entering or exiting the United States comply with all applicable US laws,&#8221; said a privacy impact report on the Automatic Targeting Scheme (ATS). &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hmmm no, I guess not. Notice how they claim to be protecting the privacy of citizens with so called &#8220;privacy guidelines&#8221;, 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 <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Microsoft-to-Release-Privacy-Guidelines/2006/10/17/1160850898889.html" target="_blank">came up with the same stuff</a> not too long ago and <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/" target="_blank">I wrote about it here</a>.</p>
<p>Expect it to get worse. Just check out <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2471987,00.html" target="_blank">what&#8217;s happening now in London</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>POLICE and councils are considering monitoring conversations in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras, write Steven Swinford and Nicola Smith.</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The interest in the equipment comes amid growing concern that Britain is becoming a &#8220;surveillance society&#8221;. 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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>It might already be happening in the USA as well while people don&#8217;t know it. Kindof like how Americans found out much later about all the NSA wiretapping going on. Plus, did you also know that <strong>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?</strong> No? Then <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/cell_phones_take_out_the_batteries.htm" target="_blank">just check out this video</a>. Still, only 66% of Americans think <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/citizen_spies_66_percent_think_us_spies_on_citizens.htm" target="_blank">their government is spying on them</a>. I would have expected it to be much more. I guess most of them are still not aware of <a href="http://www.nw0.info/index.php?p=Documentaries/Echelon%20-%20The%20Most%20Secret%20Spy%20System/" target="_blank">Echelon (video)</a>. Even the Internet is being monitored. I <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/p2p-is-the-future-of-the-internet/" target="_blank">wrote about this before</a> in more detail. And when they check your webbrowsing history, they might be <a href="http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/091106_disciplined_911.html" target="_blank">just as surprised as this principal</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The student was sent to the Principal&#8217;s office to face disciplinary measures. Steiner Ranch Elementary Assistant Principal Amy Moore was reportedly surprised that the school&#8217;s IP filters hadn&#8217;t blocked the sites.</p>
<p>&#8220;They should have,&#8221; the Principal said to Mark while at the office.</p>
<p>He says that his principal checked the web history in his school web account, and was &#8216;surprised.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was going to websites that tell the truth about 9/11. She thought it was all a conspiracy; I confronted her,&#8221; Mark said. &#8220;&#8216;No, it&#8217;s all the truth,&#8217; you know. Bush&#8211; and its not just him, a lot of other people&#8211; and they&#8217;re just trying to cover it up.&#8221;</p>
<p>The assistant principal then told the 10 year-old, &#8220;Don&#8217;t talk back to me&#8221; before sending him to sit in the hall and later back to class.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yep, it appears visiting such websites and even having certain opinions <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/node/4436" target="_blank">can get you kicked out of class</a> these days. Well at least they don&#8217;t taser students yet. Oh wait, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/tasers_ucla_student_tasered_by_campus_cops_for_no_id.htm" target="_blank">they do</a>. I guess that&#8217;s a lot better than <a href="http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/11/17/224946/56" target="_blank">being run over by police on horses</a>.</p>
<p>With all of this in mind, it seems <a href="http://www.holmencourier.com/articles/2006/11/04/opinion/04ventrescalte.txt" target="_blank">the destruction of the USA is well underway</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>This act will be used as a stepping stone to build a North American Union similar to the European Union. <strong>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.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Some are suggesting that the USA, as defined by its founding fathers, <a href="http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15274.htm" target="_blank">no longer exists</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>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: &#8220;You are with us or against us&#8221;&#8211;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.</p>
<p><strong>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.</strong> 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 &#8220;American exceptionalism&#8221; and &#8220;the war on terror.&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>When Bush, the Decider, claims unconstitutional powers and uses &#8220;signing statements&#8221; 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: &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You are with us or against us.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Others seem to be a bit more optimistic and have compiled <a href="http://www.lwilliamlosapio.com/?page_id=42" target="_blank">a list of 10 reasons why you won&#8217;t recognize America in 10 years</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The New Torture Bill<br />
</strong>House bill H6166 (yup?) signed by the president, introduces, per the New York Times, &#8220;a dangerously broad definition of ?illegal enemy combatant??could subject legal residents ? to summary arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal.&#8221; It essentially broadens the term so that it can be applied to &#8220;whomever a military tribunal says so,&#8221; to paraphrase freedomunderground.org.</p>
<p><strong>The PATRIOT Act<br />
</strong>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 &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and allows the government to enter and search our homes without them informing us.</p>
<p><strong>The REAL ID Act<br />
</strong>This bill requires all U.S. citizens to carry a federal I.D. card to, as stated by CNET.com, &#8220;travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service.&#8221; Americans will hear some variant of &#8220;Your papers, please.&#8221; Will we accept it as necessary for our protection?</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>North American Union</strong><br />
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America website states that it &#8220;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.&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Suppression of Dissent<br />
</strong>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).</p></blockquote>
<p>But it seems everyone agrees <a href="http://www.321gold.com/editorials/saxena/saxena092906.html" target="_blank">that all of this can only end in one way</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>BIG PICTURE &#8211; The US is widely adored as the world&#8217;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&#8217;t get away with it either.</p></blockquote>
<p>So if you&#8217;re Bush, what do you do when you know all of this? <a href="http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BEBA55617-2676-4091-ABBC-20650EB6FEE1%7D&#038;language=EN" target="_blank">You buy land in South America</a> to ensure you&#8217;ll be able to get the hell out of the USA when things start to get really bad:</p>
<blockquote><p>Buenos Aires, Oct 13 (Prensa Latina) <strong>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.</strong></p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>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&#8217;m sure.</p>
<p><img hspace="10" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/dollarfall.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" border="1" />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&#8217;ve only been listening to the mainstream media (<a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_matt_kje_061121_what_else_is_the_mai.htm" target="_blank">What else are they lying about?</a>), you probably already know there are serious issues with the US dollar.</p>
<p>When you see <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/economy/dollar_yuan_hits_new_high_versus_us_dollar.htm" target="_blank">stories such as the following</a>, you can probably already see trouble ahead:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>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&#8217;s $1-trillion in foreign exchange reserves. </strong></p>
<p>The central bank&#8217;s official &#8220;parity&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, China&#8217;s state-controlled media have carried reports noting the potential risks from the dollar&#8217;s overall decline to the country&#8217;s $1-trillion foreign exchange reserves, which are thought to be weighted toward U.S.-dollar denominated Treasuries and other investments.</p>
<p>Those reports have helped fan market speculation that a sell-off of dollar assets by China might drive the dollar&#8217;s value still lower.</p></blockquote>
<p>It seems the US dollar is <a href="ttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53311" target="_blank">facing an imminent collapse</a> and that much lies in the hands of the Chinese:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>This week, in an unusual move, the Bush administration is sending virtually the entire economic &#8220;A-team&#8221; to visit China for a &#8220;strategic economic dialogue&#8221; in Beijing Dec. 14 and 15.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>The Bush administration wants to get China&#8217;s cooperation in preventing a dollar collapse.</strong> That&#8217;s the conclusion of John Williams, an experienced professional econometrician, who writes the &#8220;Shadow Government Statistics&#8221; blog.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Fed is pumping liquidity into the U.S. economy,&#8221; Williams told WND, &#8220;and the Fed evidently did not want the markets to follow too closely what the Fed was doing with the money supply.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>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. </em></p></blockquote>
<p>Some are linking the fall of the dollar with the introduction of the Amero with the creation of the North American Union. The Amero <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/011206dollarfall.htm" target="_blank">will then be positioned as the solution</a> to the devalued US dollar, but not before those in control and in the know have benefitted from their early knowledge first, ofcourse:</p>
<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;solution&#8221; of predatory globalism and the creation of a North American Union is afoot, and it spells potential disaster for the livelihood of all Americans.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>A false impression of a rosy economy is being spun with the rise of the stock market. Former fed chief Alan Greenspan&#8217;s doubling of the money supply and Bernanke&#8217;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&#8217;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 &#8211; not 12,000. </p></blockquote>
<p>While most Americans don&#8217;t even know what&#8217;s going on, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53124" target="_blank">stock traders are already urging for a move to the Amero</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In an interview with CNBC, a vice president for a prominent London investment firm yesterday urged a move away from the dollar to the &#8220;amero,&#8221; a coming North American currency, he said, that &#8220;will have a big impact on everybody&#8217;s life, in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.&#8221;<br />
Steve Previs, a vice president at Jefferies International Ltd., explained the Amero &#8220;is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.&#8221;</p>
<p>The aim, he said, according to a transcript provided by CNBC to WND, is to make a &#8220;borderless community, much like the European Union, with the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso being replaced by the amero.&#8221;  </p></blockquote>
<p>Along with the fall of the dollar, <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/economy/dollar_slides_as_us_business_slows.htm" target="_blank">business in the USA seems to slow down</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The dollar suffered sharp falls on Thursday, hit by reports of weak US business activity and a benign inflation picture.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Still others are <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/economy/dollar_profit_from_the_tumbling_dollar.htm" target="_blank">making good profits because of this</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Top-level corporate insiders have also been <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/economy/top_level_insiders_selling_their_stock.htm" target="_blank">selling their stocks in abnormally high quantities</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>America&#8217;s corporate chiefs are unloading their own stocks at one of the boldest paces in 20 years. </strong></p>
<p>In cases of the very rich, such as Microsoft&#8217;s Bill Gates and Google&#8217;s top brass, the executives are selling a whopping $63 for each $1 of stock they bought, says a report by Bloomberg.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Analysts say a take-the-money-and-run flight from their own companies signals a growing lack of confidence in the economy&#8217;s future course, as well as fears of a possible global meltdown if the Iraq crisis escalates across borders.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also a good time to take profits, with the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 15 percent this year, the S&#038;P 500 ahead 13 percent, and the Nasdaq 11 percent higher.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Insiders at Seagate sold $311.8 million in November, while Google insiders unloaded $182.1 million in the four weeks.</p>
<p>Google&#8217;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.</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;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 <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36399" target="_blank">and are expecting something bad</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>UK BUSINESSES are so worried about the world economy they are slashing their IT budgets just in case it all goes pear shaped.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Again, I doubt they&#8217;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 <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/economy/stiglitz_former_world_bank_chief_economist_predicts_global_crash.htm" target="_blank">is seeing a global economic crash in the near future</a>, it becomes really difficult to ignore all of this:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Former World Bank Vice President, Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has predicted a global economic crash within 24 months &#8211; unless the current downturn is successfully managed. Asked if the situation was being properly handled Stiglitz emphatically responded &#8220;no,&#8221; and also drew ominous parallels to the development of the NAFTA Superhighway and the North American Union. </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Speaking on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones radio show, Stiglitz defined the process of globalization as a system that was &#8220;rigged against the poor countries, rigged for the advanced industrial countries &#8211; the result of that is there were an awful lot of losers.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Columbia University Professor described how rampant privatization has crippled Mexico, in particular citing the sell-off of major infrastructure such as roads.</p>
<p>&#8220;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&#8217;t maintain the roads, they couldn&#8217;t generate enough revenue and they eventually had to default and give the roads back to the government.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>So I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;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, <a href="http://www.321gold.com/editorials/orlandini/orlandini121406.html" target="_blank">the more you&#8217;re going to lose</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I know I said I was done for the year, and I&#8217;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&#8217;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 &#8216;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 &#8220;bond&#8221;, which can never be redeemed, except by receiving more of the same.</p></blockquote>
<p>All of this is certainly not very good news at the end of 2006, and it casts a shadow over 2007. I think it&#8217;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.</p>
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		<title>Ex-Agent: CIA Seed Money Helped Launch Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex CIA agent Robert Steele recently spoke about the relationship between the CIA and Google again, and mentioned how CIA seed money helped to finance Google&#8217;s launch. He did this on the Alex Jones show, where he not too long ago had already mentioned how Google was providing assistence to the CIA. From this article: An ex-CIA agent has gone &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/ex-agent-cia-seed-money-helped-launch-google/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>Ex CIA agent Robert Steele recently spoke about the relationship between the CIA and Google again, and mentioned how CIA seed money helped to finance Google&#8217;s launch. He did this on the Alex Jones show, where he not too long ago had already mentioned <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-in-bed-with-cia/" target="_blank">how Google was providing assistence to the CIA</a>.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/bb/google_cia_seed_money_launched_google.htm" target="_blank">this article</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>An ex-CIA agent has gone further than ever before in detailing Google&#8217;s relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming sources told him that CIA seed money helped get the company off the ground and naming for the first time Google&#8217;s CIA point man.</p>
<p>Robert David Steele , a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and a former clandestine services case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, is the CEO of OSS.net .</p>
<p>Speaking to the Alex Jones Show, Steele elaborated on his previous revelations by making it known that the CIA helped bankroll Google at its very inception.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities, and it doesn&#8217;t fund what I call the open source world,&#8221; said Steele, citing &#8220;trusted individuals&#8221; as his sources for the claim.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve been together for quite a while,&#8221; added Steele.</p>
<p>Asked to impart to what level Google is &#8220;in bed&#8221; with the CIA, Steele described the bond as a &#8220;small but significant relationship,&#8221; adding, &#8220;it is by no means dominating Google in fact Google has been embarrassed because everything the CIA asked it to do they couldn&#8217;t do.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I also think it&#8217;s very very wrong of Google to have this relationship,&#8221; cautioned Steele.</p>
<p>The former agent went further than before in identifying by name Google&#8217;s liaison at the CIA.</p>
<p>&#8220;Let me say very explicitly &#8211; their contact at the CIA is named Dr. Rick Steinheiser, he&#8217;s in the Office of Research and Development,&#8221; said Steele.</p>
<p><strong>Steele highlighted Google&#8217;s blatant censorship policies whereby press releases put out by credible organizations that are critical of Dick Cheney and other administration members don&#8217;t make it to Google News even though they are carried by PR Newswire. </strong></p>
<p>We have repeatedly highlighted past examples of censorship on behalf of Google, including their blacklisting of a mainstream news website that was mildly critical of China, and also the deliberate stifling and manipulation of Alex Jones&#8217; Terror Storm film ranking on Google Video. Google was also caught red-handed attempting to bury the Charlie Sheen 9/11 story at the height of its notoriety.</p></blockquote>
<p>Notice how Steele even names Google&#8217;s contact at the CIA. I&#8217;d like to see Google deny this one <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-denies-being-in-bed-with-cia-but-really-is/" target="_blank">like they did before</a>. If they keep denying, it will only hurt them even more in the future.</p>
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		<title>First 9/11 Event in Suriname: Final Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/first-911-event-in-suriname-final-report/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;De Ware Tijd&#8221; and &#8220;Dagblad Suriname.&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;I had absolutely no idea things were THIS bad with the media in the USA, no idea.&#8221; And this coming from <strong>a journalist</strong>. And many other people made similar remarks as well.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>The following movies were shown:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Day 1:</strong> Outfoxed, Orwell Rolls in his Grave</li>
<li><strong>Day 2:</strong> Terror Storm, The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw</li>
<li><strong>Day 3:</strong> Everybody&#8217;s Gotta Learn Sometime, 9/11 Eyewitness</li>
<li><strong>Day 4:</strong> 9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions, 9/11 In Plane Site (first 30 minutes), Denmark lecture by David Ray Griffin </li>
</ul>
<p>I&#8217;m also really glad I choose to do this event at <strong>Leaders Group Conference Room</strong>. 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.</p>
<p>Here are some pictures from the event:</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05017.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Awesome.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05018.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Even more awesome.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC04994.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Marciano, who helped to organize the event, checking his email while the guests are watching &#8220;Terror Storm&#8221; in the background.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05019.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Some of the guests during one of the breaks.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05026.jpg" border="1" /><br />
More guests.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05030.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Even more guests.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05036.jpg" border="1" /><br />
View from behind the bar. The good Mr. Leefmans and Mr. Attaoellah hard at work making everybody feel at home.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05044.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Me (on the right) having a discussion with two guests.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05057.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Watching &#8220;The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw.&#8221;</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05065.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Watching &#8220;The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 Newsspecial you never saw&#8221; with Barry Zwicker.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05077.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Watching &#8220;9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions.&#8221;</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05082.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Watching &#8220;9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions.&#8221; The ST911 logo looked as good as ever.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05086.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Watching &#8220;9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions.&#8221;</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05095.jpg" border="1" /><br />
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.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05098.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Some of the guests having a discussion.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911event/DSC05112.jpg" border="1" /><br />
Watching the David Ray Griffin lecture all the way from the bar.
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<p align="left">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 <strong>American Scholars Symposium</strong> and some radio interviews with Prof. James Fetzer, Prof. Steven Jones, Prof. David Ray Griffin and Barry Zwicker among other things.</p>
<p align="left">We also gave away 4 books by David Ray Griffin to 4 lucky winners, namely a copy of &#8220;The New Pearl Harbor,&#8221; a copy of &#8220;The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions&#8221; and two copies of &#8220;Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11.&#8221;</p>
<p align="left">We asked all attendees on the last day to fill out a survey for us as well. The results are as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>What did you think of the way the event was promoted?<br />
</strong>Good: 33.33%, Reasonable: 42.86%, Bad: 23.81%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>How did you like the location and facilities?<br />
</strong>Good: 95.24%, Reasonable: 4.76%, Bad: 0%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>How did you like the quality of the sound and screen?<br />
</strong>Good: 71.43%, Reasonable: 28.57%, Bad: 0%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>How did you like the quality of the food and beverages?<br />
</strong>Good: 85.71%, Reasonable: 14.29%, Bad: 0%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>Did the event meet your expectations?<br />
</strong>No: 0%, Reasonable: 33.33%, Yes: 66.67%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>Did the event give you new insights regarding the events on 9/11?<br />
</strong>No: 0%, Barely: 28.57%, It was a real eye-opener: 71.43%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>How credible did you find the information?<br />
</strong>Not at all: 0%, Reasonable: 28.57%, Very credible: 71.43%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>Would you recommend this information to others?<br />
</strong>No: 0%, Maybe: 9.52%, I&#8217;ll begin with it ASAP: 90.48%</div>
</li>
<li>
<div align="left"><strong>Would you participate in follow-up events?<br />
</strong>No: 0%, Not sure: 9.52%, Absolutely: 90.48%</div>
</li>
</ol>
<p align="left">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 &#8220;Terror Storm&#8221; which made them realize that there is a long history of false flag operations. Many didn&#8217;t know about this. They also liked the footage in &#8220;9/11 Eyewitness&#8221; and &#8220;9/11 Mysteries Demolitions.&#8221; People seemed to especially appreciate the scientific research that was discussed in these movies and the information about the media.</p>
<p align="left">And with that I conclude this report of the 4-day 9/11 event and look forward to the next one.</p>
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		<title>9/11 Event Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had to update the website today in order for people not to think that the DEA found drugs at my house or that perhaps something even worse happened to me. I&#8217;ve been very busy preparing for the 9/11 event I am organizing this weekend and didn&#8217;t have much time to do updates. The truth is that I also &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-event-update/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>I just had to update the website today in order for people not <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/first-911-event-in-suriname/" target="_blank">to think that the DEA found drugs at my house or that perhaps something even worse happened to me</a>. I&#8217;ve been very busy preparing for the 9/11 event I am organizing this weekend and didn&#8217;t have much time to do updates. The truth is that I also didn&#8217;t feel like it. I&#8217;ve constantly been thinking about the recent stuff I&#8217;ve been finding out and trying to make sense of everything. And I&#8217;m making good progress too, which depending on your perspective, might be good or bad. Maybe even both.</p>
<p>Anyway, about 2 weeks ago the hotel where I was initially going to do the event, called &#8220;Residence Inn&#8221;, cancelled my reservations. I was told through the phone that they had people calling them who were asking them why they were allowing such an event to take place there and if they were not concerned with the safety of their guests. I was then told that the decision was made at the highest levels of management to cancel the reservations. This is a typical example of what&#8217;s wrong with the world today. Why is it that today people get afraid of something as normal as being open minded and talking about a certain subject? How did humanity get here exactly?</p>
<p>And so I just accepted their request to cancel the reservations, making clear to them that although I understand their arguments, I do not agree with them. In the following days a story about this was published in a local newspaper called &#8220;De Ware Tijd&#8221;. A few days before that they had called me to interview me on what had happened. It appears they also called up the hotel and had a chance to talk to the director about this. According to the director, they cancelled my reservations because they did not want to hurt their relationship with the US Embassy in Suriname. He also said that playing the movies at the event would not be good for US &#8211; Suriname relations.</p>
<p>This clearly shows how bad things are with the world today. It shows exactly how things work. It&#8217;s all about everyone wanting to protect their own interests even at the expense of others, often the majority. And they fail to see that the long term results are always going to be negative, if not for them, certainly for their families and future generations. But at least the guy was honest, right? You have to give him credit for that. He could have just said that they cancelled my reservations because Santa Claus needed the location on the same days, for example. So I do admire his honesty.</p>
<p>I had to look for another location quickly, and found another much better one within a day or two. The new location is much better, but also a little more expensive. It was still within our budget so I decided to just do it there. I think everyone is going to have a much better experience at the new location. It looks really nice and they have some really expensive equipment there.</p>
<p>This Friday is the start of the event, late in the afternoon, and I can&#8217;t really say I&#8217;m looking forward to it. And the main reason for this is that while I&#8217;m a very quiet and shy person, I&#8217;ll have to give a speech during the introduction and talk in front of all those people. That&#8217;s like a scene out of my worst nightmare, which, by the way, is the scene right before the one where my computer breaks and I am left without Internet access for a day. I&#8217;m sure you can imagine the horror.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s no other way, unfortunately, and I&#8217;ll just have to go through it. I really want to share all this information and if it means I have to go through all of that, I&#8217;ll just have to do it. In addition most other people I talked to seem to be afraid to do this because of the consequences it may have for them. So someone has to do this, and it looks like it&#8217;s going to have to be me.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s hope everything goes well.</p>
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		<title>Google denies being &#8220;in bed&#8221; with CIA (but really is)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Battelle made a post on his website claiming that &#8220;an official Google spokesperson&#8221; said that &#8220;The statements related to Google are completely untrue.&#8221; The statements that &#8220;official Google spokesperson&#8221; refers to, according to John Battelle, are the ones which are summarized in a previous post of mine which you can find here. First of all, notice how the name &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-denies-being-in-bed-with-cia-but-really-is/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>John Battelle <a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/003051.php" target="_blank">made a post on his website</a> claiming that &#8220;an official Google spokesperson&#8221; said that &#8220;The statements related to Google are completely untrue.&#8221; The statements that &#8220;official Google spokesperson&#8221; refers to, according to John Battelle, are the ones which are summarized in a previous post of mine which you can find <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-in-bed-with-cia/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>First of all, notice how the name of this &#8220;official Google spokesperson&#8221; isn&#8217;t mentioned at all. At least the &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; have the guts to name their sources and not be anonymous themselves <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/271006googlecia.htm" target="_blank">when they make their claims</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A former clandestine services officer for the CIA <strong>who also maintains close relationships with top Google representatives</strong> says that the company is &#8220;in bed with&#8221; the intelligence agency and the U.S. government. He has also gone public on his deep suspicions about the official explanation behind 9/11.</p>
<p>Robert David Steele appeared on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones radio show and began by voicing his deep doubts about the official 9/11 story.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Steele raised eyebrows when he confirmed from his contacts within the CIA <em>and Google</em> that Google was working in tandem with &#8220;the agency,&#8221;</strong> a claim made especially volatile by the fact that <em>Google was recently caught censoring Alex Jones&#8217; Terror Storm and has targeted other websites for blackout in the past</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government &#8211; that is a huge mistake and I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off,&#8221; said the ex-CIA man.</p>
<p>&#8220;Google was a little hypocritical when they were refusing to honor a Department of Justice request for information because they were heavily in bed with the Central Intelligence Agency, the office of research and development,&#8221; said Steele.</p>
<p>Steele called for more scrutiny to be placed on Google if it continues to engage in nefarious practices, saying, &#8220;If Google is indeed starting to do harm then I think it&#8217;s important that be documented and publicized.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Aaaw yeah.</p>
<p>Secondly, notice how we have to get Google&#8217;s remarks from someone else on, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, a random blog. Why can&#8217;t they release an official press release, or comment about it on their own blog? Then at least we can know for sure it&#8217;s official, and not have to rely on questionable claims made on some blog.</p>
<p>What is Google afraid of? Why can&#8217;t they just be open and be transparent about things? One of the reasons probably is that they simply cannot deny their links with the CIA. They know that if they officially do this, Alex Jones will fry their ass on Prisonplanet by releasing even more information about their deals with the CIA. So they might as well keep quiet and hope people will forget about this soon.</p>
<p>Ofcourse, we won&#8217;t let people forget.</p>
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		<title>First 9/11 Event in Suriname</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last 2 weeks I&#8217;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&#8217;m a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and as a member I&#8217;m helping to spread the information about 9/11 that the mainstream media refuses to discuss. The truth is &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/first-911-event-in-suriname/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>For the last 2 weeks I&#8217;ve been busy organizing <a href="http://miraesoft.com/911event/" target="_blank">the very first event on the truth behind 9/11 in Suriname</a> (<a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_load?lp=nl_en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmiraesoft.com%2F911event%2F" target="_blank">Rough Babelfish translation</a>, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/files/art/911event.mpg" target="_blank">TV commercial</a>). As you may already know, I&#8217;m a member of <a href="http://www.st911.org" target="_blank">Scholars for 9/11 Truth</a>, and as a member I&#8217;m helping to spread the information about 9/11 that the mainstream media refuses to discuss. The truth is that even if I wasn&#8217;t a member of ST911, I would still have done this because I think the information we&#8217;re going to show, certainly on this first event, is very very important to understanding what&#8217;s been going on and where this is leading to.</p>
<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;re getting positive reactions from people here, many already know something was up, but don&#8217;t know the full details. And we&#8217;re going to give them the details. We&#8217;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&#8217;re making. I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;ll have to cover a good portion of it ourselves, but it&#8217;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 &#8220;free&#8221; snacks and drinks. At 4 hours a day, 4 days in a row, it&#8217;ll be pretty exhausting so I wanted a nice comfortable location.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s also interesting is the reactions you get from people asking me if I&#8217;m not afraid and if I know what I&#8217;m doing. Even my dad called to confirm if I knew what I was getting into. But isn&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to invite them to join the 4 day event. It&#8217;s only $40.</p>
<p>So anyway, I&#8217;ll keep you updated on the event. If you notice a lack of updates for 3 weeks and/or if you hear the DEA &#8220;found&#8221; drugs at my house, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll understand what&#8217;s going on. I also hear Guantanamo Bay is pretty nice this time of the year. Let&#8217;s see if I can win a free ticket.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This caught my attention this morning, and ofcourse was no surprise to me: A BLOKE WHO used to work for the CIA, Robert David Steele said Google and the CIA are &#8220;in bed&#8221; with one another. Dozens of radio listeners tuned in to hear the remarks on the Alex Jones show Ex-spook Steele reckoned in bed with the CIA was &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-in-bed-with-cia/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35451" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 10px; border: gray 1px solid;" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/google.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" />This caught my attention</a> this morning, and ofcourse was no surprise to me:</p>
<blockquote><p>A BLOKE WHO used to work for the CIA, <strong>Robert David Steele said Google and the CIA are &#8220;in bed&#8221; with one another</strong>.<br />
Dozens of radio listeners tuned in to hear the remarks on the Alex Jones show</p>
<p>Ex-spook Steele reckoned in bed with the CIA was a bad place to be.</p>
<p>&#8220;<strong>Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government</strong>, &#8220;he said. &#8220;That is a huge mistake and I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Also <a href="http://blogs.webpronews.com/2006/10/30/does-google-have-cia-ties/" target="_blank">from here</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Steele stated &#8216;I think that Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government &#8211; that is a huge mistake and I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off &#8216;. Steele says he has confirmed this information with his contacts within the agency. <em>The question this raises is who is controlling information that may be seen as controversial? Is censorship-taking place and how would one go about proving that censorship has taken place?</em></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Michael Hampton who writes for <a href="http://www.homelandstupidity.us/">www.homelandstupidity.us</a> wrote &#8220;Even while Google presents a public image of vigorously protecting its users? privacy, <strong>it has quietly provided assistance to several U.S. intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, as the U.S. prosecutes its war on terrorism</strong>.&#8221; As for Steele he stated, &#8220;If Google is indeed starting to do harm then I think it&#8217;s important that be documented and publicized&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>I warned you before in almost exact same words with examples:</p>
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<li><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/p2p-is-the-future-of-the-internet/" target="_blank">P2P is the Future of the Internet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-caught-in-censorship/" target="_blank">Google Caught In Censorship</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-admits-to-censorship-then-does-it-again/" target="_blank">Google admits to censorship, then does it again</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/" target="_blank">You are losing your privacy on the Internet</a></li>
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<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet done so, read the above posts. Is there still any doubt as to what is going on?</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_hi_te/internet_governance" target="_blank">This article</a> also caught my attention this morning:</p>
<blockquote><p>VOULIAGMENI, Greece &#8211; Internet search leader Google and other major U.S. technology companies insisted Tuesday that their products benefit Chinese citizens despite government restrictions and warnings that online censorship is spreading.</p>
<p>Providing some information is better than giving none at all, the companies said, but human rights groups warned that heavy filtering of Web content is increasing in developing countries ? with some using China as a model.</p>
<p>China denied it censored Internet sites at all, saying criminal investigations are unrelated to freedom of expression.</p>
<p>Human rights groups have sharply criticized Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO &#8211; news), and Microsoft Corp., along with technology provider Cisco Systems Inc., accusing them of helping the Chinese government restrict information and crack down on dissidents.</p>
<p>&#8220;We concluded that we would prefer to provide as much information to the Chinese people as we could through the Google search engines, in spite of the fact that we also are self-censoring material which the China government tells us we are not to exhibit,&#8221; said Vint Cerf, a Google vice president.</p></blockquote>
<p>First of all, notice how Google is trying to talk their way out of this and trying to make it sound like they are doing something good. Please read <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-dont-be-evilto-whom/" target="_blank">my previous post on this topic</a> for more. Google&#8217;s hypocrisy seems to have no limits. &#8220;Do no evil&#8221; indeed. I had hoped before <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-waking-up-to-reality-in-china/" target="_blank">that they would see what mistake they are making</a>, but it seems the people actually in control at Google don&#8217;t feel like listening to Brin.</p>
<p>Secondly, notice how China is claiming that it is not censoring information. <strong>Do they think we&#8217;re THAT stupid?</strong> Claims like this are nothing but a serious insult to our intelligence. How dumb do you have to think people are to make such a claim, and actually expect them to believe you??</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/you-are-losing-your-privacy-on-the-internet/" target="_blank">In a previous post</a>, I mentioned a trend we can now see in the media globally: <strong>Consolidate, Centralize and Control</strong>. In that post I also mentioned how the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and General Electric Capital are funding organizations to buy what is remaining of the independent print media. Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and <a href="http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/newscorp.asp" target="_blank">tons of other media around the world</a> not too long ago <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495.stm" target="_blank">bought MySpace</a>, one of the largest social networking websites on the Internet. It looks like <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/24/digg-does-the-acquisition-dance-with-news-corp/?" target="_blank">he might also be buying Digg soon</a>. The same thing is happening on the Internet that happened to other media like TV and print years ago. They&#8217;re trying to gain control over the Internet this way. For more information on this, watch two documentaries called <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/orwell-rolls-in-his-grave/" target="_blank">Outfoxed and Orwell Rolls In His Grave</a>.</p>
<p>Imagine if you could control public opinion. Imagine if you could influence public opinion through the media in such a way that you could manipulate or program people into believing what you want them to believe. Imagine if you had 80% control of all the media that people go to for their information. Any dictator would love to have such a &#8220;democracy&#8221;, where he can assure himself that the people will always support his views. Here&#8217;s a link to give you an idea of what I&#8217;m talking about: <a href="http://www.infowars.com/articles/military/pentagon_propaganda_catapult_via_us_media.htm" target="_blank">Pentagon Will &#8220;Catapult the Propaganda&#8221; Via U.S. Media</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong></p>
<p>It appears the CIA, through their venture capital company In-Q-Tel (a government intelligence agency having a venture capital company?), <a href="http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/02/22/google-in-bed-with-us-intelligence/" target="_blank">actually owns Google stock</a>. And get this:</p>
<blockquote><p>Even while Google presents a public image of vigorously protecting its users&#8217; privacy, <strong>it has quietly provided assistance to several U.S. intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, as the U.S. prosecutes its war on terrorism. In addition, Google may be providing assistance to the National Security Agency</strong>.</p>
<p>IT contractors and intelligence officials familiar with the arrangement confirmed to HSToday.us that Google had been providing assistance to the intelligence community, but would not say under what authority that assistance had been requested or provided.</p>
<p><strong>The intelligence community appears to be interested in data mining Google&#8217;s vast store of information on each user who uses Google&#8217;s services.</strong> Google collects data on each user&#8217;s search queries, which web sites users visited after making a query, and through its Google Analytics service, can also track users on cooperating web sites. It&#8217;s not clear what level of access to or how much of this information has been made available to intelligence agencies.</p></blockquote>
<p>What a world. The more I research, the more I find out how stupid I actually am. Thanks to <a href="http://www.ricksiegel.com" target="_blank">Rick Siegel</a> for leading me to this info.</p>
<p><strong>Update 2:</strong></p>
<p>Also be sure to <a href="http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/30/google-intelligence-cooperation-reprise/" target="_blank">check this latest post on this subject on Homelandstupidity.us</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update 3:</strong></p>
<p>It appears Google and the CIA <a href="http://www.tektalk.com/index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=16" target="_blank">might also be sharing computers and networks</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In a recent twist on my delving into the larger than life link between the corporate entities of Google and the CIA, <strong>which lie in military grade computer sharing, mutual facilities and a direct access line between the two</strong>, this tid bit comes up. How did the CIA get so much stock when the common man got access to none?</p></blockquote>
<p>Google&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221; slogan has now officially become the equivalent of Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; slogan.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I wrote about Google getting caught resetting viewer numbers on a few videos on it&#8217;s Google Video website. Prisonplanet reports that they&#8217;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&#8217; Terror Storm documentary and prevent &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-admits-to-censorship-then-does-it-again/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-caught-in-censorship/" target="_blank">In a previous post</a>, I wrote about Google getting caught resetting viewer numbers on a few videos on it&#8217;s Google Video website. <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/051006googlecensors.htm" target="_blank">Prisonplanet reports</a> that they&#8217;ve admitted to it, saying it was an error, but then did it again:</p>
<blockquote><p>Google Video has re-imposed a crass censorship policy to intentionally stifle the growth of Alex Jones&#8217; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Following a complaint <strong>Google admitted that the numbers had been reset by mistake</strong>, despite the fact that the error only seemed to apply to Terror Storm, and assured us that the problem would not re-occur.</p>
<p>A brief appraisal of the viewership figures for the multiple different versions of Terror Storm <strong><em>again</em> 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</strong>. 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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed it is quite strange that if this was a mistake, that it only affected the &#8220;Terror Storm&#8221; 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:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s probably the case. If you read <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-caught-in-censorship/" target="_blank">my previous article</a>, you&#8217;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&#8217;re going to censor information increasingly in a more open way until it will be very obvious what they&#8217;re doing and why.</p>
<p>In a previous post, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/p2p-is-the-future-of-the-internet/" target="_blank">I detailed why such centralized online services like Google Video and YouTube are not in our best interest</a>. We should be looking at alternative ways of distributing our content, preferably ways where it&#8217;s very difficult or impossible for people to censor information or to have centralized control over it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-caught-in-censorship/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>About 2 weeks ago, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/p2p-is-the-future-of-the-internet/" target="_blank">I wrote about why I thought that Peer to Peer would be the future of the Internet</a>, 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.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/250906googlecensorship.htm" target="_blank">Alex Jones reported yesterday</a> that he caught Google resetting viewer numbers on his video <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5792753647750188322&#038;q=terror%2Bstorm" target="_blank">&#8220;Terror Storm&#8221;</a> (you can also <a href="http://www.nw0.info/index.php?p=Documentaries/Alex Jones Documentary Films/Terror Storm/" target="_blank">download it here</a>) so that they wouldn&#8217;t make it into the most popular videos on the Google Video site. There is also a screenshot posted on Alex Jones&#8217;s website. Some from <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/250906googlecensorship.htm" target="_blank">the article</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Following last week&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>As you can see from the screenshot a reader e mailed us below, Terror Storm was being highlighted as one of Google Video&#8217;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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>This is not the first time</strong> we have caught Google engaging in censorship of Alex Jones and his websites.</p>
<p>During our Charlie Sheen coverage, <strong>Google intentionally blocked news stories</strong> pertaining to Sheen&#8217;s comments which were first made on the Alex Jones Show and turned into a nationwide media spectacle.</p>
<p>Even after the story had gone supernova, and our original write-up had been linked all over the web, including the Drudge Report, Google&#8217;s main search engine did not list the article.</p>
<p>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 &#8211; a practice that has now also ceased.</p>
<p>Google&#8217;s penchant for abandoning their founding principle of &#8220;don&#8217;t be evil&#8221; and kissing up to Communist China for privileged access into the world&#8217;s biggest untapped Internet market, was exemplified in February this <strong>when Google completely erased the Space War website from its search engine.</strong> Space War is a large mainstream news website that carries articles about geopolitics and the defense industry from AFP.</p>
<p>Space War speculated that it was their reporting on advancements in China&#8217;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.</p></blockquote>
<p>When you see &#8220;Terror Storm&#8221;, you&#8217;ll understand why Google would want to make it appear less popular on its website. 9/11 Eyewitness, Rick Siegel, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/google-blacks-out-story-on-911/" target="_blank">also seems to have caught Google censoring some information</a> in its cache of webpages in the past.</p>
<p>Make sure you <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/p2p-is-the-future-of-the-internet/" target="_blank">read my previous post on this subject</a>, as it contains more information and insight into how these centralized services are ultimately not good for the user. When I read Alex Jones&#8217;s story, I wasn&#8217;t suprised at all. When you pay attention to the right information, you can see this stuff coming way in advance. And if I&#8217;m correct, it will get <strong>much worse</strong> in the future.</p>
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		<title>9/11 Truth: US Government getting Desperate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-truth-us-government-getting-desperate/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p><img hspace="10" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/911news.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" border="1" />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.</p>
<p>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. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-conspiracy10sep10,0,5347883.story?coll=la-home-headlines" target="_blank">People even seem to be quitting their jobs</a> to dedicate themselves to getting the truth out about 9/11:</p>
<blockquote><p>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. <strong>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.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>There were <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5318381050582557158" target="_blank">massive protests at Ground Zero</a> with Alex Jones at the bullhorn. <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002835.php" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s an article</a> that also mentioned it:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hundreds of 9-11 conspiracists paraded across the street from ground zero Monday with their brazen signs &#8220;9-11 WAS A U.S. BLACK OP&#8221; 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 &#8220;proof&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;The sleeping giant has arisen &#8220;we won&#8217;t be silenced,&#8221; 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.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;d say Alex Jones is on to something there. There were also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=halFQgepRBI" target="_blank">demonstrations in Stockholm, Sweden</a>, and in <a href="http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3345508581411701229" target="_blank">London just outside the US Embassy</a>. <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/09/350521.html" target="_blank">Here are some more pictures</a> of the London protests. John Albanese <a href="http://crisisinamerica.org/091106.html" target="_blank">released a short film from Ground Zero</a> on the 5th Anniversary. Stuff <a href="http://reopen911.online.fr/" target="_blank">was also going on</a> in France (<a href="http://reopen911.online.fr/?p=181" target="_blank">pictures</a>).</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/CBCSunday_20060910.wmv" target="_blank">covered the alternative 9/11 theories</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>CBC Sunday covered in great detail 9/11 alternative theories. They referenced Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Loose Change, and the standard range of &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; topics. The show featured interviews with Bob McIlvaine, Dr. David Ray Griffin, Dylan Avery, Lee Hamilton, and Jim Meigs (Popular Mechanics).</p></blockquote>
<p>David Griffin and former MI5 agent David Shyler <a href="http://jultra.blogspot.com/2006/09/911-david-ray-griffin-david-shayler.html" target="_blank">gave a presentation in London</a>. They also <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9181676883393469552&#038;sourceid=docidfeed&#038;hl=nl" target="_blank">appeared on a BBC program</a> (<strong>if you watch nothing else, watch this!</strong>). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5pXSWcULbI&#038;eurl=" target="_blank">Barry Zwicker gave a talk</a> titled &#8220;9/11 Truth: Everybody Knows (except the mainstream media!)&#8221;. David Griffin <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8119854514684528700&#038;q=david+ray+griffin" target="_blank">also gave a presentation</a> in Copenhagen, Denmark. <strong>Highly recommended</strong>. Griffin&#8217;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 (<a href="http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Tarpley/0609/20060916_Sat_Tarpley1.mp3" target="_blank">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Tarpley/0609/20060916_Sat_Tarpley2.mp3" target="_blank">Part 2</a>).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20391954-5005961,00.html" target="_blank">Australian Channel 10 aired a 9/11 truth documentary</a> and got attacked for it as well. <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14789644/" target="_blank">MSNBC covered the 9/11 conspiracy theories</a>. A Dutch program called Zembla <a href="http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vara/zembla/bb.20060911.asf" target="_blank">aired an investigation into the 9/11 theories</a>, which had an interesting part:</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the more interesting moments in this documentary (about 46:25 minutes into it) is when they ask <em>demolition expert Danny Jowenko (who has his own demolition firm and reportedly has been active in this business for 27 years)</em> to comment on videos of the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC 7. <strong>His response to the WTC 7 video: &#8220;This is controlled demolition&#8221;.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>What else could he have said? The Dutch Metro paper <a href="http://www.metropoint.com/ftp/20060911_MetroHolland.pdf" target="_blank">also covered 9/11 alternative theories</a>, <a href="http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=13008&#038;view=findpost&#038;p=7194350" target="_blank">here is a translation</a>. The Loose Change guys <a href="http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2006/120906debate.htm" target="_blank">had a debate</a> with people from Popular Mechanics. CNN <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2006/09/12/mcintyre.pentagon.conspiracy.theory.cnn" target="_blank">seemed to have been interested</a> in the Pentagon Conspiracy theories and also <a href="http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/Zahn_LC.wmv" target="_blank">did an interview</a> with the Loose Change guys on &#8220;Paula Zahn Now&#8221;. The LC guys, by the way, <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-6/115779271761230.xml&#038;coll=1" target="_blank">seem to be having it pretty busy</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had CNN last week, and we have CNN again on Sunday,&#8221; said Korey Rowe, 23, of Oneonta, pacing a house suitably cluttered by its three bachelor occupants. &#8220;It just goes on and on. We have so many different countries coming, sometimes I don&#8217;t even know who they are. . . . Yesterday, a buddy came over, and he&#8217;s like, &#8216;What reporters are these?&#8217; And I say, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know France?&#8217; And they were from Switzerland.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, who recently referred to Bush as the devil, <a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/WarOnTerrorism/2006/09/12/1830169-ap.html" target="_blank">says it is plausible</a> that US government was involved in the 9/11 attacks. <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_Venezuelas_Chavez_says_Bush_planned_0913.html" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s a video</a> where he says Bush planned the attacks on 9/11.</p>
<p>While <a href="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2558/Five_Years_Later_The_Official_Story_Falls_Apart" target="_blank">the official story continues to fall apart</a>,:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The government is getting desperate.</strong> 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 &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; 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 &#8220;U.S. Counters 9/11 Theories Of Conspiracy&#8221; on September 2. Time magazine ran a sympathetic but dismissive review of the popular 9/11 film &#8220;Loose Change.&#8221; ABC/Disney chimed in recently with a docu-drama based on the 9/11 Commission Report. </p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.rense.com/general73/atck.htm" target="_blank">attacks on 9/11 researchers are growing</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;increasingly speculative and accusatory&#8221; statements concerning the real cause of the WTC collapse.</p></blockquote>
<p>I <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/us-government-responding-to-911-truth-movement/" target="_blank">wrote about Professor Jones</a> being put on paid leave in a previous post. Scholars for 9/11 Truth addressed the attack <a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/PressRelease20060909.html" target="_blank">here</a>. They also <a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/CecilSamuelson.html" target="_blank">wrote to BYU President Samuelson</a>. <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060911/11conspiracy.htm" target="_blank">USNews also wrote</a> about the incident. According to Jones in an email to me, the key issue is the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;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.&#8221;   quoted from DesNews.com, 9/9/06 article &#8212; major UT newspaper.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some Jews even jumped in and <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645201360,00.html" target="_blank">are accusing Jones of anti-semitism</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The action came two days after Jones appeared on KUER-FM 90.1&#8242;s respected news talk show &#8220;Radio West.&#8221; On the show, he said it appeared responsibility for the attacks rested with Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and an &#8220;international banking cartel.&#8221;</p>
<p>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 &#8220;international financiers&#8221; for Germany&#8217;s debt after World War I.</p></blockquote>
<p>You just can&#8217;t get any stupider than that. A local chapter of the American Association of University Professors <a href="http://kutv.com/local/local_story_256194352.html" target="_blank">jumped in to support Jones</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY &#8211; It?s a local story ? with ties to September 11th ? that won?t go away.</p>
<p>Now, a BYU professor who believes a conspiracy was involved in the terror attacks on America is getting support from fellow scholars.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>A local chapter of the American Association of University Professors is criticizing BYU for its actions, saying that it restricts academic expression of thought.</p>
<p>&#8220;The way that our institutions are supposed to work is, to raise questions,&#8221; said AAUP local founder Larry Anderson. &#8220;Let everybody else attack if they must.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This will help the information about his case get out to other people who are interested in academic freedom,&#8221; he added.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some are calling the latest wave of academic censorship <a href="http://milkhouse-mouse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">signs of fascism</a>, and I have to agree:</p>
<blockquote><p>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&#215;12 jail cell for the rest of their squalid, greedy lives. But that certainly is an option if Jones?s compelling findings&#8211;along with similar findings by other academics cited in the postscript&#8211;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.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks15sep15,0,5829330.story?track=tothtml" target="_blank">The LA Times seems to agree</a>, making comparisons to censorship in Iran:</p>
<blockquote><p>The real agenda behind this so-called bill of rights has nothing to do with fostering intellectual pluralism and everything to do <strong>with marginalizing or eliminating academics who deviate from the right-wing party line. </strong></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Last week, they insisted that universities be purged of liberals and &#8220;improved to serve national security,&#8221; and they urged students to &#8220;strongly criticize ? the continued presence of liberal and secular professors.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Silly me, getting my militant conservative Islamic extremists mixed up with my militant conservative Judeo-Christian extremists! <strong>Though now that I think about it, they seem to have an awful lot in common.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed. <a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/" target="_blank">Project Censored</a>, a media research group out of Sonoma State University in California, published its annual &#8220;Top 25 Censored Stories&#8221;. And guess what? They made Prof. Steven Jones&#8217; paper &#8220;Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?&#8221; <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/node/2974" target="_blank">their #18 in the list</a>.</p>
<p>But this is just the beginning. The government now seems to be taking the next step, and <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/070906terroristrecruiters.htm" target="_blank">is calling 9/11 conspiracy theorists Terrorist Recruiters</a>. I guess you have to find an excuse to send these people to Guantanamo Bay without a trial somehow. But they&#8217;ve gone even further, and <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/150906whistleblowerraided.htm" target="_blank">have raided a 9/11 whistleblower</a> just after the 5th Anniversary of 9/11:</p>
<blockquote><p>On the morning of September 12, McCormack&#8217;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&#8217;t have a warrant and needed McCormack&#8217;s signature to conduct the search.</p>
<p>Having nothing to hide and wanting to assist the police, McCormack signed the paper and the detectives entered the house.</p>
<p>&#8220;Three minutes later as I&#8217;m walking out of my office with one of the detectives, I have a federal SWAT team that comes in&#8230;.men in black and all of a sudden they have 9 millimeter handguns and MP5 machine guns aimed at my head,&#8221; McCormack told the Alex Jones Show.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;like a cyclone.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;Numerous firemen were telling me that they heard numerous secondary explosions all over the building &#8211; these guys are seasoned firefighting professionals &#8211; a lot of them have military backgrounds and they&#8217;re not stupid.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Everybody on the planet knew that not only was the World Trade Center hit &#8211; it was totally wiped out,&#8221; said McCormack.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;if they ever open their mouth their pensions are at risk.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>They&#8217;re slowly but surely starting to use force. A US Air Force chief has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html" target="_blank">recently suggested that they test weapons on US mobs</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Imagine that. It&#8217;s just unbelievable. &#8216;Testing weapons&#8217; on people. But wait, here it comes: You think he is just now suggesting this? No no no, they&#8217;ve been doing it already!! A few months ago, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&#038;code=SZY20060513&#038;articleId=2433" target="_blank">I saw this article</a>, and I honestly thought it had to be nuts:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>In Court Documents, Federal Attorney Admits CIA Targeted Innocent Texas Citizen Who Is Also Being Targeted With Deadly Electronic Weapons<br />
</strong>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.<br />
12 May 2006</p>
<p>By Greg Szymanski</p>
<p>Leslie Oliver is being &#8220;cooked alive&#8221; and Jesus Mendoza is dying a slow &#8220;electronic death,&#8221; as two more stories surface about torture and abuse <strong>at the hands of a totalitarian U.S. government using high-grade military weaponry against its own people.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Do you still have ANY doubt whatsoever that this stuff is happening? Seriously? If you read both articles, you&#8217;ll see they&#8217;re talking about the same weapons. <strong><em>Unbelievable.</em></strong></p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not all. The government&#8217;s ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of US citizens <strong>without court approval</strong> <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71778-0.html?tw=wn_technology_3" target="_blank">is also being expanded soon</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A bill radically redefining and expanding the government&#8217;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.</p></blockquote>
<p>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 &#8220;America: From Freedom to Fascism,&#8221; which <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/america-from-freedom-to-fascism/" target="_blank">I wrote about here</a>.</p>
<p><img hspace="10" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/bushmis.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" border="1" />And while the war in Iraq <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9649" target="_blank">continues to get worse</a>, and the &#8216;enemies&#8217; <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/dobbs.Sept13/index.html" target="_blank">are benefiting from that</a>, the US government is following the same path they did with Iraq, and are <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091406F.shtml" target="_blank">making up evidence against Iran to justify military action</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Vienna &#8211; U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran&#8217;s nuclear work, <strong>calling parts of it &#8220;outrageous and dishonest&#8221;</strong>, according to a letter obtained by Reuters.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s dossier.</p>
<p>Sent to the head of the House of Representatives&#8217; 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&#8217;s activity.</p>
<p>The letter said the errors suggested Iran&#8217;s nuclear fuel program was much more advanced than a series of IAEA reports and Washington&#8217;s own intelligence assessments have determined.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p><img hspace="10" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/darthcheney.jpg" align="right" vspace="10" border="1" />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 <a href="http://projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#2" target="_blank">Darth Cheney sold Nuclear Technology to Iran himself when he was at Halliburton</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, <strong>Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company.</strong> 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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Cheney said. &#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cheney was the chief executive of Halliburton Corporation at the time he uttered those words. <strong>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.<br />
</strong>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s how they know! Wonderful, isn&#8217;t it??!?! It&#8217;s the same with Iraq. How did they know Saddam had to have chemical and biological weapons? <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm" target="_blank">Reagan and Bush Sr. sold it to him</a>! Speaking of Darth Cheney, did you know <a href="http://projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#24" target="_blank">his Halliburton stock rose over 3000 percent last year</a>? War is big business for these people.</p>
<p>But those small details won&#8217;t stop the Bush administration, especially <a href="http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/israel_pushing_u_s_.html" target="_blank">since Israel keeps pushing them to bomb Iran</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 &#8220;at which senior defense chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>But even as the US government is seemingly trying to &#8216;convince&#8217; others of the need to attack Iran, the truth is that <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff" target="_blank">they are already preparing for the attack</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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 <strong>have moved up the deployment of a major &#8220;strike group&#8221; 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&#8217;s western coast.</strong> 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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, the Pentagon <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Pentagon_moves_to_secondstage_planning_for_0921.html" target="_blank">has moved to second stage planning</a> for the strike against Iran:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Pentagon&#8217;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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>The senior intelligence official who spoke to RAW STORY, along with several military intelligence sources, <strong>confirmed that the nuclear option remains on the table</strong>. In addition, the senior official added that the Joint Chiefs <strong>have &#8220;come around on to the administration&#8217;s thinking.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Time Magazine confirmed much of what the military intelligence source had described.</p>
<p>&#8220;The first message was routine enough: a &#8216;Prepare to Deploy Order&#8217; sent through Naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters,&#8221; Time&#8217;s Michael Duffy wrote. &#8220;The orders didn&#8217;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>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 &#8220;a month or so&#8221; to arrive in position.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. <strong>The Senate Intelligence Committee is attempting to get a grasp on what is and has been going on.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Even the Senate doesn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on, and as it seems, has nothing to say about all this. Looks like a dictatorship to me.</p>
<p>And as all of that is happening, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&#038;code=N20060921&#038;articleId=3299" target="_blank">Iran has no choice but to also prepare for war</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>In Iran, the Intelligence Minister has warned that &#8220;enemies are seeking to create instability in Iran through different measures, including assassinations, explosions and extensive insecurities&#8221; and that &#8220;his forces, in cooperation and coordination with other governmental bodies, have defused enemies? plots in different Iranian provinces, including Tehran.&#8221;23</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>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 &#8220;preventative steps&#8221; 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 </p>
<p>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</p></blockquote>
<p>Looks like we&#8217;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 (<a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/america-from-freedom-to-fascism/" target="_blank">watch &#8220;America: From Freedom to Fascism&#8221;</a>), 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.</p>
<p>And finally, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/us-government-responding-to-911-truth-movement/" target="_blank">in a previous post</a>, I mentioned how <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Press_secretary_to_president_of_Pakistan_0905.html" target="_blank">Pakistan said that they would leave Osama bin Laden alone</a> and let him stay in Pakistan if he would lead a peaceful life. Well, it&#8217;s been revealed that Pakistan&#8217;s secret intelligence agency (the ISI), the same one that wired $100.000 to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker just before 9/11, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-terror20sep20,1,2188283.story?track=crosspromo&#038;coll=la-headlines-world&#038;ctrack=1&#038;cset=true" target="_blank">has been helping Al Qaeda</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>LONDON ? A major terrorism trial here was interrupted Tuesday when a defendant accused Pakistan&#8217;s intelligence service of threatening his relatives in the South Asian nation <strong>after he testified that the spy agency played a role in training Islamic militants</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p>It seems the world is just a giant circus. And in the same way, it&#8217;s also been revealed that UK intelligence agencies have <a href="http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/210906hermajesty.htm" target="_blank">been carrying out terror attacks and blaming it on others</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Kindof like the CIA has also been doing for years. And so, does it surprise you, that the August terror plot <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Sources_August_Terror_Plot_Fiction_Underscoring_0918.html" target="_blank">was just bullshit to scare people</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;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,&#8221;</strong> 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.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Wylde stated.</p>
<p>&#8220;This story has been blown out of all proportion. <strong>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.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Once the fluids have been extracted, the process of mixing them produces significant amounts of heat and vile fumes. &#8220;The resulting liquid then needs some hours at room temperature for the white crystals that are the explosive to develop.&#8221; The whole process, which can take between 12 and 36 hours, is &#8220;very dangerous, even in a lab, and can lead to premature detonation,&#8221; said Lt. Col. Wylde.</p></blockquote>
<p>You&#8217;d think these people would come up with something more believable. It seems they&#8217;re not that smart afterall, or, they want us to find out what&#8217;s happening.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be discussing that last option a lot more in the future.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s called &#8220;9/11 Mysteries&#8221;, and part 1 of this 3 part series, called &#8220;Demolitions&#8221;, is now available and can be ordered on DVD. You can also watch it FREE of charge on Google Video. This &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-mysteries-demolitions/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>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&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.911mysteries.com" target="_blank">&#8220;9/11 Mysteries&#8221;</a>, and part 1 of this 3 part series, called &#8220;Demolitions&#8221;, is now available and can be ordered on DVD. You can also <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&#038;q=911+mysteries&#038;hl=en-CA" target="_blank">watch it <strong>FREE of charge</strong> on Google Video</a>.</p>
<p>This video is an amazing piece of work. It is the best 9/11 video on controlled demolition yet. <strong>YOU SIMPLY MUST SEE IT. </strong>Here are some quotes from leading 9/11 Truth researchers:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Excellent.  The best of the 9/11 movies.&#8221; &#8211;<em>David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor</em></p>
<p>&#8220;WOW!  is my reaction to this movie.  Great insight into demolitions and what really happened on 9/11/2001.&#8221;  &#8211;<em>Steven E. Jones, physics professor, Brigham Young University</em></p>
<p>&#8220;An outstanding contribution to understanding 9/11.  Simply superb.&#8221; &#8211;<em>James H. Fetzer, founder, Scholars for 911 Truth</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Let me say it again: <strong>THIS IS A MUST SEE.</strong></p>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the next 2 parts to be released.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days we&#8217;ve been given a clear sign that shows that things are going to get more serious faster from now on. And you can blame that on the progress the 9/11 Truth movement as a whole has been making so far. Before I continue, I want to bring the following quote to your attention: &#8220;First they &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/us-government-responding-to-911-truth-movement/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>In the last few days we&#8217;ve been given a clear sign that shows that things are going to get more serious faster from now on. And you can blame that on the progress the 9/11 Truth movement as a whole has been making so far. Before I continue, I want to bring the following quote to your attention:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Mohandas Ghandi</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>When we look at the progress 9/11 Truth has made, you&#8217;ll no doubt agree with me (if you don&#8217;t you will at the end of this post) that we&#8217;re now at the beginning of the &#8220;then they fight you&#8221; stage of Ghandi&#8217;s quote. Indeed, in the beginning most people, including the government, ignored the 9/11 &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; and pretended they didn&#8217;t exist at all. Then, when the movement started growing and credible people joined in, they started making fun of them. But as the movement keeps growing and the government can&#8217;t explain certain things without revealing things they want to keep secret, the need is growing for them to start fighting back.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;ve said in previous posts that first they will use more conventional ways to fight back, such as using their own institutions, such as NIST, to try and discredit the 9/11 Truth movement and cast doubt on their theories. Another thing is using the mainstream media, which they completely control, to either not publish anything on the 9/11 Truth movement (as they&#8217;ve been doing for a long while now), or using them to spread their side of the story and do damage control. This is what&#8217;s happening now. But as they probably are already finding out, that won&#8217;t work. And so what you should be expecting now is for them to use more powerful ways to keep control and protect themselves which will probably include more staged terror attacks to keep people afraid, war with Iran which will serve as a distraction among other things, creation of a police state and declaring martial law and the use of force.</p>
<p>This may sound crazy, but as you&#8217;ll see later in this post, even people who would previously never believe this are now saying it could happen, and indeed will happen if things continue to go the way they are now. And to be honest, I have no reason to believe things will change for the better. In addition, people around the world are also becoming aware of the fact that the US government lied about 9/11. There are reports of conferences and screenings in Italy, France, Brittain, 9/11 Truth documentaries being played on TV in Holland, in public busses in Chile, Japan, Mexico etc. etc. It&#8217;s all over the world now.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s discuss some of the news that appeared in the last few days in the media. NIST recently <a href="http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm" target="_blank">published their answers</a> to the growing scepticism on their website. Just a few days after that, <a href="http://www.st911.org" target="_blank">Scholars for 9/11 Truth</a> among many others, published their comments on the NIST publication. Here are some links to comments by ST911 members:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/nist/WTC_FAQ_reply.html" target="_blank">NIST&#8217;s World Trade Center FAQ: A Reply</a><br />
Jim Hoffman</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/Why-NIST-hasn't-Answered-its-own-Questions.html" target="_blank">Why NIST hasn&#8217;t Answered its own Questions</a><br />
Jim Fetzer</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/WhyNISTFactSheetWontDo.html" target="_blank">Why the NIST &#8220;Fact Sheet&#8221; Just Won&#8217;t Do</a><br />
Sean Glazier</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/NIST_Responses.doc" target="_blank">Responses to NIST&#8217;s FAQs</a><br />
Kevin Ryan</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/NISTandThe%20FootOfGod.html" target="_blank">NIST and &#8220;The Foot Of God&#8221;</a><br />
Robert Rice</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/Experiments-to-test-NIST-orange-glow-hypothesis.html" target="_blank">Experiments to test NIST &#8220;orange glow&#8221; hypothesis&#8230;</a><br />
Steven E. Jones</p></blockquote>
<p>That basically took care of the NIST FAQ.</p>
<p>Then the media started mentioning the fact that the government was finally responding to the &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221;, a move that shows that they can no longer just dismiss this group of people as nutcases.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51761" target="_blank">this article</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>In the wake of growing skepticism, the U.S. government is taking the unusual step of responding to conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center.</em></p>
<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, headquartered in Gaithersberg, Md., investigated the causes of the collapse of the twin towers. Yesterday NIST announced it had posted a &#8220;fact sheet&#8221; addressing alternative theories about the World Trade Center fires and collapse.</p>
<p>The government&#8217;s response comes in response to accusations and suspicions of <strong>increasing numbers of Americans</strong> that the official explanation of the events of Sept. 11, 2001 ? that 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked four U.S. jetliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, with a fourth being downed in rural Pennsylvania ? are wrong. In fact, <strong>a shocking new Scripps Howard poll shows a third of Americans believe the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11 terror attacks</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Someone from the New York Times <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/01/news/conspiracy.php" target="_blank">also felt like writing about it</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>NEW YORK Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were published this week by the State Department and a federal science agency insisting that the catastrophes were caused by hijackers who used commercial airliners as weapons.</p>
<p>The official narrative of the attacks has been attacked as little more than a cover story by an assortment of radio hosts, academics, amateur filmmakers and others who have spread their arguments on the Internet and cable television in America and abroad. As a motive, they suggest that the Bush administration wanted to use the attacks to justify military action in the Middle East.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Nevertheless, federal officials say they moved to affirm the conventional history of the day <strong>because of the persistence of what they call &#8220;alternative theories.&#8221;</strong> On Wednesday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a seven-page study based on its earlier 10,000-page report on how and why the trade center collapsed. The full report, released a year ago, and the synopsis, in a question and answer format, are available online at <a href="http://wtc.nist.gov/">http://wtc.nist.gov</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>And that&#8217;s not all, <a href="http://www.startribune.com/462/story/657868.html" target="_blank">here&#8217;s another one</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>As the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks looms, skepticism about the official version of the atrocities that day has gained traction <strong>in the minds of many Americans and among a small, but growing, number of academics</strong>.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Retired University of Minnesota Duluth philosophy Prof. James Fetzer is founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. &#8220;What the government committed was shock and awe on American soil,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And all of their explanations are phony, a fraud, a hoax, a myth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nuzi Haneef, a software engineer from Eagan, has organized the MN 9/11 Questions Meetup Group. It has attracted more than three dozen participants.</p>
<p>&#8220;The story about 9/11 that the government said is true is really not plausible,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When you put it all together &#8230; there&#8217;s obviously been a coverup.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Often derided as fringe-dwellers, people pushing the 9/11 conspiracy turn out to have a lot of company.</p>
<p>A nationwide poll in July by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that <strong>36 percent of respondents think the federal government either assisted in the attacks or allowed them to happen as a pretext to start a war in the Middle East. </strong></p>
<p><em>The poll also found that 16 percent of respondents think the World Trade Center&#8217;s twin towers were toppled by hidden explosives and 12 percent think the Pentagon was hit by a U.S. cruise missile.</em></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Federal officials, <strong>taken aback at the tenacity of the conspiracy theorists</strong>, published two reports last week that affirm the official version of the 9/11 attacks. But the doubters remain unconvinced.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701669_pf.html" target="_blank">also had this to say</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child&#8217;s story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America&#8217;s Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.</p>
<p>He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.</p>
<p>&#8220;To me, the report read as a cartoon.&#8221; White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister&#8217;s voice. <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Such as?</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong>If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess.</strong> There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the widespread belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept. 11 in order to spark an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.</p>
<p><em>A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.</em></p>
<p>Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government &#8220;consciously failed to act.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Griffin took the podium and laid down his ideas with calm and cool. He concluded:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;It is already possible to know beyond a reasonable doubt one very important thing: The destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by domestic terrorists,&#8221;</em> he says. &#8220;The welfare of our republic and perhaps even the survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about 9/11 exposed.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The audience rose and applauded for more than a minute.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14723997/from/ET/" target="_blank">That story was also on MSNBC</a> by the way. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14727720/" target="_blank">A poll on MSNBC</a> had the following result when I last checked:</p>
<blockquote><p>Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day. <strong>57%</strong> </p>
<p>No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful &#8212; especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11. <strong>37%</strong> </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure. <strong>5.9%</strong> </p></blockquote>
<p>And today, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1868445,00.html" target="_blank">the Guardian had the following to say</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Two days before the fifth anniversary of the attacks, David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont graduate university, and author of The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, will ask his audience: &#8220;Was 9/11 an inside job?&#8221;</p>
<p>He will be joined on stage by the ex-MI5 officer David Shayler, who will introduce the talk, for which tickets have almost sold out. <em>Prof Griffin is a founder member of the 9/11 Scholars for Truth movement in the US. He is joined by 75 academics who write in books, journals and essays that they have overwhelming evidence that shatters the official version of events on that September morning.</em></p>
<p><strong>And it seems that a growing number of people are listening to them.</strong> <em>A recent poll in the US found that 36% of Americans believed it &#8220;very likely&#8221; or &#8220;somewhat likely&#8221; that their government was involved in allowing the attacks or had carried them out itself. There are many people in the UK who agree with them.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Ofcourse, what&#8217;s not to agree with? It&#8217;s so clear I&#8217;m asking myself why even more people haven&#8217;t woken up yet from their sleep.</p>
<p>And <a href="http://www.mujca.com/liberation.htm" target="_blank">here&#8217;s a translation of a story</a> that appeared in a French newspaper. Some quotes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230; </p>
<p><em>It is in American universities that the documentary has excited the most interest, thanks to students spreading the word. Director of Scripps Survey Research Center Guido Stempel estimates that &#8220;the success of these theories is related to increasing mistrust with respect to the Bush government, its lack of credibility and its penchant for secrecy.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Once that you believe in it, there&#8217;s no going back, you devote your life to it&#8221; says Janette MacKinlay, a 58 year old artist. She lived across from the Twin Towers at the time of the attacks and regards herself as &#8220;a survivor.&#8221; She started to doubt in August 2004, at a meeting in San Francisco, by listening to two Members of the 9/11 Commission, created to shed light on the attacks. &#8220;They did not answer any questions. I had the impression it was a cover-up.&#8221; <strong>Se then read a book by David Ray Griffin, a theologian considered as a reference by the conspiracist movement, and &#8220;informed herself.&#8221;</strong> Since then, she is the one who has been organizing conferences. &#8220;I am a patriot,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I am trying to fight this policy of fear they&#8217;re subjecting us to.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What is clear is that more and more people are starting to &#8220;inform themselves.&#8221; Indeed it is the only choice they have since they cannot possibly rely on the mainstream media anymore to do that for them. And <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/what-really-happened-on-911/" target="_blank">like I wrote before</a>, this is all possible and made much easier because of the Internet, which the government doesn&#8217;t yet control (but boy would they love to).</p>
<p>I also came across <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&#038;code=CHO20060904&#038;articleId=3147" target="_blank">this article by Michel Chossudovsky</a>. Here are some quotes:</p>
<blockquote><p>?The Sunday Times views Israel&#8217;s war plans as legitimate acts of self defense, to prevent Tehran from launching an all out nuclear attack on Israel:   &#8220;Iran and Syria have ballistic missiles that can cover most of Israel, including Tel Aviv. An emergency budget has now been assigned to building modern shelters.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>The fact that Iran does not possess nuclear weapons capabilities as confirmed by the IAEA report does not seem to be an issue for debate. </em></p>
<p><strong>Media disinformation has contributed to creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.</strong> The announcement on August 10 by the British Home Office of a foiled large scale terror attack to simultaneously blow up as many as ten airplanes, conveys the impression that it is the Western World rather than the Middle East which is under attack.</p>
<p><strong>Realities are twisted upside down. The disinformation campaign has gone into full gear.</strong> The British and US media are increasingly pointing towards  &#8220;preemptive war&#8221; as an act of &#8220;self defense&#8221; against Al Qaeda and the State sponsors of terrorism, who are allegedly preparing a Second 911.</p>
<p><em>The underlying objective, through fear and intimidation, is ultimately to build public acceptance for the next stage of the Middle East &#8220;war on terrorism&#8221; which is directed against Syria and Iran.</em></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>The economic and political dislocations resulting from this military agenda are far-reaching.</p>
<p>If the attacks directed against Iran and Syria were to proceed, <strong>martial law and/or a state of emergency could be declared in the US and possibly Britain on the pretext that the homeland is under attack by Iran sponsored terrorists.</strong> The purpose of these measures would essentially be to curb the antiwar movement and provide legitimacy to an illegal war.</p>
<p>The Pentagon has intimated in this regard, in an official statement, <em>that &#8220;another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets [Iran and Syria]&#8220;.</em> In a timely statement, barely a few days following the onslaught of the bombing of Lebanon, Vice President Cheney reiterated his warning: &#8220;The enemy that struck on 9/11 is fractured and weakened, yet still lethal, still determined to hit us again&#8221; (Waterloo Courier, Iowa, 19 July 2006, italics added).</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Revealing the lies behind 911 would serve to undermine the legitimacy of the &#8220;war on terrorism&#8221;. </strong></p>
<p>Without 911, the war criminals in high office do not have a leg to stand on. The entire national security construct collapses like a deck of cards.</p></blockquote>
<p>No wonder the US government is now being forced to actively do something about the 9/11 Truth movement. And they&#8217;re going to fight the 9/11 Truth movement with everything they&#8217;ve got at their disposal. It&#8217;s <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/david-griffin-on-norad-tapes/" target="_blank">like Griffin said in his recent interview about the Norad tapes</a>, there is no limit to the amount of time, money and other resources that these people will use to keep control and protect themselves.</p>
<p>And with that in mind, <a href="http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645199800,00.html" target="_blank">Professor Steven Jones was recently put on &#8220;paid leave&#8221; by Brigham Young University</a> (BYU) because of his views and research on 9/11 issues. They even took down <a href="http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/WhyIndeedDidtheWorldTradeCenterBuildingsCompletelyCollapse.pdf" target="_blank">his paper on the WTC Tower demolition</a> from their website. Fortunately, his paper is now also published on <a href="http://www.journalof911studies.com/" target="_blank">Journal of 9/11 Studies</a> and in David Griffin&#8217;s latest book called &#8220;<strong>9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out</strong>.&#8221; It would not surprise me one bit if the US government is behind this, forcing the head of the university to take action against Jones or else lose funding on research projects for the government, for example. There are many ways they can put pressure on BYU. Also consider that someone from the government had contacted Jones about 2 months ago and offered to pay for his research if he would &#8220;change the direction of his 9/11 research a little.&#8221; Jones, ofcourse, refused.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;ll only get worse. Michael Ruppert, author of &#8220;Crossing the Rubicon&#8221; where he exposes the role Cheney played on 9/11, <a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081606_burning_bridge.shtml" target="_blank">was recently forced to move out of the US</a> because his life was in danger. Even millionaire Jimmy Walters, who spent over 8 million dollars so far to promote 9/11 Truth, had to move out of the US because he was being harassed by the government and is now living somewhere in Europe. The New York Times even refused to take his money and publish an ad he wanted to place about 9/11 Truth.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/red-alert-for-staged-government-terror-attack/" target="_blank">The staged terror attack Alex Jones predicted would happen before the end of october</a> all of a sudden doesn&#8217;t seem that crazy. It&#8217;s not hard to &#8220;predict&#8221; any of this stuff, folks, when you have the right knowledge and information, you can &#8220;predict&#8221; a lot of things others wouldn&#8217;t be able to see coming.</p>
<p>And finally, to get you really excited, <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Press_secretary_to_president_of_Pakistan_0905.html" target="_blank">here&#8217;s the latest on our good friend Osama</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan, press secretary to the president of Pakistan, <strong>tells ABC News that &#8212; if found &#8212; Osama bin Laden won&#8217;t be arrested, as long as he promises to behave like a &#8220;peaceful citizen.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;If he is in Pakistan, bin Laden &#8216;would not be taken into custody,&#8217; Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan told ABC News in a telephone interview, <strong>&#8216;as long as one is being like a peaceful citizen</strong>,&#8221; report Brian Ross and Gretchen Peters at ABC&#8217;s blog, The Blotter.</p></blockquote>
<p>Beautiful, isn&#8217;t it? Simply amazing. Keep in mind that Mehmood Ahmed, head of the ISI (Pakistan&#8217;s Intelligence Agency) on 9/11, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html" target="_blank">wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta</a>, the lead hijacker, just days before the attacks on 9/11. Mr. Ahmed was also in the US on 9/11 meeting with US government, specifically the State Department, CIA and Pentagon. Lovely, isn&#8217;t it? Why the hell did the 9/11 Commission never investigate that?</p>
<p>But as for Osama, it seems they have no use for him now anymore. <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/fbi-no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-911/" target="_blank">Even the FBI has admitted they have no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11</a>. So hey, let him live a peaceful life in Pakistan, as long as he behaves. And when they need him again, he&#8217;ll be brought back in the news to scare people again. Remember that this was supposed to be the evil man Bush was after when 9/11 happened. It was why they invaded Afghanistan. Let me leave you now with the following quotes:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It&#8217;s our number one priority, and we will not rest until we find him.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>George W. Bush, September 13, 2001.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s not that important. It&#8217;s not our priority.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>George W. Bush, March 13, 2002.</strong></p></blockquote>
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		<title>David Griffin on Norad tapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Griffin was interviewed on a radio program called &#8220;Guns and Butter&#8221; yesterday, and you can download an MP3 of the interview here. I&#8217;ve often made remarks about Griffin&#8217;s beautiful use of logic in his arguments in previous posts, and in this interview you&#8217;ll certainly see why, especially at the end. He discusses the recent release of recordings of conversations &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/david-griffin-on-norad-tapes/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>David Griffin was interviewed on a radio program called &#8220;<a href="http://gunsandbutter.net/" target="_blank">Guns and Butter</a>&#8221; yesterday, and you can <a href="http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/griffin/griffin-faulkner-8-30-2006.mp3" target="_blank">download an MP3 of the interview here</a>. I&#8217;ve often made remarks about Griffin&#8217;s beautiful use of logic in his arguments in previous posts, and in this interview you&#8217;ll certainly see why, especially at the end. He discusses the recent release of recordings of conversations between various officials of the FAA, Norad and the Pentagon on 9/11, and completely rips them apart. This is the kind of stuff you&#8217;re not going to see the mainstream media do: take a critical look at the evidence.</p>
<p>Speaking of the mainstream media, Barry Zwicker has recently published his book called &#8220;Towers of Deception: The media cover-up of 9/11&#8243;. It should already be available on Amazon. <a href="http://www.mikenewcomb.net/audio/ZWICKER.mp3" target="_blank">Here&#8217;s a radio interview</a> which was recently done with Zwicker, where he discusses his book among other things. You can also read <a href="http://www.vcreporter.com/article.php?id=3396&#038;IssueNum=87" target="_blank">an interview with him here</a>. Quote from that article:</p>
<blockquote><p>As the fifth anniversary of 9/11 draws near, recent polls indicate that a growing number of Americans believe they have not been told the full truth behind the events of that terrible day. In other words, more and more people are coming around to the conclusion Canadian journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker reached within hours of the collapse of the World Trade Center: that forces within the United States government manufactured the attacks as a means of justifying war plans abroad and instituting draconian domestic policies at home.</p>
<p>Outrageous? Possibly. But Zwicker is not a lone conspiracy theorist shouting rhetoric from a street corner. <strong>He is part of a widening group of well-educated individuals, collectively known as the 9/11 Truth Movement, who, through exhaustive independent research, have determined that the official story of what happened on Sept. 11 is more far-fetched than any of the so-called &#8220;alternative versions.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>The group is indeed growing faster and faster now as more people start to realize that the government&#8217;s version of what happened on 9/11 has lots of issues and cannot even begin to explain most of the evidence that keeps turning up everywhere.</p>
<p>One of which is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzR-q0ijbV0" target="_blank">this video</a> of Flight 77 which was made based on flight datarecorder information and was released by the NTSB. Based on the video and flightdata, it is impossible for the aircraft to have hit a few lightpoles before crashing into the Pentagon because it was too high. So what hit the lightpoles? More questions the government&#8217;s story cannot even begin to explain. <a href="http://pilotsfor911truth.bravehost.com/pentagon.html" target="_blank">More information here</a>.</p>
<p>When you look at all the evidence that keeps piling up, does it surprise you that the government keeps quiet about this? Does it surprise you that <a href="http://www.teamliberty.net/id282.html" target="_blank">they are too afraid to confront experts in the 9/11 Truth movement in a national debate</a>? Just listen to <a href="http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/A003I060823-am-c3.MP3" target="_blank">this interview</a> where someone from Popular Mechanics, who&#8217;re on the US government&#8217;s side supporting the official 9/11 story, takes a serious beating. Another <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/v2/node/2245" target="_blank">interview was cancelled</a> for obvious reasons.</p>
<p><img hspace="4" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/cheney_satan.jpg" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />And it looks like Dart Cheney will be running for office in 2008 with none other than the great Satan himself. Actually, Satan is running for vice president, so one can&#8217;t help but wonder if this means Cheney is even worse than Satan. <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/buy/cheney/-/pv_design_prod/p_storeid.49441587/pNo_49441587/id_11370947/opt_/pg_/c_/fpt_" target="_blank">Get the bumper stickers here</a>.</p>
<p>And get this: Emperor Bush recently admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/fbi-no-hard-evidence-connecting-bin-laden-to-911/" target="_blank">first the FBI admits that they have no hard evidence linking Bin Laden to 9/11</a>, and now <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/bush-on-911/" target="_blank">Bush admits Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his &#8220;freedom agenda&#8221; and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11. <strong>&#8220;Nothing,&#8221; Bush defiantly answered. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that lovely? Like it&#8217;s just the most normal thing, and nobody says anything about it! Before the war in Iraq, the US government did everything they could to suggest Iraq had links with people who planned and executed 9/11. I have interviews with Cheney and Rice right here on my computer where they say so! If I had a weak heart, I&#8217;d have died of a heart attack long ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=13133" target="_blank">Here you can see Bush getting confused</a> with what&#8217;s being said to him through the earpiece he&#8217;s likely wearing. He can&#8217;t even answer a simple question without someone telling him what to say. You have to wonder, who&#8217;s more stupid, Bush, or the people who elected him and keep him in power? Do you see people saying anything about this stuff? No, instead they make fun of it in movies like American Dreamz.</p>
<p>The truth is that most people in the US aren&#8217;t yet being affected by all the things that are being done to them and to others in their name. But that is slowly changing as the US government is becoming more and more hostile towards even its own citizens. And as more people wake up and find out what&#8217;s going on, the government will have to use even more obvious and more powerful methods to keep them in control. Mike Ruppert, the author of &#8220;Crossing the Rubicon&#8221; <a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081606_burning_bridge.shtml" target="_blank">was recently forced to leave the US</a> because his life was in danger. When you read &#8220;Crossing the Rubicon&#8221;, you&#8217;ll understand why.</p>
<p>When the number of people asking questions will be too much to handle for the government, what&#8217;s going to happen is what Zwicker explains below in <a href="http://www.vcreporter.com/article.php?id=3396&#038;IssueNum=87" target="_blank">the interview I mentioned earlier</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Could you foresee what you see as the truth about 9/11 being revealed at any point in the future?</strong></p>
<p>Yes. When? Either it breaks out in a politically significant way in, say, five years at the absolute limit, or I fear ? and I am not alone ? <strong>that the forces behind 9/11 will have declared martial law or worse.</strong> My friend Elias Davidsson of Reykjavik, Iceland, one of those profiled in the book, says it as well as anyone: &#8220;Either those who conceived, planned, organized, perpetrated and covered up the crime&#8221; will be brought to justice and &#8220;a new mass movement for real democracy will emerge,&#8221; or 9/11 &#8220;will remain underexposed, <strong>those who conspired in 9/11 and its cover-up will feel confident to set up national security states in which no true opposition will be permitted, and human rights and democracy will wither for a long time</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yep, watch it happen. If you want to have an idea of what that will look like, watch &#8220;V for Vendetta&#8221;. It&#8217;s already planned. They&#8217;ve shown it to you, and you thought it was entertainment.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood knows what&#8217;s going on</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that a lot of people (I could probably even say most people) inside Hollywood know what&#8217;s currently going on in the US, and have a general idea of where this is heading, but are too afraid to openly come out against it. Ofcourse assuming they&#8217;d want to do that. Indeed we&#8217;ve recently seen a few celebrities give their &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/hollywood-knows-whats-going-on/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>It seems that a lot of people (I could probably even say most people) inside Hollywood know what&#8217;s currently going on in the US, and have a general idea of where this is heading, but are too afraid to openly come out against it. Ofcourse assuming they&#8217;d want to do that. Indeed we&#8217;ve recently seen a few celebrities give their opinion about, for example, 9/11 being an inside job. <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/911-truth-is-starting-to-reach-the-masses/" target="_blank">Charlie Sheen immediately comes to mind</a>. I&#8217;ve read that even Bruce Willis has commented about it somewhere on the set of one of his films. And Alex Jones, who was the first to interview Charlie Sheen about his views on 9/11, has said that he&#8217;s spoken to a lot more people in Hollywood who, like Charlie Sheen, have doubts about 9/11.</p>
<p>But apart from that, there are also movies being released where you can clearly see that they know of at least a few things going on. I&#8217;ve recently seen the movie &#8220;American Dreamz&#8221;, and that movie makes a lot of fun of the current situation inside the US. In the movie you have a president who seems out of touch with reality and what&#8217;s going on around him, he&#8217;s almost constantly wearing something in his ears and is being told by his advisor what to say, while the majority of the people are being distracted by reality shows. And while it is a fun movie to watch because you can easily see where it&#8217;s making fun of real life, it&#8217;s also sad to see that they know what&#8217;s going on, see the absurdities taking place, make fun of it but keep their mouth shut about it and don&#8217;t actually take action to improve the situation. No, instead they make a movie that makes fun of it, and sell it to the people who are the real life victims. <em>&#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s not enough that we&#8217;re fooling around with those suckers, let&#8217;s make a movie showing them how they&#8217;re being fooled around while they don&#8217;t even realize it, and make money off of it, apart from the fact that we get a real kick out of openly showing them how we fool them without them even realizing what they&#8217;re actually watching.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s like inviting someone to watch a movie somewhere together with others, where he sees a guy entering a house and robbing someone, while he&#8217;s not realizing that he&#8217;s the one being robbed and that he&#8217;s viewing it almost realtime as it happens and enjoying it too.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s ofcourse another movie, which I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve probably already seen, called &#8220;V for Vendetta&#8221;. Most Americans probably go to the theater and watch this movie thinking it&#8217;s another one of those action movies with kindof a deep storyline, and not realizing that this movie is essentially about what&#8217;s going on right now in the US and England. The movie shows us a police state, where the government has a tight control over its citizens and the media, spies on its citizens and monitors everything. You have cameras everywhere, people working for the government driving around picking up conversations etc. The government is even capable of committing crimes against its own people and blame it on others in order to keep them afraid and get even more control over them. And at first, there&#8217;s one guy who stands up against the government and fights them, trying to expose their lies and crimes, and trying to wake the people up. But at the end, he succeeds in convincing the majority of the people, who then all turn against the government.</p>
<p>I doubt that the storyline is a coincidence. The people in Hollywood had to know exactly what they were making. They&#8217;re not stupid, and I&#8217;m sure they can see the similarities with current real life events too. And I can&#8217;t help but wonder if they are in on the plot, and have access to the hidden storyboard that those who are in control behind the scenes use to plan all the events taking place, or that it is simply clever writing. I mean, could it again be a case of: <em>&#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s not enough that we&#8217;re fooling around with those suckers, let&#8217;s make a movie showing them how they&#8217;re being fooled around while they don&#8217;t even realize it, and make money off of it, apart from the fact that we get a real kick out of openly showing them how we fool them without them even realizing what they&#8217;re actually watching.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll probably talk about this more in dept in a future post.</p>
<p>I also came across <a href="http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2003_1984sequel.html" target="_blank">an article that basically describes what I just said about the &#8220;American Dreamz&#8221; movie</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The pivotal Big Brother character has been replaced by &#8220;Big Moron,&#8221; an incompetent cretin who was not elected, but selected by a Supreme Council. And double speak has become nonsense speak. Orwell has divided this fictional world into two camps: The Homeland and The Evil Doers. It&#8217;s a simplistic world where &#8220;you&#8217;re either with us or against us.&#8221;</p>
<p>The general public is fed news sparingly from a handful of bloated megacorporations, but these are primary motivated by revenue. Official government propaganda is occasionally delivered through carefully orchestrated press conferences. Each query is pre-screened and gets the same nonsense speak response.</p>
<p>But the population, having evolved into mindless drones, is apathetic. They have become complacent, their minds numbed by watching hours of insipid &#8220;reality&#8221; programming.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s going on in the US right now, and when you watch &#8220;American Dreamz&#8221;, you&#8217;ll find the same things in it. And if you wonder why the population there seems to not notice all of this, just remember that <a href="http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/08/nation_of_retar.php" target="_blank">30% of them don&#8217;t even know in what year 9/11 took place</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to the new Washington Post poll, 30% of those surveyed couldn&#8217;t come up with the year of the event.</p>
<p>About half of them picked a wrong year, while 16% of America&#8217;s finest citizens &#8220;had no idea.&#8221;</p>
<p>Almost all of those who didn&#8217;t know when 9/11 happened were over 55, with 48% between 55 and 64 and the other 47% being 65 and older.</p>
<p>In other words, the nation&#8217;s most reliable voters are so stupid or senile that they&#8217;ve got absolutely no idea what&#8217;s going on around them and can&#8217;t remember the most pivotal event of this century, which happened only five years ago.</p>
<p>For this nation of retards, pollsters were happy to find 95% of Americans at least remembered the &#8220;September 11&#8243; part. The other 5% somehow manage to maintain telephone service and even know how to answer a ringing phone, but have no knowledge of the month or date of the most notorious event in recent history.</p>
<p>The grim study confirms what many other polls have long shown: Americans are, at best, drooling imbeciles who can&#8217;t find Iraq on a map, have no memory of Watergate and believe fictional characters on TV are real people.</p>
<p>God help us all.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed.</p>
<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more. It appears, and this is hardly news anymore these days, that the US government and Israel actually planned the war going on in the Middle East right now. <a href="http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Middle_East/0,,2-10-2075_1981865,00.html" target="_blank">Check this out</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>New York &#8211; The US government was closely involved in the planning of Israel&#8217;s military operations against Islamic militant group Hezbollah even before the July 12 kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.</p>
<p>The kidnapping triggered a month-long Israeli operation in South Lebanon that is expected to come to an end on Monday.</p>
<p>But Pulitzer Prize-winning US journalist Seymour Hersh writes that President George W Bush and vice president Dick Cheney were convinced that a successful Israeli bombing campaign against Hezbollah could ease Israel&#8217;s security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential US pre-emptive attack to destroy Iran&#8217;s nuclear installations.</p></blockquote>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that just wonderful?</p>
<p>And just in case you weren&#8217;t yet convinced about their intentions, <a href="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1098.shtml" target="_blank">get this</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The August 10 report of a spectacular foiled UK-based super-terror plot, an alleged Operation Bojinka variation, has sparked an unprecedented round of 9/11-style fear and panic mongering throughout the world. This is a new attempt, at the highest levels of the Bush and Blair administrations, in concert with Pakistan?s ISI and Israel, to fabricate the justification for an escalation in the &#8220;war on terrorism&#8221; across the Middle East.</p>
<p>This escalation will include an attack on Iran and Syria as early as October, and with even greater geostrategic violence to follow.</p>
<p>Proof that Bush administration planning the next 9/11</p>
<p>Dick Cheney recently declared: &#8220;The enemy that struck on 9/11 is fractured and weakened, yet still lethal, still determined to hit us again.&#8221; That is a concise description of Cheney&#8217;s own administration, and its intentions. And he knows it.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>It is now known that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (among others) have been overtly planning &#8220;another attack [blamed on 'terrorists' and/or Iran] that could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets.&#8221; The Bush administration has already prepared the operation, as well as the criminal lies and propaganda to go with it.</p>
<p>There is a good reason why Bush and Blair have spent so much time together lately.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fascinating, isn&#8217;t it? All these stories about the US government&#8217;s intentions that just fit together. <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/more-on-staged-government-terror-attack/" target="_blank">No wonder Alex Jones got worried</a>. And all of this fits right into what is discussed in <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/terror-storm/" target="_blank">Terror Storm</a>.</p>
<p>Speaking of government planned terror attacks, Webster Tarpley has <a href="http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Tarpley06.html" target="_blank">an interesting radio show on RBN called World Crisis Radio</a>. In his program, of which you can download archived MP3 files from the website, he discusses most of the things I mentioned above. To start, you can check out <a href="http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Tarpley/0608/20060812_Sat_Tarpley2.mp3" target="_blank">the second half of his August 12 show</a> where he interviews Barry Zwicker, which contains some interesting information about Zwicker&#8217;s new book and about Noam Chomsky.</p>
<p>And finally check out <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/visibility911/visibility911_dr_jones.mp3" target="_blank">this interview Michael Wolsey did with Professor Steven Jones</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about Alex Jones predicting another government staged terror attack yesterday, and you can now view it on YouTube. You can hear Alex Jones talking about why he believes such an attack will likely take place before the end of October 2006. Emperor Bush and Darth Cheney don&#8217;t have much time left, and many have said that they&#8217;re going &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/more-on-staged-government-terror-attack/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p><img alt="Emperor Bush" hspace="4" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/images/emperorbush.jpg" align="right" vspace="4" border="1" /><a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/red-alert-for-staged-government-terror-attack/" target="_blank">I wrote about Alex Jones predicting another government staged terror attack</a> yesterday, and you can now <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=zAHqSfDNjaI" target="_blank">view it on YouTube</a>. You can hear Alex Jones talking about why he believes such an attack will likely take place before the end of October 2006.</p>
<p>Emperor Bush and <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/michael-ruppert-peak-oil-911-and-sustainability/" target="_blank">Darth Cheney</a> don&#8217;t have much time left, and many have said that they&#8217;re going to do another staged attack or launch another war just to be able to keep control over things and initiate martial law.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_john_per_060810_the_government_s_9_2f1.htm" target="_blank">An interesting article has been posted here</a> that talks about the 9/11 Truth movement making a lot of progress. I particularly liked the quotes that were included:</p>
<blockquote><p>Nineteenth century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said the following about truth:</p>
<p>&#8220;All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.&#8221;</p>
<p>Similarly, Gandhi said this:<br />
&#8220;First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.&#8221; </p></blockquote>
<p>John Albanese, the guy who made the movie called &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s Gotta Learn Sometime&#8221;, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/everybodys-gotta-learn-sometime/" target="_blank">which I wrote about here</a>, published <a href="http://oldamericancentury.com/albanese_009.htm" target="_blank">an article talking about clarifying the historical record</a>. At the end he writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>And so, like the fictional Winston in Orwell?s 1984 who is confronted by a state-sponsored reality directly antithetical to the truth, we must all become historians in a sense, because when clarifying the historical record becomes a revolutionary act, we have become a society in dire need of a revolution.</p></blockquote>
<p>And he&#8217;s right. For example, <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/terror-storm/" target="_blank">when I watched Alex Jones&#8217;s latest movie called &#8216;Terror Storm&#8217;</a>, revelations of new facts made me begin to doubt the official story about certain events as they are written in history books today. What gets into history books often is what the people who were in charge back then allowed to get into history books. Such is the case, as Albanese writes, with 9/11.</p>
<p>Finally, there&#8217;s a new interview available for download with Professor Steven Jones, done by Professor Jim Fetzer. You can download <a href="http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Fetzer/0608/20060810_Thu_Fetzer1.mp3" target="_blank">part 1 here</a>, and <a href="http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Fetzer/0608/20060810_Thu_Fetzer2.mp3" target="_blank">part 2 here</a>. All interviews done by Fetzer are archived <a href="http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Fetzer06.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karel Donk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his radio show Alex Jones today warned about another government staged terror attack that will serve to start World War 3. It&#8217;s said that he predicted the attacks on 9/11 in June 2001. At that time he spoke about a staged terror attack planned by the government that would be blamed on Bin Laden. On his radio show today &#8230; <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/red-alert-for-staged-government-terror-attack/">Continue reading <img border="0" alt="" src="http://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/themes/kareldonk/images/rarrowicon.png" width="13" height="13" align="absmiddle"></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="WPHSGallery"><p>On his radio show Alex Jones today warned about another government staged terror attack that will serve to start World War 3. It&#8217;s said that he predicted the attacks on 9/11 in June 2001. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtOFudmHG8" target="_blank">At that time he spoke about a staged terror attack planned by the government that would be blamed on Bin Laden</a>. On his radio show today he said he feels the same way he felt back then about a possible attack before the end of October 2006. You can read more about this <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/100806redalert.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. If you can&#8217;t view the whole story on the previous link, try it through an Anonymizer <a href="http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/100806redalert.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Alex Jones has been talking about this stuff for a long time now. In his recent movie titled &#8220;<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4757274759497686216" target="_blank">Terror Storm</a>&#8220;, he discusses recent government sponsored false flag operations <strong>which are now admitted through declassified documents </strong>(I still can&#8217;t believe it everytime I think about it), and also goes on to discuss the London bombings. <a href="http://blog.kareldonk.com/terror-storm/" target="_blank">I wrote about this not too long ago</a>.</p>
<p>Both the attacks on 9/11 and 7/7 (London Bombings) happened while the governments in both the USA for the 9/11 attacks, and London for the 7/7 attacks, were staging live terror drills at the same time that involved exactly the kind of attacks that happened on those days. Looking at the evidence, you cannot do anything but conclude that the drills were used as a cover for the real attacks that took place on those days.</p>
<p>For example, on 9/11, there were more than 10 drills of which some involved simulating hijacked aircrafts. And while those drills were ongoing, exactly what they were simulating happened for real. At one point there were as many as 28 aircraft reported hijacked, and you can imagine how difficult it would be for flight controllers to know which ones were really hijacked. On the recordings of that day, you even hear them asking &#8220;Is this real-world or exercise?&#8221; when someone reported a possible hijack. Mike Ruppert discusses these in details in his book &#8220;Crossing the Rubicon&#8221; (<a href="http://www.911busters.com/video/WMV/CC13_Michael_Rupert_Cheney_Morning_911.wmv" target="_blank">here&#8217;s a video where he discusses some of it</a>). You can also hear Webster Tarpley mention it in <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/2006/07/cspans-coverage-of-american-scholars.html" target="_blank">this video of the American Scholars Symposium</a>.</p>
<p>And on 7/7, there was a drill that morning that involved simulating responses to the exact same type of attacks that happened on that day, at the exact same time, at the exact same locations. This is discussed in Alex Jones&#8217;s latest movie &#8220;Terror Storm&#8221;. Check it out for yourself. This stuff cannot be coincidence.</p>
<p>Having said that, <a href="http://www.falseflagnews.com/terrordrills/simulated_nuclear_explosion_planned_in_hawaii_for_aug_14-16" target="_blank">there&#8217;s a drill planned for August 14-16 in Hawaii that involves simulating a nuclear explosion</a>. Should we expect anything, or is this too obvious? They could blame it on Hezbollah&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s surprising how many people don&#8217;t know yet what&#8217;s going on. I still can&#8217;t believe it when I see how ignorant people are. <strong>Can you believe that </strong><a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20078887-2,00.html" target="_blank"><strong>30% of Americans don&#8217;t even know in what year 9/11 took place</strong></a><strong>?</strong> Seriously? I read this stuff and ask myself &#8220;Where the hell am I and what am I doing here?&#8221; If they can&#8217;t even remember what year 9/11 happened in, how are they going to even begin to comprehend the fact that the US government lied about 9/11? It&#8217;s like people don&#8217;t care anymore.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.teamliberty.net/id282.html" target="_blank">Ed Haas is still looking for people to represent the US government in the National 9/11 Debate</a>. Can you imagine that? Nobody from the US government has the guts to go on a debate with civilian experts. Not even people from the NIST. They&#8217;re all quick to dismiss the evidence and research done by people like Steven Jones and David Griffin as conspiracy theories, but are too afraid to confront these people in a live debate. <a href="http://www.teamliberty.net/id245.html" target="_blank">Just check here</a> who they would be up against. If you&#8217;ve already seen <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/2006/07/cspans-coverage-of-american-scholars.html" target="_blank">the video of the American Scholars Symposium</a>, you already know what Steven Jones has come up with for example. The goverment simply doesn&#8217;t stand a chance, and they know it. That&#8217;s why they refuse to do the debate. They&#8217;re toast if they accept it.</p>
<p><strong>Heck, they&#8217;re toast either way.</strong></p>
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