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Where is the Left’s Uproar Over Obama’s Secret Warmongering Drone Policy? (“Oliver North made daily headlines and was forced to resign under President Reagan because of the executive branch’s unilateral foreign policy of selling arms to Iran and sending the proceeds to Nicaraguan contras. Obama is not facing the same kind of scrutiny.”)
Where is the Left’s Uproar Over Obama’s Secret Warmongering Drone Policy?
Townhall.com ^ | February 11, 2013 | Rachel Alexander
Posted on Monday, February 11, 2013 9:26:40 AM by Kaslin
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Who would have guessed that one of the most warmongering presidents would be a liberal Democrat who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?
Obama has gotten away with a secret escalating drone war because the left and their fifth column in the media have mostly turned a blind eye, just like they have with Obama’s expanded ground war in Afghanistan, not wanting to criticize a fellow leftist in power.
Obama is not the pacifist he pretends to be. The executive branch’s escalating drone strike program has been taking place in secret now for over 10 years, all ostensibly justified by a war on terror that began on 9/11.
Is America Ensnared in an Endless War?… “”When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” So said Richard Nixon in his interviews with David Frost. “
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
So said Richard Nixon in his interviews with David Frost. Nixon was talking about wiretaps and surreptitious entries to protect lives and safeguard national security in a violent and anarchic war decade.
The Nixon haters pronounced themselves morally sickened.
Fast forward to our new century. For, since 9/11, we have heard rather more extravagant claims by American presidents.
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Under George W. Bush, it was presidential authority to waterboard, torture, rendition and hold enemy aliens in indefinite detention at Guantanamo.
Was the Titanic deliberately sunk by JP Morgan? (video) | Veterans Today
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
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We thank readers (of http://www.sott.com) for the video referral. Though entertaining and enjoyable, there is a dark aspect of this century old mystery. If “they” could do then what we see them doing, and a very strong case is made, what is done now?
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As Veterans Today is in the business of examining such things, the history of conspiracies is very much “up or alley” as it were.
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As hundreds of millions await the end of the world, supposedly only a bit over two weeks away, there may not be another chance to put our “Titanic lore” in perspective.
You can’t do that if we are dead, either a planet splitting event or a mass of brain sucking zombie Martians.
Fred Throws Sombrero in Ring by Fred Reed
I see that I shall have to take over the helm of the country to save it from the impending collapse. It has come to this. I have always said that I would undertake the presidency only under an assumed name – who would want that on his résumé? – but noblesse oblges. What could be nobler than this column?
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You may say, “But Fred, how can you be so bloody arrogant as to think you can run the country?” To which I reply, “We know that the incumbents cannot. I may be able to. In any event, I couldn’t be worse: I have not that talent. Which do you prefer, assured disaster or a sporting chance?”
Apparently the key to a successful campaign is a bumper sticker of supernal stupidity and irrelevance. I can play that game. How about “A Fred in Every Pot.” Or Tippecanoe and Frederick Too.” Or “Better Fred than Dead.” Or “Fred…Ahhhh.” Or, most pertinently, ”Well, Have You Got a Better Idea?”
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Prison Planet.com » Top Pakistani Politician Calls Drone Strikes “Insane, Immoral, War Crimes”
Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) has slammed the US policy of targeting militants in Pakistan and elsewhere with unmanned drone strikes, declaring that terrorists only benefit from such actions.
In an interview with the Pakistan Daily Times, Khan, a former high profile cricket champion, said that drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and any other part of the world are insane, immoral, illegal and counterproductive.
“Of drones I think two words” Khan said. “It’s immoral and it’s insane. Immoral because you cannot justify eliminating suspects and insane because it’s counterproductive. All it does is it turns more people against the US, hatred grows and the beneficiaries of this insanity are the militants.”
NAPOLITANO: Can Obama rewrite federal law?
Here we go again. Is the Constitution merely a guideline to be consulted by those it purports to regulate, or is it really the supreme law of the land? If it is just a guideline, then it is meaningless, as it only will be followed by those in government when it is not an obstacle to their purposes. If it is the supreme law of the land, what do we do when one branch of government seizes power from another and the branch that had its…
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Inside the Ring: Military hit for correctness
The U.S. military is guilty of political correctness toward domestic Islamic terror, according to a congressional report made public Wednesday that concludes al Qaeda is using U.S.-based Muslim radicals to plan mass casualty attacks.
Hillary Clinton Ducks Question On Presidential Run (Doesn’t rule out bid)
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A week after her husband’s awkward off-message praise of Mitt Romney’s “sterling” business record embarrassed the Obama campaign, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shook her head but then shrugged and laughed when a questioner at Wellesley College yesterday suggested she’d be the next leader of the free world.
(“Will Americans Speak Out Against Obama’s Drone Warfare?”) Coming home to roost | Veterans Today
The past two weeks has seen an increasing media interest in America’s use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s), better known as drones.
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Medea Benjamin, writing in the Information Clearing House asks “Will Americans Speak Out Against Obama’s Drone Warfare?”
House to Vote on Ron Paul Bill to Audit the Federal Reserve
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GOP leadership in the House of Representatives announced that legislation to thoroughly audit the secretive Federal Reserve, a wildly popular measure pushed by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) for decades, will come up for a floor vote in July.
Honest-money advocates and pro-transparency activists celebrated the news as a historic opportunity to rein in the central bank, which has come under heavy fire — especially in recent years — for debasing the U.S. dollar, manipulating markets, and showering big banks with trillions in bailouts.
Prison Planet.com » Obama re-defined “militant” to mean “all military-age males in a strike zone”
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This practice continues even though key Obama officials have been caught lying, a term used advisedly, about how many civilians they’re killing. I’ve written and said many times before that in American media discourse, the definition of “militant” is any human being whose life is extinguished when an American missile or bomb detonates (that term was even used when Anwar Awlaki’s 16-year-old American son,
How Bill Kristol Purged the Arabists by Patrick J. Buchanan
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…..Result: U.S. influence in the Middle East is at a nadir. Al-Qaida has spread into Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and North Africa.
Now the neocons are worming their way into the Romney camp, dropping us hints on whether John Bolton or Joe Lieberman will be the next secretary of state.
Has Gov. Romney imbibed the Kristol Kool-Aid that caused the war and cost the party Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008?
Prison Planet.com » Obama Order Backing Yemen Dictator Threatens Free Speech, Critics Say
President Obama is under fire after passing a so-called “Executive Order” threatening anyone, including American citizens, who interferes even “indirectly” with the transition to power of the new U.S. government-backed dictator of Yemen.
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Analysts expressed concern that the measure could be an attack on the First Amendment protection of free speech rights, suggesting that journalists and activists who oppose the Yemeni regime might find themselves targeted by the administration’s newly super-charged terror war.
Prison Planet.com » U.S. Special Forces Being Deployed to Protect “Security” of Yemen
When asked by reporters if U.S. troops would be sent to Yemen, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responded, “There’s no consideration of that. Our operations now are directed with the Yemenese going after al-Qaida.”
“No consideration” is exactly the type of vague and undefined phrase the American people have come to expect from representatives of the national government, particularly when it comes to questions about the interminable “War on Terror.”
Obama Now Claims The Power To Freeze Your Assets If You Oppose The New Government In Yemen
Obama Now Claims The Power To Freeze Your Assets If You Oppose The New Government In Yemen
Business Insider ^ | 5/16/12 | Alex Biles
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Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 1:30:26 PM by Nachum
View Over at Salon, Glenn Greenwald has the goods on the latest astounding power grab by the Obama Administration.
According to The Washington Post, Obama has just issued an executive order claiming the power to freeze any assets you own, if you “directly or indirectly” obstruct the new government of Yemen.
There are hardly any criteria for judging just how broadly this order can be interpreted.
Here’s the background:
Prison Planet.com » CIA Double Agent? CIA and British Intelligence Created Ruse Known as al-Qaeda
“The agent, who was in Yemen, was liaising with the CIA before handing the device over to intelligence services,” reports the Daily Mail. “The explosive device was supposed to be smuggled aboard an aircraft undetected and then detonated.”
It has been known for some time that British intelligence runs terrorist operations and protects key terrorist assets.
In 2005, a terrorism expert and a former prosecutor for the Justice Department, John Loftus, revealed that the so-called mastermind of the 7/7 London bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, was a British intelligence asset.
Aswat associate Abu Hamza al-Masri, an influential cleric at the notorious Finsbury Park mosque in London, had a long and productive relationship with British intelligence. He worked with the Special Branch of the British Police and MI5. He told his aides that he was “beyond the reach of British law.”
Prison Planet.com » Does The West Have A Future?
Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence. Consider:
We have had a second fake underwear bomb plot, a much more fantastic one than the first hoax. The second underwear bomber was a CIA operative or informant allegedly recruited by al-Qaeda, an organization that US authorities have recently claimed to be defeated, in disarray, and no longer significant.
This defeated and insignificant organization, which lacks any science and technology labs, has invented an “invisible bomb” that is not detected by the porno-scanners. A “senior law enforcement source” told the New York Times that “the scary part” is that “if they build one, they probably built more.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that “the plot itself indicates that the terrorists keep trying to devise more and more perverse and terrible ways to kill innocent people.” Hillary said this while headlines proclaimed that the US continues to murder woman and children with high-tech drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Africa. The foiled fake plot, Hillary alleged, serves as “a reminder as to why we have to remain vigilant at home and abroad in protecting our nation and in protecting friendly nations and peoples like India and others.”
Duff, Fetzer on Press TV – US fighting imaginary enemies in wars: Political analyst | Veterans Today
The issue that Jim Fetzer had made, there is no such thing as al-Qaeda. There has never been. Osama bin Laden died in 2001. His CIA handler, Lee Wanta, works for Veterans Today. He’s been entirely debriefed.
I have seen in its entirety Osama bin Laden’s CIA file. I have read the entire thing. I have it in my computer – send the cover sheet at anytime, nothing beyond it. I’m a defense contractor. That’s my job.
U.S. to offer legal backing for “targeted killing” (Americans overseas): source
U.S. to offer legal backing for “targeted killing“: source
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON | Sun Mar 4, 2012 7:23pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Americans overseas who engage in terrorism against their home country, a source familiar with the matter said, months after a drone strike killed a U.S.-born cleric who plotted attacks from Yemen.
Holder expected to explain rationale for targeting U.S. citizens abroad
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is expected Monday to provide the most detailed explanation yet of the Obama administration’s secret decision-making leading up to the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen last year in Yemen.
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Holder’s speech Monday afternoon at Northwestern Law School in Chicago is the result of months of internal Obama administration deliberations over how much can be made public about the decisions leading up to the strike.
The Justice Department wrote a still-classified memo that provided the legal rationale for the targeting of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki that also included intelligence material about his operational role within al-Qaeda’s affiliates in Yemen.
Holder is expected to say that the killing of Awlaki was legal under the 2001 congressional authorization of the use of military force and that the United States, acting in self-defense, is not limited to traditional battlefields in pursuit of terrorists who present an imminent threat, including U.S. citizens, according to an official briefed on the speech. The official would only discuss the address on the condition of anonymity because it will not be released until shortly before Holder speaks.
Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico, was the chief of external operations for al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, which has attempted a number of terrorist attacks on the United States, according to administration officials. He had been placed on “kill lists” compiled by the CIA and and the military’s Joint Special Operations Command. Awlaki was killed in September in Yemen in a joint CIA-JSOC drone operation.
Muammar, Dead at Last…
These are proving to be bad times for dictators and it is easy to suggest that Basher Assad, a second generation dictator of Syria, will likely come to an equally bad end. So far this year the former dictator of Tunisia had to flee. Egypt’s Mubarack had to step aside, and both Syria’s and Yemen’s presidents are under seige. Nobody knows who’s in charge of Somalia.
As I watched President Obama take a victory lap when he announced Gaddafi’s death, my thoughts turned to what Ted Belman, a widely-read blogger called the Israpundit, had to say. “Gaddafi wasn’t any worse than the barbarians that killed him and will replace him. There are no freedom-loving democrats in the entire Muslim world which consists of seventh century-minded brutes.”
The Israelis have had the misfortune of having had to fight off Muslims not only for the past sixty-plus years of statehood, but in the decades leading up to it. Unlike those of us in the West, they understand them in terms of the insane, fanatical hatred they have for Jews, Christians, and all other “infidels”, unbelievers.
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Shocking! Obama Apologizes to Slain Terrorist’s Family
Obama’s State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) has contacted the family of al-Qaeda propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to “express its condolences” to his family. Samir Khan a right hand man to Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed along with his jihadist buddy in an air strike in Yemen that took place on September 30.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotupdate.com …
Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen
The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, according to people who have read the document.
The memo, written last year, followed months of extensive interagency deliberations and offers a glimpse into the legal debate that led to one of the most significant decisions made by President Obama — to move ahead with the killing of an American citizen without a trial.
The secret document provided the justification for acting despite an executive order banning assassinations, a federal law against murder, protections in the Bill of Rights and various strictures of the international laws of war, according to people familiar with the analysis. The memo, however, was narrowly drawn to the specifics of Mr. Awlaki’s case and did not establish a broad new legal doctrine to permit the targeted killing of any Americans believed to pose a terrorist threat.
The Obama administration has refused to acknowledge or discuss its role in the drone strike that killed Mr. Awlaki last month and that technically remains a covert operation. The government has also resisted growing calls that it provide a detailed public explanation of why officials deemed it lawful to kill an American citizen, setting a precedent that scholars, rights activists and others say has raised concerns about the rule of law and civil liberties.
But the document that laid out the administration’s justification — a roughly 50-page memorandum by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, completed around June 2010 — was described on the condition of anonymity by people who have read it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com …
Prison Planet.com » Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’ without any oversight
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.
The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.
The role of the president in ordering or ratifying a decision to target a citizen is fuzzy. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.
Full article here
via Prison Planet.com » Secret panel can put Americans on ‘kill list’ without any oversight.
The Awlaki Sanction: Who’s Next on the List? by William Norman Grigg
The links connecting Anwar al-Awlaki to anti-American terrorism were entirely suppositious, forged through unsubstantiated official assertion. He was, at most, a clerical propagandist who never exercised command authority. For that matter, no evidence has been presented that he ever had an operational role in a military force of any kind.
Awlaki – an American-born cleric who was once courted by the Pentagon – was accused of expressing support for armed attacks against U.S. military personnel and government interests. It is not terrorism to employ lethal violence against an invading and occupying army, nor is it a crime to express support for armed self-defense – including armed interposition against the aggressive designs of the U.S. government.
The administration asserted – without providing evidence – that Awlaki had an “operational” role in planning terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens. If evidence supporting that charge existed, the administration had the unconditional constitutional duty to indict Awlaki and put him on trial.
Intelligence officials knew Awlaki’s location. The government of Yemen, which is headed by a pliant thug named Ali Abdullah Saleh, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Washington and would have eagerly cooperated in an effort to track down and extradite Awlaki. But this would not have validated the claim – made by the Bush administration, and embraced by its successor – that the President of the United States isn’t bound by the Constitution, but rather is the Living Constitution.
As a guarantee of individual liberty, a political constitution is about as intrinsically valuable as a paper currency. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are irredeemable unless they are backed by a noble metal – lead, in the form of privately owned ammunition. Nonetheless, and for the record, this must be said:
There is nothing in the Constitution or laws of the United States of America that permits a president to order the summary execution of any human being. Only Congress can declare war. Only a jury can find someone guilty of a crime. Only a judge can impose a death sentence. Or such would be the case, were we still living in a constitutional republic, rather than the militarist empire into which that republic inevitably degenerated.
The vertically integrated murder apparatus that killed Awlaki and fellow U.S. citizen Samir Khan is entirely autonomous – and increasingly automated. Awlaki was………………..
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via The Awlaki Sanction: Who’s Next on the List? by William Norman Grigg.
Was Awlaki an American?
Friday morning, Predator drones operated by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command rendezvoused over Yemen and launched Hellfire missiles that blew to pieces the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
A declared enemy in the war on terror was eliminated.
Yet Awlaki was a U.S. citizen.
Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul denounced the action. Kucinich said President Obama “trampled on the Constitution.” Paul said Awlaki had never been convicted. “Nobody knows if he killed anybody.” Paul described what was done as “assassinating” an American.
Did we have the right to target and kill Awlaki?
According to U.S. intelligence, Awlaki inspired or incited the Fort Hood massacre and Times Square bomber. Intelligence officials say he played a direct role in the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit at Christmas 2009. That would make him an accomplice in attempted mass murder.
Indeed, there is more hard evidence tying Awlaki to acts of terror against the United States than there ever was tying Saddam Hussein to acts of terror against us.
Yet it is also true that Awlaki was never convicted of these crimes. What, then, is the legal case for killing him?
Answer: America is at war with al-Qaida — a war authorized and funded by Congress. In that war, Awlaki, hiding in a foreign country, has been inspiring and inciting Muslims to massacre U.S. citizens who are noncombatants — a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Adds Obama, Awlaki was the “external operations” chief for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
And even if Awlaki were not an operations officer in al-Qaida, only a propagandist, his actions would seem to constitute wartime treason.
When killed, he was traveling with 25-year-old Saudi-born Samir Khan, another American, who edited and wrote Inspire, the English-language magazine of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Khan, who had proclaimed, “I am proud to be a traitor in America,” was also killed in the drone attack.
Do we have a right to target enemy propagandists who do not carry out acts of mass murder but encourage or instigate them?
Ezra Pound, the American poet and expatriate who made wartime broadcasts from Mussolini’s Italy attacking Jews and FDR, was charged with treason and spent a dozen years in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane.
Lord Haw-Haw, the American-born William Joyce, who broadcast from Berlin during World War II, was executed by the British, though like Pound, he killed no one. Mildred Gillars, the American-born “Axis Sally,” was imprisoned for treason in the United States after World War II.
Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino, the American woman branded “Tokyo Rose,” was imprisoned for treasonous radio broadcasts, though later pardoned by President Ford.
Would it have been unconstitutional for the U.S. military to target the radio station broadcasting Tokyo Rose?
Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi ideologist and race theorist, was convicted at Nuremberg and hanged. One does not have to kill in wartime to get the death penalty for war crimes.
Several of the German saboteurs put ashore in Florida and Long Island were U.S. citizens who were tried in secret and executed. Their executions were upheld by the Supreme Court.
As the Obama administration argues, were Japanese-Americans to have been found engaged in support of Japanese forces in wartime, they could have been targeted and killed.
The order to intercept and shoot down the aircraft carrying Adm. Yamamoto, architect of Pearl Harbor, would appear to qualify as wartime assassination. As does Winston Churchill’s decision to drop British-trained Czech and Slovak agents into Czechoslovakia to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich.
That assassination produced severe blowback. The Nazis exacted retribution on the Czech village of Lidice, killing all the males over 16 and sending the women and children to concentration camps.
But the controversy over the Awlaki-Khan killings raises real issues.
The lack of a declaration of war prevents us from charging such individuals with treason, which, under the Constitution, “shall consist only in levying War against” the United States “or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
The issue of dual citizenship also arises. Awlaki was a citizen of the United States, having been born here. But he was also a citizen of Yemen. What was his nationality: American or Yemeni? Was he really one of us?
In the Oath of Allegiance to the United States, the new citizen pledges, “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.”
Did not Awlaki’s leadership of al-Qaida contradict any allegiance? Obama did the right thing, but we need clarity in this new kind of war.
Having struck al-Qaida in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, where else is it permissible to use drones to kill enemies?
If American propagandists for al-Qaida are legitimate targets, who else is? Sympathizers? And for how long can we launch such attacks?
A decent respect for the opinion of mankind would seem to require answers.
Herman Cain in May: Don’t Kill Anwar al-Awlaki (Get out the Popcorn)
The killing on Friday of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen described as a powerful al-Qaeda terrorist, has stirred considerable debate about whether it’s appropriate for a president to order an American assassinated.
Evidently, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain shares those concerns.
The above video was recorded just after the first nationally televised GOP presidential debate of the 2012 campaign cycle, held in Greenville South Carolina on May 5 of this year, according to its YouTube page.
“He should be charged. And since he’s an American citizen, he should be tried in our courts,” Cain said of al-Awlaki. When asked if he considered it legal for President Obama to order al-Awlaki killed, Cain said, “In his case, no, because he’s an American citizen.”
It has been known since early 2010 that the CIA and the U.S. military’s special-operations division maintain kill lists with three to four Americans on them. Al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric, was on the list. He was reportedly killed in Yemen on Friday in a U.S. drone and jet strike. A classified Department of Justice memo authorized the killing, The Washington Post reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com …
via Herman Cain in May: Don’t Kill Anwar al-Awlaki (Get out the Popcorn).
The UN Must Go
The U.N. Has To Go
Well, I must admit that I am quite tickled to see Rick Perry calling Social Security a Ponzi Scheme and a “monumental lie”. This is progress. I don’t trust any politician any further than I can throw him – by his toe knuckle hair. But, just the fact that these words of truth are being uttered at all is encouraging. If you haven’t seen my YouTube videos on SocSec, they are on my YouTube channel, and the link is on the nav bar to your left. Here is the next DEMAND that MUST be made of politicians. The United Nations is a criminal organization. It is an evil mafia. Straight up. It has no legitimacy and serves no good purpose whatsoever. Not only that, but the U.N. is actively engaged in sedition against the United States and its constitution via the Small Arms Treaty, Agenda 21, and the “Resolution Against Religious Defamation”, which is Sharia Law, among other things. The U.N. is also embezzling and redistributing U.S. tax dollars to criminal and corrupt regimes, many of which are engaged in war, both overt and covert, against the United States, and in genocides against their own people. The U.N. is also using the United States military as its de facto mercenary force (see Libya and Yemen). This MUST stop.
Let’s start with the presidential candidates and ask the following simple question: As president, will you permanently withdraw the United States from the U.N. and permanently expel the U.N. from American soil? Yes or no. And it damn well better be “yes”.
Any politician who doesn’t have the guts to stand up to the U.N. evil mafia isn’t worthy to be president. Period.
Finally, let’s hear another round of awesomeness from Pat Condell regarding the U.N. and their “human rights council”. The insanity that Mr. Condell outlines truly boggles the mind. The only clarification I would make to Mr. Condell’s words is to remind him that islam is NOT a religion, but a totalitarian, militaristic, expansionist, seditious political system with an attached faux-religious mythology. As an atheist, Mr. Condell would argue that point as being moot. And then I would pray that someone would drop a copy of the Summa in his lap. And then we would go get some fish and chips.
via The UN Must Go.
Thank You for Your Service? by Laurence M. Vance
Thank You for Your Service? by Laurence M. Vance
Thank You for Your Service? by Laurence M. Vance:
“And aside from these four things, I’m afraid I must also say: Sorry, soldiers, I don’t thank you for your service.
* I don’t thank you for your service in fighting foreign wars.
* I don’t thank you for your service in fighting without a congressional declaration of war.
* I don’t thank you for your service in bombing and destroying Iraq and Afghanistan.
* I don’t thank you for your service in killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans.
* I don’t thank you for your service in expanding the war on terror to Pakistan and Yemen.
* I don’t thank you for your service in occupying over 150 countries around the world.
* I don’t thank you for your service in garrisoning the planet with over 1,000 military bases.
* I don’t thank you for your service in defending our freedoms when you do nothing of the kind.
* I don’t thank you for your service as part of the president’s personal attack force to bomb, invade, occupy, and otherwise bring death and destruction to any country he deems necessary.
Thank you for your service? I don’t think so.”
via BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984(+): Thank You for Your Service? by Laurence M. Vance.
Obama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level
What does the world think? Obama has been using air strikes and drones against civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia. In his March 28 speech, Obama justified his air strikes against Libya on the grounds that the embattled ruler, Gadhafi, was using air strikes to put down a rebellion.
Gadhafi has been a black hat for as long as I can remember. If we believe the adage that “where there is smoke there is fire,” Gadhafi is probably not a nice fellow. However, there is no doubt whatsoever that the current US president and the predecessor Bush/Cheney regime have murdered many times more people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia than Gadhafi has murdered in Libya.
Moreover, Gadhafi is putting down a rebellion against state authority as presently constituted, but Obama and Bush/Cheney initiated wars of aggression based entirely on lies and deception.
Yet Gadhafi is being demonized, and Bush/Cheney/Obama are sitting on their high horse draped in cloaks of morality. Obama described himself as saving Libyans from violence while Obama himself murders Afghans, Pakistanis, and whomever else.
Indeed, the Obama regime has been torturing a US soldier, Bradley Manning, for having a moral conscience. America has degenerated to the point where having a moral conscience is evidence of anti-Americanism and “terrorist activity.”
The Bush/Cheney/Obama wars of naked aggression have bankrupted America. Joseph Stiglitz, former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, concluded that the money wasted on the Iraq war could have been used to fix America’s Social Security problem for half a century. Instead, the money was used to boost the obscene profits of the armament industry.
The obscene wars of aggression, the obscene profits of the offshoring corporations, and the obscene bailouts of the rich financial gangsters have left the American public with
annual budget deficits of approximately $1.5 trillion. These deficits are being covered by printing money. Sooner or later, the printing presses will cause the US dollar to collapse and domestic inflation to explode. Social Security benefits will be wiped out by inflation rising more rapidly than the cost-of-living adjustments. If America survives, no one will be left but the mega-rich. Unless there is a violent revolution.
Alternatively, if the Federal Reserve puts the brake on monetary expansion, interest rates will rise, sending the economy into a deeper depression.
Brzezinski’s Feared “Global Awakening” Has Arrived
Monumental worldwide rallying cry for freedom threatens to derail new world order agendaPaul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comFriday, January 28, 2011Zbigniew Brzezinski’s much feared “global political awakening” is in full swing. Revolts in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia and other countries represent a truly monumental worldwide rallying cry for freedom that threatens to immeasurably damage the agenda for one world government, but only if the successful revolutionaries can prevent themselves from being co-opted by a paranoid and desperate global elite.During a Council on Foreign Relations speech in Montreal last year, co-founder with David Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission and regular Bilderberg attendee Zbigniew Brzezinski warned of a “global political awakening,” mainly comprising of younger people in developing states, that threatened to topple the existing international order.Reading the full extent of Brzezinski’s words in light of the global revolts that we now see spreading like wildfire across the planet provides an astounding insight into how crucially important the outcome of this phase of modern history will be to the future geopolitical course of the world, and in turn the survival and growth of human freedom in general. For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination… The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening… That awakening is socially massive and politically radicalizing… The nearly universal access to radio, television and increasingly the Internet is creating a community of shared perceptions and envy that can be galvanized and channeled by demagogic political or religious passions. These energies transcend sovereign borders and pose a challenge both to existing states as well as to the existing global hierarchy, on top of which America still perches…
Britain’s top soldier says al-Qaeda cannot be beaten
Britain’s top soldier says al-Qaeda cannot be beaten The new head of Britain’s armed forces, Gen Sir David Richards, has warned that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam.By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent 9:30PM GMT 13 Nov 2010He said defeating Islamist militancy was “unnecessary and would never be achieved”.However, he argued that it could be “contained” to allow Britons to lead secure lives.
Gen Richards, 58, said the threat posed by “al-Qaeda and its affiliates” meant Britain’s national security would be at risk for at least 30 years.The general, who will tomorrow lay a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in memory of Britain’s war dead, said the West’s war against what he described as a “pernicious ideology” had parallels with the fight against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
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By Captain Eric H. May
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HOUSTON, 11/7/10 — I have curtailed my in-progress weekend column in order to pass critical intelligence to my publishers and readers. Please forward it to all contacts — especially law enforcement and military. Immediately below find the key points to justify this dire report. Long experience has taught me that links can vanish, but titles are more durable. Should any links in this article fail, please search for the title. — CM
- Nuclear drill puts national focus on Kings Bay, http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2010-11-06/story/nuclear-drill-puts-national-focus-kings-bay87.
- Netanyahu to attend Jewish Federations GA in New Orleans, but no Obama meet, http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-to-attend-jewish-federations-ga-in-new-orleans-but-no-obama-meet-1.32212288.
- 34 warships sent from US for Obama visit, http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/34-warships-sent-from-us-for-obama-visit-6445989.
- Executive Order–Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/04/executive-order-order-succession-within-department-justice90.
- Unit offline at South Texas nuke plant, http://fuelfix.com/energywatch/2010/11/03/unit-offline-at-south-texas-nuke-plant/91.
Summary: With Obama absent, Biden will be hosting Netanyahu through Tuesday. Between Obama’s departure and Bibi’s arrival, a long-planned but just-revealed nuclear National Level Exercise began. The most likely attack zone is in the Houston region, inside a triangle between these prominent points
- Texas A&M (90 miles northwest)
- Beaumont (90 miles to our east)
- Bay City (90 miles to our south)
The most striking feature of this false flag set up is its similarity to another nuclear exercise, which targeted the BP refinery at Texas City, which BP journalists at the Daily News tried to conceal with a revealing attempt at a cover-up article, Nuclear attack warning story dismissed, http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=966022542546e36392.
For a more accurate account of the events, refer to the four-story investigative series published by the Arctic Beacon in The 1/31 Nuke:Proof for Ron Paul, http://tinyurl.com/3lp37a93.
My most recent article was Terror Targets Houston/Chicago, http://www.educationnews.org/political/terrorism/102196.html94. The next most endangered city is Chicago, which is the focus of my incomplete article below:
Houston Nuke & Chicago Code
Sayanim — Israeli Operatives in the U.S., http://criminalstate.com/2010/07/sayanim-—-israeli-operatives-in-the-u-s/95
HOUSTON, 11/5/10 — It’s a good thing for Ghost Troop and me that there is ample evidence for our case for being spot-on with our analysis and advanced warnings, since it gives us credibility at crunch time. That’s where our nation is, with terrorism encroaching upon Houston’s schools and Chicago’s synagogues, according to the government and mainstream media.
Barrack Obama jumped right into the story of the current menace on the day it broke, leading many of the Internet Intelligentsia to groan that the script had changed little from the 2004 elections, when Al-Qaeda dropped in for Halloween. From King George to the Kenya Kid there has been little change in Al-Qaeda, who are forever challenging us whenever our national zealotry for the Terror War begins to waver, doing or saying whatever it takes to keep us motivated. “If there were no Al-Qaeda,” some new Voltaire might well expound, “we would find it necessary to invent one.”
They are constantly threatening us with something bigger and better than 9/11, a 9/11-2B, so to speak. 9/11-2B would be just what the Dr. Strangeloves behind the Terror War ordered to provoke us into a total war right out of Vom Krieg by Clausewitz. Al-Qaeda has a lot of nerve, and I think that the word that best describes their modus operandi is the Yiddish word chutzpah. I think it’s ironic that Bin Laden himself exculpated Israel of involvement in 9/11, which FOX News thought worthy of an investigative series by its ace reporter, Carl Cameron. The gist of his 12/12/2001 four-story Israeli Spy Ring series was:
- Israeli fingerprints were all over 9/11, with intelligence and demolitions.
- Our telecommunications industry was hopelessly comprised by Israel.
- U.S. intelligence and law enforcement were ordered to cover it all up.
I included both Bin Laden and Fox News ironies in my analysis: 9/11 Was Good For Us!—The Case Against Israel, http://tinyurl.com/3n7lmp. That sharp elbow of irony was read worldwide, and sparked much healthy debate.
Ghost Troop has been reporting that the Bayou City and the Windy City are priorities one and two for the real terrorists who want to plunge whole nations into the Terror War. We’ve been saying and writing that story since 2004, when we came out of nowhere to spoil the operations security (OPSEC) of the intended target, BP’s Texas City refinery. Nicknamed Toxic City by the locals, the fuming petro-suburb was just a half an hour drive southeast of my Houston home, midway between Galveston and NASA.
Major Bill Fox is a Harvard graduate and an intellectual Marine whose tireless research into Ghost Troop led him to write a book trilogy, Mission of Conscience. He adduces both mainstream and alternative media evidence to support our unit history. Two of his well researched articles establish our infowar bona fides with the two target cities that we have given most of our effort:
Chicago Cops Dodge Blagojevich/Sears Tower Investigation, http://tinyurl.com/a7fn9g97: A collection of alarmed soldiers and police supported a mini-coup invoked by Ghost Troop. The next morning Governor Blagoevich issued a statement that admitted a vast terror exercise to have been scheduled for May 2-4, 2006. The document was damaging, perhaps damning, to Blago, and may well have been the reason for his ouster immediately after Obama’s election. At the time of the exercise, Mayor Daley was in Israel, the first time he had gone there.
May 3, 2006, the second day of the exercise, was the 33rd anniversary of the completion of Sears Tower, and was the probable false flag date. Between June 6, 2006, 6/6/06 and the tower completion there were 33 years and 33 days. The people who built Sears Tower had marked it with another Satanic 666 code as well: the zip code 60606. The FBI arrested seven young blacks in Miami the next month, and stirred up the story that the seven had pledged loyalty to (drum roll) Bin Laden and intended to blow up (another drum roll) Sears Tower! The date of the arrests was as cult-coded as the rest of it: June 22, 2006, or 6/22/2006 (62226), which is another example of a 666 code.
The code, derived from Kabbalah and Freemasonry, and is evident in all the false flag operations that Ghost Troop has opposed. Last year I wrote an open email to a Jewish Ghost Troop veteran about the “Chicago code” (now, ominously, the name for a TV program). The email pulled no punches, and The Price of Liberty banned my future articles. I offer it to the intelligent reader as irresistible irreverent, and stand by every word in it — especially those that begin with a capital “J”: CHICACO, NEW YORK, HOUSTON — 2009 Top 9/11-2B Targets, http://tinyurl.com/ldrxk898.
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Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
Airports cash in on terror checks: Charge to jump queues ‘they keep long’
Airports are cashing in on the queues at their security gates by charging passengers to use fast-track priority lanes.At least eight have introduced the system and are charging travellers up to £5 to beat the queues.A whistleblower security guard at Luton Airport, which adopted the system last year, claimed there is a deliberate policy to let the queues grow to encourage people to pay for the express lane.
The claim was made as travellers were warned to expect more stringent checks in the wake of the cargo plane terror plot emanating from Yemen.With the checks involving the removal of shoes and belts, body scans and patdown searches, the process is so time-consuming that passengers are arriving at airports up to three hours before departure to make sure they catch their flights.
Luton introduced a fee of £3 in March last year, allowing travellers to skip the queue by using a ‘priority lane’ to reach the security checkpoint.
Full article here
Caption: A man gets on his knees next to a car carrying U.S. President Barack Obama
Caption: A man gets on his knees next to a car carrying U.S. President Barack Obama
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | October 31, 2010 | Larry Downing
Posted on Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:24:08 PM by TSgt
Yemen UPS Bomb Scare Is A Hoax : BBC Confirms NO Explosives
Pardon me if this is old news . I’m in Japan and just woke up . Couldn’t finy anything via search .
Toner Bomb Results in More Airport Molestation
The absurd accumulation of junk found on a UPS plane from Yemen to Chicago ridiculously described as an al-Qaeda bomb has provided the government with an excuse to conduct “an unpredictable mix of security layers that include explosives trace detection, advanced imaging technology, canine teams” and intimate “pat-downs,” more accurately described as breast and crotch groping.
It has been almost a decade since we were told Muslim cave dwellers made NORAD stand down and performed miracles with the laws of physics. Since that time not one airport instance of officialdom molesting millions of air passengers has produced a hidden bomb or threat to aviation. In fact, as in the case of the fizzle pants non-bomber, the government has allowed potential threats to board aircraft.
The idea is to get you accustomed to physically submitting to government thugs at airports and soon enough at the post office and local mall. The idea is to have you choose a dangerous naked body scanner over some dim-wit with blue latex gloves groping your private parts.
Yemen Insists No Packages Sent 48 Hours Prior to Toner Bomb Hysteria…
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Yemen Insists No Packages Sent 48 Hours Prior to Toner Bomb Hysteria
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Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com [1]
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Once again, according to the government and the compliant corporate media, Muslim cave dwellers are attempting to kill us because they hate our freedom.
Last week the airwaves and internet were besieged with a fabulous story of al-Qaeda miscreants in Yemen attempting to send toner cartridge bombs to synagogues in Chicago.
“The packages from Yemen contained chemical explosives camouflaged as printer cartridges and wired to be detonated by a cell phone, and were found in Dubai and England on Friday only after the U.S. received a tip from Saudi Arabia,” reported the Los Angeles Times [2].
In response, bureaucrats said we’ll have to get used to more obtrusive airport “pat-downs” [3] and screening of incoming foreign parcels using a network of government-certified private screeners and companies as well as its own inspectors at about 18 gateway airports around the country, according to the Transportation Security Administration. Terror is a growth industry, undoubtedly.
But wait a minute. There is a problem with all of this and as usual the government has not done a very good job of making the latest al-CIA-duh plot credible, at least not for people who bother to pay attention.
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According to Mohammed al-Shaibah [5], Air Cargo Director for Yemenia Airways, “there is no evidence to prove that this package came through Yemen.” He said there were no UPS or DHL cargo flights from Yemen within a 48 hour period prior to the supposed terror attack.
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Naturally, a news search using the term Mohammed al-Shaibah produces no results from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the rest of the corporate Mockingbird media.
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