Friday, February 1st, 2008

Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget — note the call to action there. We’ve got a sensitive government document revealing the British government’s plan to trick us into a database state and we need as many copies as possible, as quickly as possible!
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UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about “coercing” its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The ‘ID card’ is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating what NO2ID calls ‘the database state’.NO2ID’s national coordinator, Phil Booth, exhorted bloggers, freedom lovers and anyone who gives a damn about personal privacy to mirror the annotated document on their site.
“The charade is over. While ministers try to bamboozle the British public with fairytales about fingerprints, officials are plotting how to dupe and bully the population into surrendering control of their own identities.”
“Biometric ID cards are a sham; a magician’s flourish to cover the biggest identity fraud there has ever been.”
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Prominent linguist Noam Chomsky bashes the ‘imperialistic’ foreign policies of the US, likening Washington to the Nazis in Germany.
Chomsky compared US foreign policies to the conduct of Nazis within Germany, citing the Nuremberg trials as an example of the contradictions between US political speech and government-sanctioned actions.
“I think the ironies of United States deployed treacheries in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, Iran, and North Korea are self-evident,” The Daily Free Press quoted the Pulitzer-Prize winning author as saying at Roxbury Community College.
He also condemned the abusive actions of General David Petraeus and US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, against the Iraqi nation.
“Lord Petraeus has initiated tyrannically destructive policies, including, but not limited to, the surge proposed on Sept. 11, 2007 in a despicably theatrical manner before Congress,” exclaimed the MIT professor.
Chomsky also referred to the ill deeds of other US administrations, slamming Ronald Reagan for causing the overthrow of the legally elected Sandinista government in Nicaragua in 1984.
“Reagan was a thug and a coward, he managed to physically diminish a democratically-elected government and throw a nation into civil chaos for well over a decade . . . because the Sandinistas didn’t back US trade policies,” he expounded.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Top US computer security experts believe terrorists can derive huge benefits from the Bush administration’s domestic wiretapping program.
The six experts warned that the US domestic spying program houses vital information in data centers which can be penetrated, putting national security at risk.
By diverting the flow of so much domestic data into a few massive pools, the administration may have “[built] for its opponents something that would be too expensive for them to build for themselves,” said the IT gurus.
“A system that lets them see the US’ intelligence interests…[and] that might be turned to exploit conversations and information useful for plotting an attack on the United States,” they explained.
The top security experts say although the top secret data is buried in ’secure’ rooms within the US National Security Agency’s highly classified facilities, Washington’s past security breaches indicate that this system could also be penetrated.
They also add that the FBI’s poorly-designed surveillance technology relies on a ‘primitive’ system which creates a ‘real risk’ of an insider attack.
Months after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush secretly authorized warrantless eavesdropping by the National Security Agency; Washington claimed it to be a ‘vital weapon against terrorism’.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Martin Fletcher in Baghdad and Robin Pagnamenta
Oil production in Iraq is at its highest level since the US-led invasion of 2003, reaching 2.4 million barrels a day, thanks largely to improved security measures in the north.
The country’s Oil Ministry will shortly invite international oil companies to bid for contracts to help Iraq to boost output at its investment-starved “super-giant” oilfields. Production is expected to pass the prewar level of 2.6 million barrels by the end of the year, and Hussain al-Shahristani, the Iraqi Oil Minister, told The Times that he expected production to reach six million barrels a day within four years.
The International Monetary Fund predicts that Iraq’s economy, boosted by rising oil revenues, will grow by more than 7 per cent this year, compared with 1.3 per cent last year.
A new report from the US Inspector-General says that the Iraqi Government will receive a $15 billion (£7.5 billion) windfall to help its reconstruction efforts thanks to soaring oil prices.
Mr al-Shahristani said that the Government would not wait for Iraq’s fractious parliament to approve long-delayed legislation providing a legal framework for foreign investment in the oil industry. The Government is to invite foreign companies to help Iraq to develop new fields.
Jeroen van de Veer, the chief executive of the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell, confirmed yesterday that it was “very interested” in new opportunities in Iraq, which sits on the world’s third largest proven oil reserves. “We have made various proposals to the Government,” he said.
The company is understood to be interested in a gas field called Akkas, in Anbar province near the border with Syria, to produce supplies for export to Europe. Eastern Anbar was until recently one of the most violent parts of the country, although tribal militias have ensured greater security.
Shell, which had worked in Iraq for decades until the 1970s, is also thought to be interested in building an export terminal in Basra for supercooled, liquefied natural gas for export to other parts of the Middle East. A number of other Western oil companies are interested in opportunities in Iraq. They include Total and the Norwegian company DNO, which has a drilling programme in the Kurdish region of Iraq.
Mr al-Shahristani suggested that the competition would be intense. “Everybody in the world, more than 45 companies, have approached us and shown a very keen interest in working with us — the Chinese, Russians, Indians, Brazilians,” he said.
Reliable economic statistics remain almost impossible to collect in Iraq, but US officials said that the Government had cut inflation to 5.5 per cent from 60 per cent a year ago.
The Iraqi dinar has strengthened against the dollar. Property prices are rising in safer parts of Baghdad. But unemployment remains stubbornly high at 18 per cent, and 40 to 60 per cent of the population are employed for less than 15 hours a week.
Foreign investment remains minimal apart from the $3.75 billion paid by three consortiums last year for mobile telephone licences.
The US military is trying to prime the economy by directing contracts worth more than $100 million a month to Iraqi businesses, generating an estimated 42,000 jobs.
On the streets of Baghdad and other cities it is now possible to see new building projects, bustling markets and other signs of economic regeneration for the first time since the war, but confidence remains fragile.
Jalil Khalid, 39, a store manager in central Baghdad, said that business was gradually improving but added: “Every time there’s any stability and people start coming back another bomb goes off and they vanish again.”
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Was 9/11 Truth Giuliani’s Demise? You’ll be AMAZED What Corporate Media Hid from YOU!
by Bill Douglas
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxycV4fNPnQ[/youtube]
Peggy Noonan, a Republican speechwriter (Reagan’s among others), was perplexed last night on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart as to “why Rudy fell.” It was a mystery to her. Probably because she gets all her information from FOX News and the other corporate media.
Of course those who’s heads aren’t buried in the corporate idiot box, know that 9/11 truth was Rudy’s demise.
First of all, how did Rudy, a Mayor even become a possible GOP nominee. Corporate media and the Bush Administration began a myth about Rudy Giuliani beginning on 9/11/2001?
Evidence suggests that a quid pro quo may have begun Rudy’s ascendance, whereby Rudy would help destroy the WTC steel BEFORE A FORENSIC 9/11 INVESTIGATION COULD OCCUR (by sending it to India and China to be melted down) . . . and in exchange the powers made him President.
Of course that didn’t work out quite the way Rudy wanted. Rudy even began using remains of WTC victims to fill pot holes because he was in such a rabid hurry to get rid of evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxycV4fNPnQ
Over 6 months ago, when Rudy Giuliani was expected to be a shoe-in for the GOP nomination as Mr. 9/11, he was confronted on the campaign trail by a very courageous young woman, Sabrina Rivero, who’s father died in the 9/11 attacks, and by Luke Rudkowski, and Tom Foti of WeAreChange New York, a 9/11 truth organization.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAGYB4LvfY0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7uJnKGTGg
This video made network news after being posted on YouTube and flying fiercely around the internet. The original video on YouTube has been viewed over 61,000 times, however this video has been posted by others and linked through countless websites and articles. Corporate media tried to laugh it off, but viewers who watched began to re-think Mr. 9/11 Giuliani.
In this video, Giuliani was confronted because he’d told network news on 9/11 that he and his command team had been warned that World Trade Center 7, which mysteriously collapsed at 5:20 pm on 9/11/2001, was about to collapse “before” it actually did. It was not hit by a plane and its damage from the collapse of WTC 1 and 2 was much less severe than other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, which did not collapse. See video of WTC 7 as well as 1 and 2, at:
http://www.ae911truth.org/
No one in the world knew that WTC 7 would collapse on 9/11, so Ms. Rivero wanted to know who told Giuliani that it was about to collapse. She also wanted to know why Giuliani didn’t warn people like her father who were present in the WTC complex on 9/11, in order to save lives, rather than just evacuating the building and not warning others.
Giuliani denied having told network news that he knew WTC 7 was going to collapse, and denied anyone told him it would on 9/11, even though it is public knowledge that the Command Center was evacuated by his command crew. Not only did Giuliani know BEFORE it came down that it would come down but police and emergency workers were told by someone it would “blow up.” See Giuliani’s admission he was told, at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4lWM0BECZ8
WTC 7 fell in a classic controlled demolition fashion at near free fall speed of about 7 seconds for a 47 story building, tipping in in the center just like the Vegas hotels we’ve all seen blown on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD06SAf0p9A
The BBC oddly enough also knew that WTC 7 was going to collapse, and in fact announced that it HAD ALREADY COLLAPSED 23 minutes BEFORE it actually did (see above video link). When asked by 9/11 truth activists who told the BBC, they replied by mumbling something about “losing” the archive video of 9/11, and being unable to respond to the question. This actually violates BBC law, which requires 3 archived videos of significant events, to be held in 3 separate locations.
CHECK OUT THIS AMAZING VIDEO THAT PROVES THAT THE BBC WAS TOLD 23 MINUTES “BEFORE” WTC 7 WAS TO COLLAPSE, THAT IT ALREADY HAD. The BBC still refuses to tell us who told them what no one else in the world knew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkFpmZxyWEI
Rudy’s troubles only began with WeAreChange New York confronting him. His troubles continued with 9/11 truth activists around the country. Rudy was confronted at Ground Zero by Sabrina Rivera (daughter of 9/11 victim) and 9/11 truth group WeAreChange at Ground Zero on 9/11/2007. Media was gathered to document this confrontation and Giuliani’s desperate attempts to escape the 9/11 family member.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OcRw0BZvPs
In September of 2007, Tulsa Oklahoma’s 9/11 truth activists confront Rudy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFUn45l7vaA
9/11 truth activists may have influenced the Fire Fighters Unions of New York City as well as Fire Fighter Union members across the nation. Some fire fighters who were at ground zero knew first hand we’d all been lied to about 9/11, as they’d heard blasts and explosions, some before the planes struck, and in lower levels of the buildings before the collapse. I personally emailed information and fire fighter’s testimony as it came out to firefighters union members, officials, and offices not only throughout the United States but throughout the world.
I knew it may have had some impact when I was holding a “What is Bush Hiding About 9/11? Stop the 9/11 Cover Up!” sign, when a Kansas City hook and ladder truck drove by, and blasted its horn and all four firefighters gave me a thumbs up.
Although other firefighters didn’t all come out and accuse Giuliani of being involved or at least a knowing accomplice in the demolition of WTC 7, but the fury firefighters showed for Rudy, indicate that they may have been saavy to it. This may have added fuel to the fire of the spontaneous protests of “9/11 Mayor” Rudy that haunted him throughout the nation.
Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, also brought up the inconsistencies with corporate media’s coronation of Rudy as “Mr. 9/11” and his real record on 9/11/2001, which was not only sad but suspicious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEDtrEqBPI
October, 2007, 9/11 truth activists WeAreChange Florida confronts Rudy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7GDz-MJfBM
In November of 2007, 9/11 truth activists confront Rudy in Loveland Colorado:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIy6MAdtOjA
In November of 2007, 9/11 truth activists WeAreChange confront Rudy in Minnesota:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCIq19-ryIA
Nov. 2007, 9/11 activist calls in on C-SPAN to National Review writer regarding Rudy’s WTC 7 warning, and his false denial of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFSXR5-vyqQ
These types of videos go on and on. 9/11 truth activists are having an impact in our nation, but those who don’t know about it will deny it . . . WHY? Because corporate media denies it. For a fanciful few in America who ONLY get their media from corporate news . . . that is their reality, even though it is not reality.
Reality is that 9/11 truth is growing and gaining strength. So, why did the corporate media and the powers that be allow the fall of Rudy? We know they can be kingmakers by selectively giving good or bad press. We know they can manipulate voting machines, vote counting machines, and even paper votes.
It well may be that they broke their deal with Rudy, even though he did his job and got rid of the WTC forensic evidence. Because as 9/11 truth grew and spread throughout the world, and protests grew larger and more forceful . . . having a President Rudy would keep the demand for 9/11 truth at a fever pitch. The powers that be may have simply dumped their errand boy, to save having to work harder to keep the cover up going.
But 9/11 truth seekers will not give up, they will never give up, so long as the lie stands.
NOW WE NEED TO BREAK THE MEDIA BLOCKADE, TO GET 9/11 TRUTH INTO THE MAINSTREAM DIALOGUE. HOW?
On January 22nd, 2008 an explosive new novel by NY Times best selling author, Steve Alten was released. “The Shell Game” is a powerful truth telling edu-tainment novel that uses real quotes as chapter lead ins including quotes from 9/11 researchers David Ray Griffin and Mike Ruppert. Their books are linked to from the book’s website http://www.theshellgame.net/ and also video trailers that alert Americans they’ve been lied to about the wars and about 9/11.
If you know the nation has been lied to about 9/11, and want millions more to join you in demanding a new 9/11 investigation . . . you have a tremendous opportunity to make that happen. VIEW THE BELOW BOOK TRAILER, AND SHARE IT WIDELY:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OioYWUmRcuw[/youtube]
Do everything you can for the next 90 days to get as many people as possible to get “The Shell Game” available at all major book stores and sellers. WHY?
If we as a 9/11 truth movement can drive this to #1, we can break 9/11 truth into the mainstream. Now is the time to really dedicate yourself. Use the links and video trailers at http://www.theshellgame.net/ to email, blog, post, and get out any way you can as wide, far and fast as you can.
Urge all you send it to to do the same. We can make history. This successful author has put his career on the line to write this explosive novel. It has 90 days to soar or fall. We can make it #1, and force corporate media to cover 9/11’s lies.
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