"The discovery of liquid water on Mars combined with earlier discoveries of organic substances in a meteorite that came from Mars, and also of methane in the Martian atmosphere all point to the existence of life -- contemporary life -- on the Red Planet ... I am not speaking of fossilized life but contemporary life ... Even as early as 1976, when the two NASA space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, landed on Mars, experiments carried out in situ pointed strongly to the existence of active microbial life ... I think there could be political and sociological considerations at work ... Firstly, if life was already detected, then there is no need to spend vast sums of money to continue the search ... Secondly, there is a lot of scientific interest nowadays in bringing back samples of Martian soil to Earth at the cost of tens of billions of dollars, and there is a lobby that says if microbes exist on Mars we should not be doing this. It could pose a biohazard."
Source: Scientist claims Mars has 'contemporary' life, Indo-Asian News Service, August 10, 2008

"PolicyArchive.org, the leading digital repository of public policy research developed by the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library, has just launched a new online collection of presidential transition papers called Presidential Advisory '08. Featuring policy recommendations from over 20 think tanks for President-elect Obama's upcoming administration, the collection is a free resource for the public."

CFR: Previewing 'Bretton Woods Two'
"The November 14-15 summit in Washington of heads of top industrial and developing economies has been billed by some analysts as the successor to the 1944 Bretton Woods conference. At Bretton Woods, a group of countries agreed to create the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank."
Source: Council on Foreign Relations

"This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for Barack Obama kept flipping to John McCain. In both counties, Republicans are responsible for overseeing elections. Both county clerks said the problem is isolated."

"I wanted to meet you for many years," Ms. Palin told Mr. Peres, according to an aide to the president. "The only flag at my office is an Israeli flag."
-- Sarah Palin, PALIN: 'ONLY FLAG IN MY OFFICE' IS ISRAELI, New York Sun, 09-30-2008 --

• "After requests by the Non-Aligned Movement and the Arab League, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed to put the issue of Israel's nuclear capabilities on the agenda of the 52nd annual meeting of the UN body.

"The move was initially met with protests by the US and Canada but the two countries had to back down from their position after they realized that other member states of the IAEA meeting's presidential board would not support their stance, an informed source told Fars News Agency on Monday.

"Israel is believed to possess the only nuclear arsenal of the Middle East but it has so far refused to allow IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear sites."

IAEA 'puts Israeli nukes on agenda', PressTV

"For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller, democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable."
-- Sarah Palin --

"We didn’t ask permission. We told them we were coming."
-- Col. David Hunt, a former Pentagon expert on Afghanistan, in an interview to Fox News, claimed that US intelligence sources, particularly CIA, had warned Pakistan before last Wednesday’s attack by US ground forces, "White House refuses to comment on rules of engagement," By Anwar Iqbal, dawn.com, September 13, 2008 Ramazan 12, 1429 --

"Within 10 years ... electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past ...

"MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine. Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, has developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas, a discovery that paves the way for large-scale use of solar power ...

"Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun. 'This is the nirvana of what we've been talking about for years,' said MIT's Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the work in the July 31 issue of Science. 'Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited and soon.'

"Inspired by the photosynthesis performed by plants, Nocera and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera's lab, have developed an unprecedented process that will allow the sun's energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel cell, creating carbon-free electricity to power your house or your electric car, day or night ...

"Currently available electrolyzers, which split water with electricity and are often used industrially, are not suited for artificial photosynthesis because they are very expensive and require a highly basic (non-benign) environment that has little to do with the conditions under which photosynthesis operates ...

"The key component in Nocera and Kanan's new process is a new catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water; another catalyst produces valuable hydrogen gas. The new catalyst consists of cobalt metal, phosphate and an electrode, placed in water. When electricity -- whether from a photovoltaic cell, a wind turbine or any other source -- runs through the electrode, the cobalt and phosphate form a thin film on the electrode, and oxygen gas is produced ...

"The new catalyst works at room temperature, in neutral pH water, and it's easy to set up ...

"Nocera hopes that within 10 years, homeowners will be able to power their homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power their own household fuel cell. Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past ...

"The success of the Nocera lab shows the impact of a mixture of funding sources - governments, philanthropy, and industry. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Chesonis Family Foundation, which gave MIT $10 million this spring to launch the Solar Revolution Project, with a goal to make the large scale deployment of solar energy within 10 years."



Source: MIT, 'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution: Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system

• Daniel Nocera describes new process for storing solar energy
in this video on MIT TechTV

• Google: mit hydrogen oxygen fuel cell

"Bjorn Winther-Jensen, of Monash University, said the synthetic fabric Gore-Tex had revolutionised outdoor clothing, and his team's Gore-Tex-based electrode could do the same for fuel cells, which generate electricity from hydrogen and oxygen.

"'The same way as waste vapour is drawn out of this material to make hikers more comfortable, so it is able to breathe oxygen into our fuel cell and into contact with the conductive plastic,' Dr Winther-Jensen said.

"Platinum is a key ingredient in fuel cell electrodes, but world reserves would meet less than 20 per cent of demand if all cars were to be hydrogen run.

"The Australian-made electrode was as efficient as a platinum electrode, but much cheaper, he said. 'Platinum is about $2000 per ounce and ours is about $2000 a kilo.' The Australian advance, which involves depositing a layer of electrically conducting plastic about one-100th the thickness of a human hair onto the Gore-Tex, is published in the journal Science.

"It might be five years before the technology can be used in car fuel cells ..."

Source: Anorak fabric a boost for fuel cells, Deborah Smith Science Editor, smh.com.au, August 1, 2008

"Please consider the evidence carefully and sign our petition. It is crucial that we reach 1000 A/E’s by September 11th in order to achieve a new investigation - before it’s too late."

"The organization Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth is a fast-growing collaboration of more than 400 architectural and engineering professionals who are reexamining the 3 World Trade Center high-rise collapses on 9/11. The last few years have witnessed the emergence of mounting scientific evidence that the collapses of the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7 were not adequately explained by the official theories outlined in the 2002 FEMA and 2005 NIST reports. The Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth call for a new, fully funded, unimpeachable Congressional investigation with subpoena power."
-- Richard Gage, AIA, Architect, Evidence Letter, ae911truth.org --

"If we do (attack) it is going to be a disaster ... The frightening thing is they say they are taking no options off the table, even nuclear first strike ... the Democratic leadership in the House are proposing no resistance whatsoever, we saw this when a supplemental bill came up and the President asked for $107 billion for the war, the Democrat leadership gave them $162 billion."
-- Ron Paul, I hear members of Congress saying 'if we could only nuke Iran' --

• Israel Prodding U.S. To Attack Iran / CBS
  "(CBS) Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen leaves Tuesday night on an overseas trip that will take him to Israel ... comes just as the Israelis are mounting a full court press to get the Bush administration to strike Iran's nuclear complex."
  
  
• John Bolton: Israel Will Strike Iran if Obama is Elected / Newsmax
  Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton believes Israel will stage a raid against Iran's nuclear facilities if Democratic nominee Barack Obama wins the upcoming presidential election in November ... Bolton said he doubted Iran would respond immediately with a counterstrike of its own, partially because Tehran would fear an American reprisal."
  
  
• U.S. terror attack seen apt to follow '08 vote / Washington Times
  "I could see al Qaeda waiting to determine who was going to be the president and depending on which it is, taking an initial measure," Mr. Bechtel said. "For instance, Obama may be viewed as someone who will accomplish what al Qaeda would like him to do, which is get out of the Middle East, and give him an opportunity to move in that direction. Failing that, they may decide to test him with a substantial attack on America or some American interest and see how he reacts."
  
  "... Mr. McCain, Arizona Republican, has focused on Mr. Obama's stated willingness to meet with any world leader, including Iran's, without preconditions. Mrs. Clinton, New York Democrat, ran TV ads implying Mr. Obama is not qualified to manage an international crisis.
  
  
• McCain Adviser: Another Attack on U.S. Would Be "Big Advantage" For McCain
  "McCain's chief strategist, Charlie Black. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in December was an "unfortunate event," says Black. "But his knowledge and ability to talk about it reemphasized that this is the guy who's ready to be Commander-in-Chief. And it helped us." As would, Black concedes with startling candor after we raise the issue, another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. "Certainly it would be a big advantage to him," says Black."
  
  
• Iraq Story Buried By US Media - with Lora Logan - CBS / Real News

"Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.

"... Galvanized by the national demand for clean energy development, solar companies have filed more than 130 proposals with the Bureau of Land Management since 2005. They center on the companies’ desires to lease public land to build solar plants and then sell the energy to utilities.

"The manager of the Bureau of Land Management’s environmental impact study, Linda Resseguie, said that many factors must be considered when deciding whether to allow solar projects on the scale being proposed, among them the impact of construction and transmission lines on native vegetation and wildlife."

Source: New York Times

"The U.S. general who led the Army's investigation of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal says the Bush administration "has committed war crimes" as a result of what happened to detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay "when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture."

"... After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."

Source: USAToday, Taguba: Bush administration tortured detainees, 'committed war crimes'

"A Pentagon spokesman yesterday criticized the report, saying its authors had drawn 'sweeping conclusions based upon dubious allegations' of former detainees who had been out of U.S. custody for years. 'The quality of medical care we provide detainees is similar to that which our troops serving in the same locations receive,' said the spokesman, Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon. 'We have robust psychological and mental health care available to detainees.'"

Source: The Washington Post quoting Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon responding to Broken Laws, Broken Lives on behalf of the Pentagon

"The voters of Ireland left the EU’s constitutional plans in tatters last week by rejecting the Lisbon treaty. Now the European political elite is desperately trying to find a way to get round their verdict ...

"Declan Ganley, the 39-year-old London-born entrepreneur, had just played a key role in one of the most crushing defeats that the Irish and European political establishments had ever suffered. His organisation, a think tank containing no elected politicians, had come from nowhere to achieve a result that has sent shockwaves throughout the EU."
- Source: Real people 1, Eurocrats 0, Timesonline.co.uk --

"Psychological Operations or PSYOP are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of organizations, groups, and individuals. Used in all aspects of war, it is a weapon whose effectiveness is limited only by the ingenuity of the commander using it.

"A proven winner in combat and peacetime, PSYOP is one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of man. It is an important force protector/combat multiplier and a non-lethal weapons system.

"Psychological Operations (PSYOP) or Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR) is simply learning everything about your target enemy, their beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. Once you know what motivates your target, you are ready to begin psychological operations.

"Psychological operations may be defined broadly as the planned use of communications to influence human attitudes and behavior ... to create in target groups behavior, emotions, and attitudes that support the attainment of national objectives. The form of communication can be as simple as spreading information covertly by word of mouth or through any means of multimedia." Source: Psywarrior History

"A PENTAGON CAMPAIGN
Retired officers have been used to shape terrorism coverage from inside the TV and radio networks."
- Source: New York Times

"The New York Times has exposed a quiet Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda. According to the newspaper, top officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable views of the war via major news media. Many of these pundits were working from Pentagon scripts while also lobbying for major military contractors looking to cash in on the war.

"I urge Congress to investigate these military pundits and their ties to the Bush administration, defense contractors and our national news media.

"This is not a partisan issue. An administration secretly forcing favorable views via the press is a violation of every conceivable standard of journalism -- and possibly of federal law.

"Please take action to determine whether these acts violate federal law prohibiting 'covert propaganda '"

---

From: Senator Barack Obama
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:36 AM
To: David Sadler
Subject: Message from Senator Barack Obama

Dear David:


"Thank you for advising me of your concerns that the Pentagon has used military analysts to generate favorable news coverage of the Administration's wartime performance. I appreciate hearing your thoughts on this matter.

"Like you, I am deeply troubled by this latest evidence that the Bush Administration has sought to manipulate the facts and betray the American people's trust. The New York Times reported on April 20, 2008, that the Department of Defense (DOD) fed information to retired military officers serving as analysts for various domestic media outlets in order to generate positive coverage of the war in Iraq. According to the report, these same officers collectively represent dozens of military contractors with a vested interest in the very war policies they are asked to analyze in the media. In response to these allegations, DOD has temporarily suspended its retired military officers program pending a review of the issue.

"There is little doubt that the Bush Administration has worked to spread favorable information to the American public and the press about the war in Iraq. From its misleading case to go to war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, to its argument for keeping our troops in Iraq indefinitely, the current Administration has repeatedly relied upon media "spin" because its assertions have not been supported by the facts.

"I agree that the questionable media strategy detailed in the Times article deserves further examination to determine if laws or ethical standards were violated. While our dedicated retired officers corps has a long history of serving our country in the armed services, there must be greater transparency to ensure that those who lobby the Pentagon are not rewarded for laudatory commentary about the Administration's policies. And it is past time that we conduct an honest dialogue about the situation in Iraq.

"Thank you for taking the time to write to me about this important issue."

Sincerely,
Barack Obama
United States Senator

"Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is asked by an audience member in Lancaster, PA. about his membership in the council on Foreign Relations and his thoughts on the North American Union."

- Source: Vlogging the Apocalypse

"Ben Stein's EXPELLED has struck a cultural NERVE as it exposes a modern day witch hunt in which scientists, educators and students are being persecuted because they dare to question Darwinism and argue that life may be the result of 'intelligent design.'

"As Ben takes on the world's leading atheists, and their global agenda, the hilarious but sobering results make us realize, 'It's time to get involved!'"

Source: Expelled The Movie
Locate a theater near you.

Comments by David Sadler 2008.04.16 Ben Stein explores the suppression of science through intimidation and career destruction for questioning the doctrines of the New Church of Official Science. One of the main points Stein makes in this movie is proven in this article by Roger Friedman. Watch Friedman go after Ben Stein's career for just making this movie that dares to question Darwinism. "After seeing a new non-fiction film starring Comedy Central's Ben Stein, you may not only be able to win his money, but also his career ... [His] career may be over come April 18 when a movie he co-wrote, narrates and appears in, called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," is released.... Stein, like some other celebrities, finally has shown his true colors and they aren't so pretty.... Can [Stein] really be amusing selling eye drops or acting like a nebbish on game shows if we now have this new insight into his thinking? ... Suddenly Stein is not so amusing anymore. I want my eye drops from someone else." - Roger Friedman, Ben Stein: Win His Career, foxnews.com, 4.9.2008 - That's right, Stein makes a movie about the suppression of science through career intimidation for questioning the official gospel of Darwinism and what happens? People go right after Ben Stein's career! I haven't seen this movie yet, but I will. I do not endorse Creationism as science. Creationism is faith based and is not scientific. I do fully endorse Intelligent Design as science and as the obvious competitor to Darwinism (random, undirected, macro evolution of life that miraculously appears as a result of the slam-dancing between rocks, water, gas and electricity). I know, the origin of life and macro-evolutionary diversity takes a lot of time. Problem is ... there isn't enough time. The complexity of life and statistics show that clearly. And, the concept of irreducible complexity argues against natural selection and survival of the fittest as information system constructors and agents of life-originators and biological macro-diversifiers. Evolutionists like to begin with life everywhere so there are lots of mutations and thus a lot of chances for the construction of complexity and diversity. But mutations are usually deletarious to the living organism. Do you want your child to have 'mutations?' A problem for macro evolutionists is that before there was life, there was NO LIFE to mutate! Another problem is that the fossil record does not support the theory! And of course there is the problem of irreducible complexity in biochemical/biomechanical systems and processes. And finally, there is the complexity of the information system of DNA. But Official 'Science' doesn't want anyone to be taught about these problems with Darwinism/neo-Darwinism/Macro Evolution. Official Science's demand, "Be silent or lose your job." Hopefully Stein will take Darwinism on without injecting the religious aspect, because that is a favorite technique of those who falsely present 'opposition' to Darwinian Evolution. They present a pseudo-opposition based upon religion which must be accepted by faith and can clearly be shown to avoid the very real scientific objections and falsifications to the fatally flawed theory of evolution. Science vs. Religion doesn't mix and if the debate is fought on that battle field, science, no matter how flawed and prejudiced, will win every time. It's only when we engage in a debate of science vs. science that Evolution begins to crumble, if not for a total lack of evidence to support is claims of life's origins and macro-diversity, then by the fact that there is a credible competitor in the room with its own set of facts and evidence to substantiate it's claims. Suppression of science is a fact in nearly ALL sectors because war making capability and economics are controlled by controlling science and technology. It's time we opened the gates to science and move towards free energy and the freedom to explore, think, research and learn. Those who would threaten someone's career for questioning established doctrines must be part of a religion or part of an monopolistic economic cartel (mob). That makes Freidman and those like him the religious bigots or mob enforcers. *** Links to recommened books ... Qualified scientific and scholarly criticism of Evolution theory, written at the college reading level in science and logic. No appeals to religion or the Bible. Just science. Can you handle it?     • Darwin's Enigma / free on line by Luther Sunderland (LACK of fossil evidence to support evolution discussed by 5 leading pro-evolutionists) Luther Sunderland falsifies the Evolutionists' myth concerning the fossil record as evidence for evolution. The implication is staggering. Fossils are the 'bed rock' of the evidence for evolutionists! If fossils don't prove evolution, then the foundation for Darwinian evolutionist claims crumble to dust. Begin your deprogramming regarding evolution here. This is the book that began my deprogramming process after graduation from a controlled public education career. It took years to accept and to understand, but the facts are there. Do not be afraid to look through the telescope and microscope. Do not be afraid to observe reality and draw your own conclusions. For whatever reason and for whatever agenda, we have all been lied to and programmed to believe the lies from early childhood. Many are eager to see in UFO's a possibility that life on Earth was seeded by some extraterrestrial race of aliens [such as evolutionist, British Professor Richard Dawkins], but life is so complex that it could not and can not come about by chance. The Designer that created humans also created aliens and all life including the most simple of single celled life. What's more, life came first! The Designer/Creator had to come first in order to design and seed life throughout the universe. This is the staggering implication that you will come to appreciate when you read this book.     • Evolution: A Theory In Crisis by Michael Denton (MD, scientist, biological researcher gives 'an account of the growing crisis in biology and enables us to understand why an increasing number of research scientists are questioning strict Darwinism.')     • Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. Behe (assoc. Prof. of biochemistry at Lehigh U. surveys the scientific literature looking for explanations of how evolution is supposed to create the complex biological structures we see through the microscope and finds NONE. Introduces the concept of irreducible complexity.)     • Darwin On Trial by Phillip E. Johnson (law professor looks at the language and argumentative tactics of evolutionists that avoid a discussion of the scientific evidence and attempt to shift the debate to religion)     • Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life On Earth by Robert Shapiro (Professor of Chemistry at NYU. From the back cover: "To walk though its arguments is to come upon the process of science, the veil of self-deception, and the questing nature of speculation." - Science '86 -     • Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome by John Sanford, Cornell geneticist "In retrospect, I realize that I have wasted so much of my life arguing about things that don’t really matter ... Modern Darwinism is built on what I will be calling “The Primary Axiom”. The Primary Axiom is that man is merely the product of random mutations plus natural selection. Within our society’s academia, the Primary Axiom is universally taught, and almost universally accepted. It is the constantly mouthed mantra, repeated endlessly on every college campus. It is very difficult to find any professor on any college campus who would even consider (or should I say – dare) to question the Primary Axiom ... "Late in my career, I did something which for a Cornell professor would seem unthinkable. I began to question the Primary Axiom. I did this with great fear and trepidation. By doing this, I knew I would be at odds with the most “sacred cow” of modern academia. Among other things, it might even result in my expulsion from the academic world ... "... I gradually realized that the seemingly “great and unassailable fortress” which has been built up around the primary axiom is really a house of cards. The Primary Axiom is actually an extremely vulnerable theory – in fact it is essentially indefensible "... A large part of what keeps the Axiom standing is an almost mystical faith, which the true-believers have in the omnipotence of natural selection. Furthermore, I began to see that this deep-seated faith in natural selection was typically coupled with a degree of ideological commitment – which can only be described as religious. I started to realize (again with trepidation) that I might be offending a lot of people’s religion! "To question the Primary Axiom required me to re-examine virtually everything I thought I knew about genetics. This was probably the most difficult intellectual endeavor of my life. Deeply entrenched thought pattern only change very slowly (and I must add — painfully). What I eventually experienced was a complete overthrow of my previous understandings. Several years of personal struggle resulted in a new understanding, and a very strong conviction that the Primary Axiom was most definitely wrong. More importantly, I became convinced that the Axiom could be shown to be wrong to any reasonable and open-minded individual ... "... every form of objective analysis I have performed has convinced me that the Axiom is clearly false. So now, regardless of the consequences, I have to say it out loud: the Emperor has no clothes! "... To the extent that the Primary Axiom can be shown to be false ... I have dared to write this humble little book – which some will receive as blasphemous treason, and others – revelation. "If the Primary Axiom is wrong, then there is a surprising and very practical consequence. When subjected only to natural forces, the human genome must irrevocably degenerate over time.

"A newly disclosed secret memo authored by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in March 2003 that asserts President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations of detainees also reveals a radical interpretation of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The memo, declassified yesterday as the result of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, cites a still-secret DOJ memo from 2001 that found that the "Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.

"... The Bush administration has never argued publicly that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to military operations within the nation's borders. The memo released yesterday publicizes this argument for the first time."

"... The memo released to the ACLU yesterday cites the October 2001 memo but takes its argument even further. Relying on the earlier memo, the March 2003 memo argues that the president has authority as Commander-in-Chief to bypass not only the Fourth Amendment but the central due process guarantee of the Fifth Amendment as well."

• Source: Huffington Post
• The 2003 Department of Justice memo online
• Bill of Rights

Amendment IV
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Amendment V
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

"As the death toll mounts—as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on—the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century."

-- Harvard University Press review of The Black Book of Communism --

"President Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt in U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after July, embracing the key recommendations of his top war commander. Bush said that Gen. David Petraeus will "have all the time he needs" to consider when more American forces could return home."
-- Bush embraces pause in troop cutbacks, AP, 2008.04.10 --

VS.
"... Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales Jr., testifying before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee about U.S. military strategy in Iraq, said he has no doubt that a major withdrawal of combat forces is coming because the U.S. has “run out of military options” and cannot indefinitely sustain troop levels."

""Regardless of who wins the election and regardless of conditions on the ground, by summer the troops will begin to come home,” said Scales, who headed the war college in 1997. "The only point of contention is how precipitous will be the withdrawal and whether the schedule of withdrawal should be a matter of administration policy.""

"... ""We face a deteriorating political situation with an over-extended Army," said [Lt. Gen. William Odom, US Army (ret)], who served as director of the National Security Agency in the Reagan administration.

"The only sensible strategy is to withdraw rapidly but in good order," Odom said. "Only that step can break the paralysis now gripping U.S. strategy in the region.""

"... [Gen. Barry McCaffrey, US Army (ret)], a former chief of U.S. Southern Command and commander of the 24th Infantry Division in the 1991 Gulf War, predicted a withdrawal of U.S. forces within three years or less because there is "no U.S. political will to continue" and because allies "have abandoned us."

""It is over," McCaffrey said."

-- U.S. must leave Iraq, retired generals say, Army Times, 2008.04.04 --

"The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte."

Source: LA Times

"The NIIBC has launched a new website at www.boycottabsolut.com to inform American consumers and provide resources for citizens to engage in the boycott."

Source: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC

"Arthur C. Clarke, the science-fiction writer who co-authored the screenplay and book 2001: A Space Odyssey and who came up with the idea for the communications satellite in the 1940s, died at a hospital near his home in Sri Lanka early Wednesday. He was 90."
-- Mitch Wagner, Science Fiction Legend Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Dies, InformationWeek, March 18, 2008 --

Raddatz: "... Two-third of Americans say it's [Iraq war] not worth fighting."

Cheney: "So?"

Raddatz: "You don't care what the American people think?"

Cheney: "No."

-- Vice President Dick Cheney interviewed by ABC News interviewer Martha Raddatz --


Wanna Be President doesn't care either
"I disagree with what the majority of the American people want."
-- John McCain... Electable? / (video) --

"... the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online... The study, which was due to be released Wednesday, found no 'smoking gun' or any evidence of a direct connection between Saddam's Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist organization."
-- Pentagon Report on Saddam's Iraq Censored?, ABC News, March 12, 2008 --

"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.... This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda... We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda."
-- George W. Bush, June 18, 2004, Washington Post --

"We know he's out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al-Qaeda organization." -- Dick Cheney, George W. Bush Administration Vice President, March 16, 2003, NBC, Meet The Press --

"There is no question but that there have been interactions between the Iraqi government, Iraqi officials and Al Qaeda operatives. They have occurred over a span of some 8 or 10 years to our knowledge. There are currently Al Qaeda in Iraq."
-- Donald Rumsfeld, former George W. Bush Administration Defense Secretary, Nov. 14, 2002, Infinity CBS Radio interview --

"The U.S. government will conduct a series of cyber war games throughout next week to test its ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks.

"Code-named 'Cyber Storm II,' this is the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information technology experts and incident response teams from 18 federal agencies, including the CIA, Department of Defense, FBI, and NSA, as well as officials from nine states, including Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In addition, more than 40 companies will be playing, including Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical, McAfee, and Microsoft.

"... Dozens of companies and government agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom will also participate ...

"... Players will receive information about the latest threats in part from a simulated news outlet, and at least a portion of the feeds they receive will be intentionally misleading ... 'They'll inject some red herring attacks and information to throw intelligence analysts and companies off the trail of the real attackers ... The whole time, the clock keeps ticking, and things keep getting worse.'

"... Cyber Storm planners say they intend to throw a simulated Internet outage into this year's exercise ...

"... Individuals who helped plan the scenarios all have signed non-disclosure agreements about the details of the planned attacks. They will act as puppeteers apart from the participants, injecting events into the game from a command center at U.S. Secret Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, players will participate via secure online connections from around the world ..."

Full article at The Washington Post and Blacklisted News

"America's global primacy is directly dependent on ... its preponderance on the Eurasian continent. ... [The] Eurasian Balkans are [an] economic prize ... of natural gas and oil reserves. ... [America’s] primary interest ... [is to] ... ensure no single power ... controls this geopolitical space ... to prevent the emergence of a ... coalition that could ... challenge America's primacy. ... The three grand imperatives of IMPERIAL GEOSTRATEGY are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the VASSALS, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the BARBARIANS from coming together."
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski ('Democrat', CFR, former national security adviser to the Carter Administration), pondering "The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy." In his book ("The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives," Brzezinski labels the Caspian Sea region including Afghanistan as the "Eurasian Balkans." --

" [U.S. security requires that the U.S. tolerate no rivals to its global dominance] … We endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. "
-- Paul Wolfowitz ('Republican', former World Bank president, deputy defense secretary in the George W. Bush administration and top Pentagon bureaucrat during the George H.W. Bush administration, current advisor to Bush Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, on terrorism) --

"Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US central bank, or Fed, has said that inflation rates in Gulf states, which are reaching near record levels, would fall "significantly" if oil producers dropped their US dollar pegs.

"... "In the short term free floating ... will not fully dissipate inflationary pressure, although it would significantly do so," Greenspan said.

"... It's now time for the Gulf to have its own currency," [Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, said.]

"... Deutsche Bank said last month that both Qatar and the UAE will probably cut ties to the US dollar this year and track currency baskets as Kuwait did last May."

Source: aljazeera.net

Time for 'Green' wars
From: Dave Powelson
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:06 PM
To: David Sadler
Subject: Time for 'Green' wars

Time for 'Green' wars

Since every talking head, corporate suit, politico and other nincompoop is constantly prattling about going green, carbon footprint, global warming --- shouldn’t it be rather obvious that the FIRST PLACE TO GO GREEN --- is in every conflict and war now occurring --- and that is planned (by certain un-named parties)?

Forget about the morality, lawful, or economic issues concerning wars --- that doesn’t garner any understanding, let alone --- support.

But --- focusing on demanding GREEN WARS --- is something everybody can agree on. GREEN is totally in vogue and stylish as hell.

Any ‘war’ action by one person or more --- will need independent auditing and certification as green --- or pay into a green war fund, administered by Al Gordo.

Time for a raucous, rowdy ground swell of support — folks!

"Question: What do George Bush (USA), Tony Blair (UK), Gerhard Schroeder (Germany), Bill and Hilary Clinton (USA), Ariel Sharon (Israel), Mikhail Gorbachev (USSR), Jiang Zemin (China), The Pope (Vatican), Prince Charles (England), Queen Beatrix (The Hague), Amitai Etzioni (Israel/USA) and Kofi Annan (United Nations) have in common?

"Answer: Every one of them is a political communitarian, and communitarianism is the synthesis in the Hegelian dialectic. Nobody ever seems to have heard of these things, so we wrote What is the Hegelian Dialectic? and The Historical Evolution of Communitarian Thinking. They were originally published seperately, but we combined them to form our definitive Anti Communitarian Manifesto."

-- Anti-Communitarian League --

Tran Trong Duyet 'Manager' of the 'Hanoi Hilton' "[McCain] did not tell the truth."	image: AP - McCain had two broken arms and a broken leg when he was retrived from the city lake by angry locals

"[John McCain] is the classic opportunist ...
he's always reaching for attention and glory.
Other POWs won't even sit at the same table with him."
-- Ross Perot blasts John McCain --

"The thought of his being president
sends a cold chill down my spine.
He is erratic. He is hotheaded.
He loses his temper and he worries me."
-- Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) --

Make Ron Paul's new book #1 on Amazon. Pre-order today! Current Amazon Ranking From the preface: "If we want to live in a free society, we need to break free from these artificial limitations on free debate ... this is a long-term project that will persist far into the future. These ideas cannot be allowed to die ... That is why I wrote this book." -- Ron Paul -- Speaking of free debate ... Break Free and Wonder Anew

"Interestingly, every time the media do something to undercut Ron Paul, his supporters react by sending more money to his campaign. The result is that the Los Angeles Times and other media are reporting that Ron Paul was the most successful fundraiser among the Republican presidential candidates in the last three months of 2007.
Paul brought in $19.7 million—compared to
$9.9 million for Mitt Romney,
$6.8 million for John McCain, and
$6.6 million for Mike Huckabee."
-- Source: News With Views

"In the race for delegates, Ron Paul appears to closely trail Romney for first place ... While most reports about this past weekend’s Maine Caucus focused on the purely symbolic presidential preference poll, in the meaningful race to secure delegates to the state convention Ron Paul is primed to finish second with likely 35 percent of the total delegates ... In the presidential preference poll, with 70 percent reporting, Ron Paul is in third place just two percentage points behind John McCain. However, the Maine preference poll is purely a beauty contest, and in the actual election of state delegates the so-called 'frontrunner' McCain is far behind Ron Paul."
-- Source: Ron Paul HQ --

"In the 4th quarter of 2007, individuals in the Army, Navy and Air Force made those branches of the armed services the No. 13, No. 18 and No. 21, contributing industries, respectively. War opponent Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, received the most from donors in the military, collecting at least $212,000 from them. Another war opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was second with about $94,000."
-- Source: ABC News --

"We Must Fight the Net. DoD [Department of Defense] is building an information-centric force. Networks are increasingly the operational center of gravity, and the Department must be prepared to 'fight the net ... DoD's 'Defense in Depth' strategy should operate on the premise that the Department will 'fight the net' as it would a weapons system.

"When implemented the recommendations of this report will effectively jumpstart a rapid improvement of CNA [Computer Network Attack] capability ... Enhanced IO [information operations] capabilities for the warfighter, including: ... A robust offensive suite of capabilities to include full-range electronic and computer network attack ..."
-- From the 2003 Pentagon document, 'Information Operation Roadmap' --