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      <title>presidential directive at whitehouse.gov gives Bush imperial powers</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;presidential directive at whitehouse.gov gives Bush imperial powers
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&lt;br/&gt;Just heard about this presidential directive from their own website.  This means any event that is considered a disruption of the nation or its normal routine (from the mega-quake in Cascadia to the even a computer virus) then Mr Bush can declare this emergency with 90s imperial rule.  They can even take over Native American Reservations or anything else deemed important for military stragedy. Add to this this week's ruling on environmentalism as possibly ecoterrorism.
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&lt;br/&gt;One news report with the actualy whitehouse.gov announcement:
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&lt;br/&gt;Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency
&lt;br/&gt;By Matthew Rothschild
&lt;br/&gt;May 18, 2007
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&lt;br/&gt;With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack.
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&lt;br/&gt;In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a “catastrophic emergency.”Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.”
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&lt;br/&gt;He laid this all out in a document entitled “National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51” and “Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20.”
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&lt;br/&gt;http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807
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&lt;br/&gt;The White House released it on May 9.
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&lt;br/&gt;Other than a discussion on Daily Kos led off by a posting by Leo Fender, and a pro-forma notice in a couple of mainstream newspapers, this document has gone unremarked upon.
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&lt;br/&gt;The subject of the document is entitled “National Continuity Policy.”
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&lt;br/&gt;It defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function.”
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&lt;br/&gt;This could mean another 9/11, or another Katrina, or a major earthquake in California, I imagine, since it says it would include “localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies.”
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&lt;br/&gt;The document emphasizes the need to ensure “the continued function of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government,” it states.
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&lt;br/&gt;But it says flat out: “The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government.”
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&lt;br/&gt;The document waves at the need to work closely with the other two branches, saying there will be “a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government.” But this effort will be “coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial
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&lt;br/&gt;Among the efforts coordinated by the President would ensuring the capability of the three branches of government to “provide for orderly succession” and “appropriate transition of leadership.”
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&lt;br/&gt;The document designates a National Continuity Coordinator, who would be the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
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&lt;br/&gt;Currently holding that post is Frances Fragos Townsend.
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&lt;br/&gt;She is required to develop a National Continuity Implementation Plan and submit it within 90 days.
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&lt;br/&gt;As part of that plan, she is not only to devise procedures for the Executive Branch but also give guidance to “state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure.”
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&lt;br/&gt;The secretary of Homeland Security is also directed to develop planning guidance for “private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators,” as well as state, local, territorial, and tribal governments.
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&lt;br/&gt;The document gives the Vice President a role in implementing the provisions of the contingency plans.
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&lt;br/&gt;“This directive shall be implanted in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 USC 19), with the consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved.”
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&lt;br/&gt;The document also contains “classified Continuity Annexes.”
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&lt;br/&gt;from http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807
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&lt;br/&gt;___ actual presidential directive from whitehouse.gov:
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&lt;br/&gt;National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 
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&lt;br/&gt;  White House News 
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&lt;br/&gt;NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51 
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&lt;br/&gt;HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20 
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&lt;br/&gt;Subject: National Continuity Policy 
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&lt;br/&gt;Purpose 
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&lt;br/&gt;(1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes "National Essential Functions," prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Definitions 
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&lt;br/&gt;(2) In this directive: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) "Category" refers to the categories of executive departments and agencies listed in Annex A to this directive; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) "Continuity of Government," or "COG," means a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(d) "Continuity of Operations," or "COOP," means an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission-Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(e) "Enduring Constitutional Government," or "ECG," means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(f) "Executive Departments and Agencies" means the executive departments enumerated in 5 U.S.C. 101, independent establishments as defined by 5 U.S.C. 104(1), Government corporations as defined by 5 U.S.C. 103(1), and the United States Postal Service; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(g) "Government Functions" means the collective functions of the heads of executive departments and agencies as defined by statute, regulation, presidential direction, or other legal authority, and the functions of the legislative and judicial branches; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(h) "National Essential Functions," or "NEFs," means that subset of Government Functions that are necessary to lead and sustain the Nation during a catastrophic emergency and that, therefore, must be supported through COOP and COG capabilities; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(i) "Primary Mission Essential Functions," or "PMEFs," means those Government Functions that must be performed in order to support or implement the performance of NEFs before, during, and in the aftermath of an emergency. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Policy 
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&lt;br/&gt;(3) It is the policy of the United States to maintain a comprehensive and effective continuity capability composed of Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government programs in order to ensure the preservation of our form of government under the Constitution and the continuing performance of National Essential Functions under all conditions. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Implementation Actions 
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&lt;br/&gt;(4) Continuity requirements shall be incorporated into daily operations of all executive departments and agencies. As a result of the asymmetric threat environment, adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be received. Emphasis will be placed upon geographic dispersion of leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to increase survivability and maintain uninterrupted Government Functions. Risk management principles shall be applied to ensure that appropriate operational readiness decisions are based on the probability of an attack or other incident and its consequences. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(5) The following NEFs are the foundation for all continuity programs and capabilities and represent the overarching responsibilities of the Federal Government to lead and sustain the Nation during a crisis, and therefore sustaining the following NEFs shall be the primary focus of 
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&lt;br/&gt;the Federal Government leadership during and in the aftermath of an emergency that adversely affects the performance of Government Functions: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) Ensuring the continued functioning of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) Providing leadership visible to the Nation and the world and maintaining the trust and confidence of the American people; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) Defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and preventing or interdicting attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(d) Maintaining and fostering effective relationships with foreign nations; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(e) Protecting against threats to the homeland and bringing to justice perpetrators of crimes or attacks against the United States or its people, property, or interests; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(f) Providing rapid and effective response to and recovery from the domestic consequences of an attack or other incident; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(g) Protecting and stabilizing the Nation's economy and ensuring public confidence in its financial systems; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(h) Providing for critical Federal Government services that address the national health, safety, and welfare needs of the United States. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(6) The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. In order to advise and assist the President in that function, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHS/CT) is hereby designated as the National Continuity Coordinator. The National Continuity Coordinator, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National 
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&lt;br/&gt;Security Affairs (APNSA), without exercising directive authority, shall coordinate the development and implementation of continuity policy for executive departments and agencies. The Continuity Policy Coordination Committee (CPCC), chaired by a Senior Director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, shall be the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(7) For continuity purposes, each executive department and agency is assigned to a category in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and 
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&lt;br/&gt;responsibilities in support of the Federal Government's ability to sustain the NEFs. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall serve as the President's lead agent for coordinating overall 
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&lt;br/&gt;continuity operations and activities of executive departments and agencies, and in such role shall perform the responsibilities set forth for the Secretary in sections 10 and 16 of this directive. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(8) The National Continuity Coordinator, in consultation with the heads of appropriate executive departments and agencies, will lead the development of a National Continuity Implementation Plan (Plan), which shall include prioritized goals and objectives, a concept of operations, performance metrics by which to measure continuity readiness, procedures for continuity and incident management activities, and clear direction to executive department and agency continuity coordinators, as well as guidance to promote interoperability of Federal Government continuity programs and procedures with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate. The Plan shall be submitted to the President for approval not later than 90 days after the date of this directive. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(9) Recognizing that each branch of the Federal Government is responsible for its own continuity programs, an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall ensure that the executive branch's COOP and COG policies in support of ECG efforts are appropriately coordinated with those of 
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&lt;br/&gt;the legislative and judicial branches in order to ensure interoperability and allocate national assets efficiently to maintain a functioning Federal Government. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(10) Federal Government COOP, COG, and ECG plans and operations shall be appropriately integrated with the emergency plans and capabilities of State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to promote interoperability and to prevent redundancies and conflicting lines of authority. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate the integration of Federal continuity plans and operations with State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure, as appropriate, in order to provide for the delivery of essential services during an emergency. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(11) Continuity requirements for the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and executive departments and agencies shall include the following: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) The continuation of the performance of PMEFs during any emergency must be for a period up to 30 days or until normal operations can be resumed, and the capability to be fully operational at alternate sites as soon as possible after the occurrence of an emergency, but not later than 12 hours after COOP activation; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) Succession orders and pre-planned devolution of authorities that ensure the emergency delegation of authority must be planned and documented in advance in accordance with applicable law; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) Vital resources, facilities, and records must be safeguarded, and official access to them must be provided; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(d) Provision must be made for the acquisition of the resources necessary for continuity operations on an emergency basis; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(e) Provision must be made for the availability and redundancy of critical communications capabilities at alternate sites in order to support connectivity between 
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&lt;br/&gt;and among key government leadership, internal elements, other executive departments and agencies, critical partners, and the public; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(f) Provision must be made for reconstitution capabilities that allow for recovery from a catastrophic emergency and resumption of normal operations; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(g) Provision must be made for the identification, training, and preparedness of personnel capable of relocating to alternate facilities to support the continuation of the performance of PMEFs. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(12) In order to provide a coordinated response to escalating threat levels or actual emergencies, the Continuity of Government Readiness Conditions (COGCON) system establishes executive branch continuity program readiness levels, focusing 
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&lt;br/&gt;on possible threats to the National Capital Region. The President will determine and issue the COGCON Level. Executive departments and agencies shall comply with the requirements and 
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&lt;br/&gt;assigned responsibilities under the COGCON program. During COOP activation, executive departments and agencies shall report their readiness status to the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary's designee. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(13) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) Conduct an annual assessment of executive department and agency continuity funding requests and performance data that are submitted by executive departments and agencies as part of the annual budget request process, in order to monitor progress in the implementation of the Plan and the execution of continuity budgets; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) In coordination with the National Continuity Coordinator, issue annual continuity planning guidance for the development of continuity budget requests; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) Ensure that heads of executive departments and agencies prioritize budget resources for continuity capabilities, consistent with this directive. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(14) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) Define and issue minimum requirements for continuity communications for executive departments and agencies, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) Establish requirements for, and monitor the development, implementation, and maintenance of, a comprehensive communications architecture to integrate continuity components, in consultation with the APHS/CT, the APNSA, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Chief of Staff to the President; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) Review quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities, as prepared pursuant to section 16(d) of this directive or otherwise, and report the results and recommended remedial actions to the National Continuity Coordinator. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(15) An official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President shall: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) Advise the President, the Chief of Staff to the President, the APHS/CT, and the APNSA on COGCON operational execution options; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) Consult with the Secretary of Homeland Security in order to ensure synchronization and integration of continuity activities among the four categories of executive departments and agencies. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(16) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) Coordinate the implementation, execution, and assessment of continuity operations and activities; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) Develop and promulgate Federal Continuity Directives in order to establish continuity planning requirements for executive departments and agencies; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) Conduct biennial assessments of individual department and agency continuity capabilities as prescribed by the Plan and report the results to the President through the APHS/CT; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(d) Conduct quarterly and annual assessments of continuity communications capabilities in consultation with an official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(e) Develop, lead, and conduct a Federal continuity training and exercise program, which shall be incorporated into the National Exercise Program developed pursuant to Homeland Security Presidential Directive-8 of December 17, 2003 ("National Preparedness"), in consultation with an 
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&lt;br/&gt;official designated by the Chief of Staff to the President; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(f) Develop and promulgate continuity planning guidance to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(g) Make available continuity planning and exercise funding, in the form of grants as provided by law, to State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(h) As Executive Agent of the National Communications System, develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive continuity communications architecture. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(17) The Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall produce a biennial assessment of the foreign and domestic threats to the Nation's continuity of government. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(18) The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall provide secure, integrated, Continuity of Government communications to the President, the Vice President, and, at a minimum, Category I executive departments and agencies. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(19) Heads of executive departments and agencies shall execute their respective department or agency COOP plans in response to a localized emergency and shall: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) Appoint a senior accountable official, at the Assistant Secretary level, as the Continuity Coordinator for the department or agency; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) Identify and submit to the National Continuity Coordinator the list of PMEFs for the department or agency and develop continuity plans in support of the NEFs and the continuation of essential functions under all conditions; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) Plan, program, and budget for continuity capabilities consistent with this directive; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(d) Plan, conduct, and support annual tests and training, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, in order to evaluate program readiness and ensure adequacy and viability of continuity plans and communications systems; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(e) Support other continuity requirements, as assigned by category, in accordance with the nature and characteristics of its national security roles and responsibilities 
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&lt;br/&gt;General Provisions 
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&lt;br/&gt;(20) This directive shall be implemented in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. 19), with consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved. Heads of executive departments and agencies shall ensure that appropriate 
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&lt;br/&gt;support is available to the Vice President and others involved as necessary to be prepared at all times to implement those provisions. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(21) This directive: 
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&lt;br/&gt;(a) Shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and the authorities of agencies, or heads of agencies, vested by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations; 
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&lt;br/&gt;(b) Shall not be construed to impair or otherwise affect (i) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals, or (ii) the authority of the Secretary of Defense over the Department of Defense, including the chain of command for military forces from the President, to the Secretary of Defense, to the commander of military forces, or military command and control procedures; and 
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&lt;br/&gt;(c) Is not intended to, and does not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its 
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&lt;br/&gt;agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(22) Revocation. Presidential Decision Directive 67 of October 21, 1998 ("Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government Operations"), including all Annexes thereto, is hereby revoked. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(23) Annex A and the classified Continuity Annexes, attached hereto, are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this directive. 
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&lt;br/&gt;(24) Security. This directive and the information contained herein shall be protected from unauthorized disclosure, provided that, except for Annex A, the Annexes attached to this directive are classified and shall be accorded appropriate handling, consistent with applicable Executive Orders. 
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&lt;br/&gt;GEORGE W. BUSH 
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      <title>The Propaganda War over Venezuela (in free online films)</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;The Propaganda War over Venezuela (in free online films)
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&lt;br/&gt;The following are video files about the current situation in Venezuela.  The first movie is actually not about Venezuela, but is about he American orchestrated coup in the “Banana Republic” of Guatemala in 1954 for the United Fruits.  This movie looks how American imperialism manufactures lies and distorts information for corporatist pursuits.  The next two films are by Greg Palast.  Followed by an eight part documentary called “Chavez - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” followed by “Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war” and “Venezuela - Uncle Sam's Coup?” (which also documents unknown snipers that killed average citizens). The next series is films from the opposition.  Watch how they use imagery to link Chavez to communism and even prostitution.  Over the last summer, Gene Sharp's group Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), which does workshops on non-violent revolutions, has been having workshops with oppositions to Hugo Chavez.  There is a strong possibility the corporatists with American Imperialist financing could try to generated “manufactured consent” the hours and days after this news series of Venezuelan elections. Beware that Venezuela maybe the stage for a false "color revolution" that would be manufactured in the corporate media.
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&lt;br/&gt;the following are descriptions and links to films documenting Venezuela the last few years:
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&lt;br/&gt;Engeniering of Consent: Guatemala coup 1954
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&lt;br/&gt;Extract from "The century of the self" by Adam Curtis. Story behind the coup d'etat which toppled elected president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. The film explains how Edward Bernays, recruited by United Fruits, created the conditions for a government intervention. Mass media were successfully used for manipulating the public and generating consensus around a military action involving the CIA.
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&lt;br/&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=jnYZVNVqBgU
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&lt;br/&gt;Greg Palast covers a story on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
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&lt;br/&gt;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4991354545733857055&amp;amp;q=VENEZUELA&amp;amp;hl=en or google video search of Greg Palast covers a story on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
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&lt;br/&gt;Hugo Chavez interview by Greg Palast
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&lt;br/&gt;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-742015553245977789&amp;amp;q=Hugo+Chavez
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&lt;br/&gt;HUGO CHAVEZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA IN 1998, IS A COLORFUL, UNPREDICTABLE FOLK HERO, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington‚s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."
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&lt;br/&gt;Part 1 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=8kmMzukS1cs
&lt;br/&gt;Part 2 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6oEvlvk56s&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search=
&lt;br/&gt;Part 3 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2435ycuZU&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search=
&lt;br/&gt;Part 4 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=25rLLizbwoI&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search=
&lt;br/&gt;Part 5 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=lTuSjU8IVL4&amp;amp;mode=related&amp;amp;search=
&lt;br/&gt;Part 6 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=DY24bo9jnX8
&lt;br/&gt;Part 7 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=a1ruUmNubhU
&lt;br/&gt;Part 8 of 8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=qzIV0OA5Oao
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&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3117181384995669233&amp;amp;q=VENEZUELA
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Venezuela - Uncle Sam's Coup? 
&lt;br/&gt;When Chavez was briefly ousted from power in 2002, many suspected America was involved. Now, a lawyer has obtained incriminating CIA  documents proving it was. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;A top secret CIA brief, written five days before the coup, proves the most incriminating. “It says the coup will take place in the first weeks of April, violence will be provoked in an opposition rally and the President will be taken prisoner”, states lawyer, Eva Golinger. “This is what happened.” Golinger has spent the last three years investigating the coup, tracing the money trail from Washington to key organisations involved. “It wasn’t just that they were giving them money. They quadrupled the funding from 2001 to 2002.” Other declassified documents show the US Embassy praising the coup leader as “the right man at the right time for Venezuela”. Remarkably, although the coup failed, Washington has stepped up its funding for the opposition. As Golinger states: “It’s as if they said ‘We didn’t give you guys enough. We’ve got to give you more because you failed.’” But ironically, America’s support for the opposition seems to have only strengthened Chavez’s hold on power.
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&lt;br/&gt;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4124074101371070575&amp;amp;q=VENEZUELA&amp;amp;hl=en
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Plan V para recuparar la Democracia en Venezuela el 3-D
&lt;br/&gt;03:37 
&lt;br/&gt;Este es el Plan de acción No Violenta que promueve la oposición en Venezuela para salvarla del Castro Comunismo de Hugo Chávez y su llamada Revolución Bolivariana.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"La teoria de que el poder deriva de la violencia, y que la victoria necesariamente va del lado de la mayor capacidad para ejercer la violencia, es falsa".
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Gene Sharp
&lt;br/&gt;El Poder de la Fe
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Este video fue realizado por ORVEX (Organización de Venezolanos en el Exilio) tomando la presentación en FLASH que aparece en la sección del Plan V del sitio www.atrevetevenezuela.com.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ORVEX
&lt;br/&gt;www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=BJ989_vIjhQ
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Una Versión Diferente del Amor de Hugo Chávez
&lt;br/&gt;05:00 
&lt;br/&gt;Todo tiene su final. En ORVEX creemos que esta pesadilla que se viste de demócrata solo podrá salir si se usan los espacios democráticos que aún quedan en Venezuela para aplicar técnicas no violentas de lucha.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"La teoria de que 
&lt;br/&gt;el poder deriva de la violencia,
&lt;br/&gt;y que la victoria necesariamente va del lado
&lt;br/&gt;de la mayor capacidad para ejercer
&lt;br/&gt;la violencia, es falsa"
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Gene Sharp
&lt;br/&gt;El Poder de la Fe
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Te invitamos a conocer las técnicas no violentas, las mismas que utilizaron Gandhi en la India y Martin Luther King en los Estados Unidos, para devolverle la Libertad y la Democracia a Venezuela.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Huid del país donde uno solo ejerce todos los poderes. Es un país de Esclavos". Simón Bolivar 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=t64GCvNIcck
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;¿Qué será de los Venezolanos después del 3-D?
&lt;br/&gt;03:59 
&lt;br/&gt;Video que busca motivar a todos los Venezolanos para que SIN MIEDO este 3 de Diciembre de 2006 SALGAN A VOTAR en contra de Hugo Chávez y a COBRAR.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Aún cuando sabemos que Hugo Chávez no va a dejar el poder, independientemente de los resultados, porque simplemente él no es democrático, el ir a votar masivamente en su contra es un signo de que NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Otro signo de que NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO a Hugo Chávez será el quedarnos en las mesas para observar LOS ESCRUTINIOS, es decir, el conteo de los votos, ya que ese acto es público, Y EXIGIR EL CONTEO MANUAL.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Es muy importante NO TENER MIEDO, porque lo único que le puede seguir dando el poder a Hugo Chávez es si nosotros le demostramos MIEDO y si ACTUAMOS CON MIEDO.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Es importante saber que el poder que hoy día tiene Hugo Chávez se basa en el MIEDO que nosotros le demostremos, y NO en LA VIOLENCIA que el pueda ejercer. Y Hugo Chávez, COMO ES MILITAR, piensa (ERRADAMENTE) que las ARMAS Y LA VIOLENCIA lo mantendrán en el poder, ya que las utiliza PARA INFLIGIR MIEDO en los Venezolanos. De hecho, él ya ha comprado más de 100 mil fusiles Kalasmikov para amedrentar a la oposición interna más que para defenderse de una supuesta agresión externa imaginaria que nunca llega.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;A medida que la oposición sucumba al miedo, más poder le estará otorgando a Hugo Chávez y a sus seguidores.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;El peligro actual que tiene la oposición, y que sellará su derrota el 3 de Diciembre si no actua correctamente de aquí en adelante, está en creer que la violencia es el único camino de obtener el poder, y que la victoria esta del lado del que tiene más armas. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;La buena noticia es la siguiente:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"La teoria de que el poder deriva de la violencia, y de que la victoria necesariamente va del lado de la mayor capacidad para ejercer la violencia, es falsa."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Gene Sharp 
&lt;br/&gt;El Rol del Poder en la Lucha No Violenta
&lt;br/&gt;www.orvex.org/noviolencia.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Para Hugo CHavez, el PODER actual que tiene deriva del MIEDO que la gente le pueda tener. Y si NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO a Hugo Chávez, éste caerá sin remedio INDEPENDIENTEMENTE DE QUE EL TENGA MAS ARMAS QUE EL PUEBLO.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Es por ello que "LA CAPACIDAD DE DESAFIAR Y LA CAPACIDAD DE RESISTIR" se convierten en el aspecto central del poder, y que su acción efectiva radica en que exista una oposición unida, o lo que Gene Sharp llama "oposición corporativa".
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ORVEX, en su afán por reducir el fenómeno del Exilio, la Persecución Política, y el Número de Solicitudes de Asilo Político, está promoviendo la utilización de TECNICAS DE LUCHA NO VIOLENTA para que la oposición venezolana las conozca y las ponga en práctica DE LA MANERA CORRECTA, y evitar que suceda lo que pasó en Venezuela, por ejemplo, durante la Huelga General de 2 meses realizada entre el 2 de Diciembre de 2002 y el 2 de Febrero de 2003, la cual buscaba sacar a Hugo Chávez de una manera pacífica y democrática, pero que NO FUE DEBIDAMENTE LIDERADA porque la misma sirvió para desgastar a la oposición y desmoralizarla, y no cumplió el objeto para la cual fue convocada: SACAR A HUGO CHAVEZ.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Por la fatídica experiencia venezolana, se podría llegar a pensar que la LUCHA NO VIOLENTA no tiene sentido ni es efectiva. Sin embargo, si nos detenemos a ver que Gandhi en la India logró vencer a los Británicos SIN HACER UN SOLO DISPARO, y que Martin Luther King Jr. logró los Derechos Civiles de las personas de color en los Estados Unidos SIN VIOLENCIA, entonces la pregunta no es si las técnicas de protestas no violentas sirven o no sirven, sino que la cuestión está en COMO APLICARLAS.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;La diferencia que tenemos con los Cubanos, es que a los Venezolanos AUN NOS QUEDAN PEQUEÑOS ESPACIOS DEMOCRATICOS como el de IR A ELECCIONES. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Si no nos ponemos las pilas los Venezolanos este 3 de Diciembre de 2006, Hugo Chávez cerrará los pequeños espacios democrátioos que quedan en Venezuela, para hacer que toda Venezuela sea ROJA ROJITA. Es por ello que las elecciones del 3 de Diciembre no son unas elecciones más, sino LA ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD de demostrarle a Hugo Chávez QUE NO LE TENEMOS MIEDO, que VAMOS A VOTAR, que VAMOS ESTAR AHI PRESENTES durante el conteo de votos, y que VAMOS A RECUPERAR la Libertad y Democracia en Venezuela.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Es nuestra ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD. No hay otra.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Si tenemos MIEDO y no aprovechamos esta ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD, entonces VENEZUELA SERA OTRA CUBA, y creo que ninguno de nosotros deseará que nuestras mujeres, hijas y nietas terminen como las mujeres cubanas que aparecen en el Video, y creo que ninguno de nosotros deseará vivir en un sistema BASADO EN EL MIEDO Y EL TERROR.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Si no, no nos quedará otra que seguir el consejos de Simón Bolivar (que no era chavista, por cierto):
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Huid del país donde uno solo ejerce todos los poderes: Es un país de esclavos". 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Animo, y a cobrar este 3-D.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Elio Aponte
&lt;br/&gt;C.I. V.- 5.531.657
&lt;br/&gt;Presidente
&lt;br/&gt;www.orvex.org
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=u1PF2n4c1a0
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;El Terrorismo Petrolero de la PDVSA Chavista
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Se puede creer en cosas que no se han visto. Y si alguien tenía dudas del secuestro de PDVSA, este memo podrá ayudar. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Es un tema en technicolor para hacer algo útil del amor. AMOR, palabra vilmente prostituida:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;" ... he actuado unicamente por AMOR y lealtad a MI PUEBLO en todos mis pensamientos, y actos de mi vida. Ellos me dieron la fuerza para tomar las decisiones mas difíciles que mortal alguno nunca confrontó. En ello he empleado mi vida, mi esfuerzo en el trabajo y mi salud ..."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Mi Testamento Político", primera parte, 1945.
&lt;br/&gt;Adolfo Hitler.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;No se puede negar la existencia de algo palpado, por más etereo que sea. No se puede exigir una prueba de decencia de aquello que es tan verdadero.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Que más prueba que este memo de PDVSA, de tantos que hay, de la verdadera ilegalidad, inmoralidad, indecencia, e ignorancia.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;La nobleza y pureza del Sistema Democrático ha sido vilmente burlada, violada y secuestrada por el Chavismo.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Los Chavistas están desbordados. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Venezuela es cual Supermercado, en donde uno encuentra que no hay cajeros, y ve a la gente salir con lo que puede, con sus carritos y bolsillos llenos de víveres y productos, mientras que por la parte trasera van llegando más camiones con mercancia, y el ciudadano decente mira desde afuera y le pide al vigilante que haga algo para detener el saqueo, y éste responde con indiferencia: "Si no tienes el Carnet Rojo de entrada, no puedes pasar ni agarrar nada. Ellos están con el proceso, y pasan cuando quieren y agarran cuanto quieren. ¿Que esperas para unirte al cambio?".
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;El Chavismo se desbordó con su indecencia; banda de delincuentes, que violan la Ley, malversando los fondos del país, violando los derechos humanos ante la mirada impune de las autoridades.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Los Chavistas, viviendo en la romería de los mutilados, en la fantasía de los infelices, en el día a día de las meretrices, de todos los bandidos y desvalidos.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;No tienen decencia, ni nunca tendrán.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Oh, ¿que será de Venezuela, oh que será?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;En pantalla, solo algunos de los nombres de los miles. Como dice su líder: "AL MUNDO".
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Finalmente, por sus crímenes pagarán. Porque ya se oye la puerta tocar ... ay ! .... la puerta tocar. La puerta de salida de este régimen nefasto que algún día le llegará su hora. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Viva Venezuela Libre, Democrática, Decente y Próspera en donde impere la Ley y haya igualdad de Deberes y Derechos.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;________
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Música del gran Willie Colón.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ORGANIZACION DE VENEZOLANOS EN EL EXILIO
&lt;br/&gt;ORVEX
&lt;br/&gt;www.orvex.org
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&lt;br/&gt;Transcripciones de Asilo Politico en Estados Unidos trabajamos por Internet - Ni importa en que parte de los EE.UU. ud. se encuentre. Precios solidarios y facilidades de pago:
&lt;br/&gt;www.miasiloenusa.com  
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"
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&lt;br/&gt;Conyers Toes Party Line: No Impeachment
&lt;br/&gt;Something Is Extremely 'Rotten In The State Of Denmark' 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Steve Watson
&lt;br/&gt;Infowars.net
&lt;br/&gt;Friday, November 10, 2006
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The latest Democrat "saviour" to flip flop 180 degrees in light of 
&lt;br/&gt;their victory is Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Presumed to become 
&lt;br/&gt;chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January, Conyers today 
&lt;br/&gt;said that impeachment of President Bush "is off the table."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"In this campaign, there was an orchestrated right-wing effort to 
&lt;br/&gt;distort my position on impeachment, " Conyers said in a statement 
&lt;br/&gt;released by his Judiciary Committee spokesman. "The incoming speaker 
&lt;br/&gt;(Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.) has said that impeachment is off the 
&lt;br/&gt;table. I am in total agreement with her on this issue: Impeachment 
&lt;br/&gt;is off the table."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Conyers seems to have forgotten that last December he laid out the 
&lt;br/&gt;grounds for impeachment in a 350 page long report called "The 
&lt;br/&gt;Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, 
&lt;br/&gt;Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Cover-ups in the Iraq War" 
&lt;br/&gt;and later updated to add "illegal domestic surveillance. "
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;For a while Conyers was the darling of left leaning bloggers and 
&lt;br/&gt;readers everywhere:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;At this site, we are especially proud of the new Conyers 
&lt;br/&gt;Report, "The Constitution in Crisis." By purchasing this book, you 
&lt;br/&gt;have the opportunity to own a part of history and help the 
&lt;br/&gt;Congressman hold the Bush Administration accountable. Your 
&lt;br/&gt;assistance in helping Congressman Conyers become the next Chairman 
&lt;br/&gt;of the House Judiciary Committee will bring us one step closer to 
&lt;br/&gt;getting the American people the answers from this Administration 
&lt;br/&gt;that they deserve.
&lt;br/&gt;- www.afterdowningstr eet.org 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Conyers is so admirable. One of the very few in Congress who still 
&lt;br/&gt;has integrity and principles. It is too bad that he does not get 
&lt;br/&gt;more MSM coverage but why would they do that? He might upset the 
&lt;br/&gt;Republican and Corporate plans for total control and could expose 
&lt;br/&gt;their nefarious doings.
&lt;br/&gt;He is risking much by not following the official DNC program too, in 
&lt;br/&gt;addition to challenging the Bushies.
&lt;br/&gt;- Huffington Post 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;In december 2005, upon release of the report, Conyers stated:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Report concludes that a number of these actions amount to prima 
&lt;br/&gt;facie evidence (evidence sufficiently strong to presume the 
&lt;br/&gt;allegations are true) that federal criminal laws have been violated. 
&lt;br/&gt;Legal violations span from false statements to Congress to 
&lt;br/&gt;whistleblower laws... The Report also concludes that these charges 
&lt;br/&gt;clearly rise to the level of impeachable conduct... In response to 
&lt;br/&gt;the Report, I have already taken a number of actions. First, I have 
&lt;br/&gt;introduced a resolution (H. Res. 635) creating a Select Committee 
&lt;br/&gt;with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush 
&lt;br/&gt;Administration with regard to the Iraq war and report on possible 
&lt;br/&gt;impeachable offenses. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;So Conyers was already underway with setting up investigations into 
&lt;br/&gt;impeachable offences, but now he says that impeachment is off the 
&lt;br/&gt;table? Clearly he has been given orders to toe the party line or 
&lt;br/&gt;face the consequences.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Despite the fact that 86% want to see the President impeached, 
&lt;br/&gt;leading Democrats have already ruled this out. The same leading 
&lt;br/&gt;Democrats that voted for the war in Afghanistan, for the Patriot 
&lt;br/&gt;Act, for Homeland Security and against a bill that simply condemned 
&lt;br/&gt;torture of prisoners in Iraq. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;After Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, Conyers is the latest Democrat 
&lt;br/&gt;to show us their true colours once in power.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Conyers and the other Democrats highlight precisely why we need to 
&lt;br/&gt;regroup, consolidate and redouble our efforts in light of the 
&lt;br/&gt;theatrical shift of power in Washington to the left. Because as soon 
&lt;br/&gt;as this happened, overnight, the truth movement lost a great deal of 
&lt;br/&gt;support from those that believe the job is now done.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Taking note of many reader comments over the past few days I have 
&lt;br/&gt;noticed a startling uprise in the amount of negative and dismissive 
&lt;br/&gt;feedback from some readers. Evidently those who expected us to be 
&lt;br/&gt;out dancing in the streets at the news of a Democrat landslide in 
&lt;br/&gt;Washington have been bitterly disappointed.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We have never once suggested that the solution to a corrupt and 
&lt;br/&gt;fascist Neocon leadership is a passive and capitulating Democrat 
&lt;br/&gt;sideshow leadership, so why is it any surprise that we are 
&lt;br/&gt;continuing on the same course as before?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Comments such as the following emphasize my point:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"You can only have it one way. What the hell is up with you people. 
&lt;br/&gt;The whole time the Bush regime was in power you begged for change. 
&lt;br/&gt;Now you have it, but your still complaining. "
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Yes we are seeking change, but not a simple change of personnel as 
&lt;br/&gt;we have witnessed this week. As we reported yesterday "There's no 
&lt;br/&gt;doubt about it, to see frothing Neo-Cons who have been strutting 
&lt;br/&gt;around like John Wayne for the past five years finally eat humble 
&lt;br/&gt;pie is a breath of fresh air, but let's not be so deluded as to 
&lt;br/&gt;think that the Neo-Con agenda, which took decades to craft, was 
&lt;br/&gt;simply brushed aside by the victory of a party that has supported 
&lt;br/&gt;Bush every step of the way on major issues."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Seeing Bush on TV admitting he'd took a hell of a beating was great, 
&lt;br/&gt;for about five minutes, then he started laughing and joking about it 
&lt;br/&gt;and talking about pushing forward to work closely with a new crowd. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Is rolling over and going back to sleep going to get Bush impeached? 
&lt;br/&gt;Should we shut down the websites now and go save the whales or 
&lt;br/&gt;something else we'd all love to be doing if we didn't have to 
&lt;br/&gt;relentlessly keep fighting to stop our leaders killing our freedoms?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Within hours the Democratic elite have shown us that they don't give 
&lt;br/&gt;a damn about holding the Bush administration up to scrutiny. With no 
&lt;br/&gt;effective opposition in the form of a political party it is up to 
&lt;br/&gt;the people to continue to demand justice and to continue to attempt 
&lt;br/&gt;to reign in those who have heinously abused their power.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Thomas Jefferson described Congress as "a body to which the people 
&lt;br/&gt;send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question 
&lt;br/&gt;everything and yield nothing."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;In light of this how can any representative say something like 
&lt;br/&gt;impeachment is 'off the table?' 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;found at 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.infowars .net/articles/ november2006/ 101106Rotten. htm
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Nancy Pelosi on YouTube and Howard Dean
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Nancy Pelosi on the YouTube saying "NO TO IMPEACHMENT... ITS OFF THE TABLE" 
&lt;br/&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=R-4vw2qw3Wc
&lt;br/&gt;or 
&lt;br/&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAGCgY4PDNA
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Howard Dean Says No Impeachment Of Bush
&lt;br/&gt;Lapdog Democrats to waste two years on minimum wage and mass illegal amnesty, no to Iraq inquiry, no to police state rollback, no to bringing troops home 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Paul Joseph Watson
&lt;br/&gt;Prison Planet
&lt;br/&gt;Thursday, November 9, 2006
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Howard Dean last night said there would be no impeachment proceedings against President Bush under a Democrat controlled Congress, echoing the pledge of Nancy Pelosi to protect the administration that lied a nation into a war and dismantled the very fabric of America.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Here's the exchange from Dean's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;STEWART: "How long in your mind do you feel it's gonna be before power corrupts you absolutely?"
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;DEAN: "Well, you know...."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;STEWART: "The last guys did it in three and a half days, what are you guys aiming for?"
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;DEAN: "Longer than that."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;DEAN: "I know half the audience wants us to impeach the President and all that kind of stuff but we're not gonna do that - we're not gonna do that."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Dean is toeing the party line first crystallized by Nancy Pelosi when she told the 60 Minutes program, "Impeachment is off the table....it's a pledge....it is a waste of time."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;When will jubilant mindless liberals realize that their darling Democrats have been installed as ringers to halt the momentum of the anti-war and 9/11 truth movements while committing to shielding the Bush administration for the very crimes and misdemeanors that supposedly cost them the House and Senate in the first place?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Democrats have already clearly stated how they intend to "get to work" over the next two years - by helping Bush push through a mass amnesty for illegal aliens - something his own republican House even prevented him doing - and also wasting time on the non-issue of the minimum wage.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens help rollback the devastation the Bush administration has wrought on the U.S. Constitution?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens bring the troops home?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens re-instate the nine amendments to the Constitution that were abolished under the Military Commissions Act?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to can the unconstitutional domestic eavesdropping program?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to claw back the out of control deficit?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We were told the Republicans were abandoned because of corruption and Iraq and yet the Democrat shills have completely avoided specifics about how they intend to address these issues and on the question of impeachment have vowed to protect Bush. Empty rhetoric about a "policy change" in Iraq is nothing more than hot air betrayed by a legacy of Democrat support for keeping the troops in the quagmire - exemplified no better than Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, who both support imperial jaunts in the name of the "war on terror."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has already stated that Blair's government will not co-operate with any move to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and she needn't worry because the Democrats are not going to even try it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Associated Press reports that Pelosi and Bush have already proclaimed reconciliation and are now "making nice" and devising how they can work in tandem. Tuesday's vote and its superficial euphoric aftermath was not about a populist reaction to six years of abuse and deceit - it was a sad indictment of the fact that a majority of Americans, particularly the establishment left, still buy the hoax that the Republicrats and the Democons are anything more than two different CEO's bidding for control of Slavery Incorporated. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/091106deansaysno.htm&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>From the Wilderness office burglarized</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;From the Wilderness office burglarized
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This was posted in my forum several days ago dedicated to Cascadian Bioregionalism
&lt;br/&gt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;From the Wilderness office burglarized
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com
&lt;br/&gt;URGENT NOTICE: FTW BURGLARIZED; COMPUTERS SMASHED
&lt;br/&gt;I have just received a phonecall from Mike Ruppert. The FTW offices
&lt;br/&gt;have been burglarized, the doors smashed with sledgehammers and every
&lt;br/&gt;computer broken. Mike's fine (thank God!!!) and I believe we know who
&lt;br/&gt;did it but FTW is non-operational at this moment. However, the blog
&lt;br/&gt;is up and running.
&lt;br/&gt;Thank you for you patience.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Jenna Orkin
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications
&lt;br/&gt;and The Jackson County Sustainability Network
&lt;br/&gt;PRESENT:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ONE NIGHT ONLY!
&lt;br/&gt;Friday, June 30th
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;at Southern Oregon University
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;the Power of Community
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Plus a special presentation by Producer/Writer/Outreach Director
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;MEGAN QUINN
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;One of tomorrow’s sustainability leaders and top
&lt;br/&gt;international speakers on sustainability and Peak Oil.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;“Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film.
&lt;br/&gt;Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990s, and how it did do so
&lt;br/&gt;constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past
&lt;br/&gt;few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of
&lt;br/&gt;the collective mobilizations of an entire society to meet an enormous
&lt;br/&gt;challenge.” - Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, Powerdown
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Megan Quinn is the Outreach Director of The Community Solution,
&lt;br/&gt;(www.communitysolution.org) a non-profit organization in Yellow
&lt;br/&gt;Springs, Ohio. She has been writing and speaking on Peak Oil and its
&lt;br/&gt;community-based solutions for more than three years. She helped to
&lt;br/&gt;organize and served as Emcee for the First and Second U.S.
&lt;br/&gt;Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions, which drew more than
&lt;br/&gt;600 participants. In April, Megan Emceed a Washington, D.C.
&lt;br/&gt;conference, “Peak Oil and the Environment.” Her articles on peak oil
&lt;br/&gt;have appeared in many publications. " She holds a degree in Diplomacy
&lt;br/&gt;and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she
&lt;br/&gt;studied Peak Oil and its U.S. Foreign Policy implications. She has
&lt;br/&gt;also studied in Europe at Miami’s campus in Luxembourg and at the
&lt;br/&gt;University of Havana in Cuba.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Community Solution is a non-profit that educates about peak oil
&lt;br/&gt;and community-based solutions and designs processes for moving
&lt;br/&gt;society away from industrial centralization toward small local
&lt;br/&gt;communities as fossil fuels and other natural resources become
&lt;br/&gt;increasingly scarce.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Special presentation by Michael C. Ruppert, Author of Crossing the
&lt;br/&gt;Rubicon. The film is 58 minutes, with a exclusive presentation by
&lt;br/&gt;Megan Quinn with Q &amp;amp; A. Copies of the film will be a available for
&lt;br/&gt;purchase at the event.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;WHEN: Friday, June 30, 2006 from 6:30 — 8:30pm
&lt;br/&gt;WHERE: SOU, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR; Stevenson Union; Rogue
&lt;br/&gt;River Room
&lt;br/&gt;ADMISSION: Suggested donation of $5 at door NO ONE TURNED AWAY
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.fromthewilderness.com
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Jackson County Sustainability Network—
&lt;br/&gt;jcsn @ yahoogroups.com—(541) 973—3566
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;___
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;update on From the Wilderness vandalism
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Who is Mike Ruppert?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Mike Ruppert was an LAPD Vice detective who was sick and tired of all 
&lt;br/&gt;the crack cocaine flooding Los Angeles.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He made great strides in proving the CIA was importing this Cocaine.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;His website during the 90s was http://copvcia.com
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;goto http://archive.org and search for his site to see what he was 
&lt;br/&gt;doing.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Then 911 was forced upon the American People.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Mike Ruppert's http://fromthewilderness.com
&lt;br/&gt;provided much of the evidence we now posess of
&lt;br/&gt;US Government forknowledge and complicity.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ie insider trading pre 911
&lt;br/&gt;ie PNAC / caspian oil pipeline negotiations
&lt;br/&gt;ie 911 patsies (stooges working for US gov)
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;And now the update:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;update on From the Wilderness vandalism
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Urgent Message From Mike Ruppert
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Between the hours of 7:30 P.M. Sunday, June 25 and 7:30 A.M., Monday,
&lt;br/&gt;June 26, the FTW offices were burglarized. Four interior doors were
&lt;br/&gt;smashed with a sledgehammer. All seven FTW computers were transported
&lt;br/&gt;to a central location in the building. Their covers were removed and
&lt;br/&gt;they were also smashed with a sledgehammer. No other significant
&lt;br/&gt;property was taken and there was no other damage to any other
&lt;br/&gt;fixtures or furnishings.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;An active police investigation is underway with a named suspect. I do
&lt;br/&gt;not believe that this incident was the work of the U.S. government. I
&lt;br/&gt;do believe that this is the work of an organized meth ring that I
&lt;br/&gt;prevented from infiltrating my business. As Dmitri Orlov has noted in
&lt;br/&gt;Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century, when societies
&lt;br/&gt;collapse, organized crime becomes much more assertive. As beautiful
&lt;br/&gt;as Southern Oregon is and as happy as I am to be here, the challenges
&lt;br/&gt;that will be facing all of us as Peak Oil hits are making themselves
&lt;br/&gt;known.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We have ordered new computers and should be able to retrieve or
&lt;br/&gt;restore most of our data. However more than one hard-drive will
&lt;br/&gt;require expensive high- tech recovery processes. In all probability
&lt;br/&gt;FTW will not be able to upload to our website for one week from
&lt;br/&gt;today. When we come back online I will have a more complete story
&lt;br/&gt;with photographs. Please do not send emails. We cannot read them.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Michael C. Ruppert
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Mike is asking that this message be distributed widely until he can
&lt;br/&gt;get back online.
&lt;br/&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Wendy Campbell vs Michael Moore
&lt;br/&gt;By Wendy Campbell
&lt;br/&gt;6-18-6
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://rense.com/general72/wemndu.htm
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I decided to re-visit this article which I had originally written immediately after I saw Michael Moore's "daring" documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" when it first came out in July, 2004. I've decided to update it because the issues are still timely and as of yet unresolved.  And on top of that, whenever I tell people I have made some political documentaries, they often ask me "Oh, like Michael Moore?", I say, something like "Something like that, but much more daring. It's actually much more politically hot. Much more relevant. Check out my website www.marwenmedia.com &amp;amp;lt;http://www.marwenmedia.com/&gt; ." 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Please note how many people are still under the impression that Michael Moore is somehow daring. It makes me laugh to think that people think that.  Then again it make me angry.  It makes me sad.  Finally, though, I do think many people are starting to get the real picture. And that makes me feel cautiously optimistic. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Michael Moore's cowardice (and avarice) reveals itself in many ways, although he pretends to be your average person, and a good Christian on top of that. For example, Michael Moore himself, and many others, seem to be impressed with his "courage" to chase down and harass the aging Charlton Heston in his documentary "Bowling for Columbine", because Heston was the figurehead for the National Rifle Association. Hey, I'm not into guns myself. In fact, if any guy I have dated in the past has ever told me he has bought a gun, my first reaction is alarm and to run the other direction.  But the fact is, that in some situations, it is a citizen's right to have a gun, especially in certain situations, such as if you live out in the middle of the Wyoming wilderness for one example. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Interesting side-notes: Do you realize that the massacre at Columbine would probably have been called a "hate-crime" if the criminals were Arab or Muslim, or even Christian Fundamentalists?  But if you do a google-search, you will discover that the criminals who committed that massacre were of a certain ethnicity/religion that rarely, if ever, seems to be mentioned in connection with "hate-crimes".  Hint: it starts with a "J". Ever wonder why some kinds of "hate-crimes" are worse than other "hate-crimes"? 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Ever wonder why magazines such as "Vanity Fair" will write a huge article about the alleged rape scandal at Duke and emphasize that the perhaps guilty men were Christian, even showing a photo of the chapel at Duke in the article, YET they have chosen NOT to do a huge story of the young Jewish  men who were guilty of burning many churches in the South earlier this year, and it is certain that  they would NEVER include a photo of a synagogue?   
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt; In the same issue of "Vanity Fair" (June 2006) notice how they feature an in-depth article entitled "The War They Wanted" by Craig Unger, who is obviously a Zionist and probably Jewish, never once mentions the Israeli connection to the war "they wanted"? Certainly "Vanity Fair" has put its voluntary and obligatory blindfolds on with regards to that one, as is typical of the rest of Zionized US media. Certainly "Vanity Fair" seems intent on countering the courageous and important paper about the Israel Lobby and its push for the war on Iraq ("The Israel Lobby") written by Ivy league professors Mearshiemer and Walt, which has been predictably uniformly ignored by "Vanity Fair" and the rest of the Zionized US media.  "They" are doing their best to make sure that the Israeli connection goes down into the Memory Hole. Typical, so typical. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;What would really have been a courageous act is for Michael Moore to have chased down and harassed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (before he went to the hospital, of course) and asked him a few questions, or perhaps Elie Weisal, whom many people accuse of complete and utter hypocrisy and even lying, since he does not have any tolerance for the human rights of Palestinians in their own ancestral homeland of Palestine.  No, rarely does anyone do that. Why?  Do you really need you really ask?  Have you not noticed that is not kosher to even legitimately question and verbally challenge some people of a certain religion/ethnicity? Certainly to do so invites typical name-calling such as "anti-Semite", "Nazi", "Klan member" and such. This is an intentional, systemized attempt to censor others who might disagree with them with regards to Palestinian human rights. Apparently it works with a lot of people, and especially now that there is a Department of Anti-Semitism here in the US trying to make it a crime to criticize Israel and Zionism. Basically they want to make the entire world a criticism-free zone with regards to Israel and Zionism, yet the rest of the world is a fair target, especially Muslims and Arabs.  But note how it is even more than tolerable to criticize Bush, Christian Fundamentalism, the concept of God, Jesus, Islam, and corporations. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Let's face it! Caterpillar bulldozers do NOT have minds of their own! Zionist Jews are the ones who are bulldozing Palestinian homes in order to chase them off their land so that the Zionist Jews get to take over the land for a "Greater Israel".  Our politicians are giving Israel the money to terrorize the Palestinian people, billions of our tax dollars every single year, without conditions, and in fact, tacitly approving of Israel's crimes against humanity. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Let's get back to Moore's film about 9/11. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Moore's film is misleading, smug and cowardly. He picks on the easy "usual suspects" (Arabs) and ignores the driving forces behind the so-called "war on terror": Jewish Zionism (with the support of the Christian Zionists), Zionist Israel (the Jewish  state of Israel) and the NeoConservatives, who are largely Jewish  Americans, or you could refer to them as Israeli-Americans. Moore is like a politician who speaks out of both sides of his mouth. And he knows whom to please in order to get rich.  (Side note: Madonna apparently knows how to brown-nose too, with her gushing on about the Jewish  cult of Kabbalah for example, on the Larry King Show and any show that will have her. As if she doesn't have enough money already. Sharon Stone also follows suit with similar politically correct gushing about certain people of a certain ethnicity/religion.  It's a great career move!  No doubt about it! Especially in Hollywood! Especially for aging celebrities.  Oh yeah!)   
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Michael Moore's documentary raises many interesting issues with regards to 9-11 and the Bush Administration, as well as the war on Iraq and Afghanistan. (Note: And now Iran and Syria are in the NeoCon's crosshairs. Syria exports no oil. Hello.  By the way, the Democrats are just as bad these days. Note their silence when they should be pushing for the impeachment of Bush.  They are almost all enablers, and should be forced to resign for allowing this war to happen as well as the continual erosion of our freedoms.) However, "Fahrenheit 9/11" avoids many more important, but politically hot questions. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt; Why does Moore focus only on the Saudis, yet never mentions the well-known role of Zionist Israel, Israeli spies and the NeoConservatives, who are mostly Zionist Jewish Americans (make that Israeli-Americans) as well as Zionist Christian Americans, in the war on Iraq? Check out the most notorious of the NeoConservative websites at http://www.newamericancentury.org &amp;amp;lt;http://www.newamericancentury.org/&gt; and see how they called for an attack on Iraq even back in 1996, and how they "needed" a Pearl Harbor-style event "to happen" to "motivate" Americans to allow such a war, where Iraq would only be the beginning of endless war (the so-called "War on Terror", when it really should be called the"War of Terror"), to achieve a Zionist-American empire. This website is also known as "Project for New America" or PNAC (Pee-Nack) for short.  I hope you have heard of it by now! By the way, the NeoCons may have cleaned up their website by now, but there is plenty of information about it on the internet if you do a google-search. I highly recommend it. If you want to preserve your constitutional rights, you owe it to yourself and this country. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Here are some more questions for you to ponder 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Why does Moore omit facts such as that bin Laden and Al Qaeda never even publicly claimed credit for 9-11? Yes, apparently bin Laden stated publicly he was happy about 9-11, but so too did former Israeli prime minister Netanyahu.  He stated that he was happy about 9-11, since then Israel's "war on terror" or more accurately, Israel's racist ethnic cleansing campaign against indigenous non-Jewish Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries outside of Israel, would now be fought by Americans against Israel's self-made enemies.  By the way, Israel's enemies are not necessarily America's enemies, especially if it weren't for America's unconditional support of Zionist Israel. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;According to many sources on the internet and elsewhere, 9-11 very well could have been an "inside job" in collusion with the Mossad, and for all we know, it could be true. It could have been what is known as a "false flag" operation. Why is it taboo to explore this possibility? Why is it that an Arab conspiracy nick-named "Al Qaeda" is the only kosher conspiracy that we Americans are allowed to consider? Don't we live in a democratic country? 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Ask yourself: Who has benefited most from the war on Iraq? Certainly not the Saudis, who even had to back out of the Halliburton war profits as Moore's film shows. Even the American corporations aren't getting too much out of the deal. And even Bush is getting bashed everywhere. The fact is the Israel has pushed for this war, and has to most to gain from it. They even expect to get free oil from this war, with a pipeline from Iraq to Haifa, Israel out of the deal. (Do a google search on "pipe-line from Iraq to Haifa, Israel". The Israel-firster Neo-Conservatives are pushing for this as a "bonus" for Israel's "support for the US war on Iraq!" Yet, not only is Moore too afraid to "bash" Israel for its covert, but hugely influential role in this imperial war, he's afraid to even mention Zionist Israel's and the NeoConservatives' roles in the Bush administration (and Democrats these days are just as bad). The furthest Moore goes out on this limb is to show a couple of cameos in the film of the topdog NeoConservative deputy of defense Paul Wolfowitz, without even naming him, or explaining who he is and who he represents (the NeoConservatives, and mostly Israel, apparently).  Please keep in mind that it's all being financed with OUR tax dollars, WITHOUT giving us a chance to vote on it, and the Zionized US media are deliberately keeping Americans in the dark about all this. 
&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Why does Moore not mention that at least 5 of the so-called Saudi hijackers were cases of stolen identity? ( Do a Google-search on "mistaken identity of 9-11 hijackers".) While American media under-reported this fact and even has tried to suppress it, it was widely reported in foreign media, including BBC). Therefore it is a fact that we really do not know where all the hijackers came from or who they were. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore never even mention the "dancing Israeli spies" and their suspicious behavior while videotaping the 9-11 WTC attacks and whooping it up? They were detained for a couple months by the FBI and then released on "visa violations". (Do a Google-search on "dancing Israeli spies 9-11"). There are many reports of Israeli spies who lived on the same block as the 9-11 terrorists and were engaged in suspicious activities during that time as well as recently, as a general Google search on "Israeli spies" will reveal. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Note how Michael Moore didn't include any footage in his film from the now famous Fox News 4-part series on Israeli spying in the US with Brit Hume and Carl Cameron, which was amazingly broadcast shortly after 9-11 happened, although it was deleted from their archives shortly after.  Here is a link to a website that now allows you access to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAoe26MaTew&amp;amp;search=fox%20news 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore never mention in his film the fact that employees of Odigo, an Israeli-owned company who had offices in the WTC, were forewarned to leave the WTC offices a couple hours before the attacks (a fact confirmed in the esteemed Israeli newspaper the Ha'aretz, and even, believe it or not, The Washington Post!)? Here"s the story as printed in the Israeli newspaper The Ha'aretz: 
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&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Odigo says workers were warned of attack 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&amp;amp;contrassID=/has%5C 
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&lt;br/&gt;  
&lt;br/&gt;Haaretz Tuesday, September 23, 2003 
&lt;br/&gt;By Yuval Dror &amp;amp;lt;yuvaldr@haaretz.co.il&gt; 
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&lt;br/&gt;Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI. 
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&lt;br/&gt;"I have no idea why the message was sent to these two workers, who don't know the sender. It may just have been someone who was joking and turned out they accidentally got it right. And I don't know if our information was useful in any of the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover. Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices in Herzliya. 
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&lt;br/&gt;As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not limited to sending messages only to people on their "buddy" list, as is the case with ICQ, the other well-known Israeli instant messaging application. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered users, said Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative to provide the law enforcement services with the originating Internet Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track down the Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of the original message. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Isn't this incredible? Don't you think someone in their offices might have at least called the building security?  Isn't that standard procedure when you get an anonymous e-mail like that?  You know, if there is ever a bomb threat or similar threat made anywhere, you notify whoever is in charge and the police come and evacuate everyone from the building.  But no, this did not happen in the WTC on 9/11.  Why not?  This question goes unexplored in our Zionized US media.  Somehow investigative journalism has gone the way of the dinosaur when it comes to anything having to do with 9-11 and Israel.  I wonder why? 
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&lt;br/&gt;The fact is that Zionized US media has been covering for Israel for decades, censoring anything very negative with regards to Israel and certainly downplaying anything negative at all about Israel, in order to keep Americans blindly supporting the Jewish state, especially financially, without a peep of protest.  They apparently figure that ignorance is bliss, as the saying goes. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore fail to explain how bin Laden was excommunicated from his own family and that the government of Saudi Arabia also not only permanently expelled bin Laden for his militant activities against the Saudi government, but also froze his bank accounts? 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore not mention the reasons that bin Laden explained answering the famous question "why do they hate us?" By the way, it's not "because they hate our freedom"? Helllloooo! Bin Laden has many times stated that he and his colleagues consider the United States as the enemy of the Arab world because of the unconditional US support (financial, political and military) gives to the apartheid, ethnic-cleansing Jewish state of Israel, as well as the continuing stationing of US troops on Saudi Arabia's soil. The Arab world wants its freedom --- from the Zio-American imperialists! Do you really think the Arab world in Iraq or anywhere else wanted the new American crusade dubbed "The War on Terror"? If anything, this has won Islamic militants even more supporters in the Arab world.   
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&lt;br/&gt;Have you noticed how it seems more and more like it's the current US government which hates our freedoms?  As in the Orwellian-named (like everything else these days with regards to whatever "our" government and media says) the "Patriot Act"?  As in "our" government spying on American citizens?  As in allowing certain kinds of crimes to be called "hate crimes" and others not (depending on your race, ethnicity or "religion")? There are many more examples of complete and utter hypocrisy, but let's move on 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore mention the bombing of the USS Cole by Al Qaeda but does not mention the massive bombing of the USS Liberty by the Israeli army in 1967 which killed 34 US navymen and wounded 120 more? This was also almost completely suppressed by our own government and media until recently. For the details, go to: http://www.ussliberty.com &amp;amp;lt;http://www.ussliberty.com/&gt; . 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore focus on the money that our government receives from Saudi Arabia, but fails to mention the billions of dollars that our US government gives to Israel every year in exchange for the massive financial political contributions from organized Zionist Jewish  political committees and individuals, as well as the largely Zionist Jewish-owned and dominated US media which combined can make or break any politician who fails to continuously and constantly pledge 120% allegiance to the "security" of Israel? The US media completely dropped presidential candidate Howard Dean for even just suggesting that the US government should have a more "balanced" approach towards the Palestine-Israel conflict. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Moore not mention that the Saudi Arabian government has pleaded with the American government to publicly release ALL of the pages of its findings on 9-11 that supposedly have "something to do with Saudi Arabia"? Certain people for their own certain reasons do not want this to come to light. Could it be because certain people want Americans to imagine the worst about Saudi Arabia and to then thereby serve as a convenient scapegoat for 9-11? 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore fail to show footage or photos of the many occasions that President Bush has stood in front of the Israeli flag with his hand over his heart in allegiance, including at the 2004AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) conference where he got 22 standing ovations from Zionist Jews and their non-Jewish sycophants in the audience? By the way, since then AIPAC has been exposed and embarrassed by the arrest of two of their top brass for illegal spying on the US for Israel.  Yet another story that has been downplayed in the complicit US media. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why has Michael Moore failed to show President Bush making the claim that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon "is a man of peace" while the Israeli army continued to demolish entire sections of Palestinian cities as he spoke the words, killing scores of Palestinian civilians, as in the case of Jenin? This gave Israel the green light to continue on its massive campaign of ethnic cleansing against the indigenous non-Jewish Palestinian people. And it's still happening today, despite the Gaza pull-out, which was a publicity stunt to fool the American public in particular, but in actuality, the Israelis have turned the Gaza Strip into one big open air prison, where the inmates are continually harassed, even killed, as well as starved. When it comes to the Israelis, it's all a deceptive shell game.  Meanwhile they are continuing to aggressively steal more Palestinian land in the West Bank, unilaterally making new "borders" with their massive Apartheid Wall.  Again, the Zionized US media puts a veil on this to deceive the American public. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does Michael Moore gratuitously show a rapid clip of someone being beheaded in Saudi Arabia, but fails to show scenes such as an Israeli army Apache helicopter (courtesy of American taxpayers) dropping a one-ton bomb (again, courtesy of American taxpayers) in the middle of the night onto a crowded Palestinian apartment building, killing hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in order to kill one Palestinian militant? And Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said publicly that he was pleased with the results of this murder spree. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Why does every Hollywood film-maker and the US media fail to address the unjust way in which Israel was created in the first place? 
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&lt;br/&gt;After WWI, Britain took over Palestine, and made empty promises to both Eastern European Zionist Jews about giving them a Jewish state in Palestine, versus promising the native, indigenous Palestinians their own sovereign state of Palestine. 
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&lt;br/&gt;After WWII, Britain "gave" Palestine, which was Arab land, over to the United Nations, which was made up of White European Christian countries, with influential Jewish politicians and bankers, who then unilaterally decided that because of the Holocaust (which happened in Europe but the Palestinians had nothing to do with it) it was somehow "moral" and "necessary" to give away the Palestinians' lands to Eastern European Zionist Jews for an ethnocentric Jewish state, without even any compensation to the displaced Palestinians, not that anyone should have to give up their land because they are not the "right" religion or ethnicity. 
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&lt;br/&gt;The war that Zionists began back in 1948 when Israel was thus created by stealing Palestinian lands for a Jewish  state continues today due to unconditional support of the US government and with US taxpayers' money. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Could it be that Michael Moore ignored the major role that Israel, Zionists, the US government and specifically the NeoConservatives play in the war on "terror" (as if "war" is not "terror"!?) because he would have a hard time getting it distributed by the Weinstein brothers of Miramax, or anyone else in Hollywood for that matter (like Mel Gibson with his "The Passion")? 
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&lt;br/&gt;Could it be because Michael Moore's agent is Ari Emmanuel, whose brother is none other than Rahm Emmanuel, a former Clinton advisor, and current congressman from Illinois, and a reported to be a rabidly hyper supporter of Israel? Other rumors swirl around Rahm Emmanuel on the internet as well.  We'll leave it for you to do your own internet research on that. Just Google him and see what you come up with. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Could it be that Michael Moore prefers to get rich financially rather than tell the whole truth? Why is it that he still continues to fail to address the more daring politically hot questions that have been left unasked and unanswered? 
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&lt;br/&gt;Could it be that Michael Moore is a useful and willing pawn for the Zionists, as well as a glutton for money and guilty of moral cowardice? 
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&lt;br/&gt;We must deal truthfully with all the issues involved in order to achieve justice and peace in this world. There must be equal rights for all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender in any country which our government supports, and that includes Israel. If segregation and apartheid were bad in the U.S. and in South Africa, then they are also bad in Israel. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Let's remember The Golden Rule, rather than "The Gold Rules". 
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&lt;br/&gt;By the way, I have a few movie recommendations for you that you may not have heard of (Gee, I wonder why?): 
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&lt;br/&gt;· "The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman" to get the true history of Hollywood, and see how very interconnected politics and media are.  Also tellingly, one of Wasserman's favorite mottos was "Dress British, think Yiddish."  See how Lew Wasserman helped put Ronald Reagan into the office of US presidency.  If it wasn't made by Jewish  film-maker Barry Avrich, I doubt very much that it would have gotten distributed.  As it was, it got limited publicity and limited distribution.   
&lt;br/&gt;·  "Jenin, Jenin" and "Gaza Strip", both available at www.arabfilm.com &amp;amp;lt;http://www.arabfilm.com/&gt;   See the racist persecution your tax dollars are massively supporting in apartheid Israel. 
&lt;br/&gt;·  "USS Liberty Survivors: Our Story" available at www.marwenmedia.com &amp;amp;lt;http://www.marwenmedia.com/&gt; .  See how the history of our government's protection of Israel despite its treacherous actions, and subsequent cover-up of such.  Yes, the tail does wag the dog, and has been for decades.  We at MarwenMedia.com also offer: "Truth: Exposing Israeli Apartheid", "Neturei Karta: Jews Against Zionism"; "Rosa Remembers Palestine" and "Syria: Land of Friendly People and Hidden Treasure". 
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&lt;br/&gt;For questions to Wendy Campbell, e-mail her at info@marwenmedia.com 
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&lt;br/&gt;Please Note: There are Zionist Jewish  activists in the US trying to make laws that forbid any criticism of Israel and Zionist politics. Please do your part to make sure that the Zionists do not succeed in infringing on our freedom of speech. Call your representatives today and demand that all funding for the development of the Department of Anti-Semitism be rescinded. There must be no double standards and no infringements on our freedom of speech.  We must not tolerate apartheid, land-stealing and ethnic-cleansing in the Jewish  state of Israel. Palestinians deserve completely equal rights too. Demand that our government stop funding Israel's war of terror on the Palestinian people! 
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&lt;br/&gt;Here is the toll-free number to Congress:  1-877-762-8762. Make the call today.  
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&lt;br/&gt;http://rense.com/general72/wemndu.htm&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>The biggest con: Democrats &amp;amp; Republicans work together to destroy America</title>
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&lt;br/&gt;The biggest con: Democrats &amp;amp; Republicans work together to destroy 
&lt;br/&gt;America, part 1 of 3
&lt;br/&gt;Tibor S. Friedman
&lt;br/&gt;Online Journal Contributing Writer
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&lt;br/&gt;May 8, 2006, 00:31
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&lt;br/&gt;America is being destroyed by enemies within and with the help of a 
&lt;br/&gt;corrupted Congress and dumbed down (through public education and the 
&lt;br/&gt;corporate media), apathetic, indifferent and lazy public. The window 
&lt;br/&gt;for action to reverse the fascist trend of the last 50 years is fast 
&lt;br/&gt;closing and only an awake and vigilant citizenry can begin to 
&lt;br/&gt;comprehend and take action against the coming totalitarian 
&lt;br/&gt;devastation we have allowed to manifest in our country.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;September 11, with the perpetrators in the shadow government and 
&lt;br/&gt;clandestine operations, signaled the final stages from the NWO (New 
&lt;br/&gt;World Order) cabal that they are now in a flight forward end game. 
&lt;br/&gt;The elders in this `open conspiracy' for global totalitarian control 
&lt;br/&gt;of the planet, its peoples and resources, David Rockefeller, George 
&lt;br/&gt;H.W. Bush, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Prince Philip, the 
&lt;br/&gt;Rothschild's, and the rest are pushing for some major advancement in 
&lt;br/&gt;their diabolical agenda before their mortal demise.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Briefly, I will attempt to elaborate on three conclusions reached 
&lt;br/&gt;from my research: Democrats and Republicans are two home teams 
&lt;br/&gt;working for the same masters -- the enemies within; corporations and 
&lt;br/&gt;covernment (using the corporate media as their mind control tool) 
&lt;br/&gt;operate as one entity; and the New World Order (using the CFR, 
&lt;br/&gt;Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg, et al) is an open conspiracy 
&lt;br/&gt;to reduce the population of America (and the world), destroy 
&lt;br/&gt;American sovereignty and to create a totalitarian global government.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It will be useful to ask ourselves, while reading this, why our 
&lt;br/&gt;leaders -- both Democrats and Republicans alike -- after having 
&lt;br/&gt;sworn to uphold the Constitution and to protect America and the 
&lt;br/&gt;American people -- have deliberately worked together to destroy 
&lt;br/&gt;America and to what purpose have they made America a pariah in the 
&lt;br/&gt;world?
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&lt;br/&gt;The Duopoly . . . Two sides of the same Coin
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Genocidal chemtrail spraying across the US, begun about 1996-1998 by 
&lt;br/&gt;Democrat Bill Clinton, continues unabated today and the recent 
&lt;br/&gt;passing of the un-PATRIOT Act by the Senate, with an overwhelming 89-
&lt;br/&gt;10 vote in spite of the refusal to enforce it by more than 440 
&lt;br/&gt;cities and counties, are two examples of shared criminality by the 
&lt;br/&gt;duopoly. Although the list of bipartisan crimes against Americans 
&lt;br/&gt;(and the world) is endless they share the common agenda of 
&lt;br/&gt;destroying America and an allegiance to the global banking elites 
&lt;br/&gt;through their membership in the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), 
&lt;br/&gt;Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. These groups form 
&lt;br/&gt;the trinity in the globalization of the world by members who are 
&lt;br/&gt;involved in the highest levels of government, industry, academia, 
&lt;br/&gt;military and the media.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Mordecai Zember's list of the CFR 2005 membership reflects the cross-
&lt;br/&gt;section of elites that control policy and propaganda in America 
&lt;br/&gt;today. Google also the list of members in the Trilateral Commission 
&lt;br/&gt;for 1973 and 2006; you will find Leonard Woodcock and John Sweeney 
&lt;br/&gt;on it -- leaders of the UAW and AFL-CIO, among others. How about 
&lt;br/&gt;Daniel Ellsberg being a member of the CFR? See "Sheep Dipping CFR 
&lt;br/&gt;style: The Kerry and Ellsberg Cases" for an interesting peek at the 
&lt;br/&gt;CIA.
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&lt;br/&gt;As someone in the upcoming movie "From Freedom to Fascism" describes 
&lt;br/&gt;the duopoly, it is like the Gambinos and Genovese families who share 
&lt;br/&gt;the power and eat their gnocchi from the same plate. No offense to 
&lt;br/&gt;them; but this is how the system works as both parties advance the 
&lt;br/&gt;interests of the globalists, the International bankers and their 
&lt;br/&gt;corporate proxies. The politicians, who take their share of the 
&lt;br/&gt;plunder, are generally fronts who wrap themselves in the flag and 
&lt;br/&gt;patriotism as it serves their needs to accomplish their assignments 
&lt;br/&gt;received from their bosses behind the curtain -- the elites in the 
&lt;br/&gt;shadow government.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Staging Media Events and the Changing of the Guard
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;In America, the corporate media and their counterparts, the liberal 
&lt;br/&gt;gatekeepers, are preparing us for the changing of the guard. 
&lt;br/&gt;Remember six years into Bill Clinton's neoliberal and globalist 
&lt;br/&gt;assault on Americans was the Monica sex circus that the media served 
&lt;br/&gt;up 24/7 to distract us from all the real serious crimes of the 
&lt;br/&gt;Clinton era. Which, in hindsight, seamlessly dovetailed with the 
&lt;br/&gt;Bush 2 agenda after his selection by the Supremes: the Project for a 
&lt;br/&gt;New American Century (PNAC) and the execution of 9/11, the illegal 
&lt;br/&gt;Afghan and Iraq wars (against non-threatening and, in the case of 
&lt;br/&gt;Iraq, sanction weakened, sovereign nations) and continued predator 
&lt;br/&gt;globalization (spreading `democracy' via capitalism and so-called 
&lt;br/&gt;free trade).
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The elites (manipulating the elections) chose Bush -- twice. Now, 
&lt;br/&gt;almost six years into the fascist Bush 2 era we are witnessing both 
&lt;br/&gt;parties criticizing Bush (giving the sheeple false hopes, again) 
&lt;br/&gt;even as the corporate media begin propping up Hillary or McCain 
&lt;br/&gt;(what maverick?) or Edwards (or other globalist tools) 
&lt;br/&gt;as `alternatives' to the madness in Washington. One cannot run for 
&lt;br/&gt;or become president without the approval of the elites.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;As Paul Joseph Watson warned us, `Hillary is the rat poison that 
&lt;br/&gt;will sink America.' It matters not who is selected. The madness will 
&lt;br/&gt;continue unabated until America is totally destroyed for the 
&lt;br/&gt;international bankers and globalists and driven into the waiting 
&lt;br/&gt;arms of the UN -- created to institute a One World Government; 
&lt;br/&gt;achieving David Rockefeller's long time dream and goal: controlling 
&lt;br/&gt;the world's resources (monopoly) and the reduction of the world 
&lt;br/&gt;population through manipulated wars and bio-engineered 
&lt;br/&gt;diseases . . . and the enslavement of those that are allowed to 
&lt;br/&gt;remain to serve the elites.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We are and have been an occupied and fascist state -- the blending 
&lt;br/&gt;of corporations, banking and government. As Patrick Wood of the 
&lt;br/&gt;August Review, a research center for globalism, points out, `the 
&lt;br/&gt;Global Elite march in three essential columns: Corporate, Political 
&lt;br/&gt;and Academic.' Corporate determines the goals; Academia provides the 
&lt;br/&gt;white papers or propaganda for the Politicians to then sell to the 
&lt;br/&gt;unwitting citizens. Corporate media and all liberal gatekeepers are 
&lt;br/&gt;not only controlled by the CIA, but have members on their boards 
&lt;br/&gt;from all three groups to facilitate the manipulation of the desired 
&lt;br/&gt;public opinion. An example is a Carlyle (Bush family connected 
&lt;br/&gt;military industrial complex investment group) board member on the 
&lt;br/&gt;New York Times board; cross-pollination exists throughout the elite 
&lt;br/&gt;spectrum encompassing all aspects of finance and power. Everyone, 
&lt;br/&gt;those with their hands on the levers of power, is literally on the 
&lt;br/&gt;same page.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Welcome to the New World Order -- Ready or Not
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;David Rockefeller -- the godfather of the New World Order - a member 
&lt;br/&gt;of the Bilderbergers and the Council of Foreign Relations and co-
&lt;br/&gt;founder of the Trilateral Commission, thanked the media facilitators 
&lt;br/&gt;(most of whom are also members of one or more of these groups):
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time 
&lt;br/&gt;and other great publications whose directors have attended our 
&lt;br/&gt;meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 
&lt;br/&gt;years . . . It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan 
&lt;br/&gt;for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity 
&lt;br/&gt;during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated now and 
&lt;br/&gt;prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational 
&lt;br/&gt;sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely 
&lt;br/&gt;preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past 
&lt;br/&gt;centuries"
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;David Rockefeller gave this talk at the annual Bilderberg meeting in 
&lt;br/&gt;June 1991 held in Germany.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Alex Carey, an Australian scholar on propaganda techniques 
&lt;br/&gt;observed: "The 20th century has been characterized by three 
&lt;br/&gt;developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, 
&lt;br/&gt;the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate 
&lt;br/&gt;propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against 
&lt;br/&gt;democracy."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It is clear that what has been a long and deliberate process has 
&lt;br/&gt;become evermore sophisticated in its manipulation of Americans and 
&lt;br/&gt;the world. For at least 100 years, America has been occupied by the 
&lt;br/&gt;Rockefellers, the Morgan's, the Rothschild's and other international 
&lt;br/&gt;bankers who have used their wealth and power (and by their illegal 
&lt;br/&gt;creation of the Federal Reserve and Income Tax Acts in 1913) to 
&lt;br/&gt;subvert America and humanity, in general, for their own greedy and 
&lt;br/&gt;nefarious purposes -- the documentation exists and only connecting 
&lt;br/&gt;the dots is needed.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The late William Cooper, a former military intelligence officer and 
&lt;br/&gt;world-renowned researcher, said this about the New World 
&lt;br/&gt;Order, "They are bound together by blood oaths, a secret religion, 
&lt;br/&gt;and the promise of an elite status within regional government, or 
&lt;br/&gt;the world supra government. Their religion is based upon the 
&lt;br/&gt;Kabbalah, the Luciferian Philosophy, and the worship of the Sun. 
&lt;br/&gt;They are not bound by any oath or allegiance save their own. They 
&lt;br/&gt;are loyal to no government or People save their own. And they are 
&lt;br/&gt;Citizens of no country save their already in place secret world 
&lt;br/&gt;government. In their words, 'If you are not one of us you are 
&lt;br/&gt;nothing.' To garner some sense of 'feel' for the concept see the 
&lt;br/&gt;movie 'They Live.'
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"It is a largely 'open' conspiracy, in that much of its membership, 
&lt;br/&gt;structure, methods, and operations, are matters of public record, 
&lt;br/&gt;however scattered and obscure. Its manner of coordination is 
&lt;br/&gt;atypical. Two nuclei -- the elite core of the Wall Street clique 
&lt;br/&gt;(orbiting the House of Rockefeller) and the elite core of the 
&lt;br/&gt;European financial clique (orbiting the House of Rothschild) -- 
&lt;br/&gt;coordinate this global conspiracy by waging psychological warfare on 
&lt;br/&gt;the rest of the conspirators, telling each no more than is necessary 
&lt;br/&gt;for him to fulfill his designated role, often with explicit 
&lt;br/&gt;recognition neither of his role, nor of the unarticulated rules that 
&lt;br/&gt;govern him.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Thus, the overwhelming bulk of the conspirators do not know, but 
&lt;br/&gt;only suspect, that they are part of and in service to a power 
&lt;br/&gt;somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so 
&lt;br/&gt;complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their 
&lt;br/&gt;breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Further he added: . . . emerging realities in 2006, "There will be 
&lt;br/&gt;no individual Rights only privileges. These will be granted or 
&lt;br/&gt;denied at will by the world supra government. All property is to be 
&lt;br/&gt;owned by the State. There will be a redistribution of wealth. They 
&lt;br/&gt;plan to eliminate class differences and reduce the standard of 
&lt;br/&gt;living to a lower level in the advanced nations, such as the United 
&lt;br/&gt;States, and to a higher standard of living in the so-called third 
&lt;br/&gt;world nations.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"This leveling of the standard of living will be accomplished 
&lt;br/&gt;through a global economic collapse which is in its beginning stages. 
&lt;br/&gt;The economic collapse will fulfill the goal of Marx and Engle's' 
&lt;br/&gt;Communist Manifesto mandating the elimination of the middle class. 
&lt;br/&gt;The graduated income tax was the first implementation of this 
&lt;br/&gt;process and is one of the planks of the Communist Manifesto. NAFTA 
&lt;br/&gt;and GATT (add now CAFTA and the pending FTAA) are a part of this 
&lt;br/&gt;process encouraging industry to move into third-world nations in 
&lt;br/&gt;order to exploit cheap labor.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"All existing religions will disappear. The only religion will be 
&lt;br/&gt;the state religion (humanism or illuminism).
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"All County and State governments will be eliminated and replaced 
&lt;br/&gt;with regional government. These regional governments (Home Rule) are 
&lt;br/&gt;already in place. Regionalism is gradually taking control throughout 
&lt;br/&gt;America.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"There will be no more cash. Trade will be accomplished by a system 
&lt;br/&gt;of computer credits with accounts accessed through debit cards or 
&lt;br/&gt;computer chip implants. The cards or implants will also serve as 
&lt;br/&gt;personal identification, drivers license, and etc. When this is 
&lt;br/&gt;completed the human race will be shackled to a computer in a never 
&lt;br/&gt;ending cycle of debt. No action or movement will ever again be 
&lt;br/&gt;private."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Constitution for the United States of America and its Bill of 
&lt;br/&gt;Rights will be scrapped. A parliamentary form of government will 
&lt;br/&gt;take its place. All military forces and individuals are to be 
&lt;br/&gt;disarmed except for an internal police force which will carry only 
&lt;br/&gt;the minimum weapons needed to maintain internal order.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Although Cooper only lived to see a little more than a year of the 
&lt;br/&gt;Bush presidency, he was a firm advocate that President Clinton, 
&lt;br/&gt;although posing as a man of the people, was (and still is) in fact 
&lt;br/&gt;one of the biggest and most diabolical front men for the New World 
&lt;br/&gt;Order.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;William Cooper, author of the classic, `Beyond a Pale Horse' was 
&lt;br/&gt;killed on November 5, 2001, by authorities at his home in Arizona.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Globalization, free trade and `spreading democracy' are Trojan 
&lt;br/&gt;horses for the NWO/International Bankers true predatory intent. The 
&lt;br/&gt;fact that America's downward financial spiral started in earnest 
&lt;br/&gt;shortly after the Trilateral Commission was founded by David 
&lt;br/&gt;Rockefeller and Zbigniew Breszinksi in 1973 is not incidental. The 
&lt;br/&gt;very policies that brought us the "New International Economic Order" 
&lt;br/&gt;(their own phrase) have wrecked our country. Trilateral member and 
&lt;br/&gt;Democratic President Jimmy Carter had 19 Trilateral members 
&lt;br/&gt;(including VP Mondale and Breszinksi as national security adviser) 
&lt;br/&gt;in his administration in 1976 and began David Rockefeller's mission 
&lt;br/&gt;to de-industrialize America. The elites in fact have bankrupted 
&lt;br/&gt;(sold off) and destroyed America by off-shoring critical 
&lt;br/&gt;manufacturing enterprises and knowledge and technologies, which is 
&lt;br/&gt;continuing and is now, 30 years later, almost complete as the Big 3 
&lt;br/&gt;auto manufacturers have been designed to collapse, further eroding 
&lt;br/&gt;America's independence and vitality.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The (State) Media Lies
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Joel Skousen (on his site) wrote recently that the media are 
&lt;br/&gt;completely in lockstep with the USG. I would add that we have been 
&lt;br/&gt;under the greatest psychological operations ever in the history of 
&lt;br/&gt;man, involving all levels of media -- corporate media and liberal 
&lt;br/&gt;gatekeepers. Information is the coin of the realm and our minders 
&lt;br/&gt;would rather have us believing their fiction and not what we may 
&lt;br/&gt;find in our research on the Internet.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The media lies and manipulates perceptions as a matter of course -- 
&lt;br/&gt;and as corporate-owned organs of the power elite structure they 
&lt;br/&gt;serve only to protect the status quo and those in power in their 
&lt;br/&gt;quest towards creating a New World Order and protecting their 
&lt;br/&gt;international banking interests.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The CIA's annex, the Washington Post, and best patron, the late 
&lt;br/&gt;Katherine Graham, once remarked the world is a dangerous place and 
&lt;br/&gt;that democracy operates best when some details are not shared with 
&lt;br/&gt;the population. The WP and the New York Times, the lead so 
&lt;br/&gt;called `premier' papers, operate similarly and are conduits of 
&lt;br/&gt;propaganda for the Powers That Be and their security apparatuses, 
&lt;br/&gt;and provide the `copy' for all the other press in the US. The Daily 
&lt;br/&gt;News and New York Post -- comic book versions of the news -- are 
&lt;br/&gt;dumbed down propaganda rags for the `common man' with loud 
&lt;br/&gt;headlines, plenty of mindless celebrity gossip and partially naked 
&lt;br/&gt;women to distract. TV land (including PBS, C-SPAN) and radio (like 
&lt;br/&gt;NPR) mimics repetitively (through all news and Sunday talk shows) 
&lt;br/&gt;the same official fictions that are disseminated in the press. The 
&lt;br/&gt;evening news on all of the alphabet channels is eerily alike in 
&lt;br/&gt;format and content -- by design, of course.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Polls are used to fine tune messages/propaganda and are manipulated 
&lt;br/&gt;to reflect the desired public perception -- like the deliberate 
&lt;br/&gt;linkage of 9/11 and Iraq. Online CNN polls have been known to 
&lt;br/&gt;disappear after the results were not as expected -- suggesting that 
&lt;br/&gt;no matter the propaganda the public may not be buying it -- forcing 
&lt;br/&gt;the puppet meisters to recalibrate their propaganda efforts. The 
&lt;br/&gt;average citizen it is assumed will fall in line with the `majority' 
&lt;br/&gt;view of a poll even though Joe Citizen has no way to confirm the 
&lt;br/&gt;poll. It is possible that the majority of people may consider that 
&lt;br/&gt;they are in the minority,.victims of the corporate media propaganda 
&lt;br/&gt;and poll manipulation, and remain silent about critical issues 
&lt;br/&gt;because of it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The NWO and their political / media / clandestine operatives use a 
&lt;br/&gt;technique called Problem-Reaction-Solution where a situation is 
&lt;br/&gt;created for which the public demands a solution -- by orchestrating 
&lt;br/&gt;the problem and manipulating the reaction, a solution, originally 
&lt;br/&gt;desired, is effected. It accomplishes their goal while the public 
&lt;br/&gt;thinks they had some input. This process is repeated over and over 
&lt;br/&gt;and is evident in the current Immigrant demonstrations that have 
&lt;br/&gt;been organized by the elites at the top to foment unrest and 
&lt;br/&gt;division in America. Events are created and managed to accomplish 
&lt;br/&gt;the elite's desired goals with the politicians and the corporate 
&lt;br/&gt;media as accomplices and facilitators -- all moving incrementally 
&lt;br/&gt;towards the creation of the New World Order.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Add to this the elite's ownership of and control of media 
&lt;br/&gt;corporations, 40,000 lobbyists, hundreds of think tanks, the 
&lt;br/&gt;foundations, the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral 
&lt;br/&gt;Commission, Bilderberg and countless other groups that `control the 
&lt;br/&gt;dialogue' and provide both parties (the duopoly) with mountains of 
&lt;br/&gt;propaganda to create distractions and wedge issues (abortion, gay 
&lt;br/&gt;marriage, illegal immigration, etc); or the latest `trivia news 
&lt;br/&gt;saturation' (missing blondes, rapes at Duke, a Kennedy in rehab) 
&lt;br/&gt;while the greater issues of the day are conveniently disregarded. 
&lt;br/&gt;All this and more is arrayed against the lone American citizen 
&lt;br/&gt;struggling to understand what is happening to his country and the 
&lt;br/&gt;world. It is no wonder that the American citizen is not informed -- 
&lt;br/&gt;by design, of course.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Mark Twain once said that if one does not read the newspaper he is 
&lt;br/&gt;uninformed and misinformed if he does.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Nothing important gets into the corporate media unless officially 
&lt;br/&gt;created, sanctioned, approved or leaked on purpose.
&lt;br/&gt;Next: In Part 2, we will further explore the corporate media, 
&lt;br/&gt;liberal gatekeepers and how the news and views are controlled by the 
&lt;br/&gt;elite ruling class. Parts 2 and 3 will elaborate on some of the ways 
&lt;br/&gt;the New World Order and their proxies -- the Democrats and 
&lt;br/&gt;Republicans -- are destroying America. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Copyright © 1998-2006 Online Journal
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Found at http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_775.shtml
&lt;br/&gt;__
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The biggest con: Democrats &amp;amp; Republicans work together to destroy 
&lt;br/&gt;America, part 2 of 3
&lt;br/&gt;Tibor S. Friedman
&lt;br/&gt;Online Journal Contributing Writer
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;May 9, 2006, 01:32
&lt;br/&gt;	
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Nothing important gets into the corporate media unless officially 
&lt;br/&gt;created, sanctioned, approved or leaked on purpose.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I cite two recent examples of media manipulation, omission and/or 
&lt;br/&gt;fabrication.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The NSA domestic spying story: Spying has been standard operating 
&lt;br/&gt;procedure by the US government for decades against its own citizens -
&lt;br/&gt;- the story was held by the New York Times before the 2004 elections 
&lt;br/&gt;but was released in December 2005!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Why?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Certainly not to inform the unwitting and manipulated public! The 
&lt;br/&gt;New York Times publisher was at the White House discussing this 
&lt;br/&gt;story prior to its release, raising suspicions about the motivation. 
&lt;br/&gt;The ensuing (staged with the usual talking points) controversy 
&lt;br/&gt;favored increasing the president's powers `in time of war' and even 
&lt;br/&gt;a censure (slap on the wrist) from Sen. Russ Feingold had no 
&lt;br/&gt;traction because of the spineless Democratic members. So, what was 
&lt;br/&gt;the point? To further condition Americans to the idea that spying on 
&lt;br/&gt;them was to protect them from terrorists and that giving up liberty 
&lt;br/&gt;for security was an acceptable sacrifice. The lopsided Judicial 
&lt;br/&gt;Committee (10 Republicans and. 8 Democrats -- why even bother?) had 
&lt;br/&gt;hearings (dog and pony shows) to reinforce the idea of the war 
&lt;br/&gt;powers of the president. Manipulation of public perception seemed to 
&lt;br/&gt;be the primary motivation.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Spying &amp;amp; the Internet: The Internet -- originally created by the US 
&lt;br/&gt;government spook lab DARPA -- may soon be controlled (and charging 
&lt;br/&gt;tolls) by the large media and cable corporations with limited 
&lt;br/&gt;content and access, threatening the last bastion of real free 
&lt;br/&gt;speech. Technology used by the US government is at least several 
&lt;br/&gt;generations ahead of commercial technology available in the market. 
&lt;br/&gt;It is rumored that all new monitors have micro cameras imbedded that 
&lt;br/&gt;can remotely watch you whether or not the computer is on unless the 
&lt;br/&gt;power is shut off. However, in tandem with corporate assaults 
&lt;br/&gt;against the Internet is the Pentagon's view of the Internet (free 
&lt;br/&gt;speech) being as dangerous as an `enemy's weapon system' as stated 
&lt;br/&gt;in their declassified report `The Information's Operation Roadmap.'
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;See the Center for Digital Democracy for more information on what 
&lt;br/&gt;our so-called `representatives' are being lobbied (bribed) to 
&lt;br/&gt;legislate (currently being debated) against Network Neutrality (the 
&lt;br/&gt;Open Internet) -- all for money and silencing dissent.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The second story was about DPW (Dubai Ports), while generating much 
&lt;br/&gt;media bread and circus critical pieces of information were omitted. 
&lt;br/&gt;All media outlets ignored the globalization process that is and has 
&lt;br/&gt;been orchestrated and deliberate and not the `natural process' as 
&lt;br/&gt;Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Neocon/Globalist Thomas 'Flat 
&lt;br/&gt;Word' Friedman of the New York Times would have us believe. Focusing 
&lt;br/&gt;on the `security issues' -- the circus included the usual suspects 
&lt;br/&gt;and `experts' from the CFR (now out of the closet) and think tanks, 
&lt;br/&gt;etc., while none strayed from the `security' talking points. Little 
&lt;br/&gt;attention was given the fact that America has been virtually sold 
&lt;br/&gt;out from under our feet by our so-called leaders.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The centerpiece of this story is the Committee on Foreign Investment 
&lt;br/&gt;in the United States (CFIUS) -- the group that vets and reviews all 
&lt;br/&gt;foreign investments. The corporate media (and liberal media) across 
&lt;br/&gt;the board repeatedly told us that CFIUS was a secret body that 
&lt;br/&gt;informed cabinet members of pending deals -- well it turns out that 
&lt;br/&gt;the members are not only cabinet members but Bush insiders. What an 
&lt;br/&gt;egregious omission!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Patrick Wood's August Review tells us that the CFIUS committee 
&lt;br/&gt;membership is hardly made up of second-rate government staffers. Its 
&lt;br/&gt;12 members include:
&lt;br/&gt;John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;John Marburger, Director of the Office of Science and Technology 
&lt;br/&gt;Policy 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Stephen Hadley, National Security Advisor 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Stephen Friedman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy 
&lt;br/&gt;(TC) 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (CFR) 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Rob Portman, U.S. Trade Representative
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;N. Gregory Mankiw, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;On April 3, Rep. Jim Kolbe (R) addressed the Carnegie Endowment for 
&lt;br/&gt;International Peace (a Globalist think tank and Bilderberg member) --
&lt;br/&gt; more like singing to the choir -- about national security and 
&lt;br/&gt;foreign investments. Kolbe referred to CFIUS as a group that is 
&lt;br/&gt;secretive but is concerned about national security. His pep talk was 
&lt;br/&gt;about the positive attributes of globalization -- allowing 
&lt;br/&gt;foreigners to `invest' in America because it made us friends in the 
&lt;br/&gt;world.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;As you can see from the CFIUS members list -- all are Bush insiders 
&lt;br/&gt;and cabinet members. Omissions and Lies are reinforced throughout 
&lt;br/&gt;the information pipeline -- talking points and scripts replace the 
&lt;br/&gt;truth. Of 1,500 deals passed through CFIUS during the Bush reign 
&lt;br/&gt;only one has been rejected! In fact, small local newspaper recently 
&lt;br/&gt;reported, "President Bush has approved the takeover by a Dubai-owned 
&lt;br/&gt;company of American plants that make parts for jets and tanks after 
&lt;br/&gt;a review that seems to have satisfied lawmakers who helped block an 
&lt;br/&gt;earlier Dubai deal." The AP report also said, "Initial reaction from 
&lt;br/&gt;Capitol Hill was favorable." (Which `lawmakers'?)
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Specifically, the Dubai company takes over control of at least nine 
&lt;br/&gt;factories, including military production facilities in Connecticut 
&lt;br/&gt;and Georgia. Dubai settled the deal for $1.2 billion. The corporate 
&lt;br/&gt;media had not reported any of these details to most Americans. 
&lt;br/&gt;Selling our national security interests to the Arabs seems rather 
&lt;br/&gt;risky, don't you think?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;So the media lies, omits and ignores important information if it 
&lt;br/&gt;conflicts with the `official' story, message or goals. Any 
&lt;br/&gt;challenges to power that the media pose are usually safe or intended 
&lt;br/&gt;to suppress further scrutiny of an issue. Disinformation and 
&lt;br/&gt;outright propaganda is disseminated along with credible pieces of 
&lt;br/&gt;information to facilitate redirection or neutralization of inquiries.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;As Robert Fisk, a seasoned and honest journalist covering the Middle 
&lt;br/&gt;East, recently stated that stories written with `officials say,' 
&lt;br/&gt;or `officials confirmed' have become commonplace in the corporate 
&lt;br/&gt;media. It reflects not only journalistic laziness, but is used to 
&lt;br/&gt;condition Americans to blindly accept `official' sources. He stated 
&lt;br/&gt;that he no longer consumes any corporate media -- print or TV. I 
&lt;br/&gt;suggest the same -- turn off your TV and stop buying the New York 
&lt;br/&gt;Times -- it's all lies. Occasionally I tune in to see what they are 
&lt;br/&gt;reporting as `news,' but try to save your mind and use your 
&lt;br/&gt;discrimination in processing their stories and their propaganda 
&lt;br/&gt;techniques -- once the code is cracked you are free to see through 
&lt;br/&gt;their smoke and mirrors.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Gatekeepers -- the So-Called Liberal Media Also Cover for the Elites
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The corporate media and the so-called liberal pundits (the 
&lt;br/&gt;gatekeepers) both continue their perennial charade of framing all 
&lt;br/&gt;debate between the Democratic and Republican orbits. Typical of the 
&lt;br/&gt;liberal tack, Robert Dreyfuss, a gatekeeper at Mother Jones, in a C-
&lt;br/&gt;SPAN interview threw in discussion about progressives (not as a 
&lt;br/&gt;separate entity, but as parts of the duopoly) needing to concentrate 
&lt;br/&gt;on grassroots efforts to make changes. They know full well that most 
&lt;br/&gt;Americans have neither the will nor all the information -- which 
&lt;br/&gt;leads them into dead ends -- as all gatekeepers like Amy Goodman, 
&lt;br/&gt;Michael Moore, Al Franken, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart , Noam Chomsky 
&lt;br/&gt;and publications like the Nation, The Progressive, Mother Jones, 
&lt;br/&gt;etc., are intended to do. This is gatekeeping at the margins.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Corporate media Gatekeeper Jon Stewart and his Daily Show is an 
&lt;br/&gt;example of the allowable `mainstream' dissent with guests like Sen. 
&lt;br/&gt;John Kerry (remember his Democratic Convention `free speech 
&lt;br/&gt;zones'?), Sen. John McCain, Sen. Joe Lieberman, the genocidal war 
&lt;br/&gt;criminal Henry Kissinger, Sen. Edward Kennedy (his bill adding 
&lt;br/&gt;another 350,000 H1B visas), without asking them the right or tough 
&lt;br/&gt;questions . . . framing all the dialogue, again, in the context of 
&lt;br/&gt;Democrat vs. Republican -- the two headed hydra. Stewart buys into 
&lt;br/&gt;and advocates the `official' 9/11 lie, the phony War on Terror, and 
&lt;br/&gt;the illegal wars on Afghanistan and Iraq -- "now that we are 
&lt;br/&gt;there . . ." His pointless Bush-bashing detracts from having to 
&lt;br/&gt;address the elites who are behind the curtain really running the 
&lt;br/&gt;show (and providing his paycheck) or having to address the war 
&lt;br/&gt;crimes committed by Bush and Cheney. Stewart, like other 
&lt;br/&gt;gatekeepers, doesn't stray far from the official mythologies peddled 
&lt;br/&gt;by Uncle Sam and cleverly focuses on `personalities' and not real 
&lt;br/&gt;issues. Although gatekeepers may provide some peripheral information 
&lt;br/&gt;(not in the corporate media) for the citizen to ponder they are 
&lt;br/&gt;deliberately marginalized in acting on it; the politicians and the 
&lt;br/&gt;corporate media are instrumental in blocking real action for change. 
&lt;br/&gt;All the exits are covered -- by the occupiers.
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&lt;br/&gt;The corporate media and the liberal gatekeepers, not surprisingly, 
&lt;br/&gt;are funded by the same elite structures -- foundations and 
&lt;br/&gt;corporations -- whose mission it is to protect the elite and their 
&lt;br/&gt;shadow government that are truly in control, while they distract the 
&lt;br/&gt;public with their mindless drone about Hollywood and sports 
&lt;br/&gt;celebrities. When the duopoly talk about the `liberal media' they 
&lt;br/&gt;omit that people like FOX (News Corp) Rupert Murdoch -- neocon and 
&lt;br/&gt;pro-Zionist media mogul -- provide some of the most dumbed down, 
&lt;br/&gt;decadent and degrading entertainment on TV. Murdoch recently 
&lt;br/&gt;acquired MySpace.com -- for reasons I think may be suspect and 
&lt;br/&gt;nefarious. In short, there are no liberal media -- they're all one 
&lt;br/&gt;big happy corporate family fooling and dividing you. All one needs 
&lt;br/&gt;to do is to examine the cross pollination that exists