Thank you and congratulations! You told the Senate not to confirm David H. Laufman...he has withdrawn
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TEEN GOES NUCLEAR: He creates fusion in his Oakland Township home
On the surface, Thiago Olson is like any typical teenager.
He's on the cross country and track teams at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills. He's a good-looking, clean-cut 17-year-old with a 3.75 grade point average, and he has his eyes fixed on the next big step: college.
But to his friends, Thiago is known as "the mad scientist."
In the basement of his parents' Oakland Township home, tucked away in an area most aren't privy to see, Thiago is exhausting his love of physics on a project that has taken him more than two years and 1,000 hours to research and build -- a large, intricate machine that , on a small scale, creates nuclear fusion.
Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?
BBC Footage 9/11:The Twin Towers Shows Positive Proof of Explosives
Michael Meiring, possible CIA asset, responsible for boming in Asia, back safely in USA
Michael Meiring is a man at the center of a mystery, a fugitive from justice, a man who may be closer than you think. And it began in 2002 in Spring and half a world a way in the Philippines where Davao City was fighting its own war with terrorism and losing.
At the Evergreen Hotel a bomb went off damaging the building and leaving a victim, Michael Meiring, a South African-born American citizen and self-proclaimed treasure hunter.
He was rushed to the hospital where doctors soon realized he would lose his legs.
Soon after Michael Meiring was gone, vanished and eventually removed from the Philippines- allegedly with the help of officials from the United States Embassy which issued a denial of any involvement in Meiring's departure.
Police bomb experts determined the center of the blast came from a metal box, now destroyed, that Meiring had been keeping in his room.
And affidavits from hotel employees state Meiring told them for weeks not to touch the box when cleaning the room and to not to use any chemicals either.
So what was inside?
First, a lab report showed the explosive was ammonium nitrate.
Then a bomb officer said they found the remains of two 6-volt batteries, an electric blasting cap, and other items including a circuit board.
Davao City prosecutor Raul Bendigo says the explosion was caused by an improvised bomb Meiring was keeping in his room.
"They had evidence to prove that the bomb was already assembled," he said.
And he added that, "If blowing up a building qualifies one as a terrorist, and I suppose that should qualify one as a terrorist, then Mr. Meiring would be a terrorist."
Excellent article with links on the topic of Meiring
Transcription from the Phillipine Senate where Meiring is discussed as a spy suspect...one of a long list. [see document page 247]
We're All Prisoners, Now: US Citizens to be Required ''Clearance'' to Leave USA
Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, we'll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSA) has proposed that all airlines, cruise lines-even fishing boats-be required to obtain clearance for each passenger they propose taking into or out of the United States.
It doesn't matter if you have a U.S. Passport - a "travel document" that now, absent a court order to the contrary, gives you a virtually unqualified right to enter or leave the United States, any time you want. When the DHS system comes into effect next January, if the agency says "no" to a clearance request, or doesn't answer the request at all, you won't be permitted to enter-or leave-the United States.
Why might the HSA deny you permission to leave-or enter-the United States? No one knows, because the entire clearance procedure would be an administrative determination made secretly, with no right of appeal. Naturally, the decision would be made without a warrant, without probable cause and without even any particular degree of
suspicion.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are two countries in recent history that didn't allow their citizens to travel abroad without permission. If these regulations go into effect, you can add the United States to this list.
For more information on this proposed regulation click here.
USDA Approves Genetically Engineered Rice Contaminating Food Supply
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today (11/26/06) granted marketing approval of a genetically-engineered (GE) rice variety following its illegal contamination of the food supply and rice exports, first announced three months ago. The controversial decision was taken despite the insistence of its developer, Bayer CropScience, that it dropped plans to commercialize the variety, known as LibertyLink601 (LL601), five years ago.
"With this decision, USDA is telling agricultural biotechnology companies that it doesn't matter if you're negligent, if you break the rules, if you contaminate the food supply with untested genetically engineered crops, we'll bail you out," said Joseph Mendelson, Legal Director of the Center for Food Safety. "In effect, USDA is sanctioning an 'approval-by-contamination' policy that can only increase the likelihood of untested genetically engineered crops entering the food supply in the future, and further erode trust in the wholesomeness of U.S. food overseas," he added.
Bush changes requirements for Executive reporting to the Congress regarding Arms Exports
From the October 24th Federal Register:
Pursuant to section 654(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, notice is hereby given that:
(1) On August 18, 2006, the President made a determination pursuant to section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended; and (2) The President has concluded that publication of such determination would be harmful to the national security of the United States.
Seems harmless enough, right? Well, consider this: Section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act mandates that the Presiden transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate detailed accounts relating to the sale, proposed sale, or agreement to sell defense articles to a foreign country and/or international organization. Within these transmittals the President is required to be very specific as to the purchaser, the United States Government department or agency responsible for implementing the sale, type, quantity, and dollar value of any listed transactions.
This is just one small facet of this section of this law. There are many other provisions such as applications for export licensing that require Congressional notification. Essentially, this section allows the Congress to monitor what the President is doing with US defense technology and weaponry.
What exactly did the President determine regarding this law? Why couldn't it be disclosed publically when the section deals only with reporting to the Congress? What is he trying to hide? My guess is that he determined to ignore it. We shall see what, if any, transmittals come across the pages of the Federal Register in the future.
So Now Iraq Is For Oil, Bush Admits
For years, there was one word that would not pass the President’s lips in regards to Iraq, and that word is oil.
No, we couldn’t possibly be in Iraq for that, Bush and his flunkies told us. The U.S. motives were so much more noble than that.
Never mind that Iraq sits upon the second largest oil reserves in the world, and that Bush and Cheney are oil guys, and that Cheney himself had maps of Iraq’s oil fields prior to the invasion, and that our invading forces took over the oil fields first, and once our troops got to Baghdad they protected only the oil ministry.
Throughout the lead-up to the war and well past the fall of Baghdad, oil was the great unmentionable.
But now Bush himself is mentioning it.
At his press conference on Wednesday (10/11/06), he brought up the dirty little word three times as a reason for the United States now to stay in Iraq.
“We can’t tolerate a new terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East, with large oil reserves that could be used to fund its radical ambitions, or used to inflict economic damage on the West,” he said the first time.
“Extreme elements” in Iraq “want to control oil resources,” he said at second reference.
“They’ve got the capacity to use oil as an economic weapon,” he said the third time.
This is beyond cynical.
George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Aleister Crowley
North Korea Sets Off Nuke
North Korea announced Monday (Oct. 9) that it successfully conducted an underground nuclear test, ignoring repeated warnings from the international community.
The self-proclaimed test, the first by the communist state, dealt a serious blow to international efforts to resolve the nuclear crisis through dialogue, as well as spark an arms race in the region.
In a report by the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist regime said the test earlier Monday was carried out safely and successfully.
South Korea's presidential office Chong Wa Dae said the country's state geology research center detected a 3.58-3.7 magnitude tremor in the North's remote area of North Hamgyong Province at around 10:36 a.m (local).
The U.N. Security Council is expected to deal sternly with the North's nuclear test, if it is confirmed to have taken place.
Last week, the council issued a chairman's statement in response to Pyongyang's public threat on Oct. 3 that it would push for a nuclear test due to Washington's hostile policy.
Termination set for Iraq monitor
Congress has set a 2007 termination date for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction at the behest of the Bush administration, removing the source of a series of audit reports that have emboldened critics of the president's war polices.
The just-completed Pentagon authorization bill ends Special Inspector General of Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), as the post is called, on Oct. 1, 2007. The bill, which has yet to be signed by President Bush, calls for the work to be transferred to inspectors general for the Pentagon, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department. State runs reconstruction in Iraq.
Stuart W. Bowen Jr., a former Bush aide whom the president appointed as special inspector general in January 2004, has issued a series of reports and audits on a reconstruction effort dogged by incessant insurgent attacks and mismanagement.
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Who, you may ask, will be responsible for oversight? None other than former CIA official David H. Laufman, should his appointment by Bush for the IG spot at DoD get approved. Say goodbye to even more of your money.
Laufman was one of the "cleaners" who as part of the House Task Force investigating the 1980 October Surprise, where American hostages in Iran were witheld until Reagan's swearing-in, ignored pertinent information that Republicans (George H.W. Bush was an involved participant) held illegal, back door meetings with the Iranians in Paris to secure Reagan's victory in the presidential election by keeping the Americans away from an early (read: Carter) release.
SIGIR's website
British Find No Evidence Of Arms Traffic From Iran
ON THE IRAQ-IRAN BORDER -- Since late August, British commandos in the deserts of far southeastern Iraq have been testing one of the most serious charges leveled by the United States against Iran: that Iran is secretly supplying weapons, parts, funding and training for attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
A few hundred British troops living out of nothing more than their cut-down Land Rovers and light armored vehicles have taken to the desert in the start of what British officers said would be months of patrols aimed at finding the illicit weapons trafficking from Iran, or any sign of it.
There's just one thing.
"I suspect there's nothing out there," the commander, Lt. Col. David Labouchere, said last month, speaking at an overnight camp near the border. "And I intend to prove it."
Other senior British military leaders spoke as explicitly in interviews over the previous two months. Britain, whose forces have had responsibility for security in southeastern Iraq since the war began, has found nothing to support the Americans' contention that Iran is providing weapons and training in Iraq, several senior military officials said.
"I have not myself seen any evidence -- and I don't think any evidence exists -- of government-supported or instigated" armed support on Iran's part in Iraq, British Defense Secretary Des Browne said in an interview in Baghdad in late August.
Rove aide quits -- she took gifts, gave Abramoff inside information
A top aide to White House strategist Karl Rove resigned yesterday after disclosures that she accepted gifts from and passed information to now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, becoming the first official in the West Wing to lose a job in the influence-peddling scandal.
Susan Ralston submitted her resignation to avoid causing political damage for President Bush a month before the midterm elections, officials said.
"She did not want to be a distraction to the White House at this important time," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
As right hand to Rove, the president's most important adviser, Ralston was closer to the center of the Bush operation. She was a key organizer of presidential events, coordinating with White House political, scheduling, advance and public liaison offices.
The Bush administration insider, who is in her 30s, had been Abramoff's administrative assistant and, after Bush took office, assumed the same post with Rove.
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The 'secret world' of Jack Abramoff being probed by investigators today has definite connections and unmistakable links to the one inhabited during their final year in the U.S by Mohamed Atta and the other hijackers.
One of the most amazing things about this scandal is that some of the same names in the Abramoff scandal also surface in connection with Mohamed Atta’s.
Less than a week before the 9.11 attack, for example, Atta and several other hijackers made a still-unexplained visit onboard one of Abramoff’s casino boats.
What were they doing there? No one knows.
Abramoff-Atta connection
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So, with these items laid out we can connect, by four or less degrees of separation, George W. Bush and Mohammed Atta.
Even more troubling is that considering Bush personally squashed an investigation of Abramoff back in 2002, it would appear Bush had reason to want to protect Abramoff, or, at least, his relationship to him.
Doesn't look good, does it? How connected to the 9/11 attacks is Bush II, really?