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    <title>US longshore union leader : "don't vote for Obama"</title>
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      <name>steveargue2</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/ffebdc7c-712b-483a-bded-80325b0c6a00</id>
    <updated>2008-07-12T18:58:06Z</updated>
    <published>2008-07-12T18:58:06Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;US longshore union leader : "don't vote for Obama"
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&lt;br/&gt;SHORT VIDEO OF JACK HEYMAN'S COMMENTS ON OBAMA AT PERMANENT REVOLUTION WEEKEND SCHOOL IN LONDON
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&lt;br/&gt;Try either of the links below for the video 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.permanentrevolution.net/?view=entry&amp;amp;entry=2202  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.permanentrevolution.net/entry/2202
&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Also from Jack Heyman, see:
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&lt;br/&gt;Longshoremen to close ports on West Coast to protest war 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/0de5539d-06be-406e-a4a8-e45eaef28b9f
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&lt;br/&gt;Distributed by Liberation News: 
&lt;br/&gt;https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Cool Earth Party 
&lt;br/&gt;http://tribes.tribe.net/coolearth 
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    <dc:date>2008-07-12T18:58:06Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Open source think tank please help</title>
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      <name>prometheusPAN</name>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/75e675fc-2d71-4b35-ab4b-770f944e7b02</id>
    <updated>2008-06-24T10:43:03Z</updated>
    <published>2008-06-24T10:43:03Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;the only way we the people are going to get anything done is if we band together as problem solvers and start working on these problems.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;tribe isn't so great for this cuz you can only have one forum at a time, and trolls are everywhere over here.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;with a bbs, i can put up forums as we need them and it all stays interconnected. Plus the hostess is a techie expert and che can put up a wiki as soon as we really need it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;WE the people can do this, and i think that if we do we can really change things and have an impact. Tribe is not that respectable so its hard to get people to come here. But our own site for a we the people effort is what we really need. this is it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://mytalktoday.com/forum/forum.php
&lt;br/&gt;http://mytalktoday.com/forum/index.php
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;thanks!&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2008-06-24T10:43:03Z</dc:date>
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    <title>NYT: Obama admires Bush Sr.: ''no complaints about handling of Desert Storm"</title>
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    <author>
      <name>steveargue2</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/e632a487-a964-4295-bd8c-50589a2d2513</id>
    <updated>2008-05-18T17:17:21Z</updated>
    <published>2008-05-17T19:00:35Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Support for Empire is support for Empire -- any way you cut it. There's a reason Corporate American bankrolled Obama's campaign 
&lt;br/&gt;...
&lt;br/&gt;**************
&lt;br/&gt;"I have enormous sympathy for the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush. I don't have a lot of complaints about their handling of Desert Storm."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Source:
&lt;br/&gt;- Barack Obama, from David Brooks article, "Obama Admires Bush, NY Times, May 16, 2008
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/opinion/16brooks.html?em&amp;amp;ex=1211169600&amp;amp;en=1577a90ae5048a04&amp;amp;ei=5087%0A
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;See:
&lt;br/&gt;Clinton and Obama: Failures on War and Global Warming
&lt;br/&gt;by STEVEN ARGUE 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/10/18478172.php&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2008-05-17T19:00:35Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>On This Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre</title>
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      <name>steveargue2</name>
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    <updated>2008-05-06T01:05:44Z</updated>
    <published>2008-05-06T01:05:44Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;On This Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;By STEVEN ARGUE
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Thirty eight years ago, on May 4, 2008, at Ohio’s Kent State University, the National Guard opened fire on students protesting the US war in Vietnam.  The students were shot from distances of 275 to 400 feet, giving lie to claims that the students posed a threat to the Guardsmen.  Four students were murdered and nine were injured.  Nobody ever did time for those murders.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Before May 4, 1970, an anti-war movement had been building in the United States.  The American people were increasingly impatient with the war, and an active anti-war movement helped build that kind of consciousness.  People wanted an end to the war and Nixon kept promising a “light at the end of the tunnel.”  On April 30, 1970, Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia.  This was the opposite of what people wanted to hear.  Protests erupted on campuses that had not had them in the past, like Kent State.  For many, the cold blooded murder of students at Kent State and murders of students soon after at Jackson State, were the final straw.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Immediately after the Kent State shootings 8 million students went out on strike, and some Universities, such as Berkley, were taken over by students and faculty as anti-war universities. After May 1970, the majority of those drafted were already opposed to the war before they got to Vietnam. This brought an end to the war.  The US government could not win the war because they were facing fierce battles from the Vietnamese and many US soldiers were actively resisting the war.  Commanding officers were winding up dead as they tried to force soldiers to kill people in a foreign land for a war they did not believe in.   Nixon could not win a war with drafted soldiers who refused to fight, and this was a factor that forced the U.S. government to withdraw from Vietnam.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Three million Vietnamese were murdered as a result of the US occupation of southern Vietnam and massive U.S. bombing of the north.  Over 50,000 US soldiers died.  It was resistance, both by the Vietnamese people, and the resistance of the anti-war movement in the United States that brought an end to the US occupation of Vietnam.  Had the working class of the United States been ready to join that strike of 8 million students in May 1970, we would have potentially had a revolution in the United States, but at that time the working class was not ready.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Today, after the lessons of Vietnam, and after decades of bi-partisan union busting, outsourcing, privatization, and declining living standards for the US working class, the U.S. working class is now stepping out and taking the lead in the struggle against the criminal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.  On May 1st, 2008 10,000 U.S. port workers of the ILWU went out on strike against the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, shutting down all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours.  Within the union, Vietnam Vets were some of the strongest advocates of the strike.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Joining the strike in solidarity with the demand of immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq were the Iraqi port workers at Umm Qasr and Khor Alzubair.  They joined U.S. workers in a deeply symbolic one hour strike to end the occupation.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;In going out on strike, the union ranks of the ILWU defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them not to strike.  They also defied the employers of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) who declared the strike “illegal”.  This is the kind of defiance the working class will need to emulate in other industries, both to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to start winning better contracts.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Today, over a million Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion. In addition, the U.S. has installed a religious death squad government where women's rights have eroded, the economy has deteriorated, the environment has been seriously devastated by the radiation of US DU weapons, millions of refugees have fled the country, people are often arrested without cause and tortured, the US bombs civilians from the sky, and basic infrastructure like water and electricity have been destroyed by the US and not rebuilt by the US occupiers.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It is also a war that has cost the U.S. thousands of lives, tens of thousands of casualties, and trillions of dollars in debt.  Yet, for a few extremely wealthy Americans it has meant massive profits for military contractors and other businesses with contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In addition, multinational companies like Exxon, BP and Shell are drooling as the U.S. government tries to force an oil law down the throats of the Iraqi people that would turn ownership of Iraqi oil over to these corporations.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Meanwhile, the pro-war Democrat Party voted for the war and keeps voting to fund it.  Today, the Democrats are once again pushing for $178 billion in funding for the war.  Neither Clinton nor Obama would promise to withdraw all troops from Iraq by 2013 ("The Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC", New York Times 9/26/07).  In addition, the two of them have offered differing versions of expanding these wars into Iran and Pakistan.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Whoever wins the upcoming election, it will take increased action by the working class to end these wars.  ILWU member Jack Heyman is correct in saying of the May 1st strike against the war, “There's precedent for this action. In the '50s, French dockworkers refused to load war materiel on ships headed for Indochina, and helped to bring that colonial war to an end.”  The longshore workers’ May 1st strike does indeed show the way forward.  More strikes, and bigger strikes, along with building a workers’ party independent of the Democrats and Republicans, can indeed end these wars.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This is an article of Liberation News, subscribe free:
&lt;br/&gt;http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Join the Cool Earth Party
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    <title>PLEASE WATCH = "IN LIES WE TRUST" = IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Daniel J</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/96375497-5231-4308-81eb-4bdac3fde70f</id>
    <updated>2008-05-05T09:48:11Z</updated>
    <published>2008-05-05T09:48:11Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;PLEASE WATCH = "IN LIES WE TRUST" = IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE
&lt;br/&gt;Join the "TRUTH REVOLUTION"..
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.restoretherepublic.com/component/option,com_seyret/task,video\
&lt;br/&gt;directlink/Itemid,40/id,559/
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;TORRENT WITH extras
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.mininova.org/tor/1375455
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;PLEASE READ "A Truth Soldier"
&lt;br/&gt;http://danieltowsey.blogspot.com/2008/02/truth-soldier.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Make copies and share them with people you care about, make some and write 
&lt;br/&gt;"PORN" and leave copies in malls and other places...
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Only the truely informed will have any chance..
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Please join "conspiraciesclub' It's loaded with thousands of Articles,links,Videos, Documents and more.. http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/conspiraciesclub/
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;and for Canadians please go to "canadianconspiraciesclub" to learn about Bill C-51 before it's to late http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/canadianconspiraciesclub/&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe</title>
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      <name>steveargue2</name>
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    <updated>2008-04-18T19:54:06Z</updated>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Join the new “Cool Earth Party” tribe
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&lt;br/&gt;The Democrats and Republicans are the paid agents of the oil, armament, and insurance industries.  Their continued rule of America will assure a future of more imperialist war, a healthcare system that doesn't work, and no meaningful action on global warming (the single biggest threat to the future of humanity and a healthy planet).  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Cool Earth Party is being established on the principles of revolutionary democratic socialism.  We call for an end to the dictatorial power of the wealthy through the nationalization of major industries and for the establishment of a planned economy run to meet human and environmental needs.  This socialist society must be established within the framework of full democratic freedoms and multi-party proportional democracy.  To be truly Democratic all parties running in elections will be legally guaranteed equal time in the media, big campaign spending will be outlawed, and electronic voting machines (which are presently used to rig American elections) will be eliminated.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Upon taking power the Cool Earth Party will establish a system of socialized medicine for the United States, end all U.S. military occupations of other countries, end U.S. military aid to repressive governments, and nationalize the auto and energy industries to carry out immediate emergency measures to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Cool Earth Party
&lt;br/&gt;http://tribes.tribe.net/coolearth&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>The Big World Gathering - Take Your Power Back</title>
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      <name>michael_irving</name>
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    <updated>2008-03-08T22:13:49Z</updated>
    <published>2008-03-08T22:13:49Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;THE BIG WORLD GATHERING 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;What is The Big World Gathering?
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Awake, awake, the world is young, 
&lt;br/&gt;For all its weary years of thought. 
&lt;br/&gt;The starkest fights must still be fought, 
&lt;br/&gt;The most surprising songs be sung."
&lt;br/&gt;~ James E Flecker
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Surprising Songs for The Big World Gathering ...
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (5+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg1.mp3
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering Theme Tune 1 ~ (1+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wg2.mp3
&lt;br/&gt;Big World Gathering Love Song ~ Time ~ (2+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/time.mp3
&lt;br/&gt;World-Action Big Gathering Theme Tune ~ (1+ mins): 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/wwwmp3/wa18.mp3
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Special Images for The Big World Gathering: 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.worldgathering.net/logos.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Subscribe to the BWG NEWS List at Google: 
&lt;br/&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/worldgathering
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;'THE GATHERING' by Sitting Bull
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It is very important that as many people as possible, in different places, should take part in the Gathering. Decide where and when and how to gather. Your participation is needed.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This is the beginning of the break we are all waiting for; for you all on Earth and ourselves out here. This is the beginning of the turn around. We have waited so long for the change. It is time. This is the beginning of the end of the old ways; the turning of the tide.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;State what you believe is true. Courage is the ability to go beyond the familiar. Exchange the information and hopes you have. Always in the world, a change starts with a few people. These few speak the feelings and thoughts of a multitude. They speak the heart of humanity's soul.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The people and ETs who will come together shall ring in a return, a turn around. There will come a flow on Earth which will burst the dark energies surrounding you and your planet. That which you believe is true must be stated. The truth is the key.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;May strength and vision be yours as you establish the new. Follow your hearts. Let your inner light be your guide. Realise the beauty and greatness you have within yourself and step ahead. This is the time so many have waited so long for. Never doubt it has started.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The young of all nations are looking for a new direction. It is time to light a beacon to show the way for all humanity. Let your feelings, thoughts and beliefs be your guiding light. The power of the moment. The wishes of the people. The good times ahead.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It is time for the gathering.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Tatanka Yotanka - The Sitting Bull
&lt;br/&gt;(This message is through a clairvoyant in Holland, Europe, in recent years)
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;Special Words for The Big World Gathering:
&lt;br/&gt; ~ The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope: "This prophecy is a dream and vision that is a potential reality for mankind. It is not an ultimatum. But it is ours to behold and to create if we only dare to create it together." ~ 
&lt;br/&gt; ~ A Central American Mayan Elder: "Human beings must come together in support of life. At present, each person and group is going his or her own way. There is hope if people can come together and unite." ~ 
&lt;br/&gt; ~ E F Schumacher: "We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the cure." ~ 
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;'The Gathering' by Matthew
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Last night I had a gathering for all my departed friends
&lt;br/&gt;I asked Jim Morrison where he'd been
&lt;br/&gt;He just laughed and smiled, 
&lt;br/&gt;Spoke of what he'd seen
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He said "I've been to the end of the rainbow"
&lt;br/&gt;He said "I've seen supernovae burst"
&lt;br/&gt;But before I could ask a question, 
&lt;br/&gt;He said "Let me finish first"
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He said "I have something to tell you", 
&lt;br/&gt;This really is the MASTER KEY
&lt;br/&gt;ONLY! ONLY LOVE! 
&lt;br/&gt;Will set this planet free
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He then spoke ok Atlantis, 
&lt;br/&gt;And what has come to pass
&lt;br/&gt;In an alien war of genocide, 
&lt;br/&gt;He and his friends escaped the blast
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;* * *
&lt;br/&gt;Now these ones are returning, 
&lt;br/&gt;They see our hearts are burning
&lt;br/&gt;The Universe is yearning, 
&lt;br/&gt;For us to break on through
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Well now you see here is my request, 
&lt;br/&gt;The letter to your heart
&lt;br/&gt;Will you join us now, 
&lt;br/&gt;Let the healing start
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;First there came THE question, 
&lt;br/&gt;Then I found THE door
&lt;br/&gt;Now I have come through it, 
&lt;br/&gt;A stronger man for sure
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I will ask you the same question, 
&lt;br/&gt;I can lead you to this door
&lt;br/&gt;If you will walk through it, 
&lt;br/&gt;You will be Wiser than before
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Yes now I have this question to put to you
&lt;br/&gt;Are you going to resist, 
&lt;br/&gt;Will you break on through?
&lt;br/&gt;Will you break on through? 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I am waiting for you...
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Gathering
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;Special Images for The Big World Gathering: 
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&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering is happening now wherever you are by you sharing with others what you really feel and think about life today, and by distributing information you believe is important. At a later stage, perhaps soon to happen, all our individual actions may help lead to something quite surprising; a major world change.
&lt;br/&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
&lt;br/&gt;The Big World Gathering ~ http://www.worldgathering.net
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    <dc:date>2008-03-08T22:13:49Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>GET over it, Hil!!!!!!</title>
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    <author>
      <name>lmbfreespirit</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/50bc0fea-66c2-441a-94c8-ebb62652ee14</id>
    <updated>2008-03-06T16:47:57Z</updated>
    <published>2008-03-06T16:47:57Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;I THOUGHT it was just about getting a PROgressive in office!
&lt;br/&gt;DOES it really matter which one???
&lt;br/&gt;Hil looks BAD~~~TO THE WORLD!!!!!!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Obamma IS a we the people candidate!&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2008-03-06T16:47:57Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents</title>
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    <author>
      <name>History</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/a44a9f86-ab73-4f7f-bcd8-a210c07582c7</id>
    <updated>2008-03-06T15:13:45Z</updated>
    <published>2008-03-06T15:13:45Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;**************************************************
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Greetings to all my relations.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
&lt;br/&gt;defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
&lt;br/&gt;recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
&lt;br/&gt;deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
&lt;br/&gt;the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
&lt;br/&gt;History.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
&lt;br/&gt;recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
&lt;br/&gt;available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
&lt;br/&gt;you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
&lt;br/&gt;do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
&lt;br/&gt;your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
&lt;br/&gt;that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
&lt;br/&gt;Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
&lt;br/&gt;videos).
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
&lt;br/&gt;Bush family &amp;amp; friends
&lt;br/&gt;Capitalist &amp;amp; Communist regimes
&lt;br/&gt;Capitalist conspiracy
&lt;br/&gt;Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
&lt;br/&gt;New World Order - Secret Societies
&lt;br/&gt;Secret services - cover up - covert ops
&lt;br/&gt;Secret weapons - UFO
&lt;br/&gt;Terrorism Theories propaganda
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
&lt;br/&gt;download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
&lt;br/&gt;the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
&lt;br/&gt;download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
&lt;br/&gt;facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
&lt;br/&gt;History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
&lt;br/&gt;whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
&lt;br/&gt;the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
&lt;br/&gt;on a planetary scale. Thanks.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;For more info: watch.history@gmail.com      History Watch&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat</title>
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    <author>
      <name>steveargue2</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/a3b3d580-0346-4c21-a791-3face4f026b3</id>
    <updated>2008-01-10T00:27:05Z</updated>
    <published>2008-01-07T19:35:43Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;By STEVEN ARGUE
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;For the most part the Iowa caucuses were business as usual for the Democrat and Republican Parties.  Among the Democrats, “Anti-war” and “pro-single payer health care” Democrat Dennis Kucinich put his support behind pro-war anti--single payer health care, Barrack Obama.  Yet on the far right, anti-war Libertarian and Republican Ron Paul gained a stunning 10% of the vote.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Seeing the failure of the Democrats to deliver a candidate worth supporting; some left leaning individuals have been suggesting support to Ron Paul.  One is anti-war Vietnam veteran Stan Goff, who suggested in his January 4, 2008 article ”Monkey Wrenching the System, Ron Paul’s Revolution” that people vote in the primaries for Ron Paul, switching party registration right away if they live in a state where such a move is necessary to vote in the Republican primaries.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;At the root of the Ron Paul "revolution" is the dismantling of Social Security and the Department of Education as well as other basic social programs, and the elimination of worker and environmental protections.  Advances like single payer health care?  No way.  Ron Paul's message is that you need to take care of yourself, and that there shouldn't be such government programs, nor such interference with private profit.  While he puts forward reasons for not supporting going to war abroad, his domestic policies would ignite civil war at home.  
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;In addition to pretending he's against all government, he's for the continued ban on same-sex marriage.  He was one of the original co-sponsors of the "Marriage Protection Act".
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;On abortion, Ron Paul is against it and puts forward a “state rights” argument.  It took the national Roe v Wade decision to legalize abortion.  Getting rid of national protections for a woman’s right to choose is one way to move towards the banning of abortions.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;In addition to his opposition to a woman’s right to choose, Ron Paul opposes any protections for women being sexually harassed on the job, saying they should just quit. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He's also a religious extremist who thinks that creationism should be taught in the schools.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;On race, Ron Paul was one of 33 Congress members to vote against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, an act that was first passed to give Blacks in the south the right to vote.  On a similar note, he says the Civil Rights Act violates the Constitution and impedes on individual liberties as well as states rights.  Once again “state rights” are being used to defend Ron Paul’s racist and sexist positions.  Speaking of Blacks in Washington DC he states in campaign literature, "95 percent of African Americans in are semi-criminal or entirely criminal".  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Anyone who votes against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act is a racist.  And you can spare me the Civil War era “states rights” rhetoric.  Abraham Lincoln and the Union Army, including 200,000 Black soldiers, smashed the southern slavocracy, and this was a tremendous step forward.  More recently the Voting Rights Act was passed, but if it were up to Ron Paul, it would be abolished.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;No wonder the American Nazi Party has close relations with him (see letter from Nazi Commander Bill White below).  In addition, Ron Paul has the support of other white supremacists such as David Duke, and has knowingly taken donations from former KKK Grand Wizard Don Black.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Hell would freeze over before I'd support Ron Paul.  And being an atheist; that will be a long time.
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;There are plenty of candidates to the left of the Democrats worth considering supporting who oppose the war, would preserve public education and Social Security, who would provide single payer or socialized medicine, and who aren’t raving racist, homophobic, and sexist “Libertarian” fanatics.  Why not look at them rather than someone from the loony right?  
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;I discuss some of the campaigns that may be worth supporting in the following article:
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, 
&lt;br/&gt;And the Struggle to Achieve It 
&lt;br/&gt;By STEVEN ARGUE 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/02/18469739.php
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Or here is a different version of the same article:
&lt;br/&gt;http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/93820.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;*****************
&lt;br/&gt;American Nazi Party Chief says Ron Paul is one of us
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Bill White, commander of the American National Socialist Worker’s Party, aka The American Nazi Party, wrote the following on the Nazi Vanguard News Network:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Comrades:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I have kept quiet about the Ron Paul campaign for a while, because I didn’t see any need to say anything that would cause any trouble. However, reading the latest release from his campaign spokesman, I am compelled to tell the truth about Ron Paul’s extensive involvement in white nationalism.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays. This is part of a dinner that was originally organized by Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis and Joe Sobran, and has since been mostly taken over by the Council of Conservative Citizens.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;For his spokesman to call white racialism a “small ideology” and claim white activists are “wasting their money” trying to influence Paul is ridiculous. Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I don’t know that it is necessarily good for Paul to “expose” this. However, he really is someone with extensive ties to white nationalism and for him to deny that in the belief he will be more respectable by denying it is outrageous — and I hate seeing people in the press who denounce racialism merely because they think it is not fashionable.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Bill White, Commander
&lt;br/&gt;American National Socialist Workers Party
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;********* 
&lt;br/&gt;Poor Bill White.  He’s having trouble with his brand of racism, anti-Semitism, mass extermination, and genocide not being "in fashion".  But hey, you've got to thank the knuckleheaded Nazi for confirming our suspicions on Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan!  -Steven Argue
&lt;br/&gt; 
&lt;br/&gt;Liberation News
&lt;br/&gt;https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS! STOP LIVING IN FEAR !</title>
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      <name>Project</name>
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    <updated>2008-01-02T22:37:39Z</updated>
    <published>2008-01-01T20:14:33Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Senate bill 1959
&lt;br/&gt;The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All over the internet, intelligent people who care about freedom are speaking out against this extremely dangerous law: Philip Giraldi at the Huffington Post, Declan McCullagh at CNET's News.com, Kathryn Smith at OpEdNews.com, and of course Alex Jones at PrisonPlanet.com
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This bill is the beginning of the end of Free Speech in America. If it passes, all the information sources you know and trust could be shut down and their authors imprisoned. NewsTarget could be taken offline and I could be arrested as a "terrorist." Jeff Rense at www.Rense.com could be labeled a "terrorist" and arrested. Byron Richards, Len Horowitz, Paul Craig Roberts, Greg Palast, Ron Paul and even Al Gore could all be arrested, silenced and incarcerated. This is not an exaggeration. It is a literal reading of the law, which you can check yourself here: thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxm...955_rfs.xml
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The bill states:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;‘...ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs...
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Note that this means the "planned use of force to promote a political or social belief" would be considered an act of terrorism. This all hinges on the definition of "force," of course. Based on the loose use of logic in Washington these days, and the slippery interpretation of the meaning of words, "force" could mean:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;• A grassroots campaign to barrage Congress with faxes
&lt;br/&gt;• A non-violent street protest
&lt;br/&gt;• A letter-writing campaign that deluges the Senate with too much mail
&lt;br/&gt;• A sit-in protest that blocks access to a business or organization
&lt;br/&gt;• A grassroots e-mail campaign that overloads the e-mail servers of any government department or agency
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;You get the idea. "Force" could be defined as practically anything. And since the "planned use of force" would be considered a criminal act of terrorism, anyone who simply thinks about a grassroots action campaign would be engaged in terrorist acts.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;If you stopped someone on the street and handed them a Bible, for example, this could be considered an act of terrorism ("...use of force to promote the individual's religious beliefs...")
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;If you sent a barrage of angry letters to Washington about global warming and the destruction of the environment by the U.S. military, this could also be considered an act of terrorism ("...to promote the individual's political beliefs...")
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;If you believe in same-sex marriage and you wrote a letter threatning a sit-in protest in front of your state's capitol building, this could also be considered an act of terrorism, even if you never carried it out! ("...planned use of force to promote a social belief...")
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The United States is on the fast track to fascism, and the Congress is working right alongside this nation's traitorous leaders to criminalize any thoughts, words or speeches that disagree with current government policies regarding war, terrorism, domestic surveillance and civil liberties. Simply speaking out against the war on Iraq could soon be labeled a crime. Merely thinking thoughts against the war on Iraq could be considered a criminal act.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Must-see video: Naomi Wolf's lecture on 10 steps to fascism
&lt;br/&gt;There's a video lecture you simply MUST watch. It's by Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America. She covers this topic with great elegance and a deep understanding of history. See her video on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Lee Vin Bah</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/5829a2c0-24c4-4539-98a5-72445d1db66e</id>
    <updated>2007-12-06T14:27:04Z</updated>
    <published>2007-12-06T14:27:04Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;PRESS STATEMENT: Revised 12.06.2007, Black File 7001, Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Freelance Journalist inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness.  “Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that initially began in 1994.  Early in 1999, I completed a covert assignment with the FBI lasting five years after having been previously requested to stand-down from a fulltime university curriculum with an inactive law enforcement background for possibly twelve months.  Immediately thereafter I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) and ever since have continued to experience the U.S. government’s use of psychological torture practices and political retribution by the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration.  Multiple actionable offenses have been committed under state, federal and international law while the culpable agents and agencies remain shielded from civil and criminal prosecution by the administration’s threat or issuance of national security letters, which prevent legal discovery and subvert the rule of law.  The U.S. government does torture, I am one of its American victims and am requesting a humanitarian intervention before it is too late.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;EDITORIAL FOREWORD:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Producing the report titled “Black File 7001” has experienced the threat or issuance of national security letters by the Bush-Cheney administration, a subordinate agent directly under the administration threatening me with the invention of a criminal charge if I publish and the suppression of this story by the same Democratic Congress that falsely promised an end to the money laundering operation in Iraq that remains perpetuated by the insidious genocide of our American military service members and other innocent human beings throughout the world.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;As a former lifelong humanitarian member of what use to be the Republican Party until 2000 and a person who also voted for Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, I charge the neoconservatives with having filled the bowels of this Trojan Horse Republican Party with the stench of operating a continuing criminal enterprise under the guise of bringing democracy to the world.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The U.S. government infrastructure has been overthrown and this administration has declared constitutional civil war against the United States of America.  The American people must organize in a lawful and peaceful revolution that mirrors and surpasses the civil rights era.  We must march on Washington, D.C. and picket the corporate offices of the propaganda ministries to force their coverage of your protests and displayed messages.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It is critically important that before the next election we must demand Democratic Congressional members to openly support publically funded elections; not for profit universal healthcare; free or affordable higher education for all citizens; the meaningful development alternative fuel sources; the abatement of the conditions causing the honey bee populations from disappearing from around the world (later in the primary story I will invite you to read why noticing the smallest of G-d’s creatures holds the largest messages); and the criminal investigation of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration regarding the Black File 7001 report.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Career politicians, regardless of political affiliations who fail the muster of the American people should be removed and replaced with genuine representatives before the next voting cycle.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Americans must become the partisans of liberty to reclaim the dream and promise of America and our inalienable rights as human beings.  The jackbooted fascists of today must be prevented from emulating the treason of U.S. Senator Prescott Bush through their perversion of peace for the profits of war.  The American mainstream has already been herded towards the invisible and tangible death camps of democracy.  In those places you will endured conditions far worse than any physical torture where other Americans like me have been left for dead for over thirty years.  These human beings of whom I speak are not criminals or terrorists; they are honorable American citizens who answered their country’s call to duty for special covert government service only to become a disposable population and the hidden dirty secret of the U.S. government.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Since 1970, one thousand and eighty (1,080) American citizens have existed as something cousin to death camp victims from the destructive effects of the Federal Witness Protection Program.  These non-criminal federal witnesses and American veterans of voluntary covert government service became the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment that exists as the precursor model for converting a freethinking U.S. civilian population into a self-consuming enslaved society.  Within the death camp known as “WitSec” these human beings are subjected to the insidious methods of psychological torture that systematically erode the individual sense of self-identity until the will to live has been lost.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ABOUT ME: 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;My WitSec No. is 7001, I am a husband, father, writer, and freelance journalist who remained inside the Federal Witness Protection Program as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness and am now ready to surface under guarded conditions with the firsthand story of how a minority group of honorable American citizens are being psychologically tortured and politically persecuted by the U.S. government.  Immediately I am seeking the support of the American public and progressive news media; the representation of a listed creative agent; contract negotiations with book publishers and the motion picture industry; a university initiative with an accredited school of journalism to include lecturing options and the sanitized conversion of my college records; and communication platforms with Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney via the Smoke House Studio.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;By comparison to the physical injuries that I have endured from trauma and other accidents, the lasting effects of psychological torture are far worse.  This form of torture is sourced from the fascist mindset of the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration through their commissions of actionable offenses and political retributions.  As a veteran of voluntary covert government service who operated undercover for five years while contracted by the FBI as an agent of the federal government, I state unequivocally and categorically that the U.S. government does torture human beings.  As an American citizen and non-criminal federal witness let the record show that I am declaring myself as a torture victim of the U.S. government.  With my soul dying and the body giving signs that it wants to follow I offer that no truer words have ever been written than “give me liberty or give me death” or that “the worse death is a life without hope.”
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Having previously been blessed with an out of body experience during trauma that was caused by the U.S. government and prior to my recovery in advance of relearning how to walk, I am not frightened by a natural death.  The experience of dying for me confirmed the Socratic belief that the human soul is made of two parts with one half being a physical finite and the other a non-physical infinite.  Life as seen from the eyes of the body is an illusion or one half of a duality.  It was possible to see from two separate and paralleling perspectives at the same time.  The physical world appeared normal while my body felt the tremendous force of being pulled into the earth.  Initially from within the spiritual realm there was no ugliness, no beauty, no gender, and only muted colors with humanoid forms.  Before I lost the sight of my physical body, the last human emotion that I felt was an all encompassing global pity that literally enveloped the earth with my living sentient energy.  Soon I was sitting in space and the beauty of the earth returned with the comforting tenderness of a loving mother and at my back was the warmth of wisdom and strength from a fatherly sun.  A few moments passed and my two halves were made whole again to continue the journey that brought me to this place of inhuman suffering.
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&lt;br/&gt;In self-definition I am a Humanitarian-Universal-Infrastructuralist or a person who has spent a lifetime identifying and interrelating the commonalities between myself and all known sentient beings and other components within the universe from which to become more human.  
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&lt;br/&gt;My views of the current U.S. President and Vice President find them culpable for treason, egregious crimes against humanity and international terrorism while wearing a mask of insipid divinity.  Clearly these judicially selected ten cent millionaires are criminal sociopaths who function from a series of learned behaviors used to produce a desired result while being incapable of recognizing any genuine sense of right and wrong.
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&lt;br/&gt;These individuals and their followers bare the marks that brand their names with the gamatria of the most inhuman and deceptive beings that walk among us on the earth in legion with what some would call the antichrist.  Although I have never considered myself worthy of the blessings, respectfully I believe that throughout my life there have been a number of occasions when my being was touched by the many faces of G-d.  With all of that said, one should never confuse spiritual currency with political capitol since the latter is most often sourced from the abyss of false profits, which brought the genocide over six million Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals in Nazi Germany; the slaughter of tribal nations in America; the turning of human beings against their brothers and sisters throughout history; the selling of children, women and men as slaves; the gang rape and victimization of Arabic women who are then whipped as criminals; and the 911 terrorist attacks used to perpetuate war profiteering and oil piracy for those who drink from a rivers of human blood and suffering.  Considering my temporary acquaintance with death, I believe the purest form of spiritual worship that collectively joins us with the universe is simply the individual act of at least attempting to recognize the human being in all people.
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&lt;br/&gt;BLACK FILE 7001:
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&lt;br/&gt;“Black File 7001” is a work of investigative journalism that began in 1994 as an academic prospectus with the goals of publishing books, producing movies, film documentaries, and developing a lecture syllabus with the thinking who better to teach than a person with skin in the game.  While in a fulltime academic setting and shortly after beginning this protect, I discovered actionable intelligence that was brought forward for case installation at the federal level.  Already possessing an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets where few if any training manuals exist, the FBI requested my voluntary assistance for a projected twelve months.  Five years later I completed the FBI undercover group one investigation having successfully penetrated four organized crime groups while never being afforded one day off for that entire period of time.  Since other federal law enforcement agencies are not equipped to handle long duration personal security operations, I entered the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec) as a Non-Criminal Federal Witness in 1999.  Nearly immediately after entering the WitSec the named agents and agencies of the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration unthinkably began outing my active covert status.  Since exiting the WitSec in good standing early in 2001, political retributions by the U.S. government have continued to terrorize me with actionable offenses and the tactics of psychological torture.  These culpable acts additionally serve as a passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and a former covert agent of the federal government.  This story is uncharted territory and I am unaware of any other writer/journalist who has actually penetrated this fraudulent clandestine federal program, which shrouds itself beneath an undeserved veil of secrecy that exists in the absence of public scrutiny and meaningful congressional oversight.  The latter might explain why multiple action notices regarding this investigation have gone unanswered by the craven Democratic Congress that I helped elected to office with their false promise of ending the corporatist money laundering operation in Iraq.
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&lt;br/&gt;Within the next 30 day or by New Year’s Day 2008, I will publish an extensive sanitized report that has been redacted from a much larger work.  Please communicate with me and contact your local election campaign committees to demand that your congressional members take action in this matter. 
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&lt;br/&gt;American citizens are being used as the unknowing test subjects in a clandestine torture experiment shrouded within the Federal Witness Protection Program (WitSec). Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses (1,080) are a special minority class of American citizens in title only who are being used as a laboratory control sample for the applied tactics of terrorism and psychological torture (psyops) on a U.S. civilian population by the U.S. government.  
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&lt;br/&gt;Writing remains one of my two fragile anchors holding me to this world and a federal agent (L.H.M.) directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically communicated “you have a lot of people in high places afraid to death that you are going to destroy their programs…and if you publish a book, the government will invent a criminal charge against you.”  After refusing not to publish with an invitation to that federal agent’s handlers to “go pound salt up their asses”, a series of actionable offenses were committed against me in political retribution under state, federal and international law.  These same entities on several occasions have outed my classified status that with each culpable act, serves to intensify what has become a standing passive sanction for the assassination of an American citizen and former covert agent of the federal government.
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&lt;br/&gt;As a physically disabled person from two trauma accidents caused by the federal government or incurred in the line of duty during covert government service, I applied for Social Security Disability Benefits (SSDB) through the required classified channels.  This process required that I utilize my second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) and the Social Security Administration’s Sensitive Operations Division (SOD) that was established for persons in covert-ops, the CIA and the U.S. State Department working oversees.  The Social Security Disability Benefits were authorized, but following my refusal not to publish the WitSec and SSA’s SOD conspired to punitively withdraw my SSDB.  This occurred prior to beginning treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer in 2004.  The government’s own federal court judge who heard the SSA case issued several letters of complaint to the Sensitive Operations Division, charging that office had provided the court with erroneous information and that the SOD’s delay in responding was contemptuous to the point of preventing a fair hearing.  Two months past while the SOD and WitSec crafted their evidence and my SSDB’s claim entered the appeals stage.  During the initial SSDB process, repeated telephonic conversations had been made with and between the WitSec and the SOD to insure that the production of the SSA documents would not out my covert status.  After multiple assurances that complete security would be maintained, the WitSec and SOD deliberately or at the least through total gross incompetence filed documents that outed my covert status by commingling my identities in violation of several federal laws and a federal court seal.  After the matter was sent to the SSA Hearing and Appeals Board where it remained for two years that federal agency notified my private attorney they had lost my classified government file in violation of the same laws allegedly protecting my covert status.  A copy was returned by my attorney and two weeks later my benefits were denied again.  The SSDB matter is pending on civil appeal to the federal court where I am certain it will be again denied by the government’s crafting of the evidence.  Lastly the WitSec and SOD conspired to deconstruct my only viable work history by purging a covert front business located in Texas from the regular SSA computer system and additionally failed under contract to sanitize and convert my previous Social Security records into my new Jewish name.  Allegedly I had been employed by that Texas front business for over a decade as a construction estimator that for all I knew might have found Dick Cheney answering the telephones on an earlier occasion.  Following the WitSec and SOD’s punitive acts of political retribution, during two subsequent visits to the local SSA office the computer screen was so void of information that the office staffers contacted their supervisors to report they believed their computer system had been penetrated by hackers.
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&lt;br/&gt;Prior to 911 and before the USDOJ had been prostituted by this corrupt administration, I was able to assist in the covert criminal prosecution of my first U.S. Deputy Marshal/WitSec Inspector (J.D.) for his theft of government funds.  
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&lt;br/&gt;After 911 and following my refusal not to publish under threat of the invention of a criminal charge by the U.S. government that same former WitSec Inspector/federal felon was released from prison and allowed to stalk me.  While near death from chemotherapy and radiation treatments for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer that same federal felon physically accosted me by the arm inside of a warehouse superstore.  Thirty-six security notices went unanswered by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Federal Witness Security Program Headquarters.  
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&lt;br/&gt;The second WitSec Inspector (A.S.) eventually came to my home with a regular deputy marshal who did not have a WitSec security clearance, which further outed my covert status and sarcastically laughed that he had forgotten to tell me that the WitSec Headquarters’ mailing address had been changed after 911 and that under the new U.S. Patriot Act my only means of communicating with headquarters was directly through him.  That WitSec Inspector continued to smile while stating that my classified information and security notices had been circulated by several staffers without WitSec clearances before it got to where I thought it was being sent.  When asked about the other Deputy Marshal’s security clearance, the WitSec Inspector stated “owe I use non-WitSec personnel all the time to handle WitSec matters.”  This same WitSec Inspector has committed multiple actionable offences and has outed my covert status numerous times while creating a growing mortal threat environment around my geographic location.
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&lt;br/&gt;Many of the public self-aggrandizing claims and testimonials given before the U.S. Congress and published by the Federal Witness Protection Program will soon be debunked within my Black File 7001 report.
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&lt;br/&gt;Following the WitSec and SOD’s removal of my work history with their deletion of the covert front business from the SSA computer system and even though I am a very capable and multitalented individual with strong skill sets, given this act and the government’s failure to perform under written contracts, I have been unable to find employment after submitting over 3000 job applications.  However by comparison and in direct contrast to my own personal situation, the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.) after his release from federal prison for the theft of several thousand dollars in U.S. government funds is now gainfully employed and processing the private financial records of American citizens as a mortgage loan officer.  Under this administration criminals and traitors are rewarded and the good servants of the American people become part of a disposable population.   
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&lt;br/&gt;Out of 18,000 federal witnesses, 16,920 are criminal and custodial federal witnesses and 1,080 of that total number are “non-criminal federal witnesses.”  The six percent who are non-criminal federal witnesses are comprised of honorable American citizens from every cultural identity within our society.  These same veterans of voluntary covert government service took that extra step above and beyond the call of duty to participate in our system while defending our constitutional democracy and the American people.  Within that minority of six percent I am an even smaller number of non-criminal federal witnesses who entered covert government service with an inactive law enforcement background and specialized skill sets of a nature that possess few if any training manuals.
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&lt;br/&gt;The ACLU of which I am a member has tried to bring four previous cases involving non-criminal federal witnesses through the Washington, D.C. office.  With each lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the Bush-Cheney administration has issued national security letters to prevent the legal discovery of evidence and thus subverted the rule of law.  However, in my possession is the actual physical evidence that includes but is not limited to federal court documents proving the outing of my covert status; the federal court documents of the first WitSec Inspector (J.D.); lawfully produced audiotape recordings of WitSec personnel and others; and the proof of warrantless wiretapping, data mining, the electronic theft of intellectual property; et al.  One should remember General Douglas MacArthur’s island hopping campaign during WWII.  As that relates to this matter, I am bypassing a slugfest with Goliath that would only serve to hold me in stasis with my foot in the courtroom door.  Instead I invite all freethinking human beings to a Greek debate in the court of public opinion.  Criticism and contemplation are necessary to keep a flourishing democracy alive.  Let the U.S. government bring forth its best criminal cowards to stand on the square with me in open examination before the American people and the world. 
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&lt;br/&gt;THE TREASON OF CONDOLEEZZA RICE:
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&lt;br/&gt;It is also my intention to challenge the blatant lies told before the U.S. Congress by Condoleezza Rice regarding the administration’s knowledge of events prior to 911 – the FBI and CIA did have operational joint counterterrorism taskforce offices since the mid 90s.
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&lt;br/&gt;“A litany of lies about 911, Iraq and now Iran – There is one point that I am compelled to insert within this document beyond the scope of its primary focus and here seems as good a place as anywhere.  A covert FBI Special Agent and former teammate in charge of two special operations groups who worked in the field with me and whom I supported in the hunt for Eric Robert Rudolph also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, revealed during the mid 90s that both the FBI and CIA had established joint counterterrorism taskforce offices to exchange foreign and domestic intelligence.  This fact directly contradicts Condoleezza Rice’s testimony before congress regarding the August 6, 2001 PDB Briefing Report titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”, during which Rice stated that a fractionalization existed between federal agencies, which prevented intelligence information from being communicated to the Bush administration.  The most blatant lie came when Rice stated that no joint FBI/CIA taskforce offices existed before or during that time, while alleging joint taskforce offices were being established forthwith.  Further supporting a charge of perjury against Condoleezza Rice and I believe grounds for treason, appears to be former CIA Director, George Tenet’s public testimony regarding actionable intelligence in July 2001 regarding Osama bin Laden’s plan to attack American targets using commercial jetliners.  July 2001 marked the last time that I flew on a commercial aircraft on my way to lecture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and an occasion when I exchanged passing remarks with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart sitting near me.  The actionable intelligence was clearly suppressed by the Bush-Cheney administration.  In other words, given these facts and the known associations between the 911 Terrorists; the family of Osama bin Laden; the Saudi Arabian Royal family; the United Arab Emirates (poised to purchase 25% of Citibank and 40% of the U.S. and British Stock Markets); and the oil trading partners, personal friends and business associates within the Bush-Cheney syndicate it appears that the United States of America was allowed to be attacked by a foreign enemy to act as a protagonist event for the perpetuation of war profiteering and oil piracy.  Therefore I strongly believe that if the unveiled enemies of the American people were not politically shielded, they would have already been prosecuted for treason, conspiracy, racketeering, money laundering, operating a continuing criminal enterprise, international terrorism, and crimes against humanity.”
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&lt;br/&gt;SPECIAL NOTE CONCERNING IRAN: 
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&lt;br/&gt;Before the 2006 election the U.S. Intelligence agencies already knew that Iran did not have a “secret nuclear weapons program.”  That report was presented to the Bush-Cheney administration and was politically suppressed with instructions given between the lines to craft new evidence.  The facts are that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has not been able to achieve a greater rate than 3.8% enrichment, which is even a lower percentage than what is required to bring a peaceful nuclear power plant online and far less than the enrichment level needed to produce a nuclear weapon.  The psychology of substituting sexuality for the creation of illegal wars with oil rich sovereign nations, seems the iconic aphrodisiac of this administration when laminating that over sixty-eight elected Republican politicians have been charged and convicted of sexual crimes against children; that George W. Bush, a known cocaine user (sexual stimulant), deserted his post in the Air Nation Guard when they began drug testing; that both Bush and Cheney took multiple deferments from military service during Vietnam so that other Americans could die in their places; that Dick Cheney made use of a Freudian phallic extension in the form of a shotgun to shot his friend in the head during a hunting expedition; that Dick Cheney has a pneumatic penile implant to achieve an erection; and that the nude photograph of George W. Bush in college displays an unremarkable penis.  Add these factors together with the absolute power over the U.S. military and the world will recognize a six headed monster with twelve hearts that numbers 666 and produces the political fodder that destroys the sovereign thought process, creates a toxic society and consumes the collective human soul.  Plainly stated devil cannot exist without followers.
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&lt;br/&gt;MY REQUEST TO MEDIA, UNIVERSITIES, PUBLISHERS, MOVIE PRODUCERS, AND THE WORLD OF HUMAN BEINGS: 
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&lt;br/&gt;While my reaching out might become the closing scene in a lifelong journey to become more human, knowingly I choose my own death over remaining a torture victim and slave within an uncultivatable existence where self-nurturing and remaining true to one’s own nature is an impossibility.  The Democratic Congressional members that I helped elect have remained silent with the full knowledge of this matter and only a handful of good human beings seem to be listening for the moment.  Already a subordinate federal agent directly under the Bush-Cheney administration has telephonically threatened that if I publish a book the government will invent a criminal charge against me.  This is not the America that I defended and have nourished.  Nevertheless if we are to remain a world of human beings, we the people must publically exam the U.S. government’s ongoing psychological torture of up to 1,080 Non-Criminal Federal Witnesses who are American citizens and your good neighbors.  Currently I have established online locations on YouTube, Tribe.net, Comcast, and have posted on the message board at The Ed Schultz Show website where these American citizens can share their stories with other human beings and possibly begin to reclaim their individual sense of self-identity through these communication platforms.  One non-criminal federal witness has already communicated they are hiding outside the U.S. to protect themselves from U.S. government torture.  Recently I attempted to communicate with a well known actor’s movie studio and was informed that I must have a listed creative agent to represent my story before they will be legally able to communicate with me.  Therefore and in as much that I would dare to hope to restore my own life back to the place where it should have already been, I am seeking the representation of a listed Creative Agent, Business Negotiations with members from the Publishing and Motion Picture Industries, and a University Initiative from an accredited School of Journalism where I might combine all of these components within a flourishing academic setting to create a lecture syllabus and continue writing.  Please do not think me a selfish person, because I have remained one of the most extroverted and giving human beings you could ever know.  This academic and professional prospectus has endured as my long-range plan since beginning this journalism project and is one of the few reasons why I have not ended my own life after experiencing something cousin to an extraordinary rendition to a clandestine blacksite torture facility that exists invisibly within the plain-sight of American society.  Please do not let this story die with me and challenge the validity of any member of the Democratic Congress for their repeated failures to respond to several action notices regarding this matter.
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&lt;br/&gt;Beyond the above I wish to offer one final piece of personal information.  When I relocated to this area I had no intention of becoming involved with anyone and had anticipated reclaiming my academic standing to achieve my goals in life.  While visiting a local bookstore and coffee house, I met the finest human being whom I have ever known and today that person is my wife.  Together we raised our young child from her previous marriage and I have been blessed by the experience of being a father.  Had it not been for my wife’s medical insurance I would not be here today writing this story.  My wife retires at the end of this year and our child is now attending a university.  What that means for me living on a fixed monthly annuity income and having been waited out by the WitSec while my saving depleted is that I will not be able to afford the additional $600.00 a month for my portion of the medical insurance policy.  Further I have been unable to move in any direction to build the life that I wanted from the resulting harms caused by the WitSec cocoon that I will address in detail within the redacted report that follows.  To protect my family and legally separate myself from my wife in the event of recurring illness, I am preparing to file the divorce papers on my desk.  Never will I forgive or forget that the U.S. government under the Bush-Cheney administration has systematically deconstructed my family and prevented my equality as a person and an American citizen while psychologically torturing me in ways that have already killed other Americans who are non-criminal federal witnesses through suicide and medical neglect.  This deconstruction of my family unit is comparatively symbolic to the overthrow of the U.S. government infrastructure by the international crime consortium and the same coconspiratorial war profiteers who attacked the United States of America on September 11, 2001.  Having lived so long as the shell of an American citizen in title only, if I am unable to be made whole again in America, then as a torture victim and dissident under political persecution I am prepared to request asylum from the government of Canada.  Should that fail and if I cannot be restored then I am ready to leave this world for the peace of oblivion and wish each of you mozel tov.
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&lt;br/&gt;THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED BY A GROWING NUMBER OF HUMAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP YOU?
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&lt;br/&gt;First please do not attempt to send any money I believe that it is possible to earn a living with the years invested in this story and I prefer paying my own way, which has remained the purpose of my labors while enduring U.S. government torture.  Profoundly from a place of extreme isolation your concerns are priceless gifts that have touched me deeper than words could possibly express and I truly feel your human warmth and compassion.  
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&lt;br/&gt;Beyond that human inclusion the most important act of support is not to let this story die from a lack of response or another empty promise by the congress just so this matter will be “disappeared” like the 1,080 American patriots who are non-criminal federal witnesses in the Federal Witness Protection Program.  Please meditate for the good energy of the universe to encompass the lives of all human beings and continue to contact any person or organization who will if nothing else at least feel the truth of this torture story: Democratic Party headquarters around the nation; elected representatives who truly wish to remain in office; U.S. and international human rights organizations; members of the progressive news media (The Ed Schultz Show, Air America Radio, Democracy Now, The Nation Magazine, I.N.N. International News Net, Studs Terkel, the ACLU, Civil Rights Attorneys; etc.); the free and independent sovereign nations of the world (Vancouver BC, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain; etc.); the International Court of Justice aka the World Court and Cour internationale de Justice; and any other conduit of communication that might wish to know, share or actuate this true story.  
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&lt;br/&gt;Ms. Oprah Winfrey and Mr. George Clooney are two people whom I admire for their humanitarian and creative contributions to the world.  With their support this story will not be silenced and human lives will be saved.  Please send each of them “one” simple note requesting their support of the “Black File 7001” story and include my website and e-mail addresses.  The movie “Syriana” spoke to me at a very personal level with Bob’s betrayal by the government he served that ultimately resulted in his death.  Oprah Winfrey's all-girl leadership academy in South Africa is only one of the endless humanitarian contributions made to the world by this great human being.  The education system has played a significant part of my life with a trilingual professional educator in my immediate family, a child currently attending a university and my own employment with the FBI in the third year of a fulltime academic curriculum.  The purpose of that covert government service was initiated to prevent national and international organized crime organizations from distributing methamphetamine within the public school systems and throughout the United States of America.  
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&lt;br/&gt;For a time I prevented the false prophets who professed a love of children and humanity from preying on the innocent, but the “war on drugs” like the “war on terrorism” are only political mantras meant to perpetuate and fatten the cash cows of government profiteers.
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&lt;br/&gt;PLEASE CONTACT MR. GEORGE CLOONEY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:
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&lt;br/&gt;Agent:
&lt;br/&gt;Mr. George Clooney
&lt;br/&gt;C/o Bryan Lourd
&lt;br/&gt;Creative Artists Agency
&lt;br/&gt;2000 Avenue of the Stars
&lt;br/&gt;Los Angeles, CA 90067
&lt;br/&gt;424.288.2000 
&lt;br/&gt;424.288.2900 fax
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&lt;br/&gt;Publicist:
&lt;br/&gt;Mr. George Clooney
&lt;br/&gt;C/o Stan Rosenfield &amp;amp; Associates
&lt;br/&gt;2029 Century Park East
&lt;br/&gt;Suite 1190
&lt;br/&gt;Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA   
&lt;br/&gt;310.286.7474
&lt;br/&gt;310.286.2255 fax
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&lt;br/&gt;Movie Studio:
&lt;br/&gt;Smoke House
&lt;br/&gt;Attn: Mr. George Clooney
&lt;br/&gt;C/o Warner Bros.
&lt;br/&gt;4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 15
&lt;br/&gt;Burbank, California 91522 USA
&lt;br/&gt;818.954.4840
&lt;br/&gt;818.954.4860 fax
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&lt;br/&gt;PLEASE CONTACT MS. OPRAH WINFREY WITH ONE LETTER ONLY:
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&lt;br/&gt;The Oprah Winfrey Show
&lt;br/&gt;Attn: Ms. Oprah Winfrey
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.oprah.com/email/email_landing.jhtml
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&lt;br/&gt;BLACK FILE 7001 CONTACT INFORMATION:
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&lt;br/&gt;E-mail:
&lt;br/&gt;BlackFile7001@comcast.net
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&lt;br/&gt;Tribe.net:
&lt;br/&gt;http://people.tribe.net/49395906-0c49-4c98-b92a-79f37b7927cb
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&lt;br/&gt;You Tube:
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.youtube.com/BlackFile7001
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&lt;br/&gt;Comcast: Currently blocking my ability to establish a website online.
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&lt;br/&gt;The Ed Schultz Show (Message Boards – “The Media” Section) 
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.bigeddieradio.com&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>The Aim of the Financiers: A One-World Government with a One-World Currency</title>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;The Aim of the Financiers: A One-World Government with a One-World Currency
&lt;br/&gt;By Alain Pilote
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&lt;br/&gt;The following article is one of the appendices of Louis Even's new book, "In This Age of Plenty":
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&lt;br/&gt;The basic flaw of the present financial system is that the banks create money as a debt, charging interest on the money that they create.  The obligation for the debtor countries to repay the banks money that the banks did not create, money that does not exist, brings about unpayable debts.  The Financiers know quite well that it is impossible for these countries to repay their debts, that the present financial system is defective at its base, and that it can only bring about crises and revolutions.  But this is exactly what they want!
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&lt;br/&gt;As Clifford Hugh Douglas, the founder of the Social Credit school, said: "The Money Power does not, and never did, want to improve the money system - its consequences in war, sabotage and social friction are exactly what is desired.". Why?
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&lt;br/&gt;It is because the Financiers believe that they are the only ones capable of governing mankind properly, and in order to be able to impose their will upon every individual and control the whole world, they invented the present debt-money system.  They want to bring every nation in the world to such a state of crisis that these countries will think they have no alternative but to accept the miracle solution of the Financiers to save them from disaster: complete centralization, a single world currency, and a one-world government, in which all nations will be abolished, or forced to give up their sovereignty.
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&lt;br/&gt;The Trilateral Commission
&lt;br/&gt;There are three major economic areas in the world: Europe, North America, and the Far East (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.).  If, under the pretext of having to join forces to be able to face economic competition with the two other economic regions, the member countries of each of these three regions decide to merge into one single country, forming three Super-States, then the one-world government will be almost achieved.
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&lt;br/&gt;This is exactly what is taking place now, and being promoted by the Trilateral Commission, founded in July, 1973, by David Rockefeller, the chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York.  The official aim of the Trilateral Commission is "to harmonize the political, economic, social, and cultural relations between the three major economic regions in the world (hence the name "Trilateral").  This aim is almost achieved in Europe with the Single European Act that was implemented in 1993, requiring all the member countries of the European Community to abolish their trade barriers, and to hand over their monetary and fiscal policies to the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. By 1999, all these countries are supposed to share only one currency, the "Euro".
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&lt;br/&gt;As regards the North American area, the merger of its member countries is well under way with the passage of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), first between Canada and the U.S.A., ant which later also included Mexico. (By the next ten years, it is supposed to include all of the Americas)  There is a strong pressure to force these countries to harmonize their fiscal policies, and as it happened in Europe, economic union will inevitably lead to political union.
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&lt;br/&gt;In front of these two gigantic economic powers, the countries of the Far East will have no choice but to join forces together and merge, to be able to compete with North America and Europe in the field of international trade.
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&lt;br/&gt;One-world currency -- the "Mark of the Beast"??
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&lt;br/&gt;To consolidate their power, the Financiers also want to eliminate every existing national currency, and to install a one-world currency.  In the 1970s, Dr. Hanrick Eldeman, Chief Analyst of the Common Market Confederacy in Brussels, unveiled a plan to "straighten out world chaos": a three-story computer located in the administrative building of the headquarters of the Common Market, in Brussels, Belgium.  People who work there call it "the Beast".  The plan implies a system of digital enumeration of each human being on earth.  Thus the computer would give each inhabitant of the world a number to be used for each purchase or sale.  This number would be invisibly tattooed by laser (or implanted with a microchip) either on the forehead or on the back of the hand. This would establish a walking credit card system.
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&lt;br/&gt;And the number could be seen only through infrared scanners, installed in special verification countries or in business places. Dr. Eldeman pointed out that by using three entries of six digits each, every inhabitant of the world would be given a distinct credit card number.
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&lt;br/&gt;This reminds us strangely of what Saint John the Apostle wrote in the Book of Revelation (13:16-18): "And he (the Beast) shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, to receive a mark on their right hands, or on their foreheads, and that none might buy or sell, unless he carried this mark, which was the beast's name, or the number that stands for his name.  Here is wisdom; he that has understanding, let him count the number of the beast.  For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred and sixty-six".
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&lt;br/&gt;That man will be the Pope of Rome who will be incarnate by Satan as he incarnate the Serpent, a man-like creature, in the garden of Eden, and Judas Iscariot in the days of Christ's flesh. The main title and claim of the Pope is "Vicarivs Filii Dei" which means "In place of the Son of God", or "Substitute for the Holy Ghost". The letters of this title with numeric values in the old Roman system add up to 666. Thus:
&lt;br/&gt;V 	= 005
&lt;br/&gt;I 	= 001
&lt;br/&gt;C 	= 100
&lt;br/&gt;A 	= 000
&lt;br/&gt;R 	= 000
&lt;br/&gt;I 	= 001
&lt;br/&gt;V 	= 005
&lt;br/&gt;S 	= 000
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&lt;br/&gt;F 	= 000
&lt;br/&gt;I 	= 001
&lt;br/&gt;L 	= 500
&lt;br/&gt;I 	= 001
&lt;br/&gt;I 	= 001
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&lt;br/&gt;D 	= 050
&lt;br/&gt;E 	= 000
&lt;br/&gt;I 	= 001
&lt;br/&gt;Total 	= 666
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&lt;br/&gt;Debit cards
&lt;br/&gt;A few decades ago, before the invention of computers and microchips, such a system would have seemed far-fetched, a product of science fiction. But now everyone knows about the existence of debit cards with which you can buy anything in stores, without the need to carry any cash on you, the amount of your purchase being debited automatically from your bank account.  The avowed goal of the banks is to eliminate all cash, and to force people to use debit cards as the only means of payment.
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&lt;br/&gt;There is always the risk of losing one's debit card, or of having somebody else illegally use it.  So here comes the ultimate solution: to link people personally to their card, so there is no way they can lose it or have it stolen!  And there you have it: a micro-computer chip can be implanted under your skin, or a three six-digital unit can be tattooed on your skin...just as described in Saint John's Book of Revelation.
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&lt;br/&gt;Actually, the mark in the right hand signifies obeying the will, and the mark in the forehead implies receiving the doctrine of the "Beast". The Beast will be the Pope of Rome who will be incarnate by Satan when he is cast down to earth at the close of the Gentile dispensation.
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&lt;br/&gt;Everything will be in place for a government that wants to control everybody's move, since they will know everything about you: all that you buy, where and when you buy it, who you phone, how much money you have, will all be inscribed on this card.  And if, for whatever reason, you are classified as an "undesirable person" or as an "enemy of the State" by the government, they will only have to erase your number from the central computer, and you will no longer be able to buy or sell (and thus be condemned to disappear before long).
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&lt;br/&gt;The Illuminati
&lt;br/&gt;This quest for a world government has been going on for a long time. For example, on Feb. 17, 1953, Financier Paul Warburg said before the U.S. Senate: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent."  This quest for world domination can be traced back to the creation of the "Illuminati", a secret society, in 1776.  Their leader, Adam Weishaupt, wrote out the master plan to bring about the subjection of the whole human race to an oligarchy of Financiers.  The word "Illuminati" is derived from Lucifer and means "holders of the light".
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&lt;br/&gt;As surprising as it may seems, the insignia of the Order of the Illuminati appears on the reverse side of U.S. one-dollar bills. The first time it appeared was in 1933, by order of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the beginning of the New Deal (the name given to Roosevelt's political reforms of that time).
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&lt;br/&gt;One can read at the base of the 13-story pyramid, the year 1776 (MDCCLXVI in Roman numerals).  Most of the people think that it represents the date of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, but it actually memorializes the foundation of the Order of the Illuminati, which was on May 1, 1776. (Note the Zionist-Communist May Day connection).
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&lt;br/&gt;The pyramid represents the conspiracy for the destruction of the Catholic Church (and all existing religions"), and the establishment of a one-world government, or a United Nations dictatorship.  The eye radiating in all directions, is the "all-spying" eye that symbolizes the terroristic, Gestapo-like, espionage agency that Weishaupt set up to guard the "secret of the Order and to terrorize the populace into the acceptance of its rule".  The Latin words "ANNUIT COEPTIS" translate to "Announcing the creation or beginning".   Below them, "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM" translates to a "New secular order" and the year is written in Roman numerals at the base of the Pyramid.
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&lt;br/&gt;Manly Palmer Hall explained the symbolism otherwise. He said, Annuit Coeptis means "He (NOT the Christian God) has smiled upon our endeavours". The capstone or triangle signifies science, NOT spirituality, and that the scroll underneath, bearing the inscription "Novus Ordo Seclorum" indicates the nature of the enterprise: a "New order of the ages", an order of science and knowledge as opposed to Christian (morality) superstition and fear.
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&lt;br/&gt;This insignia was adopted by the U.S. Congress as the reverse of the seal of the United States on September 15, 1789. (The obverse side of the seal bears the eagle, which is used as the official seal and coat of arms of the U.S.A., and which is also shown on the reverse side of the U.S. $1.00 bills).
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&lt;br/&gt;The appearance of this insignia of the Illuminati on U.S., one-dollar bills in 1933 meant that the followers of Weishaupt regarded their efforts as beginning to "be crowned with success," and that they totally controlled the U.S. Government.
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&lt;br/&gt;The pyramid is a symbol of the Knights Templar of Freemasonry and a Zionist symbol and the Hexgram is used by Royal Arch Masons which is part of York Rite Masonry also a Zionist symbol. The two seals of the "Great Seal" combines symbolism of all Masonic Orders. The Eagle is a symbol of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
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&lt;br/&gt;Proof the Great Seal is Masonic
&lt;br/&gt;First outline the pyramid with a triangle. Now take the pyramid and draw a line under the base of the capstone and extend it left to right extended to the A in ANNUIT and the S in COEPTIS. Now draw lines from the end of this line down to the last O in ORDO so you will finsih the Hexagram also called the Jewish Star of David.
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&lt;br/&gt;Draw circles around all five letters to which the Hexagram points. These letters make the word MASON. The 32 feathers on the left wing of the eagle signify the 32 degress of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The right wing has 33 feathers for the extra 33rd honary degree and inner head of the Scottish Rite. George Washington himself on the front of the One Dollar Bill was a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason. The 9 tail feathers indicate the 9 additional degrees of the York Rite of Freemasonry. There are13 olives and 13 leaves on the olive branches, 13 arrows in the other eagle's claw, 13 stripes on the shield, 13 stars above the eagle in the form of a Hexagram, 13 letters in "E PLURIBUS UNUM", 13 letters in "ANNUIT COEPTIS", 13 rows of bricks in the pyramid. The 33rd degree Grand Lodge of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is located exactly 13 blocks north of the White House above an upside down pentagram oulined by the road layout which rests on the White House. See this link: http://www.cuttingedge.org/n1040.html
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&lt;br/&gt;The use of the Hexagram and the Pentagram and even the 7 pointed star stems from Jewish Cabalism or mysticism which was adopted from paganism. The placement of the symbols on the American money etc. is no different then to displaying a cross on the back of a one dollar bill. But you will never see these religious symbols removed because the ACLU only attacks what it sees as Christian. Separation of Church and State is a farce. The law requiring the "Separation of CHURCH and State" might as well say "Separation of Christondom and State" because only religions calling themseves "Christian" use buildings called "Church".
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&lt;br/&gt;Albert Pike was the founder of the KKK and one time leader of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction. He himself protested the suggestion that Masonry was Christian and said that "if Masonry was Christian why were most of the people who had possession of it during the early days of the USA Hebrew"?
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&lt;br/&gt;http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/4803/IWJindxf.html
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.hourofthetime.com/majestyt.htm
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.cuttingedge.org/fmcorner.html
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&lt;br/&gt;A Luciferian conspiracy  
&lt;br/&gt;To say that the Illuminati is a "Luciferian" conspiracy" is not only a stylistic device, but it is literally true, since the leaders of the Illuminati are actually worshipers of Satan, and their final objective is to have the whole world bow down to him.  Through his hellhounds, it is Satan himself who continues his revolt against God by endeavoring to foil God's plan on earth, and to snatch from God as many souls as possible.
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&lt;br/&gt;Just like Satan, the Financiers think that they are smarter than God, and that they are the only ones who can lead mankind properly.  The members of the Illuminati are people of every race and creed, but who all lust for money and power.
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&lt;br/&gt;Recognizing the powers involved
&lt;br/&gt;In the conclusion of his book "Pawns in the Game", which denounces the plot of the Illuminati for world domination, William Guy Carr explains what must be done to stop this plot.
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&lt;br/&gt;First, we must as individuals recognize the spiritual powers involved, and realize that we are not only facing terrestrial powers, but also spiritual ones; that it is basically a fight between God and Satan.  We must choose who we will serve, who we will fight for:  God or Satan.
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&lt;br/&gt;Second, we must take practical steps to counteract the plan of the Financiers which, in Mr. Carr's own words, can be done only through a monetary reform: "The electors must insist that the issue of money, and the control thereof, be placed back in the hands of the Government where it rightfully belongs."  
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&lt;br/&gt;The necessity for Social Credit
&lt;br/&gt; The prayers and sacrifices to obtain the assistance of Heaven are certainly necessary to thwart the plan of the Financiers.  But a technique, a temporal means, is also necessary to thwart the plan of the Financiers.  This means is the Social Credit reform, conceived by the Scottish engineer, Clifford Hugh Douglas, the only reform that the Financiers really fear, and that would put an end to their power to control all the nations.  ("Social Credit" means social money - money created without debt by society, issued with new production, and withdrawn from circulation as production is consumed - instead of having a banking credit, as it is the case today - money created as a debt by private banks.)
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&lt;br/&gt;Douglas first thought that once his discovery and its implications would be brought to the attention of the governments and of those in charge of the economy, they would hasten to implement it.  But Douglas soon made another discovery: the Financiers, who ruled the economy, were absolutely not interested in changing the financial system, and its flaws and consequences (wars, waste, poverty, social friction etc.,) were absolutely what they desired, and even fostered deliberately, in order to impose their solution of a one-world government.  So the Financiers did everything they could to stop and silence the Social Credit idea: a conspiracy of silence in the news media, or deliberate falsification of Douglas's doctrine, in order to render it vulnerable; calumnies and ridicule against the apostles of "Michael".  Douglas wrote in his book "Warning Democracy":
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&lt;br/&gt;"So rapid was the progress made by the Social Credit ideas between 1919 and 1923 both in this country (Great Britain) and abroad, and so constantly did ideas derived from them appear in the pages of the press, that the interests threatened by them became considerably alarmed, and took what were, on the whole, effective steps to curtail their publicity.  In this country the Institute of Bankers allocated five million pounds (then the equivalent of 24 million dollars) to combat the 'subversive' ideas of ourselves and other misguided people who wished to thinker with the financial system.  The large Press Associations were expressly instructed that my own name should not be mentioned in the public press, and no metropolitan newspaper in this country or the United States was allowed to give publicity, either to correspondence or to contributions bearing upon the subject.  In spite of this Canadian Parliamentary Inquiry at which I was a witness (in 1923) managed to expose on the one hand the ignorance of even leading bankers of the fundamental problems with which they had to deal, and on the other hand the lengths to which the financial power was prepared to go to retain control of the situation."
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&lt;br/&gt;One must not forget to mention here that the best way that the Financiers found to stop the advancement  of the Social Credit idea was the creation of political parties falsely bearing the name "Social Credit", to make people think that voting for a new party is sufficient  to change the system, whereas what  is needed is the education of the people (by having them subscribe to the "Michael Journal"), to force the elected representatives to serve the population, instead of serving the Financiers.  Fortunately, all the so-called "Social Credit parties" are dead and buried now, but they did a lot of damage and spread confusion in the minds of the people while they existed.
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&lt;br/&gt;"The psychological moment"  
&lt;br/&gt;Douglas predicted that the present debt-money system of the Bankers would become unworkable and fall by itself, because of all of the unpayable debts that it creates.  All the countries in the world are struggling with skyrocketing debts and heading for disaster, even though everybody knows these debts can never be paid off.  Other factors announce the inevitable fall of the present system: automation, for example, which makes full employment impossible.
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&lt;br/&gt;Douglas said that "a psychological moment" will come, a critical moment when the population, given the gravity of the situation, and despite all the power of the Financiers, will have suffered their debt-money system long enough, and will be disposed to study and accept Social Credit.  Douglas wrote the following in 1924, in his book "Social Credit":
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&lt;br/&gt; "The position will be tremendous in its importance. A comparatively short period will probably serve to decide whether we are to master the mighty economic and social machine that we have created, or whether it is to master us; and during that period a small impetus from a body of men who know what to do and how to do it, may make the difference between yet one more retreat into the Dark Ages, or the emergence into the full light of a day of such splendor as we can at present only envisage dimly. It is this necessity for the recognition of the psychological moment, and the fitting to that moment of appropriate action, which should be present in the minds of that small minority which is seized of the gravity of the present times."
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&lt;br/&gt;Louis Even, at the end of an article written in 1970 and entitled "Social Credit, yes - Party, No", repeated this idea of Douglas:
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&lt;br/&gt;"The Social Crediters of the Michael Journal maintain, along with Douglas, that as regards Social Credit, the most effective work to do is to enlighten the population on the monopoly of financial credit, attributing to it the bad fruits of which it is the cause in the lives of people, of families, of institutions; and, in front of these bad fruits, to expose the doctrine of genuine Social Credit, which is so brilliant and in keeping with common sense.  They also endeavor to develop within themselves, and to also radiate, a Social Credit spirit, which is clearly in keeping with the spirit of the Gospel: a spirit of service and not of domination, not of an insatiable pursuit of money or material goods, which is of the same nature - with a less powerful means - as the spirit of the barons of High Finance.
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&lt;br/&gt;"Whether the collapse of the present financial system, under the weight of its own enormities, or events that have been foretold many times by privileged souls - events one certainly cannot doubt of when one sees the present decadence of moral standards, apostasy, the paganization of affluent nations that used to be Christian - occur soon, in either case, the living or the survivors of those events won't be without a light to establish a social economic system worthy of its name."
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&lt;br/&gt;The point to remember in all of this is that the present financial system, which creates money as a debt, is the main means of the Financiers to establish a one-world government.  Debt finance is the bridge that leads us from a free society to complete dictatorship. And the only thing the Financiers fear, the only thing that can stop them in their plan of world conquest, is the reform of the present financial system, the establishment of an honest debt-free money system, along the lines of the Social Credit philosophy.  Then one realizes all the importance of the Social Credit solution, and the importance of spreading it an making it known.  This is why Soviet foreign Minister Molotow had said to Dr. Hawlett Johnson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the 30s: "We know all about Social Credit.  It is the one theory in the world we fear."
&lt;br/&gt;Alain Pilote. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br/&gt;INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 
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&lt;br/&gt;This weekend, Australians went to the polls and delivered an emphatic victory for Labor leader Kevin Rudd, while handing the party of conservative Bush ally John Howard its "worst election defeat in its 63-year history." Howard "suffered the additional ignominy of losing his own constituency seat" in addition to the prime minister's seat, the first time since 1929 that an Australian prime minister has been voted out of parliament. Rudd, a Chinese-speaking former diplomat who made combating global warming, strengthening workers' rights, and redeploying from Iraq key priorities in his campaign, "swings Australia toward the political left after almost 12 years of conservative rule." The incoming prime minister has wasted no time implementing his new vision for Australia. Yesterday, he convened a meeting with government officials to discuss the mechanics of signing onto the Kyoto pact on global warming, and he announced that he will attend a U.N. climate change conference in Bali next month. Rudd soon plans to begin negotiations with the Bush administration over the withdrawal of Australia's 500 troops from Iraq. "Today Australia looks to the future," Rudd said. "Today the Australian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward."
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&lt;br/&gt;BUSHWHACKED: President Bush, who lauded the outgoing prime minister as a "man of steel," lost one of his "most steadfast allies" in Howard. The Bush administration had sought to influence the Australian elections with press offensives declaring the Iraq escalation a success, hoping that the reports would bolster Howard's campaign. For his part, Howard had interceded on Bush's behalf prior to the 2004 U.S. presidential elections, claiming a Bush reelection was needed in order to "stay and finish the job" in Iraq. In February of this year, Howard inserted himself into U.S. domestic politics again by spouting this smear: "If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for [Barack] Obama, but also for the Democrats." In a 2003 speech delivered to the Australian parliament, Howard claimed history had proven wrong those critics of Bush who "assaulted his judgment, and called into question his ability to lead the U.S. in this very, very difficult conflict." History will instead deliver a very different message than the one Howard predicted.
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&lt;br/&gt;COALITION OF THE DEFEATED: Like Britain's Tony Blair, Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, and Spain's Jose Maria Aznar before him, John Howard suffered greatly from his decision to participate in Bush's "coalition of the willing." His full-throated support for the Iraq war hurt him domestically. More than 60 percent of Australians want forces out of Iraq within a year, and Rudd pledged that Australian troops would leave by mid-2008 after consultations with the United States and the United Kingdom. Analysts noted that Bush "was a little more isolated in the world Sunday" after the loss of his close Australian ally.
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&lt;br/&gt;CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL LOSING STEAM: For many years, Howard was one of the world's foremost climate deniers, tag-teaming with the Bush administration to remain the only major industrialized nations to stay out of the international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Until a few months ago when Howard moderated his climate change rhetoric for political reason, he and his ministers frequently "pooh-poohed the climate-change doomsayers." When former vice president Al Gore traveled to Australia in September to deliver a speech on the climate crisis, Howard prohibited his party members from attending the event. With Australia mired in the midst of the worst drought the country has faced in a thousand years, Howard's climate change denial put him in a political position isolated from his countrymen. The majority of Australians viewed climate change as the number one external threat to the country, and Rudd delivered what Australia wanted to hear. "I am determined to make Australia part of the global climate change solution -- not just part of the global climate change problem," Rudd said during his campaign.
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&lt;br/&gt;CONGRESS -- SENATE MINORITY WHIP TRENT LOTT TO RESIGN BY THE END OF THE YEAR: Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) is reportedly informing close allies that he plans to resign his Senate seat before the end of the year. Lott has "scheduled two news conferences in his home state later in the day," the AP reports. "No reason for Lott's resignation was given, but according to a congressional official, there is nothing amiss with Lott's health. The senator has 'other opportunities' he plans to pursue, the official said, without elaborating." Regarding those "other opportunities," there is "speculation is that a quick departure immunizes Lott against tougher restrictions in a new lobbying law that takes effect at the end of the year. That law would require senators to wait two-years before entering the lucrative world of lobbying Congress." Because Lott's term expires in 2012, his resignation would trigger a special election for a replacement to serve the remainder of his term. Formerly Senate Majority Leader, Lott was forced to step down from that position in 2002 after he hailed the segregationist platform of former senator Strom Thurmond. Lott regained a leadership post after the 2006 midterm elections. "If he resigns, Lott would become the sixth Republican senator to announce they were stepping down this election cycle."  
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&lt;br/&gt;IRAQ -- IRAQI GOVERNMENT INFLATES RATES OF RETURNING REFUGEES: The right wing has recently been insisting that reports of Iraqi refugees returning to the country are a result of Iraq's "improving security situation." But the New York Times writes today, "Under intense pressure to show results after months of political stalemate, the government has continued to publicize figures that exaggerate the movement back to Iraq and Iraqis' confidence that the current lull in violence can be sustained." Counts of returning refugees have included not only returning refugees, but any Iraqis crossing the border, such as "Iraqi employees of the New York Times who have visited relatives in Syria." A U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) survey of 110 Iraqi families returning from Syria found that only 14 percent were returning because of improved security in Iraq; most were forced to return for financial reasons or because of visa restrictions. Moreover, the UNHCR "does not believe that the time has come to promote, organize or encourage returns" to Iraq, as security there "remains volatile and unpredictable."
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&lt;br/&gt;ENVIRONMENT -- NATURAL DISASTERS QUADRUPLED IN PAST TWO DECADES: "More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago," said concludes a new Oxfam report that "largely blamed global warming." "The world suffered about 120 natural disasters per year in the early 1980s, which compared with the current figure of about 500 per year. ... The number of people affected by extreme natural disasters, meanwhile, has surged by almost 70 percent, from 174 million a year between 1985 to 1994, to 254 million people a year between 1995 to 2004, Oxfam said. Floods and wind-storms have increased from 60 events in 1980 to 240 last year, with flooding itself up six-fold." Climate change is already causing major shifts in weather patterns. A recent drought in the Southeast, the intensity of the California wildfires, and the ferocity of hurricanes have all been linked to global warming. In its most recent report, the Nobel-Prize winning International Panel on Climate Change warned that the effects of manmade global warming are "becoming evident already."
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&lt;br/&gt;Seven years into President Bush's term, the administration is today hosting a Middle East conference. Bush has never visited Israel as president, and has made just four visits to the region -- three times to Iraq. In contrast, President Clinton "traveled to the Middle East seven times, all but one visit focused on the peace process in one form or another."
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&lt;br/&gt;Leading military officials say they hope that "the next major assessment [of the Iraq war] early next year would not place as much emphasis on the views of Gen. David H. Petraeus," in an attempt to avoid "relentless focus on the opinion of a single commander."
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&lt;br/&gt;Former Treasury secretary Larry Summers today warns in a Financial Times op-ed that even if "necessary changes in policy are implemented, the odds now favour a US recession that slows growth significantly on a global basis." There is also the potential that "adverse impacts will be felt for the rest of this decade and beyond."
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&lt;br/&gt;Demonstrating how private security companies "operate in a lawless void in Iraq," the Washington Post has revealed that "guards employed by Unity Resources Group" were involved in a "previously undisclosed" shooting in Baghdad in June.
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&lt;br/&gt;"The Northern Hemisphere is the warmest this year since record-keeping started 127 years ago, according to the National Climatic Data Center."
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&lt;br/&gt;"Saudi Arabia's Justice Ministry said a girl who it sentenced to jail time and flogging after being gang raped by seven men was an adulteress who invited the attack because at the time she was partially dressed in a parked car with her lover." The Bush administration has refused to condemn the Saudi court's ruling.
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&lt;br/&gt;And finally: Last week was Black Friday, but it's doubtful that most Americans bought their true loves the gifts in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." It would now cost "$78,100 to buy the 364 items, from a single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, repeatedly on each day as the song suggests." The price "is up 4 percent from $75,122 last year."
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    <dc:date>2007-11-26T18:16:12Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?</title>
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      <name>Alexander</name>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/wethepeople/thread/ae5c479f-8702-484d-b339-e9f7513a6eb4</id>
    <updated>2007-11-24T14:07:32Z</updated>
    <published>2007-11-24T14:07:32Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?
&lt;br/&gt;Published on Friday, November 23, 2007.
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&lt;br/&gt;By Kurt Nimmo
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&lt;br/&gt;According to Jessica Lee of Indypendent and Kamau Karl Franklin of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act was penned with plenty of help from the RAND Corporation.
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&lt;br/&gt;“Rep. Jane Harman, Democrat from California, has had a lengthy relationship with the Rand Corporation,” Lee tells Democracy Now, although she was unable to determine if RAND wrote the bill. On the 12th anniversary of the OKC bombing, Rep. Harman, as chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, introduced the bill in the House of Representatives.
&lt;br/&gt;“The ‘Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007' seeks to address the roots causes of radicalization, and would establish a grant program to provide funds to States to foster badly needed vertical information sharing from the Intelligence Community to the local level and from local sources to state and federal agencies,” explains Harman’s website. “It also creates a Center of Excellence for the Prevention of Radicalization and Home Grown Terrorism to examine the social, criminal, political, psychological and economic roots of domestic terrorism and to propose solutions, and promotes international collaboration on strategies to combat radicalization."
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&lt;br/&gt;Franklin mentions Brian Michael Jenkins, an “expert” on “terrorism, counterinsurgency, and homeland security,” according to RAND. Jenkins is “someone who helped the United States in counterinsurgency measures in Vietnam,” states Franklin. “In addition to that, he wrote a book, and in his own book” Jenkins declared that “in their international campaign, the jihadists will seek common ground with leftists, anti-American and anti-globalist forces, who will in turn see radical Islam comrades against a mutual foe.”
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&lt;br/&gt;In short, according to Kamau Karl Franklin, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act is more about domestic political activism than Islamic terrorism, although it appears Jenkins—and neocons such as the former Marxist David Horowitz—are attempting establish a link between the two, an absurdity at best, as the best way to discredit both the antiwar and patriot movements.
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&lt;br/&gt;According to a Center for Constitutional Rights factsheet, RAND is a key player in the “domestic terrorism” prevention effort detailed in this draconian bill. A RAND study “Trends in Terrorism,” Chapter 4 on “homegrown terrorism,” advocates “special attention to environmentalist, Anti-globalization activist and anarchists as potentially new terrorist in the making.”
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&lt;br/&gt;Not surprisingly, RAND is intimately connected to the global elite and the military-industrial-intelligence complex: “The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation,” notes SourceWatch (Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, p65-66). “Two-thirds of Rand’s research involves national security issues. This is divided into Project Air Force, the Arroyo Center (serving the needs of the Army), and the National Defense Research Institute (providing research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies).”
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&lt;br/&gt;As Lee Rogers notes, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, in its effort to flush out “terrorists,” including those opposed to the sort of globalism supported by Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations, will perform an end-run around the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The bill “states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.”
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&lt;br/&gt;This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.
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&lt;br/&gt;“With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s ‘Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act’ passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain,” write Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson for the Baltimore Sun. “Not since the ‘Patriot Act’ of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights.”
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&lt;br/&gt;Harman’s “proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to even individual members of the commission—little Joe McCarthys—who will tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized mandate to expose native terrorism.”
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&lt;br/&gt;Ms. Harman’s proposal includes an absurd attack on the Internet, criticizing it for providing Americans with “access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda,” and legalizes an insidious infiltration of targeted organizations. The misnamed “Center of Excellence,” which would function after the commission is disbanded in 18 months, gives the semblance of intellectual research to what is otherwise the suppression of dissent.
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&lt;br/&gt;While its purpose is to prevent terrorism, the bill doesn’t criminalize any specific conduct or contain penalties. But the commission’s findings will be cited by those who see a terrorist under every bed and who will demand enactment of criminal penalties that further restrict free speech and other civil liberties. Action contrary to the commission’s findings will be interpreted as a sign of treason at worst or a lack of patriotism at the least.
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&lt;br/&gt;While Ms. Harman denies that her proposal creates “thought police,” it defines “homegrown terrorism” as “planned” or “threatened” use of force to coerce the government or the people in the promotion of “political or social objectives.” That means that no force need actually have occurred as long as the government charges that the individual or group thought about doing it.
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&lt;br/&gt;As Shaffer and Robinson note, examples of “resulting crackdowns on such protests include the conviction and execution of anarchists tied to Chicago’s 1886 Haymarket Riot.” Additionally, we might add that the FBI’s COINTELPRO—targeting civil rights, antiwar, and national liberation movements—may serve as a template for “insidious infiltration of targeted organizations.” Although the official history would have us believe COINTELRPO was shut down in the 1970s, events since that time reveal the government is still in the business of illegally going after Americans who exercise their constitutional right to petition the government. For more on these recent events, see Brian Glick’s COINTELPRO Revisited: Spying and Disruption.
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&lt;br/&gt;Thus it makes perfect sense that the corporate media—compromised by the CIA under Operation Mockingbird beginning in the 1950s—would employ the likes of Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly to characterize the antiwar, truth and patriot movements—and even supporters of Ron Paul—as potentially violent advocates of “domestic terrorism.” No doubt, in the weeks and months ahead, we should expect more such propaganda as Harman’s “proposed commissions,” little more than federally mandated inquisitions, get up to speed.
&lt;br/&gt;Finally, as noted above, it is only a matter of time before the so-called Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 becomes law. The bill has been referred to the Senate where it awaits scrutiny from the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and is almost certain to pass.
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    <title>Ron Paul Has A Posse</title>
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      <name>tristram</name>
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    <updated>2007-11-23T02:32:53Z</updated>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;If you dig Ron Paul, then you'll dig this for sure.
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    <title>Public Service Questionaire: Citizens Fighting Back for Their Rights</title>
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      <name>BobM</name>
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    <updated>2007-11-06T22:33:14Z</updated>
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    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Anyone ever heard of this before? I was wondering what your thoughts on it might be. An enews article came to me today and after reading it I did a google search for the form (Public Service Questionaire) and found a lot of interesting info on it. &lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>The Issues Behind Turkey's Aggression In Iraqi Kurdistan</title>
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    <updated>2007-10-26T17:20:34Z</updated>
    <published>2007-10-26T17:20:34Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;With Turkey on the verge of invading Iraqi Kurdistan, I thought this would be a good time to repost this article.  -Steven Argue
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&lt;br/&gt;Kurdish Culture, Repression, Women’s Rights, and Resistance
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&lt;br/&gt;By Steven Argue
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&lt;br/&gt;   The Kurdish people number at an estimated at 25-30 million people.  They live in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, northwest of the Zagros Mountains in Iran, and in Armenia.  They also have a large émigré population in Western Europe.  With 4-5 million people and 15-20% of the population the Kurds are the largest non-Arab minority in Iraq (CIA Iraq, 2007).  They are also the largest non-Turkish minority in Turkey comprising 20% of the population (CIA Turkey, 2007).  The Kurdish speaking people are 9% of the Iranian population (CIA Iran, 2007).  In Syria, the Kurds are the largest minority with about 1.75 million people comprising about 10% of the population (Lowe 2006).  The rise of nationalist xenophobia and war in Armenia after the fall of the Soviet Union has pushed most Kurds out of Armenia, but around 30,000 Yezidi Kurds remain comprising about 1% of the population (CIA Armenia, 2007).
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&lt;br/&gt;  The language of the Kurds, called Kurdish, is distinct from the Persian of Iran, the Arabic of Iraq and Syria, and the Turkish of Turkey.  Thus the common language of the Kurds both separates them from the dominant cultures in the nation-states where they live and unites the Kurdish people as a nationality without a nation-state. 
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&lt;br/&gt;   While being distinct the Kurdish language is most closely related to Persian, yet the origins of the varied Kurdish culture is partially influenced by the absorption of characteristics of the differing nationalities and cultures that have historically surrounded them.
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&lt;br/&gt;   In terms of religion the Kurdish people are mostly Muslim with both Shia (primarily of the Alevi sect), Sunni (primarily Shafi’i).  There is also a large Sufi influence amo