The Saudi Arabia Connection to 9 - 11

WhoWhatWhy has found evidence linking the Saudi royal family to Saudis in South Florida who reportedly had direct contact with the 9/11 hijackers before fleeing the United States just prior to the attacks. Our report connects some of the dots first laid out by investigative author Anthony Summers and Florida-based journalist Dan Christensen in articles jointly published in the Miami Herald and on the nonprofit news siteBrowardBulldog.org.

In early September of this year, Summers and Christensen reported that a secret FBI probe, never shared with Congressional investigators or the presidential 9/11 commission, had uncovered information indicating the possibility of support for the hijackers from previously unknown confederates in the United States during 2001.

Now WhoWhatWhy reveals that those alleged confederates were closely tied to influential members of the Saudi ruling elite.

The House  (in Serasota, Florida) above

As reported in the Herald, phone records documented communication, dating back more than a year, that connected a Saudi family then living in a house near Sarasota, Florida, with the alleged plot leader, Mohammed Atta, and his hijack pilots—as well as to eleven of the other hijackers. In addition, records from the guard house at the gated community tied Atta’s vehicle and his accomplice Ziad Jarrah to actual visits to the house.  Although requiring further investigation, this information suggests that the house may have functioned as an operational base for the hijackers.

According to interviews and records examined by The Herald, Anoud and Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii and their young twins abruptly departed their home in Sarasota only days before September 11, 2001 and traveled to Arlington, Virginia, where they stayed briefly at another house owned by Anoud’s father, Esam Ghazzawi.

Then, still well before 9/11, the entire group, now including the father, flew to London and on to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Sarasota house was sold in 2003, as was a penthouse apartment in another DC, suburb, Rosslyn, Virginia. The Ghazzawis do not seem to have set foot again in the United States.

But the now-revealed link between the Ghazzawis and the highest ranks of the Saudi establishment reopens questions about the White House’s controversial approval for multiple charter flights allowing Saudi nationals to depart the U.S., beginning about 48 hours after the attacks, without the passengers being interviewed by law enforcement—despite the identification of the majority of the hijackers as Saudis.

In addition, the new revelations draw further attention to a web of relationships that include the long and close business, personal and political ties between the Bush family and the Saudi royal family.

Saudi money is woven throughout business ventures connected to the Bushes. Saudi funds even helped bail out George W. Bush’s failing oil company early in his life. Jim Bath, a close friend of Bush in the Texas Air National Guard, went on to start a business in conjunction with two sons of powerful Saudi families—Khalid bin Mahfouz, whose family provides banking services to the Saudi royals, and Salem bin Laden, heir to the bin Laden family’s global construction empire and a half brother to Osama bin Laden. (For a detailed probe of the Bush family’s dealings with the Saudis, including substantial previously unreported material, see my book, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years.)

[material left out here]  Six years later, less than two weeks before the 9/11 attacks, Anoud, Abdulazzi and their children left their home on or about August 30, 2001 in great haste, taking off in a white van. This was about the same time that the hijackers were purchasing their tickets for the targeted flights.

The family apparently left with no advance planning, leaving behind almost all their possessions, abandoning three recently registered vehicles, including a brand-new Chrysler PT Cruiser, in the garage and driveway. As the Herald article explained:  (basically it looked as if they had left in extroidenary haste with fresh fruit still on the counter and all their expensive furniture and the pool filter still running with pool toys in the water.)

This is Friday September 11, 2015 after breakfast, and John Fugelsang has been on for the six and seven o clock hours and I have it on tape delay now.  Last night I went out the door and the white kitten was there and I picked it up.  Then it went back and the smaller black kitten ventured out.  It was meowing away for food but was too trusting and fearless for his own good and kept trying to get in the door, and was likely to end up “door kill” or wheel chair kill.  I picked it up twice to keep it out of danger.  Finally Patches came around and John plopped the black kitty right in front of her.  Patches hissed in my direction and then picked up the kitten and lost her grip once and kind of had to wrestle the kitty to get a better grip.  Wally used masking tape on a box to prepare a safe place for the kittens.  We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from Donnie.  There was a football game on at five.  We watched all the festivities before the game in Boston.  The New England Patriots beat the Steelers 28 to 21 and led the entire game.  At one time it was 14 to 3.   I watched pretty much the whole game.

Democratic Filibuster In Senate Upheld

Now it's semi-official.  The Republican moves to block the President's nuclear treaty with Iran has been defeated.  President Obama has won.  No matter how many times a given issue is litigated, the Republicans never take No for an answer.  Twice the Affordable Care Act has come before the supreme court and the republicans still have designs on repealing the thing.   How about Roe verses Wade, huh?  And even though they have produced 41 senate democrats, the Republicans in the House act as though the failure of their current resolution wasn’t a reality.  41 is a better number than 34 because with 41 that is no longer a filibuster proof number.  And the democrats successfully executed that filibuster today- and as it happened 42 democrats voted to uphold the filibuster so President Obama wins another one - so all the House debating is pointless.  This “rejection resolution” will never even come to a vote.  That’s the way the US Senate works.

So is Jerry Brown going to sign the death with dignity bill?  It seems this controversial bill has already passed both houses in the state legislature.  I’d call it the “Death with dishonor” or the “Death with disgrace” bill, myself.  It’s dangerous on so many levels- - in terms of violating sacred religious precepts- - it’s bad psychologically for the person’s own mental health- - and it’s bad for people wanting to get money out of a will that was just made out so they want the person to hurry up and die before they have the time to change their minds.

 We’re informed that the next Republican debate will be at the Reagan library (quote appropriate) but the line up of combatants hasn’t been established yet, to my knowledge.  Sean is against letting Syrian refugees enter this country.  Somehow I’m not surprised.  It would ruin the image of the Republican party as heatless bastards to do any other.  We started the wars and created ISIS by our actions, but we don’t want to hang around to clean up the mess.  Sean said “Democrats are always saying that we shouldn’t be the world’s policemen.  Well we shouldn’t be the world’s huminatarians either”.   Or maybe Sean didn’t say “Either”.  Sean loves the violence but hates the cost of the human aftermath.  I’m not impressed with his lament of  “I really wish there were no evil in the world”.

This is Thursday September 10, 2015 and my motto for today is ‘Let’s pretend it’s September Tenth - - 2001, of course.  Sometimes good things come by subtracting rather than adding, and in this case it’s subtracting all of the paranoia and government repression measures we didn’t have fourteen years ago.  It’s hard to even remember now but George Bush was then a highly inconsequential President, and Rudolph Giuliani hadn’t yet ascended to super star status yet as “America’s great hero” yet.  We have evolved from altruistic goals such as balancing the budget and getting the economy going to now pure Hatred.  Not even Money can quench the blood lust of the Republican party to hate the poor, hate the “illegal alien” and hate the Black, or the gay or whoever.  Donald Trump is the instrument to reveal these so called “patriots” into the narrow minded selfish bigots they’ve been all along.  It’s hard to imagine but fourteen years ago none of this existed on a main stream level.  Fortunately Shawn Hannity even admitted the Republicans won’t get the White House.  

Page has been murdered on Days of our Lives.  They didn’t call a doctor, but perhaps a whole minute after the cops arrived they put a sheet over her dead body.  They want to blame Chad for this murder too because of a rare flower that grows only on the Di Mira mansion grounds.  How perceptive of them to know that!   But Roman Brady and that other narc guy have blood on their hands, too, and even J J has blood on his hands.  He could have stopped this murder before it happened if he’d been forthcoming on the telephone with that narc guy.  He could have said Cole or whoever was dead and Clyde Weston killed him, and he explicitly threatened Page’s life.  But J J said nothing.  J J continued to keep silent even after Page was dead and Roman asked J J if he had any inklings who might want Page dead.  What dark power prevented J J from spilling his guts at that moment?  I don’t know.  A brief description of what Jack Junior knew and Clyde would be in custody right now.   I don’t write these things.  But if Roman and his narc friend are at all human they have to be feeling mighty guilty about involving Jack Junior in the first place, knowing how dangerous it was, and J J was completely untrained- - and as far as I can tell he had no “training”.  Of course George Bush has blood on his hands as far as the 9 – 11 attacks go even though he wasn’t personally flying the airplanes.  Both Bush and Jack Junior had ample warnings of impending disaster and did nothing.   I’m not sure why Chad is drunk all the time but Chad was talking to Brady within a moment or two of when the murder was committed.  Chad specifically asked about alcoholic black-outs.

Rupert Merdoch bought National Geographic, seemingly with a view toward destroying it, and people are basically dressed in black right now.  Apparently Merdoch bought his American citizenship because he’s a native Austrailian.  But he went to England and “destroyed that media before coming to America”.  Merdoch couldn’t get a license in this country unless he were a citizen.  Norman Goldman has been in a rather fatalistic mood today.

It's Constitutional Refresher Course Time

PRELIMINARY PARAGRAPHS

Kim Davis was let out of jail today by the same Judge Bunning that ruled her in contempt.  This judge is the son of a Philadelphia pitcher for the Phillies.  This judge is a conservative but believes in obeying the law.  Kim Davis had to stipulate as a condition for her release that she would no longer attempt to interfere in the issuing of marriage licenses.  Norman says that Kim can “save face” by claiming “sick leave” or something so that her underlings actually issue the marriage licenses.  Could they, perhaps, change the parameters of her job?

There was a really vicious, violent Black man in an Arkansas prison serving a 99 year sentence.  He was let out and killed again.  Mike Huckibee let him out because the man claimed to be a born again Christian.  The guy went to Washington State and killed four cops in a restaurant shooting each of them in the head.  He was subsequently killed himself.  But this incident should disqualify Mike Huckibee from even thinking about running for President.  I don’t know whether today’s Norman Goldman program is a rerun or not.

President Obama changed the name of Mt Mc Kinley back to “Denali” as an executive order, because this was the name given to the peak by Alaskan natives.  But the Ohio Republican lobby is upset about this as is Governor Kasech.  I was reading “The Week” and Nora came in and missed the trash in the receptacle.   Personally I think Obama stepped over the line.

Jeremy Corbyn is Labor Party’s left leaning candidate in England and wants Quantitive Easing “for people” (as opposed to space aliens, I guess)  I think we should revive George Mc Govern's idea of giving every American with a social security card a check for one thousand dollars.  THAT would get the economy going and it would only cost us 320 Billion, which is a bargain considering the money the government throws around on more unsavory expenses such as War - perhaps on Iran.

M A I N - A R T I C L E - ON LOSS OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Various formatting formatting problems cropped up in pasting this.  I hope things are OK now.

“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. Since then, we have been terrorized, traumatized, and acclimated to life in the American Surveillance State.

The bogeyman’s names and faces change over time, but the end result remains the same: our unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security has transitioned us to life in a society where government agents routinely practice violence on the citizens while, in conjunction with the Corporate State, spying on the most intimate details of our personal lives.

Ironically, the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks occurs just days before the 228th anniversary of the ratification of our Constitution. Yet while there is much to mourn about the loss of our freedoms in the years since 9/11, there is virtually nothing to celebrate.

The Constitution has been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded to such an extent that what we are left with today is but a shadow of the robust document adopted more than two centuries ago. Most of the damage has been inflicted upon the Bill of Rights—the first ten amendments to the Constitution—which has historically served as the bulwark from government abuse.

Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, roving VIPR raids and the like—all sanctioned by a corrupt government run by Congress, the White House and the courts—a recitation of the Bill of Rights now sounds more like a eulogy to freedoms lost than an affirmation of rights we should possess.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the Constitution has been on life support for some time now and all efforts at resuscitating it may soon prove futile.

We can pretend that the Constitution, which was written to hold the government accountable, is still our governing document. However, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned, and “we the people” are seen as little more than cattle to be branded and eventually led to the slaughterhouse.

Consider the state of our freedoms, and judge for yourself whether Osama Bin Laden was right when he warned that “freedom and human rights in America are doomed,” and that the “U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”

Here is what it means to live under the Constitution today.

The First Amendment is supposed to protect the freedom to speak your mind, assemble and protest nonviolently without being bridled by the government. It also protects the freedom of the media, as well as the right to worship and pray without interference. In other words, Americans should not be silenced by the government. To the founders, all of America was a free speech zone.

Yet despite the clear protections found in the First Amendment, the freedoms described therein are under constant assault. Increasingly, Americans are being arrested and charged with bogus “contempt of cop” charges such as “disrupting the peace” or “resisting arrest” for daring to film police officers engaged in harassment or abusive practices. Journalists are being prosecuted for reporting on whistleblowers. States are passing legislation to muzzle reporting on cruel and abusive corporate practices. Religious ministries are being fined for attempting to feed and house the homeless. Protesters are being tear-gassed, beaten, arrested and forced into “free speech zones.” And under the guise of “government speech,” the courts have reasoned that the government can discriminate freely against any First Amendment activity that takes place within a government forum.

The Second Amendment was intended to guarantee “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” Yet while gun ownership has been recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as an individual citizen right, Americans remain powerless to defend themselves against SWAT team raids and government agents armed to the teeth with military weapons better suited for the battlefield than for a country founded on freedom. Police shootings of unarmed citizens continue to outrage communities, while little is really being done to demilitarize law enforcement agencies. Indeed, just recently, North Dakota became the first state to legalize law enforcement use of drones armed with weapons such as tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbags, pepper spray and Tasers.

The Third Amendment reinforces the principle that civilian-elected officials are superior to the military by prohibiting the military from entering any citizen’s home without “the consent of the owner.” With the police increasingly training like the military, acting like the military, and posing as military forces—complete with military weapons, assault vehicles, etc.—it is clear that we now have what the founders feared most—a standing army on American soil. Moreover, as a result of SWAT team raids (more than 80,000 a year) where police invade homes, often without warrants, and injure and even kill unarmed citizens, the barrier between public and private property has been done away with, leaving us with armed government agents who act as if they own our property.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from conducting surveillance on you or touching you or invading you, unless they have some evidence that you’re up to something criminal. In other words, the Fourth Amendment ensures privacy and bodily integrity. Unfortunately, the Fourth Amendment has suffered the greatest damage in recent years and been all but eviscerated by an unwarranted expansion of police powers that include strip searches and even anal and vaginal searches of citizens, surveillance and intrusions justified in the name of fighting terrorism, as well as the outsourcing of otherwise illegal activities to private contractors. Case in point: Texas police forced a 21-year-old woman to undergo a warrantless vaginal search by the side of the road after she allegedly “rolled” through a stop sign.

The use of civil asset forfeiture schemes to swell the coffers of police forces has also continued to grow in popularity among cash-strapped states. The federal government continues to strong-arm corporations into providing it with access to Americans’ private affairs, from emails and online transactions to banking and web surfing. Coming in the wake of massive leaks about the inner workings of the NSA and the massive secretive surveillance state, it was revealed that the government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 every day for failing to comply with the NSA’s mass data collection program known as PRISM. Meanwhile, AT&T has enjoyed a profitable and “extraordinary, decades-long” relationship with the NSA.

The technological future appears to pose even greater threats to what’s left of our Fourth Amendment rights, with advances in biometric identification and microchip implants on the horizon making it that much easier for the government to track not only our movements and cyber activities but our very cellular beings. Barclays has already begun using a finger-scanner as a form of two-step authentication to give select customers access to their accounts. Similarly, Motorola has been developing thin “digital tattoos” that will ensure that a phone’s owner is the only person who may unlock it. Not to be overlooked are the aerial spies—surveillance drones—about to take to the skies in coming years, as well as the Drive Smart programs that will spy on you (your speed, movements, passengers, etc.) while you travel the nation’s highways and byways.

The Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment work in tandem. These amendments supposedly ensure that you are innocent until proven guilty, and government authorities cannot deprive you of your life, your liberty or your property without the right to an attorney and a fair trial before a civilian judge. However, in the new suspect society in which we live, where surveillance is the norm, these fundamental principles have been upended. Certainly, if the government can arbitrarily freeze, seize or lay claim to your property (money, land or possessions) under government asset forfeiture schemes, you have no true rights. That’s the crux of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the government’s use of asset forfeiture to strip American citizens of the funds needed to hire a defense attorney of their choosing.

The Seventh Amendment guarantees citizens the right to a jury trial. However, when the populace has no idea of what’s in the Constitution—civic education has virtually disappeared from most school curriculums—that inevitably translates to an ignorant jury incapable of distinguishing justice and the law from their own preconceived notions and fears. However, as a growing number of citizens are coming to realize, the power of the jury to nullify the government’s actions—and thereby help balance the scales of justice—is not to be underestimated. Jury nullification reminds the government that it’s “we the people” who can and should be determining what laws are just, what activities are criminal and who can be jailed for what crimes.

The Eighth Amendment is similar to the Sixth in that it is supposed to protect the rights of the accused and forbid the use of cruel and unusual punishment. However, the Supreme Court’s determination that what constitutes “cruel and unusual” should be dependent on the “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society” leaves us with little protection in the face of a society lacking in morals altogether. For example, a California appeals court is being asked to consider “whether years of unpredictable delays from conviction to execution” constitute cruel and unusual punishment. For instance, although 900 individuals have been sentenced to death in California since 1978, only 13 have been executed. As CBS News reports, “More prisoners have died of natural causes on death row than have perished in the death chamber.”

The Ninth Amendment provides that other rights not enumerated in the Constitution are nonetheless retained by the people. Popular sovereignty—the belief that the power to govern flows upward from the people rather than downward from the rulers—is clearly evident in this amendment. However, it has since been turned on its head by a centralized federal government that sees itself as supreme and which continues to pass more and more laws that restrict our freedoms under the pretext that it has an “important government interest” in doing so. Thus, once the government began violating the non-enumerated rights granted in the Ninth Amendment, it was only a matter of time before it began to trample the enumerated rights of the people, as explicitly spelled out in the rest of the Bill of Rights.

As for the Tenth Amendment’s reminder that the people and the states retain every authority that is not otherwise mentioned in the Constitution, that assurance of a system of government in which power is divided among local, state and national entities has long since been rendered moot by the centralized Washington, DC, power elite—the president, Congress and the courts. Indeed, the federal governmental bureaucracy has grown so large that it has made local and state legislatures relatively irrelevant. Through its many agencies and regulations, the federal government has stripped states of the right to regulate countless issues that were originally governed at the local level.

If there is any sense to be made from this recitation of freedoms lost, it is simply this: our individual freedoms have been eviscerated so that the government’s powers could be expanded, while reducing us to a system of slavery disguised as a democracy.

The film V for Vendetta is a powerful commentary on how totalitarian governments such as our own exploit fear and use mass surveillance, censorship, terrorism, and militarized tactics to control, oppress and enslave.

Checking In With the Federation

A political blast from the past

I understated the severity of the Syrian refugee problem in a recent posting.  In general it’s a wave of people from the Mideast and Africa to Europe.  We’ve discussed the boat people in the past.  But now there is just as big a wave of people by land coming from as far away as Afghanistan- - and Iraq and Syria.  They say Assad is killing his own people but one has to wonder about ISIS.  Pope Francis is calling us all to pray for peace in the area.  So there is more than one dreaded force the people are fleeing from.  They go first to Turkey and then cross over into Greece and work their way up southeastern Europe into Hungary.  But Hungary is not sure they want them.  But they won’t let them on the train to go to the Austrian border and some refugees are being taken away to “camps”.  Protests are rampant.  So the refugees begin walking down the road toward the Austrian border.  There they are welcomed by the people with food and stuff.  But they sent a bunch of busses to pick up these hikers so they don’t have to walk a hundred and twenty miles or whatever carrying everything they own.  But now there are more refugees at the border of Hungary wanting to come in and Hungary is not sure if they want them.  Their eventual destination is Germany.  But of course now there are racists in Germany who don’t want these Mideasterners, because the whole thing feels like more of an invasion.  Of course the Saudis won’t take them.  Everybody knows the Saudis are a bunch of jerks anyhow.

They are predicting another heat wave starting with yesterday when it got over ninety and today when it’s expected to be even hotter.  They say if it gets over ninety degrees for another six days it will break the all time SC record for number of days out of a calendar year when the mercury gets over ninety degrees.  The previous record was in the summer of 1983.   Of course there is rough surf today and tomorrow and one shark attack after another off our shores.

This is Labor Day and none of your favorite radio talk shows are live today.  But Labor day is a traditional day for political campaigning.  Hillary Clinton continues to be in trouble in the polls.  Despite croakings of doom all summer Hillary is still around, but more and worse numbers come out all the time.  Bernie Sanders is closing in on Hillary in Iowa and beating her decisively in New Hampshire.  But now Clinton has fresh reason for alarm.  Donald Trump is now beating Hillary in a head to head contest.  So now it’s not only her own party that she has to worry about but the general election outlook as well.  And worse for Hillary, Joe Biden is able to beat Donald Trump but she isn’t.  But it doesn’t seem as if Biden wants to enter the race.  He’s been stalling and stalling and that October debate deadline is approaching.

September 4^th was the opening of the LA County Fair.  Rocky says they not only charge a lot of money just to get in the door but they charge more money for rides.  But you can buy a separate all day ride pass AFTER you pay your admittance fee.  Of course Friday was also “The Force Awakens Day” with all that Star Wars merchandizing going on.  It’s been ten years since the last Star Wars movie and this is the first movie since Disney bought out Lucas Productions.  This is why the Federation has been quite silent on all this Star Wars hype this time around because ever since that dreadful day in 2012 the Federation has been under a pall- - since cosmically a bunch of “dark force” stuff has been going on.   Here are a couple of things my readers don’t know yet.   Those KPPC songs from September 1960 have a Reigel VI or notably “Sixer” influence.  Reigel VI was into soul before they were into surf.   The other tidbit is that the buzz last November was that “When the Taccomans take over communacations in the Federation they will have as a “sign” of warm weather in this SC area.  As you know the same week the Taccomans officially took over- - the first week of March- - we here in Southern California has a month long heat wave.  Also the buzz in November was “They would send us a special guardian agent to watch over this area”.   It was about that time that the cat showed up, and I didn’t connect the two things at all.  It’s what you’d call “deep cover”.   Anyhow I became aware of the Taccoman connection Sunday morning August 2^nd but I didn’t say anything to my blogger readers.  Of course some could argue that maybe Phyllis knew.

RINGO AND FRIENDS   (released September 8^th 2015)

- - - - - Disk One - - -

Choose Love   (Ringo)

It’s Going To Be A Great Day (Paul)

Snookeroo (Ringo)

I Don’t Want to Know (Julian Lennon)

Back Off, Boogaloo  (Ringo)

Early 1970  (Ringo)

Asemisen (I See My Sin) (John)

Ooh-Wee!  (Ringo)

My Sweet Lord (George) *

The No No Song (Ringo) 

Bye-Bye Love (George)

Night And Day (Ringo)

In Spite of all the Heartache (Paul – updated version)

Elizabeth Reigns Over Me (Ringo)

Bless You (John)

Instant Amnesia (Ringo)

Don’t Go Where the Road Don’t Go (Ringo)

- - - - - Disk Two - - - - -

The Iranian Nuclear Treaty (round table debate)  rec last week   30 min

The 9 – 11 Conspiracy (round table debate)  sometime in July  30 min

*first time used in one of Our compilations.  All Title letters are yellow italics.  On disc two in the same font is “the name of the two debate tracks on disk two.  The July one has Stewart Suitcliffe and that friend of his- - - a political comedian who died in 1994 and was in a blog posting a few months back.  (I don’t know his name)   The one last week doesn’t have either of these two.    But there is one additional person in the 2^nd debate.  There are five people in the first round table and four on the second track.  Mal Evans was allowed to review the Beatle tracks, but took little part in this compilation.  I haven’t heard from Stu-baby in a while, either.

Who Are the Real Brainwashers?

One could argue that Washington's blog has been pretty hard core pro communist lately.  But in the event there is truth to any of the numerous allegations made in this article, I figured the thing was worth re-posting so you can do what FOX news suggests- - mainly "We Report; you decide".

We dropped bubonic plaque laden fleas on China and North Korea 63 years ago. This happened some 63 years ago, but as the U.S. government has never stopped lying about it, and it’s generally known only outside the United States, I’m going to treat it as news.

Here in our little U.S. bubble we’ve heard of a couple versions of a film called The Manchurian Candidate. We’ve heard of the general concept of “brainwashing” and may even associate it with something evil that the Chinese supposedly did to U.S. prisoners during the Korean War. And I’d be willing to bet that the majority of people who’ve heard of these things have at least a vague sense that they’re bullshit.

If you didn’t know, I’ll break it to you right now: people cannot actually be programed like the Manchurian candidate, which was a work of fiction. There was never the slightest evidence that China or North Korea had done any such thing. And the CIA spent decades trying to do such a thing, and finally gave up.

I’d also be willing to bet that very few people know what it was that the U.S. government promoted the myth of “brainwashing” to cover up. During the Korean War, the United States bombed virtually all of North Korea and a good bit of the South, killing millions of people. It dropped massive quantities of Napalm. It bombed dams, bridges, villages, houses. This was all-out mass-slaughter. But there was something the U.S. government didn’t want known, something deemed unethical in this genocidal madness.

It is well documented that the United States dropped on China and North Korea insects and feathers carrying anthrax, cholera, encephalitis, and bubonic plague. This was supposed to be a secret at the time, and the Chinese response of mass vaccinations and insect eradication probably contributed to the project’s general failure (hundreds were killed, but not millions). But members of the U.S. military taken prisoner by the Chinese confessed to what they had been a part of, and confessed publicly when they got back to the United States.

Some of them had felt guilty to begin with. Some had been shocked at China’s decent treatment of prisoners after U.S. depictions of the Chinese as savages. For whatever reasons, they confessed, and their confessions were highly credible, were borne out by independent scientific reviews, and have stood the test of time.

How to counter reports of the confessions? The answer for the CIA and the U.S. military and their allies in the corporate media was “brainwashing,” which conveniently explained away whatever former prisoners said as false narratives implanted in their brains by brainwashers.

And 300 million of so Americans more or less sort of believe that craziest-ever dog-ate-my-homework concoction to this day!

The propaganda struggle was intense. The support of the Guatemalan government for the reports of U.S. germ warfare in China were part of the U.S. motivation for overthrowing the Guatemalan government; and the same cover-up was likely part of the motivation for the CIA’s murder of Frank Olson.

There isn’t any debate that the United States had been working on bio-weapons for years, at Fort Detrick — then Camp Detrick — and numerous other locations. Nor is there any question that the United States employed the top bio-weapons killers from among both the Japanese and the Nazis from the end of World War II onward. Nor is there any question that the U.S. tested such weapons on the city of San Francisco and numerous other locations around the United States, and on U.S. soldiers. There’s a museum in Havana featuring evidence of years of U.S. bio-warfare against Cuba. We know that Plum Island, off the tip of Long Island, was used to test the weaponization of insects, including the ticks that created the ongoing outbreak of Lyme Disease.

Dave Chaddock’s book This Must Be the Place, which I found via Jeff Kaye’s review, collects the evidence that the United States indeed tried to wipe out millions of Chinese and North Koreans with deadly diseases.

“What does it matter now?” I can imagine people from only one corner of the earth asking.

I reply that it matters that we know the evils of war and try to stop the new ones. U.S. cluster bombs in Yemen, U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. guns in Syria, U.S. white phosphorus and Napalm and depleted uranium used in recent years, U.S. torture in prison camps, U.S. nuclear arsenals being expanded, U.S. coups empowering monsters in Ukraine and Honduras, U.S. lies about Iranian nukes, and indeed U.S. antagonization of North Korea as part of that never-yet-ended war — all of these things can be best confronted by people aware of a centuries-long pattern of lying.

And I reply, also, that it is not yet too late to apologize.

These Postings Are Getting Shorter

The United States may well go the way of China.  There is a point where you can’t “externalize” the costs of doing business any more because the pollution is too bad.  They say that they take filters off of smoke stacks and of the populace complains about that, they send thugs to beat them up.  They can’t reduce labor costs any more because they have already developed robotics to a high degree and besides- - China has so many people that numbers along will insure they never get paid decent salaries.  The article says “Both capital and human capital – creativity – are leaving China”.    China just wants to drag us down with it.

Tom Brady’s under-inflated balls won’t keep him from playing in the opening game this NFL season with the Patriots.  A judge lifted his suspension and now it’s a thing of the past.  Donald Trump says that he and Tom Brady are good friends.  President Obama has been in Alaska the past several days perhaps congratulating Shell oil for their drilling victory.  Yeah you can grant these leases and they will boost energy supplies- - but they only delay the point at which we can and must get serious about doing something about global warming, who people like Judy just don’t take for the serious problem it is.

Donald Trump has been nabbed for not knowing who the “Kuds” forces are in Iran, some revolutionary guard- - -or who Swehari was.   George W didn’t know who the leader of Pakistan was in the year 2000 and this lack of knowledge didn’t hurt him.  All Trump has by way of response of “I’ll get the best people on it and your head will spin with how well my foreign policy is”.   Clearly I consider it a chink in Trump’s armor that Hugh Hewitt uncovered.  Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have both criticized Donald Trump for not knowing.

Most Christians say that God is Love.  Gene Scott says “God is Power”.   I guess there is a problem to reducing God to any one thing and calling that one “thing” as “God”.   Thom is wrong on Romans because the early chapters of Romans specifically go into detail about the sin and ravages of homosexuality.  I had Donald Trump’s speech yesterday on during the bottom of the hour break.    I watched “Ring of Fire” before nine and the argument was advanced that Sanders is MORE amenable towards women’s rights than is Hillary Clinton.  Hard core liberals take exception to the idea that abortions should be “Rare”, which to their ears somehow imply you can’t be FOR abortion unless you are for a LOT of abortions going on – as many as possible, almost making a sacrament out of Abortions.

I watched the Nebraska and Brigham Young game from one thirty on, played in Lincoln.  First Nebraska was ahead, then it was BYU, and then Nebraska was on top again 28 to 24.  Nebraska hasn’t lost an opening game since 1985 when it was also hot, and they lost to Florida State.  I listened to Rhapsody in Black on FM 90.7 - - in two different sessions.  Today it was September of 1960 but I recognized only one song from that date, which was “Save the Last Dance for Me”.  I recognized five songs in all.  The other four were “Chain Gang” popular late summer 1961, and “The Twist” (January 1962) and “Finger Popping Time” by Hank Ballard (spring 1961) and “You Talk Too Much” by Joe Jones from late spring of 1960.  There were some surprises though.  There was a faster version of “Spoonful” by Howling Wolf”, and “I’m Shaking” later done by the Blasters in late 1981, and then there was “Shimmy Shake” that obscure song the Beatles performed while in Hamburg.   There were also tracks, I believe by the Olympics,  Little Willy John, and James Brown, but nothing you’ve heard.  

Is the Stock Market Itself "Too Big to Fail"?

Is the stock market itself, the last bastion of unfettered capitalism- - now turned into just another institution that is “too big to fail”?   It would seem so.  We can’t allow bear markets to occur any more.  We had a bear market from the year 2000 to 2003, or some three years.  Could you imagine something like that happening today?  It used to be that bear markets would commonly last maybe a year and a half and we just accepted that as a reality and risk of investing.   But the 2008 bear market was much shorter than that.  People had less tolerance then for failing stock yields.  Too many important people were invested in the market then.  And now we have the ultimate act of impatience and instant gratification.  The stock market takes a dip for three or four days and we are pronouncing the bear market “over”.  What have these commentators been smoking?  Do they have no sense of economic history?  If you look at this bull market on any chart it’s impressive beyond beliefs.  Six and a half year bill markets are pretty rare- - and markets that last any longer than what we’ve already experienced- - just don’t exist.  So if this bear market turns out to be just a hick-up in the overall “bull market” you know the market has indeed become “too big to fail”.  Such a situation can’t last of course because if word gets out the market really is “stop lossed” or fixed so that it can’t go down- - everybody will jump on the boat and of course when that happens, not even the Fed would be able to fix the situation and we would see that long awaited Crash that people like Glen Beck and Thom Hartman have been predicting for years and years.  Personally- I wouldn’t be part of it.

Conservatives say a lot of things that aren’t necessarily so.  Scott Walker has tried to say that President “created a climate over the past six years where more cops nationwide are being shot dead.  This is false.  Under Reagan’s first six years the figure was 1300 or something and under George W the figure was 1084 and under President Obama it was just over 800.   Whites seem to have inherently racist thinking patterns- even someone like Bill Carol, who normally seems like a pretty mellow guy not given to outbursts.  He attributes the rise in crime in California the past couple of years to “Letting all the gang leaders out of prison who then went back to their old line of work”.   How does Bill Carol know it was gang leaders let out by Brown?  Because “everybody knows” they can’t get convictions on gang leaders for being crime king pins so they get them on non violent drug charges and these are the very people whom the governor let loose.  First of all the Courts made the ruling, not the governor.  But if this is true in California how come the national rise in crime is also elevated.  Bill has a new explanation.  “Well it’s all this climate of fear which the media created and the cops are afraid to do their jobs”.  Once again it’s a cop’s job to make arrest and not to insure there is no crime to begin with.  It seems like the cops are doing their jobs.  But the question arises how the crime rate could be rising over the past few years- - when this “climate of fear” only began after the government’s report on Ferguson, Mo was released last December, which revealed the pandemic corruption in that city.  Bill would have you believe all the cops have suddenly become cowards and the criminals pick up on this and know they can get away with crimes and therefore commit more of them.  But not enough time has elapsed.  In other news- - Hillary democrats got upset because Joe Biden praised Bernie Sanders referring to him as a “successful populist”.   Are the Hillary democrats really THAT afraid that even slight praise of an opponent throws them into a panic?   Some commentators say that they don’t want Biden in the race at all “Because up till now Hillary has only ran against herself with no real opponent”.   In other words, according to this reporter, Bernie Sanders is NOT a viable opponent.   Conservatives can infiltrate NPR, or “National Petroleum Radio” stations.  When Cory Gardener running in Colorado was making extreme statements about a zygote- - a cluster of cells that begin dividing but remaining the same size as the original fertilized egg- - - that this zygote has all the constitutional rights as you or I do, then a reporter of NPR spread the story that Cory Gardner’s position on birth control really wasn’t much different from planned parenthood.  You will remember that Mo Udall ran on an equal rights for women platform.  This NPR reporter also is a “contributor” to FOX news.  So basically you have members of the media throwing a major political race.  (Selah)

I watched the John Kerry speech from just before three to 3:35.  In the first part of the speech he contrasted what the world would be like with and without the treaty and used dramatic illustration after dramatic illustration.  Kerry even resorted to quoting Netanyahu showing that famous test tube that's almost full and "Iran is going to have the Bomb any minute now".  Of course Israel has been saying the same thing for the past twenty years and it hasn't happened yet so why suppose now is any different.  The FACTS are (if John Kerry cares about facts) are that Iran gave up its nuclear ambitions around 2003 so that we have never been in any real danger then.  Kerry also misstated how close Iran was to enriching Uranium to weapons grade quality.  I'm told this is 90% enrichment of U 235.  Iran has gotten to twenty percent enrichment to U 235 so they have a long way to go!  But if that wasn't laying it on thick enough - then Kerry began talking about US solidarity with the nation of Israel in portions I don’t entirely agree with.  Kerry goes on about how he's been everywhere in Israel (just like Shawn Hannity has been everywhere- - period)  Kerry felt Israel's pain when the air raid sirens went off last summer.  Did he feel the "pain" of two thousand Palestinian deaths and all the death and starvation and loss of homes and relatives for those people.  "Hummm?"  Kerry laid it on even thicker talking about how the US gets about half of ALL US Military aid as it is and how we give then top notch weaponry- - - so they and Saudi Arabia can kill more innocent people with.  And the saddest part of all is that Republicans aren't buying this speech for a moment anyhow because they Want and Need to believe- - so badly - -that WAR is the ONLY sensible "next step" to take with Iran, and they'll say it every chance they get.  (Selah)  Norman Goldman in the second half of the hour talked about religious assholes in general. 

 I watched “Days of our Lives” and Justin is leaning on Raphael hard to charge Chad with a crime.  Stephano has extended the olive branch to Chad but Chad doesn’t know a good thing when he sees it.  I went out and had two glasses of iced tea from Emma in the courtyard.  I had the substitute for Shawn Hannity on, who was a friend of Scott Walker and former colleague with him in Wisconsin.  There was generally a lot of kissing the ass of law enforcement, along with the usual distortions of facts, which the Republicans are famous for.  Walker is at the bottom of my choices among the Republicans.  I went out for a smoke break.  Larry opened up a can of cat food and left it out.  Later on I saw that the cat had eaten a little of it but left most of it.  I watched Millionaire at three and they were generally easy questions to guess.  Then it was the first half of Jeopardy, and I actually entered the dining room early for once.  We had an enchilada for dinner.  It was a good one with onions but there was only one.  We had Spanish rice and mixed vegetables.  We had vanilla pudding for dessert.  

Fascism Comes to West Point!

P R E L I M I N A R Y - P A R A G R A P H S

There hasn’t been a whole lot of news topics inspiring me to post originals these days.  China’s problems aren’t going away overnight.  This is why the markets were down 470 points today.  I told you this downtrend was the real thing, but all these commentators pronounce that the “crisis has passed” after not allowing nearly enough time.  Some theorize that the people of China still don’t have the cash they should so vast malls are almost empty with only three shops in them, and large vast stadiums go unused- - and apartment buildings newly build just languish over the months only to fall into a state of gradual disrepair.  It seems that China’s whole goal is to build up a productive economy based on exports to other countries and not their own consumers.  So this “Communist Government” invites all these outside capitalists in their country making people like Michelle Bachman happy.  The right wing loves the way workers in China have no rights and can only dream that we’d do the same thing in America.  It is the goal of these later day Libertarians to fulfill the 1980 libertarian platform of David Koch, which abolishes the EPA and OSHA and the departments of energy and education and whatever, and would eliminate Social Security and Medicare and AFDC and corporate income tax.

Sometimes Norman Goldman has a major attitude problem.  For instance the Pope delivered a message on compassion and forgiveness.  For instance when dealing with a woman who’s had an abortion you should deal with her with sensitivity and empathy realizing the emotional trauma she’s gone through.  But Norman says “Well who are YOU to deem to forgive MY sins!”  And went on a rant about how women who’ve had abortions didn’t do anything wrong but were exercising their “rights’ or something.  But the problem is-- - most first degree murderers – and abortion is pre meditated murder - - would get off lightly with a pat on the wrist and told not to sin again.  Most first degree murderers end up on death row.  So perhaps Norman Goldman can try and exercise just a little humility and respect for the person of Jesus Christ, whom the Catholics believe has the power to grand absolution from sin.  But instead Norman goes off on a major rant about their not being a shred of evidence for any Catholic belief.

I continued to be puzzled why various Sunni nations are at odds with ISIS.  They both have the Solifist Islamic belief referring to Yemen and Saudi Arabia and ISIS.  Perhaps the thing isn't religious but dates back to Saudi Arabia's basic hostility to Iraq and the Bath Party.  As you know a lot of the soldiers of ISIS are old defunct officers in the Iraq army who were Bathists.  They just got radicalized.  It seems to me that is ISIS is at war with "Everybody" they should be a thing of the past by now.  Clearly they are getting more support than our media is letting on.  They're getting it from somewhere, perhaps from Turkey, who's efforts to become our allies in the anti ISIS cause is a bit dubious.  And if we are at war with Solifism itself, perhaps congress should investigate the connection between Saudi Arabia and 9 - 11.  Because we know how tight the Bush family is with the Saudis.  Shawn Hannity calls the Saudis "our trusted allies" and I"m wondering why.  Saudi Arabia has the third biggest military in the world, which is bigger than Iran.  So it is the Saudis who we have more to fear from than Iran.  But somehow the media isn't letting us know these things.  They have to pretend to hate each other.  But the proof is in the pudding.  Iran is the group that has dedicated the most of their military to fighting ISIS forces.  But we regard Iran as chopped liver or something.  I don't get it.  If the Saudis "Bombed the crap out of ISIS strongholds" the way Shawn Hannity suggest, then ISIS shouldn't be a problem on the world scene anymore, should it?

This is Tuesday September 1, 2015.   Money draw call came at one thirty but I never heard my name called.  In soap land the big question now is who is going to buy “Basic Black” and the two rivals are Nicole and Teresa, or maybe somehow they could contract as co investors, which would be really trippy.  I missed out on the morning refreshments.  In the afternoon I got two cups of iced tea from Rico.  This guy was going around cutting everyone’s nails and so I submitted to having mine cut - - kind of short.  The line wasn’t long and I was behind Nancy Bell.  I gave [name] the check for $1068.00 I had written out.  That makes $54.00 in my account which first puzzled me because I thought [name] said “minus $10.68” which left me puzzled.  I got my twenty and grabbed one Kit Kat bar and left for the store.  I bought a turquoise lighter and a fourth pack of cigarettes for the day.  I have written down all the outlays of cigarettes I’ve done.  tever, and would eliminate Social Security and Medicare and AFDC and corporate income tax.

M A I N - A R T I C L E

The following may be just one man’s opinion but it’s still scarey to think that such ideas are broached in the US Military.  I wonder what Lindsey Graham or CarleyFeurina think of this mad man’s rant at West Point.  This is an actual speech.  The author makes clear that his motivation is hatred of Islam. He includes the false myth of origins of Western Asian violence toward the United States lying in antiquity rather than in blowback. He includes the lie, now popular on all sides, of Iran pursuing nuclear weapons.

He announces, after the recent U.S. losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, that U.S. armies always win. Then he admits that the U.S. is losing but says this is because of insufficient support for the wars and for making the wars about an “economic system, culture, values, morals, and laws.”

The key weapon in this war, he says, is information. U.S. crimes are not the problem; the problem, he writes, is any information distributed about U.S. crimes — which information is only damaging because the United States is the pinnacle of support for the rule of law. It wouldn’t matter if you spread news about crimes by some more lawless nation. But when you share news about crimes by the United States it hurts the U.S. cause which is upholding the rule of law and leading the world to lawfulness. The United States is the all-time world champion of the rule of law, we’re told, in a 95-page screed that never mentions the Kellogg-Briand Pact and only belatedly brings up the United Nations Charter in order to pretend that it permits all U.S. wars.

You can pack a lot of existing lies about U.S. wars and some new ones into 95 pages. So, for example, Walter Cronkite lost the Tet Offensive (and by the logic of the rest of this article, should have been immediately murdered on air). The mythical liberal media is busy reporting on the U.S. killing of civilians, and the worst voices in public discourse are those of treasonous U.S. lawyers. They are the most damaging, again, because the United States is the preeminent leader of lawibidingness.

The treasonous antiwar lawyers number 40, and the author hints that he has them on a list. Though whether this is a real list like Obama’s kill list or something more like McCarthy’s is not clear. I lean toward the latter, primarily because the list of offenses run through to fill up 95 pages includes such an array that few if any lawyers have been engaged in all of them. The offenses range from the most modest questioning of particular atrocities to prosecuting Bush and Cheney in court. Nobody doing the latter has any voice in U.S. corporate media, and a blacklist for Congress or for the U.S. Institute of “Peace” would hardly be needed if created.

The 40 unnamed treasonous scholars are, in this treatise, given the acronym CLOACA, which in good fascist form of course means a sewer or an orifice for excreting feces or urine. Their supposed crimes include:

• failing to concede that violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict by Muslims permit the waiving of those laws for the U.S. government;
• interpreting the supposed standards of “distinction” and “proportionality,” which the author admits are totally open to interpretation, to mean something the author doesn’t like;
• opposing lawless imprisonment and torture;
• opposing murder by drone;
• supporting the supposed duty to warn people before you kill them;
• counting dead bodies (which is too “macabre” even though the U.S. is supposedly devoted to “minimizing civilian casualties” not to mention Western scientific superiority);
• upholding laws; pointing out facts, laws, or counterproductive results;
• filing suits in court;
• or criticizing war advocates.

The heart of the matter seems to be this: opposing war amounts to supporting war by an enemy. And, nonetheless, among the reasons offered to explain CLOACA joining the enemy are “anti-militarism,” and “pernicious pacifism.” So actual opposition to war drives people to oppose war, which amounts to supporting war for the enemy. I think I’ve got it.

The prescriptions to heal this illness center on waging total war. The author proposes both dropping nuclear bombs and capturing hearts and minds. No doubt as part of his leading support for lawfulness, he demands that there be no restraint on U.S. warmaking against Muslims. That means no limit in time or place, a rewriting of any laws of war by the U.S. military, and no trust in the “marketplace of ideas.” The U.S. must use PSYOPS, must impose loyalty oaths, must fire disloyal scholars from their jobs, must prosecute them for “material support of terrorism” and for treason, and must proceed to murder them in any time and place.