Tuesday, June 05, 2007

BUSH: RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY DERAILED


Bush: Russian democracy 'derailed'






POSTED: 12:11 p.m. EDT, June 5, 2007


Story Highlights• Bush says democratic reforms in Russia have been "derailed"• Bush said Russia is not the enemy and urged cooperation on missile defense• Tensions have been growing over U.S. plans to put missiles on European soil• Putin and Bush are set to meet at the G-8 conference in Germany this week
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush risked escalating a rumbling row with Russia over his country's plans for a Europe-based missile defense system on Tuesday by warning that democratic reforms in Russia had been "derailed."
The comments came in a speech to a conference organized by former dissidents in the Czech capital, Prague, The Associated Press reported.
"In Russia, reforms that once promised to empower citizens have been derailed, with troubling implications for democratic development," said Bush, who is due to meet Putin on Wednesday ahead of this week's G8 summit in Germany.
But in an earlier press conference, Bush said Moscow had nothing to fear from U.S. missile shield plans, which would see bases placed in European countries once within the Kremlin's sphere of influence including the Czech Republic and Poland.
"Russia's not our enemy," Bush said, adding that the defense shield was meant to target "rogue nations," not escalate a new Cold War standoff.
Bush urged Russian cooperation with U.S. efforts to build a weapons system that would help "safeguard free nations against a missile attack launched from a rogue regime," inviting Putin to send military personnel and scientists to learn about the system.
"My message will be, Vladimir -- I call him Vladimir -- that you shouldn't fear a missile defense system," Bush said.
"As a matter of fact, why don't you cooperate with us ... Please send your generals over to see how such a system would work. Send your scientists. Let us have the ability to discuss this issue in an open forum."
"We'll be completely transparent," he added.
While the U.S. relationship with Russia is complex, Bush said the countries could work together to deal with mutual threats.
But top Russian officials have sharply objected to the deployment of missile-defense technology in Europe.
Putin has said the deployment threatens Russian territory and will "turn Europe into a powder keg and stuff it with new types of weapons."
The Kremlin leader raised the stakes over the weekend, warning that he may aim nuclear weapons at European targets unless Washington abandons its plans.
"If this does not happen, then we will withdraw any responsibility for our retaliatory measures because it wasn't us who initiated a new round of arms race development in Europe," Putin said.
Ending tyranny
In a wide-ranging speech celebrating the spread of democracy around the world, Bush said his willingness to discuss U.S. concerns with Putin demonstrated the strength of the relationship between the former rival powers.
"America can maintain a friendship and push a nation toward democracy at the same time," said Bush, adding that he had pledged the U.S. to the "ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world."
"Some have said that qualifies me as a dissident president. If standing for liberty in the world makes me a dissident, then I'll wear the title with pride."
He said the U.S. would apply the same approach to other allies with difficult democratic records, including China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Bush singled out Belarus, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Iran and Syria as the "worst dictatorships," while also criticizing Venezuela, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
The coming G8 summit at the northern German city of Heiligendamm has drawn thousands of protesters, many of whom clashed with police in the nearby city of Rostock over the weekend.
Protest organizers said they would attempt to blockade the city's airport as Bush arrives Tuesday and will attempt to march to the summit site, about six miles away.
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A TERRIBLE LEGACY


Sunday, June 3, 2007
The Twelve Main Failures of the Bush-Cheney Administration: A Terrible Legacy

by Rodrigue Tremblay


"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation and around the world, this [Bush II] administration has been the worst in history."
Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeating it."
George Santayana (1863-1952)

"There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat."
George Tenet, ex-CIA Director under George W. Bush

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments whether Nazi or Communist."
Sir Winston Churchill - (1874-1965)

The accomplishments of the Bush-Cheney administration are very few, if any, but its wrongdoings are numerous and comprehensive. This administration has been a virtual wrecking crew for anything it has put its hands on. Here is a summary of the twelve most glaring failures of this administration.

1. The Bush-Cheney administration has been an aggressive militarist and imperialist administration, reverting to the old gunboat diplomacy.

First of all, the central mistake of President George W. Bush was to abdicate the function of governing to "steamroller" Vice President Dick Cheney, who then used his vast experience in government to create a parallel government. This administration will be referred to historically as the "Bush-Cheney administration", because the Vice president has had more concrete influence in running the government than the incumbent President.

The rest follows: The Bush-Cheney administration, which gained power in 2000 with the help of a one vote majority of the U.S. Supreme Court (on December 10, 2000), after having lost the popular vote, will also be remembered as the one that adopted a hegemonic foreign policy and issued the totalitarian "Bush Doctrine" of pre-emptive wars, of international unilateralism, and of American assertive military supremacy around the world. If this hubristic doctrine is not officially repudiated soon, the United States will take its place in history along (Adolf) Hitler's Nazi Germany and (Joseph) Stalin's Soviet Union.

As a concrete step in implementing the infamous "Bush Doctrine", the Bush-Cheney administration then discarded any notion of law and morality and launched a war of aggression abroad in order to impose an imperial control of oil-rich countries that are neighbors to the state of Israel. Against the advice of military, legal and intelligence experts, but coaxed by Neocon ideologues who were anxious to promote Israeli interests, the Bush-Cheney administration violated the U.N. Charter and the Nuremberg Charter and launched an illegitimate, illegal and immoral war of aggression, a war of choice and not of necessity, against Iraq. This is a throwback to the dreadful days of the old and much maligned gunboat diplomacy of more than one hundred years ago.

And talking about a quagmire, White House's Neocons are even pushing the idea of having American soldiers in Iraq for the next fifty years!

2. The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has betrayed democracy because it has relied on lies, deceit, propaganda and manipulation in a way that would have been worthy of a totalitarian regime:

The illegal Iraq war was justified with lies and exaggerations about Iraq's so-called weapons of mass destruction and supposed links to al Qaeda. This is a war that has been marred with reliance on torture and by immoral behavior by American soldiers in Iraq. The result is a worldwide explosion of hatred against the United States. As a consequence, the reputation of the United States has been seriously damaged among free nations and all around the world.

Domestic examples of the Bush-Cheney administration's tendency to rely on deceit were exposed by the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman affairs. And former CIA Director George Tenet has confirmed that the Bush-Cheney White House was bent on "selling" a war against Iraq to the American public using lies and cooked intelligence data.

Such behavior is contrary to the basic spirit of democracy that dictates that rulers must justify their decisions to the citizenry by spelling out clearly the ends being pursued, the means chosen to achieve the ends, and the reasons for taking a chosen action. For a public official, to lie is to be undemocratic.

3. The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has destroyed the more than two century-old American tradition of separation of church and state:

Soon after it gained power, President George W. Bush chose a theologian to write his speeches. This was followed by the Bush-Cheney administration entirely discarding the principle of separation of church and state by channeling billions of dollars of public money to religious organizations, thus insuring the support and votes of unscrupulous religious leaders.

Indeed, the Bush-Cheney administration created the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, an outfit that helped sectarian religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005 alone, to be used for the benefit of their own particular group of believers in their own particular religion. George W. Bush stands alone among all American presidents for having done so.

4. The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration accused of a criminal construct worthy of impeachment:

George W. Bush has flagrantly violated his oath of office, which requires him "to protect and defend the constitution."

Among the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that, under other political circumstances, would surely constitute the Constitutional grounds for impeachment are these: the President and his top officials pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to put together a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's nuclear weapons that both the administration and the Agency knew to be patently dishonest. They then used this false NIE report to justify an American war of aggression. After launching an invasion of Iraq, the administration unilaterally reinterpreted international and domestic law to permit the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and at other secret locations around the world.

Nothing in the U.S. Constitution, least of all the commander-in-chief clause, allows the president to commit felonies. Nevertheless, within days after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush signed a secret executive order authorizing the new policy of "extraordinary rendition," in which the CIA is allowed to kidnap terrorist suspects anywhere on Earth and transfer them to prisons in countries such as Egypt, Syria, or Uzbekistan, where torture is a normal practice, or to secret CIA prisons outside the United States where Agency operatives themselves do the torturing.

Within the USA, the Bush-Cheney administration undertook extensive spying on American citizens without obtaining the necessary judicial warrants and without reporting to Congress on these activities. These actions were in direct violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (and subsequent revisions) and of Amendment IV of the Constitution.

5. The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has used fascist-like, McCarthyite tactics and suspended fundamental liberties at home, including the nearly millennium-old Right of Habeas Corpus.

When president George W. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to proceed with warrantless domestic wiretapping, he knew he was establishing an illegal wiretapping program to spy on Americans, and that he was placing himself in a situation of illegality. If this had not been illegal, his Attorney General would not have felt obliged to cover up the entire affair in order to protect the administration. In fact, under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the U.S. department of Justice has lost its long-held tradition of independence, and embarked upon a long list of politicized operations.

Once a politician embraces illegality, there are no limits. For instance, George W. Bush has paved the way for exercising martial law powers, first by de-facto repealing the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act that forbids the deployment of soldiers on American soil for domestic law enforcement, [and, second, by signing last October (2006) the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA: HR 6166). Under this act, the President has granted himself almost-dictatorial powers to arrest and detain indefinitely any American citizen, without constitutional protections.

To top things off, President George W. Bush has relied on signing statements to assert that he has the power to disobey newly enacted laws in a manner that no previous president would have ever thought of doing.

6. As if to prove the "Peter Principle", the Bush-Cheney administration has displayed a surprisingly high level of incompetence:

Because the Bush-Cheney administration chose to make appointment decisions based on loyalty first and expertise a far second, it has been plagued with an unheard-of display of incompetence at all levels. They have appointed unqualified loyalists to key positions, such as Gonzales at Justice, Feith at the Pentagon, Brown at FEMA, Bolton at the U.N., Bremer in Iraq, Wolfowitz at the World Bank, etc., all disaster-prone individuals who dutifully extended the incompetence at the top.

7. The Bush-Cheney administration has been a scandal- and corruption-prone administration.

Contrary to other U.S. administrations involved in a war, the Bush-Cheney administration did not take any serious steps to prevent influence peddling and corruption. To the contrary, it seems that corruption was expected, possibly with the knowledge that some of the money floating around would find its way back into the political system. The Enron scandal, the Abramoff scandal, the Tom Delay scandal and the U.S. Attorney Scandal were all consequences of this negligence. At the same time, the Bush-Cheney administration has allowed the aristocracy of big money to dominate politics and the public discourse.

8. The Bush-Cheney administration has nearly completely destroyed a foreign country that had done no harm to the United States.

The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has militarily conquered and thoroughly destroyed the country of Iraq, and refused to leave when asked by the Iraqi parliament, all the while pretending they were occupying this country for the sake of "democracy".

In fact, the Bush-Cheney administration has dutifully worked to take over Iraq's oil resources, first, by pressuring the regime under occupation in Iraq to pass a law called "The Hydrocarbon Act", and second, by threatening to block dearly needed reconstruction funds of more than a billion dollars earmarked for the ravaged country, if the proposed privatization of Iraqi oil did not go forward.

9.- By its ill-advised military invasion of Iraq, the Bush-Cheney administration has triggered a civil war in Iraq that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

Indeed, the Bush-Cheney's military invasion of Iraq is responsible for having deteriorated the relations between all religious communities in Iraq and succeeded in unleashing a sectarian religious war between Iraqis in many regions of the country.

10. The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has shown contempt for international treaties and for international law, demonstrating an abysmal lack of judgment in world affairs, while withdrawing from already signed international treaties.

The list of international treaties—which are "the law of the land" according to the U.S. Constitution (Art. VI, para. 2) and the U.S. Supreme Court—that George W. Bush has unilaterally disregarded, cancelled or violated, is very long.

They include: -The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia, -the 1997 Kyoto treaty on global warming, -the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, -the 1997 Land Mine Treaty, -the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, -the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, -the Geneva conventions of Aug. 12, 1949, -the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the 2001 UN Agreement to Curb the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms, -the 1998 International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, -the 1996 Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty, -the 2001 International Plan for Cleaner Energy, -the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, -the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal Charter against wars of aggression, etc. —It has even violated the spirit of the 1967 “Outer Space Treaty” (OST) by indicating its intention to assert American military control of Outer Space.

By its actions around world and by its attitudes, the Bush-Cheney team has also fed the flames of Islamist terrorism and has even succeeded in rekindling the flames of the Cold War with Russia, with his ill-advised and provocative plan to station anti-missile bases in eastern Europe at Russia's doorstep. A new arms race has been started. —It is a fact that US Relations With Russia have gone steadily downhill under the Bush-Cheney administration. In so doing, the Bush-Cheney administration has made the world a more dangerous place.

11. Economically, the Bush-Cheney administration will be remembered for two things: massive budgetary deficits and big increases in oil prices.

In 2000, the U.S. government had a fiscal surplus, a legacy of the Clinton administration. If we consider only the 2002-2006 period, since budgets are prepared long in advance, the cumulative budget deficit over the Bush-Cheney period has exceeded one and a half trillion (1,500 billion) dollars.

Similarly, in 2000, oil prices were about $28 a barrel; in 2006, they reached close to $70 a barrel under the Bush-Cheney watch. They are still hovering above $60 a barrel, and could climb much higher if the Bush-Cheney administration acts upon the neocon plan to attack Iran. On the other hand, profits of Halliburton, a company that Vice President Dick Cheney headed, have exploded and so has the price of Halliburton shares, going from the mid-tens in 2001 to the mid-30s in 2007.

While the massive Bush-Cheney budgetary deficits have given a keynesian-like boost to the U.S. economy and also to the world economy through the large U.S. trade deficit, they have contributed to exacerbating income and wealth disparities within the U.S. and have created large financial imbalances in the world, with Japan and China becoming huge financial creditors. Indeed, the impetus for large U.S. fiscal deficits came mainly from three sources: massive tax cuts, especially targeted for the very rich, massive military spending required for financing never-ending wars of choice in the Middle East and increases in the cost of the major domestic entitlement programs.

Similarly, the tightening of the supply-demand equation in the international oil market is also related to oil output disruptions in the Middle East and to lukewarm domestic steps to economize fossil energy.

12. Economically also, the Bush-Cheney administration has strongly contributed to the stalling of the international trade liberalization process under the World Trade Organization (WTO). For the first time in fifty years, thanks to the neglect and lack of leadership from the Bush-Cheney administration, a major global trade liberalization round, the Doha Round has been derailed.

This is occurring at a critical juncture, because most prosperous economies, and this includes China and India, have now adopted the export-led growth model, doubling the overall share of exports in their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). That share is about 25 percent of GDP.

Indeed, as a consequence of global trade liberalization efforts and of new export-led growth strategies, world exports have exploded over the last half-century. For instance, in the early 1960s, total world exports were in the vicinity of $1 trillion a year (in 2000 dollars); nowadays, they are ten times larger at about $10 trillion a year, growing at the fast pace of 5.5 percent a year, much faster than global output growth at around 3.0 percent a year.

In conclusion, it is hard, objectively, not to conclude that George W. Bush and his far right administration have been a disaster for America and for the world, and the consequences will linger on for years to come. They have been agents of uncontrolled greed, of uncontrolled militarism, of massive incompetence and of illegal policies. —By any account, this is a most dismal record.

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Rodrigue Tremblay lives in Montreal and can be reached at rodrigue.tremblay@yahoo.com
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Monday, June 04, 2007

HAPPINESS AND COLDS



Happiness Protects Against Colds


People who are energetic, happy and relaxed are less likely to catch colds, research has found.


Conversely, those who are depressed, nervous or angry are more likely to complain about cold symptoms - whether or not they get bitten by the cold bug.


A team from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, found people who had a positive emotional attitude were not infected as often and experienced fewer symptoms than people with a negative emotional style.


There are a lot of interactions going on in the body which we just don't fully understand
Dr Nigel Higson


The researchers interviewed 334 healthy volunteers three evenings a week for two weeks to assess their emotional states.


After their assessment, each volunteer got a squirt in the nose of a rhinovirus - the germ that causes colds.


The researchers kept the subjects under observation for five days to see whether or not they became infected and how they manifested symptoms.


Tests showed that positive people were no less likely to be infected with the virus.


However, infection seemed to produce fewer signs and symptoms of illness.


Lead researcher Dr Sheldon Cohen said: "We found that experiencing positive emotions was associated with greater resistance to developing a common cold.


"But a negative emotional style had no effect on whether or not people got sick."


Immune system


Dr Cohen believes the findings suggest that a positive outlook may impact on how effective the immune system is at fighting disease.


He said that a more upbeat attitude may also help to reduce the risk of other infectious diseases.


Dr Cohen told BBC News Online: "The symptoms of a cold are caused by the release of chemicals such as cytokines, histamines and bradykinins.


"The release of these chemicals is to some extent under the control of hormones that are produced when we experience various emotions.


"We think that the levels of these hormones in happy people may partly protect them from developing symptoms of cold when infected by a cold virus."


Dr Nigel Higson, a GP and chairman of the Primary Care Virology Group, said there was a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that stress had an impact on the immune system.


He said: "It seems that the immune system is affected by your wellbeing, and if you are free from stress it is able to fight disease more rapidly."


Dr Higson said it was possible that chemicals in the brain may have a direct impact on the functioning of immune system chemicals.


However, he said: "There are a lot of interactions going on in the body which we just don't fully understand."


The research is published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.


Source: http://www.a4t.org/Health/be_happy.html

HILLARY'S FAITH





Clinton: Faith Got Me Past Marital Woes



Monday, June 4, 2007




WASHINGTON - In a rare public discussion of her husband's infidelity, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she probably could not have gotten through her marital troubles without relying on her faith in God.


Clinton stood by her actions in the aftermath of former President Clinton's admission that he had an affair, including presumably her decision to stay in the marriage.


"I am very grateful that I had a grounding in faith that gave me the courage and the strength to do what I thought was right, regardless of what the world thought," Clinton said during a forum where the three leading Democratic presidential candidates talked about faith and values.


"I'm not sure I would have gotten through it without my faith," she said in response to a question about how she dealt with the infidelity.


The forum, sponsored by the liberal Sojourners/Call to Renewal evangelical organization, provided an uncommon glimpse into the most personal beliefs of Clinton and rivals John Edwards and Barack Obama. The three candidates were invited by Sojourners founder Jim Wallis; most of the other Democratic candidates appeared on CNN later Monday to discuss their faith.


The most intimate question came about the Clintons' relationship, one of the world's most debated marriages but one that the husband and wife rarely speak openly about.


Clinton said she's "been tested in ways that are both publicly known and those that are not so well known or not known at all." She said it's those times when her personal faith and the prayers of others sustain her.


"At those moments in time when you are tested, it is absolutely essential that you be grounded in your faith," she said.


Edwards revealed that he prays - and sins - every day. The crowd gasped loudly when moderator Soledad O'Brien asked Edwards to name the biggest sin he ever committed, and he won their applause when he said he would have a hard time naming one thing.


"I sin every single day," said Edwards, the 2004 vice presidential nominee. "We are all sinners and we all fall short."


Edwards, wearing a purple tie to match Sojourners' signature color, promoted himself as the candidate most committed to the group's mission of fighting poverty. He said he doesn't feel his belief in evolution is inconsistent with his belief in Christ and he doesn't personally feel gays should be married, although as president he wouldn't impose his belief system on the rest of the country.


"I have a deep and abiding love for my Lord, Jesus Christ," Edwards said, but he said the United States shouldn't be called a Christian nation.


He said he has been going to church since he was a child and was baptized as a teen. He said he strayed from his faith as an adult and it came "roaring back" when his teenage son died in 1996.


"It was the Lord that got me through that," Edwards said, along with both of his wife's cancer diagnoses.


Clinton acknowledged that talking about her religious beliefs doesn't come naturally to her.


"I take my faith very seriously and very personally," she said. "And I come from a tradition that is perhaps a little too suspicious of people who wear their faith on their sleeves."


Each candidate was given 15 minutes to appear before the packed auditorium at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium and a live audience on CNN. They were questioned by O'Brien and by church leaders across the country.


Obama's appearance focused more on policy than the personal. Asked whether he agreed with President Bush's portrayal of the current global struggles in terms of good verses evil, Obama said there is a risk in viewing the world in such terms.


He said he believes that the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, were the result of evil. But he said that the United States' treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay is unjust.


"The danger of using good verses evil in the context of war is that it may lead us to be not as critical as we should about our own actions," Obama said to applause.


Source: http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=TopStories&id=20070604/46638e40_3ca6_1552620070604-1980917596

"ANGELS AND DEMONS"



Hollywood Puppets, Director Ron Howard and Actor Tom Hanks, Meet With Illuminati Grand Master In Rome To Discuss New Propaganda Film, Angels And Demons.

Bush also set to meet with his evil master, Pope Benedict XVI, on June 9. And according to the head of the Monte Carlo P2 Lodge as told to high-level defector, Leo Zagami, the Pope has a 24-year-old gay lover!

By Greg Szymanski, JD
May 23, 2007
According to researchers not afraid to tell the truth, the Vatican and the Jesuit Order appear to have their "dirty hands" into most every aspect of American culture including banking, the press, Hollywood, politics, education and religion.

For example, according to Eric Jon Phelps, author of the Vatican Assassins, Americans are being hoodwinked and brainwashed by the big shots in power who owe their allegiance to the Pope not the American people.

"When the truth is suppressed, people make bad decisions based upon only what they know, not upon the truth they ought to know," said Phelps, a staunch Calvinist who believes Bible-believing Christians are being targeted by Rome and Washington. "You won't see any of the truth about the Vatican in the mainstream media or on shows like Alex Jones, Jeff Rense or John Statdmiller's as behind the scenes RBN and GCN are nothing but Jesuit controlled stations like all the big networks in the mainstream."

Phelps warns people that if Vatican tyranny isn't confronted and exposed, the Pope's modern-day inquisition will soon wipe-out and persecute Americans by the millions.

To further illustrate America's obedience to the Papacy, President Bush will hold his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI June 9 at the Vatican, the White House has announced.


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Source: http://www.arcticbeacon.com/

Sunday, June 03, 2007

MAJESTYTWELVE



Posted by Cypher - 05-22-07 03:05 - 2 comments
Bill's knowledge about the plans of the Illuminati led to very many incredibly accurate predictions - until he was finally silenced in November 2001, when he was shot in cold blood. The attached torrent gives an example of his accuracy:-
in his radio show broadcast on June 28th 2001, Bill predicted that the NWO would launch a "terrorist" attack upon America, and that it would be blamed on Osama Bin Laden.

Bill also speaks of the Oklahoma City bombings and Timothy McVeigh, and mentions details which have only just been released in the sworn affadavits (also included in the torrent) from 17th February 2007.



Number of downloads: 3


The document below is paraphrased from Bill's writings in the mid-90's. I will also post Bill's entire MAJESTYTWELVE work as well, once I track down the complete version of it.

When Bill was murdered in highly suspicious circumstances, in November 2001, during a critical period of history for TPTB in propagating their myths surrounding September 11th 2001. Bill's words were far too close to the bone for them to tolerate, so he was murdered for bringing the whole truth to peoples attention - something he always suspected would happen.

If you want to find out why Milton William Cooper was such a target, read through this thread. You will soon understand why Bill was so dangerous to The Powers That Be that they had to kill him.


QUOTE

MAJESTYTWELVE
by William Cooper

Here is the result of all my years of research into the new world order.


(If you doubt this information submit FOIA requests for information
under the name MAJESTYTWELVE, Operation Majority, Project Aquarius,
etc. Make inquiry to government and military officials and watch the
blood drain from faces.)

MAJESTYTWELVE

VERITAS News Service - The plan for the destruction of the United States of America and the formation of the socialist totalitarian one world government under the United Nations is contained within a Top Secret set of documents under the title of "MAJESTYTWELVE". There is no space between majesty and twelve. The term honors the planned placement of ultimate power in a body of 12 "wise men" who are destined to rule the world as the "disciples" of a "Messiah" front man who will serve as a buffer between them and the sheople of the world.


This plan was discovered between 1970 and 1973 by William Cooper while he was a member of the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet. The key to access is a Top Secret (Q) security clearance with the compartmentalization of "MAJIC" (not magic).


This plan outlines the formation of a one world socialist totalitarian government ruled by a behind-the-scenes "council of wise men" with a "benevolent dictator" who is perceived by the public as a "Messiah" head of government. The Constitution of the United States of America and its Bill of Rights will be scrapped. A parliamentary form of government will take its place. All military forces and individuals are to be disarmed except for an internal police force which will be armed only with the minimum weapons needed to maintain internal order.


The only military force will be a world police force under the United Nations in sufficient numbers and with state-of-the-art technology so that it can field overwhelming force against any perceived threat to the world supra government see State Department Publication 7277.
The military of the United States of America is currently filling that requirement. The senior officer corps of all of our military forces have betrayed their oaths of allegiance to the Constitution and have joined the conspiracy. They are in fact traitors engaged in High Treason.


The source of this conspiracy will be found in the body known as the Illuminati. It is made up of the highest adepts of the combined total of the so-called fraternal orders and secret societies. They are bound together by blood oaths, a secret religion, and the promise of an elite status within regional government and the world supra government. Their religion is based upon the Kabbalah and the Luciferian Philosophy. They are not bound by any oath or allegiance save their own. They are loyal to no government or People save their own. And they are Citizens of no country save their already in place secret world government. In their own words, "If you are not one of us you are nothing." To understand some sense of "feel" for the concept see the movie "They Live".


This conspiracy is racist considering Blacks, Hispanics, and Aboriginal Peoples to be "useless eaters". Despite the racism of the Illuminati they have convinced the "useless eaters" that they are their friends, benefactors, and protectors. While destroying these poor People with socialism they have convinced them that Marx is their savior... and the sheople follow this Judas goat eagerly to their re-enslavement and destruction.


There will be no individual Rights only privileges that can be granted or denied at will by the world supra government. All property is to be owned by the State. There will be a redistribution of wealth in order to eliminate class differences and level the standard of living to a much lower level in the advanced nations, such as the United States of America, and to a higher standard of living in the so-called third world nations. This leveling of the standard of living will be accomplished through a global economic collapse which is in its beginning stages at this time. The economic collapse will fulfill the goal of Marx and Engles' Communist Manifesto which mandates the elimination of the middle class. NAFTA and GATT which have caused industry to move into third world nations in order that corporations may exploit "cheap" labor are also a part of this process.


All County and State governments are to be eliminated and replaced with regional government. These regional governments are already in place. Regionalism is gradually taking control throughout America. There will be no more cash money. Trade will be accomplished by a system of computer credits with accounts accessed through debit cards or computer chip implants which will also serve as personal identification, drivers licensee, and etc.


The plan for the creation of a socialist world government is protected by an invented extraterrestrial threat from space. The entire UFO phenomenon and the UFOLogy movement has been created to further the protection and activation of the plan.


Within MAJESTYTWELVE is Operation Majority which contains the plan justified by presenting the ALIEN threat as the reason for the necessity for world government. Operation Majority is named after the original Bolshevic party which sparked the Russian Revolution...
Bolshevic literally means "the majority". The plan states that if the American people are ever told of the supposed alien presence the aliens will destroy the united States of America. All who have access to the plan or who inadvertently discover the plan are silenced by that warning.


A further safeguard is that anyone who links the so-called alien threat with the coming world government will be ridiculed and discredited by the press. When I saw the plan in the Navy I believed it... it was not until I had performed many years of research that I was able to fully understand exactly what it was that I had seen. It was difficult at best for me to believe that my government and the Navy had used me in the manner in which they had done especially since I had dedicated my life to government and military service.


The plan is real... the alien threat is imaginary. The alien threat is presented as real through the use of secret technology originally developed by the Germans in their secret weapon programs during WW-II, by geniuses like Nikola Tesla, and of course many others. Most military and government personnel who have access to this material believe the extraterrestrial threat is real although none of them has ever seen any evidence of the existence of any extraterrestrial creature or any sufficiently advanced technology other than that of human origin.


All so-called "leaks" are intentional disinformation projects which are designed to promote the alien threat scenario while allowing for complete deniability on the part of government. The antics of Vicki (Cooper) Ecker, Donald Francis Ecker III, William Moore, Jaime Shandera, Stanton T. Friedman, Bud Hopkins, John Lear, Linda Moulton Howe, Art Bell, George Knapp, Colonel Philip Corso, the so-called alien autopsy film, and many others appear to be projects of this type.


The plan to create an artificial extraterrestrial threat to the Earth was first mentioned by John Dewey in New York during 1917 in a speech to the visiting Japanese Imperial Delegation headed by Viscount Ishii. The premise was tested for credibility with the CBS presentation of "The War Of The Worlds" by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on October 30, 1938. The public believed it was real thus setting the stage for the implementation of an alien threat scenario... the only problem was that the state of the art of technology at that time did not allow for a believable presentation. The development of saucer shaped wingless and tailless flying machines by the Germans during WW-II solved the problem.


The announcement of the Jewish Holocaust and proposal of a World government which would prevent future wars and genocide by the formation of the United Nations in 1945 and the announcement of sightings of "flying saucers" by Kenneth Arnold, an ex-intelligence officer, in 1947 launched the deception. The natural guilt harbored by the men of the 509th Atomic Bomb Wing after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made them eagar conspirators in orchestrating the faked crash of an extraterrestrial craft and discovery of shaved and surgically altered monkeys near Roswell, New Mexico. The extraterrestrial threat was launched into the public conscience.


Applying Hitler's concept of the "big lie" the artificial extraterrestrial threat was nurtured and built into an always present possibility over the next 50 years until a large percentage of the worlds population found themselves believing in alien ships, extraterrestrial visitation, alien mutilation of animals, and alien abductions of humans with absolutely no proof that extraterrestrials exist anywhere in the universe much less that any have ever visited this planet.


The artificial threat is further advanced through the mind control programming of Marxists in Hollywood, television, advertising, publications, and the uFOOLogy movement all of which are in the complete control of the Illuminati and the Intelligence community. Fear is instilled through the incidental use of terror inspired by the cattle and animal mutilation byproducts of the governments radiation monitoring projects and the so-called "alien abduction" scenario induced by state-of-the-art and extremely sophisticated mind control operations.


To make interstellar travel believable NASA was created and the Apollo Space Program foisted the idea that man could travel to, and walk upon the moon. Every Apollo mission was carefully rehearsed and then filmed in large sound stages at the Atomic Energy Commissions Top Secret test site in the Nevada Desert and at a secured and guarded sound stage at the Walt Disney Studios within which was a huge scale mock-up of the moon.


All names, missions, landing sites, and events in the Apollo Space Program echoed the occult metaphors, rituals, and symbology of the Illuminati's secret religion. The most transparent was the faked explosion on Apollo 13 which was the metaphor for the initiation ceremony involving the death (explosion), placement in the coffin (period of uncertainty of their survival), communion with the spiritual world and the imparting of esoteric knowledge to the candidate (orbit and observation of the moon without physical contact), rebirth of the initiate (solution of problem and repairs), and the raising up by the grip of the lions paw (reentry and recovery of Apollo 13). 13 is the number of death and rebirth, death and reincarnation, sacrifice, the Phoenix, the Christ (not the one you know), and the transition from the old to the new. Exploration of the moon stopped because it was impossible to continue the hoax without being ultimately discovered...
and they ran out of pre-filmed episodes.


No man has ever ascended higher than 300 miles, if that high, above the Earth's surface. No man has ever orbited, landed on, or walked upon the moon in any publicly known space program. If man has ever truly been to the moon it has been done in secret and with a far different technology.


The tremendous radiation encountered in the Van Allen Belt, the solar radiation, cosmic radiation, temperature control, and many other problems connected with space travel prevent living organisms leaving our atmosphere with our known level of technology. Any intelligent high school student with a basic physics book can prove NASA faked the Apollo moon landings.


The head of NASA at the time of the Apollo Space Program is now the Grand Commander of the Council of the 33rd Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction. All of the first astronaughts were Freemasons. There is a photograph in the House of the Temple in Washington DC of Neil Armstrong on the moons surface (supposedly) in his spacesuit holding his Masonic Apron in front of his groin.


The effect upon the people of the world was that, if we could go to the moon, other creatures from other worlds could travel to our Earth. The escalation of the artificial alien threat scenario since that time is obvious and transparent.


A result of the Genome Project at Las Alamos Laboratory, the recent success of cloning and biochemistry will produce laboratory created creatures that will ultimately be presented to the People of the world as extraterrestrial in origin. The only reason an extraterrestrial has not been presented to humanity is that they have not succeeded in making one that is believable. For an in depth explanation of this "artificial alien threat" scenario read The Report From Iron Mountain, The Probability and Possibility of Permanent Peace.


The attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was designed to affect the "Heartland" so that no one will feel safe. These acts in the manner of Hegel's Dialectic are leading to a need for the elimination of the Rights of individuals and the disarmament of all peoples so that the world supra government can step up to provide the solution which will be artificial safety and security from terrorism. Thesis against antithesis equals synthesis. The Omnibus Counter Terrorism Act which followed gives the President the power to arrest, imprison, and/or deport any political opposition, without trial, without Habeas Corpus, and without explanation of any kind.


If these acts of terror do not succeed there will be more bombings, chemical, or biological attacks. They will escalate in the destruction, maiming and killing of men women and especially children. As a last resort, if all else fails, the Illuminati are prepared to detonate an atomic weapon in a large American city such as New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. A war may be promulgated in the Middle East in order to provide the excuse needed to explain terrorist attacks upon the United States of America to the American sheople in order that they will accept personal disarmament in the interest of peace and security.


The attacks will be blamed upon middle eastern religious fanatics, Christian fundamentalists, white supremicists, Patriots, or Militias. A more immediate result of these operations will be the increased use of military forces, weaponry, and equipment such as tanks and armored personnel carriers in civilian law enforcement, the suspension or elimination of Habeas Corpus, the elimination of jury trials, and the institution of martial law with show-trials conducted by a tribunal of judges.


When you continue to hear this Constitutional Republic referred to as a "democracy" you must remember that V.I. Lenin said, "Democracy is indispensable to socialism." When you hear our military referred to as "UN Peace Keepers" remember that both Marx and Lenin defined "peace" as, "the elimination of all opposition to socialism." When you wonder where this is all taking us remember that both Marx and Lenin stated that, "The ultimate goal of socialism is communism." And if you think the fall of the Soviet Union was the end of communism read Golytsyn, and believe me when I tell you that the highest ranking communist mole in the CIA was James Jesus Angleton.


A decoy has been presented by socialist change agents known to you as William Moore, Jaime Shandera, and Stanton T. Friedman. It is called Operation Majestic-12. It has succeeded in leading the sheople away from the truth by presenting the artificial alien threat as a "government coverup". Most of the well known uFOOLogists and so-called UFO researchers are Illuminati, socialist or government change agents operating in furtherance of propagandizing the American People.


Ruby Ridge, Waco, the propaganda war against Patriots and Militias, and other acts of aggression against the American People who might discover and combat this fraud. These are intentional acts of war designed to demonize fundamentalist Christians, Jews, Moslems, other religious fundamentalist organizations, and anyone else who might fight in defense of the Constitution and/or Freedom. These terrorist acts deliver a message to the American People that any opposition to the new world supra government will be met with overwhelming force and the complete genocide of the enemies of socialism.


The World Trade Center bombing, the bombing of the Oklahoma City Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and mass shootings by mental and ex-mental patients of large numbers of men, women and children (Stockton California) were, and will continue to be intentional acts of war designed to spread terror and a feeling of helplessness. Most of the ex or current mental patients who have perpetrated these acts are in fact innocent victims of mind control projects that are in activation to further the interests of the socialist new world order.


It is a fact that the FBI orchestrated the attack upon the World Trade Center teaching the terrorists how to drive the van, build the bomb, place it in the building, and detonate the bomb. One of the FBI informants attempted to secure permission from the FBI to substitute inert ingredients for the bomb so that no one would be injured but the FBI agent in charge denied the request. The informant tape recorded all of his conversations with the FBI and a full transcript of the tapes was printed in the New York Times. The judge refused to allow the tapes to be presented in court in defense of the FBI informant.


The "Turner Diaries" were actually written by the CIA prior to 1972.
The concept of leaderless resistance was promulgated to enable easy destruction of any resistance to the world supra government. Small scattered units without a concerted tactical plan and a solid reliable command structure will be defeated in a very short period of time. No such movement could ever effect the necessary political control to restore order and reinstitute government of any kind even if they managed to win the war. Many of the so-called Patriot leaders such as LtCol James Gritz, Mark Koernke, and others are actually change agents of Illuminati socialism or the Intelligence community.


World War III is being fought NOW. It is being fought NOW with "Information Warfare" using very sophisticated mind control techniques, propaganda, disinformation, intimidation, fear, and manipulation. It is, in fact, a usually quiet war being fought mostly with silent weapons... but before long it will become very loud and very destructive. "Ordo Ab Chao" dictates that the old order be completely and thoroughly destroyed before the "new order" can be established.


A one world socialist government is the stated and avowed policy of the United States government. The United States created the United Nations. The United States State Department wrote the policy in the document known as State Department Publication 7277 which includes an introduction by President Truman, 33rd Degree Freemason, which admits the US governments "world government" policy. State Department Publication 7277 outlines the merger of the military of the United States with the military of the Soviet Union as a World Peace Keeping Force under the United Nations as the ultimate goal of the foreign policy of the united States of America.


NATO is a part of the United Nations and was created under its auspices according to the UN Charter. The Warsaw Pact was a Part of the United Nations and was created under its auspices according to the UN Charter. The cold war was a scam which allowed both governments to levy large taxes which were used to develop the technology and experiment with techniques which will be combined to control the population of the world. The inclusion of Warsaw Pact nations as new members of NATO is the initial stage of Phase II of the merger of forces outlined in State Department Publication 7277.


President Kennedy presented the plan to disarm the nations and People of the world to the United Nations. The United States planted the seed of an European Union, nurtured that idea, and has supported its formation. When the leader of the USSR banged his shoe on his desk at the United Nations and screamed, "We do not have to invade the United States we will destroy you from within," he was absolutely correct.


The progression of accomplishments toward the completion of the plan to implement one world socialist totalitarian government is guided and controlled by the hierarchy of the Illuminati in the groups known as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Round Table Group, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and many others including the Illuminati in government and industry who are members of the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern and Northern Jurisdictions, the Supreme Council of the York Rite of Freemasonry, International Zionism, B'nai B'rith, the Grande Lodge of France, the Grande Lodge of England, the Order of the Golden Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientalis, the Rosae Crucae, the Sovereign and Military Order of the Knights of Malta, the Knights Templar, the Jason Society, the Vatican, and many others too numerous to list.


Politicians are controlled through the accumulation of dossiers by the FBI, the IRS, the CIA, the Mossad, MI6, the ADL, the KGB, and other Illuminati controlled organizations. Those who do not have incidents in their past that allow control by blackmail will be put in positions by one or more of the above organizations that will result in one or more incidents which will allow control by blackmail.


The Las Vegas Brothel run by Bob Lazar was found to have video cameras throughout and was used for the collection of information with which to blackmail politicians, military personnel, and anyone else who needed to be controlled by the Illuminati. Anyone who will not play by the Illuminati rules are weeded out and quickly disappear from politics.


Remember that it was 33rd Degree Freemason Franklin Roosevelt who created the Federal Bureau of Investigation run by 33rd Degree Freemason Hoover. The FBI and IRS are, in fact, the political Gestapo for the Illuminati in the United States of America.


The end result of all of this will be the destruction of the sovereignty and Constitution of the United States of America. All those in and out of government who support the policy of one world government are knowingly and willingly engaged in High Treason.


Regardless of what you have been led to believe Senator Joseph McCarthy was absolutely correct and in fact the recent opening of the files of the KGB proved that he even knew the exact number of communist agents who had infiltrated our government. The revelations of history, the records of the KGB, and the recent release of the NSA deciphered cables to and from Moscow by the Venona Project have vindicated Senator Joseph McCarthy. He was destroyed by the Marxist owned and controlled news media and Hollywood. The branding of anyone who dared to expose communists and their goal of the ultimate destruction of the United States of America as "McCarthyites" insured the increased infiltration and rapid takeover of our government by Marxist and communists over the intervening years.



Mairi


WOLFOWITZ, KISSINGER AT BILDERBERG





















Wolfowitz, Kissinger to attend the Bilderberg meeting
The Bilderberg Group, which brings together people of influence from around the world, will begin its 2007 meeting in Turkey today.


Bilderberg is an annual conference of the global elite, the location of which changes every year. Power brokers from industry, oil companies, politics, banking, business, academia, royalty and the media get together to privately discuss the course of the world with no outside press coverage whatsoever. The secrecy of the group has attracted criticism and given rise to much conspiracy theory about possible covert plans of the global elite to rule the world. Many treat the meeting as a significant event during which participants also determine the following year’s agenda.
However, the group claims it does not set policy.

The elite group will be meeting today at the Klassis Hotel in the town of Silivri, 40 miles from İstanbul.

Sources say the meeting, which will be held from May 31 to June 3, will mainly focus on issues such as a probable operation against Iran, energy policies and Turkey’s EU membership process. During last year`s meeting, Turkey-EU relations were discussed quite intensely by the participants.

Two Bilderberg conferences were previously held in Turkey, the first in 1959 in Istanbul and the other in 1975 in Çesme, near the Aegean city of Izmir.

Economy Minister Ali Babacan, KOÇ Holding CEO Mustafa Koç and Yeni Şafak columnist Fehmi Koru are some of the Turks expected to attend the conference, while former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and UN Development Programme (UNDP) chief Kemal Derviş are some of the international personalities expected to attend this year`s meeting.

31.05.2007

Today’s Zaman İstanbul

Source: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=112758&bolum=102

ANOTHER COLD-WAR

Russia-US: Another Cold War with Russians at G-8 summit
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By SARAH BAXTER & MARK FRANCHETTI
THE German resort of Heiligendamm played host to Hitler and Mussolini before it became trapped behind the Iron Curtain. As members of the G8 head for the Baltic coast this week, the summit threatens to become a flashpoint for a new cold war between Russia and the West.

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has already accused America of seeking to rule by “diktat as in the Third Reich” over its plan to deploy an anti-missile shield in eastern Europe, while Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, chided Russia last week for acting in the “zero-sum terms of another era” -- a reference to the cold war.

The stand-off with Russia is likely to overshadow the summit’s official agenda, including the search for a consensus on climate change. President George W. Bush is to make a point of stopping over in Poland and the Czech Republic, where 10 American interceptor rockets are likely to be sited.

“This is not an issue over which Russia is prepared to soften its stance,” an aide to Putin said. “We’re dead against the American plans because we’re convinced the shield will dramatically alter the military balance of power in Europe.” Last week Russia test-fired a new ballistic missile designed to challenge the anti-missile shield and usher in an arsenal of post-Soviet era weapons.

Bush will join Putin for a one-on-one session in Heiligendamm before the two men meet again in a month’s time at the Bush family holiday home in Kennebunkport, Maine. “It is true, the rhetoric has seemed to escalate a little bit in the past several months,” said Stephen Hadley, the US national security adviser. “Our view is we ought to be trying to turn that rhetoric down.”

Russia has been picking fights with much of Europe as well as America recently, from the refusal to allow the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi to Britain for the alleged murder of the Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko, to the denial of independence for Kosovo. “We used to think the Russians were not comfortable being isolated, but that is no longer the case,” said Stephen Sestanovich, a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “Regarding Kosovo, they are perfectly happy to go it alone.”

In Heiligendamm the Russians will be facing a revitalized western alliance composed of the new conservative French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, known as “L’americain,” Angela Merkel, the German chancellor who chided Putin for his poor human rights record at a recent European Union summit, and Bush.

The American president will attend bilateral meetings with Tony Blair, in his farewell G8 appearance, and with Sarkozy -- the first time the two will have met. Sarkozy shares Bush’s teetotalism and passion for cycling, and the chemistry is described on both sides as extremely promising.

Europe remains at odds with America over climate change, despite a compromise measure proposed last week by Bush in advance of the summit. The Germans want to cut greenhouse emissions to 50 percent of the 1990 level by 2050, in the hope of limiting any rise in the planet’s temperature this century to 2 degrees Celsius.

Bush put forward a counter-plan of his own which calls on the world’s top-polluting countries, including China and India, to agree on a target for reducing greenhouse gases by the end of 2008. “It is not a competitor to anybody’s proposal,” Hadley said. “It is an effort to make a contribution to ongoing dialogue.”

The proposal has removed some of the sting from America’s refusal to sign the 1997 Kyoto protocol on climate change, although in America it is being greeted as more of a U-turn than it is in Europe. Bush is facing increasing domestic pressure to adjust his policy from “green” evangelical Christians, security hawks who want to reduce American dependence on Middle Eastern oil and businesspeople, including Hank Paulson, his treasury secretary.

Roger Bate, a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, said: “Regardless of past guilt, the Kyoto protocol dealt only with the wealthiest nations and they failed to comply with its targets. Bush has now said, ‘Let’s play your game. Let’s see what will happen if we set targets for developing nations that will help them to lower their emissions’.”

But Bush went on to reject plans for a global carbon-trading scheme, which would allow nations to buy and sell carbon credits. US officials also ruled out energy efficiency targets, supported by Europe but regarded as unwieldy by American businesses.

The Europeans are posturing, according to Bate. “Unless you massively increase the price of energy to consumers, you will not have a significant reduction in energy use. You won’t see how serious voters are about global warming until middling-to-poor people start giving up their summer holidays because of the prohibitive cost of air travel and have to turn their heating down in winter to save money.”

There is scope for progress at the summit on Iran, where the Russians have been drawing closer to the European and American position and may ultimately support tougher sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program.

“It is the one issue where the Russians are still unwilling to be isolated,” said Sestanovich. “They don’t want to be seen as the sponsors of the Iranian nuclear bomb. It is bad PR.”

04.06.2007

© The Sunday Times, London

myspace OR YOUR SPACE?


Hillary Rodham Clinton (ex-First-Lady) or
Barrack (virtual unknown, Hasan come-lately) Obama
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Hillary Clinton

(myspace.com/hillaryclinton)

Female, 59 years old

Chappaqua, N.Y., by way of Little Rock, Ark., and Washington, D.C.

Occupation: Senator; candidate; target of vast right-wing conspiracy

People on her Friends List: 81,175

Hillary likes to cook: Soft scrambled eggs

Hillary's favorite reality TV program: "American Idol"

What's her sign? Hillary doesn't say, but she does mention that she loves chocolate.

Hillary's comments section includes this post from Sarah (313)™ : "you are as pimp as operah. maybe pimper."

Hillary's downloadable banners include this slogan: "I am not only voting for Hillary, SHE'S MY FRIEND!"

How cool is Hillary? As cool as steel ... and maybe pimper.

Hillary's MySpace page rates: A moderate and calculated C. It's well put together, but a little on the stern side.



Barack Obama

(myspace.com/barackobama)

Male, 45 years old

Chicago

Occupation: Senator; candidate; reluctant heartthrob, would-be nonsmoker

People on his Friends List: 87,126

Barack's best blog entry: "Music for Obama," a call for music and art projects with a pro-Barack message. Barack rocks the creativity.

What's his sign? Leo, the Lion. How sexy is that?

Barack's comments section includes this post from !Ham&&Grapes!: "I am your biggest fan ... I listen to your speaches religiously. You are my hero. And I am only 12 years old."

In the Who I'd like to meet category, Barack answers with: A video ... of himself.

How cool is Barack? He has a Web site called MyBarackObama.com. Barack doesn't just visit MySpace; Barack is MySpace. So ... what's cooler than being cool? Ice cold.

Barack's MySpace page rates: C, as in cold, but not chillin'. The campaign's youngest candidate needs to add some useful pizzazz to his page.

PM BLAIR TO BECOME CATHOLIC



Blair planning to become a Catholic after he quits No 10



From This is London - May 17, 2007


Tony Blair is preparing to convert to Roman Catholicism after he steps down as Prime Minister, according to a leading cleric.



His long- awaited formal switch to the faith of his wife and family will come shortly after he surrenders office, it is claimed.



Mr Blair's decision to formalise his Catholic beliefs was revealed by Father Michael Seed, who is regarded as unofficial chaplain to Westminster and is a regular visitor to Number Ten.



Last year, Cherie Blair praised Father Seed, a leading cleric at Westminster Cathedral, for his "ability to reach out to all kinds of people, whether it is the homeless on the streets to the people in the highest places in the land, including even in Downing Street".


Asked to elaborate yesterday, Father Seed, usually known for his openness with the media, said: "I'm afraid I can't say anything."



Mr Blair has long been expected to complete his conversion after leaving Downing Street.



He has regularly attended Catholic services in recent years, both with his family and alone.


Mr Blair has also visited Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II in Rome.



While opposition leader in the mid-1990s Mr Blair often took communion with his wife and children at a Catholic church in Islington in London, which is seen as a signal he is totally loyal to the faith.



However, he stopped doing so in public on the instructions of the then leader of Catholics in England and Wales, the late Cardinal Hume.



Mr Blair has not been seen in a church of his professed Anglican faith except on official occasions.



He is widely considered to have remained an Anglican because of the potential complexities of conversion while in office.



Some lawyers believe the 1829 Emancipation Act, which gave Roman Catholics full civil rights, may still prevent a Catholic from becoming Prime Minister.



Clauses in the Act state that no Catholic adviser to the monarch can hold civil or military office.



Despite his apparent commitment to the faith, Mr Blair has also frequently clashed with Roman Catholic leaders, particularly over his liberal policies on gay rights and abortion.



In recent months, the leader of Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, has been severely critical of the Sexual Orientation Regulations.



The Government claims the rules will protect homosexuals from discrimination.



But Catholic leaders say they will force Christians to act in conflict with their principles.



The Cardinal has threatened to close Catholic adoption agencies if they are forced to place children with gay couples.



If Mr Blair is to convert formally, he will have to undergo a course of instruction, which is likely to be conducted by Father Seed.



To be received officially into the Church, he will be expected to take part in a service of baptism, followed by confirmation and Holy Communion.



Downing Street refused to be drawn on Mr Blair's intentions yesterday. A spokesman said: "This story is always circulating in one form or another.





"The Prime Minister remains a member of the Church of England."

Source: http://www.mountainmediaministries.com/endTimes/latest/blairCatholic.htm

Saturday, June 02, 2007

KNOCKED UP

Knocked Up




Extremely raunchy romantic comedy about a slacker (Seth Rogen) and a fetching blonde (Katherine Heigl) who meet at a Los Angeles nightclub and then try to deal responsibly with the consequences. Director-writer Judd Apatow pushes the envelope on a number of fronts and while his beauty-and-the-geek story contains some genuine wit and positive sentiment, the amount of obscene material and the generally degrading tone of the discourse washes way any laudable message. Constant rough and crude language, pervasive coarse sexual and scatological humor, unmarried sex, frequent drug use and drug references, condom use, abortion discussion, rear male and upper female nudity, explicit shots of childbirth, and some ethnic slurs. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is O -- morally offensive. (R) 2007

Full Review

Out-of-wedlock pregnancy is just the tip of the iceberg. "Knocked Up" (Universal) may well be the raunchiest mainstream romantic comedy ever released. All the genuine wit and positive sentiment in the beauty-and-the-geek tale gets washed away by an onslaught of obscene material.

Writer-director Judd Apatow ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") pushes the envelope on a number of fronts. Describing the objectionable content as quantitatively or qualitatively gratuitous would be inaccurate because it's essential to his brand of humor.

Structured like a classic romantic comedy, the plot's tangents and asides are designed to appeal to a media- and entertainment-obsessed segment of the population reared on explicit cable television shows and rap music.

Slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) is comfortable hanging out in Los Angeles with his twentysomething pals. While smoking copious amounts of pot and engaging in inane competitions, they plan to launch a movie-related Web site. Fetching blonde Alison (Katherine Heigl) works at the E! cable TV channel. Celebrating her promotion to on-air talent, she goes clubbing with her married sister, Debbie (Leslie Mann), and meets Ben. Although Alison is out of his league, they have an inebriated encounter and spend the rest of the movie dealing with its consequences.

Most of the film's comic allusions are to movies and television programs from the last 25 years and these characters exist in a media-saturated, pop-culture bubble.

To his credit, Apatow doesn't oversell the fairy-tale romance dimension of the story with a pat ending.

What's most troublesome about "Knocked Up" is the degrading tone of the interpersonal discourse. Taking responsibility for one's child is a laudable message. Unfortunately, this moral is affirmed using a harsh mode of communication. There are simply too many expletives and verbal putdowns for it to be uplifting.

The film contains constant rough and crude language, pervasive coarse sexual and scatological humor, unmarried sex, frequent drug use and drug references, condom use, abortion discussion, rear male and upper female nudity, explicit shots of childbirth, and some ethnic slurs. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is O -- morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

Source: http://www.usccb.org/movies/k/knockedup.shtml

4 HELD IN NYC TERROR PLOT



Authorities charge 4 in NYC terror plot





By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago



Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a "chilling" attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods.


Three men, one of them a former member of Guyana's parliament, were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad as part of a plot that authorities said they had been tracking for more than a year and was foiled in the planning stages.


"The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded is just unthinkable," U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said at a news conference, calling it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable."


In an indictment charging the four men, one of them is quoted as saying the foiled plot would "cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks," destroying the airport, killing several thousand people and destroying parts of New York's borough of Queens, where the pipeline runs underground.


One of the suspects, Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen native to Guyana and former JFK air cargo employee, said the airport named for the slain president was targeted because it is a symbol that would put "the whole country in mourning."


"It's like you can kill the man twice," said Defreitas, 63, who first hatched his plan more than a decade ago when he worked as a cargo handler for a service company, according to the indictment.


Authorities said the men were motivated by hatred toward the U.S., Israel and the West. Defreitas was recorded saying he "wanted to do something to get those bastards" and he boasted that he had been taught to make bombs in Guyana.


Despite their efforts, the men never obtained any explosives, authorities said.


"Pulling off any bombing of this magnitude would not be easy in today's environment," former U.S. State Department counterterrorism expert Fred Burton said, but added it was difficult to determine without knowing all the facts of the case.


Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline expert and president of Accufacts Inc., an energy consulting firm that focuses on pipelines and tank farms, said the force of explosion would depend on the amount of fuel under pressure, but it would not travel up and down the line.


"That doesn't mean wackos out there can't do damage and cause a fire, but those explosions and fires are going to be fairly restricted," he said.


Since Defreitas retired from his job at the airport, security has significantly tightened and his knowledge of the operation was severely outdated.


He was arraigned Saturday in federal court in Brooklyn, where he was held pending a bail hearing Wednesday. His court-appointed lawyer told the judge that officials were not revealing the full story, according to published reports.


Two other men, Abdul Kadir of Guyana and Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad, were in custody in Trinidad. A fourth man, Abdel Nur of Guyana, was still being sought in Trinidad.


Trevor Paul, the top police official in Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island nation off Venezuela's coast, said Kadir and Ibrahim would likely be extradited to the U.S. after court hearings in Trinidad.


Authorities said Kadir and Nur were longtime associates of a Trinidadian radical Muslim group, Jamaat al Muslimeen, which launched an unsuccessful rebellion in 1990 that left 24 dead.


Phone calls to Yasin Abu Bakr, the radical group's leader, went unanswered Saturday.


Kadir, a former member of Parliament in Guyana, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for "terrorist operations," according to a Guyanese police commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kadir left his position in Parliament last year. Muslims make up about 9 percent of the former Dutch and British colony's 770,000 population, mostly from the Sunni sect.

Isha Kadir, the Guyanese suspect's wife, said her husband flew from Guyana to Trinidad on Thursday. She said he was arrested Friday as he was boarding a flight from Trinidad to Venezuela, where he planned to pick up a travel visa to attend an Islamic religious conference in Iran.

"We have no interest in blowing up anything in the U.S.," she said Saturday from the couple's home in Guyana. "We have relatives in the U.S."

The U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force recorded and surveilled the men, learning that Defreitas drove around and videotaped JFK on four occasions this past January.

When Defreitas returned from Guyana in February, U.S. customs officials searched his belongings and found Kadir's name and telephone number in Defreitas' address book. At that time, Defreitas told an informant he was suspicious the U.S. government was aware of the plot.

Authorities finally pounced after Defreitas said on May 27 that he was happy to see that the plan, code named "chicken farm," was moving forward, according to the criminal complaint.

The pipeline, owned by Buckeye Pipeline Co., takes fuel from a facility in Linden, N.J., to the airport. Other lines service LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.

Buckeye spokesman Roy Haase said the company, which moves petroleum through pipelines in a number of states, had been informed of the threat from the beginning but he declined to detail the company's security measures.

"Given the nature of Buckeye business and the importance of this transportation network, we have an intense and ongoing communications relationship with the Port Authority, the New York City fire and police departments, the federal Department of Homeland Security and the FBI," he said. Buckeye is a subsidiary of Buckeye Partners, L.P. based in Macungie, Pa.

JFK and the area's other airports remained at a heightened state of alert Saturday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.

Jeanie Mamo, a spokeswoman for the White House, said President Bush had been briefed and updated regularly as the investigation into the plot progressed.

"This case is a good example of international counterterrorism cooperation," Mamo said.

The arrests mark the latest in a series of alleged homegrown terrorism plots targeting high-profile American landmarks.

A year ago, seven men were arrested in what officials called the early stages of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and destroy FBI offices and other buildings.

A month later, authorities broke up a plot to bomb underwater New York City train tunnels to flood lower Manhattan.

And six people were arrested a month ago in an alleged plot to unleash a bloody rampage on Fort Dix in New Jersey.

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Associated Press writers Tom Hays, Richard Pyle and Pat Milton in New York and Tony Fraser in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, contributed to this report.






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