1. “False Flag Investigator Killed in Mumbai Attack
Among the many people killed in Mumbai last week were some of the City’s top anti-terror peace officers. Hemant Karkare, head of India’s Anti-Terrorism Squad, was the most notable figure to be killed in action, and his story is doubly significant for visitors to this site, because he was in the middle of unraveling a False Flag terror attack, (which occurred on September 29, 2008), and was initially blamed on Muslims, such as the “Students Islamic Movement of India” (SIMI) or the “Indian Mujahideen”.
However, in the course of his investigation of the 9/29 Malegaon bombing Karkare uncovered a surprising connection: an Indian Army officer, Lt-Col Shrikant Purohit was linked to the blasts, and was caught red-handed trying to cover his tracks;
MUMBAI\NASHIK: Cat is out of the basket. Singh has sung. We are on the radar of ATS. Change the SIM card.
These SMS messages sent from Lt-Col Shrikant Purohit to retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay helped nail Purohit and led to his arrest for the September 29 Malegaon bomb blast on Tuesday midnight. He has been booked for murder and conspiracy for a terror act and was remanded to police custody till November 15 by a Nashik court… Source.
Two days before the Mumbai attacks, Karkare received death threats, from unidentified sources.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/18715
2. “Charges Dropped Against 9/11 Rescue Worker due to Hero Status
“McCormack toured the country with the now-iconic flag. He also became a frequently quoted critic of the government, suggesting that the 9/11 attack might have been an “inside job” and comparing the Bush administration to Nazi Germany.”
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I can speculate why the charges were dropped. If the case would go to trial, the man might have to go into detail about his experiences at ground zero, what he witnessed, etc. This might cast doubt on the fire+gravity=global collapse model of building failure, especially if the guy saw molten steel. running like lava. The case also might open the door to the criminal actions of the Bush Administration and the handling of the EPA’s statements about the air quality.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/18713
3. Mumbai false flag:
“The neat little narratives pumped out by war propagandists to rationalize acts of mass murder are an important part of any campaign to spark a conflict, so they have to be minimally convincing, or at least credible. Yet the story coming out of the Indian government is frankly incredible. The terrorists left a satellite phone conveniently placed next to the body of their ship’s captain, whose throat they had slit, with the numbers of their handlers stored in memory. Very convenient. Even less convincing, however, is the assertion that even after Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the terror squad, had been captured, he continued to get messages from his handlers. That little embellishment, I believe, gives the show away. Add to this the oddly unprepared – indeed, criminally negligent – role of the Indian security apparatus, and the whole thing reeks to high heaven. “Fishy” is putting it mildly.
The effect of the Mumbai massacre on Indian politics is another likely analogy to 9/11, which gave the neocons power and catapulted the worst warmongers to the very top of the national security bureaucracy. In the case of India, where voters will soon go to the polls, we are apt to see an electoral victory for the most militantly nationalistic and chauvinistic political movement in the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP is the political expression of the Hindutva movement, a fundamentalist version of traditional Hinduism that traces the genealogy of the Indian “race” back to the old Aryan incursion from the north. According to the ideologues of Hindutva, their race originated at the North Pole and was originally – in its “pure” form – a tribe of blue-eyed, blonde Aryans. Accordingly, the leader of their central organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), must be a blue-eyed, blonde-haired Saraswat Brahmin. The movement’s goal, like the goals of all fascist movements everywhere, is to recapture the lost glory of a semi-mythical past, in this case the restoration of the ancient Hindu empire.
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The argument that we must end the war in Iraq so that we can concentrate on the “real” enemy, the amorphous and exaggerated al-Qaeda, which is supposedly hiding in the wilds of Pakistan’s tribal areas, is leading to an even wider, more open-ended conflict, one so combustible that it could spark a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India.
As bad as George W. Bush was, he never messed up that badly. One can almost hear the collective sigh of relief now that we are approaching the day when an easily-manipulated ignoramus is no longer in charge of American foreign policy. What may be even more dangerous, however, is a very smart president who thinks he and his advisers know more than they actually do.”
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13848
4. “More Security, Less Secure
The Washington, D.C., metro is following in the footsteps of the New York subway and is now conducting random searches of passengers.
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Security expert Bruce Schneier described the D.C. metro search program as “security theater against a movie-plot threat.” And it’s worth noting that in the aftermath of the July 2005 London tube and bus bombings, British authorities decided against conducting searches of riders – rightly making the cost-benefit calculation that the security benefits were minimal and not worth the cost.
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What’s fascinating is that many of the people who don’t mind giving up their Fourth Amendment rights by being searched without probable cause to ride public transportation are the same people who would argue against any form of gun control and believe that the Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms” must be defended at all costs. Seemingly lost on them is that one of the reasons the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment (however cryptically worded) was for the people to have a way to protect against government taking away all of their other rights. In other words, preserving the Second Amendment doesn’t amount to much if the rest of the Constitution isn’t also preserved.
Ultimately, the D.C. metro random search program reflects the post-9/11 preoccupation with trying to prevent the unpreventable. It’s simply more security that has little or nothing to do with making us more secure.”
http://www.antiwar.com/pena/?articleid=13846
5. “Which are you going to believe — Obama’s own numerous statements and actions, his repeated declarations of the “truth” of American exceptionalism and all its bloody consequences, and his plans for interminable future American interventions, or your self-generated delusions about what Obama “really” stands for as a “thoughtful,” “reflective,” “progressive” leader? The undeniable truth — or your preferred, self-flattering fantasy? This particular fantasy (including its many variations) is the favorite of many liberals and progressives, and it is their preferred method of avoiding the fact that this “progressive” leader is a war criminal, of the past, present and future. I suppose if I had voted for him, I’d avoid the meaning of my own actions as well. History has repeatedly taught us that this is one of the primary routes to hell, yet most of us refuse to learn the lesson.
Rothschild’s second error, one shared by a great many people, is his contention that Obama “vowed to end” the “Iraq War.” This is profoundly wrong in several respects. Moreover, Obama has never “vowed” any such thing, not if you understand the meaning of all of his statements on this subject. In short, this is another of Obama’s lies, and an especially heinous one. But he’s already lied about so many issues, what’s one more?
How do I know Obama has lied on this point? Because he’s told us so himself. If you’ve been paying attention to all he has said and its necessary meaning, you already know this, and this conclusion is fully demonstrated by his recent appointments.”
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/12/clinging-to-wreckage-i-murder-inc.html
6. What a surprise:
“Indictment dropped against Dick Cheney”
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/itsonlyfair/latimes0565.html
7. “About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work. Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, an engineering, construction and services company, hired the men, who’re from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their compound to protest their living conditions.
“It’s really dirty,” a Sri Lankan man told McClatchy, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he still wants to work for Najlaa. “For all of us, there are about 12 toilets and about 10 bathrooms. The food — it’s three half-liter (one pint) bottles of water a day. Bread, cheese and jam for breakfast. Lunch is a small piece of meat, potato and rice. Dinner is rice and dal, but it’s not dal,” he said, referring to the Indian lentil dish.
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The conditions in which the men have been held appear to violate guidelines the U.S. military handed down in 2006 that urged contractors to deter human trafficking to the war zone by shunning recruiters that charged excessive fees. The guidelines also defined “minimum acceptable” living spaces — 50 square feet per person — and required companies to fulfill the pledges they made to employees in contracts.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/56910.html
8. What a surprise – now other countries are torturing Americans:
“American alleges torture in UAE detention
A Muslim American contends that he was tortured and beaten into confessing to a terrorism-related charge while the security services of the United Arab Emirates held him for nearly three months, allegedly at the U.S. government’s request, his brother said Tuesday.
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Hamdan is the subject of a lawsuit filed last month in federal court in Washington in which the American Civil Liberties Union charged that the administration illegally asked the UAE security services to hold the 42-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen in order to circumvent his constitutional protection against illegal and unlimited detention.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/56915.html
9. “Fallacy of American Justice
When twelve good American jurors acquit a group of defendants from all charges, and twelve other good American jurors convict them of all the charges in a second trial, one cannot help but wonder what kind of judicial system we have. And when the defendants are a group of compassionate Americans, who raise funds to feed hungry families, to open schools to educate young minds, and build clinics and hospitals to care for the sick, the disabled and the elderly, one wonders what had happened to compassionate America, who offers aid to poor nations. The trial case of the Holy Land Foundation, a charity that provided aid to impoverished families in other countries as well as some American families, raises such wonders.
After the attacks of 911 and the enactment of the American Patriot Act, the US government was granted unchecked total power to designate any organization as a terrorist entity, shut it down, freeze its assets and prosecute its members as “enemy combatants”. Since then the government had shut down thousands of Middle Eastern and Islamic organizations, but failed to produce any tangible evidence to prosecute any one individual.
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It is obvious that this case has nothing to do with the HLF and its members. It has nothing to do with fighting terrorism and halting any financial support to terrorist groups. It was a political rather than a criminal case. The case was about cutting each and every life line to the besieged and impoverished Palestinians, who are resisting the illegal and immoral occupation of Palestine. Imprisoned in large concentration camps, bombed, tortured, starved and completely isolated from the outer world, Israel is hoping to subjugate the Palestinians into accepting the terrorist illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine as a Jewish (extreme fundamentalist religious) state.
The HLF case, as well as all the cases of the other Islamic and Middle Eastern charitable organizations that have been shut down, demonstrate clearly that the American justice system has been turned into a proxy judicial system serving Israel and its skewed perspective of justice on the expense of good humanitarian American citizens.
Sixty years ago the Zionist terror organizations massacred whole Palestinian communities, completely destroyed hundreds of their towns, conducted ethnic cleansing by evicting Palestinians out of their cities, usurped Palestinian land, erased Palestine off the map and established the terrorist state of Israel illegally in its place. Israel has violated international laws and invaded its neighboring countries using illegal and American-made and supplied weapons. Israeli army is still terrorizing the Palestinian people, murdering their children, demolishing their homes, usurping their lands, imprisoning them into the largest concentration camps in the whole world, bombing and starving them in a whole-nation-genocidal operation. Unfortunately, successive American administrations had encouraged this genocide by providing unconditional political, financial, and military support to terrorist Israel.
Feeding hungry children is a divine act, not a crime, but feeding (with weapons) occupying terrorist Israeli army is the ultimate crime.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11270
10. The last thing we need is another Clinton, or another Kennedy, in the Senate:
“Bill Clinton not interested in wife’s Senate seat
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Paterson, who has already taken himself out of the running, has a strong bench to choose from. There are a number of possible contenders, including at least a half dozen members of New York’s delegation in the House of Representatives, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, Caroline Kennedy and her cousin, Robert Kennedy Jr..”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/02/bill.clinton.senate/
11. Way too much nepotism – no more aristocratic-loke political dynasties:
“Nepotistic succession in the political class
Bill Clinton yesterday was forced to deny speculation that he would be appointed to replace his wife in the U.S. Senate. Leading candidates for that seat still include John F. Kennedy’s daughter (Caroline), Robert Kennedy’s son (RFK, Jr.), and Mario Cuomo’s son (Andrew). In Illinois, a leading contender to replace Barack Obama in the Senate is Jesse Jackson’s son (Jesse, Jr.). In Delaware, it was widely speculated that Joe Biden would be replaced by his son, Beau, and after Beau took his name out of the running because he’s now serving in Iraq, the naming of the actual replacement — lone-time (Joe) Biden aide Ted Kaufmann — “upset local Democrats who believe the move was a ham-handed attempt to engineer the election of Biden’s son, Beau, to the Senate in 2010.”
Meanwhile, in Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, who was appointed by her father to take his seat in the U.S. Senate when he became Governor, yesterday warned Sarah Palin not to challenge her in a 2010 primary, a by-product of tension between those two as a result of Palin’s defeat of Lisa’s dad for Governor. In Florida, Mel Martinez’s announcement that he won’t seek re-election in 2010 immediately led to reports that the current President’s brother, Jeb, might run for that seat. And all of that’s just from the last couple of weeks.
The Senate alone — to say nothing of the House — is literally filled with people whose fathers or other close relatives previously held their seat or similar high office (those links identify at least 15 current U.S. Senators — 15 — with immediate family members who previously occupied high elected office). And, of course, the current President on his way out was the son of a former President and grandson of a former U.S. Senator.
Isn’t this all a bit much? It’s true that our political/media class in general is intensely incestuous and nepotistic. Virtually the entire neoconservative “intelligentsia” (using that term as loosely as it can possibly be used) is one big paean to nepotistic succession — the Kristols, the Kagans, the Podhoretzes, Lucinanne Goldberg and her boy. Upon Tim Russert’s death, NBC News excitedly hired his son, Luke. Mike Wallace’s son hosts Fox’s Sunday show. The most influential political opinion space in the country, The New York Times Op-Ed page, is, like the Times itself, teeming with family successions and connections. Inter-marriages between and among media stars and political figures — and lobbyists, operatives and powerful political officials — are now more common than arranged royal marriages were among 16th Century European monarchs.
But this fixation on parent-child, sibling and spousal succession for elected office is particularly problematic. It’s certainly true that one can find, in individual cases, instances of self-sufficiency and merit even among those benefiting from nepotism and family names. But the fact that it is now so commonplace — almost presumptively expected — for political power to be passed along to close family members is quite anti-democratic. The number of families possessing some sort of aristocratic-like claim to elected office is clearly increasing. By definition, that diminishes the role of merit and the need for democratic persuasion in how elected leaders are chosen. And this dynamic, in turn, fuels how insular, incestuous, unaccountable and bloated with entitlement the Beltway culture is.
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About this single familial succession, Time sternly intoned: ”Primogeniture and hereditary public office have no place in U. S. tradition.”
That is clearly no longer true. One of the most encouraging aspects of Barack Obama’s success — and, for that matter, the ascension of someone like Sarah Palin or Bill Clinton — is the pure self-sufficiency and lack of family connection behind it. But even pointing that out demonstrates how meritocratic self-sufficiency has almost become the exception rather than the rule. That we now treat Presidents like Kings and expect them to exercise similar powers is consistent with the broader trend whereby we are ruled by a Versailles on the Potomac, with all the bloated, decadent insularity that implies.”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
