June 1, 2010

1.  “‘Continuity of Government’ Planning: War, Terror and the Supplanting of the U.S. Constitution

The Pentagon official’s description of a “secret government-in-waiting” (which still included both Cheney and Rumsfeld) is very close to the standard definition of a cabal, as a group of persons secretly united to bring about a change or overthrow of government. In the same era Cheney and Rumsfeld projected change also by their public lobbying, through the Project for the New American Century, for a more militant Middle East policy. In light of how COG was actually implemented in 2001, one can legitimately suspect that, however interested this group had been in continuity of government under Reagan, under Clinton the focus of Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s COG planning was now a change of government.²³

Understandably there is great psychological resistance to the extraordinary claim that Cheney and Rumsfeld, even when not in government, were able to help plan successfully for constitutional modifications, which they themselves implemented when back in power. Most people cannot bring themselves even to believe the second, known half of this claim: that on September 11, 2001, COG plans overriding the constitution were indeed implemented. This is why the first two print reviews of The Road to 9/11, both favorable and intelligently written, both reported that I speculated that COG had been imposed on 9/11. No, it was not a speculation: the 9/11 Commission Report twice confirms that COG was instituted on the authority of a phone call between Bush and Cheney of which they could find no record. No record, I did speculate, because it took place on a secure COG phone outside the presidential bunker — with such a high classification that the 9/11 Commission was never supplied the phone records.”

http://911blogger.com/news/2010-06-01/continuity-government-planning-war-terror-and-supplanting-us-constitution-peter-dale-scott

2.  Good for Turkey – and how moronic for Israel to say the aid flotilla was Al Qaeda:

“The attacked ship was Turkish in origin and at least two of the slain aid workers were Turkish citizens. Turkey says future aid ships will be dispatched with a military escort so as to prevent future Israeli attacks.

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Israeli officials have defended the killings as “self defense,” claiming the aid workers were secretly in league with al-Qaeda.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/05/31/turkey-future-gaza-aid-ships-will-have-military-escorts/

3.  “America’s ‘casualty gap’ Poor areas lose more of their young to wars”
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/30/v-lite/1206207/americas-casualty-gap-poor-areas.html

4.  “Why does BP refuse to stop using the chemical dispersants the EPA ordered BP to stop using?

According to scientists studying the massive underwater oil plumes, the dispersants keep the oil underwater, away from the naked eye and satellite view. Some of the oil plumes are over 30 foot deep and 26 miles long.
One scientist said about using dispersants on oil: “You don’t want to put soap into a fish tank.”

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19434

5.  “America’s Complicity in Evil

Thus has Obama made America complicit once again in Israel’s barbaric war crimes. Just as the US Congress voted to deep-six Judge Goldstone’s report on Israel’s war crimes committed in Israel’s January 2009 invasion of Gaza, Obama has deep-sixed Israel’s latest act of barbarism by pretending that he doesn’t know what has happened.

No one in the world will believe that Israel attacked ships in international waters carrying Israeli citizens, a Nobel Laureate, elected politicians, and noted humanitarians bringing medicines and building materials to Palestinians in Gaza, who have been living in the rubble of their homes without repairs or medicines since January 2009, without first clearing the crime with its American protector. Without America’s protection, Israel, a totally artificial state, could not exist.

No one in the world will believe that America’s spy apparatus did not detect the movement of the Israeli attack force toward the aid ships in international waters in an act of piracy, killing 20, wounding 50, and kidnapping the rest.

Obama’s pretense at ignorance confirms his complicity.

Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel, and every American president except Eisenhower and Carter has agreed.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19456