Editorial

"Moving forward" and letting mass murderers go free

Back in the days before I woke up and extricated myself from the matrix, I thought I was well informed because I read The New York Times every day, especially the opinion section. 

I don't read it anymore, although I do glance at their headlines to see what the official spin is on the issues of the day. 

This piece from New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff is a stellar example of using a newspaper to spread propaganda.  It has the smell of being worked over by a disinfo committee trying to cram as many lies into one essay as possible. 

I won't dissect every obfuscation, but here are a few:

Kristoff is too smart to be blind to this fact:  Obama wanting to "move forward" and ignore the many crimes of the Bush admin should be a huge red flag to all those trusting, benighted souls who believed we'd turned the page into a new era of enlightened government. 

What criminal doesn't want to move forward and avoid punishment for his sins?  "Never mind about the innocent people I slowly tortured to death, that's in the past." 

What citizen, not to mention government official, should bother to obey the law when those who have taken a solemn oath to protect and defend the Constitution thumb their noses at it?

Kristof's reference to "Muslim terror groups," tells me he is either completely ignorant or taking orders from someone with a specific agenda. 

I'm not convinced there are any Muslim terror groups.  Whether in Gaza, Afghanistan or Iraq, what I see are desperate people trying to defend their land from vicious invaders with far greater firepower.  The biggest terror groups on the planet are based in Israel and Washington DC. 

As Paul Craig Roberts, former associate editor at the Wall St. Journal, put it in his recent essay The War on Terror is a Hoax: 

What Americans and Israelis call terror is the response of oppressed people who are stateless because their countries are ruled by puppets loyal to the oppressors. These people, dispossessed of their own countries, have no State Departments, Defense Departments, seats in the United Nations, or voices in the mainstream media. They can submit to foreign hegemony or resist by the limited means available to them.

Also, poor people in Africa and Latin America don't need more research into their diseases, so that more pharmaceuticals can be peddled to the third world.  They need help obtaining clean drinking water, wholesome food, a fair price for their labor, and avoiding the toxic chemicals that corporations like to dump in places where they can get away with it. 

Here are a few paragraphs from an essay which surely originated from the so called "intelligence" agencies.  No real journalist with a shred of self-respect would write such dreck.

Philip Zelikow?  Please!

Putting Torture Behind Us

Source: nytimes.com

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: January 28, 2009

President Obama is resisting calls for an investigation into torture and other abuses during the Bush years, so the chance to learn from our mistakes is slipping away.

Mr. Obama understandably wants to focus on economic recovery rather than a dissection of the past. Why fritter political capital on an inquest that would antagonize Republicans and imperil our economy and his agenda?

But as George Santayana, the eminent Harvard philosopher wrote: “Those who forget history are destined to repeat it.” Rather than lose forever the chance to grow from our missteps, here’s a two-step proposal for confronting the past without distracting from the work on the economic crisis.

The first step is to appoint a high-level commission — perhaps a McCain-Scowcroft Commission? — to investigate torture, secret detention and wiretapping during the Bush years, as well as to look ahead and offer recommendations for balancing national security and individual rights in the future.

This wouldn’t be a bipartisan commission, with Democrats and Republicans offsetting each other in seething distrust. Rather, it would be nonpartisan, dominated by military and security experts.

It could be co-chaired by Brent Scowcroft and John McCain, with its conclusions written by Philip Zelikow, a former aide to Condoleezza Rice who wrote the best-selling report of the 9/11 commission.

Are you gagging yet?  If you can bear it, here's the rest.

Voters grade Obama’s first year: the view from January 2010

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2010—It was one year ago today that America’s first black President swept into office amid great joy and hoopla.  Barack Obama won handily, garnering more than twice the number of electoral votes, and ten million more popular votes than John McCain.  On the night he won the presidency, women fainted and Jesse Jackson broke down and cried.  After eight years under G.W. Bush, the nation was ready for a change, and Obama—slim, smiling, erudite—was everything that America longed for.

The Creek is touring the nation to ask voters to assess Obama’s first year in office.   

We spoke to Tiffany Nguyen, who was ringing up groceries at a Safeway in Phoenix, AZ.   She was hesitant to criticize Obama, even though three years ago she was a real estate agent making $250,000 per year. 

"He did say that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” she said, during a break between customers.  "Since we’ve been here all along, if we haven’t done it yet, there’s not much point in waiting for ourselves any more, now is there?”

Fred Hernandez of Gainesville, FL saw his son leave for duty in Iraq in 2005, and now, five years later, wonders when he will be coming home. 

“I got all swept up in Obamania and even sent his campaign a few dollars,” said Hernandez. 

“When Obama said “I’m asking you to believe,” I did believe.  I wanted so badly to believe. I believed that my son would be coming home for good.  But the Army keeps sending him back.” 

“I guess I believed the wrong thing,” sighed Hernandez, as he loaded used cinder blocks into his truck to sell at the flea market.  

The McGillicutys of Denver live out of their van parked next to the Platte River. 

“I hated Bush with a vengeance,” opined Brenda, as she cradled her daughter.  “I quit my job so I could volunteer fulltime for Obama.  I saw it as our last chance—another Republican president was gonna finish us off.  And I loved Obama’s spirit of hope, of optimism.  When he said “Yes, we can!”  I imagined  the whole country pulling together to undo the damage of the Bush years.”

“But then the economy crashed, and I couldn’t find another job.  Food stamps were eliminated to pay for the bailout, and when our ARM reset, we couldn’t make the payments.” 

Brenda let out a long breath.  “I guess the question I should have asked was:  Yes we can what?”

Despite the grim assessment of these embittered voters, there are those who are pleased with Obama’s performance.  Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was interviewed while receiving a foot massage on the deck of his villa on the newly renamed Paulson Island in the Caribbean.  Surveying the waves crashing on the sparkling white beach, Paulson lauded Obama’s pro-active leadership in drumming up support for the economic bailout of fall 2008.

“We dodged a bullet,” said Paulson.  “And we have Obama to thank for insuring that our current financial system has been saved.  Perhaps the tide didn’t lift all boats, but it lifted the boats that count.”

Our final interview was conducted via phone with the inmate of a prison cell in an undisclosed location.  Former Rock Creek Free Press editor Matt Sullivan is being held on undisclosed charges.  He was given just one minute to speak to us. 

“Obama was so vague with his promises that he was a kind of electoral Rorschach test:  voters saw in him whatever they wanted to see in him," said Sullivan. 

“There was lots of feel-good talk about hope and inspiring slogans like “This is our moment” and “change you can believe in,”  but what we never heard—and voters never demanded—was a commitment from Obama to restore the Constitution, to investigate the crimes of the Bush administration, and to get rid of Patriot Acts 1 and 2, the Military Commissions Act, NSPD 51 and 53. 

"These Orwellian laws allowed them to arrest me and hold me without access to a lawyer or to any visitors.  I’m a native born American and I have yet to be charged with a crime.”

I pressed Sullivan to elaborate, but, his time almost up, he said only “Tell my kids I love them.”

Note:   This will be the last column from Sheila Casey.  She has been relocated to a secure location for questioning while her threat to national security is assessed. 

Former Wall St. Journal editor savages the mainstream media

I have a soft spot in my heart for Paul Craig Roberts, as it was reading one of his columns in summer 2007 that got me started investigating 9/11. He is also a frequent contributor to the Rock Creek Free Press, where I am a staff writer. 

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan and served as associate editor of The Wall Street Journal.

In his January 7 column, Roberts  recommended that we look to non-American sources, such as Haaretz in Israel, or the Asia Times, for unbiased reporting.  He deplored the state of American mainstream media:

Today reporters write the stories that their masters want to hear, or they are out. The function of editors is to make certain that no uncomfortable information reaches the public.

The public is slowly catching on, and the print media is slowly dying. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times are all on the ropes to one extent or the other.

Americans are still subjected to Fox "News" and CNN propaganda piped into airport waiting rooms, doctors’ offices, and exercise centers. It is very much the situation that George Orwell describes in 1984.

But Roberts gave enthusiastic praise to the still little-known, but rapidly growing, Rock Creek Free Press:

The Rock Creek Free Press is terrific. After reading one issue, you will waste no more time on the "mainstream media." The Rock Creek Free Press is likely to rescue even the dullest mind from its brainwashed state.

The Creek is mailed out each month to subscribers in 50 states and six foreign countries.  A free issue of can be requested here. 

My work for the Creek on the issues of torture, liberal gatekeepers, the planned financial meltdown, the framing of Bruce Ivins for the anthrax attacks, and the crumbling of the AIDS dogma is here. 

Why it was time for a Dem in the oval office

The shadow government that controls both parties makes equal use of Democrats and Republicans.  They need to continue to show some small degree of difference between the parties, to maintain the illusion of choice on election day.   These small differences are played up as much as possible, while the huge areas of agreement are ignored. 

People with a conscience generally see the Dems as the good guys and the Repubs as the bad guys.  This is a particularly useful fiction at this point in history because so many progressives were distraught to the point of despair about the Bush administration.  Some reason needed to be held out for hope, and indeed Obama's main theme was hope. 

Millions of deluded Obama supporters wasted their energy on insuring Obama's election rather than working for true change at the top (that layer over the visible government).  Millions more were pacified that change was on its way, and thus took no meaningful action.  If throngs of citizens had descended upon Washington to protest:

• the bailout,
• or the shredding of the Constitution,
• or illegal spying,
• or torture,
• or the members of the Bush administration ignoring congressional subpeonas to appear and answer questions,
• or the obvious snow job from the FBI and DOJ framing Bruce Ivins for the anthrax attacks,
• or the stationing of military troops in the US in violation of posse comitatus, a law prohibiting US military troops being used for domestic law enforcement--

Porn kings ask for $5 billion bailout

Times must be tough indeed, Americans have given up on sex.  Or have they decided its cheaper to get their kicks at home, with their own wives?  Maybe the recession will turn out to be good for American marriages, as millions of husbands forsake the double D, 19 year old actresses of the porn films for the real flesh and blood women who love them. 

This blonde is from the Girls Gone Wild website.  She seems to think that her belly is quite alluring.   

I had to look twice to make sure this news item wasn't from the Onion.  Who needs comedy when our headlines bring us this?

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Another major American industry is asking for assistance as the global financial crisis continues: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.

Top scientists ask medical journal "Science" to retract original AIDS papers

Thirty-seven doctors, senior researchers and attorneys have asked the journal Science to retract four articles published in 1984 that supposedly established that HIV was the cause of AIDS.  The articles, by a group led by Dr. Robert Gallo, have drawn criticism for some time.  An investigation in the early 90s by the US Department of Health and Human Services concluded that the lead paper was “fraught with false and erroneous statements.” A Congressional Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations produced a staff report on the papers which contains scathing criticisms of their integrity.

Now, new analysis of the documentation behind the papers has revealed even more reason to doubt Gallo’s findings.  The letter refers to “recent revelation of an astonishing number of previously unreported deletions and unjustified alterations made by Gallo…”

Dr. Mikulas Popovic wrote the manuscripts while Gallo was in Europe, but Gallo made handwritten changes to the manuscripts upon his return.  Popovic wrote: "Despite intensive research efforts, the causative agent of AIDS has not yet been identified.”  This sentence was deleted and replaced by a statement that the findings suggest that HIV is the cause of AIDS.

Gallo submitted micrographs to Science that were identified as containing the HIV virus. But just four days before he submitted them, Dr. Matthew A. Gonda, then Head of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, wrote a letter to Gallo and Popovic stating that he “does not believe” that the micrographs contain images of HIV.  The micrographs were published in Science on May 4, 1984 and identified as containing HIV. 

These developments add to the mounting body of evidence that the original conclusion that HIV causes AIDS is deeply flawed. 

Thus far there has been no response from Science regarding the request for retraction.

Paid "blog attack" armies flood blogs with comments

As a 9/11 truth activist, I read a fair amount of what is written about 9/11--whether in the mainstream media, the alternative media, or on sites that I have learned to trust.  Frequently the comments are polarized:  those of us who know the awful truth, and another group, much angrier, seemingly younger and much less well educated:  those who are enraged that anyone would even suggest that the government lied to us about 9/11.

Who are these people who are apparently oblivious to the hundreds of well documented lies from the Bush administration?

Here's a clue:  a company that advertises blog armies to "flood the zone with comments from professionals who are ready to put your talking points on the blogosphere 24/7."

Next time you're engaged in a nasty debate with someone who seems to have unlimited amounts of time to rebut your every point in the most scathing way possible, you might just be arguing with a member of one of these paid blog armies. 

Here's the ad:

Israel is a criminal organization with no right to exist.

Thank you Ms. Loewenstein.  Very well said.  From Information Clearinghouse.

Strip away the clichés and the vacuous newspeak blaring out across the servile media and its pathetic corps of voluntary state servants in the Western world and what you will find is the naked desire for hegemony; for power over the weak and dominion over the world’s wealth. Worse yet, you will find that the selfishness, the hatred and indifference, the racism and bigotry, the egotism and hedonism that we try so hard to cover up with our sophisticated jargon, our refined academic theories and models actually help to guide our basest and ugliest desires. The callousness with which we indulge in them all are endemic to our very culture; thriving here like flies on a corpse.

Strip away the current symbols and language of the victims of our selfish and devastating whims and you will find the simple, impassioned and unaffected cries of the downtrodden; of the ‘wretched of the earth’ begging you to cease your cold aggression against their children and their homes; their families and their villages; begging you to leave them alone to have their fish and their bread, their oranges, their olives and their thyme; asking you first politely and then with increasing disbelief why you cannot let them live undisturbed on the land of their ancestors; unexploited, free of the fear of expulsion; of ravishment and devastation; free of permits and roadblocks and checkpoints and crossings; of monstrous concrete walls, guard towers, concrete bunkers, and barbed wire; of tanks and prisons and torture and death. Why is life without these policies and instruments of hell impossible?

You wouldn't buy our shitty cars

You probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. Maybe you even thought that years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and redesigning our products with better quality in mind. But you forgot one thing: we spend a shitload of money on lobbyists. So now you're out $25 billion, plus the cost of your Subaru. Maybe next time you'll buy American like a real man. Either way, we’re cool.

We're the big three. We don't need to compete.

B.O. sure stinks

Obama:  "no comment."