– AMERICA REMEMBERS: 911 Museum Opens in New York City (Veterans Today, May 15, 2014)
George Bush
‘Crimes Against Peace’: Historic Class Action Law Suit Against George W. Bush
– “Crimes against Peace”: Historic Class Action Law Suit against George W. Bush (Global Research, April 21, 2014):
The case for Aggressive War against George W. Bush and his Administration.
On March 13, 2013, my client, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, filed a class action lawsuit against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz in a federal court in California.
She alleges that these six defendants planned and waged the Iraq War in violation of international law by waging a “war of aggression,” as defined by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, more than sixty years ago. (The current complaint can be found here).
Read more‘Crimes Against Peace’: Historic Class Action Law Suit Against George W. Bush
Telecom Firm Fails In First Known FISA Court Surveillance Challenge
– Telecom firm fails in first known FISA court surveillance challenge (Al Jazeera, April 25, 2014):
For the first known time since the U.S. government began collecting data about Americans’ phone calls in bulk after the 9/11 attacks, a telecommunications company has questioned those surveillance activities in court, according to a judge’s opinion unsealed on Friday.
That company, whose name was redacted from the opinion, did not directly challenge the government’s right to make companies turn over “telephony metadata” — information about the phone numbers customers dial and the time, data and duration of such calls.
Read moreTelecom Firm Fails In First Known FISA Court Surveillance Challenge
Senator Angus King Challenges Dick Cheney To Be Waterboarded And Then Say It’s Not Torture! (Video)
Senator Angus King Challenges Dick Cheney To Be Waterboarded And Then Say It’s Not Torture!
– Waterboard Cheney! (rsn, April 7, 2014):
Dick Cheney has defended torture techniques so many times that a frustrated U.S. senator has finally offered to waterboard the former vice president.
“The accusations are not true,” Cheney told college television station ATV last week. “Some people called it torture. It wasn’t torture.”
NSA Was Directly Spying On Congress, The Supreme Court And Journalists Under Direct Orders Of Vice President Dick Cheney (Video)
Added: Apr 5, 2014
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Before Edward Snowden there was Russell Tice, a former NSA employee. During the Bush Administration, Tice turned whistle blower after he discovered that the NSA was directly spying on members of congress, the Supreme Court, and journalists under direct orders of Vice President Dick Cheney himself.
9/11 Conspiracy Solved (Documentary)
Added: Apr 21, 2013
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9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Watch this documentary and look for the evidence and then make up your own mind whether or not 9/11 was an inside job.
Special thanks to Michael C. Ruppert, Mark H. Gaffney, and Kevin Ryan for their amazing research, as they tried to solve the crimes of 9/11. This video is a compilation of evidence they have uncovered.
Debunking The ‘Gutting Of The Military’ Storyline
– DEBUNKING THE GUTTING OF MILITARY STORYLINE (The Burning Platform, March 29, 2014):
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” – General Smedley Butler – War is a Racket
I peruse a number of websites everyday as I look for interesting articles to post or reference in one of my articles. I agree with many conservative leaning websites when it comes to economic issues, but when it comes to war mongering and flag waving, I go my own way. Any site that supports our empire building and excessive spending on war is not a conservative website. You can’t act in a fiscally responsible sustainable manner without dismantling our war machine and taking on the military industrial complex. You’re a faux fiscal conservative if you think we can continue to spend $800 billion per year on war with no financial implications. The entire Federal budget was $800 billion in 1983.
Bush & Cheney Asked Several Times NOT To Investigate 9/11 AT ALL (Video)
Poof, gone for no reason at all
More info on 9/11:
– The U.S. And Its Allies Had Contact With Bin Laden And The 9/11 Hijackers Many Times Before 9/11
– ‘Mossad, Bush Planned, Executed 9/11’ (Veterans Today)
– U.S. Court Revives 9/11 Victims’ Case Against Saudi Arabia
– An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives ‘Incontrovertible Evidence’ That 9/11 Was State Sponsored
Read moreBush & Cheney Asked Several Times NOT To Investigate 9/11 AT ALL (Video)
The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years
– The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years (The Intercept, March 13, 2014):
The fight between the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee over the Committee’s Torture Report – which Dan Froomkin covered here – has now zeroed in on the White House.
Did the White House order the CIA to withdraw 920 documents from a server made available to Committee staffers, as Senator Dianne Feinstein says the agency claimed in 2010? Were those documents – perhaps thousands of them – pulled in deference to a White House claim of executive privilege, as Senator Mark Udall and then CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston suggested last fall? And is the White House continuing to withhold 9,000 pages of documents without invoking privilege, as McClatchy reported yesterday?
We can be sure about one thing: The Obama White House has covered up the Bush presidency’s role in the torture program for years. Specifically, from 2009 to 2012, the administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep a single short phrase, describing President Bush’s authorization of the torture program, secret.
Read moreThe White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency’s Role in Torture for Years
Obama Administration Targets Venezuela For ‘Regime Change’
– Obama Administration Targets Venezuela for ‘Regime Change’ (American Free Press, March 14, 2014)
• Ousted U.S. consular officials caught conspiring with protest groups
Continuing unrest in Venezuela can be traced to an ongoing plot by the Obama administration to topple the country’s democratically elected government and replace it with a regime run by rich families and corporations allied with Washington.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who succeeded the late Hugo Chavez, a Washington nemesis, recently expelled three United States consular officials, accusing them of conspiring for months with protest groups funded by Washington.
Read moreObama Administration Targets Venezuela For ‘Regime Change’
Obama Continues To Shield CIA And Bush-Era Torture, Refuses To Hand Over Key Documents About CIA Torture To Senate Investigative Panel
Flashback:
White House still refusing to hand over key documents about CIA torture to senate investigative panel
These are the people behind the Bush torture program, but Obama continues to “look forward” despite the ugly implications of keeping Bush’s secrets locked away. (File)
– Amid Senate Skirmish, Obama Continues to Shield CIA and Bush-era Torture (Common Dreams, March 13, 2014):
What’s in the more than 9,000 pages of top secrets documents held by the White House that the Senate Intelligence Committee and investigators looking into the Bush administration’s torture program are not allowed to see?
After an unprecedented public skirmish between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA surfaced this week over an investigative panel’s look into the agency’s torture program, President Obama said Wednesday that he and his White House would not “wade into” the controversy.
But according to new reporting by McClatchy, the White House is not only not “uninvolved,” it is actively keeping documents from the Intelligence Committee that it has repeatedly asked to see. As the news agency reports:
Putin Totally Blasts US: U.S. Has Invaded Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan Against International Law And They Bully The World (Video)
YouTube Added: Mar 4, 2014
– Putin Totally Blast the U.S. saying; U.S. has invaded Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan against International Law and they Bully the World (Sherrie Questioning All, March 4, 2014):
Putin is Standing up and he is telling the truth. You will never hear this on the U.S. media channels.
Putin said the U.S. is a big bully and says U.S. will make countries regret not bending to their will.
He says the U.S. invaded Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan illegitimately and Russia is being completely legitimate in going into Ukraine.
Like Bush Before Him Obama Is Transforming The Presidency Into A Dictatorship
– Like Bush Before Him Obama Is Transforming The Presidency Into A Dictatorship (Daily Slave, Feb 18, 2014):
Is there any doubt that Barack Obama is acting more and more like a dictator? Obama is now using executive actions to implement law which is illegal and entirely unconstitutional. The fact that there is no political will to impeach him shows once again that there is no difference between the Republicans or Democrats. These two political parties are nothing more than two factions of a corrupt political system. If there was true opposition, impeachment proceedings would have begun long ago. The Republicans won’t even touch the issue of impeachment despite countless scandals and criminal acts like the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, the Benghazi debacle, the Justice Department spying on reporters, the ATF delivering guns to Mexican drug cartels and unconstitutional NSA surveillance activities. This just reveals how controlled they are.
Read moreLike Bush Before Him Obama Is Transforming The Presidency Into A Dictatorship
US ‘Leaders’ JOKE About OBVIOUS War Crimes, War Lies, War Murders, Dead Veterans And Children (Video)
– 5-minute video: US ‘leaders’ JOKE about OBVIOUS War Crimes, war lies, war murders: Arrest them (Washington’s Blog, Feb 9, 2014):
In this 5-minute video, Presidents Bush and Obama, Secretary of State and presidential-hopeful Ms. Clinton, presidential-hopeful has-been John McCain, and former Secretary of State and Bush family friend James Baker all joke about:
Over 300 U.S. Drone Strikes In Pakistan Since 2006 – Leaked Official Data
Winning more hearts and minds …
– Over 300 US drone strikes in Pakistan since 2006 – leaked official data (RT, Jan 30, 2014):
Top-secret documentation collected by Pakistani field officers gives detailed information on 330 US drone strikes that have occurred in Pakistan since 2006. The CIA-run program is estimated to have killed 2,371 people.
From solitary individuals riding on horseback to mountain hideouts crammed with people, the CIA drone program has had no shortage of targets in the Islamic Republic, according to newly released information obtained by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ).
Read moreOver 300 U.S. Drone Strikes In Pakistan Since 2006 – Leaked Official Data
American Government Backed Murderous Mexican Drug Cartel For More Than A Decade
– American Government Backed Murderous Mexican Drug Cartel for More Than a Decade (ZeroHedge, Jan 14, 2014):
The U.S. government has – at least at some times in some parts of the world – long protected drug operations. (Big American banks also launder money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this. Indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis.)
And opium production is at an all-time high under the American occupation of Afghanistan.
Something similar has been happening in Mexico …
Time reports:
Read moreAmerican Government Backed Murderous Mexican Drug Cartel For More Than A Decade
Big Money Behind War: The Military-Industrial Complex
– Big money behind war: the military-industrial complex (Al Jazeera, Jan 11, 2014):
More than 50 years after President Eisenhower’s warning, Americans find themselves in perpetual war.
In January 1961, US President Dwight D Eisenhower used his farewell address to warn the nation of what he viewed as one of its greatest threats: the military-industrial complex composed of military contractors and lobbyists perpetuating war.
Eisenhower warned that “an immense military establishment and a large arms industry” had emerged as a hidden force in US politics and that Americans “must not fail to comprehend its grave implications”. The speech may have been Eisenhower’s most courageous and prophetic moment. Fifty years and some later, Americans find themselves in what seems like perpetual war. No sooner do we draw down on operations in Iraq than leaders demand an intervention in Libya or Syria or Iran. While perpetual war constitutes perpetual losses for families, and ever expanding budgets, it also represents perpetual profits for a new and larger complex of business and government interests.
Read moreBig Money Behind War: The Military-Industrial Complex
Al-Qaeda Now Controls More Territory In The Arab World Than Ever Before
– Al Qaeda Now Controls More Territory In The Arab World Than Ever Before (ZeroHedge, Jan 9, 2014):
Remember this?
This was the neo-conservatives’ victory lap when they supposedly achieved one of their main stated goals: to discover and neutralize terrorist organizations, primarily al Qaeda.
Well, things have changed.
Read moreAl-Qaeda Now Controls More Territory In The Arab World Than Ever Before
‘Mossad, Bush Planned, Executed 9/11’ (Veterans Today)
– ‘Mossad, Bush planned, executed 9/11’ (Veterans Today, by Gordon Duff, Dec 28, 2013)
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: ‘The Pictures That You Are About To See Are Illegal’
– Obama Crimes Exposed: “Warning: The Pictures That You Are About To See Are Illegal” (A Sheep No More, Dec 13, 2013):
These are the Pictures Your Government does not want you to see. Remember when the progressives/Liberals where all over George Bush for torture pictures that were released from GITMO? Well you haven’t seen anything yet.
Anything George Bush can do, Barack Obama can do better and here are the pictures to prove it. And do you know why Obama can torture just like Bush if not better? Because there is no left vs right or right vs left …only tyranny vs freedom. And, people need to WAKE UP and stop defending some party purposely perpetrated on them and then they become unconsciously indoctrinated into this divide and conquer agenda which is the how a small amount of elitists continue their reign over their larger slave population.
Understand that voting just ensures the continuation of one corrupt party or the other. The puppets in charge (So Called Politicians) are just that-puppets. The Republican party and the Democratic party are to heads of the same beast. They continue with the same actions, the same agendas, only the names are changed. And if people can’t grasp this divide and conquer agenda and continue to defend the one party oligarchy which always results in more infighting, please know that one of the individuals in these photos could be you or one of your loved ones some day in the near future. For those who are not awake and aware of the NDAA or DHS purchases or police state that is slowly creeping upon the US, this won’t make sense …but we are hoping they get the message to unite and stop the division.
The pictures of torture under the Obama adminstration are below. Warning: You maybe offended by some of these pictures, they are very graphic in nature.
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Who Killed Michael Hastings
Related info:
– Michael Hastings Believed His Mercedes Was Being Tampered With (LA Weekly)
– The Michael Hastings Car Crash: No Skids Marks, A Flying Engine And ‘Boston Brakes’ (Liberty Blitzkrieg)
– Barrett Brown and Michael Hastings v. FBI (Cryptome, June 20, 2013)
– Michael Hastings Told WikiLeaks Lawyer He Was Being Investigated By The FBI Only A Few Hours Before Deadly Car Crash (Daily Mail, June 20, 2013)
– On The Assassination Of Journalist Michael Hastings: ‘We Got The Message …’ (Video – Veterans Today, June 19, 2013):
“For those who didn’t watch the entire video, go back. Catch the last few seconds. I was flabbergasted.”
“Whenever I’d been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people, one of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me.”
– Exclusive: Who Killed Michael Hastings (Nation of Change, Oct 25, 2013):
Early in the morning on June 18, a brand new Mercedes C250 coupe was driving through the Melrose intersection on Highland Avenue in Hollywood when suddenly, out of nowhere, it sped up. According to an eye-witness, the car accelerated rapidly, bounced several times then fishtailed out of control before it slammed into a palm tree and burst into flames, ejecting its engine some 200 feet away.
A witness, Jose Rubalcalva, whose house stood adjacent to the crash, told Ana Kasparian of the The Young Turks news network that no one could approach the burning car because it kept exploding. In a simulated full-frontal crash of a 2013 C250 coupe, the car doesn’t explode on impact nor does it launch its engine 200 feet.
In fact, said Nael Issa, a Mercedes Benz dealer in Long Beach, “The car has a crumble zone, so when it crashes it goes in like an accordion. And in some cases the engine drops down, so it doesn’t go into you.”
The driver in the fatal crash was Michael Hastings, a 33-year-old crack investigative reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, whose June 2010 article, “The Runaway General,” exposed the behind-the-scenes failure of top U.S. General Stanley McChrystal’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan—and, even more damagingly, revealed McChrystal’s mocking attitude toward the Obama administration, which ultimately led to the general’s resignation.
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: Shutdown Of US Govt & ‘Debt Default’: Dress Rehearsal For Privatization Of Federal State System?
The U.S. Capitol looms in the background of a sign on the National Mall reminding visitors of the closures to all national parks due to the federal government shutdown in Washington October 3, 2013. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, professor of economics, founder and director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal and editor of the globalresearch.ca website.
– Shutdown of US govt & ‘debt default’: Dress rehearsal for privatization of federal state system? (RT, Oct 15, 2013):
By Michel Chossudovsky
The ‘shutdown’ of the US government and the financial climax associated with a deadline date, leading to a possible ‘debt default’ by the federal government, is a money-making undertaking for Wall Street.
Several overlapping political and economic agendas are unfolding. Is the shutdown – implying the furloughing of tens of thousands of public employees – a dress rehearsal for the eventual privatization of important components of the federal state system?
A staged default, bankruptcy and privatization is occurring in Detroit (with the active support of the Obama administration), whereby large corporations become the owners of municipal assets and infrastructure.
The important question: could a process of ‘state bankruptcy’, which is currently afflicting local level governments across the land, realistically occur in the case of the central government of the United States of America?
This is not a hypothetical question. A large number of developing countries under the brunt of IMF ‘economic medicine’ were ordered by their external creditors to dismantle the state apparatus, fire millions of public sector workers as well as privatize state assets. The IMF’s Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) has also been applied in several European countries.