Showing posts with label fbi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fbi. Show all posts

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Why Did OPEC-Covering Wall Street Journal Reporter, David Bird, Go Missing?

Missing Wall Street Journal Reporter, David Bird
Almost two weeks ago, on Saturday January 11, 55-year old David Bird, a reporter who covers energy markets for the Wall Street Journal, left his house in the Millington section of Long Hill, NJ, telling his wife that he was going out for a quick walk.  He took his wallet and jacket, leaving his cell phone and the medication he takes twice daily (for liver transplant he had in 2005) behind.  He never returned-- disappearing without a trace, despite a continuing search by hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement officials, including the FBI.

Just to give you an idea of how expansive the investigation is, the following agencies are involved in the search, according to the Morris County Prosecutor's Office:
Long Hill Township Police Department, Morris County Sheriff’s Office, Morris County Department of Law and Public Safety-Office of Emergency Management, New Jersey State Police, Morris County Park Police, Harding Township Police Department, Bernards Township Police Department, Warren Township Police Department, New Jersey State Park Police, Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Millington Fire Department, Stirling Fire Department, Warren Fire Department, Liberty Corner Fire Department, New Vernon Fire Department, Chatham Township Fire Department, New Providence Fire Department, Berkeley Heights Fire Department, Somerset County Department of Public Safety, Parsippany Search Rescue and Recovery, Whippany Swift Water, Boonton Dive Team, Pequannock Dive Team, Jefferson Dive Team, Picatinny Dive Team, U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, United States Veterans Administration Police and Fire – Lyons, NJ, Long Hill First Aid Squad, Long Hill Township Office of Emergency Management, the Salvation Army, Long Hill Community Emergency Response Team Volunteers, and the Warren Township Community Emergency Response Team.

Moreover, according to all who knew him, he gave no indication of having a reason to disappear, not to mention Mr. Bird was an avid hiker, biker, camper, Boy Scout troop leader, and he ran in the New York City Marathon. In other words, the man was in good shape.

While there is no evidence as of yet suggesting a connection between his work and his disappearance, NBC reported that “the family believes that his coverage of OPEC may be related to his disappearance.” He was reporting on an oil glut -- “rising fuel inventories," specifically, "a supply imbalance caused by overproduction of shale oil in the U.S. in the face of slacking demand."  So it's possible that David Bird's factual reporting on the oversupply/low demand of oil might ruffle a few feathers in high places, not to mention it somewhat contradicts the propaganda that the U.S. is on the path to economic recovery.  It's also possible that Mr. Bird recently came across some information not yet published.  After all, the rich and powerful are always cooking up schemes to further enrich and empower themselves at our expense.
The U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin, is currently investigating the role played by large Wall Street firms in owning tankers, terminals, and pipelines that store or transport oil while simultaneously speculating on the price of oil in the futures market. The investigation is broad in scope and includes Wall Street’s ownership of other commodities. It is understood that the investigation will also look at allegations by beer and soda manufacturers that Wall Street has gained control of the London Metal Exchange and metal warehouses where they have created bottlenecks in the supply of aluminum, raising prices to both the manufacturers and consumers for canned beer and soda.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Oklahoma: Turning Disasters Into a Military Style Takeover?

A witness (below) tells of the "war zone" in Moore Oklahoma after the devastating mile-wide tornado touched down.  He said, all of the "abc" agencies are everywhere, including the FBI, however, he claimed, they're not there to help the people...they're there to issue threats of lethal force and to issue lock-downs, as if the survivors are not traumatized enough. 

Moreover, the  witness said the schools were on lock-down prior and during the tornado, and the message now, is, "if you loot, we will shoot". In this type of situation, I would think it's hard to tell who is a looter and who is desperately searching for loved ones, possessions, food, water.  He said people were literally walking down the interstate with nowhere to go.

Unfortunately, all immediate federal disaster aid seems to come  in the form of a military presence and bi-partisan authoritarian posturing and very little, if any actual help.

Meanwhile, Barbara Boxer pushes for carbon tax, blaming the tornado on global warming.







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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Exiled Former Black Panther Assata Shakur’s Elevation to Number One Domestic Terrorist on the FBI List?

One must ask the question, why--especially in light of COINTELPRO repression, the FBI's counterintelligence program's effect on black leadership and their terrorism in the black community--since 2005, did the FBI double the $1 million bounty on exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur’s head, naming her the number one domestic terrorist? Assata's a 60+ year old grandmother and this event--the killing of New Jersey officer--occurred forty years ago! Why, so many years later, are they putting former political activist, Assata Shakur in the limelight?  Why are they bringing this old issue back into the public eye?

And then, the mysterious death of Malcolm X's 28-year old grandson, Malcolm Shabazz in Mexico, where he was to meet with labor organizers, and who, much like his grandfather, was outspoken about the mistreatment of African Americans in the US. and who, much like his grandfather, has been maligned in the press, in the grandson's case, for his troubled past, in particular, an unfortunate incident that he was, indeed, responsible for when he was 12-years old, but an incident that he already paid the price.  Moreover, like his grandfather, he was constantly monitored by the U.S. government.  Back in February, Shabazz was arrested by the FBI on unknown charges while en route to Iran to attend the Hollywoodism International Conference. Shabazz released a lengthy statement via former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney's Facebook page back in March addressing the arrest and stating that federal agents were not involved.

I sincerely appreciate the care and concern of the People over my well-being after Press TV’s report of the most recent events which have transpired regarding the F.B.I.’s harassment of me.

Given the storm of lies, and half-truths that come with being associated with being the descendant of El Hajj Malik el Shabazz, also known as Minister Malcolm X, any and everything that I do; great or small, good or not so good, real or imagined is subject to controversy. However, in this missive I will take this opportunity to properly and fully disclose what transpired.

In the beginning of 2012 I had been informed that I was under investigation by the F.B.I.’s Counter Terrorism Task Force Unit located in Goshen, N.Y.

The agents of this division-and in collaboration with others-have visited several residences of which I was known by them to frequent. However, they would never come when they knew me to actually be there. They would leave their cards with the residents asking them to tell me to call them, and then would tell surrounding residents to observe the house and to notify them if they saw me.

These are the homes of long-time friends, and very close supporters. Yet, when federal agents begin knocking on someone’s door on multiple occasions to snoop, and ask questions, whether one is guilty of an offense or not, it’s enough to coerce people into distancing themselves from you. This cheap tactic employed by the F.B.I. is a means of agitation and harassment. They seek to neutralize my networking abilities.

They have visited locations in California, Chicago, Miami and most aggressively in New York.

People were advising me that if I had nothing to hide, then I should just contact them as requested and cooperate. Though I must say that in these kind of matters I am of a particular ethic. For one, I have been engaged in no criminal activity of their concern, and they could have located me if they so chose. Secondly, I don’t recognize the authority in them beckoning me.

It wasn’t even until my mother informed me that they had been contacting her that I truly became agitated. She advised me to see what they had to say, and so I obliged the next time they came around looking for me. My encounter was with 2 federal agents of Goshen, N.Y.’s Counter Terrorism Task Foci Unit. The primary agent identified himself as Special Agent Tom Brozicky.

They expressed concern over-as they put it-my “international travels”; I have lived and studied in Damascus, Syria for over a year, and now the U.S. is instigating conflict within the very same region; I went on ex-congresswoman/former presidential candidate Cynthia Mckinney’s delegation along with Dr. Randy Short to Libya, and met with Leader Muammar Gadhafi one week prior to N.A.T.O. intervention and I was most recently getting ready to travel to Tehran, Iran to be a participant of the International Fajr Film Festival and give a lecture addressing the issues of Hollywood and violence:

- Modern Violence and Terrorism,
- Provoking clashes between religions and populations

I was picked up by authorities after I filed for a visa to Iran, and 2 days prior to my departure. A detective squad from the City of Middletown Police Department surrounded me in the street about 2 blocks from where I was residing. They asked me my name, and I gave them an alias, but they were already well aware of who I actually was. I didn’t tell them my real name because I didn’t know what was going on. When I was brought before a Judge of City of Middletown court I was surprised to be informed that I was being charged with Grand Larceny, and False Impersonation charge. Then I was sent to jail, and told to appear again 7 days later. Then following court date the bogus charge of Grand Larceny, which they only put to justify stopping me in first place, was dropped. And they left me to face the False Impersonation. I was offered 90 days for the offense of giving the authorities the wrong name which I declined before bailing out after 2 weeks.

When I was being held within the belly of the beast on trumped up charges, to my rescue came the journalist at Press TV based in Iran. My relationship with powerful and progressive news outfit began in April of 2012, and prior to that I had discussions with their journalist regarding current events internationally. I developed a positive rapport with some of them, and as a result was invited to travel to Iran to discuss the impact of Hollywood in stereotyping Muslims, Iranians and African people. From January 15th through 18th, 2013, I was a featured interviewee for the Press TV documentary “The Façade of the American Dream”. And prior to my date of departure to Iran, Lifetime television released a television bio-picture called “Betty and Coretta” which was a sensationalistic misrepresentation of my grandparents, my mother and me. This film aside from being poorly acted, and shallow in depth also threatened to inflame old controversies, and open unhealed wounds and to remind the public of sad outcomes without ever identifying B.O.S.S.I., the C.I.A., F.B.I. and other forces that set the climate for my grandfather’s assassination, and made my family a long-suffering casualty of COINTELPRO, and other anti-Black repression programs. Naturally, anything done to stir up old hatred of The Shabazz Family will impact me as the name-sake, and first male heir of Malcolm X, and whether I am high or low in fortunes does not exempt me from this reality.

The formula for a public assassination is: the character assassination before the physical assassination; so one has to be made killable before the eyes of the public in order for their eventual murder to then deemed justifiable. And when the time arrives for these hits to be carried out you’re not going to see a C.I.A. agent with a suit and tie, and a badge that says “C.I.A.” walk up to someone, and pull the trigger. What they will do is to out-source to local police departments in the region of their target, and to employ those that look like the target of interest to infiltrate the workings in order to set up the environment for the eventual assassination (character, physical/incarceration, exile) to take place.

For several months prior to my arrest in late January, 2013 I faced a pattern of harassment from law enforcement which is usually reserved for important figures. On Thursday, November 1, 2012 @ 11:53pm in the park circle area of Middletown, N.Y. I was stopped by officers of the Middletown Police Department, and given a ticket for “J-Walking” (crossing in the middle of the street), which then escalated into a “Disorderly Conduct” supposedly because of the exchange of words that I had with the officers. I told them that they couldn’t possibly be serious for writing me a “J-Walking ticket”, that I didn’t appreciate how they were treating me and that they

shouldn’t be looking at me as less of a man because they were in police uniform. For this I was arrested, the officers stole the little amount of money that I had on me, they then stripped me and threw me in a freezing precinct cell for the remainder of that early morning. I was finally taken before the “Judge Steven Brockett” around 1:30pm. He gave me an unreasonable bail, and then ordered that I be remanded to the Orange county Jail.

This penalty may seem a bit extreme or harsh to most of you, but here is where it gets worse: On Tuesday, October 30th, exactly 2 nights prior to this incident, the same officer “J Berman” who wrote me the ticket for “J-Walking” and “Disorderly Conduct” stopped me coming from out of a store in the same area, and questioned me as to what I was doing.

I told him that I was coming out of the store. He asked to see what I bought which was a pack of sun flower seeds. I had actually just so happened to be eating a few while he was talking to me, and I spit one of the shells on the ground. At this point officer “J Berman” threatened to write me a ticket for littering. Needless to say, I was dumbfounded, but I went home that night.

Yet, it still doesn’t even begin there. I had an encounter with other officers of the Midletown Police Department one week prior to officer “J Berman’s” threats to write me a ticket for spitting a sun flower seed on the ground: I was coming out of a restaurant with my mother, and her friend. As the 3 of us entered the car to leave 2 police cars converged on our vehicle, and boxed us in. My mother was petrified. With guns drawn I was then ordered to step out of the back seat. I asked them why to which they replied that I had several warrants for my arrest. I told them that they were mistaken, but I still complied with their request. Humiliated in front of all on-lookers I was then thrown on the car while the officers ripped through my pockets. After they were done they said that it was my lucky day because I actually didn’t have any warrants at all, and so I was free to go! One of these officer’s name was “R. Ribeiro”…

You may wonder if it could possibly get any worse than this. Well, it does! Approximately 3 weeks prior to the public humiliation of my mother, and me by “R Ribeiro” and another officer of the Middletown Police Department I found myself subject to the discrimination and prejudice of Mayor Joseph M. Destefano of Middletown, N.Y. himself. A friend, and I went out to eat at a restaurant in Middletown, N.Y. which is owned by the Mayor, and to our

surprise he appeared from nowhere and asked us to leave. When we inquired as to why he stated that officials of the Middletown Police Department told him not to let us patronize his establishment. Mind you that this goes without incident.

As I stand for the people, God-Willing, I would pray that the same people wouldn’t hesitate to stand for me. If these unjust and heinous actions are tolerated and allowed to be done to me without recourse, then no one is safe. Just as Huewy P Newton of the Black Panther Party stated that police are in the white community to protect and serve, yet occupy ours like a foreign troop… I tell you that we shouldn’t fall victim to the conditioning of feeling inferior or fearful at the presence of law enforcement for no apparent reason.

With that being said, I was not arrested by federal agents. I was taken in by a squad from the City of Middletown, N.Y.’s Police Department. I was not being held in an “undisclosed location” so to speak. I was actually being held in the Orange County Jail in Goshen, N.Y. However, from the time that I was booked at the precinct, to standing before a Judge the next day who told me to come back in 7 more, to being processed at the Orange County Jail and up until 7 days later I was not permitted to make any calls to notify anyone of my status; as though I had just been kidnapped from of the street.

Unfortunately, until this day my family hasn’t been fully abreast of my situation as I haven’t had the opportunity to properly consult with any of them. Dr. Randy Short who notified Press TV of my situation is a close comrade of mine who was on our delegation in Libya. Media reports from Press TV about my situation were not intended to create controversy. In reality, I have a few associates that are affiliated with this reputable International media outlet, and they had expected to meet with me in Iran. So when I disappeared, and rumors spread, the inability to get concise information from a credible source prompted them to rouse public attention on my behalf, for which I am grateful. In April of 2012 I had the opportunity to be a guest analyst/contributor on Press TV. This network has a large following all over the world, and millions find it’s news, documentaries and programming to be both an educational, and insightful alternative to the conglomerated, and highly biased mainstream American and British news media. Regarding the Source magazine, nothing that they published was vetted by me, and was made by persons, at best, vaguely familiar with my situation. Further, I have never had an affiliation or relationship with The Source, nor have they ever directly consulted with me about anything. -- Malcolm X's 28-year old grandson, Malcolm Shabazz
From Miguel Suarez:
"To who responds, I am Miguel Suarez, leader of a labor movement in the United States and I am accompanied by Malcolm X’s grandson. His name is Malcolm Shabazz and he wanted to see if it is possible to to speak and publish our history in their [publication]…what we saw in Mexico City."[..]He was murdered. He was in Mexico City and I believe they attempted to rob him and he didn’t allow it, so they beat him to death and he died on his way to the hospital,” said Ruiz. “This is all I can confirm, everything else is under investigation for the meantime.”
Regarding the Assata Shakur issue, Dhoruba bin Wahad, former Black Panther and co-founder of the Black Liberation Army claims that domestic law enforcement--FBI, Department of Homeland Security, etc.-- is at odds with Obama. Why?  President Obama's agenda to "reemphasize economic development and economic cooperation" in Latin America, in particular Cuba, and that will require covertly deconstructing the Cuba embargo and to "co-opt and counter the effects of the new so-called leftist geopolitics there".  In order to make this possible, the extraordinarily profitable--to domestic law enforcement--"war on drugs" will have to take a back seat, which probably means a substantial loss of funding.    The US is reasserting dominance in a post Castro-Chavez Latin America as the geo-economic center for Latin American nations.  Dhourba bin Wahad claims that “the recent Jay-Z/Beyonce trip was about opening up Cuba” to U.S. tourism, “to disrupt and undo the Cuban revolution.”  In other words, he believes that Shakur’s elevation to number one domestic terrorist on the FBI list “represents the disgruntlement of U.S. law enforcement” with this  new approach towards Latin America.

There is no doubt that Assata Shakur is a pawn in the chess game of US imperial diplomacy, but this the only explanation? Hardly.
"Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In doing so, they have declared open war on the black liberation movement, something that J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO were only able to do in secret. [snip]

Forty years later though, we live in the era of secret kidnappings, regular torture, ghost prisons and executive branch murder by drones or special ops teams. Today the federal Department of Homeland Security funds counter-terrorism fusion centers which openly disseminate the kind of inflammatory and fanciful disinformation to local police and security contractors about those the government wants targeted that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI agents had to come around and whisper in their ears. Now that is progress.-- Bruce Dixon
Here's another take:



One thing for sure, putting Assata on the Top 10 Most Wanted Terrorist list will keep Cuba on the state sponsors of terror list, along with Iran, Sudan, and Syria, and somehow, I doubt President Obama objects.

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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Another Boston-Like Lockdown: Students Had to Use Buckets Instead of Bathrooms

Several schools in the Madison Wisconsin area went into lockdown after a Chicago fugitive, Paris Poe,  wanted for parole violation and questioning in a murder investigation, was spotted at a hotel in Madison, WI.  Poe had previously been imprisoned for armed robbery. Because of the sighting, a large area  was then locked down and swarmed with SWAT teams in what resulted in a day-long manhunt.

Reverse 911 calls were made to all landlines asking residents to lock their doors and remain inside. Police asked all the businesses in their area to close and lock their doors. All six schools in the area were placed on lockdown and surrounded by police. In Verona, no-one could enter or exit the schools. In some classrooms, children were told to crouch under their desks for hours.  Children were prohibited from using the bathroom, and were told to urinate in buckets.. Parents could not pick up their children since entry or exit was prohibited. Once the lockdown was ended, parents were required to present ID to take their children home.

Later in the day, Poe was arrested far outside the locked down area. He faces no charges in WI and will be transported back to IL.

All of this for a man wanted for questioning and a parole violation? I don't think so. More like any excuse to instill fear in the hearts of children and condition the people to accept "martial law" as the new normal.


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Friday, April 19, 2013

Conditioning Us to Martial Law? New Normal?















































Links:

“Contractors” at Boston Marathon Stood Near Bomb, Left Before Detonation


Flashback: When Chechen Terrorists Were Framed

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

When Drills Go Live? Marathons – A Tale of 2 Cities and the Running of a Planned Mass Casualty Event

I don't know. You would think they would've been better prepared considering the extent of preparation: Marathons – A Tale of Two Cities and the Running of a Planned Mass Casualty Event




"At this point there are only two possibilities. Either the Boston bombing was a false-flag, or it was a real act of terror. Personally, I am leaning towards false-flag; we are just waiting to see who (other than Muslims) gets framed for it. But if this was a genuine act of terror, what it tells us is that DHS, TSA, FBI, CIA, the Fusion centers, are all a complete waste of taxpayer money. All the databases, all the warrantless scanning of our emails, social media, phone calls, all the crotch-grabbing, cameras, microphones, GPS tracking, naked scanners, were totally and completely useless. Even the bomb sniffing dogs, on site in Boston supposedly for a training incident, failed to sniff the bombs. From top to bottom, the entire security industrial complex laid a big fat egg on this one. They failed, simply and utterly. And therefore, there is no more justification for the people of the United States to put up with this erosion of our Constitutional rights. Simply on the basis of total incompetence, Boston justifies the firing of the Federal government." -- Mike Rivero

Links:

FBI/DHS DRILL Staged Boston Marathon Bombing? Nevada Governor 2014 David Lory VanDerBeek


URBAN APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING from December 1972.
Gives you an idea of the kind of technology they had over four decades ago. Imagine what they have now and tell me two kids could even imagine holding a city like Boston hostage.

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Friday, March 01, 2013

GAO Says Mexican Drug War Spillover "Highly Under-reported"

An estimated 70,000 people have died in drug related violence since former Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared war on the country’s drug cartels in 2006. Up until recently, the violence seems to be contained in Mexico, but that may be changing according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office to Congress, entitled "Southwest Border Security,." The report claims that it's virtually impossible to get valid numbers on stateside drug war violence and crime.

"FBI officials cautioned that drug cartel related crimes, such as kidnappings and home invasions, are highly underreported and are not captured in national crime statistics.

For example, law enforcement officials with whom we spoke stated that individuals who may have been assaulted or robbed in the course of drug trafficking and other illicit activities are hesitant to report their involvement to the police
"Law enforcement agencies have few efforts to track spillover crime. No common federal government definition of such crime exists, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) components, including those with a definition, either do not collect data to track spillover crime, or do not maintain such data that can be readily retrieved and analyzed.

Officials from the San Diego office of the California Highway Patrol stated that in 2012 their field office began tracking how often they respond to calls from CBP’s Office of Field Operations to investigate incidents at the port of entry.

However, the officials noted that the data could not be a measure for spillover crime because the incident may not always result in a crime or an arrest and may not be related to cartel activity or involve Mexican nationals.

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

FBI Pushing Plan to Force Surveillance Backdoors on Social Networks, Web Email Providers and VOIP



The FBI wants Internet companies to support a proposal that would require firms like Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. If passed, these ompanies would have to provide the bureau with decryption tools to make sense of the information that it captures.

The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) already provides assistance to law enforcement by requiring that they cooperate with police in order to conduct lawfully-authorized electronic surveillance.  The FCC extended CALEA in 2004 to apply to broadband providers, but web companies are not covered under this law.  

Of course, once again, it's all in the name of national security and public safety.

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Saturday, March 03, 2012

85 Things that Might Get You on a DHS Terrorist Watch List

The Department of Homeland Security has asked the public to report suspicious activity through the Communities Against Terrorism program. if you visit an airport, stay in a hotel, drink coffee at an Internet café, or in some other way interact with one of the Halloween G-men in the American public, a full-fledged FBI investigation is only one phone call away, says LaTi.

LaTi lists 85 things that might get you on a watch list, if a Halloween G-man spots you in the act::

1) Use Google Maps to find your way around a strange city.

2) Use Google Maps to view photos of sports stadiums.

3) Install online privacy protection software on your personal computer.

4) Attempt to shield your computer screen from the view of others.

5) Shave your beard, dye your hair or alter your mode of dress.

6) Sweat.

7) Avoid eye contact.

8) Use a cell-phone camera in an airport, train station or shopping mall.

9) Seek to work alone or without supervision.

10) Appear to be out of place.

11) Have bright colored stains on your clothing.

12) Be missing any fingers.

13) Emit strange odors.

14) Travel an “illogical distance” to do your shopping.

15) Have someone pick you up from a beauty supply store.

33) Act impatient.

16) Be nervous.

17) Be a new customer from out of town.

18) Use a credit card in someone else’s name.

19) Chant environmental slogans near construction sites.

20) Enter a construction site after work hours.

21) Rent watercraft for an extended period.

22) Make comments involving radical theology.

23) Make vague or cryptic warnings.

24) Express anti-U.S. sentiments.

25) Purchase a quantity of prepaid or disposable cell phones.

26) Leave store without preprogramming disposable phones.

27) Be overly interested in satellite phones and voice privacy.

28) Ask questions about swapping SIM cards in cell phones.

29) Ask questions about how phone location can be tracked.

30) Rewire cell phone’s ringer or backlight.

31) Express out-of-place and provocative religious or political sentiments.

32) Purchase a police scanner, infrared device or 2-way radio.

33) Act impatient.

34) Drive a vehicle that appears to be overloaded.

35) Depart quickly when seen or approached.

36) Be a person “acting suspiciously.”

37) Make illegible notes on a map.

38) Take photos of the Statue of Liberty or other “symbolic targets.”

39) Overdress for the weather.

40) Ask questions in a hobby shop about remote controlled aircraft.

41) Demonstrate interest that does not seem genuine.

42) Request specific room assignments or locations at a hotel or motel.

43) Arrive at a lodging with unusual amounts of luggage.

52) Make notes that are illegible to passersby.

44) Refuse cleaning service.

45) Avoid the lobby of a hotel or motel.

46) Remain in your hotel or motel room.

47) Leave your hotel for several days, then return.

48) Leave behind clothing and toiletry items.

49) Park your vehicle in an isolated area.

50) Be observed switching a cell phone SIM card.

51) Be observed using multiple cell phones.

52) Make notes that are illegible to passersby.

53) Communicate through a PC game.

54) Download “extreme/radical” content.

55) Exhibit preoccupation with press coverage of terrorist attacks.

56) Wear a backpack when the weather is warm.

57) Speak to mall maintenance personnel or security guards.

58) Make racist comments.

59) Mumble to yourself.

60) Pass along any anonymous threats you may receive.

61) Discreetly take a photo in a mass transit site.

62) Arrive with a group of people and split off from them.

63)Demand “identity privacy.”

64) Appear to endorse the use of violence in support of a cause.

65) Make bulk purchases of meals ready to eat.

66) Arrive in America from a land where militant Islamic groups operate.

67) Take a long absence for religious education or charity work.

68) Travel to countries where militant Islam rules.

69) Study technical subjects that would aid a terror operation.

70) Work in a field that “serves as a cover for preparing for an operation.”

71) Exhibit ire at global policies of the U.S.

72) Balk at providing “complete personal information.”

73) Provide multiple names on rental car paperwork.

74) Receive an unusual number of package deliveries.

75) Replace rental property locks without permission.

76) Modify your property to conceal storage areas.

77) Fail to pay rent for a storage unit in a timely manner.

78) Inquire about security systems at your storage facility.

79) Place unusual items in storage units or dumpsters.

80) Avoid contact with rental facility personnel.

81) Access storage facilities an unusual number of times.

82) Request deliveries of items directly to a storage unit.

83) Be part of a group requesting identical tattoos.

84) Request tattoos that could conceal extremist symbols.

85) Fly while appearing to be Muslim on September 11 of any year.

You can find the collection of 25 flyers produced by the FBI and the Department of Justice that are distributed to local businesses in a variety of industries to promote suspicious activity reporting here . The flyers are not released publicly, though several have been published in the past by news media and various law enforcement agencies around the country. We have compiled this collection from a number of online sources.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Louis Freeh, MBNA, and the Penn State Connection Update

Former FBI chief Louis Freeh chosen to lead the Penn State investigation has ties to Second Mile charity's board.
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Update:
Sandusky hires private investigator to study sex-abuse claim


Victim preparing to testify at Jerry Sandusky hearing, attorney says

Victim One has been notified by police that he most likely will have to testify at a preliminary hearing scheduled for mid December in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse case.

One of the newly hired Philadelphia-area attorneys now representing the 17-year-old boy -- who was the first to come forward and the last of eight chronological victims outlined in a grand jury presentment against former Penn State assistant football coach Sandusky -- says one of the first tasks as the boy's attorney is making sure that testimony goes as smoothly as possible
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Update: This incestuous community of elitist officials continues to rearrange the deck furniture.  Now, in addition to the PSU whitewash investigation, Freeh has been appointed to probe the MF Global Collapse.

It's common knowledge that Freeh is go-to guy when it comes to events that need covering up.  In 2000, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article The Case against Louis Freeh detailing how the former FBI Director at the time, "bungled investigations of high-profile criminal cases and repeatedly misled probers and judges in legal proceedings." The article went on to say, "Freeh's FBI has tried to run roughshod over the civil liberties of ordinary citizens, demanding access to encryption codes and elbowing its way onto every PC in the country through its Carnivore project".
FBI Director Louis Freeh opposes U.S. encryption while admitting the U.S. is under digital attack. Freeh supported the mandatory Clipper project to bug America. Freeh's FBI also developed the intrusive Carnivore program, and Freeh has repeatedly testified that all encryption products should be banned. In fact, Freeh testified before the Senate on Sept. 3, 1997 that the Founding Fathers "did not foresee encryption."

Obviously, the FBI director flunked history class. The fact is the Founding Fathers knew very well of codes and ciphers. Jefferson, Franklin and even Washington used codes and ciphers for personal business. Paul Revere used the same techniques that, today, the director of the FBI proposes to ban.

President Bush has selected Freeh to continue as FBI director. Yet the FBI failed to detect the highest Russian agent in U.S. government service. Freeh policies and practices are anti-privacy, proven by his term with Bill Clinton.
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Freeh served as general counsel of the former MBNA credit card company in Wilmington, Delaware along with top bank executive Ric Struthers, a Penn State graduate and major contributor still affiliated with the university. Struthers is also on the board of directors of The Second Mile charity. Freeh gave a speech in 2005 at a dedication of a new Penn State building that Struthers and his wife supported through a $2 million gift.

In 2006, Freeh left the credit card company as it was acquired by Bank of America Corp. According to an MBNA document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freeh cashed out stock options worth over $20 million, not counting his annual compensation.

Freeh also served on the board of Fannie Mae before it was taken over by the federal government due to its insolvency in 2008, and on the board of Wilmington Trust Corp. until it was sold in 2010 after its share price collapsed due to bad real estate development loans in Delaware. Freeh currently serves as a member of the audit committee of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the drugmaker.
MBNA became the largest independent credit card issuer by landing college alumni and other group members as customers through lucrative arrangements that included giving the company access to alumni and student addresses and using college letterheads and mascots in marketing campaigns. Penn State, along with the National Football League and the National Education Association, was one of MBNA's biggest sources of profitable credit card debtors, company executives said at the time. Freeh didn't immediately return a call left at his Wilmington office.

Freeh is not the only former MBNA official with an important role at an institution trying to cope with the scandal.

One of his former superiors at MBNA, Ric Struthers, is the most prominent national business figure on the board of the Second Mile Foundation, the charity started and formerly run by coach Sandusky. (Fielding notes Freeh knew Struthers, but didn't report to him; he reported to MBNA's top boss, who at the time was company founder Charles Cawley. Struthers held the top job after Cawley's retirement. Freeh's duties at MBNA included lobbying Congress to make it harder for bankrupt consumers to write off their unpaid credit card bills, and marketing credit cards to police and other law enforcement groups.)

Struthers, a 1977 Penn State graduate, played a key role in managing the business relationship between the Penn State Alumni Association and MBNA. The bank paid the alumni more than $30 million for its mailing lists and other marketing aid in its credit card solicitation campaigns from 1994-2010, as I reported in this space last year after the university was forced to disclose the payments by a change in federal law.

Struthers collected more than $10 million a year in stock and cash pay from MBNA in the bank's final years; he donated $2 million to the bank's 2002-05 capital campaign. He held a series of executive jobs at MBNA and ran it with other operations as chief executive officer of the nation's largest credit card operation, after its purchase by Bank of America, until his job was eliminated last year.

Besides paying the alumni group $30 million, "from 1998 to 2002, MBNA also agreed to pay Penn State an additional $500,000 a year to ensure that it didn’t make deals with other banks and that football coach Joe Paterno kept up his end of another MBNA marketing agreement. Terms of Paterno’s deal weren’t disclosed," as I noted in my Philadelphia Inquirer column last year. Struthers didn't immediately return a call to his home.
Links

Missteps At Every Turn: Efforts to clean up Penn State reveal how deep the institutional problems lie

Pa. Governor In Middle On Penn State Case

Patriot-News Special Report: Inside the Jerry Sandusky investigation - why did it take so long?

Sandusky and the discussion of Division III football program at PSU Altoona in late 1998
In late 1998-early 1999, Sandusky held discussions with Penn State Altoona about the possibility of starting a Division III football program here.
Why did Sandusky Retire in 1999?

Interesting article on the cover up scandal

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Monday, September 12, 2011

The Towers Kept Falling: The Hijacking of Our Minds

Taken directly from the film, Who Killed John O'Neill? :

On July 3rd, 1979, the CIA gave birth to Islamic fundamentalism when President Carter signed a directive for United States intelligence to provide radical Islamic thinking and arms to Afghan fighters, before the Soviet Union invaded. This is documented in a 1998 interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor.

Creating a radical branch of Islam was a way to draw the Soviets into a war with Afghanistan, giving them their Vietnam War. It destroyed their economy. During this war, the US, UK, and Pakistan all supported groups of Arab fighters known as the Mujahedeen. Two of the freedom fighters were Ramzi Yousef and Osama Bin Laden. Books printed by the University of NE and paid for by the US Department of Education taught the Mujahedeen radical theories of Islam and treated them to math problems and literature riddled with allusions to guns, bombs, tanks, war, overall training them to be violent.

After the Soviets withdrew, the Mujahedeen were left, without support, in a war-torn, and socially unstable nation state. So they started a second resistance movement aimed toward the U.S.

In the late 1980s, Al Qaeda was formed, an intelligence operation that from its inception has been trained, funded and supported by the Pakistani Intelligence operation, the ISI, which is an arm of the CIA.

Iran Contra channeled money to countries considered terrorist nations like Iran, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon. And as the other half of the hand-shake, trillions of dollars of narcotics from the Middle East, the far East and Latin America have made their way into this country. This shows a pattern of fraud and complicity by the US government to promote instability abroad to promote their domestic agenda

Meanwhile, the media is trying to scare us all into submission, ignoring the links between our government and terrorist nations.

Now, the official story says Omar Saeed Sheikh is the pay master for lead hijacker Mohammad Atta, and Khalid Shaikh Muhammad as the operational master-mind behind the attacks. Both men are well-known ISI agents, and Omar Saeed Sheikh murdered Daniel Pearl in 2002. Pearl was investigating ISI ties to Al Qaeda and 9/11, so he was killed to prevent Pearl from printing a major story linking ISI to Al Qaeda, because that, in turn, would implicate the CIA.

Could it be that specific agendas within specific parts of government, media and industry, have created a propaganda campaign to wage war, with 9/11 as the prime selling point?

On February 26, 1993, the second anniversary of the end of the Gulf War, a bomb went off in the WTC. Six people were killed and thousands were injured.

Could the 1993 event have been a staged event, a psyop (a clandestine intelligence operation used to shift people's perceptions to a pre-defined agenda that are sometimes used with more overt actions called military ops) to shine a light on the towers to convince people that they were future targets of terrorism?

After 1993, a series of terror attacks plagued the US: the OKC bombing in 1995, the Embassy bombings in Africa in 1998, the USS Cole in 2000 in Yemin, and the biggest "selling point" of all, 9/11/2001, after which, the counter terrorism pundits said, Al Qaeda always wanted to finish the job.

But, wait a minute. The OKC bombing? It doesn't fit in. Or, does it? Timothy McVeigh's lawyer contends that Terry Nichols made several trips to the Philippines to meet with Ramzi Yousef , master mind of 1993 WTC bombing. McVeigh served in the Gulf War, and he slipped out of the country with an Iraqi passport. McVeigh and Nichols both visit Al Qaeda training camps after the Gulf War. Coincidence? Moreover, hundreds of thousands of documents were withheld by the FBI from McVeigh's attorneys. The director of the FBI at the time was Louis Freeh.

Moreover, the OKC bombing clearly sent the message that dissenters are dangerous. Therefore, anyone who questions the government can be lumped in with people as crazy as Timothy McVeigh..

Kroll Associates

A Managing Director at Kroll has said, "Kroll is like a private CIA."

Kroll Associates is a global security and intelligence company. Publicly traded and privately managed, Kroll specializes in large building security and industrial espionage. In 1993, Kroll got a contract to manage security at the World Trade Center. They held that position up until the moment the Towers fell.

The CEO of Kroll was  Michael Cherkasky, who was a former assistant district attorney under Robert Morgenthau in Manhattan. Former employees of Kroll include people like, William Bratton, former police Commissioner in Boston and New York City, and now Chief of the LAPD. And then of course, Brian Jenkins, who is based out of Los Angeles, and was the country's foremost "expert" on aviation terrorism. Now working for the powerful think-tank, The RAND Corporation, Jenkins is a noted counter-terrorism pundit and appears on many talk shows and news magazines.

Which brings us to Jerome Hauer   (left), the go-to-guy for bio-terrorism. As a Managing Director of Kroll in New York City, Hauer was responsible for doing security at the World Trade Center. John Hauer is also the guy who got John O'Neill his job, as head of security at the World Trade Center.

“John O’Neill was head of the FBI’s counterterrorism branch in Washington. He led every important investigation you can name — the USS Cole, Tanzania, Kenya bombings. He retired three weeks ago. I helped him get the job as head of security for the World Trade Center. And the irony is, the guy he chased for most of his career killed him."- Jerome Hauer

Prior to this, Jerome Hauer was Rudi Giuliani's right-hand-man in New York, where he headed up the Office of Emergency Management, OEM - FEMA in New York City. And it was by Jerome Hauer's suggestion, that Mayor Giuliani constructed what became known as the 'federal bunker offices' in World Trade Center building number 7. Fire-proof, bomb-proof, bullet-proof... these OEM offices were basically Giuliani's headquarters in New York City, until WTC7 collapsed on 9-11.  Hauer is also a well-known advisor to the 'Council on Foreign Relations', formerly worked for the 'National Institutes of Health', and is currently the head of the 'Office of Public Health Preparedness'.

On the morning of 9-11, just as the attacks were happening, Hauer instructed the entire White House staff to go on Cipro, the anti-Anthrax drug.

How did he know Anthrax was going to become an issue?

Well, Hauer worked in 1999 with Stephen Hatfill, the prime suspect in the Anthrax attacks, at the Scientific Applications International Corporation, the SAIC. This company, the SAIC, was awarded a huge bio-defense contract after 9-11. Hatfill, a well-known friend of Jerome Hauer, was working for the military grade Anthrax program at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and Battelle, a chemicals company with long-standing ties to the CIA. Hauer was well-aware of the USAMRIID project in Maryland.

In a nutshell, Kroll has been involved in a host of shady operations. In 1991, the Kuwaiti government hired Kroll to investigate Saddam Hussein's finances. In 2002, Kroll was given the massive responsibility of reorganizing Enron. Through '97 and '98, Kroll oversaw the elections of the Teamsters Union. And just following 9-11, Kroll was tapped by the LAPD to monitor all counter-terrorism efforts in Los Angeles.

Kroll is also tied to the FBI, as well. The director of the FBI during WACO and the first World Trade Center bombing was a man by the name of William Sessions. When he left the bureau, he became a shareholder of Kroll. The next FBI Director was Louis Freeh, and Louis Freeh's top advisor at the Bureau was a guy named James Bucknam. Guess where he works now? He's a Managing Director of Kroll.

At the time this film was made, Freeh was Senior Vice President at the MBNA credit card corporation. His specific duties include personnel and security. Next to Enron, MBNA was the largest campaign contributor to George W. Bush in 2000

One of Freeh's Deputy Directors was James K. Kallstrom. At the time of 9-11, Kallstrom was head of New York State's Office of Public Security. He also worked at MBNA with Louis Freeh. Both are well-known friends of Jerome Hauer. Supposedly, MBNA was one of the companies heavily involved in pre-9-11 insider trading, which would have been investigated by the SEC, if not for the destruction of all of those records WTC #7. How convenient!

There are other companies like Kroll, such as T and M Protection, run by Robert Tucker, who met with O'Neill and Hauer the night before 9/11.  Then there's Strang-Hayes Consulting, Wackenhut Corporation, CTC International, and The Cohen Group.

And let's not forget Stratesec - formerly called SecuraCom. Stratesec also had a contract to do security at the World Trade Center. SecuraCom also had security contracts for Dulles International Airport and United Airlines. Remember, United had two planes crash on 9-11, and one of those planes came from Dulles.

Now an interesting note about SecuraCom is that from 1993 to 2000, one of its principle shareholders was a man by the name of, Marvin Bush (left) the president's younger brother.

So how did all of these guys - Cherkasky, Jenkins, Bratton, Hauer -  become terrorism pundits?  Where do they get all their information?

They aren't official law enforcement or intelligence. Yet, somehow, they became the foremost experts on counter-terrorism?  Many of them are former law enforcement, but since terrorism is one of the most closely guarded fields in all of intelligence, what's the deal with them broadcasting this information on national television? Well, to build up the propaganda, obviously. To frame up al Qaeda before and after the fact. There is no question that Kroll is intimately linked to the CIA. So, these people have so much information about terrorism because they are either deeply rooted to intelligence, or they are intelligence, privatized in order to make their work legal and untouchable by Congress. Brilliant, indeed!

It's no coincidence that Kroll did security at those buildings, and have more inside knowledge about terrorism than even the FBI and CIA do.  They are well-placed operatives working a specific agenda, to frame the patsies. These people profit from insider knowledge of coming terrorist attacks. They don't disclose their credentials or their contacts. They merely claim they are "experts" from "Kroll" and that's supposed to mean they are trustworthy.

Cherkasky was the CEO of Kroll until it was acquired by Marsh and McLennan Companies, Inc., of which Mr. Cherkasky was appointed President and CEO. He held this position until 2008. Cherkasky takes us back to New York and the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of Manhattan. Louis Freeh spent his entire career in law enforcement in New York City before becoming FBI Director. From 1981 to 1991, Freeh worked as a U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York City, and Rudi Giuliani worked in that same office from 1983 to 1993, just before he became mayor. Cherkasky was in New York at the same time. Cherkasky was doing a lot of prosecutions too... including Gotti and BCCI, under the oversight of Robert Mueller III. Mueller also oversaw the Noriega case. Noriega, Gotti and the BCCI have one other thing in common: they were all key players in the global drug trade.

Drugs are at the core of this story. The global drug trade is covered with even less honesty in the mainstream press than 9/11 is.

The war between the Soviets and the Afghans ended in 1979. Meanwhile, the drug trade from Latin America was heating up, with significant assistance from the CIA. It started big time with the formation of the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia in 1978.

Founded by Carlos Lehder, the Ochoa bothers and Pablo Escobar, the Medellin cartel operated by manufacturing the Coca plant into cocaine and distributing it into the US. The collaboration began when Lehder purchased an island in the Bahamas where corporate tax and banking laws are extremely lenient. He used that land to launder the money taken in by the drug sales. The Bahamas are home to thousands of tax-exempt corporations, including companies owned and managed by American International Group, AIG, the largest insurance company in the world and the sixth largest corporation in the world. One of AIG's companies in the Bahamas is named after a woman called Coral Talavera. And who is she? She's Carlos Lehder's wife. She is the head of an AIG branch in San Francisco.

Carlos Lehder was extradited from Columbia to the United States for trial in 1987. A year later he was convicted and sentenced to life plus 135 years for drug trafficking and murder. While he was in prison Carlos Lehder struck a deal with the United States. Take down the cartel and he would be granted freedom. Along the way, he implicated and then testified against Manuel Noriega, Panamanian dictator and middleman for the Medellin cartel. Noriega was captured through an invasion of Panama in 1989 under the first President Bush. He was convicted of drug running, money laundering and racketeering in 1992. And Lehder? According to the official US record, whereabouts unknown.

See, there's one thing that ties all these points together - the cartel, AIG, de CIA, the Contras, Noriega - one thing connects them all.

The BCCI. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International, or for our discussion today, the granddaddy of all money laundering scams. The BCCI was and remains the largest instance of fraud and bankruptcy in global history. Operated out of Abu Dhabi, the BCCI operated without fail throughout the 70's and 80's as a money laundering and investment finance bank. This is documented by the investigation of Morgenthau and Cherkasky in New York, also by the investigation in the United States Senate which was headed by Senator John Kerry.

Financial ties can be made between the BCCI and Manuel Noriega through his facilitation of the drug trade. By 1992 the BCCI was broke and busted up by U.S. authorities. The primary shareholder of the BCCI is a guy named Bin Mahfouz, a Saudi financier and investment banker whose other claim to fame is  his dubious investment in Harken Energy in the late 80s, one of George W. Bush's companies.  Yes, this man with a 20% stake in the largest money laundering operation the world's ever seen saved W's business career.  Yes, this man who was known to have funneled money to Osama Bin Laden.

The drug trade escalated in the 1980's with Reagan as president and Bush as V.P. The greatest drug smuggler in the history of drug smuggling is a guy named Barry Seal. He was an admitted CIA agent, who contracted at least as far back as the early 60's. In the early 60's, Barry Seal is living in New Orleans, where he joins the Civil Air Patrol Unit, whose captain is an eccentric fellow by the name of David Ferrie. Ferrie was by all indications a conspirator in the JFK assassination. Another member of the Civil Air Patrol Unit was Lee Harvey Oswald. So seemingly the drug trade is somehow tied to the JFK assassination.

But the connections don't stop there. Barry Seal was a pilot, a great pilot by all accounts. In late 1963 Seal is seen is a photo with Frank Sturgis,  identified and convicted as one of the five Watergate burglars, and Felix Rodriguez. Sturgis  testified in court that his handler on that assignment was E. Howard Hunt, who  went on to work in the Nixon White House. The Rockefeller Commission, who investigated illegal acts by the CIA in 70's, regarded both Hunt and Frank Sturgis as possible conspirators in the JFK assassination. What is Barry Seal doing in a photograph with a possible JFK assassin? But it's the other man in the Seal photograph who has a more ominous distinction.

Felix Rodriguez was a Cuban refugee. In the late 50's he began working with the CIA to recruit more refugees for an invasion of Cuba. This was done under the direction of CIA agent Ted Shackley. Incidentally, Ted Shackley also worked the Far East drug trade with Richard Secord in the early 50's. Felix Rodriguez also figures into the assassination of Bolivian president Che Guevara in 1967. So where is Barry Seal in all of this? He's in New Orleans until at least 1968, when he takes over for the late David Ferrie as captain of the Civil Air Patrol.

Now in the early 70's, Barry Seal's running cocaine through New Orleans. He's running it on planes later identified to be former Air America planes. Planes used by the CIA in the 50's and 60's to ship heroin from the Far East. When the Medellin cartel is founded, Seal immediately hooks up with their operation. By 1981, he is trafficking in more drugs than anyone in the history of this country. And it is around this time that Barry Seal moves his operation from New Orleans to Mena, Arkansas, about 180 miles from Little Rock, a small, little out-of-the-way mountain town. A small, little out-of-the-way mountain town that just happens to have a major U.S. airport, the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport.

From at least 1981 to 1986 this airport is ground zero for all illegal narcotics activity in the United States. You see, Barry Seal began flying his drugs into this airport, most likely with the knowledge of then-president Reagan and the next two presidents, Bush and Clinton.  It is suspected that Seal traffics in nearly $5 billion worth of cocaine in this five-year period.

The U.S. Attorney for Arkansas at this time, Asa Hutchinson, never opens an investigation, even though FBI informants, Mena employees, and the Arkansas State Police have all told him that this illegal drug trafficking has been occurring. Ironically, Hutchinson went on to head the DEA and is now the Undersecretary for Border Transportation and Security in the Department of Homeland Security.

So Seal is virtually untouchable for this period. Even though the FBI and the DEA have opened up investigations into his operation, he remains a contract agent with the CIA. But with overwhelming evidence of drug trafficking mounting against him, he finally turns State's evidence in 1985, and testifies in several trials against Medellin traffickers.

This compromises the entire CIA operation. Barry Seal isn't only running drugs for the cartel, he's also involved in the drugs for arms trade in Nicaragua. The DEA even places him in a sting to photograph Contras loading cocaine onto an airplane in Nicaragua. And this pisses the CIA off, but good.

Seal's next mission is to trick Pablo Escobar and the Ochoa brothers into coming to a neutral third-party country where they'll be extradited. He's about to take down the entire Medellin cartel. But then news of Seal's cooperation with the DEA became leaked to the national media. He has to be called back in mid-air from his task to meet with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar. And who's responsible for this press leak? Admittedly, it is none other than Oliver North, the primary figure in the Iran-Contra scandal. Barry Seal is later gunned down in Baton Rouge, assassinated by the Medellin cartel. It is rumored that on his dead body is the personal private phone number of George H. W. Bush.

The Mena operation is already in jeopardy, but it becomes a major problem when one of Seal's former planes is shot down by Sandinistas later in 1986. The only survivor of the crash is a man named Eugene Hasenfus, and he claims he is running cocaine for the CIA. The plane can be tracked back to Mena. So for the time being, the Mena operation is close to being exposed.

No president has ever spoken directly about the events in Mena, Arkansas. However, Governor Clinton, just when he was rising from obscurity to become president, made his only public comments about the massive drug operation being conducted right in his own backyard. In 1991 Clinton referred to the Arkansas State Police investigation into Mena, and the drug trafficking thereof, as having "linkages to the federal government" and "all kinds of questions as to whether he," meaning Seal, "had any links to the CIA, and if that backed into the Iran-Contra deal."

The War on Drugs is just a war against the inner cities....against the underclass. 

The wealthy line their pockets with all the illegal drug money, drugs that they bring into the country themselves, then they peddle them off to the poor people in the ghettos. In the 1980's the number of Americans in prison doubled, from 500,000 to one million. Most of these convicts are drug offenders. And from '85 to '88 alone, prosecutions for white drug offenders dropped 15% while they rose 88% for blacks, even though it is estimated at this time that 80% of all drug users are white.

Ironically, one of the security companies linked to the CIA, Wackenhut Cooperation, owns and maintains its own private prisons here in the U.S. It is another form of government-sponsored terrorism. Poverty, violence, death... these all stem from drug abuse. Think about Prohibition. The government lifted the ban on alcohol because the social ills of alcohol abuse weren't nearly as bad as the violence that went along with the criminal importation of alcohol. So why not legalize all drugs? Surely there would be more drug addiction, more drug-related death,but there would be far less violence associated with the illegal sale of narcotics. Which is the lesser of two evils?

The CIA has destroyed the inner cities of this country. Destroyed millions of lives, at a profit. I'll give you one guess as the primary bank used in laundering the money from the global drug trade. The BCCI.

And then there's AIG, who owns and maintains over 400 airplanes. Any number of these planes can be used for the transfer of narcotics. And in 1987, the Arkansas Development Financial Agency collaborated with AIG to found Coral Reinsurance. Named after Carlos Lehder's wife the same year Lehder was extradited. The formation of this company has never been filed with the SEC. There's no known paperwork on it at all. And Arkansas was where Seal was flying in his drugs, with Bill Clinton as governor of Arkansas, during the heyday of the BCCI, with Noriega still in power in Panama and with John Gotti heading the New York mafia where more drugs end up than anywhere in the world.

AIG's founder is a well-known CIA operative, C.V. Starr, and one of AIG's current directors is the son of CIA founder Frank Wisner. The chairman and CEO of AIG is a man named Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. He's formerly the head of the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve. Not only that, in 1995 his name was floated by of all people, J. Rockefeller to be head of the CIA.

Instead, Bill Clinton appointed John Deutsch, who had been a director of the SAIC, the technology and bio-defense company that had formerly been advised by Jerome Hauer and Stephen Hatfill. Maurice Greenberg has also chaired the Council on Foreign Relations, the CFR, one of the most powerful organizations in the world.

Founded in 1921 by President Wilson's chief counsel, Colonel Edward House, the CFR operates as the primary advisor to the United States government. The CFR's principal contact in the U.S. is the CIA. And the chairman of the CFR is the CEO of AIG. With its obvious intelligence links, insurance companies are the foremost private intelligence gathering agencies in the world.  Who knows more about you than your insurance company? Your medical records, your bank records, your driving records, your personal history. Your life story. Just think if that company was sharing information with the government. Worse, just think if that company had 100 billion dollars in assets, and could invest that money at will. In 1993 AIG became the principal shareholder of Kroll Associates.

The CIA runs the global drug trade. For what purpose? And what does it have to do with 9/11?

70% of the world's opium is produced in Afghanistan. Think about that for a second. The CIA has run heroin and cocaine for 50 years. They had a military presence in Afghanistan in the 80's, and they created the Mujahedeen. After the fall of the CIA in the 70's, and with the near-disastrous Iran-Contra and Mena exposures the intelligence community, it had to realize that its facilitation of the drug trade, if revealed to the public, could prove fatal to any and all future endeavors. So if you're the CIA you might get a little smarter about it.

With Mena, the CIA had no cover story. No backup plan. Instead the entire operation was nearly outed and the whole global drug trade almost became public knowledge. You have to move the Mena operation. Well where do you move it to? Someplace even more out of the way than Mena. And what's more out of the way than flight school?

Where did Mohammed Atta get his flight training?

Huffman Aviation School in Venice, Florida. There are over 200 flight schools in Florida. Why did the hijackers just happen to choose Huffman? Huffman Flight school is authorized by the INS to offer these very popular vocational student visas to foreigners. These allow people to enter the country legally and without much paperwork. Mohammed Atta had one of these visas. Guess who gave it to him? Rudy Deckers, CEO of Huffman Aviation. And there is overwhelming evidence that Rudy Deckers works for the CIA.

Why would a CIA agent run a flight school?

On July 5th, 2000, the DEA discovered over 30 pounds of heroin on a plane owned by Wally Hilliard, the owner of Huffman Aviation. The same Huffman Aviation which in the 1990's induced hundreds of Arab students to come and train at their school by issuing these highly coveted visas. Is it starting to make sense now?

30 pounds of heroin, Arab men posing as students, a CIA agent as CEO...Aha! the Mena operation didn't stop, it just changed locations, to this flight school and probably dozens of others.

And Mohammed Atta's role in all of this?

He is not training to be a pilot, he is a pilot. He is the new Barry Seal. There is evidence that Mohammed Atta had flight training at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. And if he already has flight training, why is he attending a flight training school? Who says Al Qaeda is a terrorist operation? Al Qaeda was formed in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The phrase translates literally to mean "the Base." They're essentially an arm of the former Mujahedeen, which was created by the CIA. The CIA runs drugs globally. The CIA trains its own armies and pilots. and instills a military presence in every country, all around their crop.

 The Sandinistas, the Colombian death squads... and now, Al Qaeda. If you're pushing 70% of the world's heroin out of one country, and something goes wrong and the operation becomes public, you need a backup plan. Al Qaeda isn't involved in terrorism. They're just framed up as terrorists to hide their true nature. They're a drug cartel, plain and simple.

On that video they show, of Osama firing his machine gun and training all those people... he's not training terrorists, he's training soldiers. Soldiers to guard the heroin trade. When 9/11 happens, and Al Qaeda is pinned for the crime, no one cares at all about the heroin smuggling. Because drug smuggling means nothing to people who have just watched the World Trade Center explode.

How could Al Qaeda smuggle all this heroin out of Afghanistan when the Taliban abolished all poppy farming in 1999?

They did?  Sure, the U.S. claims they did. But if the Taliban did this, how did they make $40 million in taxes on opium farmers in 2000? The Taliban only eradicated their crop on paper. In reality, the heroin trade continued.

But, There were ariel photographs, surveillance, satellite imagery, showing the fields being burned.

Of course, because part of the process of growing any crop is eradicating the fields to then re-grow the plants. And it makes no sense for the Taliban to stop the flow of opium. It's the only thing keeping their economy afloat at all. And the Taliban is installed in Afghanistan specifically for the purpose of keeping the heroin flow coming. Because if you have a cartel like Al Qaeda, functioning as a patsy, being blamed for terrorist attacks all over the world, you would need a government not recognized by the United Nations. And that way, you couldn't extradite any of the terrorists, and the heroin trade goes on without missing a beat.

So, the only reason they do 9/11 is specifically to hide the fact that Al Qaeda is a drug cartel?  No way!

9/11 didn't just  hide the opium trade. It gave the United States a free pass to invade Afghanistan and build the oil pipeline they'd been planning for years. It set up a race war. It set up a religious war. It opened the door for the United States to invade anybody it deemed was "harboring terrorists," internationally or domestically.

And what did W say? "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." And 9/11 instilled in us the basest of all fears. Any time, any day, any place, an airplane, a tall building, the subway, shopping mall, grocery store, local newsstand... chemical, biological, nuclear... it doesn't matter. 9/11 could happen again. And guess what? It will happen again. It's inevitable. This is a lifelong battle.

In this corner, you have the United States, the shining example of freedom, peace, and good will. And in the other corner, you have Al Qaeda. Dirty, bearded, hate-mongering terrorists. The whole thing's a setup. It's a show, it's theater. It distracts all of us from what's really going on. The systematic destruction of national sovereignty all across the world.

What's easier to believe? That Al Qaeda is a vicious terrorist organization bent on annihilating all freedom and peace in the world? Or it's a cartel, whose sole purpose is to ensure the safety of the heroin trade out of the Middle East?

If I were to tell you that a man habitually does cocaine, frequents strip clubs and escort services... Would you believe he were, A: a drug runner, or B: an Islamic fundamentalist?

The man I am referring to is Mohammed Atta. Mohammed Atta was seen doing cocaine several times before 9/11. And what's more, Atta isn't seen doing this all by himself. Often, Rudy Deckers is with him, the guy who runs the flight school. Islamic fundamentalism strictly forbids the ingestion of any unnatural drug, and it firmly teaches that treating women as objects of desire is a sin. So if Mohammed Atta is already committing sins he ain't going to Paradise to see Allah, that's for sure. So why would he then take his own life in a terrorist attack? If you can conclude that Mohammed Atta did not fly one of those planes into the World Trade Center then you must conclude that something else happened on 9/11.

And that begs the question... What really happened on 9/11?

War and drugs are the biggest businesses in the world. They are tools to amass the greatest fear and exercise the mightiest control... control over the mind. They wave the flag of war, posing to wield the ultimate power over places afar, using 9/11 as a fucking bargaining chip.

Support this war or you're going to get attacked again. Bow down to our unconstitutional security measures, or else the guy sitting next to you, he might blow you up. Allow us to attack our enemies before they attack us otherwise all freedom is lost. It's a protection racket. All the government is, is the mob. And their greatest crime is profiting from acts of war. And everybody's in on it.

Defense contractors manufacture weapons for use during war, while supporting and financing political candidates who will go to war. The government that buys weapons from these companies in the event of war. And with war crippling to most economies, nations must then borrow money and go into debt. And all that money goes right up to the top of the food chain... to the banks, which is where it came from in the first place. Only now there's a difference, because the money now has an insane amount of interest attached to it... more than most nations can afford to pay off. And then the cycle repeats itself.

No one ever wonders where the national debt comes from. Who lends countries the billions of dollars it takes to fund a national budget? Is it us? Is it the people? If that's true then the government owes us $7 trillion. It's not us. We didn't give them $7 trillion. There are only 250 billion federal reserve notes in circulation!

So, where does all this money come from?

From banks. From private multinational institutions that conserve immense power behind the scenes. The kind of clout gained from having every person, state, province, and nation in debt to you. By controlling all the money in the world, you can control all the people in the world. And the more war there is, the more money there is. Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, the SAIC, Carlyle Group. The list goes on. Every single one of these companies makes its money off of the misery of others, and to them, it's just 'business as usual'. These companies even arm our enemies before we fight them.  They can even control the people with the threat of war.

And when a tragedy strikes, when the nation is in mourning, when we are at our most vulnerable state, what do they tell us to do?

Shop! They tell us to spend money. Trying to make a quick buck off of grieving people. That's not capitalism. That's not consumerism, it's not even corporatism. You know what it is? It is corporate fundamentalism. All these people know how to do is bring everything to market. The banks, the corporations, the government... the elite. They use poverty to marginalize the rest of the world. The upper one percent... when they tell us there are minorities, blacks, latinos, asians... the only minority that counts is the upper one percent. The rest of us are just slaves. Slaves to the dollar, slaves to the elite, slaves to their dogma. And dogma is so powerful because as soon as you believe it, you become afraid of its opposite.

It's divide and conquer. Divide and conquer.

And they do more than just that. They brainwash us in other ways. Just think back to 9/11. Think back to how confused and helpless we all were. Over and over and over and over, the TV just kept showing the replays. The towers kept falling. A patient suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder will often face a recurring trauma. In this state, scientists have proven, that the human mind is very susceptible to suggestion. These people will believe anything you tell them. We all incurred major trauma on 9/11.

They could have told us that UFO's piloted those planes into the twin towers, and on 9/11, we would have believed them. Because we just needed it to stop. We just needed to point the finger at someone, and say they are responsible, and because we needed to know our government could protect us. It's PTSD on a national scale. All the images, the rhetoric, the patriotic American themes... it has all hijacked our minds.

Senator Johnson said in 1917, 'The first casualty when war comes is the truth.'

And what are we going to do about that? We must do something. And if you don't do something about that right now, all of this will be for naught.

How can you fight a machine that's been running on autopilot for thousands of years. The beast has been alive forever.  So, what do we do?

Revolt?
Vote?
Vote Democrat? Any Democrat? (Remember, this was made when Bush was in office)
Don't Vote at all?
Vote a third party?
Protest? How?
Petition the government?
Write your congressman?
Form an assembly outside the capital?
Rally the troops?
Tell your friends?
Support a conspiracy theory? Any conspiracy theory, so long as it proves your point?
What then? What do people do?
Shout to the Heavens?
March on Washington?
Insurrection? To the death?

Give me liberty or give me death!

Guess what? You might get your wish.



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On July 8, 2004, Kroll was acquired by insurance brokerage giant Marsh McLennan Companies Inc., run by Jeffrey Greenberg, son of AIG CEO and former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. On October 25, 2004 Jeffrey Greenberg resigned as Chairman and CEO of Marsh McLennan Companies, Inc. The board named Michael G. Cherkasky President and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., and Chairman and CEO, Marsh Inc.

Banker and oilman Khalid bin Mahfouz is allegedly under house arrest in Saudi Arabia. His actions regarding the BCCI scandal and its money laundering practices have never been completely unearthed. As of the release of this film, bin Mahfouz claims he has never financed Al Qaeda and refutes former CIA director James Woolsey's contention that he is Osama bin Laden's half brother.

On September 10, 2001, it is reported that Osama bin Laden checked into a hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Rawalpindi is the headquarters of both Pakistani intelligence and the Pakistani military. Presumably, no one has seen bin Laden since.

The 9/11 Commission, chaired by Thomas Kean, released its findings in July of 2004. Although the report indicates that sweeping changes must be made within America's intelligence community, at no point does it mention any relevant connection between the CIA, Al Qaeda, the ISI and Osama bin Laden. To this date, this is the only official public inquiry into the 9/11 attacks.

As of the release of this film, 2,998 people died in the 9/11 attacks. One of those victims is reportedly FBI Agent John O'Neill. However, it should be noted that the body was identified by Kroll employee Jerome Hauer.

The perpetrators of the attacks remain at large.

This film is dedicated to those who seek a just society.

All information in this movie is factual to the filmmaker's knowledge.

"Terrorism is theater"

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Building 7 collapse at 5:20 PM 9/11/2001

The evidence is destroyed.  Fires raging on floors 8,11,12,13 and 18. Those floors were the American Express Bank, SEC, Standard Charter Bank and Citigroup. Not to mention, the building had the Secret Service, IRS, NY branch of the CIA, which was the headquarters for the joint FBI/CIA investigation into Al Qaeda. Moreover, Standard Charter bank was used by Omar Shieak Saeed to wire $100,000 to Atta. Those offices of the SEC were ground zero for preemptive investigation in pre 9/11 insider trading. Therefore, getting rid of Building 7 got rid of lots of incriminating evidence.

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Camp Fema

On April 1, 1979, President Carter signed Executive Order 12127, and created FEMA for the purpose of coordinating the response to disasters that occur in the US, and that overwhelm the resources of states.  FEMA absorbed the Federal Insurance Administration, The National Fire Prevention and Control Admin, National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program. FEMA was also given the responsiblity of overseeing national civil defense.

In 2003, FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security's emergency response and directorate. .

FEMA's implicit objective: to provide aid to victims of disaster, changed under the directive of former President George W. Bush to protect our nation from dangerous people. Wait. Isn't that what our military is for? Our local and state police?

Well, 90% of the populatin of New Orleans was displaced by Hurricane Katrina, but according to Michael Brown, the White House was fairly reluctant to support. After all, it was only a natural disaster...not the forces of "evil".

A government report on the response of FEMA to Hurricane Katrina, was that FEMA was so beyond repair...so dysfunctional, that the agency should be scrapped.  But, unfortunately, it's still with us.

Army Regulation 210-35 Civilian Inmate Labor Program

Since 1986, when this was secretly created, the number of civilian inmate labor camps have doubled from 12 to 24.

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