Month: November 2008

Obama rehires aide who wants to invade Israel (Mumbai/Pak link))

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Ed. note: Rockefeller has heavily subsidized media such as Counterpunch to promote the US government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory and belittle critics. September 11 was the causus belli to launch the military industrial complex’s full spectrum dominance plan. Congress is just showbiz to keep the folks infotained. The mil runs the new Amerika.

The Mumbai-Israel Connection

A sketch of a sketch on the big picture surrounding this issue follows,

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Obama rehires advisor who wants to invade Israel

An activist emailed me his article today to which I responded,

“good piece,[edit]. the terrorists as individuals were only in
> part motivated by poverty. they are being manipulated. they
> are primarily indian and hindu(plus maoists from other
> nations), but more importantly maoist. all maoist
> insurgencies have been financed by rockefeller/rothschild
> since way back with the technical assistance of
> mossad/israel’etc and now US mil intel/ private mercenary
> companies.china is a backroom supporter/weapons and intel
> supplier coordinated by rockefeller pal maurice strong whose
> pal paul desmerais, frequent canadian PM maker,sits on the
> boards of 6+ rothschild banks. china has purchased large
> chunks of rothschild banks in the last year alone. old money
> rockefeller is cordinating with obama’s handler
> [Brzezinski]. together they will force india to step up the

> attack on pakistan. [Brzezbama’s] handlers want imposed
> peace on israel/palestine and securing of israeli nukes as
> part of the package. old money doesn’t want the
> increasingly
> political and religious rightward moving, increasingly
> extremist idf to control nukes any longer. old money wants
> iran brought into the “family” of nations and a
> caspian pipeline through iran plus pulling it out of
> russia’s orbit. brez has always had a hate on for
> russia. (have you seen the wearechange crowd dogging him on
> 9/11? videos on youtube. hilarious seeing brez put on the
> spot among his sycophants. watch for india/pakistan to lob a
> nuke or too. joe blow usa will basically be distracted from
> these shenanigans by US currency
> devaluation/depression,false flag attack.the perfect
> economic storm has yet to hit, even as more more of the US
> economy is nationalised and corporatism sets in further.
> watch for major shnanigans to start on or very near to
> presidential inauguration day, a day and ceremony right out
> of the masonic bible.and of course the major players are
> unseen and mostly unknown and/or ignored. that’s another
> story i intend to cover for
> folks. trying to get a web radio dealy up by end december.
> my techie jammed so i’m stuck having to follow written
> radio manuals which are basically geek/greek to me. print is
> way too slow to respond to what’s coming and soon.
>
> best
>
> marc
>
> crimes and corruptions of the nwo news

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Live & Learn: Maurice Strong

Andrew Wahl From the December 8, 2008 issue of Canadian Business magazine – Cached

The NWO and Maurice Strong

http://news.google.ca/news?um=1&tab=wn&nolr=1&hl=en&q=maurice-strong&btnG=Search+News

Updates

Flashback: India falls in love with Israel

Mumbai Photographer: I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire

Source: http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/9352

Cyrano Musings

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Spontaneous Ideas of Revolt at the Café de Flore

Simone de Beauvoir et Jean-Paul Sartre au Café de Flore

By Gaither Stewart

Therefore the thinking person cannot trust the slogans, the flag and the calls for defense of the American way of life! Don’t trust calls for defense of the democratic republic. Don’t trust them! Don’t trust the liberals! They too are the bourgeoisie, out to get us. They too are the banks and the insurance conglomerates and gigantic cartels of multinationals for globalization and world domination.

Rebellion against this state of affairs and the transformation of rebellion into revolution is our task.

Entire essay: http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=1330#more-1330

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A THANKSGIVING DAY FAST FOR PEACE

By Gary Corseri

11/30/08

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So, this year, it’s NO! to all the stuffing and bloating in this over-bloated land where 60 percent of the population is overweight and 26% is obese. This year it’s NO! to the relentless endless-war agenda of maniac neocons and fundies; it’s NO to the selected and un-elected panjandrums of our government, corporations and media who have run us into the ground these past umpteen years and more. This year the malcontents and dissidents among us yell: Ya, basta! You don’t listen when we march millions-strong, and you don’t listen when we follow your prescriptions to write letters to newspapers and petition our congressmen — those you buy and sell. You lie us into war by “fixing” intelligence to suit your “Plan for a New American Century.” Fixated on profits and the bottom line, you blatantly deceive us about the “freedoms” we enjoy, while Diebolding our votes and robbing the world blind. And then you expect us to give thanks for taking our sons and daughters, wasting their lives, sending them to a foreign land to kill and maim the sons and daughters of people who have done us no harm, but had the bad fortune to suffer under a tyranny we supported for years. And, where is your penitence?

This year, I say, NO THANKS!

Entire essay: http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=1335#more-1335

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The oil industry still has many shills putting forth the lie…

By Steven Jonas

11/29/08

Yes indeed, the U.S. does have an energy policy. It is to make us as oil-dependent as possible, thereby producing the largest possible profits for the oil companies. Those profits are almost entirely dependent on the use of foreign oil, because there is so little left here (unless the state of Colorado is totally destroyed by oil shale mining, as parts of Western Canada are being currently, of course). And so, the President-elect has announced a policy to make the U.S. independent of foreign oil in 10 years (without raping Colorado and blowing the tops off every coal mountain that that gentle industry can find). And you think that the oil industry, and their other extractive-industry relatives, coal and natural gas, are going to take this lying down? Well my friend, you’ve got another think coming. See you down this road.

Entire essay: http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=1332#more-1332

All three essays above from Thomas Paine’s Corner

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The treason of the “clerks” continues

James Petras: More uncompromising than ever before, and a thorn under the saddle for many fellow progressives.

Entire essay: http://www.bestcyrano.org/cyrano/?p=2284#more-2284

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More Theories on Mumbai

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From aangirfan:

Disinformation Agent?

Mumbai Attackers wer ‘Hindus’ and ‘White Men’

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Terrorists planned to kill 5,000 in Mumbai attacks

MUMBAI attacks & the Bollywood Plot


Mumbai attacks: Seven terrorists were British, claims Indian government


Mumbai Attacks Pave Way For Obama Into Pakistan

11/27 Mumbai Terror attacks

As soon as you hear the name Al Qaeda, just insert U.S. in its place. Obama/Brzezinski want to make a foray into Pakistan and start a larger war in the East (Russia/China)

This apparent false flag attack is to get the ball rolling.
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The Israeli Mossad False Flag Operation Strikes in Mumbai

By Excalibur | November 30, 2008

israel_lc.gif Israel Flag image by TorahMomWell of course Jews like Foxman use the Mumbai incident as an opportunity to promote the ‘war on terror.’ Once again, Muslims are made the ‘enemies’ of all mankind, rather than the Zionist Jews, who are engaged in ethnic cleansing of Arab Muslims & Christians in Palestine and responsible for world wide chaos since the inception of their rogue state of Israel. http://www.daily.pk


Chabad House and the Mumbai Operation

Mumbai attack: Was Nariman House the terror hub?

‘Bentzion was slumped over a Talmud’ – jpost

Chabad hero nanny heading to Israel – jpost

Benzion Chroman. Benzion Chroman.

Israeli experts: Slow operation meant ‘no chance’ for hostages at Mumbai Chabad house – Haaretz

Is ‘the most dangerous man in the world’ behind the Mumbai attacks? – Haaretz

Mumbai – Who Killed the Other 7 Captured Terrorists?

Dont’s Mumbai Savageries Mean We Should Take Pakistan’s State Away From Them?

India’s Internal Security Police are now holding and questioning an identified Israeli Mossad agent
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Double Cover

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Double Cover [2]: What Is A Commando Raid?

Winter Patriot

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Coordinated Terror Attacks

Here are some brief snippets from more-or-less randomly selected mainstream news reports pertaining to the Mumbai attacks. I have added the emphasis.

New York Times:

Coordinated terrorist attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, on Wednesday night, killing dozens in machine-gun and grenade assaults on at least two five-star hotels, the city’s largest train station, a Jewish center, a movie theater and a hospital.

The NYT has a map showing where the attacks took place — 13 locations in all.

Who Did This Surprise?

Michael Evans of the [UK] Times:

British security and intelligence sources said there had been increasing concern, particularly in the United States, that a “terrorist spectacular” was on the cards. […] The Americans have been expecting an atrocity partly because of the recent CIA success in eliminating figures in al-Qaeda, using Predator unmanned drones, firing Hellfire missiles at hideouts in the tribal regions of Pakistan. About a dozen al-Qaeda figures have been killed this year.

MSNBC:

Spy agencies around the world were caught off guard by the deadly attack, in which gunmen sprayed crowds with bullets, torched landmark hotels and took dozens of hostages.

“We have been actively monitoring plots in Britain and abroad and there was nothing to indicate something like this was about to happen,” a British security official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his work.

Britain is the former colonial power in India and Pakistan and closely monitors terrorist suspects in those countries.

MSNBC:

“This type of terrorism is spreading, through Pakistan and now India, but we were all surprised by such a large-scale attack like this,” said Wajid Hassan, Pakistan’s High Commissioner in London. “This is no coincidence that this type of attack happened so soon after the bombing of the Marriott Hotel. People from all countries are being paid to fight this al-Qaida war. This is a war that goes beyond any nationality.”

How Many Attackers Were There?

Al Jazeera:

An estimated 100 armed men launched what India police called “terrorist attacks” on 10 locations in India’s financial centre.

CNN:

The identity of the attackers remained a mystery. CNN-IBN quoted police sources as saying they believed there were some 26 gunmen, most of them young.

What Happened?

CNN:

Police say the attackers came by boats to the waterfront near the Gateway of India monument.

Nine suspects have been arrested in connection with the attacks, and seven are fishermen, police said. Police also found a boat loaded with explosives near the Taj Mahal, also located on the waterfront.

The gunmen hijacked cars — including a police van — and split into at least three groups to carry out the attacks, police said.

One group headed toward the Cafe Leopold, a popular hangout for Western tourists, firing indiscriminately at passers-by on the street. They then opened fire and lobbed grenades at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, a Victorian building.

As police rushed to the scene of the attacks, gunmen attacked the Cama Hospital.

Two other groups attacked the Oberoi and Taj Mahal, police said.

IHT:

The gunmen appear to have come ashore at the Sassoon Docks, not far from the Leopold. They moved on to the train station, the old Victoria Terminus, and then opened fire on Cama and Albless Hospital — where some of their earlier victims encountered a second round of gunfire. At one point, the gunmen hijacked a police vehicle and opened fire on journalists and spectators gathered near a famous theater, the Metro Cinema.

Witnesses and security camera video of the gunmen built a portrait of them as young men dressed in jeans and trendy T-shirts, bearing rucksacks and guns. It remained unclear who they were, what they wanted, or how many survived.

Who Were The Targets?

Boston Globe:

Several witnesses said the gunmen demanded to see passports from cornered guests, separating American and British tourists from the others.

MSNBC:

“I guess they were after foreigners, because they were asking for British or American passports,” said Rakesh Patel, a British witness who lives in Hong Kong and was staying at the Taj Mahal hotel on business. “They had bombs.”

New York Times:

Rakesh Patel, a British businessman who escaped the Taj, told a television station that two young men armed with a rifle and a machine gun took 15 hostages, forcing them to the roof.

The gunmen, dressed in jeans and T-shirts, “were saying they wanted anyone with British or American passports,” Mr. Patel said.

Al Jazeera:

Witnesses at the hotels that were targeted said the attackers had singled out British and American citizens.

“They kept shouting: ‘Who has US or UK passports?'” Ashok Patel, a British citizen who fled from the Taj Mahal hotel, said.

Several European legislators, visiting Mumbai ahead of a European Union-India summit, were among those inside the Taj when it was besieged.

AFP:

Guests who escaped recounted how the gunmen had methodically tried to round up US and British citizens.

“They said they wanted anyone with British and American passports,” said one Briton, Rakesh Patel.

New York Times:

Alex Chamberlain, a British citizen who was dining at the Oberoi, told Sky News television that a gunman ushered 30 to 40 people from the restaurant into a stairway and, speaking in Hindi or Urdu, ordered everyone to put up their hands.

“They were talking about British and Americans specifically. There was an Italian guy, who, you know, they said: ‘Where are you from?’ and he said he’s from Italy and they said ‘fine’ and they left him alone. And I thought: ‘Fine, they’re going to shoot me if they ask me anything’ — and thank God they didn’t,” he said.

Telegraph:

Alex Chamberlain, a sports website director, escaped from the hotel through a fire exit. The militants ordered everyone upstairs, told them to put their hands up and asked if there were any British or Americans, he said. “My friend said to me: ‘Don’t be a hero, don’t say you are British’.”

CNN:

Alex Chamberlain, a Briton who works for Indian Premier League cricket, was in the Oberoi hotel when the attackers opened fire. Chamberlain said that a group of about 40 people was “marched up like sheep” to the roof by a “young guy with a submachine gun, who was about 22 or 23.”

The gunmen then asked if any of the hostages were British or American, Chamberlain told SkyNews.com.

“My Indian friend told me, ‘don’t be a hero’ and ‘tell him you’re Italian’ and that kind of stuff,” Chamberlain said.

AFP:

“They told everybody to stop and put their hands up and asked if there were any British or Americans,” Alex Chamberlain, a British guest at the Oberoi/Trident hotel, said after fleeing his captors via a fire escape.

“My friend said to me, ‘don’t be a hero, don’t say you are British.'”

Al Jazeera:

They just fired randomly at people and then ran away.
— Nasim Inam, at Chhatrapati Shivaji railway terminus

MSNBC:

At least three top Indian police officers — including the chief of the anti-terror squad — were among those killed, said A.N. Roy, a top police official.

What Is A Commando Raid?

Somini Sengupta for the New York Times:

Even by the standards of terrorism in India, which has suffered a rising number of attacks this year, the assaults were particularly brazen in scale and execution. […] Unlike previous attacks in India this year, which consisted of anonymously planted bombs, the assailants on Wednesday night were spectacularly well-armed and very confrontational. In some cases, said the state’s highest-ranking police official, A. N. Roy, the attackers opened fire and disappeared.

Boston Globe:

Security officials and analysts agreed that the assaults represented a marked departure in scope and ambition from other recent terrorist attacks in India, which targeted local people rather than foreigners and hit single rather than multiple targets.

The Mumbai assault, by contrast, was “uniquely disturbing,” said Sajjan Gohel, a security specialist in London, because it seemed directed at foreigners, involved hostage-taking, and was aimed at multiple “soft, symbolic targets.” The attacks “aimed to create maximum terror and human carnage and damage the economy,” he said by phone.

How Much Planning Was Involved?

Boston Globe:

Although Mumbai has been the scene of several terrorist attacks in recent years, analysts said Wednesday’s assaults required a previously unseen degree of reconnaissance and planning. The scale and synchronization of the attacks pointed to the probable involvement of experienced commanders, some observers said, suggesting possible foreign involvement.

CNN :

State media Press Trust of India, citing Union Cabinet Minister Kapil Sibal, reported the gunmen had worked for months to prepare, even setting up “control rooms” in the two luxury hotels that were targeted.

The Times:

Indian officials said that it was too early to say which [group] carried out last night’s attacks, but the scale, complexity and targets suggested that it was the work of an Islamist group.

It may indeed have been the work of an Islamist group. But to my eye, the scale, the complexity and the targets — combined with the reporting — suggested that it was something else entirely.

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to be continued …
Source: http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/11/double-cover-2-what-is-commando-raid.html

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Double Cover [1]: Nothing Can Ever Be The Same

Saturday, November 29, 2008

The Mumbai terrorist attacks began Wednesday evening and I’ve been reading about the situation — and thinking hard — ever since. The most noteworthy feature so far is the prevalence of unsubstantiated assertions that make no sense at all. I haven’t been doing a systematic survey of the world’s media — just grabbing stories from wherever they pop up — and every item I’ve stumbled across has been contaminated with spin. Or at least that’s the way it strikes me.

Then again, maybe it’s become impossible for terrorism — and news of terrorism — to strike me any other way. I’ve seen too much, I’ve been lied to too many times, to ever take anything at face value — except the occasional (accidental?) admission of horrors committed by unrepentant (audacious!) perpetrators.

Now that we know the geniuses at the Pentagon have conceived and implemented a worldwide program of fomenting terrorism, nothing can ever be the same.

According to the Department of Defense, it is fighting a war on terror which requires, or allows, it to perpetrate (or con others into perpetrating) acts of “terrorism” which can then be used as pretexts for war against the “terrorist groups” thus “exposed”.

This is not a new tactic. It has been used often and very successfully, by Americans both at home and abroad, and by foreign nationals both ancient and modern.

But now, in post-9/11 America, it is official policy.

Darkness Visible

How do we know this? Chris Floyd wrote about it in 2002 for the Moscow Times:

This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. We know, as does the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, that this statement is an incontrovertible fact, a matter of scientific certainty. And how can we and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, be so sure that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large?

Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense.

This astonishing admission was buried deep in a story which was itself submerged by mounds of gray newsprint and glossy underwear ads in last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. There – in an article by military analyst William Arkin, detailing the vast expansion of the secret armies being massed by the former Nixon bureaucrat now lording it over the Pentagon – came the revelation of Rumsfeld’s plan to create “a super-Intelligence Support Activity” that will “bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception.” According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense Science Board, the new organization – the “Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)” – will carry out secret missions designed to “stimulate reactions” among terrorist groups, provoking them into committing violent acts which would then expose them to “counterattack” by U.S. forces.

In other words – and let’s say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld’s plan – the United States government is planning to use “cover and deception” and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people. Let’s say it again: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the other members of the unelected regime in Washington plan to deliberately foment the murder of innocent people – your family, your friends, your lovers, you – in order to further their geopolitical ambitions.

For P2OG is not designed solely to flush out terrorists and bring them to justice – a laudable goal in itself, although the Rumsfeld way of combating terrorism by causing it is pure moral lunacy. (Or should we use the Regime’s own preferred terminology and just call it “evil”?) No, it seems the Pee-Twos have bigger fish to fry. Once they have sparked terrorists into action – by killing their family members? luring them with loot? fueling them with drugs? plying them with jihad propaganda? messing with their mamas? or with agents provocateurs, perhaps, who infiltrate groups then plan and direct the attacks themselves? – they can then take measures against the “states/sub-state actors accountable” for “harboring” the Rumsfeld-roused gangs. What kind of measures exactly? Well, the classified Pentagon program puts it this way: “Their sovereignty will be at risk.”

The Pee-Twos will thus come in handy whenever the Regime hankers to add a little oil-laden real estate or a new military base to the Empire’s burgeoning portfolio. Just find a nest of violent malcontents, stir ’em with a stick, and presto: instant “justification” for whatever level of intervention/conquest/rapine you might desire. And what if the territory you fancy doesn’t actually harbor any convenient marauders to use for fun and profit? Well, surely a God-like “super-Intelligence Support Activity” is capable of creation ex nihilo, yes?

The Rumsfeld-Bush plan to employ murder and terrorism for political, financial and ideological gain does have historical roots (besides al Qaeda, the Stern Gang, the SA, the SS, the KGB, the IRA, the UDF, Eta, Hamas, Shining Path and countless other upholders of Bushian morality, decency and freedom). We refer of course to Operation Northwoods, oft mentioned in these pages: the plan that America’s top military brass presented to President John Kennedy in 1963, calling for a phony terrorist campaign – complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans – to provide “justification” for an invasion of Cuba, the Mafia/Corporate fiefdom which had recently been lost to Castro.

Kennedy rejected the plan, and was killed a few months later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but on a far grander scale, with resources at his disposal undreamed of by those brass of yore, with no counterbalancing global rival to restrain him – and with an ignorant, corrupt president who has shown himself all too eager to embrace any means whatsoever that will augment the wealth and power of his own narrow, undemocratic, elitist clique.

There is genuine transgression here, a stepping-over – deliberately, with open eyes, with forethought, planning, and conscious will – of lines that should never be crossed. Acting in deadly symbiosis with their supposed enemies, the terrorist mafias, Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of black ops, retribution, blowback, deceit, of murder and terror – wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos: the perversion of all that’s best in us, of all that we’ve won from the bestiality of our primal nature, all that we’ve raised above the mindless ravening urges and impulses still boiling in the mud of our monkey brains.

It’s not a fight for freedom; it’s a retreat into darkness.

And the day will be a long time coming.

Into The Dark

The darkness has been descending quickly. Chris Floyd wrote this column in early 2005:

More than two years ago, we wrote here of a secret Pentagon plan to foment terrorism: sending covert agents to infiltrate terrorist groups and goad them into action – i.e., committing acts of murder and destruction. The purpose was two-fold: first, to bring the terrorist groups into the open, where they could be counterattacked; and second, to justify U.S. military attacks on the countries where the terrorists were operating – attacks which, in the Pentagon’s words, would put those nations’ “sovereignty at risk.” It was a plan that countenanced – indeed, encouraged – the deliberate murder of innocent people and the imposition of U.S. military rule anywhere in the world that American leaders desired.

This plan is now being activated.

In fact, it’s being expanded, as the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh revealed last week. Not only will U.S.-directed agents infiltrate existing terrorist groups and provoke them into action; the Pentagon itself will create its own terrorist groups and “death squads.” After establishing their terrorist “credentials” through various atrocities and crimes, these American-run groups will then be able to ally with – and ultimately undermine – existing terrorist groups.

Top-level officials in the Pentagon, the U.S. intelligence services and the Bush administration confirmed to Hersh that the plan is going forward, under the direction of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – just as we noted here in November 2002. Through a series of secret executive orders, George W. Bush has given Rumsfeld the authority to turn the entire world into “a global free-fire zone,” a top Pentagon adviser says. These secret operations will be carried out with virtually no oversight; in many cases, even the top military commanders in the affected regions will not be told about them. The American people, of course, will never know what’s being done in their name.

The covert units – including the Pentagon-funded terrorist groups and hit squads – will be operating outside all constraints of law and morality. “We’re going to be riding with the bad boys,” one insider told Hersh. Another likened it to the palmy days of the Reagan-Bush years: “Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador? We founded them and we financed them. The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren’t going to tell Congress about it.” Indeed, we reported here last summer that Bush has already budgeted $500 million to fund local paramilitaries and guerrilla groups in the most volatile areas of the world, a measure guaranteed to produce needless bloodshed, destruction and suffering for innocent people already ravaged by conflict.

Incredibly, as Hersh notes, the Bushists are now openly citing a sinister role model for their campaign: Britain’s brutal repression of the Mau Mau in Kenya during the 1950s, when British forces set up concentration camps, created their own terrorist groups and killed thousands of innocent civilians in putting down an “insurgency” against their colonial rule. And in fact, Rumsfeld and other Bush officials increasingly talk of combating not just terrorism but a “global insurgency” – as if the whole world is now an American colony, filled with recalcitrant “natives” rising up against their rightful masters.

The activation of the Pentagon terrorist operation is part of Bush’s second-term expansion of the “war on terror.” Despite some obfuscating rhetoric about “diplomacy,” the Bush regime is pressing ahead with a hard-line strategy aimed at opening new military fronts in the “global free-fire zone.” Any dissenting voices within the government are being ruthlessly purged. The Pentagon’s secret forces are set for operations in at least 10 countries, and Bush insiders “repeatedly” told Hersh that “Iran is the next strategic target.”

Iran has long been a focus of the small clique of “global dominationists” – led by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney and their acolytes – who engineered the invasion of Iraq. This group is determined to “whack Iran,” as one insider put it, and they’re not at all discouraged by the debacle in Iraq; indeed, to them it’s a rousing success. Their first objective – openly stated years ago, before Bush took office – was the overthrow of Saddam’s regime and the planting of a U.S. “military footprint” in Iraq. This has now been done. The fact that it has plunged the Iraqi people into a hell of violence, chaos, terror and extremism is of no real concern to the clique. Their lofty rhetoric about “freedom” and “liberation” is meaningless sham, shuck and jive for the rubes. By the admission of the clique’s own publications, they seek strategic control over the world’s energy resources in order to preserve and expand American geopolitical and economic hegemony in the new century. Everything else – including the security of the American people, put at increasing risk by the clique’s reckless policies – is of secondary importance.

U.S. forces are already conducting military reconnaissance inside Iran in preparation for strikes on alleged nuclear weapons facilities, Hersh reports. The Pentagon is feverishly updating war plans for a “maximum ground and air invasion of Iran,” incorporating the new staging areas now available in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, while employing an Iranian terrorist group, MEK, to launch covert ops and terrorist acts against Tehran. MEK was once given sanctuary by Saddam Hussein, who used the group as a brutal enforcer against Kurd and Shiite insurgents. Now Bush, “riding with the bad boys,” has embraced the MEK murderers as his own.

In their ignorance and arrogance, the Bushists will almost certainly strike at Iran – despite the fact that even Iranian dissidents support the effort to make their nation a nuclear power and would join the mullahs in retaliation. The result will be a conflict far surpassing the horror and magnitude of the Iraq disaster.

In our original report on the Pentagon’s terror scheme, we wrote: “Bush and his cohorts are plunging the world into an abyss, an endless night of murder and terror – wholesale, retail, state-sponsored, privatized; of fear and degradation, servility, chaos, and the perversion of all that’s best in us.” Now the night has come. Now the United States stands openly – even proudly – for terrorism, torture and the Hitlerian principle of aggressive war. America has fallen into the pit – and the hopes of the world go with it.

And It Makes Me Wonder …

This deliberate crossing of the line — or diving into the pit, as you prefer — has demolished any shred of “plausible deniability” the CIA and its clandestine operations may once have enjoyed.

And now, whenever we see terrorist acts — especially attacks such as these: spectacular multi-pronged assaults that seem to come from nowhere, which are claimed by groups nobody has ever heard of — we always have to wonder. And for every detail that doesn’t make sense, a dozen suspicions arise.

Source: http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/11/double-cover-1-nothing-can-ever-be-same.html

Mumbai Massacre: Is ‘India’s 9/11’ another false flag event?

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While the American TV News is calling the terrorism in Mumbia as “India’s 9/11” and blaming radical Islamic terrorists as the culprits, some foreign news is beginning to trickle in with a different story: that perhaps the real culprits behind the terrorism where in fact Hindu and white extremists pretending to be Muslims, a classic false flag tactic.

In an article dated November 23, 2008, just a few days before the recent events in Mumbai, India police exposed how Hindu terrorists with close ties to the leading opposition party carried off a series of deadly bombings with the intent of blaming them on Muslims. From the Belfast Telegraph:

“India is in something of a state of shock after learning from official sources that its first Hindu terror cell may have carried out a series of deadly bombings that were initially blamed on militant Muslims. The revelation is forcing the country to consider some difficult questions.

At least 10 people have been arrested in connection with several bomb blasts in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in the western state of Maharashtra in September, which left six people dead. But reports suggest that police believe the cell may also have carried out a number of previous attacks, including last year’s notorious bombing of a cross-border train en route to Pakistan, which killed 68 people. Among the alleged members of the cell are a serving army officer and a Hindu monk.”

India uncovers Hindu terror group that carried out bombings blamed on Islamists

And here is a more thorough examination of the incident:

Indian Police discover RSS Hindu Terror Cell which was pretending to be Muslim‏s

With these recent revelations of Hindu violence being blamed on Muslims can we be so sure that India’s 9/11 was really the work of Muslims as the western media portrays? Here are just a few of the discrepancies with the Mumbai story that need to be highlighted.

A cameraman caught up in the melee in Mumbai caught this picture of a young terrorist wearing a nada chhadi bracelet on his wrist. These threads, consider auspicious, are given by Hindu priests as a symbol of protection in religious ceremonies, and would seem to be highly improbably attire for a hard core fanatical Muslim.

Also, there are reports the a number of the gunmen were white:

“”They did not look Indian, they looked foreign. One of them, I thought, had blonde hair. The other had a punkish hairstyle. They were neatly dressed.”– BBC

And, from the Guardian:

“One police officer who encountered the gunmen as they entered the Jewish centre told the Guardian the attackers were “white”, although this could mean they were paler-skinned Indians from the country’s north.

“I went into the building late last night,” he said. “I got a shock because they were white. I was expecting them to look like us. They fired three shots. I fired 10 back.” — Guardian

Another interesting angle that the U.S. media has been pushing is that the terrorists were after foreigners; however, If that were the case, why not attack the hotels with a preponderance of American, British and Israeli foreigners, hotels like the Hilton, Four Seasons and the Sheraton which are in Mumbai, instead of the India-owned ones like the Taj and the Oberoi. No wonder the incidence of foreign causalities were so small for the number of people killed that day.

It looks very much like a false flag event indeed. But, for what purpose? Cui Bono? Could it be because the Hindu Nationalist Party BJP has been using terrorism, especially Muslim-inspired terrorism, as part of the campaign strategy.

According to a Newsweek:

“The recent violence is a boon to the right-wing Hindu dominated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Even before the latest violence, a series of blasts across the country claiming at least 200 lives this year had already helped the BJP, which has flagged terrorism as an issue in the campaign. Even as the security forces battled the terrorists holed in Mumbai, the BJP had begun to use the opportunity to point to a weak government “soft” on terrorism. Frontpage newspaper adverts in Delhi on Friday, the day before the city goes to the polls, said the incident shows that the ruling Congress-led government is “unwilling and incapable” of dealing with terrorism. BJP leaders on the stump seized the opportunity. “There’s an immediate reaction from people on the Mumbai siege, and the feedback has been very positive for the party,” said a senior BJP member in Delhi to the Times of India. “Our challenge will be to convert this outrage into votes for the BJP.”
–Right Tilt
The Mumbai attacks have given India’s Hindu right-wing opposition a boost ahead of upcoming elections.

Terrorism has been “Very positive for the party,” say the BJP party member. And it will be “very positive” too for the U.S. and Israel who have been supporting the right-wing Hindu party both militarily and financially over the years.

In the article India and Israel: an unholy alliance” by Faisal Kutty, a columnist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affair, he explains the close relationship between Israel and the Hindu-firsters.

“More recently, the two countries have moved quickly to develop cooperation in the economic, political, and military and intelligence areas. The burst of activity in these fields over the last few years is phenomenal.

Since 1992, the trade between the two countries has grown from $200 million to $1 billion and there are more than 150 joint ventures.

Israel´s two national air carriers, Zim and El- Al, are active throughout India. Zim has fifteen offices and El-Al operates three flights a week from Mumbai. Much of the economic activity evolved from a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in 1992 covering cooperation in trade, agriculture, solar energy, natural resources, tourism, and most importantly, research and development (read defense industry). During Singh´s recent visit, an Indo-Israeli Joint Commission was set up to advance cooperation in the economic, scientific, energy and cultural spheres.

In terms of military, a number of commentators expect that Israel will become the largest source of military hardware in the next few years. In addition to the millions of dollars in advanced equipment which India expects to purchase from Israel, India is also hoping to benefit from technical know-how from the Israeli defense industry, considered to be among the world´s best.”

Beside the boon in selling military hardware and surveillance equipment to India, Israel and the United States will also firmly hold a powerful influence in India politics should the BJP win in the upcoming election. And, by blaming Pakistan and Islamic terrorism for the recent events it will but pressure on India and its military to be used as another proxy army to fight the Israel’s enemies in the area.

“By way of deception we shall do war” is the Mossad’s operational motto, and I hope indians learn that their close connections to Israel can be their undoing. Unfortunately, we have learned that lesson all too well here in the United States.

India’s 9/11 indeed.

So you support Israel

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THE ORIGIN OF THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL CONFLICT (Part II)

Jews For Justice in the Middle East / If Americans Knew

Zionism and the Holocaust

The U.N. decisions to partition Palestine and then to grant admission to the state of Israel were made, on one level, as an emotional response to the horrors of the Holocaust, Under more normal circumstances, the compelling claims to sovereignty of the Arab majority would have prevailed. This reaction of guilt on the part of the Western allies was understandable, but that doesn’t mean the Palestinians should have to pay for crimes committed by others—a classic example of two wrongs not making a right.

The Holocaust is often used as the final argument in favor of Zionism, but is this connection justified? There are several aspects to consider in answering that question honestly. First, we will examine the historical record of what the Zionist movement actually did to help save European Jewry from the Nazis.

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Remember what Israel did to the USS Liberty

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Link to video from: USS Liberty

Pentagon Brainwashes Children To Be Soldiers

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Pentagon Brainwashes Children To Be Soldiers (November 29, 2008) In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says.

The Pentagon “heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of students they contact,” the ACLU states in a 46-page report titled “Soldiers of Misfortune.”

This is in violation of the U.S. Senate’s 2002 ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Pentagon recruiters are enrolling children as young as 14 in the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps(JROTC) in 3,000 middle-, junior-, and high schools nationwide, causing about 45 percent of the quarter of million students so enrolled to enlist, a rate much higher than in the general student population. Clearly, this is the outcome of underage exposure.

In some cities, such as Los Angeles, high school administrators have been enrolling reluctant students involuntarily in JROTC as an alternative to overcrowded gym classes!

In Lincoln high school, enrollees were not told JROTC was involuntary.

In Buffalo, N.Y., the entire incoming freshman class at Hutchinson Central Technical High School, (average age 14), was involuntarily enrolled in JROTC. In Chicago, graduating eighth graders (average age 13) are allowed to join any of 45 JROTC programs.

“Wartime enlistment quotas (for Iraq and Afghanistan) have placed increased pressure on military recruiters to fill the ranks of the armed services,” an ACLU report says.

Trying to fill its quotas without reinstituting a draft “has contributed to a rise in… allegations of misconduct and abuse by recruiters” that “often goes unchecked.”

The Pentagon also spends about $6 million a year to flog an online video game called “America’s Army” to attract children as young as 13, “train them to use weapons, and engage in virtual combat and other military missions…learn how to fire realistic Army weapons such as automatic rifles and grenade launchers and learn how to jump from airplanes,” the ACLU reports.

As of Sept., 2006, 7.5 million users were registered on the game’s website, which is linked to the Army’s main recruiting website.

And when Pentagon recruiters sign 17-year-olds into the inactive reserves under the Future Soldiers Training Program, (the idea being to let them earn their high school diploma), they frequently don’t tell the children they can withdraw with no penalty.

“Over the years, we have had reports from students who were told that if they change their minds, they would be considered deserters in war time and could be hunted down and shot,” the New York City-based Youth Activists-Youth Allies said.

One young woman was told if she backed out of her enlistment her family would be deported. And Bill Galvin, of the Center on Conscience and War, said one young man who changed his mind about enlisting and was told by his recruiter: “If you don’t report, that’s treason and you will be shot.”

Singled out by the Pentagon for intense recruitment drives are urban centers such as Los Angeles and New York. The latter, in which low-income students account for 51% of all high school enrollment and where 71% are black or Latino, contains three of the nation’s top 32 counties for Army enlistment. In Los Angeles, 91% of the students are non-white and 75% are low-income.

And the Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools says the 30 JROTC programs in Los Angeles Unified School District (with 4,754 students) are “Located in the most economically depressed communities of the city.”

African-Americans make up 16% of the civilian population of military age but 22% of the Army’s enlisted personnel, the ACLU notes. It charges bluntly: “The U.S. military’s practice of targeting low-income youth and students of color in combination with exaggerated promises of financial rewards for enlistment, undermines the voluntariness of their enlistment…”

JROTC also runs a Middle School Cadet Corp for children as young as 11, that militarizes them even before they graduate elementary school. “Florida, Texas, and Chicago, offer military-run after-school programs to sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders…(that) involve drills with wooden rifles and military chants…and military history.” Children wear uniforms to school once a week for inspection.

While the U.S. claims “no one under age 17 is eligible for recruitment,” the Pentagon’s Joint Advertising Market Research & Studies database(JAMRS) scoops up data on eleventh graders, typically just 16. JAMRS has data on 30 million Americans between age 16 and 25 for recruitment purposes.

The ACLU says this data includes “e-mail addresses, grade point averages, college intentions, height and weight information, schools attended, courses of study, military interests, and racial and ethnic data” as well as Social Security numbers.

In the face of grim casualty reports from the Middle East, Pentagon recruiters appear increasingly desperate to make their quotas. About one in five, the New York Times reported in 2004, was found to have engaged in “recruiting improprieties” ranging from “threats and coercion to making false promises to young people that they would not be sent to Iraq.”

Given the Bush regime’s plunge into criminal wars of aggression that defy international law and the Geneva conventions, there is no reason why military recruitment of any kind should be allowed on any college campus, much less in the secondary schools.

If the United States truly wished to spread democracy, (rather than seize oil fields), it would be assigning vast numbers of Peace Corps recruiters to college campuses, and the budgets of the Peace Corps and the Defense Department would be reversed.

As Eugene Debs, the presidential candidate on the Socialist ticket that went to prison for speaking against World War One, (he polled 913,000 votes in 1920) once said: “I would no more teach children military training than I would teach them arson, robbery or assassination.”

The fact that the Pentagon is having such a daunting time these days filling its ranks as it wages an illegal war speaks very well for the intelligence of the American people.

That’s no excuse, though, for the Defense Department to illegally recruit impressionable children.

*** Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based public relations consultant and columnist who previously worked for the Chicago Daily News, as a radio commentator, and as a columnist for wire services. Reach him at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com

From: http://conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=5589

Original Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11210

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Rahm Emanuel chats about his civilian draft scheme

The selection of Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman and Democratic apparatchik, as President-Elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, has raised a few eyebrows — at least partially because of Emanuel’s advocacy of a civilian draft. That plan for “universal civilian service” would press Americans aged 18 to 25 into government service for a minimum of three months (though Emanuel is flexible about the actual parameters of service). Civil defense training features prominently in the agenda for those three months, although the assembled ranks would presumably be available for whatever purpose the government of the moment favored.

As for resisters … Emanuel never does specify what the penalty should be for those who refuse to be shanghaied.

In 2006, after the publication of his book, The Plan, Rahm Emanuel sat down for an interview with Ben Smith of the New York Daily News. In particular, Smith pressed Emanuel on the details of his compulsory civilian service proposal. Part of that interview is available below.

A longer version of this interview is available at Eyeblast.tv.

Source: http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/11/rahm-emanuel-chats-about-his-civilian.html

Now I’ve Seen Everything

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Of course there’s nothing all that unusual about a spy going to work for a Washington thinktank. Ex-CIA employees do it all the time: so do all sorts of other spooks, who would otherwise be haunting the world’s darkest corners. No big deal. But what I’ve never seen, and don’t recall ever hearing about, is the spectacle of a spy for a foreign country being hired by any organization that hopes to influence U.S. foreign policy. Well, here’s one for the record books: the Middle East Forum has hired Steve Rosen, once the head of policy development for the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosen is accused of stealing highly classified information from the U.S. government and passing it on to Israeli government officials.

Rosen was the sparkplug of AIPAC, known for implementing – with notable success – the powerful lobbying group’s efforts to influence the executive branch. The very effective modus operandi of this behind-the-scenes wheeler dealer was summed up by his reported comment that:

“A lobby is like a night flower. It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun.”

Slinking about in the shadows, Rosen and his sidekick Keith Weissman – an Iran expert – cultivated one Larry Franklin, the Pentagon policy department’s top Iran analyst, and pried top secret intelligence from him, including information on al Qaeda, the Khobar Towers terrorist attack, and Iranian armaments. Before the FBI descended on him, Franklin had been passing information to the AIPAC espionage team for over a year, planning to advance his career using the influential lobby as his sponsor: he hoped for a spot on Bush’s National Security Council. In return, he gave his handlers access to some of America’s most closely guarded secrets. When FBI agents finally paid him a visit, he led them to a treasure trove of stolen top secret dossiers kept in his Alexandria,0 Virginia home – a veritable library of classified information, 83 documents in all, spanning three decades.

The arrest was prefigured by two FBI raids on AIPAC headquarters in Washington: federal law enforcement descended on the building early in the morning, without warning, surrounded the place and carted away loads of evidence. Four AIPAC officials were handed subpoenas.

Franklin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison and a $10,000 fine, agreeing to testify for the prosecution. Rosen and Weissman pleaded innocent, and their top-flight lawyers have kept pretrial maneuvering ongoing for four years this past August. Their very effective method: greymail. Apparently, the purloined information is so sensitive that it cannot be revealed without compromising America’s national security interests in a major way: the defense has delayed the trial by insisting that all this information be discussed in open court, or else the defendants will not be able to get a fair hearing.

What is amazing about this case isn’t just the long delay in the legal proceedings, but the brazenness of the accused: they openly proclaim their guilt – that is, they admit to the actions detailed in the indictment – while maintaining that they did absolutely nothing wrong. Spying? Who – us? Why, we were just exercising our “First Amendment rights” like any journalist out to get a scoop.

With one big difference, though: legitimate journalists don’t report their findings – classified sensitive purloined information – to the intelligence agencies of foreign nations.

The contempt the defendants and their lawyers have for the very concept of American national security permeates this case like a bad smell, and is enough to make any patriot – heck, any ordinary American – sick to his or her stomach. To give some further indication of the unsavory flavor of this case, I’ll only note the latest wrinkle: in a recent court session, defense lawyers argued that the information their clients are accused of stealing was already known to the Israelis. This has been another of what I call the “chutzpah defense” mounted by Rosen and Weissman’s legal team: the Israelis don’t need to steal our secrets, they aver, because they already know everything worth knowing anyway. As Josh Gerstein, a former writer for the now-permanently-set New York Sun, puts it on his blog:

“Both sides in the case seemed to agree that if information came from Israel, even if it passed through U.S. Government hands, it could not be a basis for the charges against Rosen and Weissman. That seemed puzzling, since the mere fact that information came from a foreign government is usually a good enough reason to get it classified.”

The government has gone easy on the AIPAC defendants, and their former employers. An apparent attempt was made by some in the Justice Department to indict not only Rosen and Weissman, but AIPAC itself. This was quashed by the chief prosecutor, Paul J. McNulty – who has since gone on to graze in greener pastures – and the case was limited from the outset: only Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman were charged.

As Grant F. Smith shows in his recent book, AIPAC’s organizational forerunner as Israel’s Capitol Hill amen corner – the AZC, American Zionist Council – was financed almost entirely by overseas sources, i.e. Israel, and yet was not required to register as an agent of a foreign government. Particularly fascinating is his original research into the findings of Senator J. William Fulbright, remembered today as an acerbic critic of the Vietnam war, who investigated and uncovered financial conduits running from Israeli government agencies to AIPAC in its AZC incarnation.

Everybody knows AIPAC is indeed an agent of a foreign government, i.e. the Israelis. What most don’t know, however, is that, unlike all others, it is exempt from complying with the Foreign Agents Registration Act. This immunity – the legal genesis of which Grant traces in his fascinating account – created an opening for the Israeli government and its various overseas agencies to act with impunity within our borders. This includes not just advocacy, but also providing the organizational mask behind which intelligence-burglars like Rosen, Weissman, and god-knows-who-else are hiding.

AIPAC quickly threw Rosen and Weissman overboard, the apparent price for avoiding a wider prosecution, and Rosen’s quest to reemerge found limited sympathy on his old stomping grounds, the Washington policy wonk circuit. The Forward reports:

“Rosen has been looking for his way back to the foreign policy scene for a long while, but he found that in most cases, doors of think tanks and advisory groups were closed. “They’d pat me on my back and say it is not fair, but there are only a few that agree to stand up,” Rosen said, praising the Middle East Forum for ‘having the courage’ to reach out to him.”

While the presumption of innocence is obligatory in a narrow legal sense, one has only to read the indictment to see that Rosen and Weissman not only stole classified information, but knew perfectly well they were breaking the law, and went to great pains to avoid detection. At one point, the indictment has the defendants shifting meeting locations three times, going from restaurant to restaurant in the clear knowledge that they were likely being followed. Document exchanges were avoided: Franklin briefed his handlers verbally. Recordings of these conversations are the core of the government’s case, and their substance is highly sensitive. Wrangling over what to play in open court has delayed the trial for four years. In playing for time, the defense is hoping that the incoming administration will rein in the Justice Department and quash the case, and there is good reason to suspect that this is true.

In any case, what kind of a public policy organization would hire Rosen, in hopes of influencing U.S. foreign policy? The Middle East Forum is a hate-the-Muslims “educational” organization, run by Daniel Pipes. Pipes and his pals have followed the time-honored traditions of smear artists everywhere in maintaining an academic blacklist, “Campus Watch,” which keeps tabs on college professors deemed insufficiently friendly to Israeli government policies. Pipes believes a “substantial” number of American Muslims are plotting to overthrow the government and establish an Islamist theocracy in America, and that this represents a real threat: it’s all downhill from there. In one of his recent screeds, Pipes attacks Barack Obama for his supposed “links” to … Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin. Yikes.

M. J. Rosenberg, blogging at Talking Points Memo, asks: “Are these people crazy?” and concludes they’re “crazy/irrelevant rather than crazy/dangerous,” and yet Rosen wielded enormous influence in Washington, at one point. Jeffrey Goldberg, over at the New Yorker, relates a conversation with Rosen:

“He pushed a napkin across the table. ‘You see this napkin?’ he said. ‘In twenty-four hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.'”

Rosen may have personally fallen on hard times, having to take up with a loony like Pipes, but one has to remember that the organizational framework that spawned his treason is not only alive and well – but it could still deliver those 70 senatorial signatures on a napkin with the greatest of ease.

Crazy, yes – and dangerous, too.

~ Justin Raimondo
Source: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13819