NASA Moon Landing Scam: New Proof?


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In a thinly veiled message to the US, Pakistan officials have threatened to withdraw troops fighting Islamists along Afghanistan if India builds up forces along the border it shares with Pakistan. Furious Indian officials have linked the deadly Mumbai terror operation to Pakistan. "If something happens on that front, the war on terror won't be our priority," a Pakistani senior security said ominously. "We'll take out everything from the western border."
His threat was clearly aimed at pressuring the US to temper India's response to the attacks, reports the Times of London. The US is faced with a dilemma of appeasing both nations, while India's vulnerable coalition government is under pressure to respond swiftly to the terror attacks in the run-up to the national elections in spring.
India's NDTV is now reporting new details, based on Indian intelligence sources, of the Mumbai attack, including the total number of attackers, their origins, etc. We'll have video shortly. Key details seemed to be that there were 40 attackers, half were there in place and in advance and half were brought in on speed boats from the sea. 29 were Pakistani, 11 were Bangladeshi.Important caveat there at the end, though really, any reports from intelligence agencies should be treated with caution.
I should emphasize here that while reports sourced to off-the-record statements from intelligence agencies should always be treated with caution, that is particularly the case here. The Indians come at these terrorist incidents with strong (and not at all unfounded) assumptions about Pakistani involvement. That may very well be the case. But we should wait for firmer evidence before taking these reports as the final word.
NEW DELHI — Coordinated terror attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, Wednesday night, killing dozens in machine-gun and grenade assaults on at least two five-star hotels, the city’s largest train station, a movie theater and a hospital.I have always been amazed this kind of thing hasn't happened in this US, given how prevalent guns are. If we had had a real terrorist threat, it might have happened. The closest was that sniper that terrorized Washington DC in late 2002-- right about when Congress was debating about invading Iraq. I think there's little doubt that the sniper attacks were "an inside job", though I've seen very little analysis of that story from that angle.
Mumbai police said the attacks killed at least 75 people and wounded 240, according to preliminary reports. There were also reports that hostages had been taken at at least one of the hotels, with Americans and British nationals being singled out.
(AP) Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday ordered his top department leaders to conduct a broad review to determine whether the military, National Guard and Reserve can adequately deal with domestic disasters and whether they have the training and equipment to defend the homeland.Sound like this is more about preparing for martial law.
by The Anonymous Physicist
Recently the outrageous comments from best-selling historian (“A People's History of the United States”) Howard Zinn, PhD have woken more people up as to the insidious nature of Zinn, and other alleged “anti-war” gatekeepers. Zinn (a former Rhodes Scholar) said that 9/11 “didn’t matter,” and that 9/11 truthers are “fanatics,” and other outrageous things. It is necessary to expose the little-known, deeper relationships, and reasons, involved in the gatekeeping of bogus, “leftist,” supposed “anti-war” personalities including Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Gore Vidal, and Seymour Hersh. I will list the likely Op-Plan of each of these five individuals at the end of this article.
Zinn joins another celebrated, alleged “liberal,” “anti-war” public figure in disparaging the efforts, and people, involved in uncovering the facts of 9/11/01-- linguist Noam Chomsky, PhD. Both of these supposed critics of American Gov’t policies have also said similar things regarding the Assassination of President Kennedy. Either “Oswald alone did it” (Chomsky) or it doesn’t matter (Chomsky, Zinn). Of course, even the House Assassination Committee of the late 1970’s said there was a conspiracy, but Chomsky ignores that. I will now add another “celebrated anti-war activist” into this mix--Daniel Ellsberg, PhD--and reveal one link amongst them. Ellsberg is famous for releasing the so-called Pentagon Papers, which purported to reveal the early history of the Vietnam “Conflict.” Ellsberg allegedly purloined/copied this “hidden history” from the Rand Corporation where he worked, and got it printed in the New York Times. Ellsberg was tried and acquitted for his actions. Many revere him for his “anti-war” efforts, as they do Zinn and Chomsky. Ellsberg claimed to have evaded the intelligence agencies’ desperate attempts to find him, by hiding out with, or being assisted by, his friend Zinn.Now The Pentagon Papers are a clever mix of truth and lies. While it revealed that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was faked, it had ulterior motives. One was to pin the blame for the War on Vietnam on President Kennedy who, of course, was assassinated and could not defend himself. It became, in effect, a second assassination of Kennedy. He was killed in part for starting to withdraw the first 1,000 troops/advisors, and for revealing that by 1965, all U.S. troops would be out of Vietnam. And the Pentagon Papers are cleverly crafted to give the opposite impression. Again former Army Major John Newman’s book, “JFK and Vietnam” is definitive here. But, IMO, Wiki blows the long-term Op-Plan of these three, bogus “anti-war” activists, Zinn, Chomsky and Ellsberg, as here: “Daniel Ellsberg, a former RAND consultant who had secretly copied The Pentagon Papers, which described internal planning and policy decisions of the United States in the Vietnam War, gave a copy of them to Howard and Roslyn Zinn. Along with Noam Chomsky, Zinn edited and annotated the copy of The Pentagon Papers that Ellsberg entrusted to him. Zinn's longtime publisher, Beacon Press, published what has come to be known as the Senator Mike Gravel edition of The Pentagon Papers, four volumes plus a fifth volume with analysis by Chomsky and Zinn….” (See here) These three, I assert, have had a life-long Op of cleverly denigrating President Kennedy, and subsequently downplaying the regime’s assassination of him. The Pentagon Papers’ lies about Kennedy’s actions, and plans for Vietnam were an early part of Zinn’s, Chomsky’s and Ellsberg’s anti-JFK Op. So it is NOT a coincidence that these individuals continue to proclaim the Regime ’s 1963 stance on the Kennedy Assassination. And that the truth of JFK and 9/11 “doesn’t matter. Move on.”
But reading Ellsberg’s book, “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers” only proved to me how blatant are the intel lies of Ellberg. It’s funny how he claims to have given the slip to all the intel agencies while communicating with (phoning) Zinn, or hiding out with him. Knowing some of the technologies that the NSA, CIA, and FBI had only proves 1. He’s lying about this, and 2. That they knew everything, and that therefore he must be intel, along with Zinn. Ellsberg also brags about his far above, top-secret classification, greater than the President, while he was at the Pentagon and Rand. In the 1950’s, Ellsberg was a Marine Commander in Vietnam. Those who know the real history of the War on Vietnam know that almost all the first 15,000 “advisors” in Nam until after the JFK Assassination were CIA. Ellsberg, in 1962, received a Harvard PhD in Economics. Ellsberg began work at the Pentagon, in 1964, under Robert McNamara, the Defense Secretary. Then he returned to Vietnam, allegedly with the State Dept., but working under who he describes as his great friend-- Edward Lansdale. That despicable creature is well known as a CIA perp, exposed by Col. Fletcher Prouty for being in charge of the three tramps in Dallas, and who likely played a supervisory, Military Intel/CIA role in the Assassination.
Does any non-intel shill believe that it was a coincidence that Ellsberg’s very first day at the Pentagon was the day of the planned, bogus, intel Op that became known as the Gulf of Tonkin “attack.” Also note that the Gov’t’s highest civil service grade is GS-18, which is said to be the equivalent of a Major General in the Military. Ellsberg attained this level at the young age of 33 (naturally.) We have seen, even here at this blog, that when nefarious intel agents are involved in a treasonous crime, they are ordered to maintain their involvement for the rest of their lives. Their cover is often of a “liberal” or a “researcher,” or a “re-investigator.”
That Ellsberg book also has a quote from Richard Nixon, who was incredulous at his impending impeachment. Paraphrasing here, Nixon asked why they were going after him-- “I didn’t do anything as bad as Franklin Roosevelt, who knew the whole Pearl Harbor thing ahead of time.” But these three “musketeers'” role in creating the Pentagon Papers’ fiction of blaming the War on Vietnam on JFK, was an Op also shared with notorious CIA Assassin Eduardo Howard Hunt. One of his Plumbers’ jobs was to lie and and defame Kennedy as ordering the Assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem, and of planning to widen the Vietnam War.
Another celebrated, alleged anti-war author is Gore Vidal. He was an in-law of Jackie Kennedy. He takes every opportunity to denigrate JFK with the most corrupt, superficial lies on Cold War events. Again a book like, Newman’s “JFK and Vietnam” makes terribly clear how behind the scenes, Kennedy was desperately acting in secret for peace; while lying to his advisors, and sometimes to the public, about his plans. Gore forever ignores JFK’s firing the top three CIA perps after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and Kennedy’s NSAM’s [National Security Action Memoranda] that emasculated the CIA and started the Vietnam withdrawal.
Similarly is celebrated anti-war journalist, Seymour Hersh. His first claim to fame was his being first to publicly report on the My Lai Massacre. http://covertoperations.blogspot.com/2008/07/defeating-britishamerican-gestapo.html He was not “in-country”, contrary to misconception. One wonders if Hersh’s massacre numbers are downsized, as Hugh Thompson himself believed. Hersh is now known for also revealing details on the torture and rape of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq. Again one wonders what, if anything, is still being held back by Hersh and the Gov’t? Perhaps a similar mass-murdering Phoenix-like Program? But Hersh’s Long-term Op is revealed with his JFK hit piece/book, “The Dark Side of Camelot,”[not read by me]. Some reviews of this book included, “In a Los Angeles Times review, Edward Jay Epstein cast doubt on these and other assertions, writing, "this book turns out to be, alas, more about the deficiencies of investigative journalism than about the deficiencies of John F. Kennedy." Responding to the book, historian and former Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called Hersh "the most gullible investigative reporter I've ever encountered." Hersh, of course, says Oswald alone did it, and JFK was responsible for the Bay of Pigs, and the Vietnam War. On the Bay of Pigs matter, a 2000 Washington Post article revealed that the CIA knew that the USSR knew the date and plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion; and did not call it off, or tell President Kennedy.
But such facts and findings rarely, if ever, cause the five “gentlemen” in this article to change their public denigration of Kennedy, or that “Oswald alone did it,” or that “it doesn’t matter.” So it is no surprise to honest conspiracy experts to see any or all of these five undercover gentlemen proclaim that 9/11 happened the way the Regime says it did -- even if physically impossible, and refuted by the evidence of nukes and China Syndrome Aftermath. See wtcdemolition.blogspot.com and wtc-chinasyndrome.blogspot.com
And this Ultimate Truth of 9/11 is, of course, also hidden/forbidden by nearly all the conspiracy, and 911-truther, websites, because they too are intel-controlled specifically for that reason.
Let me now summarize the Op-plan for each of these five insidious people--
Howard Zinn: The U.S. Gov’t did bad things IN THE PAST. Anything recent, JFK Assassination, 9/11 -- well those don’t matter, the Govt’ is mostly telling the truth about those. Forget about them, move on.
Noam Chomsky: The U.S. Gov’t does still do some bad things, but ONLY OVER THERE. Anything recent and IN THE USA, like the JFK Assassination, and 9/11 -- well they don’t matter, the Govt’ is mostly telling the truth about those. Forget about them, move on.
Daniel Ellsberg: JFK is responsible for the War on Vietnam. But Ellsberg’s Op is far more clever and covert than the two above. Ellsberg has come out for a new 9/11 investigation, and even that “the CIA may have been involved in the JFK Assn.” (Of course, it’s the entire top level of the Gov’t that was involved.) But his summary is always that “THE NEXT EVENT” will lead to this or that -- but it’s things that WE ALREADY HAVE -- like fascism. I could see Ellsberg being told to promote one of the intel agencies’ 9/11 Hangouts, like Thermite.
Gore Vidal: Oh, I knew JFK well. He was a terrible President, but a charming man. Oswald alone did it, and it doesn’t matter, because JFK was a terrible, sickly, drugged, corrupt President. Remember I knew him, I was an in-law. Vidal is in the new “Zero” 9/11 movie. I have not seen that, but was told it pushes the Thermite Intel Hangout.
Seymour Hersh: JFK was a terrible, sickly, drugged, corrupt President. Oswald alone did it, and it doesn’t matter. And 9/11: 19 Arabs did it, but our foreign policy response has been atrocious. The Gov’t has terribly over-reacted; we should stop doing those bad things overseas.
So this article has revealed the insidious, hidden nature of celebrated, alleged, anti-war activists. It even revealed how several of them have known each other well for decades, and the great likelihood that they were protected by the Gov’t in an Intel Op -- the Pentagon Papers legend -- as this legend is over the top for those in the know. The Regime does reveal its great fears when its deep undercover assets screw up and reveal themselves, as Zinn recently did. The two things that clearly worry the Gestapo Regime remain the truth of the Kennedy Assassination -- Secret Service Agent Greer’s shooting Kennedy in the head, and the truth of 9/11 -- the WTC was nuked and the China Syndrome Aftermath resulted. Therefore, these are the facts that we must promote far and wide!
I even recently revealed here http://covertoperations.blogspot.com/2008/11/ultimate-truths-part-xiii-nuclear.html that the major reason that President Kennedy was killed may have been because he wanted to wrest control of nukes and ICBMs from the military.
Don’t you see one event that would never have occurred if JFK had lived, and had successfully wrested control of nukes from the Military/Intel? The nuclear bombing of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01! The two events are indeed linked at the deepest level. John Fitzgerald Kennedy knowingly died trying to prevent events like 9/11, and the ensuing bogus wars.
"The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago," according to an estimate by Bloomberg News.
The interregnum of 1932-1933, the long stretch between the election and the actual transfer of power, was disastrous for the U.S. economy, at least in part because the outgoing administration had no credibility, the incoming administration had no authority and the ideological chasm between the two sides was too great to allow concerted action. And the same thing is happening now.
(snip)How much can go wrong in the two months before Mr. Obama takes the oath of office? The answer, unfortunately, is: a lot. Consider how much darker the economic picture has grown since the failure of Lehman Brothers, which took place just over two months ago. And the pace of deterioration seems to be accelerating.
Most obviously, we’re in the midst of the worst stock market crash since the Great Depression: the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index has now fallen more than 50 percent from its peak. Other indicators are arguably even more disturbing: unemployment claims are surging, manufacturing production is plunging, interest rates on corporate bonds — which reflect investor fears of default — are soaring, which will almost surely lead to a sharp fall in business spending. The prospects for the economy look much grimmer now than they did as little as a week or two ago.
The panel cited two exposures causally associated with Gulf War illness: the drug pyridostigmine bromide, or PB, given to soldiers to protect against nerve gas; and pesticides widely used during the war.The commonly cited factor "depleted uranium" as a causative agent was not mentioned in the article. But even recognizing that the disease is real and caused by agents given by the US military is a big step forward. I imagine this will open up a bunch of new lawsuits against the govt.
Now, as Mr. Obama moves closer to assuming responsibility for Guantánamo, his pledge to close the detention center is bringing to the fore thorny questions under consideration by his advisers. They include where Guantánamo’s detainees could be held in this country, how many might be sent home and a matter that people with ties to the Obama transition team say is worrying them most: What if some detainees are acquitted or cannot be prosecuted at all?
1945 US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1953 Russia tests its first atomic bomb
1962 US discovers Soviet Union building a nuclear missile base in Cuba. After seven days of intense talks a naval quarantine is placed around Cuba and is only removed once President Khrushchev agrees to dismantle the base
1983 President Reagan launches the Strategic Defensive Initiative – Star Wars. This would allow the US to detect a nuclear weapon being launched and, by using laser technology, give it time to launch its own weapon to destroy the enemy missile
1986 President Gorbachev proposes a 50 per cent reduction in the nuclear arsenals of both sides. The discussions finally dissolve with no agreement reached
2008 US strikes deal with Poland and Czech Republic on Missile Defence Shield. Russia retaliates on day that Barack Obama is elected US President by threatening to station missiles in Kaliningrad, near its border with Poland
William Doyle, a tough-talking Vietnam War veteran who helped lead a decorated platoon that killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in a case concealed by the Pentagon for decades, died Nov. 6 in Springfield, Mo. He was 75.
Doyle was a team leader on the Army's famous Tiger Force in 1967 when some members began executing women and children in a bloody rampage that lasted seven months.
Pentagon Wants $450 Billion Increase Over Next Five Years
By Josh Rogin
Pentagon officials have prepared a new estimate for defense spending that is $450 billion more over the next five years than previously announced figures.
The new estimate, which the Pentagon plans to release shortly before President Bush leaves office, would serve as a marker for the new president and is meant to place pressure on him to either drastically increase the size of the defense budget or defend any reluctance to do so, according to several former senior budget officials who are close to the discussions.
Experts note that releasing such documents in the twilight of an administration is a well-worn tactic, and that incoming presidents often disregard such guidance in order to pursue their own priorities.
And with the nation's economy caught up in a global financial meltdown, it remains unclear whether either Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or a Democratic Congress would support such large increases for defense next year.
"This is a political document," said one former senior budget official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It sets up the new administration immediately to have to make a decision of how to deal with the perception that they are either cutting defense or adding to it."
Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon's top budget official from 2001 to 2004, who is not involved in the current discussions, agreed.
"The thinking behind it is pretty straightforward," Zakheim said. "They are setting a baseline for a new administration that then will have to defend cutting it."
The fiscal 2010 portion of the estimate includes a $57 billion increase, out of which $30 billion would go for a vaguely defined contingency fund and $14 billion would go for replacing or fixing existing equipment, called reset, and modernization, the former officials said.
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The new estimate, which has not been publicly released, would raise the fiscal 2010 budget number announced by the administration this year from $527 billion to $584 billion, not counting operations costs for the ongoing wars.
Money to prosecute the ongoing wars is not included in the new estimate, meaning the military would still need significant supplemental appropriations in addition to the increased budget request.
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Exactly how the Pentagon's new spending estimate will be communicated to Congress or the incoming administration remains unclear.
... if I were president-elect, I would be planning quite an operation on inauguration day. As soon as I was sworn in, I would demand that Robert Mueller submit his resignation. Then I would instruct the FBI to lock down FBI Headquarters, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency offices, the executive suites at the CIA, the National Security Agency's offices, the National Intelligence Agency's offices, and management's offices at the Department of Justice. I would tell them to put yellow police tape around all of these buildings and offices, and I would treat each as a crime scene. I'd have them preserve evidence from every safe, every email cache, every hard-drive. And then I would prosecute every violation to the fullest extent of the law.Yeah!
My number one priority would be exposing the truth about the anthrax attacks,Yeah!
the White House Iraq Group, and the mass firings of U.S. attorneys in the lead-up to the 2006 midterm elections.Errm, what?
But, I'm a hardass that has no interest in pretending continuity in government is preferable to justice and the rule of law. Obama has a more difficult road. Mueller is appointed to a term that doesn't end until 2010. I think Mueller should be in the docket. The last thing I think is acceptable is to have him continue on as head of the FBI, when I consider it the job of the FBI to investigate and imprison most of Washington's elite Establishment.Well yeah, but there's something rather conspicuous by its absence here.
...it was discovered that undercover DPD detectives trapped within the crowd on 15th Street staged struggles with uniformed officers in order to be "arrested" and removed. Pendergrass cited the Operations and Procedure Manual, §108.08 (2)(c), which states that "unprofessional police behavior can inflame a tense situation and make control efforts more difficult and dangerous."
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.Seriously, this is some creepy shit.
RAHM EMANUEL as former senior Clinton White House advisor was reportedly implicated in various illicit dealings with the Red Chinese penetrating U.S. industrial, financial, and military secrets. A dual citizen, Israel/US. he left the U.S. about 1990 to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF After leaving the Clinton White House, where he served off and on for some six years, Rahm made a sizeable fortune apparently from the secret Red Chinese dealings to get at U.S. secrets, while Rahm Emanuel was a top official of the investment house, Wasserstein, Perella & Co. Rahm is ostensibly an accomplished participant in "political opposition research", a code name for compiling and using blackmail data.
Rahm Emanuel has used a portion of his apparently ill-gotten fortune to buy massive advertising and such, paving the way for him to win, as he did, the Illinois Congressional District previously occupied by defrocked Congressman Rostenkowski, convicted of embezzling sums from the House of Representives private bank. With his dual political loyalty as well, Rahm both supported Clinton publicly while he apparently manipulated him privately using reputed The Mossad controlled sexmate, Monica Lewinsky.
Rahm Emanuel has ostensibly functioned as The Mossad's Deputy Chief for North America. In the past, some of Israeli intelligence's top officials for U.S./Canada, were headquartered in Chicago, operating in part through Bank Leumi.
Although I expect the coming régime to provide less fodder for high-kick comedy than the current, I expect it to be a much more interesting study in the operation of the modern executive-imperial American state. The ham-handed execution of executive expansion and foreign imperialism under George Dubya will now yield to subtler application of the same policies and prerogatives.I imagine the death and destruction during an Obama presidency will be less (although I could well be wrong), but I am fairly sure the death and destruction will be more subtle and under more of an international umbrella. But to be sure, the PTB haven't gone anywhere, and they are still as evil as always.
Even for a declared optimist, Bush has appeared remarkably sanguine in this season of discontent. The economy is melting down, his own party has shunned him, and Tuesday's election is shaping up as a searing rebuke to his eight years in office. . . .
"Everybody kind of wanted to spend the last 100-plus days doing some legacy things, and the financial crisis has thrown a wrench into that," said one prominent Republican who regularly talks with senior White House officials.
"You have a combination of no legacy stuff, a horrible economic mess and the likelihood that Obama is going to win," this person added. "There is a real sadness there."
None of this would matter, of course, if not for Bush's deep and abiding unpopularity. Bush has not commanded approval from a majority of the nation since early 2005, making him arguably the most disliked president since polling on the question began in the 1930s. A Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll last week put Bush's approval rating at 24 percent and found that McCain had made little headway in separating himself from Bush or his policies.
It's not for lack of trying. For the first time in recent memory, a sitting president has effectively sat out the presidential race, avoiding public appearances on behalf of McCain and other Republicans and raising far less money than usual in private fundraisers. Bush voted for McCain by absentee ballot rather than voting in person in Texas, as he has for the past three elections, and officials say he plans to spend election night at the White House rather than at a rally or other campaign-related event. . . .
"This is unprecedented for a president to be this invisible during a campaign," said Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. "This is what happens when you have a 25 percent approval rating."
George Bush is the person in whom the Right placed its blind faith, the one they glorified and held up as the ultimate standard-bearer of what they believe in. And now he -- and they -- lay in shambles and disgrace. No matter what metric one uses, it's difficult to overstate what a profound failure the Bush presidency is, and everyone -- including Bush -- knows that. The most important aspect of this Tuesday's election is to finalize their humiliating repudiation and to bury them for what they've done.