Smithfield Foods and Swine Flu

Disgustingly massive hog farms operated by Smithfield Foods seem to be a likely source for swine-derived influenza.

And this article should put you off of eating pork.

By the way, newer information is suggesting that this current swine flu is actually relatively mild-- meaning there has been mostly far too much hype about a flu pandemic than any real threat. As far as the deaths in Mexico, keep in mind that:
1) "normal flu" kills thousands every year in the US
2) this could be a normal flu outbreak for Mexico
3) the horrible pollution in Mexico may have aggravated normal flu, causing more deaths

My God, the Pro-Torture Fucks Even Got to Garrison Keillor

Not that I was ever a huge fan of his work, but I thought at least he had some some of decency.

And, not worth a post on its own, but major-league fuck Tom Friedman is still churning out heavy duty pro-torture/pro-9/11/pro-war-on-terror propaganda. Ughh.

Sadly, the public appears to be buying the "no prosecutions" line.

TSA Destroyed Krystian Zimerman's Piano

This is simply barbaric:

Zimerman is a magnificent obsessive. He travels with his own Steinway... An earlier piano was destroyed by Homeland Security at JFK airport because officials were suspicious that its glue could be an explosive in disguise.

Between this and the idiotic missile defense system the US is putting in his native Poland, no wonder he is very upset with the US!

Private 1st Class Steven Green-- Iraq's William Doyle

PADUCAH, Kentucky (Reuters) - A former U.S. soldier on trial in the gang rape of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her and her family in the war zone in 2006 was caught in a "perfect storm of insanity," his lawyer told a jury on Monday.

But government prosecutors in the same courtroom said former Private 1st Class Steven Green, alleged ringleader of the slayings, was only interested in killing Iraqis "nonstop" and bragged during a barbecue celebration later that what he had done was "awesome."

Doyle was a similar breed of monster spawned during the Vietnam war.

South Tower Engine Trajectory Follow-Up

This picture gives the best angle I've seen so far for the smoke trail from the south tower. This smoke trail, the longer one, is supposed to show, officially, the path of the engine from UA175 that was ejected from the north face of the tower:


My earlier analysis indicated that according to trajectory indicated by the smoke trail, the engine found at Church and Murray could not have come from the South tower. The picture above still supports this conclusion.

One oddity of this pic is the time noted-- 12 minutes later than the official time of the 2nd hit.

Swine Flu-- First Clear 33

Because of swine flu, "schools are closed throughout Mexico, affecting some 33 million students."

Good News: Federal Appeals Court Hits Obama/Bush on State Secrets Reasoning

“According to the government’s theory, the Judiciary should effectively cordon off all secret government actions from judicial scrutiny, immunizing the CIA and its partners from the demands and limits of the law,” ruled Judge Michael Daly Hawkins in the 3-0 decision.

“As the founders of this nation knew well, arbitrary imprisonment and torture under any circumstances is a ‘gross and notorious … act of despotism,’” he concluded.

A major torture renditions case can now proceed-- let's see if it goes anywhere.

Arlen "Magic Bullet" Spector Switches Parties Giving Obama and the Dems Virtually Complete Control of the Govt

Ol' Arlen--- still carrying water for the PTB?

Psych! Multiple Low-Level Boeing 747 Fly-Bys in Lower Manhattan Without Warning

Low-flying Air Force One look-alike, part of a DOD "photo-op", freaks out NYC with memories of flyby planes that coincided with the bombing of the WTC.

UPDATE: Apparently there were THREE low-level fly-overs of lower Manhattan.

Here's a good photo-- note the steep bank angle a la UA175:


UPDATE 2: good video here:

This seems more malicious the more I hear about it. But interesting how easily people can be fooled-- one guy saying "it looked literally like it was going to smash right into the building". A 9/11 reprise, it seems, but without the fireworks!

And there was also this recent event with a scare after a small plane flies into restricted airspace over DC and Obama "relocated" to a safe place.

FWIW, Sorcha Faal has an interesting take on this story.

CIA: Professional Liars for Propaganda Purposes

In late 2007, there was the first crack of daylight into the government’s use of waterboarding during interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees. On Dec. 10, John Kiriakou, a former C.I.A. officer who had participated in the capture of the suspected terrorist Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan in 2002, appeared on ABC News to say that while he considered waterboarding a form of torture, the technique worked and yielded results very quickly.

Mr. Zubaydah started to cooperate after being waterboarded for “probably 30, 35 seconds,” Mr. Kiriakou told the ABC reporter Brian Ross. “From that day on he answered every question.”

His claims — unverified at the time, but repeated by dozens of broadcasts, blogs and newspapers — have been sharply contradicted by a newly declassified Justice Department memo that said waterboarding had been used on Mr. Zubaydah “at least 83 times.”

I'm sure this is only the tip of the iceberg, as the CIA is covertly embedded throughout the media.

And here we go-- Glenn Greenwald runs down the ways in which the Kiriakou's lie was disseminated throughout the media.

An Appeal to Reason on Torture Prosecutions

It's really hard to know what exactly motivates the media pundits who have decried any prosecution of Bush officials for torture.

I imagine some of them are CIA or other intel, and clearly have an interest in protecting these criminals. Another, not mutually exclusive possibility, is that they are sick fucks who have really rationalized the idea was torture was worthwhile and think that it shouldn't be illegal. I imagine some of the media fucktards are just going along with these other fucktards due to peer pressure.

But if there ARE any media pundits who are honest-- or anyone else who is against the idea of Bush officials being prosecuted for torture, there is a point that should be considered.

Isn't it quite likely that Obama will see the Bush precedent, and take the opportunity to have his administration commit even WORSE war crimes? What would stop him, since there apparently is no penalty for committing war crimes as an American?

The lack of Bush war crime prosecutions is not going to be the end of this episode in our history-- I fear it is only the beginning of a very ugly time. But torture prosecutions could change everything!

Creepy Story with Creepy Possibilities

According to alarming reports from Mexico City, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Mr Obama around the city's anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month, died the next day from "flu-like symptoms".

Hmmm, Obama visits Mexico, then shortly thereafter a new lethal flu virus starts spreading through the country.... and fears of a global flu pandemic start materializing.

FYI, Prison Planet is all over this story and the conspiracy possibilities.

Holmgren Revisited

Gerard Holmgren's famous proof of no-planes was the plane-shaped holes in the WTC towers. His point however was NOT that it was impossible for a plane to make a silhouette-like cut-out of itself in the WTC facade! Rather the idea is that it is impossible for any object, including a Boeing 767 going 540 mph, to slice into the WTC and leave a cut-out shape of itself and at the same time disintegrate in the same collision. Although a rather simple idea, his critical insight has stood the test of time. What has been lacking however, is a good example of the concept.

Recently I found a good example of a high-speed collision involving two complex objects-- in a "Mythbusters" episode, a rocket sled is blasted into a car at 650 mph, and the car is annihilated in a huge explosion:

The rocket sled is a smaller and lighter object hitting the car, which can be very roughly analogous to a plane hitting the WTC. Unfortunately, what is not clear is exactly what happens to the rocket sled as it hits the car, since is a heavy steel plate and a concrete berm behind the car. So it seems quite possible that the rocket sled cut through the car then broke apart on the steel plate and berm. Indeed, the steel plate is massively warped from the impact. But what we can say is that the rocket sled did NOT cut a simple hole through the car (that the car (WTC) was in fact totally blown apart) that at least much of the rocket sled appears to go all the way through the car and that there is a massive explosion within milliseconds of impact.

Bottom line: I would Holmgren's proof is alive and well.

Lighting Up Cancer Cells

This is pretty cool-- one of the better new cancer treatment ideas I've heard.

If You Must Pay Attention to the Network Political Talk Shows

...this is clearly the way to go. This site is actually the funniest thing I've seen in a while. A brief sample:

Gregory: so Larry are we lifting the Cuba embargo or what?

Summers: of course we are but first Obama has to let people get used to the idea which is inevitable

Gregory: but Castro is a commie!

Summers: yeah well so are China and Hanoi and Cambridge Massachusetts and we trade with them

Gregory: Obama shook hands with Chavez - is that appropriate since he is dark and swarthy?

Summers: look Obama is popular and other world leaders beg to be seen with him -- did you that dipshit Berlusconi camera hogging with Barack?

Gregory: Wall street vs. Main Steet!

Summers: look the important thing is that we give trillions in free money to three banks so they can start lending to the peons in the rest of America

Gregory: i agree

Summers: Obama is going to shatter Too Big to Fail and create many Too Little to Fails

Gregory: well look dood we've given away billions so where are the results??

Summers: blah blah blah positive indicators blah blah engine blah blah long way to go blah blah

Gregory: Noted ray of sunshine Paul Krugman says we're headed to a depression, fascism and a world war

Summers: he's right

Gregory: oh dear

Swine Flu Outbreak

While conspiracies are obviously possible here, I think it's a little early to push the panic button. At least for now, the virus hasn't killed anyone in America, nor has it really spread here (yet). Why it has been so lethal in Mexico is an interesting question-- but probably relates to the higher number of people that have been infected there. Possibly, hopefully, the virus is getting attenuated as it spreads from human to human. But certainly, this virus could be bad, and for now it will have the effect, in the news, of pushing torture to the side. Ironically, for all the alarms about "bird flu", we're getting hit with something related, but clearly different.

Justice in Obamaland-- Actually Increasing the Fucked Level

This seems completely senseless: "The Obama administration is urging the US Supreme Court to overturn a landmark decision that stops police from questioning suspects unless they have a lawyer present."

Justice in Obamaland-- Still Fucked Up

Depressing:

April 24, 2009 Washington, D.C. – In a suit brought by British men imprisoned for two years at Guantanamo, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today reaffirmed its previous ruling that Guantanamo detainees lack the fundamental constitutional right not to be tortured and are not “persons” under a U.S. statute protecting religious freedom.
(snip)
In its first filing on detention and torture under the Obama administration, the Department of Justice filed briefs in March urging the Court of Appeals to reject any constitutional or statutory rights for detainees. The Obama Justice Department further argued that even if such rights were recognized, the Court should rule that the previous administration’s officials who ordered and approved torture and abuse of the plaintiffs should be immune from liability for their actions.

Yes, terrorists are ANIMALS, and have no rights.

Hmmm... that kind of sounds familiar...

Great Words of Wisdom from "Dr. Sanity"

Finally, FINALLY, someone gets us!

If the left understands anything, it is that in order for their ideology and its promised utopia to be born, they must thoroughly destroy America and undermine everything America stands for in the world. Once that has been accomplished, then their way is clear. Of course, they truly believe they will be able to control the Islamist genie they have encouraged, appeased and enabled along the way. That's why they are so nonchalant about terrorism and the threat of Islamic jihad. First, they see themselves on the same side politically; and second, they believe they won't have any trouble stopping the Jihad once they are in power.

Awesome!

Liz Cheney Defends Her Daddy's Torture Program

Clearly the apple didn't fall far from the tree-- and here we have a corrupt, lying, rotten apple:

Bush Administration War Criminals

It's getting hard these days to keep the blog up to date.

To be fair, there is also some new material for the Fake Opposition Democrats blog too.

Really, Really Off the Wagon

Ol' George Dubya-- always good for a laugh... except for the war-crimes, that is...

Mainstream Torture Opponents Fight with One Hand Tied Behind Their Back

-- by not admitting that 9/11 was an inside job.

Why? Because, torture proponents can always use the trump card that torture "prevented new attacks".

While there is still a strong moral case against torture, this case is diluted by the idea that torture had some beneficial effect.

Importantly, I think that the current torture condemnations are effectively a proxy for saying 9/11 was an inside job, just as torture prosecutions would be effectively a proxy for prosecuting some of the people who were behind and who covered up 9/11.

But again, by accepting the official 9/11 story, the torture case will always look weak compared to the argument that torture prevented new attacks.

Now, more than ever, we need 9/11 truth!!!!

Good News Report on Chemtrails

183 Times

Clearly, they weren't getting the answer they wanted the first 182 times.

Does any single thing show better than this how completely sick these people are?

Jet Fuel at the WTC?

Apart from the many videos, the apparent plane debris outside the WTC, and the eyewitness accounts of planes hitting the WTC, there were also many accounts of "jet fuel" fires and "jet fuel-fueled" explosions at the WTC.

Let me say straight out that clearly there is evidence for fake videos, fake plane debris, and fake eyewitnesses. And thus obviously, it seems probable that the jet fuel accounts are simply mistaken impressions of something besides jet fuel. Of course, we can't rule out coerced accounts or even fabricated accounts either. However, many people were clearly burned that were not in close proximity to the floors affected by the "plane hits"-- people in elevators or in the basement or elsewhere. I think it quite possible that the burning incidents ascribed to jet fuel are due to incendiary bombs or fuel bombs or even mini-nukes (particularly in the basement, e.g. Felipe David).

But what I really want to do here is take on the official story of jet fuel a bit. This is from the NIST report:


First off, I think the 10,000 gal figure is an exaggeration, since that was almost maximum capacity of the fuel tanks. It is unlikely the planes were maximally loaded with fuel before take-off, and they had officially flown at high speed for several hundred miles, partly at low altitude, which would use more fuel. Plus, other accounts have said there was 7,000 gal on each plane to start. I'm going to go with a lower figure of 5,000 gal per plane, due to the official flight circumstances. Now NIST claims that only 30% of the fuel burned in the initial fireballs that occurred upon collision. That seems a bit arbitrary and low, but let's go with their figure. That leaves 3,500 gal fuel deposited in one tower. Clearly, that is a good amount of fuel, and left to burn in one place, could do serious damage. Of course, the fuel would not be in one place but would have been dispersed heavily through the impact floors. 3,500 gal over three impact floors, that would be roughly 1,200 gal per floor, which sounds like a lot. But the WTC was huge, 200 by 200 feet per floor = 40,000 square feet per floor. Even if the fuel only affected one quarter of each floor, that is about one-eighth of a gal per square foot (1,200 gal per floor/10,000 square feet)-- 128 fluid ounces per gallon, one-eighth gives about 16 ounces (1 pint) per square foot. That's enough to soak the carpet/furniture and start a real nasty fire-- but I think overall that the combustibles on each floor could have fueled as much if not more fire than the supposed jet fuel. And if the fuel was dispersed over half or more than half of each floor, than there is much less fuel per sq. ft. Of course, the fuel would not be dispersed perfectly evenly, and probably it went over more than one-quarter of a floor. This is all just to get a general idea of the amounts here.

The most amazing part of the jet fuel fire story is the stories about the elevators exploding because of jet fuel pouring down the elevator shafts. First, of all, as my math showed, there simply wasn't a huge amount of jet fuel to even go into the elevator shaft in the first place. Let's say about 4 gal managed to go in a shaft-- which I think is a maximum amount possible (elevator shaft = 6 ft x 6 ft = 36 sq. ft. area cross-section, one-eighth gal per 36 square feet = 4.5 gal). Next, this liquid has to flow down one thousand feet to get to the lobby or the basement if it goes in one of the two elevators that went all the way up and down the tower. So-- much fuel will get dispersed on the way down, which means it is possible that almost no fuel reaches the bottom. In fact, I say that it is impossible for 4.5 gallons of fuel to trickle down an elevator shaft 1000 ft and then explode in a fireball at the bottom. Thus, someone like Felipe David cannot have been burned by jet fuel going down the elevator shaft.

Now, possibly some elevators would be hit by jet fuel much higher up in the tower-- and these elevators would get a higher amount of fuel. But even all 4.5 gallons, if splashing on top of an elevator, while horrible for anyone inside the elevator if it is burning, shouldn't cause an explosion inside the elevator! First, much fuel will splash outside the elevator and around the sides and only a small amount will get in through vents in the ceiling-- I can't see more than one-tenth of the total fuel getting INSIDE the elevator. Second, Jet fuel is not so intensely flammable as to violently explode, particularly with those amounts. The various accounts of elevator doors being blown open by burning jet fuel must be explained by something else-- likely bombs.

It Wasn't Just Torture-- Detainees in the War on Terror Were Frequently Killed

Ex-State Dept. official: Hundreds of detainees died in U.S. custody, at least 25 murdered.

Obama and Chavez Exchange "Masonic" Handshake

This is rather, uh, blatant:


Note: not sure if the handshake is really "masonic"-- but the way Chavez is joining his forefinger and thumb together over Obama's thumb is quite odd, and reminds me of a secret handshake I've seen somewhere but can't quite place. If anyone has seen this before, please let me know!

Related story: Chavez says U.S. may have orchestrated 9/11: ‘Those towers could have been dynamited,’ says Venezuela’s president.

How DARE Obama shake the hand of a conspiracy theorist like Chavez!!!!!! Grrr!!!

UPDATE: also related-- Obama bows to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and White House lies about it.

Our Criminal Media at Work-- Busy Whitewashing Torture

Glenn Greenwald and Marcus Baram have the gory details.

I will note in passing that it's rather funny... no, hypocritical...no, err, MINDBLOWINGLY DISGUSTING that some of the same people who are saying we shouldn't prosecute the torturers were so fucking upset when Bill Clinton had an affair and lied about a blow-job and could think of nothing else but JUSTICE!!!!

NSA Wiretaps Then Blackmails Israeli Mole Rep. Jane Harman to Get Her Support for Bush's Illegal Wiretapping Operation

New stories don't get much weirder than this.

Though it's another sign of a corrupt, out-of-control government.

UPDATE: Harman sounds pretty guilty in this NPR interview.

The Bush Administration and the CIA: Absolute Psychopathic Monsters

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (still in U.S. custody) was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah (the man who allegedly fears insects) was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.

It is simply laughable that this was done to "protect us". This was psychopaths out of control-- the same psychopaths, there can be no doubt now, that did 9/11.

As far as I am concerned this one monstrous revelation permanently eviscerates the official 9/11 story. The fucking genie is out of the bottle.

The New "Pearl Harbor"

Not 9/11-- the movie. I just realized that this pro-war propaganda movie came out in May 2001-- shortly before 9/11, the next new "Pearl Harbor". Suspicious timing, to be sure-- pre-saging a world-altering attack with a movie about the last world-altering attack.

Speaking of Murdering Psychopath Presidents...

It's not just a joke for George W. Bush-- there's evidence he was literally a psychopathic killer (besides the killing that occurred while he was president):

To show you the remarkable intersection of these intel assets, serial murderers, and yes, Presidents, I include the tale of none other than George W. [baby] Bush and his own involvement in mass murder. Now above in the matter of serial murderer, Jeffrey Dahmer, was the connection leading from child victim Adam Walsh to Otis Toole, accomplice of serial/mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas. Texas police believe that Lucas killed some 214 people. In 1998, three days before his scheduled execution, Texas Governor George W. Bush pardoned Lucas. This is the same Governor Bush that allowed numerous executions whereby the executed person was likely innocent, but here a mass murderer was pardoned by Bush. But it gets “curiouser.” GW Bush was involved in a mass murder himself. This was the 1984 Brownsville, TX ritualistic killing of 17 people. The wealthy “Baby” Bush hung out, in dilapidated surroundings, with those “folks,” and was the only survivor. He said he was in too much of a stupor to know what happened. Police suspected him to be the killer, until Poppy Bush intervened. None other than Henry Lee Lucas got the blame for this one too. Brownsville was an impoverished town near the Mexican border, and was involved in drug running likely under the control of Poppy Bush. Baby Bush was probably earning his “bones.” Or did he enlist the aid of another intel asset-- Henry Lee Lucas? Later to be pardoned. So we run full circle with two generations of “Presidents,” drug running, “satanic cults,” intel agencies, child sex rings and serial/mass murders. A veritable Curriculum Vitae of the PTB, or their top lackeys.

"Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide"

Classic Onion:

WASHINGTON— WASHINGTON—More than a week after President Barack Obama's cold-blooded killing of a local couple, members of the American news media admitted Tuesday that they were still trying to find the best angle for covering the gruesome crime.

"I know there's a story in there somewhere," said Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, referring to Obama's home invasion and execution-style slaying of Jeff and Sue Finowicz on Apr. 8. "Right now though, it's probably best to just sit back and wait for more information to come in. After all, the only thing we know for sure is that our president senselessly murdered two unsuspecting Americans without emotion or hesitation."

Added Meacham, "It's not so cut and dried."

Since the killings took place, reporters across the country have struggled to come up with an appropriate take on the ruthless crime, with some wondering whether it warrants front-page coverage, and others questioning its relevance in a fast-changing media landscape.

"What exactly is the news hook here?" asked Rick Kaplan, executive producer of the CBS Evening News. "Is this an upbeat human-interest story about a 'day in the life' of a bloodthirsty president who likes to kill people? Or is it more of an examination of how Obama's unusual upbringing in Hawaii helped to shape the way he would one day viciously butcher two helpless citizens in their own home?"

"Or maybe the story is just that murder is cool now," Kaplan continued. "I don't know. There are a million different angles on this one."

So far, the president's double-homicide has not been covered by any major news outlets. The only two mentions of the heinous tragedy have been a 100-word blurb on the Associated Press wire and an obituary on page E7 of this week's edition of the Lake County Examiner.

While Obama has expressed no remorse for the grisly murders—point-blank shootings with an unregistered .38-caliber revolver—many journalists said it would be irresponsible for the press to sensationalize the story.

"There's been some debate around the office about whether we should report on this at all," Washington Post senior reporter Bill Tracy said while on assignment at a local dog show. "It's enough of a tragedy without the press jumping in and pointing fingers or, worse, exploiting the violence. Plus, we need to be sensitive to the victims' families at this time. Their loved ones were brutally, brutally murdered, after all."

Nevertheless, a small contingent of independent journalists has begun to express its disapproval and growing shock over the president's actions.

"I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but we are in the midst of an economic crisis here," political pundit Marcus Reid said. "Why was our president ritualistically dismembering the corpses of his prey when he should have been working on a new tax proposal for small businesses? I, for one, am outraged."

The New York Times newsroom is reportedly still undecided on whether or not to print a recent letter received from Obama, in which the president threatens to kill another helpless citizen every Tuesday and "fill [his] heavenly palace with slaves for the afterlife" unless the police "stop the darkness from screaming."

"President Obama's letter presents us with a classic journalistic quandary," executive editor Bill Keller said. "If we print it, then we're giving him control over the kinds of stories we choose to run. It would be an acknowledgment that we somehow give the nation's commander in chief special treatment."

Added Keller, "And that's just not how the press in this country works."

This is pretty HILARIOUS too:

"Historic Senator Robert Byrd Imploded In Controlled Demolition" WASHINGTON—Thousands gathered Monday to watch the demolition of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 91, who was torn down after nearly five decades as a prominent Beltway fixture. At 2:30 p.m., the once-modern senator was strategically detonated with explosive charges, causing him to collapse in a cascading succession that drew loud cheers from those in attendance. "Sen. Byrd has been a beloved Washington institution for as long as most people in this city can remember," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, who was marked for implosion due to his leaky, dilapidated exterior and his failure to meet congressional health and safety standards. "But alas, the time has come to make way for a new generation of leadership." Sources reported that commemorative pieces of the legislator will be available for sale in the Capitol gift shop.

Ground Zero Still Radioactive

Building new WTC office towers could be "put off for decades". Supposedly due to the bad real estate market... but I think we know the REAL reason.

Not Saying This Is Real, But...

this is one freaky video:


Apollo 20 was one of the "canceled" Apollo missions.

An Optimistic View of the Future

A new awakening and the end of the NWO?

FWIW.

Torture Memos

It's good Obama released these (also here and here)-- there is really no denying the crimes that occurred and who perpetrated them. This is sickening, inhumane stuff ordered and carried out by psychopaths.

But obviously the very bad thing here is that Obama won't prosecute clear violations of law-- fucking US war-crimes, for god's sake. In writing off these crimes, Obama becomes one of the monsters.

NSA Spying Even More Intrusive Than Already Known

Whoopsie.

But-- nothing to worry about, as long as you've done nothing wrong, right?

Not that I am really upset about this-- it's hardly a surprise. But mostly it's just more evidence of a corrupt government completely out of control.


Oh who cares! Did you hear about the Obama's new dog!!??!

Beethoven's Diabelli Variations: #32 and #33

Pretty cool stuff, despite the evil 33:

Fevered Obama Conspiracy Theory from the National Review

This piece from andy McCarthy at the National Review is pretty dumb* (much much more on this topic here), but there are two things that stand out.

First, this is exactly the kind of stuff that the right laughed at about five years ago when some on the left made similar comments about Bush and that the right scoffed at.

Second, I don't think any mainstream "liberal" publication engaged in such over the top rhetoric about Bush-- it was mostly a few bloggers and commenters who ever went this far (and while I courted these theories, I can't say I ever really embraced them).

Mostly, it's just SO FREAKING FUNNY how easily high-profile right-wingers slip into conspiracy theory mode -- the same kind of conspiracy theory that they would mock endlessly if the coin were flipped!




*e.g. "Sen. Obama and his supporters despise free expression, the bedrock of American self-determinism and hence American democracy."

"If you are planning simultaneous teabagging all around the country, you‘re going to need a Dick Armey"

Hilarious-- if you know what "teabagging" is.

Stanley Hilton

Interesting to see this wikipedia article about him. I was always impressed with his guts to speak out on 9/11, even if he was perhaps, uh, embellishing things a bit. Here's a summary I wrote of an old interview Hilton did with Alex Jones-- back in 2004! The thing which always fascinated me, and it's really hard to know if was completely bullshitting, or if he had something along the lines of what he was saying-- was that he said he had copies of some orders that Bush signed to carry out the 9/11 attacks.

In any case, he sounds like a rather interesting fellow, and certainly is right about the nature of politics in this country.

War Crimes Watch

Progress:

Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast.

One interesting thing here seems to be the tacit approval this activity is getting from the Obama administration. Clearly they want to have little to do with this on the domestic front-- but it seems they support this in some ways. I suppose the administration does have to walk a fine line given the idiotic culture we live in-- though real leadership would be obviously to pursue justice at all costs.

Conservatives Are Acting Like Peasants

A typically amusing and actually pretty insightful piece from Matt Taibbi.

NASA Searching for the Remains of Tiamat?

The solar system might once have had another planet named Theia, which may have helped create our own planet's moon.

Now two spacecraft are heading out to search for leftovers from this rumored sibling, which would have been destroyed when the solar system was still young.

"It's a hypothetical world. We've never actually seen it, but some researchers believe it existed 4.5 billion years ago — and that it collided with Earth to form the moon," said Mike Kaiser, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

Hmmm... that sounds familiar....

Sitchin's theory proposes the planets Tiamat and Nibiru. Tiamat supposedly existed between Mars and Jupiter. He postulated that it was a thriving world in a much differently shaped solar system, with jungles and oceans, whose orbit was disrupted by the arrival of a large planet or very small star (less than twenty times the size of Jupiter) which passed through the solar system between 65 million and four billion years ago. The new orbits caused Tiamat to collide with one of the moons of this object, which is known as Nibiru. The debris from this collision are thought by the theory's proponents to have variously formed the asteroid belt, the moon, and the current incarnation of the planet Earth.

But But Tsarion's scenario is better:

...the history of the world has stemmed from alien visitation in pre-diluvian times (before the Great Flood) who were being pursued across the galaxy, took refuge on a mostly water planet between Earth and Mars named Tiamat and used it as a decoy for the pursuers to destroy after the aliens had already made their way to Earth. Tiamat's destruction, Tsarion believes, is what caused the great flood and the oceans to form on the Earth as remnants of the planet rained down on it. The asteroid belt is, according to Tsarion, the remains of Tiamat.

But overall, this is likely some sort of ruse on the part of NASA-- so what is their real purpose? Looking for ways to break out of Quarantine?

Dave Arneson May Be Gone

but D&D will live forever!

I haven't played in almost 30 years, but I remember it fondly. I even have one of the original sets of the game... somewhere.

Plane Hotel Room in Costa Rica

Pretty cool.

AIG and Covert Operations

The predecessor of AIG sowed destruction for the PTB:

They weren't just secret agents. They were secret insurance agents. These undercover underwriters gave their World War II spymasters access to a global industry that both bankrolled and, ultimately, helped bring down Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

Is there any doubt they are still doing similar work?

33 Years After the Film "Network" ("I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore"),

Glenn Beck brings the movie to reality.

Pirates: Reasonable Rebels Against the PTB for Hundreds (Thousands?) of Years

The Somalia pirates are no different.

Classical Music Selection of the Day: Mozart Piano Concerto No.20 K.466

Binghamton Shooter Oddities

On April 3, Mr. Wong had a 10 a.m. appointment at the employment center. He did not show. Thirty minutes later and less than two blocks away, Mr. Wong walked into the American Civic Association, where he had recently taken an English class with other immigrants. Mr. Wong, 41, returned to his old classroom and, in one of New York State’s deadliest mass shootings, killed 13 former classmates and association employees and wounded four others, firing 98 shots from two handguns in about a minute, before taking his own life, the police said.

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Last year, Mr. Wong went to one of the local shooting ranges and spent hours practicing on targets 50 feet away. He was using a semiautomatic Beretta pistol equipped with a laser sight, and he had a pile of shot-up targets at his side. Mr. Wong’s style of target practice caught the attention of the man shooting next to him, a few lanes over.

“He was basically shooting his shots in rapid succession with virtually no hesitation between shots, very smooth and steady and rapid shooting,” said the man, who asked that his name not be used.

Mr. Wong told the man that he had probably shot 10,000 rounds in about a year’s time. “He was pleasant,” the man recalled. “He was courteous. You would never suspect that he would pose a threat to anyone.”

Uh, yeah-- someone shooting like that could never hurt anyone... right. How dumb can you get?

He had an extensive history of police contacts-- was he being monitored or even controlled?

His sister did not recognize his handwriting in his confession letter.

Not at all clear why he killed people in the English class-- is this some possible homage to Sueng-Hui Ho-- the official Va Tech killer--who also was Asian, and an English student?

The thing that isn't odd is that this shooting took place in April-- these types of mass killings often take place in April, like the Va Tech killings-- and this April there have been a few such events.

High Speed Collision-- Mythbusters Experiment

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen:



I imagine the car would be like the airplane hitting a steel and concrete tower. It's fucking obliterated-- as is the rocket sled. But basically, the effect is like a bomb going off, with debris spewing everywhere. Importantly, there is no delay before the explosion-- the explosion is simultaneous with the destruction.

"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas"

This film is very well done and has rather a shockingly grim ending.

At the Highest Levels, the Government Is Completely Corrupt and Out of Control

The bullshit official stories, the bullshit bailouts of the scam-artist bankers, the endless bullshit spying and secrecy, the lack of justice for war criminals, the bullshit wars and endless killing...

What else can you say?

SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE.


In case you want to try to email Attorney General Holder-- AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

Obama Same or Worse Than Bush Regarding "National Security" Bullshit

This is not surprising, but still profoundly fucked:

Every defining attribute of Bush's radical secrecy powers -- every one -- is found here, and in exactly the same tone and with the exact same mindset. Thus: how the U.S. government eavesdrops on its citizens is too secret to allow a court to determine its legality. We must just blindly accept the claims from the President's DNI that we will all be endangered if we allow courts to determine the legality of the President's actions. Even confirming or denying already publicly known facts -- such as the involvement of the telecoms and the massive data-mining programs -- would be too damaging to national security. Why? Because the DNI says so. It is not merely specific documents, but entire lawsuits, that must be dismissed in advance as soon as the privilege is asserted because "its very subject matter would inherently risk or require the disclosure of state secrets."

See also here and here.

Why Is MTV Showing Americans Being Rounded Up for Concentration Camps?

This is rather creepy, though at least they are giving us some warning here:

Katrhryn Butler of NIST‏

The most clueless physicist ever*.


Or ... is she only acting clueless?

Hmmm..... a tough one.


*Link is to interview with Jeff "Pumpitout" Hill.

What Is Glenn Beck Up To?

While he appears to be inciting violence against the government, is he part of a conspiracy to provoke a backlash against conspiracy theorists? Or to put it more bluntly: is he trying to give conspiracy theory a bad name? If nothing else, it seems clear that the only conspiracy theorists given a popular forum are really BAD conspiracy theorists.

Lessons from Hiroshima & Nagasaki for WTC Nuclear Survivors— The Remarkable Double Nuke Survivors

by The Anonymous Physicist

Doubters of the extensive WTC nuclear demolition scenario (see http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com) that this author has delineated, claim that any nukes used “would have had to have killed everybody in Manhattan instantly.” Of course, this is deliberate disinformation, as this did not happen to many residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While many thousands died, many thousands did not. There are survivors to this day.

Perhaps most instructive of the ability to survive being nuked— provided one is not in or very near the hypocenter, nor ingests or inhales radionuclides— are at least three known men who survived the double nuking of BOTH Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The tale of these Japanese “double-hibakusha” is described here: http://timesonline.typepad.com/times_tokyo_weblog/2009/03/the-luckiest-or.html They survived the first nuclear bomb due to such factors as location, shielding, and prompt medical attention. They survived the second nuke due to such factors as luck, and brilliantly deduced nuclear bomb survival methods.

After surviving the Hiroshima nuking, these three Mitsubishi workers then took the train to their home town of Nagasaki. One worker was being verbally abused by his boss who was saying that it wasn’t possible for “just one bomb” to have destroyed Hiroshima. At that very moment, the Nagasaki A-Bomb went off; and the berated worker took immediate action and did not care to try to help his abusive boss. He may have survived his second nuking because of bandaging on his face and body from the first nuking! These bandages were blasted away, but their presence during the flash may have saved this worker’s life. Another of the three Hiroshima survivors had learned well what to do and jumped into a river at the first sign of the Nagasaki nuclear flash, and stayed in the water for an hour. This radiation shielding led to his surviving his second nuking well.

One surivivor is now 89, but had an infant son in Nagasaki who died of cancer at age 56. His father attributes this to his son’s being nuked at age 6 months. The tale of these three historic figures includes their description of survivors left with hanging skin, swollen faces and other horrors. As described here, they thus have much in common with some WTC 9/11 survivors, and responders, including Felipe David and several others. How ironic it is that the article notes that “the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had traveled to New York to make an appeal for disarmament on behalf of the survivors of the atomic bomb. But the meeting had ended in failure…” If these mayors only knew the truth of the nuking of the WTC and its China Syndrome Aftermath.

But there is one major difference between the Japanese and American nuclear bomb survivors. The medical doctors and lawyers for 9/11 survivors and sick responders are— either out of ignorance or deliberate disinformation— NOT telling the WTC survivors what may be causing their illnesses; while the nuclear bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not denied. Yes, even the lawyers for thousands of sick, dying responders are just claiming that all the rare cancers and other illnesses are solely from exposure/inhalation of conventional, chemical toxins. These sick and dying responders deserve to know the truth of their highly probable radiation exposure. Their physicians may also be better able to help them if this were known.

Please reach out to 9/11 responders and inform them of this crucial information. See that their doctors and lawyers stop the mis- or disinformation they put out, and that radiation exposure is included in the list of things that these people were exposed to. Tell the WTC survivors to reach out to their few surviving brothers and sisters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, before they become history. For it is the same monstrous regime that did this to all these people. And the peoples of the world need to know this. This Ultimate Truth needs to be brought before an international court of law. The American regime must be seen for what it is: “Hitler with nukes and ICBMS.” And the American people must wake up and see the true, hideous nature of their regime—which will, and has, nuked them as readily as it did the Japanese. And American military service people must also be informed that this mass-murdering regime nuked its own servicemen in the Port Chicago nuke of 1944.

The ONLY thing that might wake up both the American masses and the American military to take the appropriate action against the rulers of this evil, illegal, unconstitutional empire is the revelation of the nuking of the WTC, and the China Syndrome Aftermath.

American Nazis: Medical Officers Aided in Torture of Detainees

Fucking evil scum.

Sadly, now Obama is becoming directly complicit in these crimes.

Somali Pirates Hijack U.S.-flagged Ship with 20 American Crew Members Onboard

Oh No They Di'nt!!!!!!

Look for this to dominate the news for a while-- perhaps give Obama some chance at a dramatic military operation.


UPDATE: Or not. They are saying the ship has been retaken:

NAIROBI, Kenya – The American crew of a hijacked U.S.-flagged cargo ship retook the vessel Wednesday from the Somali pirates who seized it far off the Horn of Africa, Pentagon officials said. Capt. Joseph Murphy, an instructor at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, told The Associated Press that he was called by the Department of Defense and told the crew, including his son Shane, the second in command, had regained control.

It's not clear what the Pentagon has to do with all of this if the crew took back the ship?!

UPDATE2: The ship apparently "belonged to a U.S. Department of Defense contractor with "top security clearance," which does a half-billion dollars in annual business with the Pentagon, primarily the Navy. The ship was being operated by an "all-American" crew -- there were 20 U.S. nationals on the ship." That same article gives some interesting background on why the pirates are pirating: they are fisherman upset over foreign ships taking their fish.

Gang Warfare: 40 Years of African American Slaughter in Los Angeles

Another American shame most people would rather ignore. IMO, letting the conditions continue that allow this madness to fester for so long, amounts to a conspiracy on the part of the PTB. Maybe not THE PTB, but some level of PTB.

Massive Cuts Proposed in Pentagon's "Future Combat Systems"

Here.

Nico Haupt must be devastated, as FCS was a key part of his 9/11 scenario and future scams-- at least, as far as I could tell of what he was thinking.

Obama Continues European MIssile Shield Silliness

at the same time saying he'd like to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Memo to Barack-- Iran is NOT even close to developing a nuclear weapon.

UPDATE: Obama escalates spy satellites too.

"Knowing" Movie -- 33 Revealed as the Apocalypse

This recent movie, starring Nicholas Cage, has several 33's and has allusions to "ultimate truths".

One 33 comes in the opening credits -- right before showing Cage's name. Right at the beginning of the movie, a baseball game on the radio has a 3-3 score. Most notably and centrally, the list of catastrophe predicting numbers has a very prominent 33 at the very end! Although this 33 is "translated" as "EE" upside-down and backwards, that stands for "everyone else" or "end everything". And indeed, this set of numbers with the 33/EE predicts the end of the world!

The world is destroyed by a massive solar flare that effectively "nukes" the planet-- and all of humanity. There are several gruesome scenes of cities being blown away by massive fireballs, a la nuclear devastation. However, two human children are saved from the destruction by all-knowing ETs who take the kids away on a space-ship before the solar flare-- and transplant them on a new world.

I was wrong about the Boeing wing being sliced off by electric power line-- it was hard to see in the commercial. The plane does hit a power line but it only damages the wing, it does not sever it. The plane crash scene is pretty cool though-- very well done; an excellent CGI plane crash.

Michael Tsarion-- 2012-- Where History Ends

Drone Attacks Sow Death and Chaos in Pakistan

Besides the incredible shame this brings us-- this can only make Islamic extremism worse.

On The New Thermite Paper By the Steven Jones Gang

by The Anonymous Physicist


The latest thermite paper from Steven Jones, et al, is here. Rawstory has a piece on this article here.

It is in “The Open Chemical Physics Journal”, and is titled, “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe” by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley and Bradley R. Larsen. (Jones and the first author, a Danish chemistry professor, are the ones to whom correspondence is to be sent.)

The usual circular logic of only writing about the thing Jones et al were looking for, and ignoring everything else, persists in this paper. Here I will only point out two things that lay waste to any claims that this paper has any value whatsoever in determining how the WTC was destroyed.

1. There appears to be no chain of custody for all, or nearly all, of the samples of dust analyzed in this paper. The authors state that the samples “were sent” to them. No elaboration is provided. From the article (its third page, or page 9 of that online journal), I count six dust samples were used in their study. Five were somehow sent to various authors. The sixth is said to have been obtained by S Jones from Janette MacKinlay (after she had moved to California), in person and “in the company of several witnesses.” It is good to see that Jones et al appreciate the need for eyewitnesses regarding the veracity of these matters. However this appreciation is only for this one out of the six samples used for this paper. The other five samples are not claimed to be tracked or witnessed throughout their alleged journeys. Because of the lack of a chain of custody, these would be inadmissable in a court of law. E.g., using a hypothetical, what is to have prevented the following possibilities. These samples were either directly sent to the infamous Lawrence Livermore Labs—where they do everything form design WMD that can kill billions of people to remasterminding/altering the Kennedy Assassination audio tapes—where nano-thermite is made, or that they were intercepted along the way by a certain mass murdering regime that wishes to hide the actual nuclear destruction of the WTC, and its China Syndrome Aftermath, and were then doctored by including the authors’ beloved thermite “chips”? Correction: super nano-thermite chips. These could indeed have been made by the LLL and added to at least the five samples.

2. Just as with all the studies done by Gov’t agencies that I have extensively highlighted at these three blogs--

http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com

http://wtc-chinasyndrome.blogspot.com

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/spooked911

-- these authors apparently did not attempt to gauge the dust particle sizes per se. In particular, no effort appears to have been made to ascertain the crucial, smallest dust particle size. While they note the size of grains within some dust, I do not see where they simply attempted to find the smallest dust particle sizes. E.g., if this data had been obtained and if the smallest dust particle size were say 10 nm size, this would have gone a long way towards proving that nuclear bombs were used. But again this study appears to only examine that which it wanted to find-- thermite or super nano-thermite chips.

For these two reasons, this “new” paper is devoid of any new or valuable information. It was quite predictable, as are the similar ones to come. The Op-plan remains obvious for all who are not blind—hide the nuclear destruction of the WTC and the China Syndrome Aftermath.

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists on the Rise

The right is quickly slipping back into its conspiratorial nutjob posture that it had during the Clinton presidency, seeing black helicopters and one world UN government under their beds at every turn.

Of course, the problem is not that they are so wrong about a large conspiracy and the need for a revolution. Rather the problems are that 1) they don't really understand the ultimate nature of the conspiracy, and 2) many of these same people (right-wing Republicans) were completely idiotic in not recognizing the truly insidious dangers posed by the Bush administration.

UPDATE: Of course, I find it despicable that "conspiracy theorists" are so broadly labeled as "nutjobs"-- and a huge problem on the left is this instant demonization of anyone with a conspiracy viewpoint.

An article on the latest gun ownership mania here.

This essay has some interesting observations on the right-wing militia and survivalist movements in the 90's, though the writer clearly eschews any notion that the conspiracy theorists might have some valid points.

The Queen Is an Evil Poisonous Snake

A bit of humor with some basis in truth?

NASA in Turmoil as They Aim for a Moon Landing by 2020

Who knew a NASA director could be so politically controversial? Is this because of deep politics relating to "ultimate truths"-- or something relatively silly? Either way, it will be interesting to see what happens with this new moon quest. Will it be abandoned at some point-- or will we be treated to a higher tech fake moon landing?

Barack Obama's failure to appoint a new chief to run Nasa is fostering an atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty at the US space agency, a leading industry figure has told the Guardian.

The space agency, which is facing one of the toughest periods of its 51-year history, has been without a chief administrator since Michael Griffin stepped down in January, amid newspaper reports of heated arguments with the transition team, which Griffin denied in a memo.

The Obama team had originally hoped to replace Griffin with a retired fighter pilot, Scott Gration, but the nomination was blocked by opponents on Capitol Hill. Since then speculation on potential candidates has been rife, with the latest including Chris Scolese, the agency's acting administrator, and two former astronauts, Mae Jemison and Charles Bolden.

The state of limbo could not have come at a worse time, with Nasa facing fundamental questions about its future. With only eight space shuttle flights left on the books, and a retirement date for the entire fleet penned in for next year, it is not clear how the world's leading space agency will get its astronauts off the ground once the shuttle has been mothballed.

President Obama has inherited a vision for Nasa that would see the agency return astronauts to the moon in 2020, with a more distant goal of a crewed mission to Mars. To do so, Nasa's previous chief drew inspiration from the Apollo project to design two new rockets and a small capsule, collectively known as the Constellation project, which could deliver crews to the International Space Station by 2015, to the moon five years later, and eventually on to Mars.

But the Constellation project has come under fire from some quarters of the industry, who argue the new rockets are behind schedule, over budget and facing more serious engineering problems than anticipated. They want to see Nasa abandon the project, at least in part, and instead convert one of its existing satellite-launching rockets, the Atlas 5 or the Delta 4, into one capable of carrying astronauts.

Another Flight 93 Contradiction

As coroner, responsible for returning human remains, Miller has been forced to share with the families information that is unimaginable. As he clinically recounts to them, holding back very few details, the 33 passengers, seven crew and four hijackers together weighed roughly 7,000 pounds. They were essentially cremated together upon impact. Hundreds of searchers who climbed the hemlocks and combed the woods for weeks were able to find about 1,500 mostly scorched samples of human tissue totaling less than 600 pounds, or about 8 percent of the total.

The plane “went in the ground so fast it didn’t have a chance to burn,” says Jim.

Cremation without burning-- another 9/11 first.

Hudson River Plane Crash, Obama and 333

Interesting.

Synchromysticism: Cryptic Messages in Bad Movies Starring Robin Tunney Edition