Kary Mullis (Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry) on AIDS

We have not been able to discover any good reasons why most of the people on earth believe that AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV. There is simply no scientific evidence demonstrating that this is true.

We have also not been able to discover why doctors prescribe a toxic drug called AZT (Zidovudine) to people who have no other complaint other than the fact that they have the presence of antibodies to HIV in their blood. In fact, we cannot understand why humans would take this drug for any reason.

We cannot understand how all this madness came about, and having both lived in Berkeley, we've seen some strange things indeed. We know that to err is human, but the HIV/AIDS hypothesis is one hell of a mistake.

Kary Mullis (Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry), Foreward to "Inventing the AIDS Virus" by Peter H. Duesberg, 1996

Bio/Technology Journal, 11:696-707, 1993

"The only way to distinguish between real reactions and cross-reactions is to use HIV isolation. All claims of HIV isolation are based on a set of phenomena detected in tissue culture, none of which are isolation and none of which are even specific for retroviruses...We don't know how many positive tests occur in the absence of HIV infection. There is no specificity of the HIV antibody tests for HIV infection."

Bio/Technology Journal, 11:696-707, 1993

from: http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/questioning/questioningthetests.html

US News & World Report, November 23, 1987

"With public health officials and politicians thrashing out who should be tested for HIV, the accuracy of the test itself has been nearly ignored. A study last month by Congress' Office of Technology Assessment found that HIV tests can be very inaccurate indeed. For groups at very low risk -- people who don't use IV drugs or have sex with gay or bisexual men -- 9 in 10 positive findings are called false positives, indicating infection where none exists."

US News & World Report, November 23, 1987

from: http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/questioning/questioningthetests.html

USA Today, October 2 1987

"People who receive gamma globulin shots for chicken pox, measles and hepatitis could test positive for HIV even if they've never been infected. The Food and Drug Administration says that a positive test could be caused by antibodies found in most of America's supply of gamma globulin. Gamma globulin is made from blood collected from thousands of donors and is routinely given to millions of people each year as temporary protection against many infectious diseases. Dr. Thomas Zuck of the FDA's Blood and Blood Products Division says the government didn't release the information because 'we thought it would do more harm than good.'"

USA Today, October 2, 1987

from: http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/questioning/questioningthetests.html

Celia Farber, Impression Magazine, June 21, 199

"Two weeks ago, a 3-year-old child in Winston Salem, North Carolina, was struck by a car and rushed to a nearby hospital. Because the child's skull had been broken and there was a blood spill, the hospital performed an HIV test. As the traumatized mother was sitting at her child's bedside, a doctor came in and told her the child was HIV-positive. Both parents are negative. The doctor told the mother that she needed to launch an investigation into her entire family and circle of friends because this child had been sexually abused. There was no other way, the doctor said, that the child could be positive. A few days later, the mother demanded a second test. It came back negative. The hospital held a press conference where a remarkable admission was made. In her effort to clear the hospital of any wrongdoing, a hospital spokesperson announced that 'these HIV tests are not reliable; a lot of factors can skew the tests, like fever or pregnancy. Everybody knows that.'"

Celia Farber, Impression Magazine, June 21, 1999

from: http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/questioning/questioningthetests.html

Woman Sues St. Paul's

"A Vancouver woman is suing St. Paul's Hospital and several doctors because she was diagnosed as carrying the AIDS virus, when in fact she wasn't. In a BC Supreme Court writ, Lisa Lebed claims when she was admitted to the hospital in late 1995 to give birth to a daughter, a blood sample was taken without her consent. It revealed she was HIV positive, so she gave up the baby girl for adoption and decided to have a tubal ligation. A year and a half later, while undergoing AIDS treatment, she found out she was not HIV positive. The explanation she was given was a lab error. She says because of the negligence of the hospital, she's now sterile and has lost a daughter."

Woman Sues St. Paul's, CKNW Radio 98, June 10, 1999

from: http://www.aliveandwell.org/html/questioning/questioningthetests.html

Elinor Burkett, Is HIV Guilty?

Every American adult should have a small scar on his upper arm or thigh: a smallpox vaccination. Smallpox once was a deadly scourge-killing millions. Vaccinations have virtually wiped it out. It's an ingenious concept: You introduce a minuscule amount of weakened or dead disease-causing bugs into the human system. The body responds by producing antibodies-a natural antidote that neutralizes the invading bug. Once you have the antibodies, you're immune. So why is it such devastating news when a person tests positive for HIV antibodies?

Elinor Burkett, IS HIV GUILTY?, Miami Herald 23 Dec. 1990

AIDS Quote, 21 June 1994

"AIDS will never be cured until we cure the research."

Said at a conference of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco on 21 June 1994.

Karl Thompson, The Possibility of a Cure for AIDS

A cure for AIDS will never materialize within the next ten years, unless mainstream science and pharmaceutical giants shed current dogma and actually look at the facts. But, unfortunately, as in so many other areas of our daily lives, there is too much profit at stake for this to happen.

Karl Thompson, The Possibility of a Cure for AIDS

Quote from The Prestige

'Obsession is a young man's game'

Michael Caine, The Prestige

Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not entirely absurd, indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish that sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Author Unknown

It is easy to believe that something must be true because everyone else believes it. But the truth often only comes to light by daring to question the unquestionable, by doubting notions which are so commonly believed that they are taken for granted.

Author Unknown

Bruce Stokes, CFR Senior Fellow

Globalist think tank explores most effective ways to shift Americans
national identity and ideas of sovereignty into alignment with a
"North American Consciousness" - Panelists see America as the
"greatest obstacle" to "North American Integration"

"This is how we will create a North American consciousness and a true North American Community. It will be forged in the heat of conflict, not through a rational discussion, as painful as that may be. It really cannot happen any other way." - Bruce Stokes, CFR Senior Fellow, speaking at the "Toward a North American Community?" conference, June 11, 2002

Plato on Atlantis

... in a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea."

Plato, 360 BC

Reuters, Martian Soil May Contain Life

By Ben Hirschler

LONDON (Reuters) - The soil on Mars may contain microbial life, according to a new interpretation of data first collected more than 30 years ago.

The search for life on Mars appeared to hit a dead end in 1976 when Viking landers touched down on the red planet and failed to detect biological activity.

But Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, said on Friday the spacecraft may in fact have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface.

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Bruce Cockburn, Call It Democracy

Call it Democracy
by Bruce Cockburn, written Nov. 1985

Padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor

Who rob life of its quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument
who makes the gun into a sacrament --
the only response to the deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
idolatry of ideology

North south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too
trying to make the best of it the way kids do
one day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
to find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
they call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

Horst Albin Poehler, Ph. D., Cassini Cancers

Plutonium is an element that was created by man, and introduced into the environment by man.

Horst Albin Poehler, Ph. D.

Cassini Cancers
("The Plutonium Story")

Horst Albin Poehler, Ph. D, Cassini Cancers

NASA thrives on secrecy and deceit.

Horst Albin Poehler, Ph. D, Cassini Cancers
("The Plutonium Story")

Alan Watt

There is nothing at the moment that will stop people right now from bartering goods. But there are laws in the books that will come in and stop you from bartering. Again this goes back ten years or more, because they say that anyone who barters is really running an 'underground economy' and they're trying to make the people think that because you don't pay taxes on a straight barter, you're robbing 'the public' of getting more tax money to help the public -- this is the con that they're pulling. So, bartering itself is going to come under attack. If your going to swap a bag of corn for a bag of oats, they government wants to get between you because, as far as they're concerned, a third or a half of that bag is theirs.

Alan Watt

Alan Watt

This war on terror being used on the public was decided a long time ago to be used, because it was the fastest way to get the Americans to give up their rights and freedoms. Right after 9/11 happened, the US and Canadian media were talking with the supposed 'man on the street' for weeks and weeks with the same question: "Are you willing to give up your freedoms for greater security?"

Alan Watt

Alan Watt

Science is always compartmentalized. From professorship down is the lowest level of science and knowledge. There's a level above that, that certain students with gifts are brought out of university and pushed up beyond. And there's a level above that. The level at the bottom is called "research" because the search has already been done at the top.

Alan Watt

Alan Watt

In this system -- which keeps us off balance and terrified of poverty, loneliness, sickness, and starvation -- money is given as the key to all our problems. We're trained from birth to run after money. That's what school's only purpose is: to give you a quality approval stamp called a degree or certificate: that means you're stupid enough to work in their system without figuring it out. So, we've all been fooled.
Not just us, every generation before us have all been fooled into working for this global system which is based on usury and compound interest, and this odd little thing that you can't even eat, called money.

Alan Watt

Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows

Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody roles with their fingers crossed.
Everybody knows the war is over,
Everybody knows the good guys lost,
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,
That's how it goes, everybody knows.

Leonard Cohen

"Carnivore"

"The [British] measure... would give the government new powers to require Internet service providers to install 'black box' surveillance systems that would sort and send a range of data and e-mail to a monitoring center controlled by the domestic security service, M.I.5.

"Such systems are also being used in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where the technology is known as Carnivore because it is able to extract the 'meat' quickly from vast quantities of e-mail messages and other communications between computers." [1]

"British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail", New York Times International, 7-19-00

Berit Kjos, Star Wars Joins United Religions at the Presidio

The "Force" is with George Lucas. Literally. Trouncing his competitors, the master of movie magic has won the coveted right to build his Star Wars empire on 23 acres of the Presidio, the former army base overlooking the Golden Gate bridge. Lucasfilm and Lucas Learning Ltd. will share this prize piece of San Francisco real estate with the Gorbachev Foundation, the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, FEMA, the United Religions Initiative (URI), the United Nations Resource Center, and a host of other environmental, spiritual, educational, and governmental organizations.1 Together they share a common crusade: to build a unified, earth-friendly global civilization based on "new" universal beliefs and values.

Star Wars Joins United Religions at the Presidio
by Berit Kjos

2 Corinthians 11:14

For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

2 Corinthians 11:14

1 John 5:19

"The whole world is under the sway of the evil one"

1 John 5:19

Berit Kjos, Molding Human Resources

Do you wonder who really plans your child’s education? What their true motives are?

Molding Human Resources
for the Global Workforce
by Berit Kjos

Berit Kjos, Local Agenda 21

This global contract binds governments around the world to the UN plan for changing the ways we live, eat, learn, and communicate - all under the noble banner of saving the earth. Its regulations would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation - even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas. If implemented, it would manage and monitor all lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information system.

Local Agenda 21
The U.N. Plan for Your Community
By Berit Kjos

Maurice Strong, 1992 UN Conference

"...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable. A shift is necessary. which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations..." 1

Maurice Strong , opening speech at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development

Jonathan Coopersmith, Nuclear waste in space?

For twenty years, the federal government’s preferred solution to the nuclear waste problem is underground disposal, specifically, over 11,000 30–80 ton canisters buried in 160 kilometers of tunnels hundreds of meters underneath Yucca Mountain in northern Nevada. Forty-nine states favor this plan. It’s not hard to guess which state does not.

Nuclear waste in space?
by Jonathan Coopersmith
Monday, August 22, 2005

CAQ.ORG

It is part of the American myth that our major media are objective and unbiased, a mainstay of democracy. We believe, however, that the overwhelmingly dominant corporate media have become merely the voice of an increasingly unilateral and controlled empire, devoted to the indoctrination of the public in the interests of corporate, industrial, military, and ruling powers. There has been, throughout the post-World War II years, little analysis of this phenomenon, little criticism of the myth of the impartial media.

CovertAction Quarterly

Nuclear Fusion, UCAR

Nuclear fusion is a process where two or more nuclei combine to form an element with a higher atomic number (more protons in the nucleus). Fusion is the reverse process of nuclear fission. Fusion reactions power the Sun and other stars.

Fusion releases energy. The energy released is related to Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2.

For a fusion reaction to occur it is necessary to bring the nuclei so close together that nuclear forces become important and "glue" the nuclei together. The nuclear force only acts over incredibly small distances and has to counteract the electrostatic force where the positively charged nuclei repel each other. For these reasons fusion most easily occurs in a high density, high temperature environment.

On Earth, nuclear fusion was first reached in the explosion of the Hydrogen bomb. In a non-destructive manner, fusion has also been reached in different experimental devices aimed at studying the possibility of producing energy in a controlled fashion.

From: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Website

Michael Tsarion on Neural Processing in the Brain

There are 240,000 miles of neural threads in the human brain, enough to stretch from the earth to the moon. On every micrometer of these threads there exist 250,000 units of information. This data is recorded only as pictograms, as composite images, and not as words.

Michael Tsarion

Jerry Mander on the Worship of Graven Images

... the Hebrews emerging between 3000 and 2000 BC won an important political victory by denouncing what they called the "worship of graven images." By destroying the power of the sculptures of the Sumerians, and others who preceded them, they effectively destroyed nature-based religion and the veracity of images.
This made possible the substitution of an abstract, male, human, all-powerful God. Because it was a sin to create any sculpture of it, it maintained its abstract nature.

Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Charles, Prince of Wales

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Charles, Prince of Wales

Cryil Fagan, Astrological Origins

In their desire to appear highly intellectual, scientific and mathematical, the Greeks, probably about the time of Alexander the Great, adopted the solar nomenclature, thereby turning ancient zodiacal symbolism topsy turvy and making it sheer nonsense.

Cyril Fagan, Astrological Origins

Herodotus

... the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course in twelve parts, both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this division. It is also the Egyptians who first brought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them.

Herodotus

Professor Max Mueller

No people ancient or modern has given woman so high a legal status as did the inhabitants of the Nile Valley.

Professor Max Mueller

Vice President Dick Cheney

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us." - Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002

Defining "Genius"

Knowing to believe only half of what you hear is a sign of intelligence. Knowing which half to believe can make you a genius.

Read on an Internet Forum.

Manly P Hall, The Secret Teachings of All the Ages

“Not only were many of the founders of the United States government Masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe which helped them to establish this country for A PECULIAR AND PARTICULAR PURPOSE known only to the intiated few.”

- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, pp. XC and XCI

Bruce Gagon on Weaponization of Space

"We have this one chance, this one moment in history, to stop the weaponization of space from happening."

Bruce Gagon, coodinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

Mr. W. Hickson

"The very idea of a government that can create money for itself allowing banks to create money that the government then borrows and pays interest on is so preposterous that it staggers the imagination."

Mr. W. Hickson, It's Your Money

Denis Kucinich

"More than ½ the homeless families in Iowa are headed by someone who is employed. Congress will not pass an increase in the $5.15 minimum wage even though the inflation adjusted minimum wage is 21% lower today than in 1979. "

"The restoration of the rights of workers in America and throughout the North American continent will begin when we repeal NAFTA. NAFTA has spurred a $360 billion trade deficit, costing 363,000 high paying jobs, most in manufacturing."

"It is no secret that Congress and the Senate did not seek the best interest of working families in passing the North American Free Trade Agreement. There was nothing free about this treaty but it was the greatest theft of jobs in American history. What has your U. S. Senator been doing to repeal this legislation?"

Denis Kucinich, Democratic Representative for Ohio

John F McManus

In his revealing 1994 interview, Cheney stated, "Once you got to Iraq and took it over, and took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place?" Describing the country as "very volatile," he said that after removing Saddam "you can easily end up seeing the pieces of Iraq fly off." He even mentioned the designs Iran would have on the nation. Forecasting the current disaster in Iraq that he has had such a large role in bringing about, he said, "It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq."

Regarding casualties, he noted that many "were impressed" that the coalition had accomplished its mission with only "146 Americans killed in action." Posing the question himself about "how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth," he answered "not very many."

John F McManus, "In 1994, Cheney Predicted That Invading Iraq Would Produce a Quagmire'", 16 August, 2007

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger, for instance, writing in support of NAFTA in a July 18, 1993 op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, said of the agreement : "It will represent the most creative step toward a new world order taken by any group of countries since the end of the Cold War, and the first step toward an even larger vision of a free-trade zone for the entire Western Hemisphere." NAFTA "is not a conventional trade agreement," Kissinger said, "but the architecture of a new international system."

Jeff Lindsay, May 1, 2004

Abraham Lincoln's Own Words on Slavery

"Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not."

"There is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and interfere with the question of slavery at all."

"Judge Douglas, and whoever like him teaches that the negro has no share, humble though it may be, in the Declaration of Independence, is going back to the era of our liberty and independence"

"It is nothing but a miserable perversion of what I have said, to assume that I have declared Missouri, or any other slave State shall emancipate her slaves. I have proposed no such thing."

"It does not follow that social and political equality between whites and blacks, must be incorporated, because slavery must not."

"I say that we must not interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists, because the constitution forbids it, and the general welfare does not require us to do so."

"My paramount object in this struggle, is to save the Union and it not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it..."

"I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Abraham Lincoln

President James Madison

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. As the parent of armies, war encourages debts and taxes, the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended ... The means of defense against a foreign danger historically have become the instruments for tyranny at home.

President James Madison

General Benton K. Partin on Oklahoma City Bombing

When I first saw the pictures of the truck-bomb's assymetrical damage to the Federal Building, my immediate reaction was that the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementing demolition charges at some of the reinforcing concrete column bases ... For a simplistic blast truck-bomb, of the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out in the order of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column A-7 is beyond credulity.

General Benton K. Partin, former head Air Force Weapons Develpment, on Oklahoma City Bombing

William S. Burroughs

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.

William S. Burroughs

Ayn Rand

Criminals are a small minority in any age or community. And the harm they have done to mankind is infinitesimal when compared to the horrors -- the bloodshed, the wars, the persecution, the famines, the enslavements, the wholesale destruction -- perpetrated by mankind's governments. Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is men's deadliest enemy.

Ayn Rand

Anthony J Hilder, Radio Free America

There have been more wars since the creation of the United Nations in 1948, than from the beginning of time up to 1948.

Anthony J Hilder, Radio Free America

Ariel Sharon Aide

World War III is coming whether you like it or not; the 9/11 attacks were just the beginning.

Aide to Ariel Sharon, April 2002

General L.L. Lemnitzer

We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign. We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba ... Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation.

General L.L. Lemnitzer, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

James Bamford

In the Kennedy era, the military elite and Security Services devised "Operation Northwoods" and planned to shoot down two US planes over American soil. There was mention of remote control aircraft being destroyed from the ground. Robert McNamara was also a conspirator.

There was even a plan to sabotage the first manned flight to the moon. John Glenn was to be sacrificed and the blame apportioned to the Cubans.

James Bamford, the Washington Investigative Producer for ABC World News Tonight, and is a leading expert of covert government operations.

Michael Tsarion on Desert Storm

The Iraqi government repeatedly inform western powers that Kuwaitis are illegally slant-drilling oil from the 2 mile 'no man's land' area between the countries. Bake and his office repeatedly tell Saddam Hussein to take whatever action he sees fit to police the area. As soon as he does, the US invades.

US public sanction the slaughter, after hearing Kuwati reports that Saddam Hussein's troops desecrate incubators and kill infants in Kuwait. However the truth later comes out that no such events ever took place.

Michael Tsarion

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

7 May 1915 -- British passenger liner Lusitania is directed to cross the Atlantic and break a German U-boat blockade despite repeated prior attacks and and public warning of unrestricted firing. The Admiralty in London calls off the luxurious flagship's escort and she sails into what a serious historian, who specializes in British naval intelligences says was a trap designed to bring Washington into the war.

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

15 February 1889 -- USS Maine sinks a mysterious explosion in Cuban waters, killing 254 sailors and wounding 59 others. It was called into these waters by General Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Robert E. Lee. The motive for the sinking was to extend American military and economic domination in the Caribbean, and also in the South Pacific through the Philippines. The flames of war were fanned by press giants William Randolf Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer.

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

The US Destroyer Maddox, and one other ship, were reported to have been attacked and sunk by Vietnamese P.T. (Patrol Torpedo) boats ... Lyndon Johnson, the House of Representatives, and the Senate approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which brought America into the Vietnam war, where 3 million Vietnamese people, adn 58,000 Americans died.

The truth later comes out that there was no attack on these ships by Vietnamese Forces.

Len Bracken, Shadow Government

Michael Tsarion, Weapons of Mass Deception

10 August AD 64 -- Emperor Nero burns Rome to the ground, implicating Christians.

15 February 1898 -- William McKinley's Navy blasted its own ships in Havana Harbor to incite war with the Spaniards.

27 February 1933 -- Adolf Hitler orders the burning of the German Reichstag to incite arrests and suppression.

7 May 1915 -- Passenger ship Lusitania sunk brings US into WWI, as planned by complicit government.

7 December 1941 -- Pearl Harbor attack permitted by a complicit President who ordered the removal of the decoding and radar equipment weeks before.

Michael Tsarion, Weapons of Mass Deception

Sens. Frank Church and Charles McMathias

"The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all menas of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans...

"Most [of these laws] remain a a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule.

"While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic."

-- Joint Statement, Sens. Frank Church (D-ID) and Charles McMathias (R-MD) September 30, 1973

James Brooks questions Oliver North

Brooks: "Col. North, in your work at the NSC, were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?"

Sen. Daniel Inouye (Co-chair): "I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch upon that."

Brooks: "I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in the Miami papers and several others that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of an emergency that would suspend the American Constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was the area in which [North] had worked. I believe that it was, and I wanted to get his confirmation."

Inouye: "May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I'm certain arrangements can be made for an executive session."

Senator Jack Brooks, on questioning Oliver North on the Iran-Contra Affair

Michael Tsarion

Democracy, communism, capitalism, socialism, spiritualism: All such systems are merely elaborate experiments in mass control. They do nothing but destroy true freedom and are based on elitism, separatism, and destruction.

Michael Tsarion

Kenneth Boulding, University of Michigan

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of a democratic government.

Kenneth Boulding, University of Michigan

John Dean, Worse than Watergate

History has shown that what our government does to others today, it will do to
Americans tomorrow.

John Dean, Worse than Watergate

Sean Penn, Kilroy's Still Here

And what of the shocking rise in leukemias and other cancers in Iraq due to depleted uranium exposure and of the thousands of unexploded ordinances, both, gifts of U.S. artillery. Will we remember the hundreds of thousands of children who suffered slow and agonizing deaths by diarrhea? These primarily attributed to the U.S.- led sanctions in Iraq, where bombing of water treatment plants and an embargo on chlorine continued to ravage predominantly young victims. We must reflect on the certainty with which we were sold a war on the basis of what we now so expertly call WMDs. We must reflect on the resentment of the world, invited in our positioning ourselves as their police. With Syria, Iran, and North Korea on media hit lists, we must reflect on the availability of funds for violent crusades in the absence of funding crusades for healing the very real suffering of our own people and others.

This is our money I speak of, not theirs. Ours. Our democracy. Our flag. (Lest we forget Enron) but, we see Exxon. We see Bechtel. We see Halliburton. We see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Powell, Rice, Perle, Ashcroft, Murdoch, many. We see no WMDs. We see dead young Americans. We see no WMDs. We see dead Iraqi civilians. We see no WMDs. We see chaos in the Baghdad streets. But no WMDs. We see the disappearance of a murderous Iraqi dictator, who relented his struggle and ran without the use of WMDs.

Sean Penn, Kilroy's Still Here

Published on Friday, May 30, 2003 as a full-page ad in the New York Times

Thomas J Nagy

Over the last two years, I've discovered documents of the Defense Intelligence Agency
proving beyond a doubt that, contrary to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. government intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the country's water supply after the Gulf War. The United States knew the cost that civililan Iraquis, mostly children would pay, and it went ahead anyway ... They primary document, "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities," is dated January 22, 1991. It spells out how sanctions will prevent Iraq from supplying clean water to it's citizens ... This document can be found on the Pentagon's web site.

As these documents illustrate, the United States knew sanctions had the capacity to devastate the water treatment system of Iraq. It knew what the consequences would be: increased outbreaks of disease and high rates of child mortality. And it was more concerned about the public relations nightmare for Washington than the actual nightmare that the sanctions created for innocent Iraqis."

Thomas J Nagy, "The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply"

Published in the September 2001 issue of The Progressive

Mark Crispin Miller, Cruel and Unusual

The right to trial by jury has also been limited by Bush and Co. which now has countless suspects locked up in a global U.S. gulag, awaiting trial -- if there ever should be a trial -- not by jury of their peers but by a military tribunal. Over six hundred of those vanished men (a few boys, penned up for months) are foreign "detainees" incarcerated at Camp Delta in Guantanomo Bay, "the world's worst prison," as one journalist called it. Prisoners are often beaten, tightly chained for hours, fed on nauseating scraps, and otherwise tortured, physically and psychologically -- the Muslims ... forced to watch prostitutes caress themselves, and all detainees tormented with disinformation and incessant threats (There are also death chambers in the compound, so that anyone found guilty can be executed right nearby).

Mark Crispin Miller, Cruel and Unusual

Machiavelli, The Prince

Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 17

Emperor Caligula

Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us as long as they fear us.

Emperor Caligula

John Loftus

"Every great family has its scandal. The Bush family's scandal is that they funded Hitler and profited from the Holocaust."

John Loftus, 2003, Justice Department War Crimes Prosecutor

Senator Jesse Helms

"The influence of establishment insiders over our foreign policy has become a fact of life in our time ... It is an influence which, if unchecked, could ultimately subvert our constitutional order."

Senator Jesse Helms

Gore Vidal, Dreaming War

... the Media was assigned its familiar task of inciting public opinion against Osama Bin Laden, still not the proven mastermind. These media blitzes often resemble the magicians classic gesture of distraction ...

Gore Vidal, Dreaming War

Gore Vidal, Dreaming War

President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to limit the Congressional investigation into the events of September 11, Congressional and White House Sources told CNN. The request was made at a private meeting with Congressional Leaders ...

Gore Vidal, Dreaming War

John Swinton

"There is no such thing as an independent press in America at this date of the world's history. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.

"I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

"We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings, and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men.

"We are intellectual prostitutes."

John Swinton, Editor-in-chief of the New York Times, The Annual Dinner of the New York Press Club in 1953

Jerry Falwell

"Blow them all away in the name of the Lord."

Jerry Falwell,

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson, 7 April 1775

Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity and both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway

Carl Gustav Jung

“Nothing has such a convincing effect as a lie one invents and believes oneself.”

Carl Gustav Jung

Paul Levy, Breaking Bush's Spell

George Bush is a master hypnotist who skillfully puts people under his ‘spell.’ Bush ‘charms’ people, dis-arming and entrancing them, so that they will trust him and give their power away to him. Bush ‘hooks’ people by playing with their fears, which is how he is able to control and manipulate them. By evoking a primitive emotion such as fear, Bush de-potentiates the linear and logical part of the brain, and speaks directly to the reptilian, right part of the brain which is pre-verbal and has to do with our primal, animal instincts for survival.

Bush mesmerizes people by using simple, repetitive phrases. To quote Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels “Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious…..keep repeating them in this simplified form despite the objections of the intellectuals.” Bush’s talking points, his buzz words, are his ‘incantations.’ These ‘magic words’ act as opiates to the fearful masses. To quote ex-Harvard University President James Bryant Conant “Some of mankind’s most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.” This is, again, the power of the word. And how do we make a word? We ‘spell’ it.

Paul Levy, Breaking Bush's Spell

Vladimir Lenin

Call your enemy what you are, and always tell the exact opposite of the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

Abraham Lincoln

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war."

Abraham Lincoln, letter to Col William F Elkins, 21 Nov. 1864

Gore Vidal

... it has been no secret that Corporate America openly and generously pays for our presidential elections ... they also own the Media, which is kept well-nourished by disinformation from executive-controlled secret agencies like the CIA.

Gore Vidal

John Dean (Worse than Watergate)

Paul O'Neill -- who was a member of the National Security Council as well as being in charge of fiscal policy -- made a shocking revelation to Ron Suskind that not only are public events scripted, but even cabinet (and other) meetings within the White House with the President are scripted, where everyone but Bush has speaking parts. Bush's role is merely to nod or listen expressionlessly, aside from his occasional cryptic (or cynical comments) ...

John Dean, Worse than Watergate

Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

— Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

Michael Tsarion

The idea of any cult, and certainly the idea of any government apparatus, is to ultimately kill the "human," i.e., to destroy the human aspect of us, so that the "ism" or the "ology" may survive, live, and thrive.

Michael Tsarion

Leo Tolstoy

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Leo Tolstoy

Tiresias

It is but sorrow to be wise, when wisdom profits not.

Tiresias to Oedipus, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany

It would not be impossible to prove, with sufficient repetition and psychological understanding of the people concerned, that a square is, in fact, a circle.

— Joseph Goebbels
Propaganda Minister
Nazi Germany

Helena Blavatsky

What is one to do when, in order to rule men, it is necessary to deceive them?

— Helena Blavatsky
The Secret Doctrine

Mercola.com

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

P.J. O'Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Pericles (430 B.C)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.

Unknown

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

Thomas Jefferson

From Mercola.com

Sir Alex Fraser Tyler

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back to bondange.

Sir Alex Fraser Tyler, 1742-1843, Scottish jurist and historian
from The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic (1799).

Charles Fort

"An opinion is a matter of evidence, but evidence is a matter of opinion."

—Charles Fort

Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society

If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. ... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell

The Impact of Science on Society (1951)

Bertrand Russell

"It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise."

Bertrand Russell

Sir Thomas Malthus

It is an evident truth that, whatever may be the rate of increase in the means of subsistence, the increase in population must be limited by it, at least after the food has been divided into the smallest shares that will support life. All the children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to this level, must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the deaths of grown persons. ... To act consistently, therefore, we should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavouring to impede, the operation of nature in producing this mortality, and if we dread the too frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, which we compel nature to use.

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the country we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations. But above all, we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases: and those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought they were doing a service to mankind by projecting schemes for the total extirpation of particular disorders. If by these and similar means the annual mortality were increased ... we might probably every one of us marry at the age of puberty and yet few be absolutely starved.

Sir Thomas Malthus, Principles of Population

R.W. Thompson, Ex-Secretary, American Navy

"[The Jesuits] are the deadly enemies of civil and religious liberty."

R. W. Thompson (Ex-Secretary, American Navy)

John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S.A.

"My history of the Jesuits is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities, [and] is very particular and very horrible. Their [the Jesuit Order’s] restoration [in 1814 by Pope Pius VII] is indeed a step toward darkness, cruelty, despotism, [and] death. … I do not like the appearance of the Jesuits. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of [Ignatius de] Loyola."

John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd President of the United States)

Abraham Lincoln

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow?

"Never.

"All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer that if it ever reach us, it must spring from amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be the authors and finishers.

"As a nation of free men, we must live through our times or die by suicide."

Abraham Lincoln

Dr. Henry Kissinger

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."

-- Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991.

Hermann Goering, Nazi Leader

“Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

– Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.

Benjamin Franklin

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

– Benjamin Franklin, 1759

James A. Garfield

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

-- James A. Garfield

Commission on Government Security, 1960.

"Secrecy - the first refuge of incompetents - must be at bare minimum in a democratic society, for a fully informed public is the basis of self-government. Those elected or appointed to positions of executive authority must recognize that government, in a democracy, cannot be wiser than the people."

- Commission on Government Security, the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives, 1960 Report

Reference: House Committee on Government Operations, Availability of Information From Federal Departments and Agencies, 86th Cong., 2d sess., 1960, House Rept. 86-2084, 36.
from Appendix A - "SECRECY - A Brief Account of the American Experience", Section 8. A Culture of Secrecy, in the 1997 Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, which is US Senate Document # 105-2 of the 103rd Congress

Dr. Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

Dr. Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )

The Honorable Paul Hellyer

"Without monetary reform the whole economic superstructure will sink deeper and deeper into debt."

The Honorable Paul Hellyer

George Bernard Shaw

"If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion"

- George Bernard Shaw

John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free...."

— John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787

Howard Freeman

UCC 1-207 REVIEW

It is so important to know and understand the meaning of Without prejudice' UCC 1-207, in connection with your signature, that we should go over this once more. It is very likely that a judge will ask you what it means. So please learn and understand this carefully: The use of -'Without prejudice' UCC 1-207,' in connection with my signature indicates that I have reserved my Common Law right not to be compelled to perform under any contract that I did not enter into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally. And furthermore, I do not accept the liability associated with the compelled benefit of any un-revealed contract or commercial agreement. Once you state that, it is all the judge needs to hear. Under the Common Law, a contract must be entered into knowingly, voluntarily and intentionally, by both parties, or it can be declared void and unenforceable. You are claiming the right not to be compelled to perform under any contract that you did not enter into knowingly, voluntarily and intentionally. And you do not accept the liability associated with the compelled benefit of any unrevealed contract or agreement. The compelled benefit is the privilege to use Federal Reserve Notes to discharge your debts with limited liability rather than to pay your debts with silver coins. It is a compelled benefit, because there are no silver coins in circulation. You have to eat, and you can only buy food with the medium of exchange provided by the government. You are not allowed to print your own money, so you are compelled to use theirs. This is the compelled benefit of an unrevealed commercial agreement. If you have not made a valid, timely and explicit reservation of your rights under UCC 1-207, and you simply exercise this benefit rendered by government, you will be obligated, under an implied agreement, to obey every statute, ordinance and regulation passed by government, at all levels--federal, state and local.

Howard Freeman

Thomas Jefferson

"A country cannot be both ignorant and free..."

Thomas Jefferson