BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT, the official 9/11 story is very very wrong.

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Please see here for an overview of the 9/11 Frame-Up. Summary: they faked the plane crashes, they faked the videos, and they nuked the towers.

"The powers that be" are very sick, evil creatures.
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How Massively Overhyped Is the Terror Threat?

The chance of being in a US plane with an attempted terror attack is 1 in 10,000,000. That is 20 times less likely than being hit by lightning.

Obviously the PTB want to play up the threat, to panic people, and get them to submit to more evil policies. But the people who fall for this bullshit, are just pathetically stupid.

But even more than that, I haven't been so thoroughly disgusted with this country's politicians and media and foreign policies in quite a while. It truly makes me physically ill to think about this bullshit too much, and to consider the absolutely outrageous prospect that we are going to bomb the shit out of another country over this.

The 23 Year-Old Nigerian Airliner Patsy, Part II-- Remarkable Similarities with Another 23-Year Old Patsy

by The Anonymous Physicist


At the end of Part I below, I related that the Nigerian Intel patsy, Abdulmutallab, may well be involved (likely unknowingly) in very deep matters— matters related to the most ultimate of truths as depicted here.


I realize that some may not want to realize that some or many of the nefarious deeds perpetrated by the USA or Britain relates to such Ultimate Truths. That, of course, is something that some of my readers have overcome; others will find out “the hard way.” But the saga of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has much in common with another 23 year-old. This is Lee Harvey Oswald, who in his own words was “just a patsy.” Mark Lane’s book, Plausible Denial, made clear that it was common knowledge at CIA Headquarters that Oswald was an agent. Likely, since he was a Marine, he was also an ONI asset. Like the young Nigerian, Oswald had publicly and loudly proclaimed for years that he was a “Marxist-Leninist.” Though videotape of him saying that on New Orleans TV showed he couldn’t help but make faces indicating that he found that repugnant, and was not a good liar.

In my sex slave chapter and article, I noted that Oswald’s mother had apparently given him over to the Intel agencies at a young age. I believe I was the first to hypothesize that LHO was a sex slave, and a courier. Oswald had encounters with the notorious pederast David Ferrie, and it is alleged that Oswald “met” with the Russian ambassador to Japan when Oswald was stationed at the Atsugi AF base. That base was involved in U-2 flights over the USSR. Oswald was building up his legend for several years, before he was used as a patsy in the Kennedy Assassination. His laughable “defection” to the USSR, his marriage to a KGB Colonel’s niece, and his “impossible release” just after Kennedy signaled that there would be no war on Vietnam all indicate that the Intel agencies of the USSR and the USA were working together. This, of course, should not be a surprise, as both are controlled by MI6, and the secret societies that control MI6 itself. Indeed I have earlier noted that Premier Khrushchev’s mistress was an MI6 female agent— likely giving him his orders.

But the life, and death, of young Lee Harvey Oswald, is ultimately related to the most ultimate of truths I have revealed here— undoubtedly without Oswald knowing such things. First Oswald was involved in maintaining the Cold War with the bogus ruse that he gave knowledge on how to shoot down the U-2 spy plane. And we had the USSR allegedly shooting down a U-2, as President Eisenhower was preparing to meet with Premier Khrushchev, in 1959. The summit was to be about ending the Cold War, before it ever got hot. Trillions of dollars and millions of lives could have been saved, if fruitful talks occurred then. Officially again the world “knows” that the Soviet Union shot down the U-2 piloted by Gary Powers, and the summit was never held. However, former Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the Air Force’s liaison with the CIA, revealed that Powers’ U-2 was not shot down, it had deliberately been short-fueled, and it landed intact in the USSR!

But the legend of the patsy, Oswald would be used to claim that he revealed secrets to the USSR that led to the sabotage of the summit, and the failure to end the Cold War in 1959. Just a few years later, Oswald was used again, as a patsy in the assassination of President Kennedy just a few months after Kennedy had basically DECLARED PEACE. The patsy, Oswald had been extensively used in the months leading up to the murder, to paint an elaborate picture of him as a “lone-nut Communist.” Of course, many have pointed out the absurdities of the legend. His being allowed to re-enter the US, the lack of surveillance, etc., etc. Even Fidel Castro gave a speech, the very night of the Assassination releasing all this and declaring that Oswald must have been a tool of the American intelligence agencies. Killing the Peace President assured that trillions of dollars would be used to manufacture tens of thousands of nuclear bombs and ICBMS, all for the purpose I released at this blog and in my book cited above-- Quarantine escape by the monsters that created us and have been in control of us ever since.

Now the other 23 year-old patsy, also has a loud and long legend of his publicly proclaiming his religious dogma and his hatred of the USA, and his desire to join Al Qaeda (Al-CIA-Duh.) Like Oswald, Abdulmutallab can come and go—even without a passport—and he wasn’t on the no-fly list.

An additional analogy between the two patsies is that there now appears to be (at least) two very different people in various photos alleging to be Abdulmutallab. The American Gestapo Regime, did the same thing in the matter of Oswald. In fact, the Regime continues to claim that Oswald went to Mexico City shortly before the Assassination, and was photographed outside the Russian Embassy, and is this heavier-stocked man! Indeed in my sex slave chapter and article, I detailed the research of John Armstrong, who showed how Oswald had a Doppleganger since a child!

So let me be perhaps the first to ask— Did/Does Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab have a Doppleganger? As with Saddam Hussein, will the double be executed, or thrown in jail for the rest of his life? Of course, with both these patsies, the obvious bogus nature of these photographic claims indicates again that the Gestapo Regime wants those who can think to realize that the story is bogus, and that the Regime itself is the guilty party. Thus these bogus patsies are part of what has been called the MITOP (Made It Transparent On Purpose) PsyOp.

And here by the way, is a photo of Abdulmutallab’s father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab. Wikipedia now says that he is “one of the richest men in Africa.” I ask him, Was it worth it, you slime, to give over your son to the Gestapo agencies of England and the USA, since he was a child?

So my final assertion that he may be being used for “ultimate” reasons, in analogy to Oswald, is not so far fetched. Of course, if the analogy runs to its conclusion, he may not be long for this world. I hope for his sake that I am wrong, as he probably has led a miserable private life— likely given over to MI6 by his father at a young age. Likely he has undergone a lifetime of tortures of various kinds. Likely some of this having taken place in London.

The young Oswald was a father of two babies. That did not stop the Intel filth and secret society filth that runs this country from killing him. To her credit, his widow, Marina Oswald has declared the USA a fascist state in recent decades, and that her husband had no part in killing Kennedy.

Who will speak up for 23 year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (UFA) should the American Gestapo agencies kill this latest patsy in some clever way? So this poor, tortured patsy is likely being used, as was Lee Harvey Oswald for some sinister, Ultimate, and hidden, Truth that relates to what “everything” has been about. We will watch as events unfold both with UFA’s life, and with the Uranium in Nigeria.

Ultimately we are all patsies until we revolt before it is too late. They plan to kill us all anyway. That is the real lesson to be learned from Oswald and Abdulmutallab.

The Nigerian (MI6?) Airline “Bomber”/Patsy

by The Anonymous Physicist

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, was charged, in a University of Michigan Hospital, late on December 26, with attempting to destroy an Airbus A330-330 [note the double 33] aircraft during its final approach to the Detroit airport, on a flight that originated in the Netherlands, on Christmas day. The suspect was being treated for burns. His hands were bandaged, and he stated that he could not afford an attorney, (despite having a wealthy father.) Some reports state that his thighs were burned as well. Reports allege that the suspect was overpowered by other passengers after his “device failed to properly detonate.” The suspect began his journey in Lagos.

The amazing FBI was ready with an almost instant chemical analysis! “An initial FBI analysis found the device contained PETN, also known as pentaerythritol, one of the explosives carried by "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in his failed attempt to blow up a U.S. passenger jet months after the September 11, 2001 attacks.” Note that while PETN is being touted as a great explosive, Wikipedia also notes that it is a “vasodilator, similarly to nitroglycerin. A medicine for heart disease, Lentonitrat, is nearly pure PETN.”

The Wall Street Journal reports— based on several unnamed investigating officials and White House officials— that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab said he was given the device and instructions by Al Qaeda operatives in the recently American-bombed-from-the-sky nation of Yemen: On Friday, he told investigators he had affiliations with al Qaeda and was trying to blow up the plane, according to a U.S. official. "We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism," said a White House official. Mr. Abdulmutallab told investigators he was given the device by al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, along with detonation instructions, the official said. "This guy claims he is tied to al Qaeda, specifically in Yemen," the official said. "He claims he was on orders from al Qaeda in Yemen. Who knows if that's true?" (Emphasis added here.) It’s nice to know that this unnamed White House official doubts the veracity of the palaver he is ordered to put out.

But much of this alleged bomber’s tale reeks of the stench of London’s Intel agencies, MI5/6. The suspect’s father is the recently retired ex-CEO of the largest bank in Nigeria, First Bank. But far less reported is that the father, Alhaji Mutallab, was “Federal Commissioner for Economic Development in the Murtala/Obasanjo administration.” So we learn that the father was a high federal, Nigerian official in a field that undoubtedly is linked to the notorious international “lending agencies” such as the World Bank. It is well known that the latter’s lending policies have been geared to bankrupt and takeover the nations it appears to help, via its loans. And they are undoubtedly linked to intelligence agencies and the secret societies that control these agencies.

The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had recently completed a mechanical engineering degree at a London college. He had lived at his family’s residence in the London area, which was described as being on a block of mansions. The above-cited Nigerian newspaper, Thisday, said that he “had been noted for his extreme views on religion since his secondary school days at the British International School, [in] Lome, Togo.” Indeed most media reports noted that his father had reported his son’s “extremist views” to American authorities, “SIX MONTHS AGO.” This I find strange for several reasons. First most fathers would not turn in their sons to foreign authorities especially of a nation— that most people around the world now understand— is itself a terrorist state with a claimed hegemony over the entire world. Most fathers also would not do this without their sons actually having done something wrong, not just based on their alleged beliefs or mere words. After the alleged attempted bombing, the father was said to have been extensively questioned by Nigeria’s SSS. (States Security Services).

But a closer look at Abdulmutallab’s alma mater is revealing. The University College London (UCL) also offers a Masters Degree in “Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism.” Instructors or advisers include none other than “senior practitioners” from MI6, and other similar agencies. Ah, there’s nothing like having your subordinate agents either in your class, or right next door, to save one from having to ride the tube (subway.)

Then we learn that while Britain did not allow Abdulmutallab to return to Britain, the U.S. “Homeland” agencies did not place him on the no-fly list—despite receiving the information they had from his father. Indeed, after the alleged plane incident, the above-cited Nigerian paper noted that the father “was surprised that after his reports to the US authorities, the young man was allowed to travel to the United States.” Despite having a million-strong no-fly list—with many of those on it never having done or said anything “wrong,”— this alleged terrorist-leaning person was given a valid Visa to the U.S. according to Netherlands authorities from whence his last flight originated.

But now we learn that an eyewitness, Kurt Haskell of Newport, Michigan, saw our suspect try to board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, in Amsterdam WITHOUT A PASSPORT! Mr, Haskell, an attorney who has worked for the Internal Revenue Service, also stated that he saw that the young Mr. Abdulmutallab was accompanied by a 50-ish, very well-dressed, apparently Indian man whose “explanation” apparently enabled Abdulmutallab to board the plane without a passport! The well-dressed chap said, “He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.” The ticketing agent then referred the two men to her manager down the hall. Well now we see that all that is needed to subvert the usually, amazingly effective airline security systems is to imply that you are a Sudanese refugee. But it probably helped to flash an MI6 badge, or such. Mr. Haskell had apparently put his story on the internet immediately. If he is genuine, this may have been very wise…

So to this author, it would appear that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is likely an Intel agency patsy with a long legend as a supporter of the fictitious Al Qaeda (Al-CIA-duh). And that he and/or his father are likely assets or agents of England’s MI6. His father may have given his son over for indoctrination at a very young age, as I have detailed in my article on sex slaves. And note the six months factor! Recall my exposé in the Michael Jackson murder. I noted that Ian Halperin, a Canadian “journalist” whose works are always published in the London rags, had predicted that Jackson would be dead six months later. And exactly six months later, plus one day, MJ died. I had predicted that the alleged reasons Halperin gave for MJ’s upcoming demise— severe lung disease— would be proven false. I was proven right after the autopsy. (He had no lung disease.) The strange actions of Jackson’s physician, Dr. Murray, are indicative of either negligent, or deliberate, murder. But the point here is that the British Intel agencies apparently think that six months is sufficient time to allay suspicions of their involvement in their coming Black Ops.

Now just as the fictitious Al Qeada was used as an excuse to recently bomb Yemen, from the sky by American “drones,” we must ask will this patsy-bomber being Nigerian now be used for more overt, and large-scale, Ops against the people and nation of Nigeria? Recent turmoil there is allegedly due to their large oil deposits. But there is actually oil nearly everywhere. Digging deeper, I found that Nigeria, currently may have the world’s largest Uranium deposits!

And the nuking of the World Trade Center, on 9/11/01, by the American regime, under British control, tells us that the real PTB continue to prize fissionable material, such as Nigeria has in abundance, more than any other “natural resource.” Indeed the use of many small nuclear devices, emplaced in those towers, may have revealed the ultimate reasons for getting much of Mankind to live and/or work in large buildings, and in large cities…

Nausea-Inducing NYTimes Article

KAILUA, Hawaii — Barack Obama is the first president in more than 20 years to escape the confines of the White House and Camp David for Christmas. But when you are commander in chief, the White House has a way of finding you anyway.

Mr. Obama was singing Christmas carols with his family at their secluded Hawaiian beachfront getaway on Friday when a military aide interrupted with news of an attempted terrorist attack aboard an American airliner, an aide said. Mr. Obama excused himself to get on a secure telephone line installed just for his visit in case of emergencies like this.

The foiled attack on a jet bound for Detroit served as a reminder, in case one was needed, that a president can never completely check out of the day job, particularly in the post-Sept. 11 era. The federal government moves vast quantities of staff and equipment to make sure that a president can do the job anywhere.

But the optics of presidential vacations are trickier, particularly in a time of war and economic trouble. Even if the Northwest Airlines passenger had not tried to set off an incendiary device, at a time when 30,000 more troops have been ordered to Afghanistan and one in 10 Americans is out of work, Mr. Obama risked sending an incongruent message by spending 10 days in a five-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot beachfront estate that reportedly rents for $4,000 a night and is on the market for $8.9 million.

“The president works hard day in and day out, and the American people recognize that,” said Bill Burton, a White House spokesman. “And I think the American people also recognize that it makes sense for the commander in chief to recharge his batteries, even though he’s never fully off duty.”

First, why should some dumb lunatic on a plane be something of major concern for the president??? Second of all, anyone in any position of responsibility always has to work some on a vacation, so big fucking deal. Third, $4,000 is fucking outrageous if it is on the taxpayers tab. And if it isn't, who IS paying for it and what do they want in return???

Nigerian Plane Bomber Clearly a Set-up

U.S. knew of suspect for 2 years.

Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport.

Why was he ever allowed to fly? Syringe bomber had been barred from Britain, was on a terror list and even his father had warned U.S.

As Bullshit Restrictions on Airplane Passengers Increase

so do bullshit restrictions on American civil liberties:

With key sections of the U.S. Patriot Act set to expire Dec. 31, the Obama administration - essentially tiptoeing through the corridors of Congress and using the raucous health care debate as cover - has quietly maneuvered for renewal of the controversial provisions, which he opposed as a senator.

It Should Be Obvious to Everyone by Now: The War on Terror Is a Failure!!!!

Even by the official story of terrorism* -- if 8 years on from 9/11, they are still trying to fucking kill us on planes, we have fucking wasted our time trying to stop terrorism.**

Can we please stop trying to kill muslims now?????


*and of course, we all know better

**AND OF COURSE IN REALITY, WE MADE THINGS WORSE

Endless War, Endless Propaganda

Iraq war veteran speaks some imortant truth on the war:

Obscene $626 billion Pentagon funding bill recently passed House and Senate. Interestingly, oddly, votes against it were 33 in the Senate, 34 in the House.

Obama's disgraceful "peace" speech: nothing about US refusal to negotiate monitoring of biological weapons, US refusal to sign landmine treaty.

Endless propaganda about killing terrorists, when the US is the one doing the terrorism.

Endless bogus terror threats: initial reports of firecrackers being set off in a plane, have morphed into a London-based student affiliated with al-CIA-duh setting off a improvised bomb that failed on an Airbus 330. Check out this bizarre description of the incident from Rawstory: "Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, is hoping the foiled attack on Northwest Airlines Airbus A330 will help President Barack Obama "connect the dots."" Northwest Airlines Airbus A330??? Is there any reason besides wanting a 33 here to have this ridiculous sentence?

UPDATE: Oh for gods sake:

Among other steps being imposed, passengers on international flights coming to the United States will apparently have to remain in their seats for the last hour of a flight without any personal items on their laps. Overseas passengers will be restricted to only one carry-on item aboard the plane, and domestic passengers will probably face longer security lines.

Jesse Ventura’s Third “Conspiracy Theory” Episode: On Surveillance

by The Anonymous Physicist

The latest TruTV Conspiracy Theory episode was on the ubiquitous surveillance of American citizens. Some of the usual things were cited: RFID chips, watching cameras on every block in some cities, Big Brother knowing where you at all times, and what you are buying or doing at all times, etc. One surveillance expert informed us of some of the latest technology. He can toss a small rock on your lawn, and its electronics can learn everything about the inhabitants of your home. Or he can get an electronic bug, placed in a real bug, onto your car and know everything you are saying in, or around, your car.

Then much of the program was about InfraGard— short for Infrastructure Guarding, or such. Matthew Rothschild, writer/editor for Progressive magazine, first reveals this organization with its 32,000 Americans (mostly “business leaders” or such, working with the FBI. (I do not know if Matthew is related to “those Rothschilds.”) Then Rothschild states that he was told by an InfraGard member that their membership will have “authorized power,” after martial law is declared, to use deadly force against other Americans; and that Martial Law will definitely occur in the U.S. Wikipedia-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfraGard -- states that “InfraGard is a program run by the United States Federal government, which partners Federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies with private corporations, so that they can share intelligence information with each other. As of December 2009, there were over 34,000 corporations and government agencies who were members.” Note that Rothschild’s 2008 Progressive article on InfaGard stated they had 23,000 members, and the Ventura show said 32,000, but the ever-updated Wikipedia lists the more ominous 34,000. I was the first to state/opine that while 33 relates to “all things nuclear” which is itself a subset of matters related to Quarantine escape, the “34” seems to relate to post-Quarantine escape matters. The latter, IMO, will either mean total annihilation of the Earth and all it inhabitants if Q-escape succeeds; and if Q-escape fails—as all other attempts have— to a world of more blatant control, torture, and extermination of the masses.

Most of this show was on InfraGard, and included several interviews of its members. Rothschild also tells us that InfraGard has 86 chapters in the USA and was set up in 1996 by President Clinton. InfraGard’s website is here: http://www.infragard.net/. It informs us that you too can become a member! Or you can at least apply at their page here: http://www.infragard.net/member.php. It lets us know that to have a successful application, you (ominously) must “Have sponsorship from an existing InfraGard member, chapter, or partner organization.” Then it reveals a perhaps shocking bit of information on the “protected information” it releases to its members.

“Protected information” appears to be a form of classified information. Indeed, its membership criteria already lets us know that those who have certain classified access authorizations are automatically guaranteed membership in InfraGard. But InfraGard, at its site, states, “If accepted as a member of InfraGard, Applicant may receive information that is sensitive and not publicly available (“Protected Information”)... Protected Information is provided as a service to InfraGard members and may be unevaluated and unverified. As such Protected Information is not guaranteed to be accurate, complete, or actionable.”

InfraGard's logo is interesting and seems revealing (see above). We see some portion of the American flag along with two cogs. In the center we see the US Congress building, and it is shown atop what looks like a fascist column, with three vertical cutouts on it. Is the hidden message and motto "you all should be good cogs in the wheel of a fascist Amerika."

The show contains Ventura having ludicrous, set-up “arguments” with his “crack staff” of “experts.” One, Michael, declares that this all this is necessary to “counter terrorists.” Never does Ventura simply come out and counter that with the fact that the U.S. Gov’t is the actual terrorist to it’s own people, and to the world. Indeed this show, like previous ones, often uses the hangouts that its all about money, or private corporations greed, etc. Nowhere does Ventura cite how IBM went into Nazi Germany shortly after the Nazis came to power (but the Nazis were created by the British intel agencies/secret societies). IBM used its “pre-computer,” or quasi-computer technology—called Hollerith—to find, and catalog, all those who were to be exterminated in coming years. (See Edwin Black’s award-winning, book [read here], IBM and the Holocaust,http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

The show does not state that the ubiquitous surveillance of Americans may have a similar ultimate purpose!

The final interviewee is David Williams, the OKC [Oklahoma City] InfraGard Director. He was an MP in he armed services, and then a Texas Sheriff. He ends up whipping out a copy of the US Constitution to show Ventura and the cameras. But he cringes and looks away when Ventura says, “...just as long as you don’t step on that Bill of Rights, while you’re doing all this...”. But curiously, when Ventura traveled to OKC, he went to the Murrah building bombing cite, and present memorial. He said absolutely nothing about the real, and conspiratorial, nature of the explosion. Eyewitnesses have said there were several explosions, possibly that they were even micro-nukes, which Bill Deagle, M.D. has said he was told by an Army member/patient who was involved in removing several unexploded micro-nukes during the aftermath.

The FBI— partner of InfraGard— refused to be interviewed. Ventura ends with, “Watch out, Big Brother is everywhere.” TruTV lets us know that next week’s episode will be on Secret Societies. We see excerpts. Alex Jones will be on, and “carrying on.” We see him tell Ventura that “they want you dead, Governor.” (If that were true, he would be dead.)

To sum up, this show (while not as bad as previous ones) once again, presented a very watered down view of a conspiracy matter—NOT letting us know what is really going on, and the likely, ultimate, horrific purposes for what is really happening.

Al-CIA-Duh Alert: Tipping Off the Assets

A story from about a week ago, but still important:

WASHINGTON – Insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from Predator drones, a key weapon in a Pentagon spy system that serves as the military's eyes in the sky for surveillance and intelligence collection. (snip) Obtaining the video feeds can provide insurgents with critical information about what the military may be targeting, including buildings, roads and other facilities. (snip) The interception, first done there at least a year ago, was possible because the remotely flown planes had unprotected communications links.

Within the last several months, the military has found evidence of at least one instance where insurgents in Afghanistan also monitored U.S. drone video, a second defense official said.
(snip) The Predator, also currently used in the hunt for al-Qaida and other militants in Pakistan, Somalia and elsewhere, can fly for hours remotely controlled by pilots thousands of miles away. It can fly armed or unarmed, and is part of a growing arsenal of such craft that includes the Reaper and Raven as well as a new, high-tech video sensor system called the Gorgon Stare, being installed on Reapers.

The military has known about the vulnerability for more than a decade, but assumed adversaries would not be able to exploit it.

Weren't these used to look for "al Qaeda" several years before 9/11? And how freaking hard is it to encrypt a video feed?

It seems the obvious conclusion is that someone in the military/CIA wanted the feeds to be hacked, in order to tip off the terrorist assets where the drones were.

So Much for Swine Flu?

Either:
a) the PTB have trouble making a truly deadly flu virus, or
b) the media-political complex have a collective orgasm over the prospect of a massively deadly flu pandemic, or
c) most likely, the main goal of the pandemic was to have millions (60 million Americans) of people get poisoned with the swine flu vaccine.

Interesting that now even Obama and his family have supposedly gotten the vaccine.

Going After "Rahmpant" Corruption

Interesting:

Jane Hamsher, Grover Norquist Call for Rahm Emanuel’s Resignation
By: Jane Hamsher Wednesday December 23, 2009 12:17 pm

Today, Grover Norquist and I are calling for an investigation into Rahm Emanuel’s activities at Freddie Mac, and the White House’s blocking of an Inspector General who would look into it.

Goldman Sucks: More Outrage

While this may be "smart business", it's clear that Goldman Sachs has no sense of public decency:

As if billions in cash and government guarantees wasn't enough, it turns out investment bank Goldman Sachs will also be sucking on the taxpayers' teat when employees move into their slick new digs at the corner of West and Vesey in Manhattan next year.

The New Goldman Sachs World Headquarters -- a 43-story office tower next to the World Trade Center site -- is being built with the help of millions of dollars from taxpayers, Bloomberg news service reports.

The company that has been the focus of populist anger since the TARP bailout last year took advantage of programs the government set up to revitalize lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks. Setting up shop next to the WTC qualified Goldman Sachs for $49 million in "job-grant funds, tax exemptions and energy discounts," Bloomberg's Christine Harper reported.

Additionally, because then-Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson raised concerns about security at the site, the city and state gave the construction project an additional $66 million in benefits. And the investment bank was also allowed to sell tax-free some $1.6 billion of Liberty Bonds -- bonds created to fund the effort to rebuild lower Manhattan. That allowed Goldman Sachs to avoid taking out a commercial loan for that amount of money, saving it an additional $175 million over 30 years, according to the Bloomberg report.

The New York Daily News reported earlier this month that the city of New York forgave Goldman Sachs about $161 million in lease payments the company would have had to make on the land where the new 43-story office tower sits. Under the agreement between the city and the company, Goldman doesn't have to pay the lease if Ground Zero remains empty.

Liberal Values: Peace, Tolerance, Due Process, Progress

Conservatives are fucked up, part 974.

Obama Lied, People Will Die

Obama lies about not supporting the public option in the campaign.

from activist.thepen@gmail.com:

This week the entire East Coast was hit with a massive snow storm. But it was NOTHING compared to the relentless snow JOB coming out of the White House and Congress on the health care bill. The lies are
flying so thick it will take a couple alerts to shovel them out all of our way. The most important thing is that WE must speak out and declare the TRUTH that

"The Health Care Bill Is A Total Fraud On The American People"

The Shinola Stops Here Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1024.php

(snip)

President Obama is out there right now laying it on thick with three
primary promotional touts, all of which are such transparent bunko it
is astounding that they even need to be debunked.

First, he says the Senate Bill is a good thing because it contains a
so-called "bill of rights", and isn't that all we wanted anyway he
says, to just curtail a certain laundry list of the most egregious
medical insurance industry rip-offs. Second, he talks about how
wonderful any bill that provides health care to 30 million new people
must be. And third, he argues that the Senate bill must be something
great, because he claims the insurance companies are strongly opposed
to it.

As to the "bill of rights" spin job, how drop kick stupid do they
think we are? Wasn't it just last May that they passed with great
fanfare a so-called Credit Card Holder's Bill of Rights. Oh yes,
that's exactly the same deceptive way they framed that one too.
Didn't we just fall for this same PR ruse? The worst credit card
abuses would be stopped the sell job went. But in just the same way,
any provision that would have ensured a real reduction in
outrageously usurous credit card interest and charges (like a
reasonable cap on interest rates) was rejected.

Instead, credit card companies have played every possible game to
raise rates since, and just this week we heard that one of the worst
offenders came out with a new card with, get this, an effective
interest rate of 80%, all in full compliance with the shiny new bill
of rights law. What a mean-spirited, cruel and pathetic trick to play
on the American people. Are you starting to get it yet, folks??
(snip)
Now, as to the 30 million new people the new bill will supposedly
provide health care for. The bill will do absolutely NO such thing.
Instead, it will FORCE 30 million new people to provide health care
for THEMSELVES, limited in their choices to an insurance kangaroo pit
run by, for, and exclusively under the effective control of the very
same rip-off insurance corporations we have now. It is the functional
equivalent of making people buy their OWN holiday gifts, at a premium
inflated price to boot, and then bragging about giving them generous
presents.

And what if some of those 30 million people can't afford to pay the
entire ransom of their new indentured health care? Well, then the
rest of the American taxpayers are forced to make up the difference,
giving the insurance companies a direct I.V. to suck the life blood
out of the American treasury.
(snip)
Finally there is the total con job that the drug and insurance
companies are somehow now opposed to the bill that has nothing in it
that wasn't drafted to their own specifications. This of course all
flies in the face of the way they have been caught in public
celebrating what they themselves are calling their huge win.
(snip)
So what do we learn from all this? The drug and insurance corporate
interests (indeed all right wingers) keep screaming and shouting
until they get what they what. And what are we supposed to do? Hold
our tongues? Trust that our political "representatives" really mean
well, while they sell us further and further down the river? Or is it
up the creek? Are we supposed to constantly compromise, and
capitulate on top of that, and unilaterally surrender at the end of
everything else, just so we can say that we passed "something"
labeled as reform. Isn't that precisely what led us to the place we
are at now?
(snip)
C'mon folks snap out of it. Ya wanna know what political reality is?
If we had a million submissions on this action page above we could
turn this whole thing around on a dime right now. The day you
collectively declare, with numbers like that, and tell President
Obama and Congress that "the shinola stops here", THAT is when real
change can start.

Saw "Avatar"

The caveat here is that I went on a whim, and had no expectations for the movie and had not read any review of it. The other caveat is that I am not a particularly sophisticated movie-goer (I used to be-- but my kids have destroyed that), and I am pretty much a sucker for a lot of emotional manipulation in movies. So I am not a movie snob at all.

Nonetheless, I thought overall the film was awesome. The visuals were stunning and worth the price of admission alone. I liked the avatar concept and that aspect of the plot-- it was really well done. However, the overall theme of the plot was definitely hackneyed, and the depiction of the natives as a whole was somewhat annoying. But I liked the overall depiction of humans as destroyers-- seemed accurate enough. One other good thing was that there was no obvious "33" in the movie.

There is some real interesting symbolism in the "avatar" idea, and who exactly is the avatar and what avatar represents. Being an avatar is certainly a major part of living in this computerized world. And being immersed in the virtual world of the movie, the viewer is like an avatar as well. I could spend a fair amount of time discussing all this but it is probably not worth it.