PROUD OF WHAT ONE IGNORES ?

That issue has been co-opted beyond repair by the insurance industry... Sicko, anyone ;)

 It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare - Mark Twain

I wonder how America convinced the rest of the world it is a developed country?  America is nothing but a big bully in an x-rated hotel movie. They have fought how many wars and killed how many people since they became a nation in 1776 and this is all they have to offer? Somehow the meaning to take back our country is rather a hollow illusion. Some how the idea that Democracy works sure doesn't look that way to me. I have more faith in the Fagaowee Tribe on the Island of Skull where King Kong lives. They stand about 3 ft tall running in the tall grass yelling "where the Fa gao wee?"

Dear djermano,

EXECUTIVE RESUME

Hello again, you are right I am an American and I don't support the war machine, knowing that bombs defend nothing, they only create more death. The death toll in Vietnam and Cambodia was more to the tune of 7 million, not 3 million, and that does not include US soldiers. Here America is only 232 years old, and it has more checks of wars on its list; that makes Satan look like only a kid stealing a candy bar. It is inconceivable to believe America represents the good of the people, when clearly it only represents the War Beasts .. We have the most bloated military budget in this day and time than any time in history. There is no longer a Soviet Union threat, no China threat, no WW's going on, only this manufactured War on Terror, where illusions rule the budget more than stark reality.  We had terrorists attacks before 911 happened, and when comparing that time to now....clearly there are more terrorists attacks now during the War on Terror, than when there was no War on Terror. These guys are the terrorists, as they blame others for being terrorists, so of course terror is going to increase. They can not possibly win the war on terror. They are deceivers of the truth.

The great divide between what the world thinks of America and our own vision of ourselves is exemplify in a couple of dossiers. 9-11 is definitely one of those…

Our Friends Are Trying To Tell Us Something 

I must admit I myself is still pretty much in line with this quote...

"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

As for our so called leader...

“The President has made the right decisions for the right reasons and he always reflected the values of the American people. Would I support those same decisions today? You’re damn right I would.” – Dick Cheney

Meanwhile...

Dear René,

I’m afraid this Republic could be down for the count this time…  It has been a long steady erosion of everything this nation had been build upon by our founding fathers…

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson

BATTER UP ! 

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STRIKE ONE : The 1913 economic coup d’état when WE THE PEOPLE stopped controlling OUR OWN money institution and became servants to private banks by paying interest on our own tax dollar. A scam still perpetuated today that effectively rendered the monetary independence of the USA a tragic farce.

 Note : These facts are also related in Aaaron’ Russo : AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created.

WATCH IT HERE : http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=199

Also…

Reference : Interview with G. Edward Griffin, Author of 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' (Secretive Creation of the Federal Reserve System)
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/gedwardgriffininterview02apr04.shtml

G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450

MONEY AS DEBT: INTERNATIONAL BANKERS OWN THE WORLD AND THIS IS HOW http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=214

That operation had to be covered up by buying out enough newspapers to cover their tracks & impose the agenda, the narrative, the media hoopla to keep the public out of the loop, out of real info, out of power. Edward Bernays invented PR, The Century of The Self was on its way !

NOTE : YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS UNLESS YOU ARE MERELY  SATISFIED WITH BEING BUT A MEDIA ZOMBIE !

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

EPISODE 1: HAPPINESS MACHINES

http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=140

EPISODE 2: THE ENGINEERING OF CONSENT

http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=141

EPISODE 3: THERE IS A POLICEMAN INSIDE ALL OUR HEADS: HE MUST BE DESTROYED

http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=142

EPISODE 4: EIGHT PEOPLE SIPPING WINE IN KETTERING

http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=143

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STRIKE TWO : The 1963 coup d’état kicked by JFK’s assassination. This nation’s psyche was broken…still is. A whole generation of young progressive deciders (and our sons & daughters blood) was sacrified so 3 million Vietnamese could be slaughtered and America get the opportunity to have his military’s ass served back on a poo-poo plater.

The Warren commission proved that it was sooo easy to cover facts & reality with magic bullets and a complete disregard for the basic laws of gravity on planet earth for everybody saw the president’s head violently yanked to the back by the fatal shot, rendering scientifically impossible the Oswald theory of the lone gunman strike from the back … anywho! It proved sooo easy to fool America that they went on a rampage and snuffed Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King , Malcom X and how many others we never heard of ?

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STRIKE THREE :  The GOP steals the election by Florida proxy, the supreme court sanctions the crime by wiping it’s partisan ass with the constitution , then 9/11 traumatizes the world and is used for the most dramatic shredding of everything this nation is supposed to stand for accompanied by the worst looting of the country that ignites economic calamity.

WATCH THESE FOR SIZE…

HACKING DEMOCRACY : http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=234

THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY : http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=42

UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION :

VOTERGATE : http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=32

So…yeah…America has been used, abused and oh…so confused and I’m afraid beyond repair… why do you think I’m sooo pissed off ? We could have made the whole world a better place but we completely blew it in exchange for the sick greed of our happy few masters that don’t give a flying fuck about anything else that their corrupted & morally bankrupted bottom line.

NO END IN SIGHT : http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=184

****************************************************** STATE OF THE UNION

"Private interests have looted the treasury, and the administration has sanctioned unrestrained fraud and corruption. We have watched Congress and the press become weak and willing handmaidens to those who would rip apart the fabric and laws of our democratic society. We hunger for the restoration of hope, common sense and purpose." - Jann S. Wenner 10/26/07 RS40

Why is everybody afraid of a simple, open, honest debate on those subjects? Why the great divide between big media's narrative and the citizen's induced Internet one? Why are the most important events of our lifetime shrouded in such controversy and apparent deceit? Will America go crashing down in flame as an "enigma rapped into a mystery" file of history ? This is OUR story people. Is everybody now living through a media induced proxy reality ? Satisfied with lies, showbiz & sports while your life goes down the tube ? Keep it up, your on your way, you’re almost there ! 

America's power to be already has a long habit of hiding the truth from... WE THE PEOPLE !

Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html  or John Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" established that narrative quite plainly for all to see & understand. http://www.wanttoknow.info/johnperkinseconomichitman

SECRETS OF THE CIA (documentary) http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=122

So before we go on trumpeting how proud you are of what we still ignore; I would advise for a little education and a brush with the truth as exemplified by FACTS not propaganda or blind faith in our so-called leaders.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato

Meanwhile...

"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

Just saying... ;)

"The American people don't read."
- Former CIA director Allen Dulles, speaking about how the American people would respond to the inconsistencies in the Warren Commission report on the JFK assasination

Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are courtiers. Our pundits and experts are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games. We are being had. - Chris Hedges

“They call it the 'American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin

...and please, never forget how this criminal executive branch got its greedy hands on earth's ultimate power...

THEY STOLE THE 2000 ELECTION WITH THE AID OF THE SUPREME COURT MAKING A MOCKERY OF EVERYTHING THIS NATION IS SUPPOSED TO STAND FOR !

 The whole mess is accounted in all its sickening details in this documentary…

UNPRECEDENTED: THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=35

NOW FOR AN UPDATE OF WHAT THEY DID WITH THAT POWER >>>

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile.html

It's been almost two years since CAPITOL CRIMES first aired, and Jack Abramoff is in prison and cooperating with investigators. The public has since learned that Abramoff was only the center of a vast web of corruption. Each player who pleads guilty and cooperates with investigators reveals further the one-time reach of that web. As Bill Moyers explains on THE JOURNAL:

"One of the biggest scandals in American history has already sent one member of Congress to jail, others into retirement, and dozens of accomplices running for cover."

Jack Abramoff is currently serving a five-year and ten-month prison sentence for the fraudulent purchase of casino cruise boats — a charge unrelated to his lobbying activities. He received the shortest possible prison term for cooperating with prosecutors in the ongoing investigation, but was ordered, along with his business partner, Adam Kidan, to repay a total of $20.7 million in restitution for the fraud.

Separately, Abramoff pleaded guilty in January of 2006 to charges of conspiracy, honest services fraud, and tax evasion in connection with his lobbying activities. Like many of his co-consipirators who have also pleaded guilty, Abramoff had his sentencing delayed while he cooperated with the government's investigation. On June 9, 2008, Abramoff's attorneys filed a joint motion with the prosecution asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to sentence Abramoff in September. Officials have said that his sentencing does not signal that the investigation is coming to an end.

>>WASHINGTON POST coverage of Jack Abramoff

>>NEW YORK TIMES coverage of Jack Abramoff

"The Hammer" resigned his post as majority leader after being indicted on three counts related to campaign contributions in 2005. A Texas judge dismissed one charge — conspiracy to violate election code by making an illegal corporate contribution — but let stand the other two more serious charges: money laundering and conspiracy to launder money.

The charges concern $190,000 the state alleges were collected from corporate donors and routed through GOP political action committees to Republican candidates for the Texas House. Texas law prohibits corporations from donating directly to candidates.

DeLay initially sought to hold on to both his leadership post and his seat in Congress but was pressured by his party to resign in 2006, before the end of his term.

Two of DeLay's former aides have pleaded guilty to charges related to the Jack Abramoff grand jury investigation, and the Justice Department has not commented on whether it is still investigating ties between Abramoff and DeLay. DeLay maintains his innocence and his lawyers have said he will not seek a pardon from George W. Bush.

In 2007, DeLay released a book, NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER. He used the platform to tell the story of his rise to power, but also to attack old political enemies and proclaim his innocence and importance to the conservative movement.

DeLay didn't stay out of the political arena for long. In 2007, he co-founded a conservative grass-roots organization, the Coalition for the Conservative Majority, and appears frequently in print and on news channels, including Fox News and CNN, to offer political analysis.

>>NEW YORK TIMES coverage of Tom DeLay

Former Representative Bob Ney was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to the Jack Abramoff scandal. In his plea deal, Ney confessed to essentially selling his office to Abramoff and others.

Because of the scandal surrounding Ney, Democrat Zack Space was able to win Ney's historically Republican Congressional seat in the 2006 election. The Republican party has waged an aggressive campaign against Rep. Space, and considers his a key district in the 2008 election, reports the NEW YORK TIMES.

>>NEW YORK TIMES coverage of Rep. Bob Ney

Reed's much-publicized role in the Abramoff scandal likely cost him the 2006 Republican primary for Georgia lieutenant governor. Reed was handily defeated in the Republican primary by Casey Cagle, then a little-known state senator. Reed has since ventured back into the political spotlight, appearing on CNN as an election-night analyst and writing the novel DARK HORSE about a third party candidate who shakes up a tight presidential election.

>>NEW YORK TIMES coverage of Ralph Reed

>>Ralph Reed on Charlie Rose

Grover Norquist, who allegedly used his non-profit, Americans for Tax Reform, to help Jack Abramoff move money in exchange for donations to his organization, remains an active force in conservative politics. He still runs Americans for Tax Reform, an anti-tax group, and provides campaign assistance and policy ideas to conservative candidates.

Though a report from the Senate Finance Committee found that Norquist agreed to "carry out Mr. Abramoff's requests for help with his clients in exchange for cash payments," neither Norquist or his non-profit are officially under investigation. Norquist has maintained that any positions he has taken that coincided with Abramoff's were on ideological grounds.

Norquist has also recently released a book: LEAVE US ALONE, GETTING THE GOVERNMENT'S HANDS OFF OUR MONEY, OUR GUNS, OUR LIVES.

>>NEW YORK TIMES reporting on Grover Norquist.

Abramoff was the most powerful lobbyist in Washington, and the Justice Department investigation continues to expand into Congress and agencies throughout the government. Here is a list of those currently included in the investigation.

Michael Scanlon, former Abramoff business partner and DeLay aide, pleaded guilty in November 2005 to conspiring to bribe public officials in connection with his lobbying work on behalf of Indian tribes and casino issues. He is cooperating with investigators and has had his sentencing delayed.

Ed Buckham, DeLay's former chief of staff, launched the Alexander Strategy Group after leaving the Hill. Though the firm openly claimed it could provide access to DeLay, Buckham has not been charged with any crime. A federal grand jury subpoenaed the House for Buckham's e-mails and payroll records in September 2006.

Former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, the highest ranking administration official convicted in connection to the Abramoff investigation, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice. He admitted lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with Abramoff, who repeatedly sought Griles' intervention at Interior on behalf of Indian tribal clients.

David Safavian, the Bush administration's former top procurement official, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in October 2006 after he was found guilty of covering up his dealings with Abramoff. On June 17, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the conviction. The court ruled Safavian is entitled to a new trial.

The Justice Department has not signaled whether it will continue to pursue the case against Safavian.

John Albaugh, erstwhile chief of staff to former Oklahoma Rep. Ernest Istook pleaded guilty in June 2008 to conspiracy to defraud the House. Albaugh admitted in Federal court to accepting gifts in exchange for helping lobbyists with their clients. He faces up to 24 months in prison, but could have the sentence reduced in exchange for cooperating with investigators.

Robert E. Coughlin II, a former Justice Department official, pleaded guilty to conflict of interest in April 2008. He admitted to accepting gifts from a lobbyist while helping the lobbyist and his clients while working on legislative affairs at the Justice Department. Before his resignation in 2007 Coughlin was promoted to deputy chief of staff in the department's criminal division — the same department handling the Abramoff investigation.

Italia Federici, co-founder of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and obstruction of a Senate investigation into Abramoff's relationship with officials at the Department of Interior. Federici was sentenced to two months in a halfway house and four years of probation, avoiding prison by becoming a key witness in the continuing investigation.

Tony Rudy, lobbyist and onetime top aide to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, pleaded guilty in March 2006 to conspiring with Abramoff. His sentencing is delayed as he is cooperating with investigators.

William Heaton, former chief of staff for Bob Ney, pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge involving a golf trip to Scotland, expensive meals, and tickets to sporting events between 2002 and 2004 as payoffs for helping Abramoff's clients. Heaton was ordered to serve two years' probation, perform 100 hours of community service and pay a $5,000 fine.

Neil Volz, a former chief of staff to Bob Ney who left government to work for Abramoff, pleaded guilty in May 2006 to conspiring to deprive the public of honest services, plying Ney and others with trips and other gifts. On September 12, 2007, Volz was sentenced to two years probation and fined $2,000, avoiding jail by cooperating with the prosecutors in the case against Ney.

Mark Zachares, former aide to Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, pleaded guilty to conspiracy. He admitted accepting $40,000 in money and gifts in exchange for official acts on the lobbyist's behalf. His sentencing is delayed as he cooperates with investigators.

Roger Stillwell, a former Interior Department official, was sentenced to two years on probation in January after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge for not reporting hundreds of dollars worth of sports and concert tickets he received from Abramoff.

Tony Sanchez, former Guam Superior Court Administrator, has been indicted under accusations of bypassing Guam's procurement process by sending checks to Abramoff's law firm totalling more than $200,000. Abramoff's charges in the case were dropped when he agreed to cooperate with investigators in the case against Sanchez.

Former Rep. John Sweeney lost his seat to Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand in to 2006 reportedly in part due to questions about his relationship to Jack Abramoff. In June of 2008, Federal law enforcement agents raided an Albany lobbying firm as part of an investigation of Sweeney.

Former Senator Conrad Burns was defeated by Democrat John Tester in 2006, in part because of his close ties to Jack Abramoff. Burns accepted around $150,000 in campaign contributions from Abramoff, his clients and associates. In 2007, Burns joined a lobbying firm, Gage, which had close ties to his office while he was a Senator.

Besides the cloud the scandal has cast over Washington, D.C. as a whole, candidates with close ties to the disgraced lobbyist still face difficult re-election campaigns, even in districts deemed safe for their party.

Former Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-CO), now running for Senate in Colorado, was forced to defend his ties to Abramoff after praising the Marianas Island's guest-worker program as a "model" for the United States.

Former-Rep. Schaffer visited the Marianas factories on a "fact-finding" mission funded by Jack Abramoff, a connection his Democratic opponent Mark Udall has been eager to point out. Schaffer maintains that his conclusions about the islands, notorious for their abusive labor practices, were made independent of the influence of Jack Abramoff.

Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL), who had been on an Abramoff-sponsored Scottish golf trip, was re-elected in 2006/ But THE WALL STREET JOURNAL reports that his ties are news again as he faces Democrat Suzanne Kosmas.

Representative John T. Doolittle (R-CA), chose to retire rather than run a re-election race while his ties to Abramoff are still under federal investigation. In April, 2007, the FBI raided Rep. Doolittle's home.

On June 9, 2008 the House Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a preliminary report on an investigation into contacts between Jack Abramoff and the White House. The draft report does not allege that Abramoff influenced any of the President's decisions. However the report does document a pattern of access at high levels. The report: "concludes that Mr. Abramoff had personal contact with President Bush, that high-level White House officials held Mr. Abramoff and his associates in high regard and solicited recommendations from them on policy matters, that Mr. Abramoff and his associates influenced some White House actions, and that Mr. Abramoff and his associates offered White House officials expensive tickets and meals."

>>Read the draft report and the relevant depositions and documents

Legislation vehemently opposed by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff finally passed the Senate on April 11, 2008, extending U.S. immigration laws to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

In addition to extending U.S. immigration laws to the CNMI, the bill establishes a federally administered guest worker program in the American territory and raises the minimum wage.

MEANWHILE >>>>

America will always be filled with half-clever hucksters who look for ways to live the fat life off the ignorance and loneliness of country rubes. – Matt Taibbi

FILE UNDER: BACK TO WHERE WE NEVER LEFT !

  Corporate Media Ignores White House Planning of "False Flag" Operations to Trigger War with Iran


White House Plans "False Flag" Operations to Trigger War with Iran, and the Corporate Media Ignores Such a Criminal Enterprise As If It Were Anthrax

August 4, 2008

Seymour Hersh is the most trusted and well-connected national security investigative reporter in the nation. He has reliable connections everywhere, including the Bush White House, the CIA, and the Pentagon.

Almost no one vigorously attacks Hersh’s reporting, including the White House and the right-wing media echo chamber. Why? Because many of his sources are from inside the administration and he has such credibility that they would just be drawing attention to his revelations.

Unfortunately, while some of Hersh’s bombshells get picked up by the corporate media, they are usually the ones that the White House actually wants disseminated, such as Hersh’s New Yorker piece on how the Bush Administration is currently conducting special military operations inside of Iran to destabilize the government. The White House wants to ratchet up the pressure on Iran with this sort of saber rattling.

But if the White House doesn’t want a Hersh disclosure to travel far, you can bet that the corporate media will treat it as if it were radioactive, or like they treated the anthrax story, ignoring the telling questions of potential U.S. government involvement, via the biological warfare lab at Fort Detrick, in the attacks on liberal senate leadership just before the vote on the Patriot Act. Nor did the corporate media follow through on why the White House and its shills – like John McCain and Joe Lieberman – were so quick to blame the anthrax attacks on Iraq, providing another casus belli – although a clearly false one, since the anthrax was manufactured in our own military research facility in Maryland -- for attacking that nation.

Last week, Think Progress offered us a Hersh disclosure that should have been on the front page of the major papers and the lead story on corporate broadcast news across the United States: the White House staff, led by Cheney, have been debating ways to provoke a war with Iran. If you are thinking Gulf of Tonkin, you don’t have to go back that far.

Remember just a few months ago that the U.S. corporate media breathlessly reported how an Iranian gun boat allegedly threatened a U.S. naval vessel. Only, it turned out that the recording that the White House had the Pentagon disseminate was doctored and no verbal threat had occurred.

And that is exactly what the White House has been planning, as in "kicking around ideas" that would precipitate a confrontation with Iran that would get the American public behind a war.

We’ll turn it over to the Think Progress report on Hersh’s comments so that you can get a better idea of the horrendous and criminal implications of what Cheney and his crew are still up to, even after the debacle of Iraq. (Remember that Cheney is after control over the oil and assertion of U.S. hegemony over the region.):

Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The "meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. 'The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’" according to one of Hersh’s sources.

During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:

HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.

Okay, so that specific "false flag" Hollywood style operation was rejected, but ideas for creating the pretext to nuke Iran haven’t been deep-sixed. Apparently, no one but Think Progress, a project of the Center for American Progress, thinks that this sort of treachery and betrayal of the nation is worth reporting upon.

Our policy at BuzzFlash.com has been to be very careful about conspiracy theories, because so many of them rely on speculation, since the very nature of a cover-up is to deny us information. We know that we don’t know the truth about the JFK assassination or 9/11, but we can only hypothesize about what really happened because so much of the evidence has already been shredded or, in the case of unwelcome people with unwanted information, rendered "inoperable."

But here, you have America’s premier investigative reporter informing us that the White House has been actively "brainstorming" ways to fabricate a "justification" for a war with Iran.

It’s another war crime, a war crime against the American people and the innocent civilian population of Iran, and again for oil. (The nuclear issue is of interest, but not the real reason motivating Cheney. He wants another Shah-like puppet in power and Iranian oil under de facto American control.)

When you wonder about why it is important to support progressive news and commentary sites such as BuzzFlash.com, think about who is getting this sort of information out to you and who isn’t.

By the way, many BuzzFlash readers are familiar with the confirmed plan by the Pentagon in the early ‘60s, "Operation Northwoods," to create a war with Cuba and the Soviet Union by attacking our own civilians. "Operation Northwoods" included an idea to shoot down one of our own civilian airliners and blame it on the Cubans, thus raising the battle cry among Americans to invade the island. This is no conspiracy theory, "Operation Northwoods" is well-documented as a plan (even covered by ABC News when it was finally documented some 40 years later in 2001), but fortunately it was buried and never put into action. Saner and less criminal minds prevailed, as President Kennedy nixed the entire Northwoods plan when he first saw it.

But we don’t have JFK in the White House; we have George W. Bush and Dick Cheney – and they aren’t throwing treacherous ideas like "Operation Northwoods" in the shredder; to the contrary, they are creating plans like Northwoods.

And the corporate mainstream media isn’t even informing the American people.

But as soon as one of these ideas is activated, you’ll know about it because the television news networks and newspapers will be covering it breathlessly as if it is for real.

Lives are at stake, as Cheney plots another war based on deception.

And no one but some Netroot sites seems to be interested in alerting the American public.

That is how bad the mess that we are in is.

The corporate media has become the third partner in the military-industrial complex.

War and peace hang in the balance.

Book says White House ordered forgery

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html

Another Bombshell That Should Lead to Impeachment but Won't: In New Book, Ron Suskind Says CIA Forged Letter, at the Request of the Bush White House, to Falsely Link Saddam to Al Qaeda. The Phony Letter Was Trumpeted by the Likes of Bill O'Reilly.

Anthrax Mystery: Questions Raised over Whether Government Is Framing Dead Army Scientist for 2001 Attacks http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/4/anthrax

Anthrax Evidence Called Mostly Circumstantial

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/us/04anthrax.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=washington&adxnnlx=1217938399-0zh8/mzDUad3pbrjwfsw4w