The Livid Fool

No Health Insurance No Problem Episode 2 --Tine van der Maas part 2

2012-02-10T18:40:00.000-08:00

No Health Insurance No Problem Episode 1

2012-02-10T18:19:00.000-08:00

Autism Conceptual Reassessment

2011-10-27T22:05:00.001-07:00

Click above photo to watch the interview with Dr. Andrew Wakefield by The Sovereign Independent

I thought of Autism as "something you have forever" and that you have to cope with, that it will never go away. Well Dr. Andrew Wakefield has provided ample evidence that this is not entirely the case and there are several ways that might be able to treat this disease which exhibits a "multi-system inflammatory disorder." His work, it seems was never actually debunked, just made to appear so on false grounds. In fact, Dr. Wakefield's controversial study never claimed to make a conclusive link between Measles vaccines and autism, and Dr. Wakefield himself is a proponent of some vaccination. He finds a link between a new inflammatory bowel disease and Autism--the two go together. Please see his book "Callous Disregard" for what seems to be exciting evidence (some as old as the 1950s) that Autism is in fact not just "something you have forever" but instead may be a byproduct of poisoning, a crippled immune system and persistent infection affecting the intestine, stomach, brain and/or spinal cord. Anti-Inflammatory medications or supplements (aloe?), pro-biotics, and a gluten free diet all seem to be effective at diminishing the disease in his book. I wonder if a certain amazing "broad spectrum antibiotic" (Chlorine Dioxide), Bentonite (removes heavy metals?), or Nurse Van der Maas' diet (see previous posts) would help with this disease that seems to be the body failing to detoxify and eliminate byproducts of measles, mercury, or virus effects? Indeed, there seems to be at least one case of an autistic child getting better with a MMS (chlorine dioxide) treatment:

"At minimum there are 400+ children on the Autism Spectrum improving steadily, thanks to the help of MMS. These are in addition to all of the other children that these doctors are seeing and treating with MMS. The total including family members could be easily above 1000. The future is bright now that many more healers/doctors have the information on MMS and the knowledge of how to use it. I believe that people like these who see many, many children are an important link that will bridge the gap between "alternative" medicine and "allopathic" medicine, finally bringing MMS to the mainstream. I hope that we have in our hands the missing piece of the autism puzzle, because it sure seems to look that way. Two more children in March lost their diagnosis from autism, which makes a total of 5 children to lose their diagnosis since I began recommending MMS in August of 2010. Not all have recovered. But all are better than they were, and that is a great place to start... Another new protocol is the 12/2. It is taking MMS for 12 days straight then resting 2 days. This way the pathogens living in the gut will expose themselves during the two day rest, and then we hit them with another 12 days of MMS. Using this method we gradually extinguish all pathogens until none remain. When we heal the gut we cure the autism."

Amazing Health Program

2011-07-12T17:40:00.000-07:00

Click above to watch documentary

Check out this documentary "Power to the People" in which Tine van der Maas a nurse in South Africa and her mother Nelly document treating many grave illnesses with lemons, olive oil, garlic, ginger, beetroot, and other foods in a regimen that apparently leads to their rapid restoration to health. The key seems to be in the regimen's detoxification and pH balancing effects and changes to nutrition and lifestyle such as no alcohol or sugary-type foods for the duration of the treatment. Of course, there's a political angle as their documentary explains this approach enters into an AIDS debate with Gates foundation-type Anti-retro-viral drugs approach. Very much good information on Tine van der Maas' blog as well including an interesting cancer treatment that I imagine might work without the illegality of Rick Simpson's oil.

The Wellness Program

Dichloroacetate Cancer Killer!

2011-06-17T16:26:00.000-07:00

Lots of caffinated tea, DCA twice a day and vitamin B1 regimen that appears effective against most cancers according to this website. DCA should be inexpensive, can apparently be prescribed by a doctor and is legal (unlike other apparently effective cancer treatments). Caution: there appears to be some potentially lethal side effects to using DCA in combination with caffeine for treatment of brain cancer.

Cannabinoid Cancer Killer!

2011-05-05T02:46:00.000-07:00

Man Cured of Cancer by Topical Application of Cannabis Bud Oil
Dad Gives Toddler Battling Brain Cancer Medical Marijuana
Marijuana Compound Kills Brain Tumors in Humans
CANNABINOIDS: POTENTIAL ANTICANCER AGENTS

A Decent Fuel Alcohol Still

2010-10-13T01:41:00.000-07:00

Called the Charles 803, not that hard to make. Plans available here or I could loan them to you if you are in Tucson and you send me an email at miklas@bluebottle.com Making the stuff? A whole 'nother story.

Stuff and Nonsense March

2010-08-29T02:19:00.000-07:00

Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhhhhh ha! Shhhhhhh ha!
Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhh ha! Shhhhhhh ha!

Don’t you know the cynical reason
Don’t you know it’s incompetence
Don’t you know that nothing’s possible
To get through a maze of thrilling pretense

Don’t you know that we’re all destined
To be men of crushing weight
Don’t you know that we’re just creatures
Who swim in cash and keep our state

I am not aware
Of any thing you’ll say
See they’ll build my house someday
With bricks of bone ash clay?
You say?

Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhhhhh ha! Shhhhhhh ha!
Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhh ha! Shhhhhhh ha!

Don’t you know though that you’re smart
But topics like this don’t pay the rent
Just perform a few incisions
All sewn up you’re pertinent

Don’t you know that there’re no answers
Don’t you know that it’s all lies
What you say’s against my word
And my consumers are satisfied

Everything’s unreal
I’m your Mephistopheles
A carnival for your freedom
You see forms behind the scenes?
You may know what it means?

Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhhhhh ha! Shhhhhhh ha!
Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhh ha! Shhhhhhh ha!

Don't you know there's room up there?
Spaces to fit like blocks of stone
Stuff to make you the man you think
Trappings of culture you're never alone

Don't you know--oh what's the use?
For all I did you haven't changed
Too invested in your illusions,
Sad but true, but harmless, deranged

I am passing you
I'll leave you your cracked dreams
I'm marching to the front
That's where you hear the screams?
See the pointy toothed gleams?

Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhhhh, ha! Shhhhhhhh, ha!
Pish posh, pish posh
Shhhhhhhhh, ha! Shhhhhhhh...

When it's extremely important for prompt governmental action (not due to false WMD "intelligence")...

2010-07-04T23:57:00.000-07:00

What is national emergency question number one when the president meets with the top government officials about the BP oil spill ? I imagine that it should be "Are there any frivolous or other legal or governmental impediments to the effective mobilization of cleanup resources that the president or congress can help with in this national emergency?" In the last few years, I've seen some incredible things come out of Washington in rapid, panicked, emergency legislation, the bailouts took less than a week if I remember, the "Long War" authorization after 9/11 ( I found out later) took three days. Well prepare yourself, because this is just basic, basic responsibility of governmental office in a national emergency such as this, and not only do they not do anything, they don't even get out of the way!

Red tape keeps prized oil fighting skimmers from gulf, coastline

""We want all the skimming vessels in the world deployed," said Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser. "This is an oil spill bigger than anything we've ever seen. It's a national disaster. We're at war. If you were at war and in charge, would you deploy everything you had to win the war?""

""We are literally talking about more than a thousand skimmers that are available, but we only have 400 - if this number is correct -- at work," LeMieux said. "It is hard to believe that the response is this anemic; it is hard to believe that there is this lack of urgency or sense of purpose in getting this done.""

"Regarding international skimming vessels, Allen said earlier this month that the government would work to quickly process waivers of the Jones Act, a 1920 maritime law that promotes U.S. shipping interests."

"Sens. LeMieux, Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have proposed legislation that would temporarily waive the Jones Act for oil spill response vessels. Although there is a Jones Act waiver process for foreign vessels during an oil spill, the law requires that the Coast Guard make a determination that "an adequate number" of U.S. oil spill response vessels "cannot be engaged to recover oil from an oil spill in or near those waters in a timely manner." And the foreign country offering the boats must agree to allow the United States similar privileges in their country."

"As of last week, no Jones Act waivers had been granted. According to the joint information center for the response, six vessels involved in oil containment have applied for Jones Act waivers that are still pending."

Congressman Grijalva Cosponsors Violation of International Law, International Aggression

2010-06-30T19:21:00.000-07:00

If you were like me who thought that we had one of the few best congresspeople who like Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and a few others would never support aggressive middle east wars like the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan--our congressman Raul Grijalva has sided against these two in a mid-east escalation bill.

I had believed in Mr.Grijalva's position only three or four years ago even as he has continued to support much of the funding for these two wars at the same time he has said he supports a withdrawal from both. But, I thought, he would absolutely never cosponsor a bill bringing an additional third war in the middle east, one that we heard threatened and darkly insinuated many times from former Vice President Cheney only three or four years ago--against Iran.

No, Afghanistan's role in 9/11 was unclear enough, and Iraq was an obvious lie, but Mr. Cheney's war with Iran, no, that couldn't pass my Congressman, not after Iraq's WMD program failed to show up in reality outside of Colin Powell's UN presentation. That would be a line that would never be crossed. So I might have thought.

I feel that that line has indeed been crossed.

On Thursday, June 24th, the Congress voted almost unanimously on "comprehensive" sanctions against Iran intending to harm Iran's economy. The reason why this drastic step was said to be necessary was "to prevent the Government of Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability." It is a "serious and urgent...threat" said the bill.

Except that according to even the US Government's best sources, Iran has no such nuclear weapons capability.

In 2007, a report was issued by the US Government's collective intelligence agencies called the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's "Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities." Their findings were that Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons.

Then, in 2008, several reports about Iran, its nuclear power, military, and potential nuclear weapons programs were released by the Congress's own Congressional Research Service. Their findings corroborated the NIE report and stated that there was no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. One report cites a nonproliferation expert Stephen Hildreth, who says in order to develop a nuclear weapon, Iran would have to test one, and that would be "hard to conceal."

In a previous version of this sanctions bill a few months ago, which was also supported by Mr. Grijalva, no evidence of Iranian nuclear weapons had been cited.

Without proof of a nuclear weapons program, these sanctions are illegal under international law and are an aggressive provocation of another middle eastern country.

After the experience of what happened with the Iraq invasion because of similar WMD "urgent threats," and now with the assurance of the US Government's Intelligence consensus and Congressional Research Service that there is no such threat in Iran's case, one might think that there is abundant evidence to withdraw support from sanctioning Iran. I shared this information with both Mr.Grijalva's and Mrs.Giffords' office months and years before this bill, and they have both subsequently voted "yes" on sanctioning Iran.

As of the end of June 2010, there are reports of US and Israeli warships being sent near Iran presumably to enforce these sanctions and I sit here mulling the hard truth that the Congress is not what I had believed it was.

This is Power Politics

2010-06-12T02:04:00.000-07:00

When in the course of human events
At the point of compromise
The insider who knows how things are
The "powerful" party
Acts towards the other
As if expecting it to turn soft
From the force of their words
"This is real conviction" they say to themselves
Or more like how they earn their money

But from practice
They are indeed talking to themselves
As if in an empty room
Or wearing a wire
Not expecting a response
Except in their brains
A release of dramamine
From previously lost battles

But, miraculously
A faint signal comes through
The "weak" party, though unconvinced does anyway
Turn soft and responds

And, as if
Dropped like a rock crawling with insects
As something a little too real
They are totally ignored

And life continues on for one
After groping with the trashbag in his hand
In the dim light
Finding the wall
After he hit his head on it
Sure that he knew it wasn't there
The garbage thrown over it
Into the yard the other side
That he's never seen

But for the other,
The "soft rock"
The undiscovered yard over the wall
It's like getting off a bus in a wasteland
Dignified after an argument with the driver
Heavy suitcase limply at his side

Like walking into a pool fully clothed
And expecting laughter from
A party around holding their drinks
Instead of irritation and embarassment

This is "power politics"
And it is better
To stand in the wasteland not knowing where you are
Than on the bus
To leave the party soaking and wiser
Than standing around the pool drunk and dry.

Differential Scanning Calorimetry of Red Chips

2010-02-27T21:56:00.000-08:00

The red chips found in the dust of the world trade center have been tested and ignite explosively at about 400 degrees.

From

http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM

Red Chip Samples vs Paint from WTC Steel

2010-02-26T18:02:00.000-08:00

From Dr. Stephen Jones' presentation in the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Press Conference Friday February 19th, 2010.

Hand it to Yourself (What We Knew Before the Inauguration)

2009-12-20T02:18:00.000-08:00

Blink And You'll Miss It

2009-12-16T19:58:00.000-08:00

Plane or No Plane?

2009-12-13T21:56:00.000-08:00

9/11 Truth Tucson on Democracy Now!

2009-09-10T23:22:00.000-07:00

To Young Americans (On The Occasion of Barack Obama's Speech to America's Young People)

2009-09-10T02:16:00.000-07:00

To Young Americans (On The Occasion of Barack Obama's Speech to America's Young People)

Enfant Terribles, their bodies built like prison cells
Layer upon layer like termite's nests
Into reasonable, responsible, important,
Big cogs with shiny teeth running like clockwork
Built by the inexhaustible kernel deep inside, now fatally radioactive
Waning; saddled in that monstrous machine.

Standing,
The clanking adult in front of the microphone
Spinning for our own good the invisible safety net
That binds millions in
With millions more autonomous shed cicada skins
Cascading forth from their heads
Falling invisibly from their words
In swarming, spreading hordes
Each trailing a dark thread of
Sickly sweet ethereal silk

Each borne by carrier wave--
Dead shells of iron clad sentiments
Forged in the depths of grandiose self-delusion
By the galvanized clanking black knight
Naturally emulating an unmanifestible truth
That should be intimated to us by real adults.

Scrambling, buzzing through listening ears
They search of any purchase in gray matter
A thrill for self-abuse, an unsinkable Titanic self-identity
A hidden, unwavering, yet popular selfish demand
The spark of wanting to believe in cruel comforting illusions
The belief in a life lived under a mask of fun-loving deception
As the human condition
Any and more, but something firmly rooted
In which to bury their anchored threads
And this done, like stinging bees, they die.

And thus, the threads take hold
Surprisingly, not tenuous so that years later
The threads lie stretched taut across the world
By those years of blind, desperate obedience
For the lost, deafened listeners
Years of material consolation
The years of the pupating cicada.

A form finally rises off the ground
Composed of these stakes and lines;
These people and word-borne silken threads
Taking shape as the cylindrical central nexus
Rises eerily, as if by some malevolent actor
Whose timing seems fitting, obvious
Like the lights dimming before a concert
Popularly unhindered, it slowly turns
As though it were an old record player
Playing a warped recording of a 1920s calliope
In an echo chamber.

So does the ethereal tent rise, turning
Accelerating, thrilling, morbid, groaning under its weight
Its rigidity increasing from centrifugal force
The ancient merry-go-round of war culture
Thriving in the nuclear age
Far from the battlefield, though ever closer
People's lives in the merry-go-round
Fly apart all over the Earth.

With the grace of God will there be
In those days of the wrecked abandoned fair ground
Carnival food wrappers in clouds of dust
The old refrain, resonating in the firmament
With crystal clarity to the lost radioactive people:
You gotta walk that lonesome valley
You gotta walk it by yourself
Nobody else can walk it for you
You gotta walk it by yourself.

Deluge of Diluted Delusion

2009-08-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

I like the idea of universal health insurance funded from tax money as elucidated by Ralph Nader. I also like the idea of unilateral, rapid nuclear disarmament as elucidated by Daniel Ellsberg. But when I get emails from big political emailing lists on just these topics, there is something strange about it. I got an email about President Obama's health reform initiative--which includes watered down sort-of-universal health insurance funded by tax money--from David Axlerod. And I got an email about a strategically savvy-worded, glossy Nuclear disarmament petition signed by Zbignew Brzezenski and Philip Zelikow. David Axlerod is a giant media consultant millionaire who was Barack Obama's campaign manager. And Zbignew Brzezneski is a longtime spooky "national security advisor" to Democrat regimes who rallied the fundamentalist jihadists in the 80s and has been playing at international power politics for the last twenty years while Philip Zelikow has failed so completely as to be suspicious as executive director of the 9/11 commission.

Maybe this is a good lesson for the times of Obama, as we all have to learn to cope. Great ideas on national direction, when pulled down from those heroes who have had the courage to act on a national and personal concern based on what they felt was right--like Daniel Ellsberg and Ralph Nader--are eventually transmitted to the wheels of power "as it has developed." However, the wheels of power have developed in a terrible, deceitful and corrupt way. When this happens, the powerful "as it has developed" through their support of these ideas detract from the power and vision of these good ideas because they are dragged down by the anchor of the means they used to establish themselves at the wheel.

There is something that makes me hesitate to sign in support anything that Philip Zelikow has signed in support. I think this is because I wonder how someone tasked with such a monumental and important position ignored the obvious nature of the events of September 11th, 2001--and how subsequently botching the investigation he can now sign on in support of a nuclear disarmament petition. This seems to say: yes, we should disarm our nukes, and no we should not seriously investigate an event that killed three thousand or more Americans and traumatized millions still today. Similarly, I wonder how the campaign manager for President Obama--who brought health industry C.E.Os to meet in his first healthcare initiative's public hearings and stifled any "single payer" consideration for health care reform--can now send me emails urging support for "healthcare reform."

Obama to Americans: "Take the Blue Pill"

2009-07-29T00:55:00.001-07:00

He finally said it--given the choice between the red pill and the blue pill Obama said in his health care reform press conference:
"If there's a blue pill and a red pill and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?"

And don't go thinking that his point was about medication or health plan costs, we heard it loud and clear!

The Joke's On Us

2009-05-09T21:59:00.000-07:00

Since Nancy Pelosi's comments about health care reform that "In our caucus, over and over again, we hear single payer, single payer, single payer. Well, it's not going to be a single payer" one should wonder how it is that a popular option for a national health care system was simply eliminated by people elected supposedly to serve the populace.

But, consider Joe Biden's comments last year that "There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision'," Biden continued. "Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound."

Consider also Barack Obama's laughter at the notion that bailing out the auto makers with public money is enormously unpopular--18% approve according to Steve Croft, who conducted the interview. These three most powerful of Democrats in Washington each indicate their contempt for even consideration and inclusion of the will of the public into policy, so who are they representing?

So help US God...

2009-03-21T01:52:00.001-07:00

Do you feel it too? The inaugural hope and excitement that is just too sugary, too numbing and vague? It has a tinge of menace to it. Why are we so happy about this? Are we actually turning the page? Are we fixing our mistakes? Are we satisfied that this election was truly honorable and on-topic? Are we satisfied with mild reforms? Are we really self confident in our national direction? Are we all satisfied that we understand 9/11? Are we voting against war, voting for the starvation diet of the military, voting for an end to maniacal global violence in our name? Are we nonplussed about much of Bush's war continuing? Are we safe voting for the lesser of two evils? Are we paying attention? Are we behind expanding a war in the middle east? Are we being listened to? Are we ready for long overdue national soul searching?

My Plan for Change

2008-12-17T17:15:00.000-08:00

I posted this to the Obama transition team that was looking for people's visions for America. Surprisingly, I have yet to get a call from Mr. Obama about my ideas. Maybe after getting my post on his blackberry in the middle of the night and reading it several times shouting "Eureka!" at the end, he is too busy implementing it as we speak!

For too long the USA has been threatening and carrying out violence on the world through economic policies, military policies, and lifestyle choices that treat the world as a giant marketplace and seek to dominate the globe for supposed noble reasons of democracy, prosperity, and opportunity. It is time for this to stop. The United States should close its 700+ military bases worldwide, unilaterally disarm its nuclear weapons, radically cut defense spending, stop being the number one worldwide provider of arms to the world, stop the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, voluntarily clean up depleted uranium, pay, forgive, or renegotiate war reparations to Vietnam and other countries with an acknowledgement of aspects of our nation's misguided, oppressive and violent legacy. Then, ensure that no government money goes to covert war making through CIA or other programs. Our new national defense will be non-violent.

In this vein, international trade deals like NAFTA and corporate agreements with US companies must come under radical review in light of a new initiative that the US must launch with the UN, WTO and World Bank--to remake the crashing global economy into one that works for local areas so that the web of international goods shipment contributing to global warming and social unrest can be shut down. This would include land reform, farming initiatives, and ensuring local food and basic commodities. The aim is to disentangle the United States from the heights of the global economy as we see it today, with a responsibility to the rest of the world to coordinate this initiative with them for the planet's benefit. Decentralized energy like photovoltaics and wind power must be emphasized in this effort. The message is: we can no longer live on this planet like America has encouraged for the past 60 years, and must work together to change this urgently. Once again, we must face and acknowledge the aspects of the US's recent history that have encouraged this terrible and self-destructive economic behavior.

The average American must be a part of this project--no longer can we have unlimited cheap gasoline and cheap consumer goods. The new local economics will be a hard adjustment for some, but with luck, the social fabric that has torn over the past decades under our current decadence and hubris will on the whole provide people with quieter, slower, more humble, and far more satisfying lives. Making this a national priority would help those struggling with these issues feel part of something bigger and allow the propagation of wonderful alternative energy techniques and local businesses and would also allow a new entrepreneurship based on these global priorities to flourish.

This shift would bring us closer to Thomas Jefferson's ideal of America than we ever have been--a nation of fiercely independent farmers and small businessmen. We have no more time to lose, we must reverse the trajectory we have been on up to this point. I think that there will be significant resistance to this from the entrenched powerful. But, I believe that the American people would love to take part in such a daring and honest national direction. With good leadership, people would, I think, recognize the neccessity of these changes and would find meaning in the attempt, even if it should fail. These are not radical changes, though they may seem so to some. They are simply a long overdue maturing of the United States from the misspent and violent adolescence into a necessary recession, an exile based on self reflection and a spiritual reform from sins of the past.

Celebrating the Obama Election in Afghanistan

2008-11-11T23:47:00.000-08:00

Spot the Sith

2008-09-28T00:12:00.001-07:00

"Hooray, ignorant compromise wins the day!".../... "Fools! Muahahahahaha!"

Hyper linked House of Representatives Resolution 362

2008-09-16T22:57:00.000-07:00

House Resolution with 265 co-sponsors (last time I checked) to basically start a war with Iran hyper linked with relevant information. The bold font and the numbers are added by me for emphasis, here is the entire text of the bill:

Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 22, 2008

Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself and Mr. PENCE) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapon s and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.

Whereas Iran is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has foresworn the acquisition of nuclear weapons by ratification of the NPT, and is legally bound to declare and place all its nuclear activity under constant monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA);

Whereas for nearly 20 years, in clear contravention of its explicit obligations under the NPT, Iran operated a covert nuclear program until it was revealed by an Iranian opposition group in 2002;

Whereas the IAEA has confirmed such illicit covert nuclear activities as the importation of uranium hexafluoride, construction of a uranium enrichment facility, experimentation with plutonium, importation of centrifuge technology, construction of centrifuges, and importation of designs to convert highly enriched uranium gas into metal and shape it into the core of a nuclear weapon;

Whereas Iran continues to expand the number of centrifuges at its enrichment facility, as made evident by its announced intention to begin installation of 6,000 advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium, in defiance of binding United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding Iran suspend enrichment activities;

1. Whereas the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate reported that Iran was secretly working on the design and manufacture of a nuclear warhead until at least 2003, but that Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon as soon as late 2009;

2. Whereas an Iranian nuclear weapons capability would pose a grave threat to international peace and security by fundamentally altering and destabilizing the strategic balance in the Middle East, and severely undermining the global nonproliferation regime;

3. Whereas Iran's overt sponsorship of several terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, and its close ties to Syria raise the possibility that Iran would share its nuclear materials and technology with others;

Whereas Iran continues to develop ballistic missile technology and is pursuing the capability to field intercontinental ballistic missiles, a delivery system suited almost exclusively to nuclear weapons payloads;

4. Whereas Iranian leaders have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel, a major non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally, and a member of the United Nations;

Whereas the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany have offered, and continue to offer, to negotiate a significant package of economic, diplomatic, and security incentives if Iran complies with the United Nations Security Council's resolutions demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment;*NPT

Whereas Iran has consistently refused such offers;

Whereas as a result of Iran's failure to comply with the mandates of the United Nations Security Council, taken under Chapter VII of the United Nations' Charter, the international community has imposed limited sanctions over the past 2 years that have begun to have an impact on the Iranian economy;

Whereas Iran's rapid development of its nuclear capabilities is outpacing the slow ratcheting up of economic and diplomatic sanctions;

Whereas Iran has used its banking system, including the Central Bank of Iran, to support its proliferation efforts and its assistance to terrorist groups, leading the Department of Treasury to designate 4 large Iranian banks proliferators and supporters of terrorism;

5. Whereas Iran's support for Hezbollah has enabled that group to wage war against the Government and people of Lebanon, leading to its political domination of that country;

Whereas Iran's support for Hamas has enabled it to illegally seize control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority, and to continuously bombard Israeli civilians with rockets and mortars;

6. Whereas Iran continues to provide training, weapons, and financial assistance to Shi'a militants inside of Iraq and antigovernment warlords in Afghanistan;

Whereas those Shi'a militant groups and Afghan warlords use Iranian training, weapons, and financing to attack American and allied forces trying to support the legitimate Governments of Iraq and Afghanistan;

Whereas Iran is further destabilizing the Middle East by underwriting a massive rearmament campaign by Syria;

7. Whereas through these efforts, Iran seeks to establish regional hegemony, threatens longstanding friends and allies of the United States in the Middle East, and endangers vital American national security interests; and

8. Whereas nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress--

(1) declares that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, through all appropriate economic, political, and diplomatic means, is vital to the national security interests of the United States and must be dealt with urgently;

(2) urges the President, in the strongest of terms, to immediately use his existing authority to impose sanctions on--

(A) the Central Bank of Iran and any other Iranian bank engaged in proliferation activities or the support of terrorist groups;

(B) international banks which continue to conduct financial transactions with proscribed Iranian banks;

(C) energy companies that have invested $20,000,000 or more in the Iranian petroleum or natural gas sector in any given year since the enactment of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996; and

(D) all companies which continue to do business with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;

(3) demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran's nuclear program; and

(4) urges the President to lead a sustained, serious, and forceful effort at regional diplomacy to support the legitimate governments in the region against Iranian efforts to destabilize them, to reassure our friends and allies that the United States supports them in their resistance to Iranian efforts at hegemony, and to make clear to the Government of Iran that the United States will protect America's vital national security interests in the Middle East.

Sure the "War on Terror's" Fake but it's not like it's The End of the World...

2008-09-14T23:05:00.000-07:00

Code Pink activist tries to rudely shock some sense into Dr. Rice

With the war in Georgia fading from the headlines, it may seem to some that a minor European conflict has flared up and gone away. However, it appears as though the gravity of the situation is far heavier than I and perhaps others thought while it was going on. Since learning a few things about the history of the conflict, it appears that the United States through the Georgia conflict and our interference in the region has resurrected the cold war at a potential intensity that could lead to the use of nuclear weapons.

Back in 2002, the US dispatched troops, arms, and supplies to Georgia as part of the "War on Terror" supposedly to help Georgia fight terrorism in an area called the Pankisi Hills. Sounds perfectly coherent with the aims of the mythic "war on terror," except that there's evidence that the US is not in the region solely to fight Islamic terrorism, but moreover to protect an oil pipeline. From the Observer back in 2002:

Kakha Katcitadze, a senior government adviser, told The Observer that the gorge would not create 'vital dangers for Georgia'. America has other goals. 'There are some problems in Pankisi, but I think it is mostly a social issue. I am not so worried about it. Anti-terrorism is not the only reason for the relationship between the United States and Georgia. Georgia is also the shortest route between the [oil reserves] of the Caspian Sea and Turkey.'

When you consider that Condoleeza Rice's job at Chevron was Central Asian projects, and that the war in Afghanistan was threatened before 9/11 as part of a pipeline deal, to me the conflict in Georgia takes on a different light. It is also the case that Georgia started the war against Russia as something resembling an anti-terrorist operation in South Ossetia to "restore constitutional order."At around the same time, the US outrageously agreed to begin installing a "missile shield" project in Poland and the Czech Republic where 70% of Czechs are against the project that itself uses ballistic missiles to "protect against terrorist missiles from rogue states." In a serious response to just the preliminary plans for this ABM shield-- about year earlier, Russia stopped its compliance with a key treaty to keep its troops and military hardware out of Europe. This demonstrated Russia's total opposition to the US plan that unbelievably went ahead anyway.

Vice President Dick Cheney apparently sent his zombie double to Georgia to meet with Mikheil "Guilty Kid" Saakashvili

Most recently, as a response to the NATO buildup around Georgia, Vladimir Putin has vowed a response though "calm" to the provocation of US/NATO ships in the Black Sea. There are also tiny reports of direct US involvement in coordinating the Georgian military in its assault on South Ossetia, but even if false, moreover, the US arms and trains Georgia's military. Indeed, Dick Cheney visited the region after the war to "bolster western-friendly" countries against Russia. Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, who once taught at the US war college describes his opinion of the apparently dire situation in Georgia on Democracy Now:

COL. SAM GARDINER: Let me just say that if you were to rate how serious the strategic situations have been in the past few years, this [the Georgia conflict in August 2008] would be above Iraq, this would be above Afghanistan, and this would be above Iran.

But most worrying is his explanation of the likelihood of nuclear weapons being used in a conflict between US backed forces and Russia:

On little notice to Americans, the Russians learned at the end of the first Gulf War that they couldn’t—they didn’t think they could deal with the United States, given the value and the quality of American precision conventional weapons. The Russians put into their doctrine a statement, and have broadcast it very loudly, that if the United States were to use precision conventional weapons against Russian troops, the Russians would be forced to respond with tactical nuclear weapons. They continue to state this. They practice this in their exercise. They’ve even had exercises that very closely paralleled what went on in Ossetia, where there was an independence movement, they intervene conventionally to put down the independence movement, the United States and NATO responds with conventional air strikes, they then respond with tactical nuclear weapons.

The US has itself climbed on the unbelievable nuclear aggression bandwagon. In 2002 as part of the "War on Terror" the US withdrew from the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty we said in order to develop this insane missile defense system planned to be deployed in Europe. Also to develop new nuclear weapons. Finally, on August 20th of this year, after the US signed the deal to put the missile defense shield in Poland, Russia's foreign ministry said that Russia's response to this if it goes forward will "go beyond diplomacy."

And in the middle of this is Condoleeza Rice saying at the missile shield deal in Poland that "Freedom can be denied for a while, but it cannot be denied forever." Sounds right from the "War on Terror" playbook, "they hate us 'cause we're free." She was apparently baffled at Vladimir Putin's announcement of ceasing the arms control treaty over fears of the ABM shield saying he reaction was "bizarre." From the prior encounter in 2007 between "Russian expert" Rice and Moscow in Der Spiegel:

"Rice, speaking before Putin's speech, dismissed Russian concerns that the missile shield could pose a threat to Russia, calling the idea 'ludicrous.' She also accused the Russians of being stuck in a Cold War mentality -- even as she herself mistakenly referred to Russia as 'Soviet.'"

It appears that the phantasmagorical zeitgeist of the cold war is still looming over the Earth. And with diplomacy like this, with policy like this, I think it could possibly still mean nuclear war.

WTC 7: WTF^7

2008-09-01T02:35:00.001-07:00

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a report that looked at the collapse of the third skyscraper that imploded and fell just below the speed of gravity on 9/11. This skyscraper called the Salomon Brothers Building at the address of Seven World Trade Center fell straight down into its footprint seven hours after the twin towers fell.

The NIST report--almost four years in the making--decided that there were no explosives in the building to explain its collapse. The report is mostly based on "unprecedentedly complex" computer models and makes a number of shocking admissions about the investigation. According to NIST, not only was there no physical evidence examined for the report, the thesis of the report is that this is the first time in history that such a steel-framed skyscraper has collapsed due to a fire that burned sporadically and at temperatures hundreds of degrees below the integrity test strength of the steel. It also admits this in light of mentioning the story of a similar building--One Meridian Plaza in Philadelphia--that was left standing after burning in an inferno for 18 hours.

The One Meridian Plaza Fire of 1991

There were "design differences" between the two buildings that account for this, we're told. The reason they can hold this seemingly improbable explanation is that they "discovered a new principle" that would account for the collapse--thermal expansion. That is, minute but fatal thermal expansion of massive steel girders due to fires of office furnishings at a relatively low temperature and in key places that lead to the total symmetrical failure of the building's structure in a rapid, cascade manner.

But most galling is that the only evidence they provide that the building was not imploded with a compound known as thermite--one of the most fitting theories--is assumptive and in some places simply an uncited and unscientific consensus opinion. NIST writes that they collectively agreed that the thermite theory would not be investigated because "[The chemical building blocks of thermite] compounds also would have been present in the construction materials making up the WTC buildings," so it would be useless to test for any evidence of thermite. They ignore the molten metal pools found under the towers and Professor Stephen Jones' paper which finds evidence that strongly suggests thermite was used to collapse the twin towers--including forensic evidence in the form of tiny iron "spherules" found in the towers' dust. Also, NIST states that thermite was discounted as impossible because it would take 100 lbs. of thermite to melt a foot of steel and this was so improbable that thermite as a theory of the building's demolition was not investigated. This seems to assume certain knowledge of how to use thermite in building demolitions, and really should be cited, though such a citation does not appear in the report for public comment, indeed thermite is not even mentioned in the report.

For those who discount this as "conspiracy theories," I ask: does this report come up with a convincing enough case needed in a "world's first" structural failure? Does it adequately and scientifically examine evidence that strongly suggests thermite was used in the towers? Is it indeed a new and very subtle principle of thermal expansion at office fire temperatures 200 degrees Fahrenheit or more below the test rating for the steel's integrity that caused the building to suddenly implode straight down seven hours after the fires started--many of these office fires having burned out already? Does a totally virtual simulation on a computer with no physical evidence examined constitute an adequate investigation? Moreover, is there anything about 9/11 that doesn't raise ten questions for every one "answered" in favor of the official story?

Preempting Another Chicago, 1968, Mr. Obama?

2008-08-13T00:10:00.000-07:00

Why would the Democratic Party allow US Military Intelligence and the Colorado National Guard to deploy in Denver during the Democratic National Convention? What warrants the use during the convention (and what warrants the existence) of a certain "Colorado Information Analysis Center" which is "just one facet of a diffuse national intelligence network that has grown up quietly since Sept. 11, 2001?" Why did a precursor to this "Information Analysis Center" collect data on peaceful protestors and report one of them as a terrorist? And why doesn't the Colorado National Guard explain why it's renting 500+ hotel rooms and operating a restricted military base at a nearby college campus? Why are members of "US Northern Command" that was created in 2002 for "homeland defense" operations be working with the Secret Service on "convention security?" Obviously, since all the democracy has been removed from Democratic National Conventions since the Democrats stopped actually convening nationally to choose a candidate, a direct analogy to what happened to the DNC in Chicago in 1968 is elusive.

So, is all this just a lot of homeland security and defense cheese that needs to be blown before god forbid it goes to some hospital or school? This sounds traditionally like something that would embarrass Democrats. It is unquestioningly a domestic military operation planned that has to do with security and spying at the DNC. Democrats didn't seem to be be embarrassed by illegal spying on Americans after immunity was given to companies that did so, so why should they at their own convention? After all these questions only one remains: Is this the same event that culminates the "movement" that Barack Obama envisioned?

Case Closed, Thank Heavens!

2008-08-12T23:17:00.000-07:00

Interesting that the Anthrax attacks that came one and two months after 9/11 bore Islamic terrorist markings and were seemingly mailed from within the US military establishment. Elements in the government that were trying to hype up the threat of Islamic terrorism found a perfect opportunity with these attacks--at a crucial time. Thank heavens it was proven that it was just a "lone nut" who committed suicide before he could be tried and was completely disconnected from any overt plan to terrorize America to accomplish larger governmental objectives. Though the case against the "lone nut" Army scientist is compelling it is entirely circumstantial. Whatever you believe, it appears as though the Anthrax originated from within the inhuman and apparently well funded US bio-weapons establishment and seemed to further the quick passage of the Patriot Act.

The "closed case" goes like this:
A certain Dr. Ivins was so convinced that "Bin Laden terrorists for sure have anthrax and sarin gas" and was so worried since they "just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans" as he wrote to a coworker that he stole weapons-grade Anthrax in his custody from his workplace at the Fort Detrick, MD Army Weapons lab, later lied about ever having it, and while working late in the nights leading up to the attacks "weaponized" it through a state of the art nano-tech process that his coworkers said he couldn't accomplish, put it in letters in a makeshift manner underwater in a lake, and mailed them to two New York City papers, NBC's Tom Brokaw and probably the two most powerful lawmakers that were obstructing the USA Patriot act. All this solo work in order to validate to himself that he was indeed worthy of a date that sorority girl refused him all those years ago by being the hero that helped the country understand the threat of bin Laden--though the case tying him to 9/11 was never made public--and encourage the adoption of the Patriot Act.

As the bbc news observes: "Most people will reach verdicts guided by their general views on America's federal institutions - if you are inclined to trust government agencies, then you will accept their view on Ivins' sole responsibility for these terrible crimes. If you are not, you will probably be sceptical."

I fall into the latter category. This scenario may be possible, but if you were serving on a jury deciding on this case, would you have to look too hard find reasonable doubt in it? But, no, we're told: case closed! Due to his suicide, there will be no trial. Stop trying to make sense of it and file it with your questions about 9/11 in the "just trust us" file. After all, 9/11 saw no vested governmental interest in exploiting puzzling terrorist attacks with improperly established culpability to accomplish previously held agendas. Thank heavens in both cases it was ultimately just a lone nut we're after.