THE TRUTH ABOUT BUSH AT WAR COMES INTO SHARP, UNWELCOME FOCUS

NEW WOODWARD BOOK PORTRAYS A WHITE HOUSE BESET BY CHAOS, CLASHES AND LIES

DID WOODWARD BETRAY AMERICA BY CONCEALING THE TRUTH HE KNEW ABOUT THE WAR ON IRAQ AND THE LIES BUSH TOLD?

By Darryl Mason

Bob Woodward secured himself a lifetime of journalistic fame by playing a role in the downfall of the Nixon administration over the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s. He has now returned to the forefront of investigative journalism with a series of books chronicling the Bush years of the White House, during one of the most turbulent half-decades in American history. Or is all that just something that should be found on the dustjacket of his new tome 'State Of Denial'?

Even before the book's release, a series of reviews, leaks and excerpts from the book reveals that Woodward knew a lot more about the lies and deceptions and chaos that beset the White House in the lead-up to the Iraq War, and during the first two years of the 'War On Terror', than he has previously revealed in the books 'Bush At War' and 'Plan Of Attack'.

You can read a list of these controversial facts and quotes below, but many journalists, particularly younger journalists, may wonder whether Woodward betrayed his profession, and the confidence of Americans, by basically holding back the 'best bits' of what he had learned during 2003 to 2005 for his third book.

Woodward is now the chief chronicler of the Bush White House Years, and his access to the chief players in this unfolding, bloody, and continually shocking drama of historic proportions is unrivaled.

But didn't he owe America, and the world, the stunning truth he now reveals in 'State Of Denial' years ago? After all, he's a senior editor at the Washington Post, not chiefly an historian. Isn't his first duty then to reveal what he has learned as soon as he can confirm it, and source it thoroughly? Rather than culling the best bits that should have gone into book number two and heating them up for book number three?

Yes. Of course.

These books are now obviously far more important to Woodward than his role as one of America's best investigative reporters. What he only chooses to now reveal in the new book also reveals his betrayal not only of the journalists' code of ethics but his moral obligation to speak up when he should have : primarily, before the 2004 US presidential elections that returned President Bush to the White House.

It is clear that Woodward had 'checked the facts' and 'triple-checked the sources' at least two or more years ago for many of the revelations listed below. Many of which, it is important to note, were revealed in 2004 by a number of freelance journalists and bloggers and amateur historians. But such information rarely hit the front pages of the major newspapers, or reached the first few minutes of the evening news.

The question remains : Where was Woodward in 2004 when so many of these revelations might have made a difference, and possibly even changed the course of how the US was fighting the 'War On Iraq' and the 'War On Terror' in general?

And where were all the other 'premier' journalists who held back with the facts they knew about the state of the 'War On Iraq' and the enormous dysfunction within the White House?

The truth of what happened inside the White House in the lead-up to the War On Iraq and the utter chaos besetting the US Military and the Pentagon, mostly due to the blind optimism and foul arrogance of the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has mostly come from Bush administration whistleblowers and Army generals and senior military officers.

All of whom were forced to quit, or bravely threw away their long and distinguished careers to help Get The Truth Out. Only to find their stories and revelations sidelined or widely ignored by America's most powerful mainstream media. For being true patriots, they had their careers and credibility and even their honesty ransacked and attacked and pissed upon by a sneering hit-squad of extreme right-wing bloggers, radio mouths and truth-hating administration 'senior officials'.

Probably the most important thing that Woodward's new book does is show, finally, that the most of the major whistleblowers and the generals were actually telling the truth about what they revealed when they chose personal integrity over "staying the course".

They are the heroes here, not Woodward. He held back, he went for the Big Sequel money, he played the Bush White House game and he betrayed the trust that Americans once had for journalists to do their jobs, and Tell The Truth As Soon As They Can Confirm It.

Okay, here's a some of the key 'State Of Denial' headline grabbers (two and/or three years too late) :

* Two attempts were made by White House senior officials, including Condoleeza Rice, to have Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fired in late 2004 and 2005. First Lady Laura Bush believed Rumsfeld was a "liability" for her presidential husband. Bush advisor Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney fought for Rumsfeld to remain Defence Secretary and Bush agreed with them.

* Rumsfeld stopped taking phone calls from Rumsfeld as the fueding increased until Bush made them start talking to each other again.

* Rumsfeld refused to deploy the National Guard to deal with the hundreds of thousands of Americans trapped after Hurricane Katrina. He only did so when Bush ordered him to send the Guard in.

* The senior US commander in the Middle East, General John P. Abizaid on Rumsfeld : "He doesn't have any credibility anymore."

* Secret government reports predict the Iraq insurgency will increase in 2007, as will attacks on US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The war in general will only worsen.

* In July, 2001, the CIA Director and the Counter-Terrorism chief were so worried about what they believed were impending attacks by Al Qaeda inside the US, they drove to the White House and demanded an unscheduled meeting with National Security Advisor, Condi Rice. They claimed their warnings were ignored. Bush went on holidays for a month only days after the emergency meeting. The July 10 meeting was not disclosed by Rice to the 9/11 Commission, so she was not questioned by the commission on the discussion that took place at the meeting, or the warnings given to her.

* Through 2003, 2004, 2005 and the first half of 2006, President Bush gave regular, reasonably upbeat and optimistic speeches and interviews about what was happening in Iraq, even though he was being regularly briefed by teams of advisers from the US military and the Pentagon warning him of the ever-decreasing state of security in Iraq and the increasingly deadly attacks on US soldiers as the Iraq insurgency spiralled beyond comprehension.

* Attacks on US forces in Iraq numbered as high as 3500 separate attacks for the months of May and June this year. An all-time high since the war began in March, 2003.

* Rumsfeld was told in mid-2003 by Bush's own envoy to Iraq that three "tragic decisions...three terrible mistakes" had been made by the White House and the Pentagon - the dismissal of virtually the entire Iraq public service and administration, the total disbanding of the Iraqi military and police force and the removal of the entire Iraqi leadership, many of whom had offered to help the US "run Iraq" until elections could be held.

Rumsfeld refused to take action on any of these three key issues. "We're not going back," he said.

* Senior US military officials visiting Iraq in late 2003 and 2004 found "no coherent strategy" in place to deal with the insurgency.

* A February 2005 report commissioned by Rice, new appointed as secretary of state, revealed, "At this point Iraq remains a failed state shadowed by constant violence and undergoing revolutionary political change." The report told Rice there was no obvious, coherent strategy to deal with the all the problems facing the US occupation. Bush gave a speeches in the next month after the report reached the White House saying "We will stay the course on Iraq."

* Henry Kissinger became a powerful, influential force on Bush, advising him on the 'War On Iraq', but relieving his days during the Vietnam War when he believed the US had won the war in Vietnam, by 1972, but had failed to win the war at home with the public and Congress. Kissinger advised Bush to "stick it out" in Iraq. He told Bush that victory over the insurgency was the only kind of exit strategy that would ever work.

Kissinger also advised Bush to not "give one inch" to the public, the media, the military, Congress or concerned White House insiders. It would be seen as a sign of weakness, and vulnerability.

* Kissinger criticised Bush for having no alternative strategies on most of the primary decisions he had to make when it came to Iraq policy. There was only one choice to be made, yes or no, Bush was frequently left by Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice with no options but the ones they placed before him. This meant there were rarely, if ever, any second choices when it came to setting policy on Iraq, hence, "Stay The Course".

* Dick Cheney remained "obsessed" with finding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction long after it became abundantly clear they did not exist. Cheney harassed at least one weapons inspector after he returned from Iraq, calling him at home at 3am.

* Priority number one for the Bush White House inner circle, and most of White House's senior staff, during 2004-2006 was Iraq first, economy second.

* The former chief of staff, Andrew Card, believed that if the generals Bush respected had told him the 'War On Iraq' could not be won, "The Mission Cannot Be Accomplished", Bush would have ended the war years ago.

* Card believed there were two chief negative aspects to the way the public perceived President Bush : incompetence and arrogance. Card believed Bush was neither. He blamed the "marketing of Bush" for the public perceptions of the president as arrogant.

* Bush told Republicans at the White House that "'I will not withdraw (from Iraq) even if Laura and Barney (his dog) are the only ones supporting me...'


An Excerpt From 'State Of Denial' By Bob Woodward

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Book Reveals Bush Snr Had Doubts About Iraq War That Kept Him Up At Night

White House Disputes Book's Claims Of Attempts To Force Out Rumsfeld The Incompetent

'State Of Denial' Hits Early After Leaks And Pre-Publication Reviews Scoop Woodward On His Own Book

Book Says Bush Ignored Serious Warnings About The 'War On Iraq'

Whitehouse Bashes Woodward Book

Entire White House Press Briefing Devoted To Woodward Book Questions - Journos Claim Book Confirms Long String Of White House Lies And Distortions

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ThinkProgress : The 'State Of Denial' Edition

OLIVER STONE : "TERRORISM CAN BE LIVED WITH"

"AMERICA HAS ATTACKED ITSELF....I'M ASHAMED FOR MY COUNTRY"

By Darryl Mason

Oliver Stone probably wanted a bit of controversy to promote his new movie 'World Trade Centre', because the movie itself is not controversial, it's surprisingly mainstream and straightforward for Oliver Stone.

Well, if he wanted some controversy, he's starting to get it, by delivering headline quotable quotes like these during interviews to promote 'WTC' :

"We have destroyed the world in the name of security..."

Mr. Bush has set America back 10 years, maybe more."

And the cruncher of the bunch :

"Terrorism is a manageable action. It can be lived with..."

Stone remains one of the most controversial film directors in the world, but Oliver Stone's (JKF, Natural Born Killers, Alexander) new film 'World Trade Centre' is proving to be controversial only for its widely reported blandness and ultra-patriotism.

Stone's 'WTC' follows the struggle of two Port Authority workers to survive as they lie trapped in the debris pile of the Twin Towers on the morning of 9/11.

It's a straightforward, action-drama about American heroes, and it's already copped a brutal shredding by British film critics (see below).

When Stone was announced as the director of 'WTC', there were widespread fears amongst American conservatives that he was going to make a conspiracy-rich movie about the events of 9/11, instead of portraying the 'official version' of the disputed events.

Stone says he's not interested in the massive, and fast-growing, 9/11 Truth Movement, and their theories about the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and complicity in the attacks by the Bush White House.

But Stone said yesterday he is considering making a movie about another 9/11 conspiracy - one that is already thoroughly documented and bedrock solid :

"The far greater conspiracy occurred after 9/11 when basically a neo-cabal inside our government hijacked policy and went to war. That was as broad a conspiracy as we can get and it was about 20, 30 people. That's all, they took over...

Interviews Stone has conducted so far for the 'World Trade Centre' promotions see him more interested in discussing the events in Iraq, and the freedom-hating destruction of the Constitution by the Bush White House in the pursuit of alleged terrorists and the right to torture 'enemy combatants'.

It's hard not to get the feeling that Stone made 'WTC' to get a hit movie so he could get the budget and a pass to make another movie about a subject that interests him far more than heroic rescues.

And that would be the corruption and deceptions and insidious machinations of the Bush White House as they conned the nation, and Australia and the United Kingdom, into launching a savage war on Iraq.

Here's Oliver Stone in quotes, from his media junket to promote 'World Trade Centre' :

"We have destroyed the world in the name of security..."

"From Sept. 12 on, the incident (the attacks) was politicized and it has polarized the entire world...It is a shame because it is a waste of energy to see that the entire world five years later is still convulsed in the grip of 9/11.

"It's a waste of energy away from things that do matter which is poverty, death, disease, the planet itself and fixing things in our own homes rather than fighting wars with others."

"If there had been a better sense of preparation, if we had a leadership that was more mature...We did not fight back in the same way that the British fought the IRA or the Spanish government fought the Basques here. Terrorism is a manageable action. It can be lived with..."

"This war on Iraq is a disaster. I'm disgraced. I'm ashamed for my country....I'm also ashamed that America has attacked itself with its constitutional breakdowns. I'm deeply ashamed."

"You can't see that the United States is responsible for all the evil in the world because you can see so many dictators and so many bestial acts all over the world now. .... There is something in the human heart, the international human heart, that is evil..."

"That's the evil that turns its mind and ears on humanity and is able to say `I can kill a person in the name of God or religion.' This is not a human being, this a fanatic."

Oliver Stone is starting to talk like President Bush (!)

"And I fear that fanaticism is the result of our overreaction to 9/11..."

Okay, no he's not.

“How can you send (to war) only the poor to fight? If you’re going to war, go with everybody.”

(On why he made 'WTC') “I’m trying...to light a candle in the darkness. My earlier films were intense and powerful but, with a couple of exceptions, there was always a light in them. And since 2001, things have got so dark that any light seems to burn all the brighter. I’m talking about yin and yang, the universal battle. The European intellectuals who have criticised this movie don’t understand it because they have given up hope. We have to encourage people … the kids … because we’re facing such perilous times. Nuclear proliferation, ecological disaster, al-Qaeda, war, terror, fear, American imperialism, the breakdown of the constitution … ”

"Anyone who has been through war knows suffering. Knows what it means to kill or lose somebody. If Bush had ever seen it he would have thought twice about invading Iraq. Also, this concept of being born again I just don’t buy. How can you say you’re a Christian when you’ve caused the deaths of I don’t know how many civilians since 2001?"

Go Here and Here for the original articles from which these quotes were drawn.


Below you will find a review from the UK Guardian that pulls absolutely no punches in its total shredding of Oliver Stone's 'World Trade Centre' movie.

Preview audiences in the US, and early reaction from US critics, has been mostly positive, but the reaction from UK and European critics has been hardcore.

Most seem to absolutely hate it. Which is strange because Stone's last film, 'Alexander' was carbombed by US critics while it recieved a much more forgiving and accepting reaction from European critics.

Most of the UK and European reviews I've read so far talk a great deal about how grating the reviewers found the "jingoistic" patriotism and metaphorical flag-waving and sound disgusted that Oliver Stone has 'turned' on his international audience who love to see him criticise and deconstruct the American Dream.

From the UK Guardian :

There are some films so awful, of such insidious dishonesty and mediocrity, that their existence is a kind of scandal.

Oliver Stone's grotesquely boring and badly acted TV-movie-style World Trade Center spectacularly fails to do justice either to the global, geo-political nightmare of 9/11 or even to its ostensible subject: the courage of New Yorkers who risked their lives to help others that day.

It should not be possible to make a dull film on this subject, and yet Oliver Stone has managed it: a big, wilfully dumb, reactionary clunker of a movie that succeeds in cancelling the drama and avoiding all the history and the ideas.

Could it be that like many a tough-guy liberal of a certain age, Stone is trying to out-macho his conservative tormentors? Maybe. My own theory is that Oliver Stone's auto-lobotomy is an act of sentimental primitivism, a misjudged tribute to the innocent patriotic beliefs of a fondly imagined yeoman class of blue-collar Americans.

What a shaming spectacle.

TOP TEN SIGNS OF THE COMING POLICE STATE

PARANOID SCIENCE FICTION BECOMES HO-HUM EVERDAY REALITY

By Darryl Mason

The writer Philip K Dick produced many works of fiction that depicted a future America where dissent was criminal, where surveillance was omnipresent, where detention camps were to be found on the outskirts of most large towns and where chip-ID was mandatory.

PKD also wrote about flying cars, fuckable robots and intelligent slime moulds. But looking at the USA today (and increasingly Australia as well), it seems like somebody went through his books, culled all the worst of the anti-freedom fictions and turned them into a harsh new reality.

By the way, the fuckable robots will hit the market within two years. Flying cars, however, are still yet to get out of the prototype stage.

In the 1980s, pre-internet, there were a number of low-print run magazines that chewed through what the editors yelled (with lots of !!!!) and ranted was pure and clear evidence of 'The Coming Police State'.

They would routinely rumble about such (back then) fictionals as worldwide chip-based ID systems, widespread public surveillance, phone bugging, mandatory vacinnations, endless war and detention camps - these were all constantly projected through the pages of these mags as future realities.

Of course, these people were "conspiracy theorists" and the rare times their writings were acknowledged by the mainstream media was purely for reasons of mockery, with this kind of introduction : "Today on Whacko Paranoia Corner..."

These self-proclaimed journalists of the late 1970s and 1980s insisted that one day huge terrorist attacks would be the ignition switch for all these "conspiracy theory police state measures to become our new reality.

It is truly remarkable to come across one of these "whacko" mags from the 1980s now and see just how right they actually were. Not so much frightening, as fascinating.

I used to read some of these (usually black and white) magazines for entertainment, mostly because they seemed to be taking Philip K Dick science fiction ideas written in the 1950s and 1960s and were projecting them into the present day as truth, not fiction.

It is interesting to note that you rarely hear people howling about the "crazy conspiracy theorists" when it comes to the creeping police state in the US, the UK and Australia.

Now, of course, the "loonatic fringe" label is bucketed over the 9/11 Truth Movement (now millions strong around the world, but particularly concentrated in the US).

And most people just shrug when people start shouting about the human ID chip, 24 hour surveillance of innocent people, imprisonment without charge and the building of detention centres in the US and (in and near) Australia designed to hold thousands of people.

"Hey, it's too late, mate. That future is already here."

It sure is.

As part of the 'War On Terror', we are now living in a Western society increasingly infested with the kinds of anti-freedom laws and high-tech people control measures that the Evil Old Soviet Union could only ever fantasise about.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the totalitarianistic Communist horror-worlds of China and the Soviet Union were blasted into the brains of Westerners with dire warnings of what would happen if the expansion of these Evil Empires and their foul anti-human rights existences were not fought and resisted.

Of course, now we've got the 21st century version of those very same police state control measures and laws constantly creeping into our democratic societies, and the Communist Empire that was/is China now stocks our shopping malls to the brim with cheap TVs, t-shirts and toys.

The further irony is that a fat chunk of all that easy credit we use to buy $5000 televisions comes from the now-wealthy Russia.

We didn't beat back or destroy the horrors of the Red Menace, we just slowly absorbed them.

It's also remarkable how ho-hum the arrival, the early days, of the draconain fantasy police state reality is turning out to be.

Unless, of course, you are one of those who have been jailed in total isolation super-max prisons without charge for months on end, or you have been hauled into court to explain your three years of Google searches about Osama and Al Qaeda or you have been abducted by mistake, renditioned to Syria and beaten with steel poles for eight months before being released once the "mistake" about your innocence has been discovered.

People say, "Hey, come on now. It's not like people are getting their doors kicked in and thrown into prison like they did back in the Soviet Union."

But, of course, that is exactly what is now happening in Australia, the UK and the United States.

Most of the people this has happened to, so far, have been suspected of being terrorists.

Or knowing suspected terrorists.

Or hanging out in the same places as suspected terrorists.

Or having terrorist sympathies, or being Muslim and having too much drain cleaner under the sink and too many books about jihad on the shelves and too many websites about the Iraqi Resistance bookmarked on their laptops.

While these "anti-terror raids" usually hit the front pages, the subsequent release, without charges being laid, of many of these very same suspected terrorists rarely gets into the headlines, or the first minutes of the evening news.

The threat of terror is real, and terrorist attacks have claimed thousands of lives in the past six years. But does the threat of possibly more terror justify the imposition of a psuedo-but-
quickly-becoming-total police state?

Well, that's the big question, isn't it?

And for now, it's not the kind of question that many, if any, politicians in Australia, the US or the UK are all that keen to try and answer, outside of the standard rhetoric and recycling of 'War On Terror' stock-standard talking points.

That may all change soon, and there are signs that Questioning The Threat Of Terror might become an extremely powerful political issue in coming elections in the West.

Unless, that is, some city in the West gets nuked.

East Germany became Stalin's fantasy totalitarian playground of repression for decades, until the Berlin Wall came down. No doubt those who lived in that brutal police state never thought it would end, or that they could ever escape. But it did end, eventually.

So no matter how bad it may (and the key word is 'may') get in the West, it doesn't mean a police state here will become something permanent, and unchangeable.

It costs a lot of money and manpower and political headaches and heartaches to crush the natural human instinct to dissent and rebel against repression, particularly when it cuts through the illusion of living in a democratic, free society.

So, there's always hope things may change for the better sometime after they change for the worst.

If, that is, things do ultimately change for the worst, or worse than they are already.

So here are the Top Ten Signs Of The Coming Police State, written from a US perspective, but relevant enough for readers in the EU, the UK and Australia.

We may not have all the things listed below just yet, but variations of those we currently lack are definitely in the planning.

You can read the full article this extract is drawn from HERE, with plenty of explanatory notes. This is the short version.

1. The Internet Clampdown

Attempts to regulate and filter internet content are intensifying lately, coming both from telecommunications corporations (who are gearing up to pass legislation transferring ownership and regulation of the internet to themselves), and the Pentagon : which issued an Information Operations Roadmap" in 2003, signed by Donald Rumsfeld, which outlines tactics such as network attacks and acknowledges, without suggesting a remedy, that US propaganda planted in other countries has easily found its way to Americans via the internet...

2. "The Long War"

This little piece of clumsy marketing died off quickly, but it gave away what many already suspected: the War on Terror will never end, nor is it meant to end. It is designed to be perpetual. As with the War on Drugs, it outlines a goal that can never be fully attained -- as long as there are pissed off people and explosives...

3. The USA PATRIOT Act

Did anyone really think this was going to be temporary? Yes, this disgusting power grab gives the government the right to sneak into your house, look through all your stuff and not tell you about it for weeks on a rubber stamp warrant...

4. Prison Camps

This last January the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root nearly $400 million to build detention centers in the United States, for the purpose of unspecified "new programs".

5. Touchscreen Voting Machines

Despite clear, copious evidence that these nefarious contraptions are built to be tampered with, they continue to spread and dominate the voting landscape...

This is possibly the most important story of this century, but nobody seems to give a damn. As long as this issue is ignored, real American democracy will remain an illusion...

6. Signing Statements

Bush has famously never vetoed a bill. This is because he prefers to simply nullify laws he doesn't like with "signing statements." Bush has issued over 700 such statements, twice as many as all previous presidents combined.

Essentially, this administration is bypassing the judiciary and deciding for itself whether laws are constitutional or not...

7. Warrantless Wiretapping

Think about it: this administration hates unauthorized leaks. With no judicial oversight, why on earth wouldn't they eavesdrop on, say, Seymour Hersh, to figure out who's spilling the beans? It's a no-brainer. Speaking of which, it bears repeating: terrorists already knew we would try to spy on them. They don't care if we have a warrant or not. But you should.

8. Free Speech Zones

I know it's old news, but... come on, are they fucking serious?

9. High-ranking Whistleblowers

Army Generals. Top-level CIA officials. NSA operatives.

...when these (type of professionals) resign in protest and criticize the Bush administration en masse, they are cast as traitorous, anti-American publicity hounds.

The fact is, when people who kill, spy and deceive for a living tell you that the White House has gone too far, you had damn well better pay attention.

10. The CIA Shakeup

If Bush's nominee for CIA chief, Air Force General Michael Hayden, is confirmed, that will put every spy program in Washington under military control.

Who'd have thought that career spooks would have moral qualms about deceiving the American people?

Remember the good old days, when the CIA were the bad guys?

Go Here For The Full Story.


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The Revolt Of The American Generals Continues To Grow

Virtually Anyone Who Threatens America, Or Supports Terrorism Can Soon Be Detained As "Enemy Combatants"

The United States 'Shadow Government' Is About To Be Exposed, As Merger Of US, Canada And Mexico Into 'North American Union' Moves Closer To Becoming Reality

Laws To Increase And Legalise Massive Spying On Americans Expected To Become Reality

PAKISTAN CONSIDERED WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES AFTER 9/11



By Darryl Mason

Pakistan's President Musharraf has been talking tough while touring the US during the past week, as he meticulously promotes his new book, In The Line Of Fire.

The book was originally going to be a round-up of Musharraf's career and a recent history of Pakistan, but the majority of the book is consumed by Musharraf spilling his guts on his version of the events of 9/11 and the 'War On Terror' that followed.

In headline grabbing interviews last week, Musharraf came across as a man righteously pissed off at how much criticism Pakistan has copped for allowing Islamic extremism to flourish in his country.

His book, and the round of American interviews, are all about settling scores and getting his version of the 'War On Terror' into the headlines. He has been remarkably successful at doing just that.

Musharraf is rumourd to have scored a cool million for the book, and it has already proved to be one of the most controversial tomes ever written by a serving world leader.

There's plenty of good reasons for all that controversy.

For starters, Musharraf reveals in his book that the very first phone call he got on 9/11 from America was from then Secretary of State, Colin Powell, who laid down the law with one clear message that would become President Bush's matra : "You're either with us, or against us."

Musharraf makes it very clear that the United States' first target of opportunity in US plans to strike back for 9/11 was Pakistan, not Afghanistan.

Incredibly, Musharraf's first reaction after Powell's phone call was to sit down with his war cabinet and contemplate just how Pakistan would sqaure up in a full-blown military conflict with the US. This was serious stuff. Pakistan had, and still has, nukes. If Pakistan did not do what the US told them to, they would have had their nukes...well, nuked :

I made a dispassionate, military-style analysis of our options....I war-gamed the United States as an adversary. There would be a violent and angry reaction if we didn’t support the United States. Thus the question was: if we do not join them, can we confront them and withstand the onslaught? The answer was no, we could not...

So Musharraf admits that while he was opposed to terrorism in general, he only made the decision to join the US in the new war after he realised Pakistan could not win, or withstand, a full blown US military assault.

Musharraf was deeply troubled about backing the US in the 'War Against Terror' (as it was then known). He knew the Taleban, and al-Qaeda, enjoyed vast support from Pakistanis, and he was risking his own political career, and it turns out his own life, by throwing his side in with the US in the new war :

The ultimate question that confronted me was whether it was in our national interest to destroy ourselves for the Taleban. Were they worth committing suicide over? The answer was a resounding no.

Musharraf doesn't refer to his quandry as a "choice", he called it "the ultimate question".

This book is Musharraf fighting back against critics in his own country, and around the world, and trying to secure his place in history as man who realised the mistakes that had been made in using extremists and terrorists as supplementary fighters, particularly in the 1980s during the Afghanistan War.

The history of al-Qaeda and the Taleban told by Musharraf is a version of history that no US president of the past two decades has ever had the balls to even go near, and Musharraf's telling of the growth of these terrorist groups confirms a lot of the legends about Osama Bin Laden and the help he received in his remarkable rise through the 1990s.

Go Here For The Full Story.


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WHY THE 'WAR ON TERROR' CANNOT BE WON....

WITH BUSH AND BLAIR IN CHARGE

Max Hastings uses this column on the failure of the 'War On Terror' and what he claims to be the ever-growing threat of Islamic terrorism to toss out some hardcore claims about lefties in Europe : principally, that Osama Bin Laden has replaced Che and Fidel Castro as the LeftieEuroYouth's new poster child.

Hastings doesn't actually reveal whether or not he's seen Osama posters fouling the walls of EuroLeftie's bedrooms, but he argues that the widespread hatred of US President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is seeing Osama grow into an emblematic figure for these malcontents who stands opposed to all that Bush and Blair believe in, and are fighting for :

A dismaying number of people cherish such bitterness towards Bush and Blair for Iraq, Afghanistan and now Lebanon that they want US and British forces abroad to be seen to be defeated. This seems sorely mistaken.

It is Bush's achievement to have made Osama bin Laden a hero in the most unlikely places. I recently heard a Malaysian academic describe a conversation with a young Thai whom he met selling Bin Laden T-shirts in Bangkok, and indeed wearing one himself.

Where a generation or two ago images of Che, Fidel or Mao adorned the walls of some leftists, today there is a vogue for Bin Laden. So little confidence do some people feel in the virtues of their own societies that they are willing to suppose Bin Laden might be, well, a bit right. They say: when Bush and Blair have occupied Iraq and endorsed Israel's excesses towards the Palestinians, who can blame a young Muslim for turning to al-Qaida?

We must somehow survive the last months of Tony Blair's premiership, and the more alarming two years left to George Bush. Thereafter, among the foremost responsibilities of their successors will be to restore faith that the west deserves to win the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism, as it certainly does.

We are engaged in a struggle with fanatics whose vision is brutal, primitive and nihilistic. They will be defeated only when the west's counter-vision is perceived by reasonable people as just and unselfish. Under Bush and Blair it is not, and never will be.

The discussion board following this piece, here, is a rip-roarer.

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD?

FRENCH PAPER CLAIM : BIN LADEN DIED ON AUGUST 23, FROM TYPHOID

CNN : SAUDI INTEL SOURCE SAYS BIN LADEN ALIVE, BUT HAS "WATER-BORNE ILLNESS"

By Darryl Mason

The unconfirmed story so far : Osama Bin Laden contracted typhoid, a water-borne illness, sometime in early August. He was hiding out in Pakistan. He grew seriously ill. Being the most wanted man in the world, and one of the most famous, he was concerned about seeking medical attention and died on August 23.

A report from the French intelligence services containing these details, based on information provided by Saudi intelligence sources, was leaked to a French newspaper.

French President Jacques Chirac, and the most senior members of the French government, were briefed on the 'defence secret' report on Thursday, but Chirac is denying knowing whether or not he knows for sure if Bin Laden is actually dead.

You can take it as confirmed that there was a leaked report, containing this very information, now that the French government has launched an immediate inquiry into who leaked the report to the French newspaper.

Here's a reputed extract from the report seen by Chirac :

‘According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi intelligence services are said to have acquired the information that Osama bin Laden is dead. The information gleaned by the Saudis indicates that the head of Al Qaeda was a victim of a very strong attack of typhoid... in Pakistan on August 23, 2006.’

All Chirac has had to say about is "this information is in no way confirmed".

He was speaking at a press conference alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I am a little surprised that a confidential DGSE (French foreign intelligence service) note should be published," Chirac (said)...

The leaked French report (based on Saudi reports) claimed that Bin Laden "might have succumbed to a very serious case of typhoid fever resulting in partial paralysis of his lower limbs while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006.

"His geographic isolation provoked by constant fleeing is believed to have made medical assistance impossible (and) on September 4, 2006, the Saudi security services received preliminary information of his death."

One of the most comprehensive reports so far is this one from Time.com :

(Time.com sources reveal) that Saudi officials have received multiple credible reports over the last several weeks that Bin Laden has been suffering from a water-borne illness. The source believes that there is a "high probability" that Bin Laden has already died from the disease, but stressed that Saudi officials have thus far received no concrete evidence of Bin Laden's death.

"This is not a rumor," says the source. "He is very ill. He got a water-related sickness and it could be terminal. There are a lot of serious facts about things that have actually happened. There is a lot to it. But we don't have any concrete information to say that he is dead."

On Saturday, the French newspaper L'Est Republicain cited a report by the French intelligence service, Direction Generale des Services Exteriors (DGSE), saying that Saudi intelligence officials "seem to have become convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead."

Saudi intelligence is supposed to have learned of Bin Laden's death on September 4. They were said to be waiting to find out where Bin Laden was buried before officially announcing the news.

The US State Department, the French government, Saudi officials and Pakistan officials have issued statements saying they cannot confirm that Bin Laden is dead.

UPDATE : Saudi intelligence sources have told CNN that Bin Laden has "a water-borne illness" and that he is not dead. Yet.




Does this US Air Force Predator drone image show Osama Bin Laden's funeral?

UPDATE 2 : In early September, reports surfaced that a US Air Force drone had sent back 'live' images of a Taliban funeral (or what was presumed to be a Taliban funeral) underway close to the Pakistan border.

Dozens of fighters were lined up in ceremonial rows. But the funeral wasn't missiled, the Air Force claimed, because their rules of engagement said they couldn't open fire on, or within, cemeteries.

If Bin Laden did actually die on August 23, a funeral would have been held as soon as possible (as per Islamic custom), so there is a chance this massing of Islamic fighters for a funeral ceremony was for Bin Laden.

Again, no confirmation yet, but also no official denial from any government, including Pakistan.


UPDATE 3 : CBS News is reporting that Bin Laden has fallen seriously ill in the past twelve months, and have found a source who all but confirms Bin Laden's dead :

A senior source with an intelligence service friendly to the United States told CBS News that Saudi Intelligence has collected what it considers to be "very credible information" that bin Laden has been very seriously ill, and that the Saudi services are now suggesting, though not confirming, that they "have a pretty high certainty" that he is dead.

The source added that if he has died as a result of typhoid fever, which comes from exposure to contaminated water and food, it would confirm reports that he has been hiding in a remote area, under very harsh conditions with limited access to medical care.

We'll believe it when we see Bin Laden's head punted from the top step of the White House by President Bush on his way to his "We Got The Evil Doer" press conference.


In other Bin Laden news today, former US President Bill Clinton has delivered an absolutely blistering condemnation of Republican attempts to "Blame Clinton" for not killing Bin Laden when he supposedly had the chance to do so in the late 1990s.

Clinton virtually took over a Fox News interview, and rammed home to those who had forgotten that he had hunted Bin Laden to the point where Republicans claimed he was "obsessed" with the Al Qaeda leader. Clinton said in the interview it was the Bush administration who dropped the Bin Laden ball when they took over the White House in early 2001 :

"But at least I tried. That's the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now...They had eight months (in 2001) to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed."

Bin Laden was thrust back into the headlines nearly three weeks ago when President Bush delivered an anti-terror speech where he quoted Bin Laden, at length, more than ten times.

That same day, reports from Pakistan announced that peace treaties had been cut with Taliban fighters and Islamic militants in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Some reports stated that Bin Laden had been told he could "live in peace" without fear of capture, if he launched no more terror attacks.



FLASHBACKS

JULY 6 : OSAMA BIN WHO? CIA CLOSES 'BIN LADEN UNIT' - FBI HAS NO EVIDENCE "LINKING BIN LADEN TO 9/11

SEPT 6 : BUSH QUOTES BIN LADEN AT LENGTH AS PAKISTAN ANNOUNCES BIN LADEN CAN "LIVE IN PEACE"

SEPT 10 : WASHINGTON POST RUNS FEATURE STORY : THE BIN LADEN TRAIL HAS GONE "STONE COLD" :

The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world -- no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image -- has led them anywhere near the al-Qaeda leader, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.

"The handful of assets we have have given us nothing close to real-time intelligence" that could have led to his capture, said one counterterrorism official, who said the trail, despite the most extensive manhunt in U.S. history, has gone "stone cold."

SEPT 20 : BUSH SAYS US WOULD SEND FORCES INTO PAKISTAN TO HUNT BIN LADEN

President Bush caused a big stir in Pakistan when he confirmed that the US would send special forces, or regular soldiers, into Pakistan if he believed there was strong intelligence that Osama Bin Laden had been found and could be captured, or killed :

"Absolutely," President Bush said. “We would take action necessary to bring him (bin Laden) to justice,

SEPT 23 : LEAVE BIN LADEN TO US, PAKISTAN PRESIDENT TELLS BUSH

Pakistan's President Musharraf was on his way to the White House to meet with President Bush, and he attempted to defuse what was expected to be the Big Issue of their meeting : Was Pakistan doing enough to fight Taliban and Al Qaeda inside their borders?

"We will do it ourselves," he said. "We are able to do everything, wherever we locate anybody. There have been many such occasions where we have located al-Qa'ida or Taliban activity and we have struck with full force."

SEPT 24 : APPEARING AT A JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE WITH PAKISTAN PRESIDENT, BUSH BACKS DOWN ON PREVIOUS DECLARATION OVER BIN LADEN HUNT

When Bush and Musharraf fronted a press conference at the White House, Bush stepped well back from his earlier claim that the US military would "absolutely" hunt Bin Laden inside Pakistan, if they had intelligence revealing his location.

American and Pakistani officials are "on the hunt together," Bush told reporters. "And we'll just let the tactics speak for themselves after it happens."

GLOBAL WARMING GOOD : NORTH-WEST PASSAGE ACROSS ARCTIC RE-OPENS TO SHIPS

GLOBAL WARMING BAD : ENTIRE COMMUNITIES WILL BE "WASHED INTO THE SEA"

THE ARMIES OF AL GORE UNLEASHED UPON THE EARTH

HOW BAD COULD IT GET? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW?

By Darryl Mason

Global Warming sceptics are becoming as few in number - and as weak in credibility - as Holocaust deniers.

In England, the Royal Society (of scientists) is so pissed off about the handful of UK journos still claiming that most of the world's scientists are still "undecided" on the validity of manmade global warming, that they have sent their first ever letter of protest to a corporation.

No surprise that the recipient is oil giant Exxon, who stands accussed of funding global warming denial campaigns. Really big, expensive ones.

What particularly annoys the Royal Society is that energy giants like Exxon, now enjoying their most profitable years ever, pour billions of dollars into fighting the truth about global warming, instead of spending some of those billions actually fighting global warming.

Exxon were not pleased by the media attention attached to the Royal Society's letter of protest. In fact, Exxon were offended :

Yesterday Exxon retaliated, saying: "The Royal Society's letter and public statements to the media inaccurately and unfairly described our company....We know that carbon emissions are one of the factors that contribute to climate change - we don't debate or dispute this."

....Exxon admits it is reviewing the funding of various outside groups which were accused by the Royal Society of undermining the scientific consensus on global warming.

The letter from Bob Ward of the Royal Society expressed particular concern about $2.9bn (£1.5bn) of funding to 39 groups deemed by the academy to misrepresent the science of global warming.

So, basically, if you're manning the ramparts and publicly denying the cause and effects of rapid climate change and you didn't get a cut of Exxon's stunning $US2.9 billion slush fund, then you're doing their 'evil work' for free.


Being able to get hulking big freighters through areas of the Arctic now (mostly) covered by ice will shave thousands of miles off long-haul sea journeys and obviously save small fortunes every time another shipload of containers full of plasma TVs are sent from China to Europe or the United States.

It's getting closer to becoming a reality every year :

A warm summer and late storms in the past few months briefly opened a channel in the Arctic ice big enough to allow a ship to sail to the North Pole, the European Space Agency said yesterday.

The agency said satellite images showed "dramatic openings" over an area bigger than the British Isles in the Arctic's sea ice, which normally stays frozen all year.

"This situation is unlike anything observed in previous record low ice seasons," Mark Drinkwater of the space agency's oceans/ice unit said in a statement.

Late summer storms had fragmented between 5 and 10 per cent of the Arctic's perennial sea ice after it survived the summer melt season...

The observations coincided with growing concern about a possible link between global warming and extreme weather.

"If this anomaly trend continues, the northeast passage or `northern sea route' between Europe and Asia will be open over longer intervals of time, and it is conceivable we might see attempts at sailing around the world directly across the summer Arctic Ocean within the next 10 to 20 years," Drinkwater said.

'Former Next President Of The US' Al Gore is continuing to spread his gospel of Global Warming by pulling together an army of 1000 volunteers who will be sent out to educate the masses :

Former Vice President Al Gore.... is about to begin training 1,000 "Climate Project" volunteers to help spread his environmental message around the globe.

Gore has been promoting his documentary and book "An Inconvenient Truth" and encouraging volunteers to apply for his training sessions to learn how to give a shorter version of his PowerPoint-style presentations.

Several thousand have already applied to be among the 1,000 volunteers Gore expects to train within the next six months, said spokeswoman Kalee Kreider. The first session with about 50 volunteers begins this weekend in Nashville, Gore's hometown.

It's a cruel irony that some of the first people who are most likely to lose their communities to the effects of radical climate change are the Mother-Earth-worshipping tribes of Northern Alaska :

The (North Alaskan) village, home to Inupiat natives for 4,000 years, is about to be washed into the sea...

Kivalina is one of an estimated 200 villages in the far North, fighting for survival, and at least three...may be lost within the next decade.

The reasons are many, but a growing body of research suggests that global warming is at least partly to blame. There is less ice along the Arctic coastline because of warming ocean temperatures, and thus, less protection from relentless winter storms that undermine the coastal area.

So, if rapid climate change, as a result of global warming, is a reality and we are in fact reaching a "tipping point" - the point of no return - just how bad could it actually get on Planet Earth?

Surprisingly, one of the most shitscary estimates of the fallout from drastic climate change came from the US Pentagon in 2004.

No doubt, the implications of that report - which is already coming true - have helped President Bush come round to his new reality of, "You know, maybe there is something to this whole global warming thingamajiggy after all..."

Maybe Bush only got around to reading the report in the past few weeks.

That would be no surprise. After all, he obviously only just got around to reading all those reports that told him, before he launched the 'War On Iraq', that there weren't any WMDs in Iraq.

Here's a summary of the Pentagon report's most significant predictions of 'Our Fucked Up, Depopulated, Water-Hungry, Storm-Lashed, Hotter-Than-Satan's-Arsehole' World In 2020' :

Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honour.

By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands uninhabitable. Cities like The Hague are abandoned....

Between 2010 and 2020 Europe is hardest hit by climatic change with an average annual temperature drop of 6F. Climate in Britain becomes colder and drier as weather patterns begin to resemble Siberia.

Riots and internal conflict tear apart India, South Africa and Indonesia.

Access to water becomes a major battleground. The Nile, Danube and Amazon are all mentioned as being high risk.

Rich areas like the US and Europe would become 'virtual fortresses' to prevent millions of migrants from entering after being forced from land drowned by sea-level rise or no longer able to grow crops. Waves of boatpeople pose significant problems.

More than 400m people in subtropical regions at grave risk.

Mega-droughts affect the world's major breadbaskets, including America's Midwest, where strong winds bring soil loss.

Note : The American MidWest is now suffering through one of its most terrible droughts in American history, with more than 1/3 of the total wheat, corn and soy crops lost this year.

And here's probably the most important finding of all :

Deaths from war and famine run into the millions until the planet's population is reduced by such an extent the Earth can cope.

Now there's some advice that can be acted upon immediately....by doing nothing.

Let the wars and famines, or the famine-wars, run through to their inevitable mortality-high conclusions and, hello, the Earth's population has been self-culled of enough humans that fighting global warming by cutting back on emissions and wasting energy is no longer necessary.

Brilliant!


Personally, I'm not sold on the claims that manmade emissions are mostly to blame for global warming, though rapid climate change is obviously happening right now, across the planet.

I believe global warming, such as it is, has got something to do with the sun and solar flares and interstellar energy waves striking our sensitive atmosphere, but it's too difficult to explain (without textbooks) and there's no article handy to quote from, or link to.

So instead we'll take the easy out and just "Blame Bush! Blame Exxon!" instead.


US Government Accused Of Censorship Over Truth About Global Warming

Virgin's Richard Branson Commits $US3 Billion Over Ten Years To Alternative Energy R & D

Comment : Climate Change Skeptics Never Let Incovenient Truths Cloud Their Propaganda

Exposed : How A Tobacco Giant Created Structure Of 'Deny The Truth Until You Die' Publicity Campaigns Now Used By Major Corporate Polluters

NASA Warning On Warming : Less Than A Decade Left To Stop It

CHURCHILL BLAMED AMERICA FOR RISE OF FASCISM, COMMUNISM AND NAZISM

THE WAR AGAINST THE NEW 'ISMS'

By Darryl Mason

Most of the world now repeatedly blames the United States for the rise of militant Islam, and the spread of terrorism. Islamism, Terrorism, these are the 'isms' of the fourth world war.

Though Coalition leaders will deny it until their heads fall off, the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Muslims across Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon has turned hundreds of millions more Muslims against the West and given fuel to the rhetorical fires of radical immans and firebrand clerics.

The US-led 'War Against Terror' has propelled the geographical spread of terrorists and the number of acts of terrorism. More acts of terrorism in the world? Blame America.

But blaming America for the spread of an 'ism' is nothing new.

Winston Churchill did exactly the same thing back, after World War 1 and again in the mid-1930s.

It was America's belated involvement in World War 1, claimed Churchill, which allowed the explosion of Communism and Fascism across Europe during the 1920s, and in turn helped propel the Nazis into the forefront of German politics.

Winston Churchill, New York Inquirer, 1936 :

"America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917.

"Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany.

"If America had stayed out of the war, all these 'isms' wouldn't today be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government - and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives."

We've had it bashed into our brains for five years that 'Terrorism' is the "ism" that was threatening the world. Through the latest speeches from President Bush, British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and Australia's PM, John Howard, we know there is another "ism" to be feared : Extremism.

What actually constitutes "extremism" or "extremist" behaviour is even more vague, far less clearly defined, than what constitutes acts of terrorism.

Naturally, the hundreds of new anti-terror laws passed by the US, the UK and Australia over the past four five years can easily substitute 'terrorism' for 'extremism' when police and politicians see the need to do so.

But 'terrorism' and 'extremism' aren't the only 'isms' that have increased in popularity and fervour as the Fourth World War unfolds.

There is a vastly more popular 'ism' sweeping the planet : Anti-Americanism.

How long, then, before, 'anti-Americanism' becomes the 'ism' that demands more war and increased homeland crackdowns to fight it?

The verbal battle of this part of the war has already begun. Tony Blair kicked it off publicly last week with this comment directed at the politicians of the EU :

"The strain of, frankly, anti-American feeling in parts of European politics is madness when set against the long-term interests of the world we believe in."

This writer believes part of the problem of rising anti-Americanism is that it begins at home :

"If you trot down to your local (chain bookstore), the front table will be an overflowing cornucopia of anti-Americanism..."

Combating 'War On Terror'-spawned 'anti-Americanism' will prove to be the longest, and hardest, battlefront of all. The cycle could be endless.

It's dangerous to equate anger at Bush Co. foreign policies with hatred of Americans and all things American. But controlling words and how they are used in public debate, particularly during a time of war, is a powerful weapon.

Which is why EU critics like Tony Blair refers to 'anti-Americanism' instead of what it really is :
'Anti-Bushism'.


Anti-Americanism Poses Vast Threat To US Economy

US Ambassador Denies UK Suffering A Great Tide Of Anti-Americanism

Responding To Anti-Americanism In The Arab World - Success Or Failure?

9/11 Only Gave Pause To Europe's Dislike Of US Foreign Policy

UN General Assembly Explodes Into Forum For Anti-Americanism

COOLEST. COFFIN. EVER.



He loved hotrods. Years before he died, he warned his wife, "If you don't bury me with headers, I'll haunt you."

She took him at his word. If that's what he wanted, that's what she'd give him. Here's what his wife and mates came up with to send him off in his dream coffin :

Friends bolted to the side of the casket two pristine Hooker-brand V8-engine headers Calabrese long had admired. The aluminum-finished exhaust system had hung in Suskie's garage for years.

They affixed to the top of the casket the hand-polished housing for an air cleaner that came from Calabrese's baby, his '58 Chevy.

They fastened valve covers to both sides of the casket, and when pallbearers carried Calabrese's 6-foot-2, 300-pound body to his grave, they gripped clear-backing tape that had "ghost flame" designs on it.

Near the headers, aluminum decals cut in the shape of flames provided the finishing touch.

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RUSSIA TALKS UP THE NEED FOR A WORLD GOVERNMENT

ONE LEADER TO RULE US ALL

For th0se living in fear of the dreaded One World Government, the first major news story in years to lay out how the rise of One International Leader could come about is anything but scary.

Instead it's cold, deliberate and features Russia saying, "Hey, you know we'd be pretty good at this One World Government business. Look at our recent record."

Russia?

From the Itar-Tass News agency :

Russia does not see a reasonable alternative to the creation of a new collective leader comprising key, highly industrialized countries in the world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said...

According to the minister, these key countries should be “representative in terms of geography and civilisation.”

“The Group of Eight (G8) may become an important aspect of an informal mechanism of a new collective leader,” Lavrov pointed out.

Russia is ready to make a contribution in the creation of a new universal system that will be safer and democratic based on the principles of law and multilateral cooperation, Sergei Lavrov said.

“Abandoning the ideology of the past in favour of common sense,” now Russia has “a broad and unbiased view on all issues,” the minister emphasized.

He pledged that “Russia will take balanced positions in the future, act as an important factor of world diplomacy.”

So the Russian Revolution wasn't a waste of time after all.

Maybe....

This isn't the first time, or the last, that the Russian Foreign Minister has spoken of a New World Order and Russia's role in its formation and application.

From 'The Fourth World War ' blog in May :

...Lavrov said that bringing together a "chorus" of major nations into a world government will eliminate the jockeying for power that creates imbalances.

Lavrov was certain that "most countries will welcome such a grouping of leadership."

He also said that there is no place in Russian politics for animosity toward the U.S., and that the basic goals of American and Russian foreign policy were nearly identical. He made clear that the policies of both countries are to create a more secure and predictable worl

After all these years, it appears Russia is moving publicly forward on President George HW Bush's dream of 1990-1991 that marked something of a formal end to the Cold War.

The first President Bush's plan, which he referred to in multiple speeches as 'The New World Order', saw Russia and the US finally acting in cooperation to secure the world. He described his version of the NWO as "this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long..."

But is a Russia-chaired 'One World Government' the fulmination of the centuries-old 'plans' for uniting the nations of the world under one vast ruling authority?

Or is it a late-minute Russian takoever attempt?

Most likely neither.

It depends on whether you think a 'One World Government' will chip your kids and barcode your forehead, or perhaps instead introduce healthcare and trading deals and standards that truly narrow the gulf between the richest and the poorest people on the planet.

What makes the likelihood of a New World Order seem so sinister, perhaps, is the idea of all the world leaders uniting to work together to achieve consensus on an issue involving all the nations.

They couldn't just get together and work out something without trying to screw each other over, could they?

It just doesn't sound plausible.

Here's a selection of quotables from the past 170 years of 'New World Order' plans, confessions and assorted paranoidia :

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." -- England's Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1844.

Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions." -- Henry Kissinger, April, 1974.

"All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a New World Order." -- Robert Kennedy, ex-US Attorney General, 1967.


"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years.

"It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. "But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government." -- David Rockefeller, June, 1991.


"The invisible Money Power is working to control and enslave mankind. It financed
Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Zionism, Socialism. All of these are directed to making the United States a member of a World Government ..." -- American Mercury Magazine. December, 1957.

"The International government of the United Nations, stripped of it's legal trimming, then, is really the International Government of the United States and the Soviet Union acting in Unison." -- Commentary Magazine. November, 1958.


"The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it had been wiped out by a gigantic flood, by a great tempest, or by a volcanic eruption. The old world order died with the setting of that day's sun and a new world order is being born...." -- Nicholas Murray Butler. November 27, 1915.


"Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents..." -- HG Wells, 'The New World Order', 1939.

"The statement went on to say that the spiritual teachings of religion must become the foundation for the new world order and that national sovereignty must be subordinate to the higher moral law of God." -- The New York Times. December, 1942.

"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order." -- Mikhail Gorbachev. December, 1988.


"If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long." -- US President George HW Bush. January, 1991.

The "new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all." -- Nelson Mandela. October, 1994.

The renewal of the nonproliferation treaty was described as important "for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order." -- President Hosni Mubarak. April, 1995.

Henry Kissinger was only just talking about his New World Order, again, a few days ago :

"Both sides of the Atlantic should put their best minds together on how to deal with the common danger of a wider war merging into a war of civilizations against the background of a nuclear-armed Middle East."

"We now know that we face the imperative of building a new world order or face potential global catastrophe. It cannot be done alone by either side of the Atlantic. Is that realization sufficient to regenerate a common purpose?"

Kissinger Still Dreaming Of His New World Order

Go Here For A Richly-Detailed Wikipedia Round Up Of 'One World Government' Conspiracising

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JUNKIE SATANISTS GO TO WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANS

BIBLES BURNED, HOLY IMAGES SHREDDED, PULPITS URINATED UPON

By Darryl Mason

Satanists are on the march in at least one state of India dominated by Christians.

It's been called an anti-Christian campaign, which has seen Bibles burned, churches attacked and vandalised and cemeteries "defiled".

One such group entered a church after midnight on July 24 and burned Bibles, urinated on the pulpit and tore up pictures of the Virgin Mary and Jesus.

"It appears they sacrificed an animal on the pulpit and splattered its blood on the altar...

"...their attack on our church proves that the number of Satanists is growing across the state with village youths joining them."

One study found there were as many as 95 Satan-worshipping groups in Mizoram.

Satan-worshipping gangs appear to be gaining in popularity with the 18-25 year old unemployed Mizoram youth market. One way to pull a large male youth crowd to any event, even something Satanic, is to promise lots of naked public frollicking :

Some of them conduct midnight gatherings at isolated cemeteries, where they are reported to dance naked, slash their wrists in ritual blood offerings and chant invocations to Satan. They sometimes write graffiti in their blood,

Cheaper than spray cans and indelible ink pens.

High unemployment is recognised as a key factor in youth going Satan, but "bad Western influences" are also being cited :

"(When)...a girl-only [satanic group] was caught by village elders while performing some bizarre rituals, the girls, who were all high-school dropouts, admitted that [they had been] influenced by the Hollywood movie 'The Craft...'"

So 'The Craft' did turn out to be a highly influential movie with today's youth....today's Satan worshipping youth on the lookout for some easy-to-mimic rituals.

A Satanist confesses :

"Most members of our [group] were intravenous drug users. We wanted to rebel against the society, and so we targeted the Church...."

Unemployment + Boredom + Drugs + Shit Hollywood Soft-Horror Films = India Satanism

CHILDREN SPEAK IN TONGUES, PRAY FOR SALVATION AND WORSHIP A PICTURE OF PRESIDENT BUSH



From 'The Last Days Of President George W. Bush' :

The children can be found speaking in tongues, praying to God for abortions to end, weeping long and loud for their salvation, but perhaps most disturbing of all, they worship a picture of President Bush.

The children's camp in the US where all this false-idol worshipping is going on is called 'Pastor Becky Fischer's Bible Camp'. The program is called....ahh, 'Kids On Fire'.

If the ultra-metal-gore rock band Cannibal Corpse tried to release an album in the US called 'Kids On Fire' it would be banned from Walmart.

From ABC News (America) :

"I want to see (these children) as radically laying down their lives for the gospel as they are in Palestine, Pakistan and all those different places," Fisher said...

"A lot of people die for God," one camper said, "and they're not afraid."

"We're kinda being trained to be warriors," said another, "only in a funner way."

Sounds like someone is training a lot of impressionable young children to one day consider becoming what President Bush calls "suiciders".

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