Keeping an Eye on the Rogue State

Dr. Decline from Mark Fiore

2009-07-31T09:48:00.000-07:00

BBV ALERT: "The Count" starts in 2 days: Instructions for Protect the Count

2008-11-03T12:30:00.000-08:00

Black Box Voting was asked by YouTube to prepare an easy to follow public education program for Protecting the Count on ELECTION NIGHT and the days that follow. We collaborated with Videothevote.org and Election Defense Alliance. YouTube has created a Channel called Video Your Vote. The Black Box Voting Protect the Count series contains important information and several video clips never before made public.

Please distribute immediately and as widely as you can. EASY INSTRUCTIONS: View the videos that best fit your location.

1. Protect the Count - most locations in America(4 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_xFb1sWKU
Takes 90 minutes on Election Night. You can even go out after polls have closed. Please also view video # 3, because it shows what to look for to identify tampered poll tapes and the kinds of small errors on tapes that can appear with memory card tampering. Upload any video you take to http://www.videothevote.org - Post link or comments for what you found in the state and jurisdiction athttp://www.blackboxvoting.org

2. Protect the Count - Absentee / Central Count (8 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZp3rA1XXjw
(Applies to 13 states with CENTRALLY COUNTED ballots and/or HEAVY ABSENTEE VOTING)
These are the most challenging Protect the Count locations.

3. Protect the Count - New England / New Hampshire(5 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4M12w6tY4
If you live anywhere in New England and can drive to any voting machine location in New Hampshire to observe and video poll closing, please do so. If you live anywhere in America that has polling place results tapes, please look at this video to see what tampered tapes look like.
Contact Protect the Count - New Hampshire organizers at protectthevote@gmail.com
You can view the list for which New Hampshire locations use voting machines here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/157/157.html

4. Protect the Count - New York (9 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSn4qLdgbU
New Yorkers are probably in the best shape for Election 2008, but not for long. This shows the details of how the counting of the lever machines proceeds after polls close, and gives you the details of the fight New Yorkers will have on your hands in 2009.

I'm counting on you to be as proactive as possible to fight for your voting rights. The actions in the Protect the Count series are self-serve, simple to do, and designed for just grabbing a neighbor or a buddy and taking action. Don't worry about blanketing every area or organizing the whole state. Just pick a place and DO it. I guarantee it will be a fascinating and important experience, and could provide THE crucial evidence in the very undesirable event that the election turns out not to be fair.

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

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BBV ALERT: Massachusetts, New England memory card custody issue

2008-11-03T12:21:00.000-08:00

An alert Massachusetts citizen named Lisa asked her town elections official today what will happen to the Diebold voting machine memory cards after the election. The clerk replied that she will give the memory cards back to a private vendor, LHS Associates, the day after the election! The memory cards are the ballot box, in all New England voting machine locations. This is a very serious matter.

LHS Associates, from Methuen Mass., programs ALL the memory cards for Diebold systems in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Maine. A member of the key management staff of LHS, Kenneth Hajjar, is a convicted narcotics trafficker. We have Hajjar's criminal record documents posted on our Web site. He is in charge of "sales and marketing" for elections for all of New England. In a radio interview, he admitted he drives around with memory cards in the trunk of his car. It is an unacceptable practice to have LHS controlling voting machine programming in New England, but it is outrageous that LHS is trying to collect its memory cards before the election is even canvassed or certified, not to mention before recount and contest periods have expired.

REMINDER: The New England "Protect the Count" actions are contained in this 8-minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV4M12w6tY4
The video above shows how to spot memory card tampering (when it is done clumsily; if done skillfully it leaves no trace). Capture the evidence.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT: Lisa called the Massachusetts Secretary of State, who informed her that it is ILLEGAL for towns to let LHS Associates take custody of the memory cards before 30 days has elapsed. Lisa's town clerk has now agreed not to let LHS do that.

WHAT TO DO: If you live in Massachusetts, place a call to your town clerk and ask what they are planning to do with their memory cards. If they say give them back to LHS report this to Black Box Voting and to hotlines like 1-866-OURVOTE and to the secretary of state, and tell the election official this is illegal unless they wait 30 days. If you live in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine or Connecticut, you may want to make some phone calls to ask about this.

WHAT BLACK BOX VOTING IS DOING: In addition to issuing a general alert, we are faxing every town clerk in Massachusetts to remind them that it is illegal to give their memory cards to LHS before 30 days has elapsed. This will be more effective if local citizens also call, because they'll know people are watching. No New England election official should give the memory cards back to LHS before canvassing, certification, recount and contest periods have expired!

LONG TERM: The situation with secret vote counting on computers programmed by LHS needs to be resolved. After Nov. 4.

Grab a buddy (because it's more fun that way), don't worry about blanketing every area or organizing the whole state. Just pick a place and do it. I guarantee it will be a fascinating and important experience and could provide crucial evidence.

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

ELECTION ALERT: Pass it along, Avoid this vote counting trap

2008-10-13T10:23:00.000-07:00

Email Announcement from Black Box Voting

ELECTION ALERT: Straight Party Voting Trap. You may have read about this; Here are the details and what to do about it:

THE PROBLEM: "Straight party voting" on voting machines is revealing a bad pattern of miscounting and omitting your vote, especially if you are a Democrat. Most recently (Oct. 2008), a firm called Automated Election Services was found to have mis-coded the system in heavily Democratic Santa Fe County, New Mexico such that straight party voters would not have the presidential vote counted.

STRAIGHT PARTY VOTING is allowed in 15 states. Basically, it means that you can take a shortcut to actually looking at who you are voting for and instead just select a party preference. Then the voting machine makes your candidate choices, supposedly for the party you requested.

Additional details follow, but first: PROTECT THE COUNT:

Short video launches Black Box Voting "Protect the Count" project - more to come:
Form a Poll Tape Posse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_xFb1sWKU

HOW TO PROTECT THE COUNT against Straight Party Trap:

1) NEVER CHOOSE THE STRAIGHT PARTY VOTE OPTION, because it alerts the computer as to your party preference and allows software code to trigger whatever function the programmer has designed.
2) SEND THIS INFORMATION OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN, blog it, root n' toot it out there to get the word out.
3) ESPECIALLY GET THE WORD OUT TO PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING STATES, which have straight party voting options:
Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin
4) DEMAND COMPLETE AND CAREFUL TESTING OF THE STRAIGHT PARTY OPTION IN LOGIC & ACCURACY TESTS.
5) LOOK FOR UNDERVOTES (high profile races with lower-than-average number of votes cast) and flag them, post them, bring them to the attention of others for additional scrutiny.

Details, links to documents, news stories, more specifics here:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/78367.html

Voting machine miscounts of straight party votes were proven by California researcher Judy Alter in the 2004 New Mexico presidential election; in Alabama Democrat straight party votes were caught going to a Republican, and Wisconsin a whole slew of straight party votes disappeared altogether. Both DRE and optical scan machines are vulnerable. Private contractors are involved; private firms like LHS Associates, Automated Election Services, Harp Enterprises, Casto & Harris and others will program almost all systems in the USA this November. ES&S scanners were involved in examples cited, but Diebold has also issued a cryptic Product Advisory Notice in 2006 about unexpected results from certain Straight Party option programming practices. (More: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/78367.html )

PERSPECTIVE

The big "Oops" needs a new frame of reference. For example: You are counting the cash for a fund raiser. Somehow, it's discovered that $500 didn't make it into the count and someone put it in their pocket. They say "Oops" and tell you it was a mistake. Really? Will you let them count the cash again? Probably not. Consequences! Where are they for Automated Election Services, ES&S, or Diebold?

A LEHTOISM - From voting rights attorney Paul Lehto: "Being at the mercy of whoever's in power is not a definition of freedom, if I may seize on the power of understatement."

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The Truth About the Bailout Bill

2008-10-08T08:20:00.000-07:00

Congressman Brad Sherman: Martial Law if We Voted No
In Three Parts
Also See: The Naomi Wolf Interview

What Corporate Media Won't Publish or Air

2007-12-15T13:17:00.000-08:00

-Snip from email announcement-
Rep. Robert Wexler (FL-19) and two other Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee - Luis Gutierrez (IL-04) and Tammy Baldwin (WI-02) - today called on the committee to begin impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney.

They declared, "The charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office, and not only brought us into an unneccesary war but violated the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens. It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings."

The three Democrats wrote an op-ed to announce their position, but none of the nation's leading newspapers would publish it - just as they refuse to include impeachment in their polls, and just as they refuse to publish their own investigations of the crimes of the Bush Administration. Why? Because the Corporate Media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican Party, as it has been since the Reagan Revolution of 1980.

So this important announcement was made on a Blogcall hosted by Democrat.com, and was covered by progressive blogs - the only news media that serves the people, not the Corporations.
-end snip-

HERE IS THE OP-ED

A CASE FOR HEARINGS
By Representatives and Members of the Judiciary Committee:
Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

On November 7, the House of Representatives voted to send a resolution of impeachment of Vice President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee. As Members of the House Judiciary Committee, we strongly believe these important hearings should begin.

The issues at hand are too serious to ignore, including credible allegations of abuse of power that if proven may well constitute high crimes and misdemeanors under our constitution. The charges against Vice President Cheney relate to his deceptive actions leading up to the Iraq war, the revelation of the identity of a covert agent for political retaliation, and the illegal wiretapping of American citizens.

Now that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan has indicated that the Vice President and his staff purposefully gave him false information about the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson as a covert agent to report to the American people, it is even more important for Congress to investigate what may have been an intentional obstruction of justice. Congress should call Mr. McClellan to testify about what he described as being asked to “unknowingly [pass] along false information.” In addition, recent revelations have shown that the Administration including Vice President Cheney may have again manipulated and exaggerated evidence about weapons of mass destruction -- this time about Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Some of us were in Congress during the impeachment hearings of President Clinton. We spent a year and a half listening to testimony about President Clinton’s personal relations. This must not be the model for impeachment inquires. A Democratic Congress can show that it takes its constitutional authority seriously and hold a sober investigation, which will stand in stark contrast to the kangaroo court convened by Republicans for President Clinton. In fact, the worst legacy of the Clinton impeachment – where the GOP pursued trumped up and insignificant allegations - would be that it discourages future Congresses from examining credible and significant allegations of a constitutional nature when they arise.

The charges against Vice President Cheney are not personal. They go to the core of the actions of this Administration, and deserve consideration in a way the Clinton scandal never did. The American people understand this, and a majority support hearings according to a November 13 poll by the American Research Group. In fact, 70% of voters say that Vice President Cheney has abused his powers and 43% say that he should be removed from office right now. The American people understand the magnitude of what has been done and what is at stake if we fail to act. It is time for Congress to catch up.

Some people argue that the Judiciary Committee can not proceed with impeachment hearings because it would distract Congress from passing important legislative initiatives. We disagree. First, hearings need not tie up Congress for a year and shut down the nation. Second, hearings will not prevent Congress from completing its other business. These hearings involve the possible impeachment of the Vice President – not our commander in chief – and the resulting impact on the nation’s business and attention would be significantly less than the Clinton Presidential impeachment hearings. Also, despite the fact that President Bush has thwarted moderate Democratic policies that are supported by a vast majority of Americans -- including children’s health care, stem cell research, and bringing our troops home from Iraq -- the Democratic Congress has already managed to deliver a minimum wage hike, an energy bill to address the climate crisis and bring us closer to energy independence, assistance for college tuition, and other legislative successes. We can continue to deliver on more of our agenda in the coming year while simultaneously fulfilling our constitutional duty by investigating and publicly revealing whether or not Vice President Cheney has committed high crimes and misdemeanors.

Holding hearings would put the evidence on the table, and the evidence – not politics – should determine the outcome. Even if the hearings do not lead to removal from office, putting these grievous abuses on the record is important for the sake of history. For an Administration that has consistently skirted the constitution and asserted that it is above the law, it is imperative for Congress to make clear that we do not accept this dangerous precedent. Our Founding Fathers provided Congress the power of impeachment for just this reason, and we must now at least consider using it.

Tired of 9/11 Flag-waving

2007-09-19T10:20:00.000-07:00

Porlogue: I get sick and tired of getting those "Don't Forget 9/11 and who's to blame for it - let's go kill the Bastards........" kind of chain emails.

Actually, I'm sick of all of the crap knee-jerk "send this out or else" chain-email. It's not as bad as being SPAMMed - it's WORSE, because anyone who sends them out is HELPING the SPAMMERS by providing countless email addresses out in the open for anyone to "steal", and that is always what happens. Actually, I've counted as many as 120(!) at one time - you know, you have to scroll down for an hour just to get past all of the email addresses before you get to read the actual message?

But I always take the time to thank the sender by blind-emailing everyone in the message to explain their "friend's" contribution to their SPAM email load.

Who do you think originally writes those things? If you said "The SPAMMERS" then you win the door prize.

These meaningless pieces of junk also contribute to choking up the internet with useless and meaningless sentimentality - sure, there are cute ones here and there, but most of them could be reduced by up to 75% if folks would just trim out the email addresses and blind copy their list of friends....

I recently received a "Don't Forget 9/11 and who's to blame for it - let's go kill the Bastards........" from a "Christian" person who is very dear to me.

This is what I sent to the 30 people whose email addresses I had so graciously (or, more likely, thoughtlessly and carelessly) been given:

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While these messages are quite disturbing in the casual, base way they are written to bring about a gut reaction to their readers, with the express intent not of railing about 9/11 but to steal your email address.....

(that's why several of you have no idea who I am, and yet, here I am emailing you - then you wonder why you get spammed all the time - it's because people insist on sending meaningless, emotional, empty-headed junk with your email in the CC field for all to see, AND COPY FOR THEIR USE, WHATEVER THAT MAY BE. This is the fundamental reason why you don't see who els I sent this to, though I sent it out to 30 people)

.......and though I continually get ignored when I tell certain individuals to respect my email address by blind copying me, I have to get dead serious about the content of the message itself, because I believe it is time someone finally ripped that red, white and blue blankie from your hands. We are not children - most of us - that can simply wave the flag and think everything is going to be just fine - they did it in the streets of Berlin, too, ya kow...

It is time someone showed you the reality of how we have all been played for suckers! (are we Americans or Christians? You can not serve two masters!)

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The email I received from a caring person only underscores the knee-jerk emotionalism and patriotism we are programmed to feel and express every time the memory of 9/11 is invoked.

The American people have been manipulated to behave this way - from the inception of the nation - and it's time they woke up to the truth:

The war on terror (WOT) is a farce.

Those 7 words will likely make you angry.

If that phrase does upset you, you will likely not want to read the rest of this, but I believe it's in your best interest to read it. We have been manipulated like a bunch of sheep and this could be your chance to wake up from the sleepy dream of a lie we have been told. If you took the time to read the piece of flag-waving junk that caused me to write this, you can certainly take the time to read this - it's the difference between reading a comic book or real history.....

This is not to say that 9/11 wasn't a terrible thing - it was, but let's put things into perspective, shall we? I'm not trying in any way to disrespect the victims of 9/11 or their families. I am not trying to disrespect our troops (I myself served in the Navy.) I do not, in fact "Hate America", so let's just set all of those little straw men aside and get serious, OK?

The WOT is an excuse to get Americans all riled up to justify murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 9/11.

Let's think about this.

If I recall correctlly, the Lord said:

But I say unto you, Love your enemies,bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Eventually, the government will continue on to a third nation (Iran) on the premise that they are developing and will use nuclear weapons against the United States. All the while refusing to have any real diplomatic relationship with them in order to help ease the tensions, exactly as we treated Iraq, and the unfounded reports of Iraq having ambitions for nuclear weapons are exactly as was Iraq - and we know how accurate that was!

Besides, have we provided any nation with any meaningful solution to protect themselves from the US besides developing some kind of WMD? The US has the largest and most deadly stockpile of WMD's in the world!

The "WOT" is the central excuse given as the reason that the American people accept horrible acts torture acceptable if we beat "The bad guys" or "Avoid another 9/11". I have actually talked to people who said this to me.

WHAT????

Since when did Jesus say "Love your neighbor, unless you need to torture them to protect yourselves!" ? I DON"T CARE WHO THEY ARE! If we stoop to that level, then we are become that which we claim to detest!

The 9/11 attacks were a great opportunity used as a pretext for unbridled and unending war! Those who make money on wars - and there are a lot of them - stand to make Trillions upon Trillions of dollar in profits off of the blood of our soldiers and, truth be told, the other side's fighters as well, since they don't care who they fund or arm - the US was actually caught FUNDING al-Qaida at the same time we are supposedly fighting them in Iraq!

("al-Quida" is Arabic for "The Base" which refers to the CIA database of Afghani freedom fighters that we were training and funding during the USSR invasion of Afghanistan)

The WOT gave the US an excuse to invade the two countries that stood in the way of a major oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The "WOT" is also the central reason given for the writing of laws that have trashed our civil liberties and brought use dangerously close to a police state!

It has been used as a excuse to allow illegal activities to be carried out by our own government for the sake of our "safety and security."

You can be rest assured that nearly if not all of the Bill of Rights no longer applies, thank you very much.

You can also be assured that those in the current administration who have sworn to uphold and protect the constitution have treated it like so much toilet paper.

Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’

And yet, we all seem to want to wave the flag and shout "US #1!" right after someone cries "9/11, 9/11, 9/11!" - very much like what the Germans did when someone cried "Reichstag, Reichstag, Reichstag!"

Well the reality is, we aren't #1, unless you say that we are #1 in invading countries that had nothing to do with 9/11 and #1 in failing to capture our #1 "Suspect."

The American govt. has staged or permitted at least 4 individual events and lied to it's people untold numerous times to bolster support for war.

The American government has played a major role in the coups and guerilla wars around the world for at least 60 years.

It was America that overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in the 60's to make way later on for the Shah's and the anti-American sentiment that arose from our actions.

It was the United States Government that aided and brought to power a great list of "evil" men:

- Osamma Bin Laden and the freedom fighters of Afghanistan were created and aided by the US during the USSR occupation of Afghanistan. We armed and trained them - I would say we've done a pretty good job!

- The US armed Iran (remember the Iran Contra Affair that no one went to prison for?) and later gave Saddam Hussein WMD's during the war between Iran and Iraq. Yep, that's right, we armed BOTH sides of that conflict and yep, you guessed it - the WMD's that we were after in the 90's in Iraq were the same WMD's that we sold him and taught him how to make - I would say that the US is either a very bad judge of character or they know how to set up their targets....

The list is pretty long. It is also very embarrassing.... if you thought it was great to be an American - especially when you thought you were the cowboy with the white hat....

The United States is in fact the number one supporter of state-run-terrorism. We funded the group that eventually came to be named "Al Qaida." We funded the Sandinistas. Many banks and businesses were, in fact aiding and funding the Nazi's during WWII, even AFTER we joined the war!

We have illegally invaded two nations in the name of anti-terrorism, then we helped evacuate al-Qaida after we occupied Afghanistan.

It isn't and never was about "terrorism." If it was, we would have actually captured Osama Bin Laden by now, not made up fake videos of him threatenning the US (BTW, I live in Durham NC, Home of Duke University where the preeminent American authority on Osama works. He has stated to collegues of mine, that the recent audio and video recordings of him are fakes.)

Why don't the TV and news papers tell you all this? Look at who owns them: Most are owned in part or in whole by government and military contractors. They have a big stake in making money on war!

Take some time to view the video below.

Zeitgeist Movie Part 3
ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Official Release - Part 3 of 3

47 min 5 sec - Jun 27, 2007
Average rating: (740 ratings)
Description: ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Official Release. Part 3: "Don't mind the men behind the curtain". Full Film Here

Mr. Kevin Michael Tillman - Not Pat Tillman's Brother.....

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MadTV-iRack

2007-03-16T11:31:00.000-07:00

SAD BUT TRUE

Transcript follows:

MC - Ladies and gentlemen,
Apple Computer shareholders and investors,
may I introduce the founder of Apple Computers,
Mr. Steve Jobs.

Jobs - Welcome everyone.
In the last three years Apple Computers has
introduced iTechnology that has changed the world:

The iPod (Apple “Bong”)
The iMac (Apple “Bong”)
The iBook (Apple “Bong”)
The iPhone (Apple “Bong”)
The iPictureFrame (Apple “Bong”)
The iLamp (Apple “Bong”)
The iMicrowave (Apple “Bong”)
and The iVacuumCleaner (Apple “Bong”)

Tonight I will unveil to you our newest iTechnology
and it will synergize with all of our iProducts
Ladies and gentlement I give you ....

The iRack (Apple “Bong”)
(For our hearing impaired brothers and sisters - this is a homonym for "Iraq" - kind of...)

Woman - The iRack looks unstable.

Jobs - Trust me. The intelligence briefings
I got on the iRack are completely credible.

Man - The iRack looks like something we shouldn’t be involved with.
It looks like you put it together with no directions.

Jobs - I’m confident the iRack will work without any directions or plans of any sort.

Man - But the iRack looks all shaky. I mean you are gonna fix it, right?

Jobs - Wrong, this is the iRack we as intended - Mission Accomplished!
Now I’m going to put our iProducts into the iRack

MC - Um, Mr. Jobs, don’t force force them in there.

Jobs - I know what I’m doing, I’m not dumb!

Woman - The iRack look like it doesn’t even want those thing in there.

Jobs - Don’t worry I know what’s best for the iRack!

MC - Don’t put more in the iRack it will collapse on itself

Jobs - Wrong! What the iRack needs is more things!

MC - You shouldn't be putting more things in, you should be taking things out!

Man - Yeah, get things out of the iRack

Jobs - Does everyone here want me to take things out of the iRack?

All in the “audience” - Yeah, yeah take things out of the iRack!

Jobs - I hear what you’re saying and the answer is “No!”
I’m going to put even more things in the iRack!

Man - But the iProducts don’t even look like they’re getting along in the iRack!
They look like they hate each other in there!

Woman - look the iRack’s starting to smoke!

Jobs - That’s just the beginnings of synergy. I will help the process along by throwing the rest of our money at the iRack!

MC - Stop it, you’re ruining the iRack!

Man - As stockholders, we will not support you in this!

Jobs - I don’t care! And guess what? I’m going to put twenty-one-thousand more things in the iRack!

Woman - Oh, the iRacks in fire!

Man - Oh, my god the fire from the iRack is engulfing the entire building

MC - Everybody out!

Man - Where’s the exit? How do we get out of here?

Jobs - You can’t get out of here! There is no exit strategy!
I want you all to stop focusing on the iRack and start focusing on our newest product:
The iRan (Apple “Bong”)

All in the “audience” - (screams!)

Web Resources from NC 9/11Truth Presentation

2006-07-17T13:01:00.000-07:00

Web Resources
from NC 9/11Truth Presentation:

Project for the New American Century (PNAC)

PNAC Statement of Principles

Rebuilding America's Defenses
Once you download the file, search for “harbor”

Official story resources:

Pentagon Official Release of Information Web Page:

Pentagon - officially released clips of something hitting pentagon
(in one-second increments)

Angle 1
Start at 01:24 (One Minute, Twenty Four Seconds)
Angle 2
Start at 00:23

The WTC Demolition & the So-Called War on Terrorism:

Explosive Testimonies

by David Ray Griffin...

Papers on different aspects of the official story:

Kevin Ryan exposes the lies of the NIST report

Dr. Steven Jones: Why the Towers Fell

Judy Wood: A refutation of the official collapse theory

David Ray Griffin

Many additional papers can be found here

911 Truth Forums:

More Informative Links:

Updates

2005-11-08T11:46:00.000-08:00

With allof the new information coming out about the Iraq War and the cooked intelligence, I have decided that there is a major need for updates and perhaps a new section.

I will also be adding a new section on the statistical rankings of nations on various issues. However, this will most likely be only one or two links, since I have located one of the most exhaustive datasets available after hunting around quite a bit.

The War on Terror

2005-08-14T16:11:00.000-07:00

The Power of Nightmares

Very revealing - watch "The Power of Nightmares." It was produced by the BBC and never saw air time in the states. It is three one-hour segments discussing the fabrication of the modern battle of "Good and Evil." It is prime material for proof of "creating reality."
It is extremely revealing and I rate it as near the number one internet videos to see!

It has since been posted in several places. the link above has it available in several sizes and qualitites to accomodate different internet connections.

Creating an Alternate Reality

2005-07-19T16:13:00.000-07:00

(prologue)

The Power of Nightmares

I find myself getting increasingly amused at recent events:

London gets bombed by what by all accounts appear to be rank ameteurs and then we are told the bombing has all the tell-tale signs of al qaeda . I have a few problems with this;

if this was a terrorist act, why did the bombings take place in stations that had relatively few people? The police say that they met at the main station - they could have exacted a much higher death toll there.

How did it "just happen" that London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack? The odds are staggering! One stands a better chance of picking up the same grain of twice! ( I will post the link to this story shortly)

I could go on, but right now, I just want to get these questions out of my head and written down.

Then there is Karl Rove.

In 2003, when the story first broke that someone had leadked the identity of a covert CIA agent, President Bush declared that anyone in the White House who was involved in the leak would be fired. He now says that he will fire anyone who committed a crime.

Fox is at it again! (Media Matters Web Site)

- what does somebody have to do to get fired at that place?
Oh yeah, that's right - just disagree with the administration and you'll get canned!

While I will not jump to conclusions here about Rove, I will say what really smells fishy here:
Why did it take the release of Time email to get Rove out in the open as a "suspect"? If the White House had been really getting down to the heart of the matter, wouldn't this have been discovered already, and wouldn't Rove have been fired as Bush promised in 2003?
Why is Wilson suddenly a "bad guy?" He exposed the fact that the Niger documents were fake!

The Bush administration and the Corporate Media Machine are acting as if simply making a statement makes it a fact.

Recently, I watched as reporters lamented their circumstances on TV. they were desperately trying to convince their viewers that they were still reliable and we should listen to them. This was done in the form of a "cross-fire" like discussion to make it look legit, but all it really was was a sad display of "damage control." The media are starting to realize that the public is waking up to their BS and lack of initiative to cover the real stories. While they have been filling the boob toob with fluff and "newstainment" those of us desperately wanting to know what has been going on in the outside world have turned to the internet free press and each other.

They are realizing that they are losing their grip on the news audience. I came to this conclusion the moment they began to announce that the blogs aren't "real" reporters - that all blog news is suspect - when that statement was made, in light of all of the botched reports, from poorly researched reports to outright lies (see the FoxNews report above) I knew they were beginning to realize that the ship was sinking.

The great tool of the Administration and the Mass Media is, if you have nothing to defend yourself with, discredit the messenger!

Example number 1: Dan Rather reports on a memo that was supposedly written by the President's CO back when he was in the Guard. Now, can anyone tell me what the secretary of that officer said to Dan Rather? I'll give you a few seconds.

She said that she did not write that particular document, but that the contents were exactly correct! Now, go back and read that a second time....

How many of you actually remember that she said this? All most of us remember is that the document was declared a fake and that was it, but no one bothered to focus on the facts of the event - that George Bush was AWOL, and the CO wrote more derrogatory memos about him than any other person at that time.

Example Number 2: In 2003, Robert Novak released the name of an active covert CIA agent's name in an article he wrote.

Slate Magazine online: The Plame Game
The new game by the media is to discredit or smear anyone who might get in the way...

Has anyone been keeping up with the Cindy Sheehan? Read her story, and then ask yourself why the good ol' boys at Fox decided to start smearing her name all over the place?

Do they really think that no one is watching? Did they think that just saying it would make it so? Did Drudge and O'Reilley think that even in the light of the obvious lie, no one would care or just take what they say as gospel?

You will, of course, notice that Fox has not leveled any reprimands at O'Reilly or Drudge.

The media is running rampant and unchecked. The only time any noise in the Mass Media is when it doesn't support the neo-con party line.

The Right's Justification for War

2005-06-15T11:00:00.000-07:00

Since I have grown weary of having to post this information in reply to comments of certain individuals, I finally decided to put this all in one place and I will refer to it often.

On several occasions when faced with the fact that invading a sovreign nation for the sake of regime change is in violation of international law. This has been admitted by Pentagon Official Richard Perle. The defenders of all that is Bush will reply that it is a "stupid law" and that we needed to go into Iraq before we got "Nuked."

I would like to think that no sane individual would believe that it is OK to break the law because it is a "stupid" law.

Saddam was never a direct threat to the US - do a Google - "rice iraq no threat."

This search will uncover HUNDREDS of reports that Rice, Powel, Rumsfeld and the CIA said in 2001 that Iraq was no threat to the US. Gee, I wonder how Saddam got from "No Threat" to "we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." in less than a year? OK kids, I'll give you a hint: It's black, smelly, slick and our VP has ties to a company that deals in the sale of it. There was also a deal for a pipeline through Afghanistan that was on hold until the DAY BEFORE the September 11 Attacks. hmmmmm.....

(ed.: correction: a South American owned oil company had contracts with Afghanistan to build a pipeline from the Caspian basin to the Persian Gulf. The US, invading Afghanistan and Iraq, now have those rights. Haliburton and other US oil companies have major drilling rights to Caspian Basin oil amounting to some Trillion Dollars. Up until th US was in Iraq and Afghanistan, the oil was effectively landlocked.)

Everyone who has been paying attention and has any memory at all will know that the "Yellow Cake" (a type of nuclear material used in the making of a bomb) episode was fictitious. The documents were forged and this has been a known fact for over a year.

Their defense of, "so you want to wait until he nukes us" makes as much sense to me as saying:

"Well, officer it's like this: He looked like he was going to shoot me. ....

"Yes, officer, I realize that he doesn't have a gun, but I can prove that he was a convict 15 years ago - that has to prove something.

"Yes... I realize he was in Canada at the time I thought he was going to shoot me.....

"And here, I have proof that he was trying to buy a semi-automatic assault rifle..... Oh, you say the papers are fake,(Damn that F### told me they were supposed to be good forgeries) oh, well...

"Well he was a really bad guy and he murdered a man in 1985, he was a real bully and......."

I could go on, but I won't.

Their arguments hold no water, have been proven to be false and therefore only proves your insistence on believing and propogating a lie.

Oh, and speaking of lies, Iraq had no ties to Al Qaeda, according to the Sept. 11 commission. Ask the President and he will say as much. He will not say that Iraq was working with the terrorists. In fact he will say just the opposite!

Funny how Dick Cheney said that Saddam Hussein "had long-established ties with al Qaeda." even after the release of the report!

If anything, invading Iraq helped the terrorists!

The linking of terrorism to Iraq was a very clever manipulation of the American public. This is part of what the 9/11 group refer to as psyops, or Psychological Operations. An all-out campaign was waged against the American people from 9/11 on. It was a campaign of fear and distrust targeted at getting the American people to go along with whatever the administration proposed to "make us safer."

The Downing Street Memo illustrates the Administration's deep desire to change the regime in Iraq. It had nothig to do directly with Saddam Hussein. It was all about putting somone in power who would work with the US oil corporations to help secure the oil fields there and to help in the completion of a pipeline from the Caspian Sea.

It is all about the money, and nothing about security. If it were only about security, investigations into the disappearance of billions of dollars of Iraqi oil revenues would be under investigation - that money could very well be in the hands of terrorists right now. The reason they don't investigate it is because they know all too well where the money is, and they don't want us to find out.

Iraq war statistics

How to Use This Site

2005-05-20T20:01:00.000-07:00

This blog a has been set up more like a web site.

The post titles are the subject for the particular set of resources. There will be a seperate page for the occasional "off-topic" posts or actual blogs if I feel moved to write a commentary (See "Teaching Our Children to Hate" for an example.)

Independent Press

2005-05-20T19:05:00.000-07:00

Truthout.com
Freespeech TV

TVNEWS Lies
This site also has a great primer on the Mass Media deception.
Thanks, peacemom

The Great Election Fraud

2005-05-20T19:04:00.000-07:00

There have been accusations in both the Dem. and Rep. camps about voter fraud, but do you know the facts about the electronic voting machines? This includes ANY voting system that involves electronic tallying.

Two Questions:

Why were the exit polls "wrong" only in areas that did not use paper ballots? (What I mean by this is that the ballots are paper counted by hand)

Why were the exit polls incorrect only for the national races? For local issues such as Govenor and ballot initiatives, the polls were pretty much dead-on. If the claims of the poll responders being lopsided (more dem's than rep's responding) then all of the races where republicans won should have shown they lost (or won by a smaller margin than they did) in the exit polls. This, however is not the case.

blackboxvoting.org
whatreallyhappened.org
exitpollz.org

September 11, 2001

2005-05-20T19:02:00.000-07:00

Simple Question: If someone broke into your home and mudered your family, would you insist on an investigation, or would you block it?
President Bush called for blocking an investigation into 9/11

reopen911.org
letsroll911.org
inplanesite.com
question911.com

"All the proof you need"
Great service on this site
- This is a very well done argument for "re-investigating" 9/11. If others could boil down their first selling point to two issues, a lot more could be accomplished. Imaginge if the election fraud could be presented in this format for the first-time exposure.

Watchdog Sites

2005-05-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

This Century Sucks

A discussion of how this century has gotten off to such a bad start.
In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration

bushwatch.org

Lucis Trust

Here's a story about where that "shadow government" are derived, what their goals are and just how intergraded they are into mainstream society, churches, schools, government, the UN etc.

-This is also a very interesting read if you follow the links or simply start at the top and work your way in.

Other Blogs

2005-05-17T15:53:00.000-07:00

Questions and Thoughts
A blog by PeterZ.
Discussions on Biblical Revalation.

Is Bush the Antichrist?
A blog by Stephen Hanchet.
Discussions on the Bush Administration and the Book of Revelations.
The discussions in the comments sections are very lively.

This is not Over
Descirption of the site from the sidebar:

"So, in case you missed it: Bush won. Now what do we do?

This Is Not Over.com is a great place to start -- to look for links to helpful organizations, to read up on the issues that interest you and find out how you can effect change in your area, to write us and ask about resources, to figure out what the hell Dennis Hastert actually does.

We're still fleshing out how it's going to go. We welcome your suggestions.

But do not give up. We have not yet begun to raise hell. This is not over."

Teaching Our Children to Hate

2005-05-15T19:50:00.000-07:00

When we hear stories in the news of children in other countries being taught how to hate, we speak of how evil the adults that carry out such tutelage must be.

Yet, we refuse to see what is right in our very own back yard.

Reorganization

2005-05-15T19:38:00.000-07:00

From time to time, I find it necessary to post something a bit off-topic.

So, instead of running three, four or five blogs, I will organize this blog to look more like a web site. Entries will list the category of content. I will then update those entries as new content comes along. This reorganization will happen by next week.

Thanks for the patience

Purpose

2005-04-20T16:48:00.000-07:00

The purpose of this blog is to provide resources for people to investigate the antics of the Rogue Government for themselves.

The Rogue Government is also referred to as the "Shadow Government." It is the group of people who are really in power in the US. The corruption crosses party lines! Some Republicans and some Democrats remain untarnished by this corruption, but not many.

Once you have done your homework, don't just sit there, do something! Spread the word as much as you can. This is the hardest part for two reasons:

1. The Mainstream Media has done a very good job of brainwashing the masses. They treat us as sheep. The sad part is that for many people, it isn’t far from the truth. I mean, seriously, if you want to get an idea of how they see the American public, just watch the new Skittles commercial!

2. Because the powers-that-be have done their best to discredit our work as "conspiracy 'theories'". They are doing their best to discredit us - the bloggers. They are trying to make our work look questionable by saying that we are not "real" journalists and are working on making it a criminal offense for us to protect our sources by saying that we are not protected by the same laws that the "real" journalists are.

The powers-that-be are also trying to make it mandatory to have “credentials” to be a journalist. I wonder who will have a say in what those credentials are?

The fact is that bloggers ARE real journalists when they operate under the same rules of checking our facts and reporting with integrity and reporting on the facts, and where applicable, saying that we are stating our opinion – not using the “some people say” defense.

Here's a list to get you started. Most of these pages provide links to their sources. Where they don't, a simple search on Google or other search engine will provide a lot of links. Some of those links will actually point to the original source - if they haven't been lost or deleted.

September 11, 2001
reopen911.org
letsroll911.org
inplanesite.com
question911.com

The Great Election Fraud
There have been accusations in both the Dem. and Rep. camps about voter fraud, but do you know the facts about the electronic voting machines? This includes ANY voting system that involves electronic tallying. Why were the exit polls "wrong" only in areas that did not use paper ballots? (What I mean by this is that the ballots are paper counted by hand)

blackboxvoting.org
whatreallyhappened.org
exitpollz.org

Independent Press
Truthout.com
Freespeech TV

And last for this post:
bushwatch.org

RULES: I encourage anyone to post links that help out in this arena. What I will almost immediately delete are posts that use Fox "opinion" network, and other blatantly conservative oppressionist sources. The exception to this rule will be that I will post them as being "hostile witnesses" and I will do the research to show them to be inflated and false.

Hate speech, taunts, blatantly obvious blathering that serves no purpose but to produce inflammatory comments, name calling - BY ANYONE - and BS will NOT be tolerated and will result in being deleted.