TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick-up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms....... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Global Warming?

The present interglacial interval -- which has now lasted for about 10,000 years -- represents a climatic regime that is relatively rare during the past million years, most of which has been occupied by colder, glacial regimes. Only during about 8 percent of the past 700,000 years has the earth experienced climates as warm or warmer than the present.

The penultimate interglacial age began about 125,000 years ago, and lasted for approximately 10,000 years. Similar interglacial ages -- each lasting 10,000 plus or minus 2000 years and each followed by a glacial maximum -- have occurred on the average every 100,000 years during at least the past half-million years.

During this period, fluctuations of the northern hemisphere ice sheets caused sea level variations of the order of 100 meters.

~"Understanding Climate Change", published by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 -- page 181.

On page 189 they asked:

When will the present interglacial [period] end?

Their answer:

Few paleoclimatoligists would dispute that the prominent warm periods (or interglacials) that have followed each of the terminations of the major glaciations have had durations of 10,000 plus or minus 2000 years. In each case, a period of considerably colder climate has followed immediately after the interglacial interval.

Since about 10,000 years have passed since the onset of the present period of prominent warmth, the question naturally arises as to whether we are indeed on the brink of a period of colder climate.

The question remains unsolved. If the end of the interglacial is episodic in character, we are moving toward a rather sudden climatic change of unknown timing ... if on the other hand, these changes are more sinusoidal in character, then the climate should decline gradually over a period of a thousand years.

Another study prepared for the 95th Congress in 1978 agreed with the National Academy of Sciences position as explained in the above-quoted study.

The document "Weather Modification: Programs, Problems, Policy and Potential" warned:

In geological prospective, the case for cooling is strong ... If this interglacial age lasts no longer than a dozen earlier ones in the past million years, as recorded in deep sea sediments, we may reasonably suppose the world is about due to slide into the next ice age.

Vimy Ridge

Nazi dictator assigned special Waffen-SS troops to guard historic site during World War II

When Hitler's armies were advancing across France in 1940, the Canadian government put out a story that German troops were damaging the memorial at Vimy Ridge.

Walter Allward's soaring monument had been unveiled only a short time before, in 1936, the only official ceremony (except for abdication) in the short reign of Edward VIII. A popular postage stamp was widely in circulation, so Canadians were thoroughly familiar with Vimy Ridge, and they were outraged. There was someone else who was outraged by this story; his name was Adolf Hitler.

The monument at Vimy Ridge was Hitler's favourite memorial from World War I, because it is a monument to peace, not a celebration of war. There are no carved guns at Vimy Ridge, no helmeted soldiers, no stacks of cannonballs. Instead, the figures are of Canada grieving for her lost sons.

Hitler went to Vimy Ridge on June 2, 1940, called in the world's press as best he could and insisted they take his picture on the unscathed steps. He then assigned special troops from the Waffen-SS to guard Vimy Ridge.

The SS had a vicious reputation – they were Hitler's personal army, they guarded him. And it was also their job to protect Vimy Ridge, not only from Allied armies but also from regular Wehrmacht soldiers who, rather understandably, might want to deface it. No one would defy the SS.

Hitler's plan was a great success. All the Australian war graves in France from World War I were destroyed in World War II. But the cemetery beside Vimy Ridge and the memorial itself remained untouched because the Waffen-SS did its job.

The Vimy memorial stands there today, ready for this week's ceremonies, mainly because the government of Canada has invested a great deal of money in repairing it.

But the Vimy memorial is there at all because it was saved by its most infamous fan, Adolf Hitler.

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Ron Haggart is a former Toronto Star columnist. His father was at Vimy Ridge with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders from Vancouver, a regiment which, fortunately, was in the third wave


http://greyfalcon.us/Adolf%20Hitler.htm

Debunking Global Warming Myths

The British documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle is, well ... great.

The program, which aired last Thursday in the U.K. to much buzz, has since been watched by hundreds of thousands of others around the world via the Internet. It exposes numerous lies and myths presented as fact by those who believe in the unproven hypothesis that human-created carbon dioxide (CO2) is the driver of the Earth's warming climate.

The same broadcaster -- Channel 4 in the U.K. -- that recently exposed the extremist ideology being preached in Britain's supposedly "moderate" mosques has now similarly helped to tear away the veil of lies and religious zeal surrounding the global warming industry.

EXPERT OPINIONS

The film features an impressive group of experts in the fields of climatology, oceanography, biogeography, meteorology, and paleoclimatology from reputable institutions such as NASA, MIT, The International Arctic Research Centre, the Pasteur Institut in Paris, the Danish National Space Center and the Universities of Winnipeg, Ottawa, London, Jerusalem, Alabama and Virginia.

That should help top the claims there is a consensus of scientists who believe in man-made global warming.

Expert after expert in this film blasts craters into the theory that CO2 -- which only makes up 0.054% of the earth's atmosphere -- has ever driven climate. Ice core records, in fact, prove the opposite, that CO2 lags warming by as much as 800 years.

The main cause of warming is, not surprisingly, the sun.

"The analogy I use," says Dr. Tim Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, "is my car's not running very well, so I'm going to ignore the engine, which is the sun, and I'm going to ignore the transmission, which is the water vapour and I'm going to look at one nut on the right rear wheel which is the human produced CO2. The science is that bad."

The film starts off covering indisputable facts. There was a Medieval Warm Period that was warmer than today -- that led to incredible wealth in Europe when the bulk of the continent's great cathedrals were built and when Britain had thriving vineyards. Then came the Little Ice Age that started in the 17th century and was so cold London's Thames River would freeze so solidly festivals were held on it.

About 10,000 years ago, during a time known as the Holocene Maximum, it was much warmer even than the Medieval times.

THE END IS NIGH?

Dr. Ian Clark, Prof. of Isotope Hydrogeology and Paleoclimatology at the U of Ottawa, notes polar bears (which have become the poster-animal of the global warming industry) survived that sustained warm cycle and that volcanoes produce more CO2 every year than all human activity.
What's more, prior to 1940 temperatures on Earth were rising long before industrialization took place.

Then, when carbon dioxide emissions rose markedly in the post-war economic boom period, temperatures fell for the next three decades, again, in direct contravention of the theory being espoused and believed by so many.

Ironically, in the 1970s, just as scientists started predicting another climate catastrophe -- an impending ice age -- the planet started warming again.

The documentary ends with a quote from Dr. Fred Singer of the U of Virginia.

"There will still be people who believe this is the end of the world, particularly when you have, for example, the chief scientist of the U.K. telling people that by the end of the century the only habitable place on the Earth with be the Antarctic and humanity may survive thanks to some breeding couples who move to the Antarctic. I mean, this is hilarious," he says with a chuckle.

"It would be hilarious, actually, if it weren't so sad."

~LICIA CORBELLA
The Toronto Sun
March 17, 2007

See the film at

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog?entry=24760&only

Beautiful

USS New York

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center.

It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept. 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence," recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was! a spiritual moment for everybody there."

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the "hair on my neck stood up." "It had a big meaning to it for all of us," he said. "They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back."

The ship's motto? "Never Forget"
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Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this country.

Modest Proposal.....

Apocalypse again -- call up the Vietnam vets

Where else can Bush get 21,500 trained soldiers for his 'surge'?

By Paul Whitefield, Los Angeles Times
January 21, 2007

Listening to President Bush's speech on Iraq earlier this month, my first thought was: "Where the heck are we going to get 21,500 more soldiers to send to Iraq?" Our Reserves are depleted, our National Guard is worn out, our Army and Marine Corps are stretched to the limit.

Then it hit me: Re-up our Vietnam War veterans and send them.

They're trained. They're battle-hardened. Many already have post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, some have their own vehicles — Harleys mostly, which are cheap to run, make small targets and are highly mobile. I'll even bet that lots of these guys still have guns (you know, just in case).

OK, some vets are a bit long in the tooth (or don't have teeth — because of Agent Orange?). Or their eyesight isn't what it was. Or their reflexes have slowed. But with today's modern weaponry, how well do you have to see?

Too out of shape, you say? Listen, if Rocky Balboa can step back into the ring at age 60, all these Vietnam War vets need is a little boot-camp magic and they'll be good to go. I mean, who doesn't want to drop a few pounds?

Don't want geezers fighting for us? Well, let's face it, our young people have greater value right here. Most of us want to retire and collect our hard-earned Social Security, and we need those youngsters here, working and paying taxes — lots of taxes.

Finally, these Vietnam War guys are hungry for revenge. After all, they fought in the only war the U.S. ever lost. And they didn't even get a parade. So this is their chance. We can throw them that big parade when they come marching home.

ROSWELL

Reports of an alien spacecraft being struck by lightning and crashing late at night in early July, 1947, near Roswell, New Mexico, were the beginnings of the most compelling event in all UFO lore.

Originally reported in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and confirmed by military officials as authentic, the report was later refuted by the military and the crash remains were claimed to be nothing more than a weather balloon.

Renowned aviation artist Tony Weddel has depicted the moments before the crash by capturing the object as an alien spacecraft in the initial stages of its death throes. In freefall, moments after being hit by a lightning upstroke, debris can already be seen in the slipstream. Seconds later it would careen off the desert floor on the way to its final resting place. Shedding debris from a fatal wound, its struggle for survival and the lives of seven aliens purportedly ended 40 miles later when it slammed into the wall of an arroyo.

The unusual appearance of the UFO is based on various eyewitness accounts and other sources.

http://roswell.greyfalcon.us/

Hanna Reitsch

A German WWII test pilot who has been called
"The Century’s Greatest Pilot"

"The fastest and most dangerous plane, she tested was the top secret German rocket plane, after three male pilots had died in their attempts. First she flew the prototype without the motor, the Me 163A. Then she flew the militarized version, the Me 163B, Komet. [This experimental interceptor, in a minute and a half after takeoff climbed at a 65-degree angle to 30,000 feet. It traveled 500 mph -- the fastest any human had ever gone.] Reitsch launched behind a tow plane at Regensburg, and the takeoff gear failed to drop away from her aircraft. The little fighter was supposed to land on a tough skid in its belly, but now the heavy axle with outsized wheels hung canted to one side beneath the fuselage. The plane vibrated alarmingly and was very heavy on the controls. Flares from the airfield alerted Reitsch that she indeed had an emergency. Radios of the time were heavy, unreliable devices, and Reitsch couldn't get hers to work. She had no way of contacting either the ground or the towplane. With no communications, the despairing tow plane pilot grimly pulled her up to 3,000 meters altitude, and Reitsch cut loose.

Built with swept wings for a rocket-blast climb to altitude and a near-sonic glide attack on Allied bomber formations, the Komet was fast. With its heavy landing gear still attached, it was even faster. It dropped like an anvil with wings. "Bale out?" Unthinkable. The Me163 was too new, too advanced for such a waste. So at great risk and without the foggiest guess about how the landing gear had configured itself in the airstream, Reitsch attempted a landing. What balls! Hanna managed to land it in a plowed field, but the plane flipped. In the sliding, smashing, grinding mass of twisting, tearing metal and breaking glass, Reitsch's face catapulted into the instrument panel. Finally, everything stopped. Thank God there was no fuel aboard, for the little Komet surely would have burned and exploded. Astounded to be alive and upright in the wreckage, Reitsch tried to get out. The canopy was jammed, so all she could do now would be wait for the rescue crew to arrive.

She killed time until the ambulance and fire truck could get to her by sketching and labeling the details of her accident. Shifting the clipboard to avoid more blood splashes from her face, she noticed a rubbery object in her lap and picked it up. It was her nose. At the hospital, doctors discovered that Reitsch had fractured her skull in six places. She'd smashed the bones of her detached nose irretrievably and displaced her upper jawbone. She'd broken several vertebrae and bruised her brain severely. She nearly died. It took Regensburg Surgeon Doctor Bodewig five months of plastic surgery and neurosurgery to repair the Führer's most valuable aviator. It took Reitsch's own iron will five more months to rip her free of physical weakness and mental despair. As he awarded Reitsch the Iron Cross of the Knight's Cross, First Class, the only woman to receive this medal, Adolf Hitler himself forbade her ever again to attempt such a foolhardy feat."

http://greyfalcon.us/Hanna%20Reitsch.htm

100 Questions about the JFK Assassination

1) Why were over 58 eyewitnesses to the assassination ignored by the Warren Commission when they said they felt shots had NOT come from the Book Depository?
2) Why did most persons in Dealey Plaza run up the Grassy Knoll after the shots; while the authorities ran to the Book Depository?
3) Why were MULTIPLE rifles found at the Book Depository and then all but one made to 'disappear'?
4) Why were ongoing de-escalation plans for Vietnam reversed within 48 hrs of the assassination?
5) Why were the ten persons taken into custody in Dealey Plaza all released, some without so much as their names taken? What is the evidence (officially ignored) that some of them were directly involved?
6) How was 'Watergate' and the ensuing Watergate scandal DIRECTLY connected to the JFK assassination?
7) What MULTIPLE lines of evidence connect the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations?
8) What are the known (often frightening and bizarre) details of the over 200 persons who were murdered or died VERY suspiciously (and conveniently) after 11/22/63 because they had seen the 'wrong' things, tried to speak up, etc.? Why did they die in "clusters" when investigations were ongoing - sometimes just hours before they were to be questioned?
9) Why was Nixon one of the few Americans who could not correctly remember where he was when the assassination occurred? Why may he have 'forgotten' he was on a plane out of Dallas?
10) Why could J.E. Hoover also not 'remember' he was in Dallas for a meeting just days before the assassination? Why did he show NO surprise at the announcement of JFK's death?
11) What is the evidence that FBI informants (perhaps even Lee Harvey Oswald himself)had warned the FBI of an impending assassination attempt on JFK which the FBI ignored and later denied even getting?
12) What multiple lines of evidence show Ruby and Oswald's FBI and CIA connections?
13) What documents are still being withheld from public scrutiny in the National Archives and WHY? Why 'hide' any when the government 'believes' the act was committed by a 'lone nut'!?
14) Why did so MANY government documents involving Lee Harvey Oswald and others 'disappear’ or said to have been ‘destroyed' - including Lee Harvey Oswald's Army Intelligence files, Lee Harvey Oswald's letter to his FBI contact Hosty and MUCH MORE?
15) Why when Lee Harvey Oswald returned to the USA from the USSR was he NOT officially met by any representatives of the CIA, FBI, State Dept. etc., but WAS met by Spas T Raiken, a former Nazi collaborator with intelligence community connections who the Warren Commission claimed was with 'Traveller's Aid'.
16) Why was Marina Oswald sequestered in a hotel, surrounded with intelligence community connected persons, coached as to what to say and what she had experienced, and threatened with deportation if she did not cooperate?
17) What evidence connect EVERY president since the assassination (with the lone exception of Carter) directly with the assassination or its cover-up!? What are George H.W. Bush's connections to the events of 11/22/63? Why was his name and address in Lee Harvey Oswald’s Dallas friend's address book?
18) Why did Jack Ruby repeatedly implore of the Warren Commissioners to take him out of Dallas and to Washington where he felt he could speak the truth? Why did they NOT take him up on his offer and pleas?
19) What did Jack Ruby mean when he said that he was "no more involved in a conspiracy than you gentlemen" when he spoke to the Warren Commission?
20) Why did Ruby suddenly contract cancer and die just before his new trial was to begin?
21) Why did Dorothy Kilgallen, the only reporter to interview Ruby in prison, die mysteriously days after she said she would "break the case wide open" and her best friend die some days thereafter?
22) How do the events of 11/22/63 and its immediate aftermath STILL effect our everyday political and even personal lives?
23) What Government agencies and other groups were involved in the planning and execution of the President and then cover it up?
24) Why was the single-bullet or "Magic Bullet" theory of the Warren Commission a physical and medical IMPOSSIBILITY?
25) Why do those who played prominently in the assassination and its 'investigation' continually show up in contemporary political life? Are they being 'rewarded' for a 'job well done"?
26) Why did the U.S. Government deliberately LIE to the American People and World about what they knew of the events of the assassination? Why do the CONTINUE to do so?
27) Who felt threatened by JFK? And who gained by his; murder?
Who had the means to kill him and cover it up to look like the work of a lone-nut?
28) How was the Media sometimes cleverly controlled and, at times, complicit in the coverage of events, facts and fiction?
29) Which Mafia bosses and employees, many of whom worked for and with the CIA, were involved in the assassination?
30) What did LBJ mean when he said the U.S. Government had been running a 'Murder Incorporated' down in the Caribbean in the '60's?
31) Why did LBJ insist on being sworn in on Air Force One when he was quite legally President AUTOMATICALLY upon the death of JFK?
32) Why were some of the very same persons who were in Dallas on 11/22/63 also just by 'coincidence' near the RFK murder and Memphis for the MLK assassination?
33) Why did so MANY fear for their lives in the wake of an assassination by a (then dead) lone-nut? Why did so many die suddenly, mysteriously and 'conveniently'?
34) Why did the FBI not react to an informant's report that Joseph Milteer knew in detail how JFK was going to be assassinated weeks before the event? Why did the public never hear that Milteer traveled hundreds of miles to witness the execution with his own eyes? Why was he never questioned by the Warren Commission, House Select Committee or anyone else?
35) Why were the few who attempted to tell the truth of the events harassed, punished, fired from their jobs, discredited, intimidated, marginalized, threatened and often killed?
36) Why did all those who met in Ruby's apartment the evening Ruby killed Oswald die mysteriously thereafter?
37) Why did so many bullets and so much of the physical evidence 'disappear'?
38) Who were the multitude of PHONY 'CIA' and 'Secret Service’ persons (complete with official looking ID) on the Grassy Knoll and around Dealey Plaza on 11/22/63? Why were they stopping persons from moving into certain locations?
39) Why did the driver of the Presidential limousine slow the car during the fusillade rather than accelerate?
40) Why did Secret Service men jump over the body of LBJ and not JFK?
41) Why were several of the Secret Service agents out drinking very late the night before at a club owned by a friend of Ruby's?
42) What did Jack Ruby know when he said "I'm Jack Ruby. You don't know me, but you soon will" just BEFORE the assassination?
43) What evidence is there that Ruby, Oswald and Tippit (as well as others possibly involved) all knew and had been seen meeting each other?
44) Why was so much evidence and testimony suppressed and at times altered?
45) Why to THIS DAY do many live in fear to speak the truth of what they saw or know of the events of Dallas 11/22/63?
46) Why are powerful forces trying to discredit the new JFK movie? Why have 'critics' of the official version of events long been subject to harassment, surveillance and more?
47) Why were so MANY of the movies and photos taken in Dealey Plaza that day CONFISCATED by persons representing themselves as government officials and NEVER returned nor shown to the public?
48) Why do governmental and extra-governmental forces STILL spin dis-information stories related to 11/22/63 and its aftermath?
49) Why were several witnesses offered bribes and/or threatened by the FBI and others to NOT disclose the truth of what they saw?
50) Why were witnesses coached and badgered to get the testimony the Warren Commission 'wanted' to hear? Why were those who saw a different scenario ignored or worse?
51) Why did Warren suggest the Report NOT be published to save printing costs?
52) Why and how did police have a full description of Oswald before those on the investigation scene could have assembled any information to lead to such a conclusion?
53) Why did some newspapers get information only the FBI and CIA had on Oswald to print in their stories within hours of the event? Who leaked this information or had it on hand prior?
54) Why do so few know of the photos that show clear evidence of a conspiracy and even show images of the other conspirators and gunmen?
55) What is known of the multiplicity of mysterious activities of many in Dallas and Dealey Plaza that day?
56) Why did the FBI and CIA at the HIGHEST levels suppress information and work to foil a real investigation into aspects of the assassination?
57) What were the many Nazi and Fascist connections to the assassination
58) What evidence is there of MULTIPLE gunmen in the School Book Depository and other buildings, as well as the Grassy Knoll? 59) Why was 'Lee Harvey Oswald' repeatedly seen at several places SIMULTANEOUSLY in the weeks before the assassination and who were those impersonating him and why?
60) What evidence shows that the person murdered by Ruby is NOT the person exhumed from that grave?
61) Why were so many of the medical evidences tampered with or made to 'disappear'? Why were so many others seemingly altered?
62) Why did someone construct forged composite photos to frame Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination?
63) Why did the JFK autopsy doctor who burned his notes and first draft of the autopsy report get a promotion shortly after this obstruction of justice and/or alteration of fact?
64) Why do the locations of wounds as seen by a team of doctors in Dallas and that evening by another team of doctors in Bethesda Naval Hospital NOT match in number or location!?
65) Why did the CIA and other government entities try to discredit and obstruct Garrison's investigation and frame him on false charges? Why were they so afraid of his investigation?
66) Who was the Army Intelligence man in and around the Texas School Book Depository?
67) Why were Jack Ruby and several of the Dallas Police and others seen repeatedly at multiple assassination-related locations in Dallas that day? How did they seem to 'know' where the 'action' was - or was to be?
68) Why do different documents and identifications of Lee Harvey Oswald show different height and even different faces - not to mention names? What was Lee Harvey Oswald's REAL 'mission' in the USSR and in New Orleans and Dallas after his return? Who did he work for? CIA? FBI?; ONI?
69) Who were the several different men seen fleeing from the Plaza seconds after the shots rang out?
70) Why did the eyewitness reports of persons seeing men with rifles in Dealey Plaza before and during the shooting receive so little 'official' attention and even suppression?
71) Why was JFK's body ILLEGALLY removed from Dallas and Texas jurisdiction? Why did the FBI remove all of the other physical evidence to Washington? Why was a Grand Jury never convened?
72) Why did the Warren Commission and FBI seem to repeatedly and consistently mis-spell the names of those who's involvement might shed light on a possible conspiracy? Was this 'conspiratorial dyslexia' on the government's part?
73) Were one or more bullets and bullet fragments removed secretly from JFK's brain as much evidence indicates?
74) Why was his brain never sectioned and studied? Why and to where did it disappear along with other essential medical evidence?
75) Why do the descriptions of the size, colour and other details of the coffin JFK's body was placed into in Dallas NOT match those his body was in when it arrived for autopsy in Washington?
Was there a 'switch' and tampering with the body during the flight?
76) Why were the autopsy doctors ORDERED to NOT follow certain STANDARD medical procedures and investigate certain wounds etc.?
77) What was the Government's role in obstruction of justice after the fact...if not before?
78) Why were the seven particular persons on the Warren Commission selected? Why did several have intelligence community connections? Why were some enemies of JFK?
79) Has our Government been 'illegitimate' since 11/22/63? Are we still living with the legacy of a coup d'etat in America? Are the 'coup' leaders still firmly in control?
80) Is: 'ignorance bliss'? Does: 'knowledge imply responsibility'? Does: 'silence equal complicity'?
81) What can be done to understand and finally undo this entire(long overdue) situation? Is Knowledge and Truth the first step to talking back our country? What ARE the facts? Why are they obscured from the average American?
82) Is the assassination of JFK the PIVOTAL event of American History since the Second World War? Is an understanding of the events a NECESSARY precursor to understanding EVERY MAJOR political event that has happened since - right up to TODAY!?
83) Why did Jack Ruby suddenly have a dramatic improvement in his financial situation just prior to the assassination?
84) Why did several persons not 'officially' thought to have been involved suddenly flee Dallas immediately after the Event?
85) Why did the Washington D.C. phone system fail for several minutes immediately during and after the assassination?
86) Why were most of the Cabinet conveniently and coincidentally out of the country at the time?
87) Why was the Navy man with the launch codes for the atomic weapons separated from JFK and LBJ? What foreknowledge did the Military have? What possible participation?
88) Can the deaths and destruction at home and abroad in Vietnam and ALL the subsequent wars be understood by an analysis of the JFK assassination?
89) Was Lee Harvey Oswald a CIA agent, as much evidence seems to indicate?
90) Need the American People question if our government and institutions of government have had ANY legitimacy since 11/22/63?
91) What Right-Wing groups and Businessmen were involved in the plot? Why?
92) Why were NO notes kept by ANYONE who interrogated Lee Harvey Oswald over a 48 hr period?
93) Why did Lee Harvey Oswald say "I am just a patsy"? Was he 100% correct?
94) Why does much evidence show that Lee Harvey Oswald did not even hold a rifle that day - and perhaps NOT even OWN one?
95) Why did then Governor Reagan refuse to extradite several persons suspected of direct involvement in the assassination for trial and then get suggested as a Presidential candidate?
96) Why did Lee Harvey Oswald have to be executed within 48hrs of his alleged crime? Was he 'supposed' to have been killed prior?
97) How did Ruby gain entry into the Police station? Were the police waiting for Ruby to enter before moving Oswald?
98) Why did forces high in the FBI order the DESTRUCTION of a note Oswald had given to FBI agent Hosty in Dallas days before the assassination?
99) Why do CIA and other documents show a coordinated effort to 'destroy' the critics of the Warren Commission and the Government's BIG LIE of the events of 11/22/63?
100) Did America DIE along with JFK that day in Dallas 11/22/63?

the LINCOLN/KENNEDY CONNECTION

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846
John F Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights

Both wives lost their children while living in the White House

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday

Both Presidents were shot in the head

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln

Both were assassinated by Southerners
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939

Both assassins were known by their three names
Both names are composed of fifteen letters

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln'

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials

AND HERE'S THE KICKER:

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was in Marilyn Monroe

???

http://greyfalcon.us/JFK.htm

STRANGE VEHICLES OF PRE-WAR GERMANY & THE THIRD REICH
(1928-1945)

MercedesT80 the German land speed record vehicle

Killinger and Freund Motorrad the front wheel drive motorcycle

Franz Kruchenberg Schienenzeppelin the rail zeppelin bullet train

Ritter Midgard-Schlange the snaking tunneler tank project

Alkett Vskfz 617 Minenräumer the minesweeping giant armored tractor

Krupp Kugelpanzer mysterious German ball tank

Borgward Seeteufel tracked amphibious midget submarine

Opel Raketen Motorrad the rocket motorcycle

Raumpanzer Tiger (P) Rammtiger anti-obstacle ramming tank

Holzbrenner Volkswagens wood-burning cars

Opel rocket vehicles rocket train and racing cars

Nazi gas vans Margirus black raven debate

SS Panzerwagen ADGZ the anti-partisan vehicle

Panzerkampfwagen VII Löwe the German tank that could have been

Skoda RSO tractors captured armored workhorse

Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus the colossal tank

Mercedes 260D Gestapo gangster car

Sturmpanzer Wulf the enigmatic SS independent tank design

http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/

Denial of Holocaust nothing new in Iran

Ties to Hitler led to plots against British and Jews
Sunday, January 8, 2006

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shot to the forefront of Holocaust denial with his rabble-rousing remarks last month. But it's more like self-denial. The president of Iran need only look to his country's Hitler-era past to discover that Iran and Iranians were strongly connected to the Holocaust and the Hitler regime, as was the entire Islamic world under the leadership of the Mufti of Jerusalem.

Iran's axis with the Third Reich began during the prewar years, when it welcomed Nazi Gestapo agents and other operatives to Tehran, allowing them to use the city as a base for Middle East agitation against the British and the region's Jews.

Key among these German agents was Fritz Grobba, Berlin's envoy to the Middle East, who was often called "the German Lawrence," because he promised a Pan-Islamic state stretching from Casablanca to Tehran.

Relations between Berlin and Tehran were strong from the moment Hitler came to power in 1933. At that time, Reza Shah Pahlavi's nation was known as Persia. The shah became a stalwart admirer of Hitler, Nazism and the concept of the Aryan master race. He also sought the Reich's help in reducing British petro-political domination.

So intense was the Shah's identification with the Third Reich that in 1935 he renamed his ancient country "Iran," which in Farsi means Aryan and refers to the Proto-Indo-European lineage that Nazi racial theorists and Persian ethnologists cherished.

The idea for the name change was suggested by the Iranian ambassador to Germany, who came under the influence of Hitler's trusted banker, Hjalmar Schacht. From that point, all Iranians were constantly reminded that their country shared a common bond with the Nazi regime.

Shortly after World War II broke out in 1939, the Mufti of Jerusalem crafted a strategic alliance with Hitler to exchange Iraqi oil for active Arab and Islamic participation in the murder of Jews in the Mideast and Eastern Europe. This was predicated on support for a pan-Arab state and Arab control over Palestine.

During the war years, Iran became a haven for Gestapo agents. It was from Iran that the seeds of the abortive 1941 pro-Nazi coup in Baghdad were planted. After Churchill's forces booted the Nazis out of Iraq in June 1941, German aircrews supporting Nazi bombers escaped across Iraq's northern border back into Iran.

Likewise, the Mufti of Jerusalem was spirited across the border to Tehran, where he continued to call for the destruction of the Jews and the defeat of the British.

His venomous rhetoric filled the newspapers and radio broadcasts in Tehran. The mufti was a vocal opponent of allowing Jewish refugees to be transported or ransomed into Jewish Palestine. Instead, he wanted them shipped to the gas chambers of Poland.

In the summer of 1941, the Mufti, with the support of key Iranian military and government leaders, advocated implementing in Iran what had failed months earlier in Iraq. The plan once again was for a total diversion of oil from the Allies to the Nazis, in exchange for the accelerated destruction of the Jews in Eastern Europe and the Nazis' support for an Arab state. Through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Iran had already been supplying Hitler's forces in occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria.

Now, the mufti agitated to cut off the British and the Allies completely and supply Germany in its push against Russia.

In October 1941, British, USSR other allied forces invaded Iran to break up the Iran-Nazi alliance. Pro-Nazi generals and ministers were arrested, and the shah's son was installed in power. The mufti scampered into the Italian embassy, where he shaved his beard and dyed his hair. In this disguise, he was allowed to leave the country along with the rest of the Italian delegation.

Once the mufti relocated permanently to Berlin, where he established his own Reich-supported "bureau," he was given airtime on Radio Berlin. From Berlin and other fascist capitals in Europe, the mufti continued to agitate for international Jewish destruction, as well as a pan-Islamic alliance with the Nazi regime.

He called upon all Muslims to "kill the Jews wherever you see them." In Tehran's marketplace, it was common to see placards that declared, "In heaven, Allah is your master. On Earth, it is Adolf Hitler."

When the Mufti raised three divisions of Islamic Waffen SS to undertake cruel operations in Bosnia, among the 30,000 killers were some volunteer contingents from Iran. Iranian Nazis, along with the other Muslim Waffen SS, operated under the direct supervision of Heinrich Himmler and were responsible for barbarous actions against Jews and others in Bosnia. Recruitment for the murderous "Handschar Divisions" was done openly in Iran.

Iran and its leaders were not only aware of the Holocaust, they played both sides. The country offered overland escape routes for refugee Jews fleeing Nazi persecution to Israel -- and later fleeing postwar Iraqi fascist persecution -- but only in exchange for extortionate passage fees.

Thousands of Jews journeyed to Israel via Iran both during the Holocaust and during the years after the fall of Hitler, when Arab leaders, especially in Iraq, tried to continue Germany's anti-Jewish program. Iran profited handsomely.

Since the shah's downfall, Iran has become a center for organized international Holocaust denial and has helped elevate the endeavour from fringe hate speech to a state-approved pseudo-intellectual debate.

In international forums and on state-controlled radio, Iranian university experts and journalists help validate the revisionist views that Jews were never gassed or murdered in great numbers during the Holocaust.

Indeed, Iran has become a refuge for the biggest names in European Holocaust denial. When in 2000, revisionist author Jürgen Graf was sentenced in Switzerland to 15 months in prison for Holocaust falsification, Graf fled to Tehran "at the invitation of a group of Iranian scholars and university professors who are sympathetic to Holocaust revisionism," according to the Institute for Historical Review, a denial clearinghouse.

What's more, in May 2000, Iran's embassy in Vienna granted asylum to Austrian Holocaust denier Wolfgang Fröhlich, who testified as a so-called expert witness during Graf's 1998 trial. This saved Fröhlich from Austria's severe anti-Holocaust denial statutes. Fröhlich argued that evidence proved no Jews were killed by Zyklon B gassing.

Earlier, about 600 journalists and 160 members of the Iranian parliament signed petitions supporting French revisionist Roger Garaudy, who was fined $40,000 by French authorities for his book claiming the Holocaust was a myth. When Garaudy landed in Iran, the country's supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sayyad Khamenei, granted him an audience and lauded his work.

Iran has played a leading role in the Holocaust drama and now tries to deny it. That should be very hard in a nation that was named for Hitler's master race.

~Edwin Black is the author of "Banking on Baghdad" about the Nazi-Arab alliance.

The Nazis and Al-Qa'ida

Why do THEY hate us?

From an address to a joint session of the US Congress: President George W. Bush

"Americans are asking ``Why do they hate us?'' They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other. "
~ George W. Bush, 20 September, 2001

From Göbbels' New Year address to Germany

They hate our people because it is decent, brave, industrious, hardworking and intelligent. They hate our views, our social policies, and our accomplishments. They hate us as a Reich and as a community. They have forced us into a struggle for life and death. We will defend ourselves accordingly. All is clear between us and our enemies.
~Josef Göbbels 31 December 1939

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Hitler’s Weapons Of Mass Destruction … Just Found!

Interesting news has been reported in Berlin.

It seems that captured papers from the secret police of the defunct East German government have revealed that the runways of the Schoenefeld airport in East Berlin may sit atop thousands of bombs and other ordnance of Nazi stores from WWII.

Surprisingly, the reports also claim that several Nazi fighter planes fully loaded with bombs and fuel are buried in secret bunkers under the airport awaiting future use. It seems that the former communists of the East German government spirited away all this captured Nazi ordnance and aircraft for their own possible use, buried them in old Nazi bunkers under the city and then the fact that this stash was created was forgotten with time.

As it turns out the sandy soil of East Berlin made bunker making easy for the Hitler government during WWII and such bunkers are being discovered on a regular basis in the newly westernized part of Germany. It also turns out that these bunkers have been forgotten for the most part as millions of people roam about living their lives above the detritus of forgotten war secrets. There are even museums and tourist attractions being created out of these discoveries in East Berlin.

Capitalism is a wonderful thing. Here we have a secretive former government, Hitler’s Germany, creating deep bunkers with secret places not known to the general public. Then we have a second secretive government, the Soviets, taking over those bunkers and filling them with unknown quantities of ordnance and war material.

All this happened over 5 decades ago. Files were kept, people knew but the fact that these weapons were so well hidden for so long might astonish you. Until you realize that the governments that created these bunkers and caches of weapons were secretive, tyrannical governments that governed their people by fear and torture.

Much like Saddam Hussein, really. Now let us similarly realize that Saddam had 12 years to also hide his own weapons and war material and we should not be so surprised that we have yet to find his stashes. Add to this the fact that several of the nations around him were sympathetic to his cause and certainly would love to have taken his weapons for themselves. It took 5 decades to find these Nazi/Soviet stashes. We have had only several months to find Saddam’s!

Fully armed Nazi bomber planes 'buried below East Berlin airport' from the Scotsman.com

(This article was heard as a counter point commentary on WYSO Public Radio, Yellow Springs, Ohio)

The Lure of Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience uses the language, and attempts to use the authority, of Science without being true to its method.

Pseudoscientists often play upon the audience's fears, wishes, and prejudices, rather than relying on rigorous approaches to arrive at a best possible (but provisional) answer.

Pseudoscientists can often be benign, but their lack of critical thinking has in the past allowed unscrupulous people and movements to take advantage of them.

For example, Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany is at least in part due to pseudoscientific movements of the early 20th Century.

The National Socialist German Workers' (NAZI) Party, founded in 1920 and of which Hitler became President in 1921 was a combination of two previously existing parties - the National Socialist Party and the German Workers' Party, populist right-wing parties organized to get the support of the common German people as a counter to the rising Communist Party.

These two proto-Nazi parties were created by the Thule Geselleschaft, with its symbol the swastika derived from Indian iconography. This organization was a rabidly anti-Semetic and anti-Communist Bavarian branch of the Germanenorden, a fellowship interested in the study of the origin, history, and culture of the Aryan peoples. ("Aryan" in this context is equivalent to today's term "Indo-European": a major group of languages with a shared ancient historical connection). The Germanenorden combined "secret society" aspects of Freemasonry with the turn-of-the-century movement of Theosophy, a religion combining then-current natural historical sciences (especially historical geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology) with occult mysticism.

Within cultures like the Third Reich, the USSR, and other oppressive authoritarian regimes, pseudoscience could flourish for a variety of reasons:

-Lack of free and open discourse between domestic and with international researchers meant that the debate and dialogue necessary for critical evaluations of ideas could not go on.

-Ideas lacking in critical merit, but which made the policies or ideologies of the State look favorable, would be officially promoted; those which made the policies or ideologies of the State could be dismissed, made illegal, suppressed, or simply regarded as "unpatriotic".

-Individuals which the State looked upon favorably for any reason might get their own pet theories promoted regardless of merit; similarly, those ideas developed by "enemies of the State" could be suppressed even if they had no bearing on the policies and ideologies of the State.

Germany in the early 20th Century had a very well-educated public and was on the cutting edge of many lines of scientific and technical research. Nevertheless, in Nazi Germany many types of pseudoscience flourished alongside real science and technology. In the realm of the Earth sciences, bizarre notions of a Hollow Earth or the World-Ice-Theory found official support.

After the end of the war, legends quickly developed about the possible survival of Hitler and some of his cronies. Among the more bizarre claims were that he may have fled to a secret base in Antarctica, or in the Hollow Earth, or off to the Moon!

Not all pseudoscientific claims are wrapped in politics. For example, the claims that a rotting plesiosaur carcass was found by a Japanese fishing vessel in 1977 continue to be made, even though it was established in 1978 that it was just the remains of a dead basking shark! The media widely reported the "dead plesiosaur" hypothesis, but did not follow up on the results of the investigations that showed a much less exciting answer.

Pseudoscience can be promoted for financial reasons. Pulp science fiction magazine publisher Ray Palmer (of Amazing Stories) ran a series of letters by Richard Shaver in the 1940s. Shaver claimed that during WWII he had wandered into the Hollow Earth, which was populated by four-foot tall bald grey deranged robots called "deros", who flew around in disk-shaped ships, caputered people, probed them, and released them with mind-controlling implants. Shaver's letters caused Amazing Stories' sales to soar, and others began to write in about their own similar experiences!

In Spring 1948 Palmer (under the pseudonym "Robert N. Webster") started publising Fate magazine, dedicated to the "Shaver Mystery" and similar paranormal tales. The feature article of issue one was the story of Kenneth Arnold and the "flying saucers".

The popularity of Fate led to many similar magazines: some professionally produced, others privately made "fanzines". At least some of the latter were actually created as hoaxes. Gray Barker, head of Saucerian Publications and known UFO photo hoaxer, invented the "Men In Black" in his 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. More recent hoaxers that created entirely new pseudoscience legends include crop circles and Charles Berlitz's Philadelphia Experiment and revivals and retroconditioning of the Atlantis story and of the Roswell Incident.

A famous pseudoscience movement of the 20th Century was the Ancient Astronaut hypothesis. It claimed that the legends of ancient people interacting with heroes and gods who taught them skills and knowledge were actually a partial record of encounters with aliens.

As archaeologist Kenneth Feder points out, Ancient Astronaut proposer Erich von Däniken suggests that alien knowledge was necessary for building numerous structures throughout history in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, but doesn't suggest that the people of Europe needed alien technology or skills to do their own contemporary buildings.

Some patterns of pseudoscience:

-Often uses the following argument when confronted with cases of fraud: "Well, perhaps many, even most cases of [crop circles UFO abductions Bigfoot sightings etc.] are hoaxes or misunderstood natural phenomena, but could they ALL be hoaxes or misunderstood natural phenomena?" In fact, a perfectly legitimate answer to that question is "Yes, absolutely! 100% of them could quite easily be hoaxes or misunderstandings!"

Characterization of Quack Theories

-Pseudoscience often begins as self-published literature ("samizdat", as the Russians' say). In today's world, with the WWW, there are uncritical self-published websites ("samizdata") for just about any pseudoscientific subject out there.

-Pseudoscience attempts to use the language of Science (big words, especially!), but not the methods of Science (especially parsimony, falsifiability, and multiple working hypotheses).

Part of the appeal of pseudoscience is that the audience is let in on the "Big Secret" that the "Authorities" don't want them to know!

George Bush family conspiracy theory

The Bush family conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory used to describe various negative theories alleging conspiracies or misdeeds involving or concerning members of the family of President George W. Bush, including the President's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, their brother Neil Bush, their father and ex-President George H. W. Bush, grandfather Prescott Bush, and great-grandfather George Herbert Walker. Some allege criminal conspiracies involving usually United States multinational corporations and vested interests, US government organizations, and various dictators. While some attach great importance to suggested links which connect individuals and companies, others dismiss some or all of the conspiracy theories as fantasy and claim that these connections are normal for business families and do not imply wrongdoing or negative intent.

Background

This conspiracy theory often refers to the alleged secret organization with one of the pejorative terms: Bush League, Bush Buddies, or Texas Taliban. The first is a pun on the baseball term "bush league"— minor league amateurs, or an allusion to George W. Bush's experience with the Texas Rangers baseball team. The others are alliterative.

A mixture of allegations have been made, trying to link the Bush family and their associates to various forms of intrigue or alleged wrongdoing. Many people, from a wide variety of viewpoints that range from pro-Bush, anti-Bush or neutral, consider the particular points cited by these conspiracy theorists to be paranoid and not linked to each other in a meaningful way. What many people believe or don't believe to be paranoid also depends on which specific conspiracy theory or on what specific allegations one is talking about. It should also be noted that many people are not familiar with some or all of these theories or with some or all of the allegations within them, and that therefore, they do not have an opinion as to whether these theories or allegations are paranoid or not.

Owing to the fact the Bush family has provided the last two Republican presidents, there may be a confusion of family conspiracy with what is actually normal political maneuvering by the Republican party. Additionally, members of the Bush family are politically and economically powerful, so it is natural that they have connections to other major political and business figures, some of whom have inevitably unsavory reputations.

A number of allegations have been made about different members of the Bush family at different times and so it is difficult to discuss these allegations sensibly as a whole. Listed below are assorted allegations and rebuttals, but any serious consideration of these allegations should be made on a strictly individual basis. These allegations range from ones widely regarded as specious and unsubstantiated to those which of been the subject of fierce public debate.

Allegations/conspiracy theories

The following are typical allegations made as part of or in support of the theory. These allegations are not considered proven, or even widely accepted.

Prescott Bush supported the Nazis.
The Bush family supports crime and Satanism through the Skull and Bones Society.
While George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA, he may have been involved in the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier. Bush remains silent on this issue, and the CIA refuses to release many of the internal documents which could shed some light on it.
Ayatollah Khomeini dealt with George Bush and/or his operatives to arrange the Iran-Contra deal and allegedly the October Surprise, on behalf of U.S. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.
While Vice President, George H.W. Bush was responsible for Saddam's acquisition of weapons and funding during the Iran-Iraq War.
Osama bin Laden, then a minor Mujahedeen leader in Afghanistan, is reputed to have been a CIA agent who made use of CIA resources and US-funds to bolster the morale of radical Islamists after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Further, the Bush family, through its ties to the bin Laden family and other connections, otherwise aided bin Laden's rise.
The Bushes are somehow responsible for Hinckley's assassination attempt against President Reagan, which would have made George H.W. Bush president.
There was an organized conspiracy between Jeb Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court, and ChoicePoint to rig the American presidential election in 2000.
The Bushes support the oil industry to enhance their own financial interests in the industry.
The September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack was planned or sanctioned by the Bush administration. (See 9/11 domestic conspiracy theory)
The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was planned by members of the Bush administration following the goals of PNAC, with the stated reasons (the threat of WMDs and terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks) being political cover.
Dick Cheney planned and executed the 2003 invasion of Iraq for the benefit of Halliburton.
Through legislation and actions which extend executive powers and reduce oversight as justified by the War on Terrorism, the Bush administration is working toward establishing a totalitarian state.

Background

The following are the parts of known history which have led people to make further unproven claims.

Businesses associated with Prescott Bush, such as the Union Banking Corporation, were confiscated just prior to World War II under the Trading With the Enemy Act.
George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were members of the Skull and Bones secret society (Bush's membership in the Skull and Bones society was the subject of several Doonesbury cartoons).
George H.W. Bush was head of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976-77.
John Hinckley Jr, the "deranged drifter with the hots for Jodie Foster", also happened to be the son of one of George H.W. Bush's better supporters in his campaign against Ronald Reagan; the Hinckleys' Vanderbilt Energy was threatened with a $2-million fine the morning of the assassination attempt; the families are sufficiently close that Scott Hinckley and Neil Bush had a dinner appointment for the next day.[1]
George W. Bush has sealed the presidential records of both himself and his father.
Saddam Hussein, was provided with weapons and funding during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, during the Reagan administration, in which George H.W. Bush was Vice President. In addition, Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush was the Special Envoy to the Middle East in this period, appointed by President Ronald Reagan and met personally with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
Dick Cheney was G.H.W. Bush's Defense Secretary, and G.W. Bush's Vice-President. Cheney is the former President and CEO of Halliburton Company which has been given, by George W. Bush, an exclusive (and unbidded) contract in postwar Iraq. In addition, Halliburton's accounting firm was Arthur Andersen. This latter firm was conviced of obstruction of justice and, allegedly, committed fraud.
The Carlyle Group is an investment group which includes both the Bush family and bin Laden family (one of the richest in Saudi Arabia). Furthermore, George W. Bush and Salem bin Laden were coinvestors/business partners in Arbusto Energy.
The 2000 Presidential Election was won by George W. Bush in Florida, whose governor was his brother, Jeb Bush, after a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Project for the New American Century, which in 1990s advocated the invasion of Iraq for reasons of geopolitical strategy, included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and the "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle, all of whom subsquently held influential positions in the Bush administration.
The George W. Bush administration pushed for the USA PATRIOT Act and has used the new powers in a variety of cases.
The Bush administration does not accept the International Criminal Court's authority over American citizens, and members of the administration have questioned the usefulness of the United Nations.
George W. Bush, during the 2003 State of the Union Address, said that British intelligence had learned Iraq had been attempting to purchase uranium from Africa. That claim was based on information which the CIA said it could not verify, and CIA head George Tenet accepted responsibility for failing to remove the assertion from the speech in the fact-checking stage. An earlier document specifically documenting a supposed buy from Niger was known to be a forgery and was not referred to in any Bush speech.
Bush, as governor of Texas, presided over the execution of hundreds of condemned criminals, and joked about some of them prior to and after their executions.
George W. Bush twice claimed (, ) to have seen the first September 11 plane crash into the World Trade Center on live television, even though that crash was not in a public broadcast until much later.
Bush plans to have nuclear waste stored at the volcanic Yucca Mountain facility.
Bush has made the following statements:

"I told all four [congressional leaders] that there were going to be some times where we don't agree with each other. But that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." December 18, 2000.

Answering a repeated reporter question about the anti-Bush gwbush.com, "But how far should these guys go?", Bush replied "There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is. Of course I don't appreciate it. And you wouldn't, either." May 21, 1999.

Response to allegations

Critics of the theory allege that its proponents mispresent events as part of the theory.

That G.H.W. Bush was vice-president during the Reagan Administration does not necessarily link Bush to Saddam's acquisition of weapons and funding during the Iran-Iraq War. Most vice-presidents have little role in the working of an administration and often have little practical influence over policy or decision-taking.
G.H.W. Bush's was head of the CIA from 1976 to 1977. Osama bin Laden's period as an alleged CIA agent occurred a decade later, when Bush was president. Presidents are, because of their workload, not involved in the hiring of CIA agents. Also considering that at any point CIA has thousands of agents acting worldwide, it seems unlikely that USA Presidents are personally associated with all of them. Furthermore, there is no evidence that bin Laden ever was an agent or an associate of or had any relationship at all with the CIA.
Many people work in a number of administrations. That Dick Cheney worked in the administrations of G.H.W. and G.W. Bush is neither unusual nor does it demonstrate a conspiracy. He also served in the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Many people internationally are associated with the Carlyle Group. As it is a large international investment group, it would be surprising if the Bush and bin Laden families were not in it or in some other group together. Former British Prime Minister John Major is also associated with it. The bin Ladens in fact have also disowned Osama bin Laden, who is an opponent of organisations such as the Carlyle Group, which he has accused of embodying international economic imperialism.
Many presidents have said "The job of the President would be easier, if I were a dictator" or something similar, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. In those cases the comment was made tongue-in-cheek. There is no evidence that Bush intended it in any other way. Similar arguments are applied to the "limits on freedom" statement.
Bill Clinton stated "When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." and "[we] can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans."
While proponents of the conspiracy link Bush family members to a range of groups, from Nazis to Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein to the Carlyle Group and the bin Laden, supporters of Bush argue that there is no connection between Bush, these people, and each other. They further note that although Bush may have had dealings with the bin Ladens, he didn't have such dealings with Osama bin Laden himself.
Many rich people and companies became involved with the Nazis due to pre-existing business relationships with Germany. Becoming disengaged from such relationships cannot happen overnight. Historians agree that Hitler's grasp for power did not rely on foreign trade, and that the Skull and Bones symbol used by the Totenkopf units of the Waffen-SS was designed by Karl Maria Wiligut, an advisor to Heinrich Himmler and Neopaganist.
Floridian electoral jiggery-pokery goes back at least three decades, and involves Democrats like Janet Reno; so it's hardly a Bush invention.

As a result, critics of the Bush family conspiracy theory see it as a string of unconnected claims which have at most pure circumstantial evidence but which contains no hard evidence of any longterm conspiracy.

the "Big Lie"

The United States is the most media-saturated country in the world. We are bombarded daily with thousands upon thousands of images and sounds designed to get our attention, entertain, and inform us of everything from shoes to food to celebritydom to political ideology. Its been estimated that the average American is exposed to more than 3000 advertisements every day, but on top of that, there are the news programs, sitcoms, films, radio and other forms of media that we choose to consume. All of this works to shape our opinions of the world and a great deal of time, effort, and money is spent to guide our opinions down particular avenues. This used to be called "propaganda". Today, with the negative, Nazi-esque connotation which comes with that word, euphemisms such as misinformation, disinformation, image consulting, political consulting, news consulting, advertising, infomercials, public relations, damage control, and the art of spin have taken its place in the English lexicon, all but concealing its true nature and omnipresence. And omnipresent, it is. The industries that deal with information control – in both the commercial and governmental sectors—work with hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Uninformed, ignorant masses are far easier to manipulate than educated, thinking masses.

Fun Facts About Chocolate

You would have to eat more than a dozen Hershey Bars to get the amount of caffeine in one cup of coffee.

A favorite dish of the Aztecs was roast turkey with chocolate gravy.

The best selling candy bar in the U.S. is Snickers.

Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.

Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho.

White chocolate contains no caffeine.

Half of Americans choose what chocolate they eat by the shape of the piece.

American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk—only surpassed by the cheese and ice cream industries.

On his fourth voyage to the New World, in 1502, Christopher Columbus was the first European to taste chocolate.

In soda fountain slang, a "bucket of mud" is a bowl of chocolate ice cream.

In a recent survey, 70 percent of female respondents said they would rather have chocolate than sex.

Chocolate first appeared on film when Jean Harlow ate candy in the 1933 comedy Dinner at Eight.

Sixty-three percent of Americans say they can't resist buying a chocolate for themselves when buying chocolates for someone else.

The average American eats about 10 pounds of chocolate a year. The Swiss average 20 pounds a year.

It takes 400 cacao beans to make one pound of chocolate.

Nabisco uses more than 37 million pounds of chocolate a year to make Chips Ahoy cookies.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Chocolate was once considered a temptation of the devil.

Vanilla is used to make chocolate.

Of all cookies baked in the United States, 25 percent are chocolate chip.

A national survey showed 80 percent of U.S. teachers in grades kindergarten through eighth grade have received chocolate as a gift from their students.

There are 96 Hershey's Kisses in one pound.

The factory in Hackettstown, New Jersey which makes M&Ms produces 300 million M&Ms a day or about 100 billion M&Ms a year.

According to a survey of sex shop owners, chocolate is the least popular flavor of edible underwear.

Consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate.

U.S. consumers eat 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate annually, representing nearly half of the world's supply.

Chocolate can be lethal to dogs.

Each Hershey's Kiss is wrapped in five square inches of foil wrap.

Napoleon carried chocolate with him on his military campaigns, and always ate it when he needed quick energy.

Chocolate in a blue wrapper won't sell in Shanghai or Hong Kong because the Chinese associate blue with death.

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Monster

Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And 'til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog

And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey

(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem generous and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
'Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin'

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

(America) America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster.


Words and music by John Kay, Jerry Edmonton, Nick St. Nicholas and Larry Byrom

YOUR SPOUSE COULD BE A SPACE ALIEN

How well do you really know your mate?

The old saying about men and women being from different planets isn't always a joke: You may really be married to someone from outer space!

"As many as 5 million aliens are living in the United States after taking on human form," says Dr. James Kune, a physicist and former government UFO expert. "They're evenly split between male and female, and most of them are married though childless.

"My research has determined that the average person has a 50-50 chance of being married to one."

Dr. Kune says he has researched human-alien marriages for the past 10 years and uncovered at least 1,000 cases of aliens passing themselves off as humans -- so convincingly, few spouses have the slightest clue.

"Their motives for coming here remain unclear," he says. "World conquest, the desire to live on a strange planet, overcrowding on their home world -- take your pick. We will know the answer eventually."

Dr. Kune says aliens mate with us for both practical and emotional reasons.

"In the early years of alien visitation, many E.T.s were looking only for cover -- marrying a human man or woman took suspicion off them as outsiders. Eventually they realized that not all humans marry, that they could just as easily pass as 'confirmed bachelors' or 'old maids.' "

But most aliens actually did end up marrying. "For most other species, it's unnatural NOT to pair off with someone. The longer they stayed here, the lonelier and more eager for companionship they became. And so they began developing actual loving relationships with humans.

"One of the most surprising findings in my research is that these alien-human relationships are among Earth's strongest marriages. While the overall divorce rate for U.S. marriages is hovering around 50 percent, almost 90 percent of alien-human marriages last well beyond the so-called 'seven-year itch' that often marks the end of human-to-human marriage.

"I can only theorize that the aliens are working harder to make their relationships succeed, probably to protect their true identities. Or maybe they just like being married -- which," he says with a smile, "really should be our first clue that they're not human."

Getting serious again, Dr. Kune has several signs that point to your spouse being out of this world.

Alien husbands:

Love to fix things around the house -- and actually repair what's broken instead of making it worse. "This is obviously a function of their highly developed mechanical and scientific skills," Dr. Kune says. "They usually have every high-tech power tool they can get their hands on, and keep it all compulsively organized."

Do not use the TV remote to "surf" at lightning speed through channels, but stop at each program to absorb the information before moving on.

Are energized and stimulated by physical contact with their wife. They often initiate long conversations after a lovemaking session, in order to better understand the experience.

Will ask for directions when they're lost -- sometimes. "A significant number are just as stubborn about it as human men," Dr. Kune says. "I suspect that a lot of aliens are on this planet only because they couldn't find their way to their planned destination."

Alien wives:

Are fascinated by sporting events, especially those on TV. They become very quiet during a game and do not question their husband about it, preferring to focus on the game and tune in telepathically to the coaches and players.

Approach housework and meal preparation as research into human labor, which they prefer to conduct on their own. "When their husbands offer to help them with these duties, several alien wives reported feeling hurt and insulted," Dr. Kune says.

Work hard at being fit and attractive by getting regular exercise and practicing good nutrition. "I have not found a single instance of an alien wife asking her husband if she looks fat," Dr. Kune says.

Are analytical and logical in arguments with their husband, "although we are beginning to see the early development of the skill of weeping," Dr. Kune says, "as alien women become more assimilated into our civilization."

A Man or a Mouse? Or Both?

What happens when you cross a human and a mouse? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but, in fact, it's a serious experiment recently carried out by a research team headed by a distinguished molecular biologist, Irving Weissman, at Stanford University. Scientists injected human brain cells into mouse foetuses, creating a strain of mice that was approximately 1% human. Weissman is considering a follow-up experiment that would produce mice whose brains are made up of 100% human cells.

What if the mice escaped the laboratory and began to proliferate in the outside environment? What might be the ecological consequences of mice with human brain cells let loose in nature? Weissman says that, of course, he would keep a tight rein on the mice and if they showed even the slightest signs of humanness, he would kill them. Hardly reassuring.

In a world where the bizarre has become all too commonplace, few things shock the human psyche. But experiments like the one that produced a partially humanized mouse stretch the limits of human tinkering with nature to the realm of the pathological.

This new research field — creating hybrid creatures out of different species — is at the cutting edge of the biotech revolution and is called chimeric experimentation (after the monster of Greek mythology that was part lion, part goat and part serpent).

The first such chimeric experiment occurred many years ago when scientists in Edinburgh, Scotland, fused together a sheep and goat embryo — two completely unrelated animal species that are incapable of mating and producing a hybrid offspring in nature. The resulting creature, called a geep, was born with the head of a goat and the body of a sheep.

Now, scientists have their sights trained on breaking the final taboo in the natural world — crossing humans and animals to create new human-animal hybrids of every kind and description. Already, aside from the humanized mouse, scientists have created pigs with human blood running through their veins and sheep with livers and hearts that are mostly human.

The experiments are designed to advance medical research. Indeed, a growing number of genetic engineers argue that human-animal hybrids will usher in a golden era of medicine. Researchers say the more humanized they can make research animals, the better able they will be to model the progression of human diseases, test new drugs and harvest tissues and organs for transplantation into human bodies.

Some researchers are speculating about human-chimpanzee chimeras — creating a humanzee. A humanzee would be the ideal laboratory research animal because chimpanzees are so closely related to human beings. Chimpanzees share 98% of the human genome, and a fully mature chimp has the equivalent mental abilities and consciousness of a 4-year-old human.

Fusing a human and chimpanzee embryo — a feat researchers say is quite feasible — could produce a creature so human that questions regarding its moral and legal status would throw 4,000 years of ethics into utter chaos.

Would such a creature enjoy human rights and protections under the law? For example, it's possible that such a creature could cross the species barrier and mate with a human. Would society allow inter-species conjugation? Would a humanzee have to pass some kind of "humanness" test to win its freedom? Would it be forced into doing menial labor or be used to perform dangerous activities? If the whole purpose of creating this hybrid is to perform medical experiments, could those experiments possibly be morally permissible?

Please understand that none of this is science fiction. Anticipating a flurry of new experiments, the National Academy of Sciences, the country's most august scientific body, is expected to issue guidelines for chimeric research in April. What would be the ramifications of creating hundreds, even thousands, of new life-forms that are part human and part other creature? Creatures that could mate, reproduce and repopulate the Earth?

Bioethicists are already clearing the moral path for human-animal chimeric experiments, arguing that once society gets past the revulsion factor, the prospect of new, partially human creatures has much to offer the human race.

Of course, this is exactly the kind of reasoning that has been put forth time and again to justify what is fast becoming a macabre journey into a Brave New World in which all of nature can be ruthlessly manipulated and re-engineered to suit the momentary needs and whims and caprices of just one species, the Homo sapiens.

This time, we risk undermining our own species' biological integrity in the name of human progress. With chimeric technology, scientists now have the power to rewrite the evolutionary saga — to sprinkle parts of Homo sapiens into the rest of the animal kingdom as well as fuse parts of other species into our own genome and even to create new human subspecies and super-species. Are we on the cusp of a biological renaissance, as some believe, or sowing the seeds of our own destruction?

What scientists fail to mention is that there are other equally promising and less invasive alternatives to these bizarre experiments. There's sophisticated computer modeling to study disease and to test the effectiveness and toxicity of drugs. There's in vitro tissue culture, nanotechnology and artificial prostheses to substitute for human tissue and organs. When it comes to chimeric experimentation, then, the question is, at what price?

I believe the price is too steep. We should draw the line at this type of experimentation and prohibit any further research into creating human-animal chimeras.

Jeremy Rifkin is the author of "The Biotech Century" (Tarcher, 1999).