Peace, Safety, and Security

The pacified population accepts it readily enough believing that a world government establishing world peace and preventing a nuclear holocaust could not be considered evil.

While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3

The Price of Security
In a statement to the United Nations Business Council in September 1994, David Rockefeller said, "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the new world order."

By the time George W. Bush came into power, the next incremental step necessary to accomplish the global transformation Rockefeller referred to was to convice the American people that it was necessary they abandon the freedoms they were accustomed to in exchange for security.

To accomplish this goal, Bush needed the right major crisis, or what the Project for the New American Century called, "a new Pearl Harbor."

Thanks to a group of CIA funded and trained operatives, Mr. Bush got his New Pearl Harbor ushering in a period of de facto martial law where the American Constitution was shredded and Americans were told resistance was futile. Before leaving office, the Bush Administration introduced another major crisis when the central banks of the world looted the national treasuries of their assets and left a legacy of slavery to debt for generations not yet born.

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Join the Army. Become an Unpaid Lab Rat

(May 23, 2009) Their stories are a staple of conspiracy culture: broken men, suffering hallucinations and near-total amnesia, who say they are victims of secret government mind-control experiments.

Think Liev Schreiber in The Manchurian Candidate or Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory.

Journalists are a favorite target for the paranoid delusions of this population. So is Gordon Erspamer—and the San Francisco lawyer's latest case isn't helping him to fend off the tinfoil-hat crowd. He has filed suit against the CIA and the US Army on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America and six former American soldiers who claim they are the real thing: survivors of classified government tests conducted at the Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland between 1950 and 1975.

"I get a lot of calls," he says. "There are a lot of crazy people out there who think that somebody from Mars is controlling their behavior via radio waves." But when it comes to Edgewood, "I'm finding that more and more of those stories are true!"

That government scientists conducted human experiments at Edgewood is not in question.
"The program involved testing of nerve agents, nerve agent antidotes, psychochemicals, and irritants," according to a 1994 General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) report (PDF).

At least 7,800 US servicemen served "as laboratory rats or guinea pigs" at Edgewood, alleges Erspamer's complaint, filed in January in a federal district court in California. The Department of Veterans Affairs has reported that military scientists tested hundreds of chemical and biological substances on them, including VX, tabun, soman, sarin, cyanide, LSD, PCP, and World War I-era blister agents like phosgene and mustard.

The full scope of the tests, however, may never be known. As a CIA official explained to the GAO, referring to the agency's infamous MKULTRA mind-control experiments, "The names of those involved in the tests are not available because names were not recorded or the records were subsequently destroyed."

Besides, said the official, some of the tests involving LSD and other psychochemical drugs "were administered to an undetermined number of people without their knowledge."

Erspamer's plaintiffs claim that, although they volunteered for the Edgewood program, they were never adequately informed of the potential risks and continue to suffer debilitating health effects as a result of the experiments. They hope to force the CIA and the Army to admit wrongdoing, inform them of the specific substances they were exposed to, and provide access to subsidized health care to treat their Edgewood-related ailments. Despite what they describe as decades of suffering resulting from their Edgewood experiences, the former soldiers are not seeking monetary damages; a 1950 Supreme Court decision, the Feres case, precludes military personnel from suing the federal government for personal injuries sustained in the line of duty. The CIA's decision to use military personnel as test subjects followed the court's decision and is an issue Erspamer plans to raise at trial. "Suddenly, they stopped using civilian subjects and said, 'Oh, we can get these military guys for free,'" he says. "The government could do whatever it wanted to them without liability. We want to bring that to the attention of the public, because I don't think most people understand that." (Asked about Erspamer's suit, CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf would say only that the agency's human testing program has "been thoroughly investigated, and the CIA fully cooperated with each of the investigations.")

Erspamer's involvement in the case is deeply personal. His father was a government scientist during Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the summer of 1946; he was present aboard a research vessel for the "Baker" test, during which a 21-kiloton thermonuclear bomb was detonated 90 feet below water. The blast resulted in massive radioactive contamination. Erspamer's father and the rest of the ship's crew, he says, all died in middle age from radiogenic diseases. Erspamer makes his living in the field of energy litigation, but has twice before argued class action suitsfor veterans—one for soldiers who, like his father, were exposed to radiation during nuclear tests (a case he ultimately lost in a 1992 appellate decision) and more recently one on behalf of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans denied treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The case is on appeal in California's 9th Circuit. "Nobody out there is doing these types of cases," he says. "It's really sad because the veterans are left holding the bag, and it's not a very pretty bag."

One of those vets is Frank Rochelle. Unlike those of other test veterans, portions of his heavily redacted medical recordshave survived, providing a rare, if incomplete, account of his experiences. In 1968, while posted at Virginia's Fort Lee as a 20-year-old Army draftee, he saw a notice calling for volunteers for the Edgewood program. Among the promised incentives were relief from guard duty, the freedom to wear civilian clothes, three-day weekends, and, upon completion, a medal of commendation—all for participation in experiments that, according to the notice, would help the military test a new generation of equipment, clothing, and gas masks. Upon his arrival at the testing facility in Maryland, he says he was asked to sign a series of documents, including a release form and a secrecy agreement. The tests would be risk free, he says he was told, and any drugs given would not exceed normal dosage. Over the next two months, however, he was subjected to three rounds of experiments that, Rochelle says, left him permanently damaged. His medical recordsindicate that he was exposed to nonlethal incapacitating agents like DHMP and glycolate, both of which act as sedatives that produce hallucinations. In the latter case, Rochelle says he was taken into a gas chamber and strapped to a chair by two men in white lab coats, who affixed a mask to his face and told him to breathe normally. He quickly lost consciousness. According to Erspamer's complaint, "Over the next two to three days, Frank was hallucinating and high: he thought he was three feet tall, saw animals on the walls, thought he was being pursued by a 6-foot-tall white rabbit, heard people calling his name, thought that all his freckles were bugs under his skin, and used a razor to try to cut these bugs out. No one from the clinical staff intervened on his behalf…"

Medical records indicate that Rochelle went through a third round of testing, but he has no memory of it. For years he's been having nightmares about the Edgewood tests and now suffers from anxiety, memory loss, sleep apnea, tinnitus, and loss of vision, all of which he claims are direct results of the experiments. Still, he didn't inform his doctor of the tests until 2006, believing that he was still bound by the oath of secrecy he swore in 1968. (The government finally released human test subjects to speak to their physicians about the tests in June 2006, under the condition that they not "discuss anything that relates to operational information that might reveal chemical or biological warfare vulnerabilities or capabilities.")

Rochelle's story is similar to those of Erspamer's other plaintiffs, all of whom claim to be suffering debilitating health effects stemming from the experiments. Of course, substantiating these claims is a challenge, given that most of the medical records were destroyed upon completion of the program. Rochelle's records remain intact, but for "others we have less information," says Erspamer. "We spent a great deal of time on that topic, and we are confident that the plaintiffs are who they say they are, were where they said they were, and got what they said they got," in terms of exposure to experimental chemicals. "Who bears the burden on that issue when the defendants destroyed the evidence?" Erspamer asks. "They've put all that stuff through the shredder."

Compensation for injuries sustained during human testing of chemical and biological agents is not unprecedented. Last year, more than 350 servicemen who served as test subjects at Porton Down, a secret military research facility where the British government conducted its own series of mind-control experiments, were granted nearly $6 million in compensation in an out-of-court settlement with the UK's Ministry of Defence. Likewise, in 2004, the Canadian government began offering $18,000 payments to eligible veterans of experiments at its testing facilities. Nevertheless, says Erspamer, "No American soldiers have ever been compensated." The CIA and the Army "just hope they're all gonna die off, and they will unless somebody does something."


ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
http://www.alternet.org/story/140206

Riconosciuto Warns of Missile Attacks

I am just an artist, yet I have found myself handling information which may be crucial to the survival of all of us.

I have received documents dated from February which prove that attempts were made to alert authorities to terrorist attacks. This is an extremely urgent matter. Authorities have bungled the handling of this, now it is up to the people to do something. There are 37 Russian made missiles which have found a way into the US via Canada. I have posted copies of letters at http://mindgallery.com/hiddenroom/wizard.

The man who gave me this information was involved in negotiations with the Mujahadeen on behalf of the US government in the early 1980s. He was encouraged to make his own contacts and has maintained those contacts through the years. He has informants well positioned within the terrorist cells. So why won't the government listen to him?

Michael Riconosciuto is a brilliant genius, off the scale! He is well-known in certain government circles for his involvement in the installation of a back door into a software program called Promis.
The US Justice Department had obtained a copy of Promis illegally and the resulting lawsuit from Inslaw, the proprietor, created a huge scandal which continues to surface as the years go by.

Recently, FOX News reported that Osama Bin Laden has the Promis software. This means he can move funds and keep track of his enemies without being hindered.

Michael Riconosciuto was asked by Bill Hamilton, the proprietor of Promis, to sign an affidavit about his alterations to the software. A week before he signed, Michael was threatened. There had already been deaths around him and Michael informed his family (which happens to be my family) that he was about to be murdered or jailed and that whatever the family was going to be told about him, it wasn't true, he was being framed for telling the truth.

A week after signing the affidavit, Michael ended up in jail on charges of running a drug lab. As a scientist, Michael was working on some amazing new mining technology for which there is a paper trail. We have a photo of the lab which was taken shortly before the raid - the mining equipment intact. This equipment was subsequently destroyed by the DEA.

Michael never got a fair trial. Two of his lawyers have been murdered, as well as friends and journalist Danny Casolaro. Because the US government doesn't want to admit anything about Promis, Michael has been relegated as a nut case and serious efforts to isolate him have been ongoing for more than ten years. It is very difficult for his family to communicate with him because his letters are intercepted and don't get through.

As the years go by, more and more evidence is brought to light, Canada has investigated their own breach of national security because of Promis and it is obvious that Promis is not an imaginary problem.

A genius like Michael's cannot be contained by prison bars. His friends have been working to bring some of his amazing technology to light... including new breakthroughs in energy and communication.

Michael may never live to see his wonders put into action. He has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and many delays in diagnosis and treatment have occurred. Prostate cancer is treatable with a high rate of success, but we cannot delay. We are now being told that it will be up to three months before a surgical bed is available.

Considering his contacts in the Mujahadeen and the immediate terrorist missile threat, it is an urgent matter of global security that Michael be treated in a secure facility at once. The safest place for him to be treated is the Federal Medical Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Please help! By contacting the Bureau of Prisons Health Center at 202-307-3055, you can express your concerns for Michael's well being and the immediate need to treat him. Also, by contacting his congressman, Brian Baird, at 360-352-9768 and telling his office of the urgent need to treat Michael, people would be able to pressure him into action. Congressman Baird is one of the people who received letters from Michael warning of the imminent attacks.

I am an artist, a musician, and I also host an internet radio program. My husband is the keyboard player for Mind Gallery, he and Michael are cousins. If you wish to know more about us, please check our web pages below. I have attempted to make waves through proper channels and have met with little success. I am asking you to take the time to make a phone call or, if nothing else, please pass this message along. All of our lives may depend upon how quickly we act!

I am sitting on far more information that I can publish. I don't want to endanger informants or compromise any chance of stopping the next wave of attacks. I wish to hand it over to the proper authorities but I am starting to think maybe they just want a war. The RCMP seemed to take it very seriously when I called but they still have not come to my home to actually investigate. They, along with the FBI and CIA were warned prior to the September 11 attacks.

I have written a song dedicated to the effort to free Michael. What else can an artist do? Please help us. The song is posted at http://mindgallery.com/hidde nroom/anita.html

Sincerely,

Anita Langley
http://mindgallery.com/hiddenroom/wizard
www.blackopradio.com
http://mindgallery.com

Michael Riconosciuto
Warns of Missile Attacks
From Anita Langley

CFR Shill Walter Isaacson Names Media 'Enemies'

On September 29, 2010, CFR Shill Walter Isaacson, who is also the head of the notorious AspenInstitute, CNN News Group CEO & Chairman of the Board, as well as Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the organization overseeing U.S. media directed at foreign audiences, says his organization needs to fight its "enemies."

Among those are Iran's Press TV, China's CCTV and RT.

Political commentator Peter Lavelle says the chairman's statement puts him beyond real journalism.

"You've got Russia Today, Iran's Press TV, Venezuela's Telesur, and of course, China is launching an international broadcasting 24 hour news channel with correspondents around the world," Isaacson said.

According to Russia Today, the budgets of RT, Telesur and Press TV combined do not match the BBG's Congressional-funded annual $757 million operating budget.

Julian Robertson Refuses Mental Exam

Julian Robertson, who managed his Tiger hedge fund from $23 billion down to $6 billion in 2000, has refused court ordered discovery for a mental exam regarding his frivolous lawsuit against Al Martin Raw.com, Conspiracy Planet.com et al.

His attorney Richard Marooney of King & Spalding has responded by stonewalling the request for "All documents authenticating Julian Robertson's most recent medical/physical exam records, as well as mental health exam (mental component) certifying his ability to understand the lawsuit undertaken against defendants, as well as a list of all prescribed medications attributable to plaintiff during the last 3 years".

Marooney writes "In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 3 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, intentionally designedto harass Mr. Robertson, and calls for information that is not relevant to any claimor defense of any party."

Defendants maintain that the mental status of 73-year old Julian "We Are in a Market I Don't Understand" Robertson is not irrelevant.
It should be noted that the Wall Street Journal wrote that "[Robertson's] friends and colleagues had been kidding him: 'What kind of medication are you on?'"

Robertson's non-response is telling.

The complete text of the non-response (with no signature by plaintiff Julian Robertons) follows:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
JULIAN H. ROBERTSON, JR.,

Plaintiff,


-against-
Index No. 05CV7046(LAP)

JOHN DOE a/k/a AL MARTIN,
URIDOWBENKO,
CONSPIRACY DIGEST L.L.C. and NATIONAL
LIBERTY PRESS L.L.C.,
Defendants.
OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES OF PLAINTIFF
JULIAN H. ROBERTSON, JR. TO DEFENDANT'S FIRST
SET OF INTERROGATORIES

Pursuant to Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Rule 33.3 of the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Plaintiff Julian H. Robertson, Jr. hereby objects and responds to Defendant's First Set of Interrogatories dated April 24, 2006 (the "Interrogatories") as follows:

GENERAL OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES
1. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories on the grounds that Defendants continue to disregard the Court's Orders compelling them to respond to Plaintiff's document requests and interrogatories served on October 14, 2005. It is highly inappropriate for Defendants to serve their own discovery in light of their willful refusal to respond to Plaintiff's discovery that has been outstanding for over seven months.
2. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent they purport to be propounded on behalf of all defendants instead of only Mr. Downbenko. Defendant Al Martin has defaulted
and no one has appeared in this action on his behalf. Defendants Conspiracy Digest L.L.C. and National Liberty Press L.L.C. may only appear in this action through counsel, and no counsel has appeared on their behalf. Thus, the Interrogatories may only be propounded on behalf of individual defendant Uri Dowbenko.
3. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent that they are overbroad, unduly burdensome, and/or not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.
4. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent that they are designed to harass Plaintiff.
5. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent that they purport to require plaintiff to disclose any information protected by the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable privilege, law, rule, or immunity.
6. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent that they purport to require the disclosure of information not in the possession, custody, or control of Plaintiff.
7. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent that they purport to require Plaintiff to disclose any information that is confidential trade, business or personal data, or other nonpublic, confidential or proprietary information.
8. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent that they seek cumulative or duplicative information.
9. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent that they purport to impose obligations greater than those set forth by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Local Civil Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
10. Plaintiff's responses to the Interrogatories are made without waiving or intending to waive, but rather preserving and intending to preserve, all objections as to the relevance, materiality and admissibility as evidence for any purpose of the responses, or the subject matter thereof, in any aspect of this or any other action, arbitration, proceeding or investigation. Plaintiff expressly reserves all rights under the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Local Civil Rules and all applicable laws. Plaintiffs responses to the Interrogatories are made without waiving or intending to waive, but rather preserving and intending to preserve, Plaintiff's right to rely upon other facts, witnesses and documents at any trial or pre-trial proceeding in this action.
11. The objections and responses set forth below are based upon information now available to Plaintiff, and Plaintiff reserves the right at any time to revise, correct, supplement or clarify the objections or responses set forth herein.
12. Plaintiff incorporates the foregoing objections into each and every response and/or objection, and into each and every amendment, supplement or modification to these responses hereinafter provided. Plaintiff does not intend to waive any general objection response to any specific interrogatory propounded.

OBJECTIONS TO DEFINITIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS
13. Plaintiff objects to the "Definitions and Instructions" section of the Interrogatories to the extent that any definition is beyond the scope of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Local Civil Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
14. Plaintiff objects to Paragraph 3 in the "Instructions" section as overbroad to the extent that it seeks information from a time period not relevant to this lawsuit.

RESPONSES TO INTERROGATORIES
Interrogatory No. 1

How and when did plaintiff Julian Robertson become aware of the subscriber-only satirical column written by Al Martin and published on Al Martin Raw.com subscriber-only website on May 30, 2005? Who or what was the source for plaintiff's receipt of Al Martin's column parodying plaintiff's CNBC interview with Ron Insana?

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 1 on the grounds that it grossly mischaracterizes the May 30, 2005 article that is the subject of this lawsuit (the "Article"). As is plain from the face of the Article, the Article was neither "satirical" nor a "parody." Nor was access to the Article limited only to subscribers of www.almartinraw.com. Subject to the foregoing General and Specific Objections, Plaintiff responds that the Article and/or the content of the Article was republished by dozens of websites immediately following the publication of the Article by Defendants on www.almartinraw.com and www.conspiracyplanet.com. The content of the Article and the Article itself was rapidly and widely disseminated through the New York financial community via electronic and verbal communications. The Article was brought to the attention of Plaintiff and/or his representatives by multiple sources in the New York financial services community shortly after the initial publication of the Article by defendants.

Interrogatory No. 2
How many lawsuits has plaintiff Julian Robertson filed against other publications for alleged "defamation" and/or other reasons? Please state case number and court order and/ or resolutions of case(s).

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 2 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome and calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.

Interrogatory No. 3
Regarding the years 2000-2005, what sources of income did plaintiff Julian Robertson have and where were they derived from?

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 3 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, and calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.

Interrogatory No. 4
Please identify the investors of Tiger Management, Morgan Creek Asset Management, Julian Robertson and any other companies controlled by plaintiff, and state the amount of revenue or income received by plaintiff from such investments. Also please include the time when investors entered into plaintiff's investment program and when the investors left the program.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 4 on the grounds that it is vague, ambiguous, overbroad, unduly burdensome, and calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.

Interrogatory No. 5
Please identify the total revenues and income derived by plaintiff from Tiger Management and Morgan Creek Management, as well as his business in New Zealand, but not limited to wineries, golf courses, real estate development as well as other investments, showing income allegedly lost due to Al Martin's column of May 30, 2005.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 5 on the grounds that it is vague, ambiguous, overbroad, unduly burdensome, and calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.

Interrogatory No. 6
Over the past 2 years, how much time has plaintiff devoted to financial management and how much time was devoted to other endeavors?

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 6 on the grounds that it is vague, ambiguous, overbroad, unduly burdensome, and calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.

Interrogatory No. 7
Please list all real properties owned by plaintiff Julian Robertson, singularly and by entirety (wife and children) inside and outside of the United States, as well as all real properties held in trust by plaintiff as donor, grantor, trustee and/ or beneficiary.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 7 on the grounds that it is vague, ambiguous, overbroad, unduly burdensome, and calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.

Interrogatory No. 8
Please list plaintiff's fee management structure with Tiger Management and Morgan Creek Management, and any and all fee structure changes for plaintiff's management of Tiger, Morgan Creek, et al., including the dates of the changes.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 8 on the grounds that it is vague, ambiguous, overbroad, unduly burdensome, and calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party.

Interrogatory No. 9
With respect to each and every one of the foregoing Interrogatories and the subparts thereof, please:
(a) identify each person from whom information was obtained to answer each Interrogatory;
(b) identify each person(s) who gathered the information used in preparing your answer to these Interrogatories;
(c) identify the person who prepared and/or participated in the preparation of the answer to each Interrogatory;
(d) identify the person(s) having responsibility for verifying the accuracy of your answers to these Interrogatories;
(e) identify the documents and records consulted to obtain such information; and
(f) where no information or only partial information is given in such an answer, a description of the efforts made to locate information needed for such an answer.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Interrogatory No. 9 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, calls for information that is not relevant to the claim or defense of any party, and calls for information that is protected by the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine.

Dated: New York, New York May 30, 2006

KING & SPALDING LLP
By:.
Richard T. Marooney 1185 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 Telephone: (212) 556-2100 Facsimile: (212) 556-2222 Attorneys for Plaintiff Julian H. Robertson, Jr.




UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
JULIAN H. ROBERTSON, JR.,

Plaintiff


-against-
Index No. 05CV7046(LAP)

JOHN DOE a/k/a AL MARTIN,
URIDOWBENKO,
CONSPIRACY DIGEST L.L.C. and NATIONAL
LIBERTY PRESS L.L.C.,
Defendants.
OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES OF PLAINTIFF
JULIAN H. ROBERTSON, JR. TO DEFENDANT'S FIRST
REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS AND THINGS

Pursuant to Rules 26 and 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Plaintiff Julian H. Robertson, Jr. hereby objects and responds to Defendant's First Request for Production of Documents and Things dated April 24, 2006 (the "Document Request") as follows:

GENERAL OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES
The following General Objections and Responses apply to each individual Request in the Document Request, whether or not such Objections and Responses are repeated below in response to each individual Request.

1. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request on the grounds that Defendants continue to disregard the Court's Order compelling them to respond to Plaintiff's document requests and interrogatories served on October 14, 2005. It is highly inappropriate for Defendants to serve their own discovery in light of their willful refusal to respond to Plaintiff's discovery that has been outstanding for over seven months.
2. Plaintiff objects to the Interrogatories to the extent they purport to be propounded on behalf of all defendants instead of only Mr. Downbenko. Defendant Al Martin has defaulted and no one has appeared in this action on his behalf. Defendants Conspiracy Digest L.L.C. and National Liberty Press L.L.C. may only appear in this action through counsel, and no counsel has appeared on their behalf. Thus, the Interrogatories may only be propounded on behalf of individual defendant Uri Dowbenko.
3. Plaintiff objects to the Document Requests to the extent that they are overbroad, unduly burdensome, and/or not relevant to the claim and defense of any party.
4. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that it is designed to harass Plaintiff.
5. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that it purports to call for the production of documents that are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege, attorney work product doctrine or any other applicable privilege, law, rule, or immunity. In the event that material subject to the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine or any other applicable privilege, law, rule, or immunity is produced inadvertently, such inadvertent production shall not be deemed to constitute a waiver of such privilege, doctrine, law, rule or immunity with respect to such document (or the contents thereof) and such documents shall be returned promptly to Plaintiff.
6. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that the Document Request, and the Definitions and Instructions contained therein, purport to impose obligations greater than those set forth by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Local Civil Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
7. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that it calls for the production of documents that contain confidential trade, business or personal data, or other nonpublic, confidential or proprietary information.
8. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that it contains individual Requests that are cumulative or duplicative of other Requests, or seeks information that is obtainable from some other source that is more convenient, less burdensome or less expensive.
9. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that it calls for the production of publicly available information on the ground that compliance would be unduly burdensome and that Defendants have no reason for requiring Plaintiff to assume the burden of producing such documents.
10. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that it seeks the production of multiple identical copies of the same document.
11. Plaintiff objects to the Document Request to the extent that it seeks production of documents that are not in the custody, possession, or control of Plaintiff.
12. Plaintiff's responses to the Document Request are made without waiving or intending to waive, but rather preserving and intending to preserve, all objections as to the competence, relevance, materiality and admissibility as evidence for any purpose of the documents, or the subject matter thereof, in any aspect of this or any other action, arbitration, proceeding or investigation.
13. A response or objection to an individual Request does not necessarily mean that any documents exist or are in the possession of Plaintiff that are responsive to that specific individual Request.
14. The objections and responses set forth below are based upon information now available to Plaintiff, and Plaintiff reserves the right at any time to revise, correct, supplement or clarify the objections or responses set forth herein.
15. Plaintiff incorporates the forgoing objections into each and every response and/or objection to requests, and into each and every amendment, supplement or modification to these responses hereinafter provided to Plaintiff's specific requests. Plaintiff does not intend to waive any general objection response to any specific request propounded.

OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES TO DEFENDANT'S DEFINITIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS
16. Plaintiff objects to the "Definitions and Instructions" section of the Document Request to the extent that any definition is beyond the scope of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Local Civil Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
17. Plaintiff objects to Paragraph 1 of the "Definitions" section of the Document Request to the extent that it purports to include any entities that are not parties to this action and not within the control or agency of the Plaintiff.
18. Plaintiff objects to Paragraph 3 of the "Instructions" section of the Document Request to the extent that it purports to request documents protected by attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine.
19. Plaintiff objects to Paragraph 9 of the "Instructions" section of the Document Request to the extent that it purports to request documents outside of the relevant time frame for this litigation.

SPECIFIC RESPONSES AND OBJECTIONS TO DOCUMENT REQUESTS
Request No. 1
All documents sufficient to show affirmative proof of residency, citizenship and other information asserting the true residence of Julian H. Robertson including, but not limited to, documents reflecting Julian Robertson's birth certificate, home address, place of employment, bank accounts, ownership of real property and social security number, as well as certified photocopies of driver's license(s) and all pages of last issued passport(s), voter registration card, tax returns from any and all countries wherein he pays taxes, including applicable employment forms and documents authenticating plaintiff's residence.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 1 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, intentionally designed to harass Mr. Robertson, and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party.

Request No. 2
All documents showing real estate property taxes from 2000 till present in the United States and New Zealand.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 2 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, intentionally designed to harass Mr. Robertson, and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party.

Request No. 3
All documents authenticating Julian Robertson's most recent medical/ physical exam records, as well as mental health exam (mental component) certifying his ability to understand the lawsuit undertaken against defendants, as well as a list of all prescribed medications attributable to plaintiff during the last 3 years.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 3 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, intentionally designed to harass Mr. Robertson, and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party.

Request No. 4
All email and other correspondence between Julian Robertson and his investors in which they ridiculed him or threatened to pull their investments out of his investment scheme(s) and hedge funds because of Al Martin's satirical column, as well as a list of all investors who removed their investments from Robertson's management due to the Al Martin parody interview column of May 30, 2005, in which said investors reference Al Martin's column as a reason for removing their investments from Robertson's management.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 4 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, grossly mischaracterizes the May 30, 2005 article as a "satirical column" when, in fact, it was not, and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party. Subject to and without waiving any objection,
Plaintiff will search for and produce at the appropriate time during discovery relevant, non-privileged communications concerning the May 30, 2005 article that is the subject of this lawsuit, as well as relevant, non-privileged documents relating to Plaintiff's damages.

Request No. 5
All pay stubs, IRS 1099 forms for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and other documents relating to subscribers and/or investors to Julian Robertson's hedge funds and other investments managed by Julian Robertson, to show decrease in income due to Al Martin's satirical column of May 30, 2005.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 5 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome, intentionally designed to harass Mr. Robertson, and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party. Subject to and without waiving any objection, Plaintiff will search for and produce at the appropriate time during discovery relevant, non-privileged communications concerning the May 30, 2005 article that is the subject of this lawsuit, as well as relevant, non-privileged documents relating to Plaintiffs damages.

Request No. 6
All corporate filings, including annual reports, articles of incorporation, secretary of state filings financial statements and financial information relating to Julian Robertson, Tiger Management, Morgan Creek Management and any other companies that plaintiff controlled, including, but not limited to, documents reflecting the revenues, expenses, assets, liabilities, and capital structure of the plaintiff, as well as other investment corporations plaintiff has a position of director, corporate officer, senior management and or advisor in companies inside and/or outside of the United States.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 6 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party.

Request No. 7
Subscription and/or customer lists showing the identities and residences of investors of Tiger Management, Morgan Creek Asset Management and any other companies plaintiff has controlled, who pulled their assets out of Julian Robertson managed asset pools, investment companies and/or hedge funds.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 7 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party. Subject to and without waiving any objection, Plaintiff will search for and produce at the appropriate time during discovery relevant, non-privileged communications concerning the May 30, 2005 article that is the subject of this lawsuit, as well as relevant, non-privileged documents relating to Plaintiff's damages.

Request No. 8
Photocopies in your possession of all articles and interviews of and by plaintiff Julian Robertson, as published by newspapers, financial business journals, etc., as well as copies of all speeches, lectures, seminars given by plaintiff.

Response
In addition to the foregoing General Objections, Plaintiff objects to Request No. 8 on the grounds that it is overbroad, unduly burdensome and calls for information that is not relevant to any claim or defense of any party. Subject to and without waiving any objection, Plaintiff will produce at the appropriate time during discovery a copy of Plaintiff's interview with Ron Insana that is the subject of the May 30, 2005 defamatory article published by defendants.

Dated: New York, New York May 30, 2006
KING & SPALDING
By:.
Richard T. Marooney 1185 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 Telephone: (212) 556-2100 Facsimile: (212) 556-2222 Attorneys for Plaintiff Julian H. Robertson, Jr.

Aubrey Chernick Funds Conspiracy of Hate Sites

(September 8, 2010) Much has been said about the disproportionate Zionist presence in the world of organized Islamophobia. Now we learn that there is more to that claim than unfounded conspiracy theories.

It turns out the main funder of anti-Muslim blogger/anti-Park51 organizer Robert Spencer and his hate site JihadWatch are husband and wife duo Aubrey and Joyce Chernick, the same couple who are ardent supporters of Zionist causes and major funders of pro-Israel groups across the country.

Aubrey Chernick according to Politico -- "A onetime trustee of the hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Aubrey Chernick led the effort to pull together $3.5 million in venture capitalto start Pajamas Media, a conservativeblog network that made its name partly with hawkish pro-Israel commentary and of late has kept up a steady stream of anti-mosque postings, including one rebutting attacks by CAIR against Spencer - who Pajamas CEO Roger Simon called 'one of the ideological point men in the global war on terror.
Politico lists some of the Zionist propaganda organizations and pro-occupation front organizations that Aubrey and Joyce Chernick have funded over the years:

* The Zionist Organization of America

* MEMRI, a group that distributes translations of inflammatory Arabic language material

* The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a group that tracks what it depicts as the threat of radical Islam, run by notorious Islamophobe Steven Emerson

* CAMERA, a group that tracks what it says is anti-Israel bias in the media and that is associated with Daniel Pipes

* The Central Fund for Israel, a clearinghouse for moneys directed to pro-settler groups

* A number of conservative think tanks that are aligned with the Likud.

The Chernicks are also major funders of Jewish groups including: The American Jewish Congress, The Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, and The Anti-Defamation League.

Lauren Rozen goes into more depth as far as the contributions and think tanks such as the Hudson Institute, Defense of Democracies, Central Fund of Israel, etc. (via. Richard Silverstein), including some well-known anti-Muslim and Islamophobic initiatives (in bold below).

Laura Rozen has discovered that Chernick's charity-giving is done through the Fairbrook Foundation ($66-million in assets). According to its 2008 IRS 990 report, among the far-right pro-Israel groups he's funding are:

* Ateret Cohanim ($30,000), involved in the Judaization of East Jerusalem through 'appropriation' of Arab homes

* Muslim-basher Bridgette Gabriel's American Congress for Truth ($50,000)

* Aish HaTorah, funders of the anti-Muslim films Obsessed and Third Jihad ($14,000)

* Anti-Palestinian media advocacy group MEMRI ($100,000)

* American Freedom Alliance, another Muslim-bashing group, founded by Avi Davis, which defends western civilization from the unwashed hordes ($120,000)

* Gary Bauer's American Values ($80,000)

* Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture ($160,000)

* The anti-Arab media advocacy group CAMERA ($25,000)

* The Council for Democracy and Tolerance, an Arab-bashing group established by a Pakistani neocon ($160,000)

* Defend the West, yet another Muslim-turncoat group founded by Ibn Warraq ($130,000)

* Hudson Institute ($50,000); Heritage Foundation ($50,000)

* The Jewish neo-con security think tank JINSA ($15,000)

* The anti-Arab media advocacy group Second Draft ($40,000)

* Stand With Us ($20,000); and Daniel Pipes' Middle East Forum ($180,000).

* In 2005, Chernick gave $60,000 to the Central Fund of Israel, one of the largest pro-settler 'philanthropic' advocacy groups.

This information is quite disturbing on a number of levels, foremost amongst them being the scant media attention being given to it as opposed to hyped-up stories such as the most recent attempt to sabotage the Park51 project with ten degrees of separation/ guilt-by-association smears against one of the investors in Park51, Hisham El-Zanaty.

The non-news story smears Zanaty by claiming that his one time donation to the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) of $6,050 in 1999 indicts him as a terror supporter. HLF was accused of giving aid to Hamas in the guise of charitable work.

So Zanaty was supposed to have foreknowledge about the HLF that even the US government didn't have?

Is it reasonable then to assume that everyone who gave money to the HLF in 1999 knew that the HLF was giving money to Hamas?

This AP news story sums it up quite nicely,

"Many other donors to the foundation gave thinking their donations would fund humanitarian programs.

"Other people and companies who donated money, equipment or services to the foundation the year Elzanaty gave included NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon, the Microsoft Corp., and a medical equipment company owned by General Electric, according to tax records.

"When the foundation's leaders were indicted, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, the case was not 'a reflection on the well-meaning people who may have donated funds to the foundation.'"

Even the Attorney General under George Bush, the one who was instrumental in the implementation of the Patriot Act affirmed what is obvious common sense, the case was not "a reflection on the well-meaning people who may have donated funds to the foundation."

However, for some reason this non-story about Zanaty eclipses the very real story about the implications surrounding the funding of leading Jewish and Zionist organizations, JihadWatch, and Conservative groups many of which are the chief proponents behind the anti-Mosque drive.

How comfortable do the leaders of the ADL, AJC and others feel about receiving money from a couple who at the same time are the chief funders of an organization and a group of anti-Muslim bigots who are leading the charge in fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment across the United States?

Will they be couragous enough to return the money they have received from the Chernicks and say that they do not want to be tainted by people such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer who as we have documented are thoroughly anti-Islam and anti-Muslim?

Will the media drop its willful ignorance and double standards and begin to look into the glaring data out there?



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The Iraqi Genocide

(Oct 16, 2007) Why has not the Turkish parliament given tit for tat and passed a resolution condemning the Iraqi Genocide?

As a result of Bush's invasion of Iraq, more than one million Iraqis have died, and several millions are displaced persons. The Iraqi death toll and the millions of uprooted Iraqis match the Armenian deaths and deportations. If one is a genocide, so is the other.

It is true that most of the Iraqi deaths have resulted from Iraqis killing one another. But it was Bush's destruction of the secular Iraqi state that unleashed the sectarian strife.

Moreover, American troops in Iraq have killed more civilians than insurgents. The US military in Iraq has fallen for every bit of disinformation fed to it by Al Qaeda personnelposing as "informants" and by Sunnis setting up Shi'ites and Shi'ites setting up Sunnis. As a result, American bombs and missiles have blown up weddings, funerals, kidsplaying soccer, and people shopping in bazaars and sleeping in their homes.
Not to be outdone, Bush's private Waffen SS known as Blackwater Security has taken to gunning Iraqi civilians down in the streets. How do Blackwater and Custer Battles killers escape the "unlawful combatant" designation?

One can only marvel at the insouciance of the US Congress to the current Iraqi Genocide while condemning Turkey for one that happened 90 years ago.

People seldom see the beam in their own eye, only the mote in the eyes of others. Every member of the Bush Regime is busily at work denouncing Iran for causing instability in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, the US has invaded two countries, throwing them into total chaos, while beating the drums for war with Iran and conspiring with Israel to invade Lebanon and to attack Syria.

The indisputable facts are that the US and Israel have attacked four Middle East countries and are determined to attack a fifth. Yet, it is peaceful Iran, at war with no one, that Bush and Israel blame for causing instability in the Middle East.

Not content with its many wars in the Middle East, the Bush Regime is sponsoring wars in Africa and is setting up an African Command. The US government has been bombing and attacking other countries ever since the cold war ended. Instead of peace, the gang in Washington DC chose war.

Other than the Israel Lobby, the greatest supporters of Bush's wars are Christian evangelicals, specifically the "rapture evangelicals" and the "Christian Zionists."

I remember when Christianity was about saving one's soul. Today it is about bringing on Armageddon. While the various evangelical Christians preach war in the Middle East, they condemn Islam for being a "warlike religion."

Americans are so full of themselves that they are blind to their extraordinary hypocrisy.

The US government has broken every agreement with Russia by withdrawing from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, pushing NATO to Russia's borders, conniving to place missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic, and buying governments in former Soviet republics and installing US military bases therein.

When Russian President Putin finally has enough and protests, the US Secretary of State blames Putin for being difficult and restarting the cold war.

Few Americans realize it, but they take the cake.

International polls show that the rest of the world regard the US and Israel as the greatest dangers to world peace. Americans claim that they are fighting wars against terrorism, but it is US and Israeli terrorism that worries everyone else. The rest of the world knows that the wars are about US and Israeli hegemony and that the US and Israel are prepared to engage in whatever acts of terror are necessary to achieve hegemony.

That is the bare fact.

When the US dollar loses its reserve currency status, the US empire will come to an abrupt end. Sooner or later the rest of the world will realize this and, in an act of self-protection, dethrone the dollar.

*** Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

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Spooky Robert Gates Tapped to Redraw Middle East

It is unlikely that the appointment of Robert M. Gates will lead to a significant change in direction with regard to the Middle East War.

Washington's appointee to replace Rumsfeld at the helm of the DoD is part of the same stable of Iran-Contra officials.

The Iran-Contra Affair was a CIA sponsored covert operation during the Reagan administration which consisted in financing the Nicaraguan Contras from the proceeds of illegal covert arms sales to Iran (as well as illegal covert State-sanctioned narcotics trafficking. See "The Conspirators: Secrets opf an Iran Contra Insider" by Al Martin - Ed.)

As a senior CIA official (who was later appointed to head the agency), Robert M. Gates had close personal ties to key figures in the Iran-Contra affair. There is evidence that he lied to Congress. He was, however, never indicted nor was he formally accused of having committed acts of perjury.
"Gates was an early subject of Independent Counsel's investigation, but the investigation of Gates intensified in the spring of 1991 as part of a larger inquiry into the Iran/contra activities of CIA officials
... Gates consistently testified that he first heard on October 1, 1986, from Charles E. Allen, the national intelligence officer who was closest to the Iran initiative, that proceeds from the Iran arms sales may have been diverted to support the Contras. Other evidence proves, however, that Gates received a report on the diversion during the summer of 1986 from DDI Richard Kerr. The issue was whether Independent Counsel could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Gates was deliberately not telling the truth when he later claimed not to have remembered any reference to the diversion before meeting with Allen in October.

(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates )

In 1987, Robert M. Gates' nomination by the Reagan adminstration to head the CIA was withdrawn, amidst controversy on his role in the Iran-Contra affair. Four years later, in October 1991, Gates was appointed to the helm of the CIA by President George H. W. Bush, following lengthy confirmation hearings under the auspices of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. According to previously classified documents made public by the Senate Committee, "Mr. Gates [had] distorted intelligence reports so they would conform to the political beliefs of his superiors." (NYT, 1 October 1991).

"Although the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in the covert world of coups, assassination plots and spy operations has periodically come under public scrutiny, never before in the agency's 44-year history has the bare-knuckles atmosphere of its analytical side been so exposed to view, senior officials of the agency said." (Ibid)

Central Role of the Iraq Study Group in Gates' Nomination

The nomination of Robert M. Gates to head the Department of Defense was not decided by President Bush, on the spare of the moment, in the wake of the November 7 elections.

In March, Robert Gates integrated the Iraq Study Group (ISG) co-chaired by James Baker III and former Congressman Lee Hamilton.

The ISG held secretive meetings focussing on the process of political transition after the mid-term elections. Its major objective is to ensure continuity in the US military agenda under a negotiated bipartisan arrangement.

Other members of the ISG are Clinton's adviser Vernon Jordan, former Attorney General Edwin Meese, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Senator and Governor of Virginia Charles Robb, and former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.

In all likelihood, Robert M. Gates' candidacy to replace Donald Rumsfeld had been discussed behind closed doors under the auspices of the ISG.

"Since March, Baker, backed by a team of experienced national-security hands, has been busily at work trying to devise a fresh set of policies... "Baker is primarily motivated by his desire to avoid a war at home--that things will fall apart not on the battlefield but at home. So he wants a ceasefire in American politics," a member of one of the commission's working groups told me. Specifically, he said, if the Democrats win back one or both houses of Congress in November, they would unleash a series of investigative hearings on Iraq, the war on terrorism, and civil liberties that could fatally weaken the administration and remove the last props of political support for the war, setting the stage for a potential Republican electoral disaster in 2008. "I guess there are people in the [Republican] party, on the Hill and in the White House, who see a political train wreck coming, and they've called in Baker to try to reroute the train."

(See Robert Dreyfuss, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.dreyfuss.html)

Unfolding Bipartisan Consensus

Former Secretary of State James Baker III played a central role in the Robert M. Gates nomination. Consultations had been initiated and Rumsfeld was in all likelihood informed of what constitutes a carefully planned political transition.

James Baker has a longstanding relationship to the Bush family. As chief legal advisor to George W. Bush in 2000, he was involved in "overseeing the Florida recount." as well as securing the timely support of the Supreme Court. Moreover, he is senior counsel as well as a major shareholder of the Carlyle Group, which has sizeable financial interests in Iraq. Baker's law firm Baker & Botts acted on behalf of Enron since 1997.

The Gates nomination ultimately serves the interests of the Texas oil companies and the military-industrial complex including the Carlyle Group. James Baker III had no doubt secured the support of key Democrats for Gates nomination to the Pentagon prior to the mid-term elections. In other words, the decision to nominate Gates did not hinge upon the Republicans' defeat on November 7.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner "hopes Defense Secretary-designate Robert Gates can be confirmed [by the outgoing Senate dominated by the Republicans] before the end of the year".

Democrats in the Senate have already intimated that "they will probably support Gates". "I'm going to give it a fair and fresh look," said Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee:

"I [Carl Levin] expect, relative to his successor or potential successor, that the Armed Services Committee and the Senate will give very careful consideration to the forthcoming nomination of Robert Gates to be secretary of defense.

I've already talked to Chairman Warner and I assured him that I will do everything I can to facilitate his consideration during the upcoming lame-duck session.

And, of course, Chairman Warner assured me that we would follow the usual processes, and that means that we would be providing questions to him for the record and we'd be having hearings. (CQ Transcription, 8 Nov 2006)

Senator Joe Biden has also signified his acceptance of the Gates nomination.

ISG Agenda: The Partition of Iraq, Iran and Syria

The ISG, which has played a key role in securing the Robert M. Gates nomination, favors the partition of Iraq into several "autonomous" proxy States.

The group [ISG] would recommend breaking Iraq up into "three highly autonomous regions." According to "informed sources" cited by the paper, the Iraq group "has grown increasingly interested in the idea of splitting the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish regions of Iraq ... His [Baker's] group will not advise 'partition,' but is believed to favor a division of the country that will devolve power and security to the regions, leaving a skeletal national government in Baghdad in charge of foreign affairs, border protection and the distribution of oil revenue. The Iraqi government will be encouraged to hold a constitutional conference paving the way for greater devolution. Iran and Syria will be urged to back a regional settlement that could be brokered at an international conference."

(Daily Star, 12 Oct 2006 http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/11032 )

This strategy of partition along ethnic lines --which was applied in Yugoslavia-- is by no means limited to Iraq. It is also contemplated for Iran and Syria as part of the Pentagon's "New Middle East". The proposed borders under the New Middle East Map" are intimately related to oil and oil pipelines. An Arab Sunni State would also encompass part of Iran including its extensive oil fields.

A portion of Syrian territory would be annexed to "Greater Lebanon", which would form a "strategic corridor" along the Eastern Mediterranean coastline linking Turkey to Israel.

Oppose the Robert M. Gates Nomination

In a bitter irony, "the defeat of the Republicans" has served to reinforce rather than weaken the Neoconservative grip on US foreign policy.

If Robert M. Gates is appointed Secretary of Defense (in a prearranged bipartisan consensus), one can expect the military agenda in Iraq to be directed more forecefully towards the breaking up of Iraq as a nation.

The Iran Contra affair in which Robert Gates was implicated was part of the architecture of the "war on terrorism". What is rarely acknowledged is that part of the proceeds of the illegal weapons sales to Iran were also used to finance the CIA sponsored Islamic brigades (i.e. Al Qaeda) involved in the Soviet-Afghan war. These covert operations in support of Al Qaeda paved the way for the "war on terrorism" which constitutes the cornerstone of US National Security doctrine.

The Republicans are anxious to finalize the confirmation hearings prior to the instatement of the new Senate and House in January. California Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who is slated to become the next speaker of the House, has not signified her disapproval of the nomination of Robert M. Gates.

It is absolutely essential for US citizens to join hands in opposing the Robert Gates nomination, by pressuring the Senate and House of Representatives, with a view to blocking the appointment of Robert Gates at the upcoming confirmation hearings.

Gates' involvement in the Iran-Contra affair should be sufficient to forcefully block his nomination to the position of Secretary of Defense.

New Middle East Map

Note: The following map was prepared by Col. Ralph Peters. It was published in the Armed Forces Journal in June 2006, Peters is a retired colonel of the U.S. National War Academy.

Although the map does not reflect official Pentagon doctrine, it has been used in a training program at NATO's Defense College for senior military officers. This map as well as similar maps have most probably been used at the National War Academy as well as in military planning.

***Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best America’s "War on Terrorism" Second Edition, Global Research, 2005. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization.

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NeoCon Continuity at the Pentagon: Robert Gates Involved in Iran-Contra Scandal
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, November 9, 2006

© Copyright Michel Chossudovsky

IRS Investigates Gold & Art Investments

(July 27, 2008) The ferocious costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have virtually drained the U.S. Treasury and I learn now that the IRS has been handed its marching papers by the Administration to find and deliver to the aforesaid Treasury, as much money as they can squeeze from delinquent taxpayers.

A new bill allows the IRS unlimited access to all American credit card accounts (the government is especially interested in people buying gold) and many, many Americans who are self-employed will be investigated thoroughly.

A report just issued says that that there is at least $60 billion in unpaid taxes due. The IRS is now also interested in the field of fine art because many people are "investing" in art in the hopes of protecting assets they do not want the IRS to discover (and tax). One Swiss bank loophole has been closed (but there are still many more ways in which citizens can hide their assets) and more are being worked on, even as I speak.

Both gold and the art market are the twin areas of new, intense government interest now so don't tell anyone about that Rembrandt in your living room and buy your gold in small lots from coin dealers (not the 'Gold Investment' firms who love big, splashy ads) and pay cash for it.
Rare stamps are another good investment and have the advantage of being very portable and are easy to hide. Oh and insurance companies that insure art are being approached to open their files to the IRS investigators.

Next, they will be slapping a tax on sex and you can expect drooling investigators to be hiding under your beds with cameras, tape recorders and rubber gloves!

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Young Iranian: Iran Also Controlled by Satanists

(October 4, 2010)FROM A YOUNG IRANIAN
"I live in Iran and have heard Ahmadinejad discussing the need for world order and global governance. I've also heard that his handler ayatolah mesbah yazdi is well connected to British secret service.

"Quite frankly these people are leading the country to total financial meltdown setting the stage for acquisition of state by world financial elite. The public are told to prepare for shortages and street riots."


From the beginning of the Islamic revolution, key positions such as the judiciary were handed over to Mullahs who had no experience in runningthe country.

Commanders of the military, engineers and doctors who
opposed the regime were hanged because they were "enemies of Allah".

The Islamic revolution of Iran had nothing to do with Islam. Just like
any other revolution of recent history ,it was basically aimed at
handing power to a few individuals. In the case of Iran's 1979
revolution, the state was handed over to the Khomeini cult, a Muslim
Brotherhood group which has direct links with foreign intelligence
agencies.
One must not be so naïve as to believe Iran is an opposition
against the new world order. We have TV shows made every year and fed
to the public on the anniversary of the Islamic revolution showing the
public that before that revolution Freemasons ran the show. It's very difficult for me to believe the notion that the British who fought Mussadeq so vigorously would suddenly give up Iranian oil and let the Mullahs take over the country's oil resources.

The true story is that the British instigated the Islamic revolution
of Khomeini. The objective was to control Iran's energy by weakening
it (reduce the Iranians to hunger) and to destroy Iran's religious and family oriented society.

Many of our grand Ayatollahs are also Freemasons, members of the Muslim Brotherhood and I have reliable sources that tell me they have trips to London every few month to get their orders.

One of the powerful figures of the cult regime of Iran is Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi. He is the leader of a very powerful cult called the Haqqani School. Members include Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (a top student of Mesbah), commanders of the revolutionary guards, the Basij militia, lawyers, judges and the heads of major news prints.

We have evidence that the same group was behind last year's election fraud and also the harsh crisis management which came after the election that resulted to many deaths, arrests and many newspaper outlets being shut down.

LEADERSHIP

Ahmadinejad's internal objective is to hand over power to members of
the cult. Multibillion dollar enterprises which were state owned are
now owned by the IRGC (i.e. the Revolutionary guards.) Also infrastructural projects, oil fields, housing projects and many other are awarded to the IRGC. Any opposition such as the green movement or worker strike is handled by the IRGC secret service and the Basij militia.

For outsiders Ahmadinejad might pose as a brave leader who dares to deny the holocaust or challenge the events of 911. He enjoys the kind of security that Obama does in New York City and he has the chance to sit down and talk with all major media outlets in the United States.

Meanwhile it's noteworthy that after returning from UN general
assembly, Ahmadinejad was due to address the students of Tehran
University but the plan wascancelled unexpectedly. The reason is that
the man who enjoys publicity in US does not have the guts to face
Iranian students; he simply fears that his presence might spark unrest
in the university and destroy all the "achievements" that he gained
from his trip to USA.

On that same day Ayatollah Khamenei was due to visit the city of Qom
but his trip too was canceled due to his unpopularity amongst top
religious figures and their unwillingness to attend his welcoming
ceremony.

Meanwhile I am not sure if Ayatollah Khamenei is a member of
the cult but we do know that his chief of staff is a member therefore
the flow of information to the leader is controlled by IRGC secret
service, subsequently his decisions and speeches are against the
opposition.

Khamenei supports developments in sciences and technologies that guarantee the survival of the cult regime. Meanwhile he doesn't favor modernization of the country's economy and he truly opposes raising people's living standards. To me he is in line with the British method of controlling the masses through hardship.

INSIDE IRAN

Iranian people are currently experiencing difficult times and the sad
news is that they are told by government officials to prepare for even
worse. We're experiencing high inflation rate and high unemployment. Oil revenue has fallen and the latest round of sanctions on banking and energy sectors has made life very difficult for businesses. For
example, in order to meet local demand for fuel, refineries are told to drastically reduce their industrial chemical productions and to refine fuel instead.

Businesses are limited to telegraphic transaction for foreign trade; therefore foreign currency is in high demand resulting to higher prices on good imports. Making matters even worse, the incompetent and inexperienced government of Ahmadinejad is planning to overhaul the economy by increasing taxes on energy.

Iran's inefficient economy has caused serious social problems for
families and especially the younger generation. To name a few of our
social problems, we have the world's highest drug addicts based on a
UN report, high divorce and low marital rate, promiscuity of younger
generation in schools and universities, rise in abortion and AIDS,
increase of crime rate and increased belief in magic and Satanism.

I believe that the main source of these problems is that our society and especially the young generation no longer have faith in values such as family, religion and hard work. The cause is that the cult has taken away our basic rights and is feeding us a version of Islam that has led to the destruction of religion and society.

I have no doubt that Satanists are among the religious teachers in Qom since I have heard many true stories of child abuse. Our Mullah social engineers have made the public so confused that they no longer know what is right or wrong and therefore are ready to accept a NWO takeover.

PERSONAL APPEAL

I started reading alternative news sites such as rense.com and
henrymakow.com four years ago when I was about eighteen years old. I
lived in Europe when the attacks of 911 happened and could sense the
implications it had on Muslims of Europe and also the implications it
had on my western friends especially on the ones who were from
America.

I remember that although they knew I were Iranian they had the feeling that somehow I was supporting the attacks. Although I was
completely against the events and had condemned the attacks, I could
sense the huge gap that had opened between the Muslims and Christians.
I knew that the misunderstanding was because of my friends' lack of
knowledge and understanding of world events and especially the
dynamics of Middle East.

Furthermore I remember watching the shock and awe campaign and the war on terror in general with my father in Iran.

The two events of 911 and war on terror prompted me to investigate as I sensed there was something going on behind the scenes.

Meanwhile I've been following world events with much enthusiasm as I
know the truth with the help of alternative news sites and the truth
has set me free. I'm only 22 years old and i ask myself why should i get caught in this mess. My only way out is to escape to another country and continue my higher education. Honestly due to difficult times which I 'm experiencing here in my home country I've decided to look up to the readers of these sites for help on personal matters.

I've even found a proper destination with high living standards and
low tuition fee. That place is Hong Kong, a city that is a blend of
eastern and western cultures with cheaper universities compared to
developed countries thanks to governmental subsidies. Since I live in
a middle class family I cannot manage the cost of studying in Hong
Kong. So I thought of asking for help at a place were other visitors
can understand my views since we share a common viewpoint. I'm not the
kind of person to sit back and hope for miracles therefore I'm hoping
that there might be someone out there who is reading this article and
is able to help finance my studies.

Please contact henry at hmakow@gmail.com if you can help

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http://www.henrymakow.com/young_iranian.html

Dead Man Talking: Rita Katz/SITE Lies About Osama

(October 1, 2010) According to Rita Katz and the notorious disinformation outlet called SITE, the dead Osama Bin Laden hits out at Muslim governments for failing Pakistani flood victims

Osama Bin Laden has criticised Muslim governments for not providing enough relief for Pakistanis after their country was devastated by floods that killed hundreds and displaced millions.

The video message is the second said to be from bin Laden in the last 24 hours.

He has called for the establishment of a relief organisation to prevent flooding in Muslim nations, create development projects in impoverished regions and improve agriculture to guarantee food security.

His pronouncements come hours after US intelligence chiefs revealed the Al Qaeda leader had personally ordered Mumbai-style commando attacks on Britain.

In the today's 13-minute tape called 'Help your Pakistani Brothers', he said: 'The (U.N.'s) secretary-general came to witness the catastrophe for himself, and yet no Arab leaders came to witness the disaster despite the short distances and claims of brotherhood.'

The tape was released by the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi forums. It was aired along with a still photograph of a smiling bin Laden superimposed over pictures of flood victims.

(SOTT Comment: SITE Intelligence Group doesn't just monitor jihadi forums, it runs them.

(ISRAEL: Please, No More Bin Laden Tapes, Nobody is Buying it!

(Is Israel Controlling Phony Terror News?)

The Daily Mail: Its authenticity could not be independently confirmed although the voice resembled that of bin Laden in other messages believed to have been made by the wanted terrorist.

He also hit out at the media for failing to report the Pakistani floods tragedy effectively or provide the "real picture" of natural disasters in the Muslim world, adding that they should also report more on climate change.

Although the video messages avoided talk of violence, the Al Qaeda leader is said to have sent a directive to his planners several months ago naming the countries and the type of attacks he wanted, U.S. intelligence chiefs revealed yesterday.

Bin Laden's first video entitled "Pauses with the Method of Relief Work" was broadcast with a video of images of Bin Laden and of natural disasters.

International donors have pledged more than $800million for flood relief in Pakistan with the US donating $350million alone. In its largest humanitarian appeal ever, the United Nations is seeking to raise $2 billion for Pakistan's flood victims.

Arab nations in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have also launched relief appeals and delivered aid to Pakistan.

(SOTT Comment: This same newspaper, the British Daily Mail, reported on September 11, 2009 the CIA's belief that Bin Laden died from kidney failure on December 13th 2001.)

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http://www.sott.net/articles/show/215990-Dead-man-talking-Bin-Laden-hits-out-at-Muslim-governments-for-failing-Pakistani-flood-victims

HR-45: Gun Control Conspiracy

(Sep. 17, 2009) There is a HR-45 bill that was introduce to the 111th Congress by Illinois Representative Bobby Rush by the title of "The Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009."

The purpose of the bill, according its description in the Thomas legislative information directory of the Library of Congress, is "To provide for the implementation of a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and for a record of sale system for those firearms, and for other purposes."

Currently, the bill has been referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

The bill calls for universal background checks of gun owners, the keeping of records of maintenance and permits, the prevention of child access to firearms, the notification that the gun owner had changed addresses within 60 days and mandatory reporting to the Attorney General of loss or theft of firearms within 72 hours.

If passed, the bill would require gun owners to fill out an application for a firearm license and provide name, address, birthday, place of birth, any known aliases, a passport sized photograph and a thumb print.

The applicant will also have to sign a statement declaring that they are not prohibited by the state or federal government from possessing a firearm.

Part of the process included is the signing of a certification that the firearm will be safely stored and out of the reach of minors. The bill also says that the fee for the license is not to exceed $25US.

The bill also requires a written firearm safety examination be passed testing the gun owner's knowledge in storage, handling, use, state, local and federal legal responsibilities and "any other subjects, as the Attorney General determines to be appropriate."

The bill does not call for physical or mental evaluations but require "authorization by the applicant to release to the Attorney General or an authorized representative of the Attorney General any mental health records pertaining to the applicant."

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is keeping a watchful eye on the progress of this bill, calling it a "licensing and registration scheme" and noting that it will "further require the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer, and owner's address in America."

updated 02/18/09

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

Very Important for you to be aware of a new bill HR 45 introduced into the House.

This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009. We just learned yesterday about this on the Peter Boyles radio program.

Even gun shop owners didn't know about this because it is flying under the radar.

To find out about this - go to any government website and type in HR 45 or Google HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009. You will get all the information.

Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm - any rifle with a clip or ANY pistol unless:

*It is registered

*You are fingerprinted

*You supply a current Driver's License

*You supply your Social Security #

*You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing

*Each update - change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25 - Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail.

*There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18.

They would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 yrs. in prison.

If you think this is a joke - go to the website and take your pick of many options to read this. It is long and lengthy. But, more and more people are becoming aware of this. Pass the word along. Any hunters
in your family - pass this along.

Peter Boyles is on this and having guests. Listen to him on KHOW 630 a.m. in the morning. He suggests the best way to fight this is to tell all your friends about it and "spring into action". Also he suggests we all join a pro-gun group like the Colorado Rifle Association, hunting associations, gun clubs and especially the NRA.

This is just a "termite" approach to complete confiscation of guns and disarming of our society to the point we have no defense - chip away a little here and there until the goal is accomplished before anyone realizes it.

This is one to act on whether you own a gun or not.

If you take my gun, only the criminal will have one to use against me. HR 45 only makes me/us less safe. After working with convicts for 26 years I know this bill, if passed, would make them happy and in less danger from their victims.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45:

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45

Please.. copy and send this out to EVERYONE in the USA.

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CFR Globalist Fraud: Ground Zero Mosque Conspiracy

When the CFR controls both sides of a phony "debate" on the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" which used to be called "Cordoba House," guess who wins?

PHOTO Kenny's Sideshow notes that so-called "Imam" Faisal Abdul Rauf, the frontman for the near Ground Zero Mosque, is a CFR member and that his Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement are at least partly funded by the usual suspects in the 'new world disorder' including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers, Rockefeller Philanthropy, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund."

Rauf's claim to fame is that he announced in December 2009 that he wanted "to build Cordoba House, a 13-story community center, including a mosque that would accommodate 1,000–2,000 Muslims in prayer, two blocks from Ground Zero," according the Wikipedia Fake Encyclopedia. This was then dubbed the "Ground Zero Mosque" by the Govt-Media Cartel, inflaming the American Booboisie into another fake debate.
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(August 20, 2010)

1. Editing Note: "Imam" Faisal Abdul Rauf's official American Society of Muslim Advancement's "audit" can be found here, http://www.asmasociety.org/about/asma_audit_2009.pdf

This information was obtained by a simple Google search: asmasociety.org annual report.

Apparently this is beyond the abilities of Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and the myriad of pundits who claim the funding of the Cordoba Initiative is "mysterious."

2. The Ford Foundation has been removed from the list of ASMA supporters, though it indirectly funds it via grants to the Ms. Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy, and the Global Fund for Women, as well as funding the Council on Foreign Relations itself, direclty.

Further information can be found here, at Ford Foundation's Grant Database.

As the drums for war with Iran beat louder, so does the din of the globalist's "clash of civilizations."

Taking center stage of the "clash" is the now infamous, "Ground Zero Mosque."

It was previously reported that the "Ground Zero Mosque," officially known as the Cordoba House, is the vision of "Imam" Faisal Abdul Rauf, a member of the Council on Foreign Relation's Religious Advisory Committee.

http://www.cfr.org/about/outreach/religioninitiative/advisory_board.html

It was also reported that the dual organizations Rauf is using to promote and fund his activities are the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA).

ASMA had listed several large globalist foundations as its supporters including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Rockefeller Brothers, Rockefeller Philanthropy, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

http://www.asmasociety.org/about/p_support.html

It was established that the Council on Foreign Relations' corporate membership consists of various and notorious war profiteering corporations, including KBR and Veritas Capital Fund's DynCorp, the top 2 profiteers of the Iraq war by 2007.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/WhosProfitingFromTheIraqWar.aspx

The Council on Foreign Relations individual membership consists of notorious "Neo-Conservatives," including Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Vin Weber, John R. Bolton, General Colin L. Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Robert Zoellick.

It also consists of General David H. Petraeus, General Stanley McCrystal, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Timothy F. Geithner, Paul Volcker, Henry M. Paulson, Jr. who are currently working under (or over) President Obama's administration.

http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html

So when one considers that war mongering, war profiteering corporations, and establishment politicians from both sides of the aisle are members of a single organization, funding the divisive "Ground Zero Mosque," one can't help but feel it is nothing more than a stunt, a hoax, foisted upon the American public in order to continue their lucrative, endless wars while allowing them to wrestle away whatever is left of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Researching deeper into the organizations funding "Imam" Faisal Abdul Rauf's ASMA organization, one sees this apparent conspiracy in absolute definitive terms.

THE MONEY MEN

Let's take a look at the complete list of "supporters" that appears on Rauf's ASMA website.

* Carnegie Corporation of New York
* Rockefeller Brothers
* Rockefeller Philanthropy
* Rockefeller Brothers Fund
* Global Fund for Women
* William & Mary Greve Foundation
* The Sister Fund
* The Russell Family Foundation
* Danny Kaye & Sylvia Fine Foundation
* Graham Charitable Foundation
* Deak Family Foundation
* Henry Luce Foundation
* The Elizabeth Foundation
* The Ms. Foundation
* Hunt Alternatives


THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is chaired by CFR member Thomas H. Kean. According to the Carnegie Corporation's own website, Mr. Kean "was tapped by President George W. Bush to head The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (the "9/11 Commission")..."

http://carnegie.org/about-us/board-of-directors/

Other CFR members populating the Carnegie Corporation of New York include:

Richard Beattie: Chairman of the global law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Ralph J. Cicerone: "president of the National Academy of Sciences, is an atmospheric scientist whose research in atmospheric chemistry and climate change has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally."

Susan Hockfield: president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Norman Pearlstine: Chief Content Officer of Bloomberg, formally a senior advisor to the Carlyle Group’s telecommunications and media group.

Thomas Pickering: Vice chairman of Hills & Company (Carla Hills of the CFR's consultant firm)
and until 2006 was Senior Vice President of Boeing International Relations (Boeing is a corporate member of the CFR.)

James D. Wolfensohn: former president of the World Bank, Chairman of Citi International Advisory Board (Citi is a CFR corporate member), founder of the Brookings Institute's Wolfensohn Center, and "served both as Chairman of the Finance Committee and as Director of the Rockefeller Foundation and of the Population Council, and as member of the Board of Rockefeller University."

Former director of multiple CFR corporate members Helene L. Kaplan, former Clinton Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and former FCC chairman Newton N. Minow are the Carnegie Corporation's three honorary trustees, and all three are also members of the CFR.

THE ROCKEFELLERS

The Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors consist of senior staff members who "offer an average of 20 years each in grantmaking experience with major foundations, both domestic and international, including the Ford Foundation, the Levi-Strauss Foundation, the New York Community Trust, and the John A. Hartford Foundation."

Judy Belk for instance, had previously worked for the Ms. Foundation, also listed above as supporters of "Imam" Faisal Abdul Rauf's ASMA organization.

Chris Page: was a former program officer at the Ford Foundation

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is chaired by CFR member Stephen B. Heintz.

Nicholas Burns: CFR member, Former ambassador, National Security Council member under Clinton

Miranda Kaiser: CFR member, deputy counsel of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme

Vali Nasr: "Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Fellow at the Dubai Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University"

Timothy O'Neil: Senior strategy officer at Goldman Sachs & Co, which of course, is a "founding" corporate member of the CFR.

Steven C. Rockefeller: Chaired the Earth Charter International Drafting Committee whose preamble is an open declaration for world government and reads:

"We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations. "

He is also a CFR member.

Advisory Trustees for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund include David Rockefeller, Rockefeller patriarch, and CFR member, Jonathan F. Fanton CFR member, Robert B. Oxnam, also a CFR member.

http://www.rbf.org/trustees/


GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN

According to the Global Fund for Women's annual report which can be downloaded in .pdf format here, this organization has received over 10 years of financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. Ms. Foundation (which is also a supporter of Rauf's ASMA organization,) the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, Citigroup Foundation, Morgan Stanley, are just a few donors on the extremely long list of globalist, CFR listed corporations.

THE MS. FOUNDATION

Founded by CIA operative Gloria Steinem, the Ms. Foundation, according to its annual report found under their publication section here, is funded by the Ford Foundation (over $1 million USD), Goldman Sachs, Citi Group, Citi Foundation, Time Warner, amongst many others.

HUNT ALTERNATIVES FUND

Founder and president Swanne Hunt sits on the Council of Foreign Relations. Within the Hunt Alternatives Fund is the Prime Movers fellowship program that serves as a nexus for "social movements."

Primary Movers listed on Hunt Alternatives Fund's website includes:

Van Jones: former adviser to President Obama, member of the Center for American Progress think tank.

Daisy Khan: co-founder with Rauf of the above mentioned ASMA.

Jim Wallis: CFR Religious Advisory Committee member, Jim Wallis is also currently a member of President Obama's White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He publishes Sojourners which has printed several articles in defense and in support of Faisal Abdul Rauf's "Ground Zero Mosque:"

Who Wins When the U.S. Restricts Religious Freedom?

In support of the Cordoba House (Part 1)
The Implications of Calling Cordoba House a "Mosque"

ONE COUNCIL-- TWO LIES, ONE GOAL

CFR SENDS ITS PROPONENTS

Jim Wallis' publication, Sojourners, provides for us the "tolerant" narrative of this false paradigm.

"Islam did not attack America on Sept. 11 — terrorists did."

"A mosque isnt being proposed for Ground Zero; more accurately, the Cordoba House is a community center, to be built at 51 Park Place (multiple blocks away from Ground Zero) by an organization currently located across the street at 45 Park Place that has been serving that community for years."

"Thankfully, America has a Bill of Rights that protects against such erosions of liberty."

And if you believe the "official" account of 9/11, and believe this is a genuine Muslim group seeking "outreach" this all sounds reasonable.

When you see the CFR funding the Cordoba House, up one side and down the other and don't believe the government's official account of 9/11, your suspicious are raised by such commentary.

CFR SENDS ITS DETRACTORSSends its Detractors

Counter to CFR member Jim Wallis' "tolerant" narrative, comes fellow CFR member and a senior adviser to the Coalition in Iraq, Dan Senor's "intolerant" narrative, published in the Wall Street Journal. The article was also posted on the CFR's official website,

http://www.cfr.org/publication/22750/open_letter_on_the_ground_zero_mosque.html

"However, while we will continue to stand with you and your right to proceed with this project, we see no reason why it must necessarily be located so close to the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks."

"Those attacks, as you well know, were committed in the name of Islam. We applaud and thank every Muslim throughout the world who has rejected and denounced this association. But the fact remains that in the minds of many who are swayed by the most radical interpretations of Islam, the Cordoba House will not be seen as a center for peace and reconciliation. It will rather be celebrated as a Muslim monument erected on the site of a great Muslim "military" victory—a milestone on the path to the further spread of Islam throughout the world. "

"Our deeper concern is what effect Cordoba House would have on the families of 9/11 victims, survivors of and first responders to the attacks, New Yorkers in general, and all Americans."

Here, Senor claims there are "many" Muslims who will not only see the Cordoba House as a monument of victory (for an attack Muslims didn't commit), but are also partaking in an implied campaign of world domination to "spread" Islam. This is also very believable, assuming one believes the government's official narrative of 9/11 and the imminent threat presented by "radical" Islam.

This paradigm was reinforced by the "Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West" DVD.

In a rare mass mailing that saw the propaganda piece arrive at millions of American homes from the mysterious "Clarion Fund," Americans received their Fox News approved primer on "radical" Islam.

Interviewees included, professed Zionists, journalists writing for the Jerusalem Post, lawyers specializing in anti-Semitism, a former Nazi, a former PLO member, and a spy for the UK police.

http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/about_interviews.html

In an almost cartoonish, intelligence insulting manner, "Obsession" proposes to us that Islam is the great threat of our time and that the "War on Terror" waged by the likes of President George Bush and his inner circle of Neo-Cons, is our only hope of saving Western civilization.

We take a look at Bush's war mongering inner circle who lurked within William Kristol's Project for a New American Century think tank before Bush became president in 2000:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

Elliott Abrams, CFR member, PNAC signatory.
Eliot Cohen, CFR member, PNAC signatory.
Lewis Libby, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Richard Cheney, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Vin Weber, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Paul Wolfowitz, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Douglas Feith, CFR member, PNAC signatory
John Bolton, CFR member, PNAC signatory
John McCain, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Daniel Pipes, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Robert Zoellick, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Robert Kagan, CFR member, PNAC signatory
Francis Fukuyama, CFR member, PNAC signatory

PNAC 2.0: Foreign Policy Initiative

Other notable Neo-Conservatives that can be found on the CFR are the members of William Kristol's reinvented PNAC called the Foreign Policy Initiative.

Robert Kagan is on the Initiative’s board of directors and a CFR member – Jamie Fly is executive director of the Initiative, also a CFR member - Ellen Bork, Initiative director, also a CFR member - Dan Senor sits on the board of directors and is also, a CFR member.

The FPI has come out decisively against the Ground Zero Mosque.

In a piece titled "Mayor Bloomberg is Wrong on the Ground Zero mosque, says FPI Director William Kristol," Kristol starts by saying,

"Last Tuesday, standing in front of the Statue of Liberty, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke on the subject of the proposed mosque at Ground Zero. His remarks will be read with curiosity by future generations of Americans, who will look back in astonishment at the self-deluding pieties and self-destructive dogmas that are held onto, at once smugly and desperately, by today’s liberal elites. Our liberation from those dogmas, and from those elites, is underway across the nation."

A man surrounded by CFR globalist elites, who are funding both the "conservative" and "liberal" agenda at once is already framing this, at the expense of his respect for his reader's intelligence as a liberal vs. conservative false paradigm. He continues...

"As is the way of contemporary liberals, Bloomberg spoke at a very high level of abstraction. He appealed to the principle of religious toleration, while never mentioning the actual imam who is responsible for and would control the planned Ground Zero mosque. To name Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf might invite a consideration of his background, funding, and intentions. Do Rauf and his backers believe in the principles underlying the “inspiring symbol of liberty” that greets immigrants to the United States and before which Bloomberg stood?"

Perhaps Mr. Kristol should have his own board of directors ask the good Imam where his funding comes from at the next CFR meeting? Or perhaps Mr. Kristol needs the American people who he claims to speak for, to remind him we are not as stupid as he thinks we are. That we are not incapable of clicking on the "About Us" button on their public, official websites, from the CFR, to the Cordoba Initiative, and all the way back to fake right-wing conservatives like Kristol.

And so we come full circle, we began with the CFR fully funding Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf's ASMA organization, looked extensively at how each foundation was either funded by globalist CFR members, or directly controlled by CFR members.

We saw how the Ground Zero Mosque received praise from CFR fake left-wingers like Jim Wallis of Sojourner, then how fake CFR right-wingers like Dan Senor and his FPI colleague Bill Kristol lead the debate with intolerance, anger, and zeal on the opposing side.

When you consider the corporate membership of the Council on Foreign Relations is making trillions off of the endless war on terror, they themselves started and now refuse to end, when you consider Mr. Rockefeller's Earth Charter Initiative's open declaration for global government, and how every arm of the CFR above and below reaches for globalization and you see the "war on terror" hand delivering all of the above - you should be suspicious.

But when you see the Council on Foreign Relations funding a controversial mosque and protesting against it simultaneously, there is only one conclusion to be made:

This "War on Terror" is 100% absolute, utter theater.

The very people making trillions from the wars are now purposefully generating hatred, division and animosity to continue their lucrative genocide and continue their designs of world domination they openly write about.

They bought the land for Fiasal Abdul Rauf, they fielded his supporters and detractors, who are then parroted verbatim by the media pundits they own, and the blogging shills they pay to infiltrate the alternative media with. Their "clash of civilizations" materializes before their very eyes based on our shear ignorance and emotional knee-jerk reactions.

Worst of all, our "elected" politicians, from the President to the Senators all are fully aware of who and what the CFR is.

Many of them are members and if they are not, their advisers are.

Here is the final passage from William Kristol's "Mayor Bloomberg is Wrong on the Ground Zero mosque, says FPI Director William Kristol" and realize Kristol who represents the inner most circle of Neo-Conservatives in America, all of whom are CFR members, just wrote an entire article condemning Mayor Bloomberg's comments regarding the Ground Zero Mosque, with the mayor himself, also being a CFR member:

"The conclusion of Bloomberg’s speech was odd: “Political controversies come and go, but our values and our traditions endure—and there is no neighborhood in this City that is off limits to God’s love and mercy, as the religious leaders here with us can attest.” Do the rest of us need Bloomberg’s hand-picked religious leaders to tell us that there are no limits to God’s love and mercy? We do doubt that encouraging this mosque to be built is an appropriate expression of respect for God’s love and mercy for those who were killed almost nine years ago. And we would note that no expression of New Yorkers’ love and gratitude for the victims of September 11 has yet been built at the site of Ground Zero during Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure.

It is likely, we believe, that civic pressure will cause the mosque to be moved elsewhere -- Bloomberg's lecture notwithstanding. But if Bloomberg were to have his way, it’s worth noting that he would presumably attend a dedication of Feisal Abdul Rauf’s mosque at Ground Zero before he would attend a dedication of a proper memorial to those who died there.

Contemporary liberalism means building a mosque rather than a memorial at Ground Zero—and telling your fellow citizens to shut up about it."

What Kristol leaves you with is a choice to make, left or right. He himself questioned Faisal Abdul Rauf's funding, but where did he provide the answer? Surely a man with such connections could find out easier than I did...

The danger when confronted with a news story, especially a controversial one, by not asking yourself the important questions, is being forever trapped in a false paradigm.

A cage not of steel, but of your own ignorance. One within which you may send your son off to die because you fell for absolute utter theater put on by a single organization with soulless scum posing in different masks on opposing sides.

Always click "About Us" and never settle on a conclusion until you have all the facts. Knowledge is power; that is not a cliche that is literally the difference between freedom and slavery, life and death.

EPILOGUE

There is a conspiracy to dominate the planet. It is not one of Christians, not Muslims, not Jews, not even Zionists, but rather godless nihilistic megalomaniacs.

The globalists play each and every angle, whatever will work in a certain geological location, upon a certain cultural paradigm.

The goal of meticulously documenting the CFR connections above to the foundations funding "Imam" Faisal Abdul Rauf, was to illustrate how large the CFR is.

It illustrates how interconnected the CFR is with other think tanks and foundations.

Upon the CFR's 2009 roster, you can find authors of what you read in the bookstore, in the pages of Newsweek and Time magazine, the commentators you see in news editorials and the expert commentators brought onto mainstream media news shows.

The CFR has a sister organization in the United Kingdom called the Chatham House.

It is equally as large, backed by the world's largest corporations, and infiltrating your daily news with their nefarious interjections.

Accenture
Amsterdam & Peroff
Aviva
BakerPlatt
Barclays Capital
BBC
BHP Billiton International Services Ltd
Bloomberg
Booz & Company
British American Tobacco
City of London
Clifford Chance LLP
Coca-Cola Great Britain
Control Risks
Detica
Economist, The
Eni S.p.A.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
GlaxoSmithKline
Goldman Sachs International
Herbert Smith LLP
Home Office
HSBC Holdings plc
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
JICA UK Office
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
MediCapital Bank plc
Merck & Co Inc
Mitsubishi Corporation
Nomura International plc
Oliver Wyman
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Rio Tinto plc
Royal Bank of Scotland
Saudi Petroleum Overseas Ltd
Standard Chartered Bank
Tesco
The European Azerbaijan Society
Thomson Reuters
TNK-BP
Towers Watson
United States of America, Embassy of the
Vodafone Group
Warburg Pincus

Here, the Huffington Post allots a whole page to the "editorials" of Robert Amsterdam who is grooming another globalist operative, Thaksin Shinwatra who is leading, not "radical" Muslims, but this time a "people's revolution" in Thailand, on behalf of foreign investors.

You will notice Robert Amsterdam's firm, Amsterdam & Peroff on the above list, second from top.

Definitely, we can see the same globalists, partnering with any personality that will have them, exploiting them along whatever paradigm will work at the moment.

While the CFR uses "Imam" Faisal Abdul Rauf in America to divide along theology and Constitutional rights, the Chatham House and International Crisis Group is using Thaksin Shinwara to divide Thailand along economic class.

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http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2010/08/ground-zero-mosque-part-ii.html