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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Bush Tacitly Implies WTC Controlled Demolition?
Makes strange 'explosives in U.S. buildings' reference during torture speech Friday
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 18 2006
During his speech Friday in which the President argued for the gutting of the Geneva convention and the legal classification of torture, Bush made a strange comment about explosives and their placement in U.S. buildings. Was this a tacit admission of 9/11 controlled demolition?
Here's the quote in full from the White House website .
"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out."
"That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."
The onset of both towers' collapse began at high points in the buildings. Is Bush implying planted incendiary devices were responsible for their destruction?
Read more here.
Looks like so many are waking up that they're in a panic!
Note: This directly contradicts Bush's statements above:
Goss: Torture 'not permissible'
Goss said it was "certainly not permissible" to obtain any information from Mohammed through torture.
"The hallmark of our country is decency, democracy, freedom and so forth," Goss said. "The other guys don't, but we have to maintain our standards."
Goss added that he believes the United States can obtain information from Mohammed anyway. "There's lots of motives that make people do what they do, and there may be ways we can gather information in the process of professional interrogation that will link with other pieces that we have already."
Note that this is from the Government Script / CNN:
'Appropriate pressure' being put on al Qaeda leader
U.S.: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed planned 9/11 attacks
Monday, March 3, 2003 Posted: 1:03 AM EST (0603 GMT)
Update: 2 Videos Added 9/22/06
Deal Reached on New Rules of War - White House and GOP Senators Agree on Rules for Treatment of Terror Suspects - Video
Brian Ross on The O'Reilly Factor re: U.S. Secret Prisons & Torture - Video
Now they're spinning Bush's above-referenced statements from his speech on Friday, September 14, 2006, See: Bush Tacitly Implies WTC Controlled Demolition?
Makes strange 'explosives in U.S. buildings' reference during torture speech Friday :
"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out."
"That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."
and instead stating, that by torturing Khalied Sheikh Mohammed, they got him to "confess" to all kinds of things, including very good information about a terrorist plot involving the Library Building in Los Angeles, California.
(From the "Brian Ross on O'Reilly Factor- U.S. Secret Prisons & Torture - Video"
Are they just spinning the fact that Bush appeared to be referring to the World Trade Center on 9/11, or are they testing and conditioning the public before they come out and admit that there actually were bombs in the buildings? It's obviously the latter. Osama and his henchmen, did it of course. Yea, that's it.
There is so much talk worldwide about 9/11 being an iside job that it's pathetic.
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's Scarborough Country was saying on 9/15/06:
"And then, of course, you‘ve got college professors, as Limbaugh was talking about, that are actually telling their students that 9/11 was an inside job. Cynthia McKinney suggests, former Democratic congresswoman, that George Bush knew about 9/11." See transcript here. There are a whole lot of interesting things on this transcript. More to be written here soon.
The truth that Osama is dead is also out. Alex Jones and many others have been talking about this for years. Check out this video from Newsweek, which I found on 9/22/06, on http://msnbc.com .
This video probably won't be there for long, and the site won't give the actual URL of the video. I even tried to check the source code of the video page, and you can't see that either. The video may be placed here for a little while, before disappearing forever, instead of at the link above.
Torture at Abu Ghraib
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-37,GGLG:en&q=torture+%22abu+ghraib%22
Torture at Abu Ghraib News Articles (including the most recent news articles, which stay current, no matter when you click on this, as well as older news.
One rule for them
Five PoWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries foul. What about Guantanamo Bay?
George Monbiot
Tuesday March 25, 2003
The Guardian
Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras on Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, immediately complained that "it is against the Geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them".
He is, of course, quite right. Article 13 of the third convention, concerning the treatment of prisoners, insists that they "must at all times be protected... against insults and public curiosity". This may number among the less heinous of the possible infringements of the laws of war, but the conventions, ratified by Iraq in 1956, are non-negotiable. If you break them, you should expect to be prosecuted for war crimes.
This being so, Rumsfeld had better watch his back. For this enthusiastic convert to the cause of legal warfare is, as head of the defence department, responsible for a series of crimes sufficient, were he ever to be tried, to put him away for the rest of his natural life.
His prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men (nine of whom are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles of the third convention. The US government broke the first of these (article 13) as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to address the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, wearing blacked-out goggles and earphones. In breach of article 18, they had been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of their possessions. They were then interned in a penitentiary (against article 22), where they were denied proper mess facilities (26), canteens (28), religious premises (34), opportunities for physical exercise (38), access to the text of the convention (41), freedom to write to their families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and books (72).
They were not "released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities" (118), because, the US authorities say, their interrogation might, one day, reveal interesting information about al-Qaida. Article 17 rules that captives are obliged to give only their name, rank, number and date of birth. No "coercion may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever". In the hope of breaking them, however, the authorities have confined them to solitary cells and subjected them to what is now known as "torture lite": sleep deprivation and constant exposure to bright light. Unsurprisingly, several of the prisoners have sought to kill themselves, by smashing their heads against the walls or trying to slash their wrists with plastic cutlery.
The US government claims that these men are not subject to the Geneva conventions, as they are not "prisoners of war", but "unlawful combatants". The same claim could be made, with rather more justice, by the Iraqis holding the US soldiers who illegally invaded their country. But this redefinition is itself a breach of article 4 of the third convention, under which people detained as suspected members of a militia (the Taliban) or a volunteer corps (al-Qaida) must be regarded as prisoners of war.
Even if there is doubt about how such people should be classified, article 5 insists that they "shall enjoy the protection of the present convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal". But when, earlier this month, lawyers representing 16 of them demanded a court hearing, the US court of appeals ruled that as Guantanamo Bay is not sovereign US territory, the men have no constitutional rights. Many of these prisoners appear to have been working in Afghanistan as teachers, engineers or aid workers. If the US government either tried or released them, its embarrassing lack of evidence would be brought to light.
You would hesitate to describe these prisoners as lucky, unless you knew what had happened to some of the other men captured by the Americans and their allies in Afghanistan. On November 21 2001, around 8,000 Taliban soldiers and Pashtun civilians surrendered at Konduz to the Northern Alliance commander, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. Many of them have never been seen again.
As Jamie Doran's film Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death records, some hundreds, possibly thousands, of them were loaded into container lorries at Qala-i-Zeini, near the town of Mazar-i-Sharif, on November 26 and 27. The doors were sealed and the lorries were left to stand in the sun for several days. At length, they departed for Sheberghan prison, 80 miles away. The prisoners, many of whom were dying of thirst and asphyxiation, started banging on the sides of the trucks. Dostum's men stopped the convoy and machine-gunned the containers. When they arrived at Sheberghan, most of the captives were dead.
Read more here.
TORTURE: THE NEW AMERICAN VIRTUE
Dershowitz: Torture could be justified
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Posted: 0431 GMT (12:31 PM HKT)
Ken Roth and Alan Dershowitz
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Following the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the question has become whether the senior al Qaeda leader will reveal key information about the terrorist network. If he doesn't, should he be tortured to make him tell what he knows?
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer posed this question to noted author and Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch.
Read more here.
Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base
'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Friday March 7, 2003
The Guardian
Read article here.
Prisoners 'killed' at US base
Two Afghan prisoners were killed while in US custody at their base at Bagram, a military coroner has concluded.
Last Updated: Thursday, 6 March, 2003, 13:25 GMT
The report said "blunt force trauma" had contributed to the deaths.
The detainees had spent about a week in the detention facility when they died last December.
However, US spokesman Colonel Roger King told BBC News Online the pathologists' verdict was not final - a military investigation had been launched and was due to be completed later this month.
There are hundreds of former Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and in various overseas facilities.
Last month, human rights groups accused the US Government of subjecting the prisoners to physical abuse leading to a number of deaths and attempted suicides in custody.
Washington described the allegations of torture as "ridiculous".
The first
The US spokesman at Bagram said the two men who died there had been under allied custody for about 10 days altogether.
The first man died on 3 December after a blood clot in his lungs, and the second died a week later after developing blood clots as well as suffering a heart attack.
"The homicide entry on the [military death certificate] form is different from the legal meaning of the term."
-Colonel Roger King
US spokesman at Bagram
Read more here.
Some captives handed to brutal foreign agencies
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday December 27, 2002
The Guardian
The CIA has used "stress and duress" techniques on al-Qaida suspects held at secret overseas detention centres, as well as contracting out their interrogation to foreign intelligence agencies known to routinely use torture, said a report published yesterday.
The Washington Post paints a harrowing picture of the procedures for extracting information from terrorism suspects at such centres as Diego Garcia, the Indian Ocean island leased from Britain, and Bagram, the large US airbase in Afghanistan.
Inmates at Bagram are kept in painful positions for hours, hooded or made to wear opaque goggles, or bombarded with light, the report says. However, other detainees have faced far worse for not cooperating, being "rendered" to a foreign intelligence service which has no compunction about torture.
The Post suggests there has been a sweeping change in US policy on torture since September 11, despite public pronouncements against its use. It quotes Cofer Black, the former director of the CIA's counter-terrorist branch, as telling a congressional intelligence committee: "All you need to know: there was a before 9/11, and there was an after 9/11... After 9/11 the gloves come off."
. . .
The report offers the first details of inmates' treatment at CIA camps outside Guantanamo Bay, where some 600 al-Qaida suspects are held. But the Guantanamo inmates have had at least limited access to lawyers, journalists, and the Red Cross, whereas Bagram is strictly off-limits, and human rights groups fear conditions could be worse.
Earlier this month, officials said they would launch a criminal inquiry into the death of two prisoners at Bagram. One reportedly died of a heart attack, the other of a pulmonary embolism.
US laws apparently do not apply at the centres, where CIA agents oversee - or take part in - the interrogations. While the US publicly denounces torture, the Post says each of the 10 serving national security officials interviewed by the paper defended the use of violence against captives.
"If you don't violate someone's human rights some of the time, you probably aren't doing your job," an official who has supervised the capture of suspects told the newspaper. "I don't think we want to be promoting a view of zero tolerance on this. That was the whole problem for a long time with the CIA."
The report says CIA agents sometimes trick a detainee into thinking he is held in a state where torture is routine. On other occasions, low-level suspects have been handed over to Jordanian, Egyptian, and Moroccan agencies - known for their brutality - with a list of questions from the CIA.
Some US officials claim the main motive of such "renditions" is the belief that a suspect will open up if questioned in his own language or on familiar terrain.
However, one official directly involved in rendering captives to foreign hands is quoted as saying: "We don't kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them."
Read more here.
Check out these articles about what our government has been up to
US Army's Desert Filling Stations Add Fuel to Fire
Published on Saturday, March 29, 2003 by the Guardian/UK
by Oliver Burkeman in Washington
In a war where public perceptions are arguably as important as the military strategy, the US army appears to have handed a huge public relations victory to those who believe the conflict in Iraq is all about oil. The 101st Airborne Division has chosen to name two of its main outposts in the desert Forward Operating Base Exxon and Forward Operating Base Shell.
When US troops seizing the port city of Umm Qasr raised the stars and stripes there last week, they were swiftly ordered to remove it for fear of giving the impression of being conquerors, not liberators.
But Forward Operating Base Shell has caught on so comprehensively that the Washington Post is now carrying it as the dateline in its news reports from the base.
"Our feeling was that this was clearly not a political statement by the men and women of the 101st Airborne," said Tom Cirigliano, an Exxon spokesman.
Meanwhile, in southern Iraq, four miles outside Nassiriya, troops have erected a makeshift sign renaming Tallil airfield Bush international airport.
That may, at least, have a satirical intent: Iraq's largest airport, in Baghdad, is called Saddam International.
"This has absolutely nothing to do with the war being about oil, a notion that we think has been debunked by numerous independent analysts - and even in the newspaper Le Monde," Mr Cirigliano insisted.
Read more here.
Also, Be Sure to Check Out:
Results 1 - 7 of about 73 for "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed died".
Results 1 - 10 of about 25 from www.infowars.com for "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed".
Complete 911 Timeline
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
1993: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Has Ties with ISI
Early 1994-January 1995: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Receives Financial Support in the Philippines
Fears that US will use 'torture lite' on al-Qaida No 3
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Wednesday March 5, 2003
The Guardian
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaida leader captured in Pakistan over the weekend, was yesterday believed to be under interrogation at a US base in Afghanistan.
The White House denied he was being tortured, although there is speculation that a variety of techniques known in the intelligence community as "torture lite" would be used to get information from him.
Mohammed, who is said to to be the number three in al-Qaida, was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan, in a joint operation by the CIA and Pakistani police. He was initially interrogated in Pakistan but has now been moved.
The US does not comment on individual prisoners held in the wake of September 11, but Pakistani officials said they understood that he was now being held in Afghanistan, reportedly at the Bagram base.
The arrest follows last month's capture in Pakistan of Muhammed Abdel Rahman, a son of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of conspiring to blow up the UN offices in New York.
Interrogators are likely to seek two key pieces of information from Mohammed: plans for attacks on the US or US interests, and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said in response to questions about the detention of Mohammed: "The standard for any type of interrogation of somebody in American custody is to be humane and to follow all international laws and accords dealing with this type subject. That is precisely what has been happening and exactly what will happen."
But lawyers for those detained after September 11 believe prisoners held abroad are often subjected to torture.
Randy Hamud, who represents a number of Arabs detained in San Diego, said he believed his clients had been taken to countries where they could be tortured. There have also been reports that police in countries such as Pakistan and Jordan are given prisoners by the US in the knowledge that they will be tortured.
A former member of US navy intelligence said that "torture lite" - sleep deprivation, and placing prisoners in awkward or painful positions for hours at a time - would be used.
The Democratic senator John Rockefeller suggested at the weekend that the US might consider turning over Mohammed to a country that does not ban torture. He told CNN: "I wouldn't take anything off the table where he is concerned, because this is the man who has killed hundreds and hundreds of Americans over the last 10 years."
He had since said that he was not condoning torture.
The secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge, said Mohammed would have significant information but would be hard to interrogate.
"We know that these individuals are trained and programmed in the craft of evasion. It will be very, very difficult to extricate information from this guy at this time."
There was also speculation that Mohammed would be questioned about the murder last year of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Read more here.
And see this EXCELLENT essay below, as well:
Is There More to the Capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Than Meets the Eye?
Here's all the news stories about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, including older news articles and the very latest news, which will always be up to date, including whenever you click on this link!
posted by Vetzine
Monday, September 18, 2006
NYC Firefighters Describe Explosions in WTC on 9/11 - Video
Never before seen Video of WTC 9/11 attack
Re: Above Video: "If you want a higher resolution one than this i can send it to you. e-mail me" jmanfivek at hotmail.com
"Acts of War" Declares Bush... (How Very Convenient!)
Steve Melkisethian, Newsboy, Farragut Square, Washington, D.C., 9/13/01
Photo from loc.gov
The victims of the 9/11 attacks have been disaster for Muslims because 19 Arabs were named as hijackers of the planes, but they've been a dream come true for the PNAC 'think-tank' whose 2000 Statement of Principles stated a "catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" would advance their policies, i.e. justify wars and "regime changes".
"This is about control over Middle East oil. [The Statement of Principles] indicates that America is aiming for global leadership, both military and economically..."
- Michael Meacher, UK MP
10 [PNAC members] are now in the Bush administration. As well as Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, they include Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; John Bolton, who is undersecretary of state for disarmament; and Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House liaison to the Iraqi opposition. Other signatories include William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, and Richard Perle, chairman of the advisory Defense Science Board. [ABC News 3/10/2003]
VIDEO: NBC Anchorman: WTC Collapse Was Planned
"This was clearly -- the way the structure is collapsing -- this was the result of something that was planned. This is not, it's not accidental that the first tower just happened to collapse and then the second tower just happened to collapse in exactly the same way. How they accomplished this, we don't know. But clearly this is what happened."
This says it all.
Image from loc.gov
NYC Firefighters say 9/11 WTC Collapse Seemed Like Controlled Demolition - Video
Newscasters, Eyewitnesses, Firemen, William Rodriguez, HERO, WTC Worker & Last Person Out, Describe Explosions & What Looks Like Controlled Demolition - Audio & Video
WTC 7 Imploding - Dan Rather's Comments, By Killtown Dan Rather, CBS News
Video shows the east penthouse on top of the WTC 7 imploding before the rest of the building implodes seconds later, suggesting a controlled demolition.
WTC Building 7 - Video of Larry Silverstein Admitting He Gave Order to "Pull It",
then Watched WTC Building 7 Come Crashing Down
WTC 7 Information - This Building Was Not Hit By Planes, Yet Collapsed, Just Like the Twin Towers Did!
Video: Steven Jones, Physics Professor re: Scientific Analysis of WTC Materials
Extensive 9/11 evidence: Killtown
Killtown - Questioning the 9/11 attacks...
Extensive Evidence re: Explosions / Bombs in WTC
200+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' (Excellent! From Killtown!)
Was the WTC 6 blown?
(From Killtown!)
THE TOP 40 REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
9/11 Videos and Actual TV News Footage from 9/11
Audios Regarding 9/11
Was 9/11 Allowed to Happen?
9/11 - An Oral History
Hundreds of Firefighters, EMT's, First Responders Tell of 9/11 Experiences
William Rodriguez, 9/11 Hero
Information about the Burning of the Reichstag, German Parliament Building,
by Hitler's Minions, Hitler Falsely Blaming This on a Patsy,
and How This Parallels 9/11
9/11 Truth Videos / Movies
(Plus more 9/11 Truth Videos on this blog)
Operation Northwoods
Controlled Demolition and The WTC / 9/11
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
by Steven E. Jones | November 11, 2005
Was 9/11 Allowed to Happen? Excellent Evidence & Hundreds of Articles here.
& Much More 9/11 Evidence
For much more evidence on 9/11 from this blog, click here.
9/11 Conspiracy Now Subject of Hollywood Theatrical Performance
The 'Joan of Arc of 9/11' is the first to tackle the complicated 'mother of all conspiracy stories' in a stage performance
Artic Beacon | June 27, 2005
By Greg Szymanski
The 9/1l murder mystery, filled with conspiracy clues but no answers, is finally going Hollywood.
Known for the unusual and bizarre, this time a Hollywood theatre is the scene for a serious political and social event, a two hour high tech video dramatization of September 11th called "9/11 Mysteries."
The brainchild of Sophia Shafquat, called the Joan of Arc of 9/11, the play is the first one in the country to tackle the complicated 9/11 issue on stage. It opens July 17 at the Met Theatre in Hollywood and is set for a six week run with performances every Sunday.
"9/11 Mysteries" presents photographic and video evidence drawn from over 3000 web sites and 10 current documentaries, allowing viewers to create perspective and form conclusions by themselves," said Shafquat from her home in San Diego. "Without pointing fingers or making allegations, the show suggests that there is something very wrong with the 9/11 story we have heard so far.
The stage performance is broken down into four major segments, including "Demolitions, Hijackers and Planes, War Games and Who Benefits."
According to Shafquat the segments "connect the dots" in a show which should "glue people to their seats and raise eyebrows" about the implausibility of the government’s story, a story claiming 19 Arab hijackers outfoxed the American military and rammed jetliners into targets located in the most heavily guarded airspace in the world.
Regarding the four segments, she explains what audiences can expect:
"The ‘Demolitions’ portion of the show reveals what we call "woops footage" from major news networks. Much of the video aired that morning by the media giants was never aired again. While shots of the plane strike were shown repeatedly to millions, the building collapses were not. Slowed down and analyzed, the collapses are the key.
"Hijackers & Planes’ reveals anomalies about the destruction to the Pentagon, the Arab terrorists, the wandering planes, and the passenger cell-phone calls, leading into the question of why Air Force scramblers failed to intercede within minutes as standard operating procedure mandates. ‘War Games’ covers the numerous military drills in force that day.
"And the last segment ‘Who Benefits’ discusses the stock trades, the government's expanding geopolitical program, military as industry and the birth of the warfare state, connecting all the dots with clips from documentaries and the news."
She added the incredible story of William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who heard explosions in the basement along with 14 other people seconds before the jetliner hit, is also a part of the show, adding eye witness testimony the north tower was brought down by a controlled demolition
Shafquat, an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, decided to use the theatre medium to tell the 9/11 story since the mainstream media has closed off discussion of the subject to the general public by what she called blatant censorship.
"Journalists have been censored from telling anything but the government official story," said Shafquat. "I thought this was a way to create interest and get in touch with many Americans who still have no idea about what happened on the morning of 9/11."
Called by many in the activist community the "packaging queen of 9/11" for her slick use of graphics and the visual medium, Shafquat has noticed a "second wave" of interest spreading across America about the many unanswered questions surrounding 9/11, an interest which she claims is beginning to reach America’s heartland.
"The first wave were the original skeptics, who put out books, videos and web sites but hada limited audience due to national shock and horror in the wake of the tragic event," she said. "Our show and our audience are the "second wave," those who now have only begun to ponder the plausibility of what happened that day."
The show is being directed by Paul Koslo and KPFK 90.7 (Los Angeles) has agreed to promote the event by offering free ticket giveaways during its daily broadcast.
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"9/11 Mysteries" Play Now in DVD Form and available to watch online!
(There are many more DVD's in the "9/11 Mysteries" Series to Come, As Well! This one was just released and it is EXCELLENT! Vetzine):
9/11 Mysteries (Full Length, High Quality)
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9/11 Mysteries (Full Length, High Quality)
http://belowgroundsurface.org
1 hr 30 min 41 sec - Sep 15, 2006
9/11 Mysteries (Full Length, High Quality)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=9%2F11+Mysteries+Demolition
Here's the same video, broken into 3 separate parts:
(*3 links are provided below.)
911 Mysteries - Demolitions (Part 1 of 3)
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In The Wake Productions
29 min 50 sec - Sep 11, 2006
http://911weknow.com
90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials. Moving from "the myth" through "the analysis" and into "the players," careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science. The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse?
This is the first 30 minute segment of the film. Please see the other two parts by searching for "911 Mysteries". (*Link is provided below.)
In The Wake Productions
29 min 50 sec - Sep 11, 2006
http://911weknow.com
911 Mysteries - Demolitions (Part 1 of 3)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7143212690219513043&q=9%2F11+Mysteries+Demolition
911 Mysteries - Demolitions (Part 2 of 3)
31,898 views (as of 9/20/06)
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In The Wake Productions
30 min 34 sec - Sep 11, 2006
http://911weknow.com
90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials. Moving from "the myth" through "the analysis" and into "the players," careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science. The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse?
This is the second 30 minute segment of the film. Please see the other two parts by searching for "911 Mysteries". (*Link is provided below.)
In The Wake Productions
30 min 34 sec - Sep 11, 2006
http://911weknow.com
911 Mysteries - Demolitions (Part 2 of 3)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-999558027849894376&q=9%2F11+Mysteries+Demolition
911 Mysteries - Demolitions (Part 3 of 3)
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In The Wake Productions
30 min 17 sec - Sep 11, 2006
http://911weknow.com
90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials. Moving from "the myth" through "the ... all » analysis" and into "the players," careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science. The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse?
This is the third and final 30 minute segment of the film. Please see the other two parts by searching for "911 Mysteries".
In The Wake Productions
30 min 17 sec - Sep 11, 2006
http://911weknow.com
911 Mysteries - Demolitions (Part 3 of 3)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1162851149755261569&q=9%2F11+Mysteries+Demolition
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Also, see this site with extensive 9/11 evidence: Killtown
Killtown - Questioning the 9/11 attacks...
Extensive Evidence re: Explosions / Bombs in WTC
200+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' (Excellent! From Killtown!)
http://killtown.911review.org/oddities/911.html#WTC_witnesses_bombs
Extensive 9/11 evidence: Killtown
WTC Lobby Blown Out, 9/11
911 News Clips, Bombs and Explosions, Say Firefighters and Eyewitnesses
From Louder Than Words, 11 min 2 sec June 30, 2006
WTC 7 Imploding - Dan Rather's Comments, By Killtown
Dan Rather's comments:
For the third time today, it's reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much on television before when a building was deliberately destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down." - Dan Rather, CBS News
Video shows the east penthouse on top of the WTC 7 imploding before the rest of the building implodes seconds later, suggesting a controlled demolition.
See all 42 of Killtown's 9/11 Videos here.
Was 9/11 Allowed to Happen?
“Members of congressional committees investigating September 11th warnings said that there is far more damaging information that has not yet been disclosed about the government's knowledge of events leading up to Sep 11th.
'We've just scratched the surface,' said Senator Richard C. Shelby, ranking Republican member of the Senate intelligence committee." [Washington Post, 5/17/02]
Excellent Evidence & Hundreds of Articles here.
Controlled Demolition and The WTC / 9/11
Also, be sure to see:
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
Steven E. Jones | November 11, 2005
(Excerpts):
9. The occurrence of nearly symmetrical, straight-down and complete collapses of the WTC 7 and the Towers is particularly upsetting to the “ official ” theory that random fires plus damage caused all these collapses. Even with explosives, achieving such results requires a great deal of pre-planning and expertise.
The main challenge in bringing a building down is controlling which way it falls. Ideally, a blasting crew will be able to tumble the building over on one side, into a parking lot or other open area. This sort of blast is the easiest to execute [favored by the Law of Increasing Entropy]. Tipping a building over is something like felling a tree. To topple the building to the north, the blasters detonate explosives on the north side of the building first…
Sometimes, though, a building is surrounded by structures that must be preserved. In this case, the blasters proceed with a true implosion, demolishing the building so that it collapses straight down into its own footprint (the total area at the base of the building). This feat requires such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the world will attempt it. [Again, consistent with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.]
Blasters approach each project a little differently... [A good] option is to detonate the columns at the center of the building before the other columns so that the building's sides fall inward. (Harris, 2000; emphasis added.)
Careful observation of the collapse of WTC 7 (video clips above) demonstrates a downward “ kink ” near the center of the building first, suggesting “ pulling ” of the support columns, then the building’s sides pull inward such that the building “ collapses straight down into its own footprint ” (Harris, 2000). FEMA admitted that WTC 7 collapsed onto a well-confined footprint:
The collapse of WTC 7 had a small debris field as the facade was pulled downward, suggesting an internal failure and implosion… The average debris field radius was approximately 70 feet. (FEMA, 2002, chapter 5.)
Evidently we agree that this was a beautifully done implosion in the collapse of WTC 7, and yet:
This feat requires such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the world will attempt it. (Harris, 2000; emphasis added.)
Consider: Why would terrorists undertake straight-down collapses of WTC7 and the Towers, when “ toppling-over ” falls would require much less work and would do much more damage in downtown Manhattan? And where would they obtain the necessary skills and access to the buildings for a symmetrical implosion anyway? The “ symmetry data ” emphasized here, along with other data, provide strong evidence for an “ inside job. ” Proof would require additional investigation and questioning of suspects outside of Al Qaeda.
One of the people a thorough investigation should question under oath would be demolition expert Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. Speaking of the way the WTC buildings came down, he said in an interview: “ If I were to bring the towers down, I would put explosives in the basement to get the weight of the building to help collapse the structure. ” (Bollyn, 2002; emphasis added.)
Just right – “ explosives in the basement ” agrees with eyewitness reports of explosions down low in the buildings (point 6 above). Also, this would be the way to effectively severe the support columns, consistent with both the initial drop of the communication tower (WTC Tower 1) and the “ kink ” in the middle of WTC 7 as its collapse began. Yes, and as president of Controlled Demolition, Inc., Mr. Loizeaux would know the “ handful of demolition companies in the world [that] will attempt ” a symmetrical controlled demolition. (Harris, 2000) His company is certainly one of these and was hired to do the rapid clean-up work following the building collapses. A thorough investigation might also query the owner of WTC7, who received billions in insurance monies due to the demise of the WTC buildings on 9-11. (Paul and Hoffman, 2004, p. 17)
If you still haven’t looked at the rapid symmetrical collapse of WTC7 for yourself, why not do so now? Watch for the initial “ kink ” or drop in the middle, and for the “ squibs ” blowing in sequence up the side of the building, and notice the symmetrical, straight-down collapse -- all so common in controlled demolitions. See for yourself at: http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html A great deal of further information is presented from a serious scientific point-of-view at this site ( http://911research.wtc7.net ).
Much more here:
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
NYC Firefighters Say 9/11 WTC Collapse seemed like controlled demolition (Video)
Added July 02, 2006
From Killtown
Fireman 2: We made it outside, we made i Fireman 2: We made it outside, we made it about a block.
Fireman 1: We made it at least 2 blocks.
Fireman 2: 2 blocks.
Fireman 1: and we started runnin'
Fireman 2: poch-poch-poch-poch-poch-poch- poch
Fireman 1: Floor by floor it started poppin' out ..
Fireman 2: It was as if as if they had detonated, det..
Fireman 1: yea detonated yea
Fireman 2: as if they had planned to take down a building, boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom- boom-boom ...
Fireman 1: All the way down, I was watchin it, and runnin'
JFK Doodle Predicted "9-11 Conspiracy"
Weird Associated Press report suggests unimaginable spooky coincidence
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 19 2006
A strange Associated Press article about presidential scribblings makes a bizarre reference to a John F. Kennedy doodle in which he seemingly predicted a "9-11 conspiracy" 40 years before it happened.
AP out of the Houston Chronicle reports,
"President Kennedy, known for separating his life into compartments, would enclose words and numbers inside circles and boxes. Events long after his death give one doodle an unintended chill: A small circle with the numbers "9-11" contained within. Just to the lower left on the page, the word "conspiracy" is underlined."
The doodle is part of a new book, Presidential Doodles , which analyses the jottings of eight commanders in chief.
What kind of astronomical coincidence could see JFK - himself the target of a conspiracy - accurately forecast a major world event decades beforehand?
Is this some kind of inside joke or is it a hat tip to the 9/11 truth movement?
One thing's for sure - it's weird.
Read more here.
September 11th Revisited: Were explosives used?
Dustin Mugford
59 min 41 sec - Jun 11, 2006
http://911revisited.com
September 11th Revisited is perhaps the most riveting film ever made about the destruction of the World Trade Center. This is a powerful documentary which features eyewitness accounts and archived news footage that was shot on September 11, 2001 but never replayed on television. Featuring interviews with eyewitnesses & firefighters, along with expert analysis by Professor Steven E. Jones, Professor David Ray Griffin, MIT Engineer Jeffrey King, and Professor James H. Fetzer. This film provides stunning evidence that explosives were used in the complete demolition of the WTC Twin Towers and WTC Building 7.
Visit http://www.911revisited.com to get the DVD of this movie.
911 - Steven Jones on 911 Evidence (L.A. Conference, June 24th 2006)
Professor Steven Jones gives an illustrated keynote speech about the role of incendiary devices used in the destruction of the twin towers and Building 7
http://www.infowars.com - 1 hr 50 min - Jul 21, 2006
Also see:
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Cofounded by Steven Jones
And be sure to see:
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
Steven E. Jones | November 11, 2005
Retired Fighterpilots analysis of September 11th, 2001 - Dr. Bob Bowman
28 min, 2 sec July 3, 2006
Compilation exposing 9/11 Truth
Lone Lantern Society - 59 min - Jun 1, 2005
WTC BUILDING 7
Alex Jones - Weekly Report - Live 01.27.04 (Analysis Of WTC Building 7)
Video of Owner of World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein, Admitting He Gave Order to "pull it" and stating that they then watched the building, (WTC Building 7), collapse. Building 7 was not hit by any planes, yet it fell in seconds, just as the WTC Twin Towers fell.
Larry Silverstein - World Trade Center - Building 7 - Larry Silverstein, owner of the World Trade Center admits that building seven came down after he gave the order to "pull it" in this clip from "America Rebuilds", which is a PBS Documentary. "Pull It" is a common term used when buidings are taken down by explosives in controlled demolition.
1 min - Aug 13, 2006
WTC Building 7 - Video of Larry Silverstein Admitting He Gave Order to "Pull It",
then Watched WTC Building 7 Come Crashing Down
Key Dates:
1957: The Silversteins buy their first property, a Manhattan East Side loft building.
1978: Larry Silverman's portfolio contains about four million square feet of commercial space.
1986: Silverstein Properties completes the 47-story building at 7 World Trade Center.
1989: Silverstein controls 13 buildings with ten million square feet of space.
2000: Silverstein Properties completes the first tower of a large West 42nd residential project.
2001: Silverstein leases the World Trade Center twin towers shortly before their destruction.
Professional Demolition of World Trade Center Building 7
WTC 7 Demolition Archive
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/050106silversteinanswers.htm Silverstein Answers WTC Building 7 Charges
Says "pull it" meant to evacuate firefighters, but there were no firefighters in the building.
Close-Up of WTC-7 Collapse Footage Shows Unmistakable Demolition Charges
Bombs in the WTC Archive
Info. About OKC Bombing
The Oklahoma City Bombing
PROOF there were additional explosive charges.
More information about OKC Bombing here.
9/11 Videos:
THE CONTROLLED COLLAPSE OF WTC 7
"Amazing, incredible, pick your word. For the third time today, it's reminiscent of those pictures we've all seen too much on television before, where a building was deliberately destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down."
CBS News anchor Dan Rather commenting on the collapse of
7 World Trade - September 11, 2001 at approx 5:30pm EST.
The 9/11 WTC Collapses:
An Audio-Video Analysis
Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official investigation" blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. [Fire Engineering - 1/4/2002]
Bush Blocked Bill For WTC Rescue Workers and Firemen:
People Becoming Ill and Dying as a Result of
the Deliberate Demolition of Building 7
Bush blocks funds for WTC rescue workers
The Guardian
September 11, 2002
by Judith Le Blanc
At his Waco, Texas pep rally on the economy, President Bush announced that
he intended to enforce "spending restraint" by blocking a US$5.1 billion
emergency spending Bill passed by Congress. The Bill included US$90 million
for long-term health monitoring of World Trade Centre (WTC) rescue workers
and volunteers who were exposed to a catastrophe with potential long-term
health and environmental consequences.
9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team
Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com
September 15 2006
THE TWIN TOWERS AND THE LAW OF GRAVITY
Members of Scholars For 9/11 Truth discovered video evidence for the possible use of Thermite in the Destruction of WTC 1 & 2. A page has been made to illustrate this - click here.
LIBERATORE: Some still can't,or won't, believe
Paul Liberatore
Marin Independent Journal
What really happened on 9/11?
On the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks, do we really know?
Some are convinced we haven't been told anything even remotely close to the true story.
A Scripps-Howard poll of 1,000 adults, conducted last month, indicated that more than a third of Americans - an astonishing 36 percent - believe the Bush administration had something to do with the attacks, either by allowing them to happen or actually carrying them out, so the United States could go to war in the Middle East.
Somewhat grudgingly, Time magazine acknowledged this week that the so-called "9/11 Truth Movement" is "a mainstream political reality."
If that's the case, these tens of millions of Americans cannot all be crackpot conspiracy theorists or wackos with Internet connections and too much time on their hands.
...
The 9/11 tragedy has spawned a cottage industry of documentaries, videos and books on various conspiracy theories and mysterious facts contradicting the official account.
One of the new documentaries, "9/11: The Myth and the Reality," will have its world premiere tonight at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland.
"9/11: The Myth and the Reality," is by Ken Jenkins, a 59-year-old San Rafael video producer and editor. Jenkins videotaped several talks and lectures, including one at the prestigious Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, by David Ray Griffin, author of "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions."
Both of Griffin's books present evidence that purportedly indicates that members of the U.S. government were behind the attacks.
Jenkins has illustrated his documentary with hundreds of graphics and clips. He will be on hand for a Q&A session after tonight's premiere.
He admits that he was skeptical about the various conspiracy theories floating around in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. He thought 9/11 was merely "blowback" - terrorists lashing out at U.S. policy in the Middle East.
But he began to question the official story after reading the mounting evidence of a cover-up - not in the mainstream media, where that kind of opinion is generally ridiculed and discredited - but on the Internet, where the 9/11 Truth Movement was born and where it continues to flourish.
"I wasn't, quite honestly, paying that much attention," he recalled. "But I kept reading information that countered the official account, and I thought, 'There's something not right here.' I investigated the Kennedy assassination, and this looks similar. There's an official story and a bunch of stuff that doesn't add up."
Jenkins said he believes the war on terror is a replacement for the Cold War, and that 9/11 was the work of a small number of government officials in key positions, directing events and pulling strings behind the scenes.
He refers to 9/11 as "a false flag operation" - making it look like another group is behind the attacks - or "state-sponsored terrorism."
"State-sponsored terrorism as a way of manipulating populations to support wars is very common," he said. "It is almost the only way any wars are ever done. They are always based on some kind of lies, deceptions and false-flag operations. I didn't know that at first. It took me weeks to understand it. Now that I know that, in retrospect, it all seems obvious."
More here.
9/11 Audios
Was the WTC 6 blown?
What caused this huge crater in the WTC 6 that went all the way down to it's basement? (From Killtown)
THE TOP 40 REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
An outline in simple talking points ...
Version of May 22, 2006: This overview is in development. If you use the search function with key words, you will discover that 911Truth.org is home to articles backing virtually every point made below. Much of the basic research is available at the Complete 9/11 Timeline (hosted by cooperativeresearch.org), the 9/11 Reading Room (911readingroom.org), and the Spitzer petition and complaint (Justicefor911.org). For physical evidence discussion, see Point 7.
http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
NYC Firefighters say 9/11 WTC collapse seemed like controlled demolition
29 sec Sept 12, 2001
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2032865563019209801&q=firefighters+9%2F11
NYC Firefighters in an NYC Firehouse discuss how the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11th, 2001 appeared to them as if explosives had been pre-positioned and detonated floor-by-floor.
NYC Firefighters say 9/11 WTC collapse seemed like controlled demolition
29 sec Sept 12, 2001
911 News Clips, Bombs And Explosions, Say Firefighters and Eyewitnesses
From Louder Than Words, 11 min 2 sec June 30, 2006
World Trade Center Lobby Blown Out, 9/11/01:
First firefighter on sight, walks into the building right after the plane hit it, and the lobby was blown out.
32 sec June 18, 2006
Here's just one firefighter who was on the scene 9/11/01, describing explosions:
Carlsen, Craig (pdf file) Firefighter (F.D.N.Y.)
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110505.PDF
The above file came from looking for his name at the Oral History link below:
The Sept. 11 Records
A rich vein of city records from Sept. 11, including more than 12,000 pages of oral histories rendered in the voices of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians, were made public on Aug. 12. The New York Times has published all of them.
The oral histories of dispatch transmissions are transcribed verbatim. They have have not been edited to omit coarse language.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html
Since the September 11 Records, oral history of actual quotes from first responders to 9/11 are in PDF, you'll need Adobe Reader to open and view them. You may download Adobe Reader here.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
Hero NY Fireman Lou Cacchioli:
NY Fireman Lou Cacchioli Upset That 9/11 Commission 'Tried To Twist My Words;' A True Hero, He Vows To Stick To The Truth, Something Lacking In The 9/11 Investigation
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/19-Jul-2005.html
Hero William Rodriguez:
William Rodriguez, HERO, WTC Worker & Last Person Out, Describes Explosions
Late August-September 10, 2001:
WTC Security Raised, Then Scaled Back, in Weeks Before 9/11 Attack
The Independent reports that in late August, “security [is] abruptly heightened at the World Trade Centre with the introduction of sniffer dogs and systematic checks on trucks bringing in deliveries. No explanation has been given for this measure.” [Independent, 9/17/2001]
Newsday claims that around the same time, security personnel at the WTC begin working extra-long shifts because of numerous phone threats. However, on September 6, bomb-sniffing dogs are abruptly removed. Security further drops right before 9/11. WTC guard Daria Coard says in an interview later on the day of 9/11: “Today was the first day there was not the extra security.” [Newsday, 9/12/2001]
Janitor William Rodriguez later claims that he saw hijacker Mohand Alshehri inside the WTC in June 2001. [New York Observer, 3/25/2002]
(see article below)
WTC Basement Blast And Injured Burn Victim Blows 'Official 9/11 Story' Sky High; Eye Witness Testimony Is Conclusive That North Tower Collapsed From Controlled Demolition
WTC janitor pulls burn victim to safety after basement explosion rocks north tower seconds before jetliner hit top floors. Also, two other men trapped and drowning in a basement elevator shaft, were also pulled to safety from underground explosion...
24 Jun 2005
(Excerpts from the last portion of the article):
The Tragedy
The concerted effort by the media and the government to silence Rodriguez is the tragedy behind this American hero’s story. And there is no question, Rodriguez is a "silent hero" for saving so many lives and for having the courage to continue telling his story against tremendous odds.
In an effort to open a fair and honest investigation as to why the WTC collapsed, Rodriguez has been ignored by government officials, the 9/11 Commission and the National Institute of Safety and Technology (NIST).
NIST, an independent investigative group funded by the government, put the finishing touches this week on its 2 year $35 million 9/11 investigation. This week Rodriguez made his final plea to have his story heard while testifying at the final public hearing held in New York.
"I disagree 100% with the government story," said Rodriguez. "I met with the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors and they essentially discounted everything I said regarding the use of explosives to bring down the north tower.
"And I contacted NIST previously four times without a response. Finally, this week I asked them before they came up with their conclusion that jet fuel brought down the towers, if they ever considered my statements or the statements of any of the other survivors who heard the explosions. They just stared at me with blank faces and didn’t have any answers.
"Also, The FBI never followed up on my claims or on the other part of my story when I told them before 9/11, I encountered one of the hijackers casing the north tower."
Besides the explosions, Rodriguez also has provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission that he stumbled across one of the supposed 19 Arab hijackers inside the WTC several months before 9/11
"I had just finished cleaning the bathroom and this guy asks me, 'Excuse me, how many public bathrooms are in this area?'" Rodriguez told the 9/11 Commission. "Coming from the school of the 1993 [Trade Center] bombing, I found it very strange. I didn't forget about it"
Rodriguez, claims he saw United Airlines Flight 175 hijacker Mohand Alshehri in June 2001, telling an FBI agent about the incident a month after the attacks. Never hearing back from the bureau, he later learned agents never followed up on the story.
"I'm very certain, I'll give it 90%" that Alshehri was casing the towers before the attacks," said Rodriguez.
Regarding the media’s apathetic approach to his story, Rodriguez said immediately after 9/11 some newspapers picked it up but his words were never taken seriously and quickly forgotten.
"During the 9/11 hearings, NBC brought a crew out to my house and spent a day taping my story but they never did air a word of it," said Rodriguez. "Since then, some reporters and commentators have subtly warned me to keep quiet, told me my life could be in jeopardy and warned me that I really didn’t understand who I was dealing with.
"I have been receiving this type of subtle harassment for years, but I keep telling everybody I can’t be intimidated because I am on a mission. Whenever someone asks why I keep talking or warns me that I could be killed, I just tell them I have nothing to lose.
"I tell them I lost 200 friends and I am their voice now. I tell them I will do everything in my power to find out the truth since I am living on borrowed time since I probably should be dead anyway."
Besides trying to tell his explosive story, Rodriguez has been active raising money for 9/11victims, being involved with charity groups that have raised more than $122 million. He says he has used over $60,000 of his own money, originally earmarked to buy a new house, in order to get at the truth behind 9/11.
Also seeking justice at the highest level, Rodriguez is the lead plaintiff in a federal RICO lawsuit filed against President Bush and others, alleging conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes in the deaths of more than 3,000 at the WTC.
The case, filed last November in a Philadelphia federal district court, recently was moved to New York in a change of venue after a government’s motion to dismiss was overruled, allowing legal discovery to continue.
"Even if the case goes no farther, I feel we have scored a victory by winning this first battle," said Rodriguez. "At least the judge seems willing to listen which is a victory of sorts. However, I sincerely hope we can eventually take the case all the way to trial and reveal the truth to the American people about 9/11."
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Read much more here.
Second WTC Janitor Comes Forward With Eye-Witness Testimony Of 'Bomb-Like' Explosion in North Tower Basement
So many folks so confident in their views on the events of 9/11, but don't have the guts to listen to an interview with an acclaimed hero of that day, an eyewitness, a 20-year WTC employee who lost hundreds of friends in the catastrophe.
"Oh, but the government-paid 'engineers' at NIST say..."
Berg Lawsuit Filed On Behalf Of Another WTC Bombs Witness
American Free Press | May 24, 2005
By Greg Szymanski
(Excerpts):
Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg has never tried to climb Mt. Everest. In the past, he’s always attempted “legal mountains” within his reach. But since filing a 2004 federal RICO lawsuit against President Bush and others for complicity in 9-11, the Pennsylvania attorney finally knows what it’s like to try to scale the world’s tallest peak.
“I thought it was going to be tough, but I didn’t think this tough,” Berg told AFP from behind a mountain of legal paperwork in his one-man Philadelphia office. “I am undermanned, overworked and under-financed, but still optimistic that justice will prevail.
“Either our government made 9-11 happen or let it happen. I am going after them for foreknowledge, failure to warn and actively covering up the crimes they committed.
Remember, Nixon was thrown out of office only for a coverup. These people, including Bush, have done much more,” said Berg in an exclusive interview.
“We need to bring these criminals in government to justice for killing over 3,000 Americans [and] the thousands who have needlessly died in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Without much support or media attention at home, Berg has left on a seven-stop European tour to try and raise money and awareness about the U.S. government’s involvement in 9-11. The speaking tour begins in Amsterdam then continues to Berlin, Paris, Madrid, London and Vienna.
“This is a major lawsuit with worldwide implications, but the media has chosen to ignore it. Why?” asked Berg, saying the lack of public attention has not damped his efforts at getting at the truth behind 9-11.
And the extensive 237-page complaint, filed in November 2004 on behalf of WTC maintenance worker William Rodriguez, attempts to get at the truth while unraveling the complicated fact-scenario involving the government’s hand in 9-11 before, during and after the attacks.
Although Rodriguez doesn’t claim to know everything about the government’s complicity, he is going to testify that he heard strange explosions before and after the jetliner struck one of the towers.
Rodriguez, working at the WTC on the morning of 9-11, claims to have heard detonated bomb explosions. Besides the timing of the suspicious bomb blasts, Rodriguez claims they occurred on lower floors of the high-rise.
Independent investigators said both towers suspiciously fell “like a house of cards,” claiming that Rodriguez probably heard pre-arranged detonated bomb blasts, strategically placed and timed to make it appear that the jetliner was the cause of the collapse.
From the beginning, the government has always held firm to the story that burning jet fuel after impact brought down the towers. However, critics claim the government’s theory is impossible since much more was needed in order to bring the towers down so quickly. They claim it is more likely that explosive devices were placed in the towers and detonated when the jetliners made impact.
Besides trying to disprove the government’s theory behind the WTC collapse, Berg’s suit goes much further, attempting to prove that a 9-11 conspiracy began years before the incident.
“The beauty behind a RICO case is that we are allowed to use as admissible evidence facts and events that occurred many years before and even years after 9-11,” said Berg about his choice to use the federal RICO laws against Bush and his cronies. “The government normally uses RICO for Mafia probes, but in this case it’s a conspiracy within the government itself that the RICO laws can help expose.”
After filing the case, government lawyers were quick to go on the offensive, filing a motion to dismiss on grounds of national security, among a number of other legal maneuvers in order that the case never see the light of day.
“They have tried everything to stop this case from being heard,” added Berg.
More here.
http://www.911forthetruth.com
William Rodriguez, is a native of Puerto Rico, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the State of New Jersey. On September 11, 2001, and for approximately nineteen years prior thereto, Rodriguez was employed as a maintenance worker at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, New York.
On 9/11, Rodriguez single-handedly rescued fifteen (15) persons from the WTC, and as Rodriguez was the only person at the site with the master key to the North Tower stairwells, he bravely led firefighters up the stairwell, unlocking doors as they ascended, thereby aiding in the successful evacuation of unknown hundreds of those who survived. Rodriguez, at great risk to his own life, re-entered the Towers three times after the first, North Tower impact at about 8:46 A.M., and is believed to be the last person to exit the North Tower alive, surviving the building's collapse by diving beneath a fire truck. After receiving medical attention at the WTC site for his injuries, Rodriguez spent the rest of 9/11 aiding as a volunteer in the rescue efforts, and at dawn the following morning, was back at Ground Zero continuing his heroic efforts.
Rodriguez lost his employment of 19 years and his means of earning a living as a direct result of the attacks on the WTC on 9/11. Deeply affected, as one might imagine, by his experiences of 9/11, Rodriguez has, in a variety of capacities and through several different organizations, worked ever since that terrible day to help others who were affected by the atrocities committed. He has continued in these labors, notwithstanding the fact that, due to the loss of his employment, he has been unable to earn a living, and was even homeless for a time.
Here are a few links to news articles which have
included William Rodriguez:
More here.
Silverstein Plan Ready for Site; Payout on Hold
"When you have large stakes like this, unless the policy is crystal clear, you're going to have litigation."
Complete 911 Timeline
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=75&contentid=2370
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=89&contentid=2315
http://www.bearpit.net/lofiversion/index.php/t4455.html
http://globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/viewtopic.php?p=10050
Jimmy Walter & William Rodriguez
9/11 survior and hero William Rodriguez and 9/11 Truth Movement pioneer and leader Jimmy Walter join Alex live from Venezuela where they have spoken with high-level members of the Chavez government about the horrible truth of what happened on 9/11.
Related: Venezuelan Government To Launch International 9/11 Investigation
Problems listening to the audio? Play the audio directly in Real Player or download the video using the following link -
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/300306walter.mp3
http://prisonplanet.tv/audio/300306walter.htm
William Rodriguez Testimony Destroys 9-11 Cover Up
http://www.bearpit.net/lofiversion/index.php/t4860.html
Much more info. on William Rodriguez, here: On the Heels Of Death Threats Coming Out Of Washington, WTC Janitor Has Jersey City Apartment Burglarized
Journalist Wayne Madsen has left Washington over death threats and William Rodriguez, 9/11 truth-seeker, had his apartment burglarized. Both fit the description of the person supposedly targeted by the government.
Greg Szymanski | August 27, 2005
Coming on the heels of reports today that government operatives are trying to assassinate someone highly critical of the Bush administration, William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who has been speaking out across the nation about a 9/11 government conspiracy, came home to find his Jersey City apartment burglarized Saturday.
Rodriguez, who has damaging eye-witness testimony that bombs exploded in the WTC basement prior to the airplanes striking, said today his apartment was burglarized between 12:30pm and 7:50pm after retuning home and noticing his second-floor apartment door wide-open.
Rodriguez immediately filed a police report with Jersey City police, but there are no leads or suspects in the case, as neighbors also reported seeing nothing while Rodriguez was out.
“I came home to find my door open,” said Rodriguez in a telephone conversation Saturday night from his apartment just after police left the crime scene. “They didn’t destroy the place, but took my lap top with all my vital information, as well as one of my video cameras and all of my girl friend’s jewelry, including an expensive engagement ring.”
Rodriguez expressed concern over the burglary since earlier in the day he received a “warning email” from contacts close to Washington investigative journalist Wayne Madsen, who received credible information his life may be in danger.
Rodriguez was notified because he also fits the description of the potential government target, as the inside intelligence source that leaked the information to Madsen said the target was not specifically mentioned by name, but fits the description of both Madsen and Rodriguez.
“I just received this email this morning, warning that someone who fits my description is going to be targeted,” said Rodriguez, concerning the communication highly sensitve communication he received from John Caylor, a friend of Madsen who is spreading the word to others potentially in danger.
“Now, the robbery in my apartment is highly suspicious, considering the timing of the email. I wonder just who is being targeted? I notified police about it and everybody needs to be careful.”
Madsen, highly critical of the Bush administration, left Washington for several days and is taking the warning seriously while keeping his whereabouts secret.
“I am laying low for a few days,” said Madsen in an email Saturday from an undisclosed location. “The threat, although not directly to me personally, was credible enough to leave D.C. for awhile.”
Madsen, a former National Security Agency employee turned reporter, has been a thorn in the side of the Bush administration for his inside reports, revealing financial corruption linking the Bush administration to major foreign and domestic scandals, including 9/11.
Rodriguez has also been highly critical of the Bush administration lately, spreading his message across the country in numerous public speeches about his story about the 9/11 cover-up has been withheld from the American people by a systematic censoring of his words by the government and the media.
The long-time WTC head maintenance man holds key information literally destroying the government’s officials story and theory about how jet fuel was solely responsible for bringing own the WTC.
What makes his eye-witness testimony even more damaging to the government is that it can be corroborated by numerous eye-witnesses who have also been censored by the government and media.
Although Rodriguez’s story has been told freely without censorship overseas in a number of foreign markets, the American media as well as the 9/11 Commission has seen fit to suppress his story, a story that very well could lead to pinning the Bush administration with high-crimes related to the 9/11 cover-up.
The recent assassination threat coming from inside Washington has also been taken seriously by Rodriguez, who in the past has on numerous occasions turned down government bribes to keep him quiet.
Since 9/11, Rodriguez has remained steadfast in his determination to tell the truth despite the enormous odds, saying he owes it to all those who lost lives at the WTC, including more than 200 personal friends and acquaintances who perished on 9/11.
Read more here.
Venezuelan Government To Launch International 9/11 Investigation
Truth crusaders Walter and Rodriguez to appear on Hugo Chavez's weekly TV broadcast
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | March 31 2006
Billionaire philanthropist Jimmy Walter and WTC survivor William Rodriguez this week embarked on a groundbreaking trip to Caracas Venezuela in which they met with with the President of the Assembly and will soon meet with Venezuelan President himself Hugo Chavez in anticipation of an official Venezuelan government investigation into 9/11.
Rodriguez was the last survivor pulled from the rubble of the north tower of the WTC, and was responsible for all stairwells within the tower. Rodriguez represented family members of 9/11 victims and testified to the 9/11 Commission that bombs were in the north tower but his statements were completely omitted from the official record.
Jimmy Walter has been at the forefront of a world tour to raise awareness about 9/11 and has still yet to receive any response to his million dollar challenge in which he offers a $1 million reward for proof that the trade towers' steel structure was broken apart without explosives.
Rodriguez said that he was told an FBI agent had asked the hotel him and Walter were staying in turn over a list of names of residents. Upon hearing this, the National Assembly provided armed military protection for the entirety of the trip. In addition, Walters said that CIA agents were seen surveilling the beach on which he and Rodriguez had handed out free DVD's a day earlier.
The US government attempted to sabotage the trip by putting Rodriguez, who has been decorated at the White House itself, and Walter on a no fly list.
Rodriguez (pictured above) and Walter are educating top Venezuelan officials on the evidence that 9/11 was a self-inflicted wound carried out by the military-industrial complex. They have also appeared on every Venezuelan television and radio station both private and state owned and have given huge presentations to major universities.
Upon visiting, Rodriguez said that the President of the Assembly, Nicolas Maduro's home was brimming with books, videos and documents about the 9/11 cover-up. Maduro, Venezuela's top legislator, intoned that he was ready to create an international investigative committee, looking into the "international crime scene" that is 9/11 and that this would be structured via Hugo Chavez's government
More here.
Chavez Calls Bush 'The Devil'
In U.N. Speech Accusing U.S. Of Pillaging The World
NEW YORK, AP | September 20, 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, calling President Bush "the devil."
"The devil came here yesterday," Chavez said. "He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world."
The leftist leader continued his animated speech with repeated references to the U.S. government and Mr. Bush as imperialist, and warned of a growing movement "of the south."
Chavez hailed the recent meeting of the Nonaligned Nations, presently headed by Cuban President Fidel Castro, as an indication that the international bloc, which generally espouses views contrary to those of the U.S., was growing.
He asked the international community to lend it's support to the movement, even suggesting the U.N. realign itself more closely by relocating to somewhere in the southern hemisphere. "I have suggested Venezuela," he said.
Chavez several times accused Mr. Bush of have a double standard on dealing with terrorism. He said the U.S. government was "protecting terrorists" who were involved with anti-government actions in Venezuela, including a former CIA operative and militant Castro foe wanted in Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people.
Before leaving the podium to applause, Chavez, again inciting the "devil" reference to Mr. Bush, said, "it smells of sulfur here, but God is with us!"
More here:
and even more here.
Excerpt from History Channel documentary detailing evidence of Hitler's supporters burning down the Reichstag in 1933
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Did the Bush administration try the same trick on September 11, 2001?
The Rise Of The Fourth Reich
The 9/11 Reichstag Fire
The victims of the 9/11 attacks have been disaster for Muslims because 19 Arabs were named as hijackers of the planes, but they've been a dream come true for the PNAC 'think-tank' whose 2000 Statement of Principles stated a "catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" would advance their policies, i.e. justify wars and "regime changes".
"This is about control over Middle East oil. [The Statement of Principles] indicates that America is aiming for global leadership, both military and economically..."
- Michael Meacher, UK MP
10 [PNAC members] are now in the Bush administration. As well as Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, they include Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; John Bolton, who is undersecretary of state for disarmament; and Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House liaison to the Iraqi opposition. Other signatories include William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, and Richard Perle, chairman of the advisory Defense Science Board. [ABC News 3/10/2003]
Stand Down: Exposing NORAD's Wag The 911 Window Dressing Tale
The 9/11 Reichstag Fire
...so their statement actually referred to policy advancement through a governmentally orchestrated "catastrophic and catalyzing event" - Operation Northwoods is an example of this thinking.
Operation Northwoods
US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS
TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR
From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following.
Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.
More at ...
http://larouchepub.com/other/2001/2839operation_northwds.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.nsa24apr24.story
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/25/nsa
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1
The "new Pearl Harbor" occurred on 9/11...
Like his father, Bush tries to keep a daily diary of his thoughts and observations. That night, he dictated: "The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today." [Washington Post]
"This is America, the most advanced military technologically capable country in the world, and it is just impossible to believe that they could have been that incompetent." - Michael Meacher, UK MP.
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The US military has spent billions of dollars developing stealth aircraft which are invisible to radar so they can mount surprise attacks on adversaries, but it seems they should have saved their money and bought a fleet of airliners because they appear to be far more effective.
On 9/11 the world's only military superpower was apparently oblivious to the location of rogue airliners in it's airspace for over an hour, and military commanders were left perplexed on how to deal with the situation of hijackers using these planes as flying bombs.
This confusion resulted in fighter jets flying around aimlessly whilst the hierarchy fully assessed what was going on, and this total lack of cohesion ultimately led to the loss of nearly 3000 lives.
All that was required to overcome America's military might on 9/11 were 19 hijackers on 4 airliners.
Does this sound plausible to you?
It's what you're expected to believe.
Read more here:
The 9/11 USAF Stand Down
"Sixty seven times in the year before 9/11/01 planes were off course and fighter jets responded, so where were the fighter jets on 9/11? It's more than incompetent, it's criminal".
Five military exercises were held on 9/11, and this resulted in flight controllers, commanders and pilots being unable to distinguish real world events from exercise scenarios.
UPDATE: Alex Jones Discusses 9/11 Wargames in April 2004 Video
War Games: The Key to a 9/11 USAF Stand Down
The independent commission probing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington decided not to hear from the worker group that lost more lives than anyone else to the terrorists: The Fire Fighters.
FDNY Firefighters / Eyewitnesses Describe Explosions in World Trade Center on 9/11/01
9/11 Firefighters: Bombs and Explosions in the WTC
More 9/11 News Videos Reporting
World Trade Center Explosions
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11_wtc_explosions.html
The 9/11 WTC Collapses: An Audio-Video Analysis
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11_wtc_videos.html
I think the case is made: The fire did not weaken the WTC structure sufficiently to cause the collapse of the towers.
— J. McMichael
Muslims Suspend the Laws of Physics
Detailed information of the construction World Trade Center (with many photographs) can be found at http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/World_Trade_Center.html
World Trade Center Owner Makes a Huge Profit off of 9/11 Attacks
The FBI allowed the 1993 WTC bombing to happen
Amazing: At least ten independent professional studies for an incident every professional seems already to understand. Notwithstanding the apparent lack of answers and all these studies not yet done, the very next paragraph is headed, "How the Towers Fell," and the reader is treated to a shotgun assortment of speculations, each delivered with the beard-stroking and pipe-puffing certainty that no explanation would ever be seriously challenged.
I have found only one expert candidly admitting his surprise. This was Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. of Phoenix, MD:
Observing the collapses on television news, Loizeaux says the 1,362-ft-tall south tower, which was hit at about the 60th floor, failed much as one would like (sic) fell a tree. That is what was expected, says Loizeaux. But the 1,368-ft-tall north tower, similarly hit but at about the 90th floor, "telescoped," says Loizeaux. It failed vertically, he adds, rather than falling over. "I don't have a clue," says Loizeaux, regarding the cause of the telescoping.
For the quote above from Loizeaux, see:
(this article, Massive Assault Doomed Towers, written 9/13/01, which is a Total Disinformation Piece, and which followed the government script)
or see: http://tinyurl.com/k9fbw
Re: Controlled Demolition, Inc. and the quote from Loizeaux, its president, mentioned above, Controlled Demolition Inc. was hired to clean up the debris at the WTC after 9/11 at Ground Zero.
There was one highly qualified engineer in New Mexico who thought the collapse could only happen with the help of demolition explosives, and he was foolish enough to make the statement publicly.
Romero is a former director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at Tech, which studies explosive materials and the effects of explosions on buildings, aircraft and other structures.
Romero said he based his opinion on video aired on national television broadcasts.
Romero said the collapse of the structures resembled those of controlled implosions used to demolish old structures.
"It would be difficult for something from the plane to trigger an event like that," Romero said in a phone interview from Washington, D.C.
Romero said he and another Tech administrator were on a Washington-area subway when an airplane struck the Pentagon.
He said he and Denny Peterson, vice president for administration and finance, were en route to an office building near the Pentagon to discuss defense-funded research programs at Tech.
If explosions did cause the towers to collapse, the detonations could have been caused by a small amount of explosive, he said.
"It could have been a relatively small amount of explosives placed in strategic points," Romero said.
The explosives likely would have been put in more than two points in each of the towers, he said.
Article originally at http://www.abqjournal.com/aqvan09-11-01.htm, then was moved to http://www.abqjournal.com/news/aqvan09-11-01.htm but now back in the original location — see copy at http://www.public-action.com/911/jmcm/ABQjournal
But Romero recanted ten days later and admitted the whole thing was perfectly natural and unsurprising. I wonder what happened in those ten days to make him so smart on the subject so quickly. The retraction is now displayed above the original on the Albuquerque Journal web page.
And then, as though demonstrating how normal this "building collapsing" phenomenon is, WTC buildings Six and Seven "collapsed," too:
Other buildings — including the 47-story Salomon Brothers building [WTC 7] — caved in later, weakened by the earlier collapses, and more nearby buildings may still fall, say engineers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1540000/1540044.stm
These ruins are shown in aerial photo http://www.eionews.addr.com/images/wtc/numbersixafter.jpg
Or, see:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:vaXQBK3xvvF9oM:http://www.serendipity.li/wot
Notable Retractions
Experts Change Their Tune to Harmonize with the Official Story
A number of experts and prominent figures who provided apparently candid opinions on the events of 9/11/01 later changed their public pronouncements to be consistent with the official story. We review three examples involving apparent damage control for observations about the Twin Towers' collapses made by the following individuals.
Van Romero
Mark Loizeaux
Peter Jennings
There are examples of retractions in reguard to aspects of attack other than the desruction of the Twin Towers. One involves statements by scientist Won-Young Kim.
Much more here:
http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/retractions/index.html
This model would also hold for the north tower. According to Chris Wise's "domino" doctrine, the collapse began only at the floor with the fire, not at the penthouse. How was it that the upper floors simply disappeared instead of crashing to the earth as a block of thousands of tons of concrete and steel?
In trying to reconstruct and understand this event, we need to know whether the scenes we are watching are edited or simply shown raw as they were recorded.
But let us return our attention to the fire. Liquid fuel does not burn hot for long. Liquid fuel evaporates (or boils) as it burns, and the vapor burns as it boils off. If the ambient temperature passes the boiling point of the fuel and oxygen is plentiful, the process builds to an explosion that consumes the fuel.
Jet fuel (refined kerosene) boils at temperatures above 160 degrees Celsius (350 F) and the vapor flashes into flame at 41 degrees Celsius (106 F). In an environment of 1500 degrees F, jet fuel spread thinly on walls, floor, and ceiling would boil off very quickly. If there were sufficient oxygen, it would burn; otherwise it would disperse out the open windows and flame when it met oxygen in the open air — as was likely happening in the pictures that showed flames shooting from the windows. Some New Yorkers miles distant claimed they smelled the fuel, which would indicate fuel vapors were escaping without being burned.
Note that jet fuel burning outside the building would heat the outside columns, but would not heat the central load-bearing columns significantly. Following this reasoning, the jet fuel fire does not adequately explain the failure of the central columns.
Whether the fuel burned gradually at a temperature below the boiling point of jet fuel (360 C), or burned rapidly above the boiling point of jet fuel, in neither case would an office building full of spilled jet fuel sustain a fire at 815 degrees C (1500 F) long enough to melt 200,000 tons of steel. And certainly, the carpets, wallpaper, filing cabinets, occasional desks — nothing else in that office was present in sufficient quantity to produce that temperature.
The WTC was not a lumber yard or a chemical plant. What was burning?
OK, since it was mentioned, I am also upset with the quantity of concrete dust (see http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm#why or http://www.public-action.com/911/jmcm/usyd/index.htm#why). No concrete that I have ever known pulverizes like that. It is unnerving. My experience with concrete has shown that it will crumble under stress, but rarely does it just give up the ghost and turn to powder. But look at the pictures — it is truly a fine dust in great billowing clouds spewing a hundred feet from the collapsing tower.
Huge amount of info here:
Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics! Part I, by J. McMichael
and here:
Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics! Part II, by J. McMichael
Note from Vetzine:
The following article, Massive Assault Doomed Towers, is total disinformation, to follow the government's script:
Buildings
Massive Assault Doomed Towers
(enr.com- 9/13/01)
By Nadine M. Post with Sherie Winston
(Excerpts):
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., which brought down the twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, designers and contractors say they are skeptical that signature structures can be hardened against extreme acts of barbarism.
"Only the containment building at a nuclear powerplant" is designed to withstand such an impact and explosion, says Robert S. Vecchio, principal of metallurgical engineer Lucius Pitkin Inc., referring to the hijacked Boeing 767 airplanes, heavy with fuel, that slammed into each WTC tower.
The attacks appeared to be coordinated and in parallel. In Manhattan, at least two hijacked Boeing 767 airplanes, one with 92 people on board and the other with 65, crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, disappearing within and triggering fire and explosions. The north tower, called One WTC, was hit at 8:45 a.m.; the south tower, Two WTC, at 9:03 a.m. Another hijacked airliner, a Boeing 757 with 64 people on board, crashed into a section of the Pentagon at 9:40 a.m.
Some 50,000 people work at the World Trade Center and some 23,000 at the Pentagon. Specifics on death tolls and damage were not available at press time. WTC rescue efforts were put off until Sept. 12 because the area was still a "hot zone" late in the day on Sept. 11, with falling debris from the stumps that were once among the world's tallest buildings, and a thick blanket of soot for blocks around. In addition, the 47-story Seven WTC collapsed in the evening, causing more chaos. "It'll take about a year to clean up" the remains, says Vecchio.
Sources close to the carnage indicate that those below the 89th floor in the north tower and the 60th floor in the south tower were most likely to have survived. Reports indicated that at least 200 of the 400 firefighters at the scene are presumed dead and 78 police officers were missing.
The twin towers, framed in structural steel, had exterior moment frames with 14-in. steel box columns spaced 39 in. on center. The configuration created a complete tube around the building. The central steel core carried gravity loads only. The exterior tube provided all the lateral resistance. Horizontal steel trusses spanned 60 ft from the exterior wall to the core. Concrete on metal deck completed the floor diaphragm.
Each tower contained about 100,000 tons of steel and 4 in. of concrete topping on the 40,000-sq-ft floors, according to Henry H. Deutch, assistant to the chief structural engineer for construction manager Tishman Realty & Construction Co. Inc., New York City, during the construction of the WTC and currently head of HHD Consultants Inc., Osceola County, Fla.
Deutch says that originally, the north tower contained asbestos in its cementitious fireproofing as did the first 30 stories of the south tower. He believes the asbestos, which had been encapsulated, was removed after the 1993 bombing. In a press conference, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said the city's health department had tested the air in the area and found no undue amount of chemical agents.
The attacks were witnessed by hundreds of people in each of the locales. Vecchio, who was part of the investigation of the 1993 bombing of the WTC, was an eyewitness to the Manhattan debacle from Pitkin's office about 1¼2-mile north of the trade center. "The explosions were so tremendous," he says. "You could smell the jet fuel in the air."
Millions across the nation also "saw" the towers collapse, through live television news coverage. The south tower fell at 10 a.m. and the north tower at 10:29 a.m.
Reports indicate that the impact of each plane compromised the structural integrity of each tower, knocking out perimeter columns and the interior structure. The explosions then caused further damage, sweeping through several floors. "These were airliners scheduled for long flights, full of fuel, causing massive explosions," says Richard M. Kielar, a Tishman senior vice president. "No structure could have sustained this kind of assault," says Kielar.
As the fires burned, the structural steel on the breached floors and above would have softened and warped because of the intense heat, say sources. Fireproofed steel is only rated to resist 1,500 to 1,600° F. As the structure warped and weakened at the top of each tower, the frame, along with concrete slabs, furniture, file cabinets, and other materials, became an enormous, consolidated weight that eventually crushed the lower portions of the frame below.
Jon D. Magnusson, chairman-CEO of Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire Inc., Seattle, one of the successor firms of Skilling Ward Christiansen Robertson, structural engineer for the original World Trade Center, agrees: "From what I observed on TV, it appeared that the floor diaphragm, necessary to brace the exterior columns, had lost connection to the exterior wall."
When the stability was lost, the exterior columns buckled outward, allowing the floors above to drop down onto floors below, overloading and failing each one as it went down, he says.
A big question for implosion expert Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition Inc., the Phoenix, Md., is why the twin towers appeared to have collapsed in such different ways.
Observing the collapses on television news, Loizeaux says the 1,362-ft-tall south tower, which was hit at about the 60th floor, failed much as one wouldlike fell a tree. That is what was expected, says Loizeaux. But the 1,368-ft-tall north tower, similarly hit but at about the 90th floor, "telescoped," says Loizeaux. It failed vertically, he adds, rather than falling over. "I don't have a clue," says Loizeaux, regarding the cause of the telescoping.
More here.
Survivors Saw Tragedy (9/12/01)
By Eileen Cho, Debra Rubin, and Richard Korman
On that fateful sept. 11 day, craig Trykowski, laborer for Henegan Construction, was doing construction for Lehman Bros. on the 34th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower when the first plane hit.
"I was trying to clear the area of sheetrock ...and just as I was filling the dumpster, the whole building shook, it swayed back and forth," recalls Trykowski. "I thought at first it was an earthquake." He and 70-odd workers hit the stairwell as water pipes broke and panic flared. As he went down, a group of firemen were going up, never to be seen again.
From across the street, where the Port Authority police had moved them, "I saw 15 people jump out of windows....It was so sickening because it looked like they were dummies thrown out the windows."
Trykowski was one worker who escaped the pair of terrorist crashes that decimated the World Trade Center Sept. 11. Tony Sweeney, a controller for the brokerage firm Jarban Intercapital, was also able to vacate his 55th-floor office in time. But some employees of companies such as the Regional Alliance for Small Contractors and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were unaccounted for at press time later that day. Raytheon Infrastructure Inc. occupied an office on the 91st Floor of Two WTC. Architect Mancini-Duffy was also in the building. About 200 members of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers were employed there, too.
John Pascu, an electrical engineer for Parsons Brinckherhoff, New York City, was sending off e-mails from his 74th floor office in WTC One when "the building shook tremendously," he says. "I thought I was going to die." Pascu was one of about 20 PB staffers working there on the Port Authority's $1.5-billion light rail link to John F. Kennedy Airport. Pascu walked down 74 flights to exit the building. "I learned that emergency lighting is essential."
Less than 20 minutes later, Greg Kelly, a PB vice president, was on a subway with associates Yalcin Tarhan and Lou Silano, senior structural engineers, to try to aid rescue efforts. But upon arrival, the group was "stuck in a subway filling with smoke," says Kelly, who saw the second plane careen into WTC Two. When they reached the street, "there was no visibility and the debris was an inch thick. It was very eerie and desolate," he says.
The catastrophes will have a monumental effect on the construction industry, including shifted priorities regarding major projects, says Robert Prieto, PB chairman. "The emphasis on security at airports will go through the ceiling, and there will be new focus on building an underground defense facility. Defense spending will go up," he predicts. "The economy in this region will take it on the chin. The world as we knew it has just changed."
http://www.construction.com/NewsCenter/Headlines/ENR/20010913e.asp
Note from Vetzine:
The above article, Massive Assault Doomed Towers, is total disinformation, to follow the government's script.
Re: This quote, from the above disinformation piece:
"Deutch says that originally, the north tower contained asbestos in its cementitious fireproofing as did the first 30 stories of the south tower. He believes the asbestos, which had been encapsulated, was removed after the 1993 bombing. In a press conference, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said the city's health department had tested the air in the area and found no undue amount of chemical agents."
I remind you of the following truths:
Bush Blocked Bill For WTC Rescue Workers and Firemen:
People Becoming Ill and Dying as a Result of
the Deliberate Demolition of Building 7
Bush blocks funds for WTC rescue workers
The Guardian
September 11, 2002
by Judith Le Blanc
At his Waco, Texas pep rally on the economy, President Bush announced that
he intended to enforce "spending restraint" by blocking a US$5.1 billion
emergency spending Bill passed by Congress. The Bill included US$90 million
for long-term health monitoring of World Trade Centre (WTC) rescue workers
and volunteers who were exposed to a catastrophe with potential long-term
health and environmental consequences.
More truth:
9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team
Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com
September 15 2006
And here's even more truth:
Dying nun wants her body autopsied
to prove 9/11 toxicity killed her
Susan Edelman and Julie Stapen, New York Post | September 8 2006
A nun who spent six months blessing human remains in the rubble at Ground Zero says she is dying of lung disease and wants her body autopsied to prove that she and her fellow 9/11 workers were sickened by the poisonous air at the site.
Sister Cindy Mahoney, 54, summoned David Worby, the lawyer representing thousands of sick Ground Zero workers, to her Aiken, S.C., hospice last week and requested that he act as her guardian and fulfill her dying wish by overseeing her autopsy after she's gone. "I can still do God's work," Mahoney said Thursday in Aiken, her hometown, where she lay connected to oxygen tubes.
She was surprisingly upbeat, even laughing at jokes — which reduced her to violent coughing.
"She's an angel," Worby told The Post after meeting with Mahoney privately. He said she hugged him warmly, cried, and told him how her previous pleas for help had gone unheeded.
"The government should help these An investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general into official statements about air quality after the collapse of the World Trade Center has found that White House officials instructed the agency to be less alarming and more reassuring to the public in the first few days after the attack.
The draft of the inspector general's report also says the agency "did not have sufficient data and analyses" to make a "blanket statement" when it announced seven days after the attack that the air around ground zero was safe to breathe.
"Competing considerations, such as national security concerns and the desire to reopen Wall Street, also played a role in EPA's air quality statements," the report said.
Excerpted from
White House ordered 9/11 EPA lies
people — not leave them to die like I'm dying," she told Worby.
Mahoney, a former emergency-medical technician, dashed from a Midtown convent and hopped on an ambulance to Ground Zero after the first plane hit the World Trade Center's north tower on 9/11. She stayed there through the night. She then donned her habit and spent nearly every day for the next six months as a volunteer with the American Red Cross and the city medical examiner's fatality team.
Officials said Mahoney was a chaplain at Ground Zero and at Pier 94, where she consoled relatives of those killed. She was photographed for People magazine that October, and told the publication, "Some people just want to hold our hand."
According to Worby, she now suffers from asthma, reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and gastroesophageal reflux disease — all severe illnesses that have plagued WTC workers.
Only after spending weeks at Ground Zero was she given a respiratory mask, Worby said, but she was not told how to use it. And because her job was to pray and talk to people, "she kept taking it off."
Mahoney also suffers post-traumatic stress syndrome, Worby and others said. She witnessed WTC victims burn or jump to their deaths, and prayed over countless human remains.
Unaware until recently that many others who worked at Ground Zero were sick, Mahoney last week tracked down Worby, an outspoken advocate for the health of 9/11 workers. He filed the first lawsuit for a leukemia-stricken NYPD detective who served at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills landfill, a case that mushroomed into a massive class action with 8,000 WTC workers.
If Mahoney joins the suit, she would leave any money to those in need, she said.
During the meeting, a priest friend, Father Scotty, gave Mahoney Communion.
"She would do it all again. She would give her life again," the priest said. "She still believes God's mission for her is to help, through her death, the other 40,000 rescue and recovery workers get medical care, testing and coverage," Worby said. "She feels that anyone who gave their lives for others should be taken care of better than she's been taken care of."
Read more here:
http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/dying_nun_wants_autopsy_prove_911_toxicity_killed_her.htm
I posted the above article recently here.
It seems no building in the area, regardless of design, is immune to galloping WTC collapse-itis. It never happened in the 20th Century, but welcome to the physical universe laws of the Third Millennium.
Pardon me, but this recitation has not given me the relief I hoped for. I must get back to work.
I believe in the President, the Flag, and the Statue of Liberty. I believe in the honesty of the FBI and the humility of military men. I believe in the network news anchor-persons, who strive to learn the truth, to know the truth, and to tell the truth to America.
And I believe all Americans are so well educated in the basic physics discussed above, they would rise up in fury if someone tried to pull a cheap Hollywood trick on them.
Hand me that remote, will you? I believe . I believe . I believe ...
— J. McMichael
jmcm5@lycos.com
Huge amount of info here:
Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics! Part I, by J. McMichael
and here:
Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics! Part II, by J. McMichael
The World Trade Center Demolition and the So-Called War on Terrorism
The 9/11 Reichstag Fire
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:
http://whatreallyhappened.com
Prof Steve Jones - Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Alex Jones interviews Steven Earl Jones - a professor of physics at Brigham Young University who conducts research in nuclear fusion and solar energy. Currently, Jones is investigating the hypothesis that the World Trade Center Twin Towers and WTC 7 were brought down by pre-positioned cutter charges.
2nd June 2006
Professor Steven E. Jones is a Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University, co-chair of S9/11T and the creator of its home page and its forum:
See http://www.st911.org
Directory Listing of /audio/911
http://www.checktheevidence.com/audio/911
Alex Jones - 45 min - Jun 17, 2006
Another source of the same interview:
44 min 47 sec - Jun 17, 2006
Alex Jones Interviews Steven Jones, a BYU Physics Professor, who has scientifically proven that a special mix of thermite and sulfur and some other chemicals, known as thermate, was used to cut the WTC steel backbones. Thermate is widely used by the military and demolition companies as the cutting charges.
Founded by professors Jim Fetzer and Steven Jones, Scholars for 9/11 Truth is devoted to applying the principles of scientific reasoning to the available evidence, "letting the chips fall where they may".
http://st911.org
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9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team
Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 15 2006
A 9/11 toxic dust whistleblower, a ground zero hero and one of the individuals influential in the release of documents proving a government cover-up that deliberately put police, firemen and rescue personel at risk, has been raided by a New York SWAT team - who ransacked his home for three hours after he was arrested.
Major Mike McCormack is a hospital technician and civil air patrol pilot who worked the ground zero site for eight days after the collapse of the twin towers. He is one of the real heroes of 9/11 and was the man who found the American flag that was later displayed as a token of unity atop the rubble.
Within hours McCormack was coughing up black mucus and within days he was coughing up blood as the toxic dust that was deliberately covered up by the EPA poisoned his lungs along with all the other rescue workers, police and firemen who were being used in photo ops by Bush and his cronies while their very livelihoods were being endangered by a government cover-up.
McCormack now suffers from an extreme respiratory sensitivity, has a 5-millimeter metal nodule in one lung and has been forced to give up his passion of scuba diving.
Read more here:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/150906whistleblowerraided.htm
Zogby Poll Finds Over 70 Million Voting Age Americans Support New 9/11 Investigation
9/11 Zogby Polls
Operation Northwoods
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Northwoods Memorandum (March 13, 1962) (PDF)Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a 1962 plan to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro as part of the U.S. government's Operation Mongoose anti-Castro initiative. The plan, which was not implemented, called for various false flag actions, including simulated or real state sponsored acts (such as hijacked planes) on U.S. and Cuban soil. The plan was proposed by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders, including the highest ranking member of the U.S. military, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Louis Lemnitzer.
The proposal was presented in a document entitled "Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba," a collection of draft memoranda (PDF) written by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) representative to the Caribbean Survey Group. The document was presented by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13 with one paragraph approved, as a preliminary submission for planning purposes.
The previously secret document was originally made public on November 18, 1997 by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board [1], a U.S. federal agency overseeing the release of government records related to John F. Kennedy's assassination. [2] [3] A total of about 1500 pages of once-secret military records covering 1962 to 1964 were concomitantly declassified by said Review Board.
"Appendix to Enclosure A" and "Annex to Appendix to Enclosure A" of the Northwoods document were first published online by the National Security Archive on November 6, 1998 in a joint venture with CNN as part of CNN's 1998 Cold War television documentary series[4]—specifically, as a documentation supplement to "Episode 10: Cuba," which aired on November 29, 1998. [5] "Annex to Appendix to Enclosure A" is the section of the document which contains the proposals to stage terrorist attacks.
The Northwoods document was published online in a more complete form (i.e., including cover memoranda) by the National Security Archive on April 30, 2001. [6]
Contents [hide]
1 Content
2 Related Operation Mongoose proposals
3 Reaction
4 See also
5 Further reading
6 External links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
ABC News: US Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1
N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001 In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. However, the plans were not connected to the agency, he notes.
Read much more here:
More sources for this article:
http://tinyurl.com/jyrvp
New book on NSA sheds light on secrets
U.S. terror plan called Cuba invasion pretext
Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
By Scott Shane and Tom Bowman
Sun Staff
Originally published April 24, 2001
WASHINGTON - U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the ouster of Communist leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book about the National Security Agency.
"We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington," said one document reportedly prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," the document says. "Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation."
The plan is laid out in documents signed by the five Joint Chiefs but never carried out, according to writer James Bamford in "Body of Secrets." The new history of the Fort Meade-based eavesdropping agency is being released today by Doubleday.
NSA regularly picks up the conversations of suspected terrorist financier Osama bin Laden, says Bamford, and has monitored Chinese and French companies trying to sell missiles to Iran. He provides new details about an Israeli attack on a Navy eavesdropping ship in 1967, suggesting that the sinking was deliberate. And he reveals the loss of an "entire warehouse" full of secret cryptographic gear to the North Vietnamese in 1975, at the end of the Vietnam War.
Bamford, a former investigative reporter for ABC News who wrote "The Puzzle Palace" about the NSA in 1982, said his new book is based mostly on documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act or found in government archives. "NSA never handed me any documents," he said. "It was a question of digging."
He said he was most surprised by the anti-Cuba terror plan, code-named Operation Northwoods. It "may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government," he writes.
The Northwoods plan also proposed that if the 1962 launch of John Glenn into orbit were to fail, resulting in the astronaut's death, the U.S. government would publicize fabricated evidence that Cuba had used electronic interference to sabotage the flight, the book says.
A previously secret document obtained by Bamford offers further suggestions for mayhem to be blamed on Cuba.
"We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated). ... We could foster attempts on lives of Cubans in the United States, even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized," the document says. Another idea was to shoot down a CIA plane designed to replicate a passenger flight and announce that Cuban forces shot it down.
Citing a White House document, Bamford writes that the idea of creating a pretext for the invasion of Cuba might have started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the last weeks of his administration, when the plan for an invasion by Cuban exiles trained in the United States was hatched. Carried out in April 1961, soon after Kennedy became president, the Bay of Pigs invasion proved a fiasco. Castro's forces quickly killed or rounded up the invaders.
Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, presented the Operation Northwoods plan to Kennedy early in 1962, but the president rejected it that March because he wanted no overt U.S. military action against Cuba. Lemnitzer then sought unsuccessfully to destroy all evidence of the plan, according to Bamford.
Lemnitzer and those who served with him in 1962 as chiefs of the nation's military branches are dead. But two former top Kennedy administration officials said yesterday that they were unaware of Operation Northwoods and questioned whether such a plan was ever drafted.
"I've never heard of Operation Northwoods. Never heard of it and don't believe it," said Theodore Sorenson, Kennedy's White House special counsel. "Obviously, it would be totally illegal as well as totally unwise."
Robert S. McNamara, Kennedy's defense secretary, said: "I never heard of it. I can't believe the chiefs were talking about or engaged in what I would call CIA-type operations."
Bamford writes that besides the Joint Chiefs, then-Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze also favored "provoking a phony war with Cuba."
"There may be a piece of paper" on Northwoods, said McNamara. "I just cannot conceive of [Nitze] approving anything like that or doing it without talking to me."
The book contains many other revelations in its detailed account of NSA, the biggest U.S. intelligence agency and Maryland's largest employer, with more than 25,000 personnel at Fort Meade, site of its global eavesdropping efforts.
Read more here.
Here are more sources for this same information / article:
http://tinyurl.com/zm2n6
Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Killtown's 9/11 coincidences and oddities page! (and other note worthy tidbits.)
Of Physics, Planes and 9/11
by Bing Futch
http://columns.ink19.com/darkness/physicsPlanes911.html
Loose Change - 2nd Edition Recut (Video)
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Louder Than Words llc
1 hr 29 min 23 sec - Aug 16, 2006
http://loosechange911.com
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+change&hl=
"Loose Change" on Paula Zahn
13 September 2006, Google video
An hour long smorgasbord of content
from Louder Than Words
(from the makers of Loose Change)
Avg: 289 ratings
43,231 views (as of (9/15/06)
591 yesterday
Dylan Avery
58 min 26 sec - May 31, 2006
http://loosechange911.com
A presentation of both the actions of Louder Than Words and a preview of content from Loose Change: Final Cut which was intended for all broadcast at the 9/11 Truth Chicago Conference but later deemed unnecessary due to miscommunication.
911EYEWITNESS - SEVEN LAWS of SCIENCE prove TREASON, FRAUD & MURDER. SLOW MOTION, FREEZE-FRAME VIDEO and AUDIO ANAYLSIS reveal the HIDDEN TRUTH
FEMA TERROR DRILL @ World Trade Center Resulted in CONTROLLED DEMOLITION During WAR GAME EXERCISE Week Simulating 22 HIJACKED PLANES on Sept. 11, 2001
"911 Eyewitness" (Video)
http://911eyewitness.com
FDNY Firefighters / Eyewitnesses
Describe Explosions in World Trade Center on 9/11/01
Eyewitnesses' and Experts' Testimonies Consistent With Allegations of Deliberate Demolitions
Compiled and edited with summary and notations by Abel Ashes
Notice: This is a collection of sourced quotations from firefighters, news anchors, reporters, office workers, and other survivors of and eyewitnesses to the controlled demolitions of WTC. This paper is very incomplete at this stage. I have two notebooks full of additional on-the-record statements that add to this body of evidence. I don’t have time to type all of them right now. I will update this document periodically.
911 News Clips, Bombs And Explosions, Say Firefighters and Eyewitnesses
From Louder Than Words, 11 min 2 sec June 30, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8533322197808326548&q=firefighters+explosions
The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True
By David Ray Griffin
Authorized Version (with references & notes)
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions
about the Bush Administration and 9/11
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
Killtown's 9/11 coincidences and oddities page!
(and other note worthy tidbits.)
Of Physics, Planes and 9/11
by Bing Futch
The recent news of a C-130 transport plane that crashed into an apartment building in Tehran, Iran, is a horrible tragedy; one that eerily recalls the events of 9/11/01.
Firefighters managed to put out the fire in the building, which was damaged and charred but still standing. Police cordoned the building and debris field, preventing journalists and a crowd of as many as 10,000 people from getting close to the site. Many in the crowd were screaming, afraid their relatives had been killed. Several hours after the crash, the building still was smoldering.
What catches the eye of the alert reader is the fact that despite a fire inside the structure, it remained standing.
Which brings one to consider the planes that hit the World Trade Center towers, the fires that burned and, according to the official story, melted the steel core of the buildings and caused them to collapse.
Forgive me for being a skeptic regarding anything the U.S. Government swears is the official story, but it seems that two steel skyscrapers built in the most powerful and advanced country in the world would stand more of a fighting chance against aircraft hits than a ten-story apartment building in Iran. The twin towers were built to withstand the strike of a commercial airliner, something I can't imagine the designers of the apartment building even considering in their plans. Yet, a C-130 crashes into a ten-story building, ignites a fire, and yet the building doesn't crumple into its own footprint? [The media is now saying that the plane "clipped" the building.]
Which brings me around to the stupendous amount of evidence supporting the idea that carefully rigged explosives brought down the towers; a controlled demolition. This could possibly be written off as hysterical "conspiracy theory" if it wasn't for the testimony of eyewitnesses, survivors, firefighters, news reporters on video that actually aired in real-time on the morning of 9/11 and in the following days!
If seeing is believing, then check out this page [hat-tip to WhatReallyHappened.com] that includes video proof that an explosion took place at the base of WTC 1.
Listen to the dust-covered survivors telling similar stories of hearing and getting knocked about by explosions:
"I was standing next to 1 World Trade Center and then all of a sudden I heard rumbling and we all started running away from it. The glass like blew out and threw me onto the sidewalk..."
Read more here:
http://columns.ink19.com/darkness/physicsPlanes911.html
Also see:
911 News Clips, Bombs And Explosions, Say Firefighters and Eyewitnesses
From Louder Than Words, 11 min 2 sec June 30, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8533322197808326548&q=firefighters+explosions
And be sure to see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson | Updated September 20 2004
UPDATE: Alex Jones Discusses 9/11 Wargames in April 2004 Video
For almost three years since 9/11 independent researchers have stockpiled individual smoking guns which prove that the official version of events was not only a lie but operationally impossible.
However, no single smoking gun has yet been forwarded to explain why air defenses categorically reversed Standard Operating Procedure and failed to respond to hijacked jetliners.
Until now. More and more individuals are looking at the facts and highlighting exercise drills that took place on the morning of 9/11.
It is clear that at least five if not six training exercises were in operation in the days leading up to and on the morning of 9/11. This meant that NORAD radar screens showed as many as 22 hijacked airliners at the same time. NORAD had been briefed that this was part of the exercise drill and therefore normal reactive procedure was forestalled and delayed.
The large numbers of 'blips' on NORAD screens that displayed both real and 'drill' hijacked planes explain why confused press reports emerged hours after the attack stating that up to eight planes had been hijacked. Click here for that article.
The drill scenario also explains a comment made by air traffic control personnel which was featured in a July 2004 BBC television report. Click here for that video clip and article. The controller is told that a hijacked airliner is heading for New York and responds by saying, "is this real world or an exercise?"
Alex Jones was one of the first to highlight the wargames in his documentary film 'Masters of Terror', which was released in August 2002. Click here to watch a video clip. Alex explains why the Associated Press later had to admit the fact that the CIA were running drills of crashing planes into buildings on the morning of 9/11.
What were the drills called and what was their nature?
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FURTHER DOCUMENTATION
Thanks to the great researchers who have also highlighted the wargames information. The following links will provide you with more information.
http://911teachin.net/setdate.html
Alex Jones discusses wargames in August 2002 documentary film.
Alex and Stanley Hilton discussed the wargames in this March, 2003 radio interview.
Alex again discusses the wargames in this April, 2004 clip from his TV show.
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READER COMMENTS
In re. to: "Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta was in the
Presidential Emergency Operating Center with Vice President Cheney as
Flight 77 approached Washington, D.C. On May 23, 2003 in front of the
9/11 Commission, Secretary Mineta testified:
"During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there
was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, "The plane is 50 miles out." "The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got
down to "the plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the Vice
President, "Do the orders still stand?" And the Vice President turned
and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand.
Have you heard anything to the contrary?"
As the plane in question hit the Pentagon, what else can we conclude but
that the 'order' was not to shoot down the aircraft and to let it find
its target."
I SUBMIT THAT THE "ORDER" IN QUESTION MORE ALONG THE LINES OF:
"SIR, SHOULD BE CONTINUE THE WARGAMES?"
"YOU HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING DIFFERANT, HAVE YOU?"
THE EFFECT WAS THE SAME HOWEVER. THE WARGAMES OBVIOUSLY WERE ORDERED TO CONTINUE NO MATTER WHAT EVENTS MAY TAKE PLACE. THEY WERE ALSO CLASSIFIED AS SECRET OR TOP SECRET SO THAT THE MANY LINE LEVEL STAFF INVOLVED COULD BE THREATENED WITH PROSECUTION IF THEY DISCUSSED ANY ASPECT OF THE WARGAMES. I ALSO SUBMIT, BASED UPON EVIDENCE I HAVE DISCOVERED, THAT THERE WAS IN FACT A GROUND BASED WARGAME IN PROGRESS AT THE PENTAGON WHEN IT WAS "ATTACKED".
The above came from Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11
September 11th Revisited - Were explosives used?
(2006)
September 11th Revisited is perhaps the most riveting film ever made about the destruction of the World Trade Center. This is a powerful documentary which features eyewitness accounts and archived news footage that was shot on September 11, 2001 but never replayed on television. Featuring interviews with eyewitnesses & firefighters, along with expert analysis by Professor Steven E. Jones, Professor David Ray Griffin, MIT Engineer Jeffrey King, and Professor James H. Fetzer. This film provides stunning evidence that explosives were used in the complete demolition of the WTC Twin Towers and WTC Building 7.
Visit http://www.911revisited.com to get the DVD of this movie.
Thank you for taking the time to watch September 11th Revisited...
and please tell-a-friend!
http://www.archive.org/details/911revisited
911 Timeline - 20041102 Last Chance - 9/11 Chronology (2004)
This chronology of 9/11 events, based on the 9/11 Commission Report. CNN, Fox, Naudet and Booker Elementary footage play in a 4-way split screen. 9/11 Commission Report findings (and other pertinent news stories) are displayed at their appropriate times. Audio includes radio scan of firemen's radio frequencies.
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From what I've been reading about "fair use", news stories are given greater leniency then fiction. And my personal feeling is that I've recontextualized the footage.
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I'd like to place this in Public Domain, but of course all the source material is copyright. People can do absolutely anything they want with the footage as far as I'm concerned, but keep in mind my interpretation of the footage as "fair use" is just that... my interpretation. If you use it commercially, no telling what Fox will do.
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All but 1 file are the full 44 minute version. The 1 smaller QuickTime is a 12 minute sampler which shows just the My-Pet-Goat timeline.
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Note that I'm no longer worried about distributing copies of the DVD (as stated at the end of the video) now that IA is hosting. Downloading the MPEG-2 from IA is just as good as the DVD itself.
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Update: Dedicated site created... 911chronology.com, this 911 Chronology site was created so I could track traffic and offer links to purchase source material (like Naudet doc).
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Update: Uploaded source material. I've received numerous requests for the CNN and FOX live news coverage, so have re-digitized it and compressed it to MPEG-2. While I can't completely isolate the news feeds (as that would be 2 hours of copyrighted news footage), I've simplified the split screen and increased the size so both FOX and CNN each have a dedicated audio channel, and 480x480 resolution. Given the low quality (EP VHS) of the source material, there's not much more to see then that.
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Update: It has been pointed out that the first impact occurs at 08:46 not 08:44 (as shown in my video). This is my mistake. If I were to consider redoing this video, does anyone have footage I've overlooked which would be an improvement over my existing coverage?
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Update [2006-02-11]: I've seen a very interesting video called Loose Change 2nd Edition (download here). I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it raises some interesting charges that were completely new to me. I've created a conspiracy rebuttal video before, and generally don't consider myself one to spread charges that haven't been proven true. But on the other hand, the 9/11 Commission Report IS flawed. It may provide a distinct chronology of events, but I no longer consider it an accurate account. I now recommend anyone interested in watching my 9/11 Chronology video also watch "Loose Change 2nd Edition", and follow up with some research of their own. Hopefully I'm not spreading mis-information by promoting Loose Change, but I have the same concerns about propagating the 911CR version of events. I put a caveat on my video: I don't claim to know its accurate, just that it accurately restates some of 911CR's findings.
Director: Gordon McDowell
Producer: NA
Production Company: NA
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: 9/11; Commission; Timeline; Chronology; 911
Contact Information: gordonmcdowell@gmail.com
http://20041102lastchance.blogspot.com
http://opensourcevideo.blogspot.com
http://www.archive.org/details/20041102-Last-Chance-911-Timeline
9/11 Chronology - Source Material (2004)
Have received many requests for source footage used to create "9/11 Chronology" (on 20041102.Last.Chance DVD). So I've simplified the split-screen to being a 2-way, with no timecode overtop, and no pop-up-video information. Probably the most basic I can reduce the footage to and still have some sense of it being recontextualized.
The ideal aspect ratio for watching this footage is 8:3 (4:3 doubled horizontally). That's pretty close to 2.21:1 as I've tagged the MPEG-2. Computers seem to play it back fine...
http://www.archive.org/details/911-Chronology-Source
9/11 Commission: Miscellaneous Documents
These are various and sundry documents released by the 9/11 Commission.
Author: 9/11 Commission
Language: English
TITLE 9/11 Commission: Miscellaneous Documents
CREATOR 9/11 Commission
MEDIATYPE texts
COLLECTION opensource
LANGUAGE English
PUBLICDATE 2004-08-05 12:11:42
http://www.archive.org/details/911_hearings_misc
9/11 Commission: Official Statements by Commission Staff
These statements, presented during the Commission's public hearings, are available below in PDF format. Presented at the Commission's seventh public hearing: * Staff Statement No. 1: Entry of the 9/11 Hijackers into the United States * Staff Statement No. 2: Three 9/11 Hijackers: Identification, Watchlisting, and Tracking * Staff Statement No. 3: The Aviation Security System and the 9/11 Attacks * Staff Statement No. 4: The Four Flights Presented at the Commission's eighth public hearing: * Staff Statement No. 5: Diplomacy * Staff Statement No. 6: The Military * Staff Statement No. 7: Intelligence Policy * Staff Statement No. 8: National Policy Coordination Presented at the Commission's tenth public hearing: * Staff Statement No. 9: Law Enforcement, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Collection in the United States Prior to 9/11 * Staff Statement No.10: Threats and Responses in 2001 * Staff Statement No. 11: The Performance of the Intelligence Community * Staff Statement No. 12: Reforming Law Enforcement, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence Collection in the United States Presented at the Commission's eleventh public hearing: * Staff Statement No. 13: Emergency Preparedness and Response * Staff Statement No. 14: Crisis Management Presented at the Commission's twelfth public hearing: * Staff Statement No. 15: Overview of the Enemy * Staff Statement No. 16: Outline of the 9/11 Plot * Staff Statement No. 17: Improvising a Homeland Defense
Author: 9/11 Commission
Language: English
http://www.archive.org/details/911_hearings_staff_statements
All of the above files are in PDF,
so you'll need Adobe Reader to open and view them.
Click here to download Adobe Reader:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
Bruce Gagnon: Full Spectrum Dominance And 9/11 (2004)
(March 26, 2004) A keynote speaker at the 9/11 International Inquiry (phase one) in San Francisco, Gagnon in an interview, explains what he calls 21st century feudalism. Other topics include: Full spectrum dominance (space wars), the Pentagon corporate plan for global domination, US regime rotation, and the crucial importance of understanding and exposing the hoax of 9/11. Gagnon is Global Networks coordinator and host of the 12th annual international space conference: understanding the role of space in US global domination (April 23-25, 2004).
http://space4peace.org http://deceptiondollar.com
21 min, 6 megs.
http://www.archive.org/details/snowshoefilms_BruceGagnon
Gray Brechin: 9/11 In Historical Context (2004)
Historical geographer, author, prof., U.C., Berkeley gives sweeping overview of the human war machine with the dispassion (and compassion) of a myrmecologist. The author then explicates US intl relations, open and covert, which constitute a betrayal of the principles on which the US was founded. He looks at early US aggression against its neighbors and beyond, noting the current imperial wars on Afghanistan and Iraq are now using full spectrum dominance to dominate the planet. Noting US barbarism, Brechin asks, are we just a little unclear on the concept of civilization? 27 min.
Brechin was a speaker at the International 9/11 Inquiry, San Francisco (Phase One) March 26, 2004 http://911inquiry.org
27 min, 8 megs.
http://www.archive.org/details/snowshoefilms_GrayBrechin
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com Lots of evidence here.
http://www.public-action.com
Lots of evidence here.
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ABOUT 9/11
FROM A HUGE DATABASE AT ARCHIVE.ORG:
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More Storm troopers arrive to beat and gas protesters at Bush 2005 Inauguration
Video 13 sec
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Alex Jones on George Orwell's 1984
Alex Jones in London - Bonus Footage on Bombings Inside Job
Alex Jones Protests Mex Pres. Fox & TX Gov. Rick Perry November 5, 2003
Concentration Camps For American Citizens
In this special free 30 minute video report, Alex Jones documents the movement from quasi-secret preparation for mass internment of American citizens, ...
www.infowars.com - 30 min - Mar 10, 2006
The Mark Of The Beast 666
Microchips Implanted in the Populace
Has TV Pieces about Microchips
TEXE MARRS The Blind & The Dead
Exposed! Benny Hinn, Paul and Jan Crouch, Steve Brock, Steve Hill, John Avanzini, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Rodney Howard-Browne, and more
Power of Prophecy - 1 hr 1 min - Jun 11, 2006
911 Squashing the Pancake Theory - World Trade Center Collapse September 11th 2001
Alex Jones Interviews Steven Jones (Video)
Rick Siegel of 911 Eyewitness at Alex Jones Scholars Symposium in LA June 26, 2006
http://prisonplanet.tv/articles/august2004/082604alexwarned.htm
Alex Jones' warning A CALL TO ACTION 8/10/06
greg palast on alex jones
Alex Jones' American Scholars Symposium featuring Charlie Sheen, Steven E. Jones
Korey Rowe Interviewed by Alex Jones
Alex Jones on the 1993 WTC Bombing: FBI facilitated the 1993 attacks?
9/11 Plus the Neocon Agenda
Alex Jones July 10, 2006 (Part 1)
Latest show with clips from the summit in LA, documented at JonesReport.com for more information check InforWars.com PrisonPlanet.com PrisonPlanet.tv
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9/11 Plus the Neocon Agenda
Alex Jones July 10, 2006
(Part 2 )
Alex Jones' American Scholars Symposium (Highlights)
In June 2006 researchers, scholars, journalists, media personalites, and average folks came together from all over the USA to gather in Los Angeles ...
infowars - 1 hr 2 min - Jul 5, 2006
Alex Jones Popular Mechanics Charles Goyette
Popular Mechanics 9/11 LIES!
The Alex Jones Report May 15th 2006
Alex discusses the immigration protests in connection with the Mexican supremicist movement and the Globalist agenda to break down America via race riots ...
Alex Jones Show - 59 min - May 27, 2006
Alex Jones - Pat Buchanan interview & MSNBC clip
This is a audio recording of the Alex Jones show. Recorded 08-28-06. Alex interviews Pat Buchanan on the Bush Plan to destory American Southwest , ect.
Alex Jones In Studio With Bob Dacy - The American Union
Expert Bob Dacy joins Alex Jones in studio to discuss the plan to merge the US, Mexico and Canada into a sovereignty stripping American Union - a move ...
infowars.com - 42 min - Aug 4, 2006
Bob Dacy on alex jones
american union...as announced FINALLY BY Lou Dobbs
Alex Jones "NAFTA Super Highway" radio clip
This is a audio recording of the Alex Jones show. Recorded 08-16-06. Alex discusses the SPP, NASCO, the NAFTA Super Highway, and RFID Transponder Tags ...
Aug. 25, 2006
http://whatreallyhappened.com
Overview of the OKC Bombing case created by State Representative Charles Key. * Takes a look at major issues regarding the cover up by the FBI and Justice Department. * Including: Eyewitnesses, Other Bombs found and Prior Knowledge.
Exclusive photos from Urban Warrior drills:
For much more evidence on 9/11 from this blog, click here.
Vetzine Blog:
http://vetzine.blogspot.com
posted by Vetzine
Friday, September 15, 2006
Many Shocking Stories In the News + Must See Video
MEXICO:
Ties Between Elites and Child Sex Rings "Beyond Imagination"
http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=34710
http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=34710
Flashback: Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm
* CAUTION: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS VERY GRAPHIC AND IS DEFINITELY R RATED, AT LEAST! HOWEVER, IT IS A MUST SEE FOR ADULTS WHO WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT CHILD SEX SLAVES.
Conspiracy of Silence
Google Video | September 12 2006
This movie is a MUST SEE for every American! This documentary delves into all of the lurid details of the Franklin Cover Up, Written by John Decamp, the documentary was made, and advertised in TV Guide, And before it was ever aired, the rights to the movie were bought and paid for by powerful & influential members of Congress.
Almost immediately, the rights to the documentary were purchased by unknown persons who had ordered all copies destroyed. A copy of this videotape was furnished anonymously to former Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who made it available to retired F.B.I. chief, Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster in what is revealed by the participants involved.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/white_slavery_conspiracy_of_silence.htm
Photos dropped on Iowa mother’s doorstep add cruel new twist to 1982 missing-boy case
By Associated Press
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - Updated: 02:19 PM EST
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - More than two decades after 12-year-old Johnny Gosch disappeared while on his newspaper route and became one of the first missing children to be put on a milk carton, a potential new clue to his fate was literally dropped on his mother’s doorstep.
Inside an unmarked package more than two weeks ago were two photographs that Noreen Gosch says show her son bound and gagged.
“When I saw them I could barely breathe,” she said.
One black-and-white shot shows Johnny on a bed, wearing the same sweat pants he had on when he vanished, the boy’s mother says. She says the other photo, this one color, shows him in a similar pose with two unidentified boys who are also bound and gagged.
Investigators with Iowa’s Department of Criminal Investigation said they are analyzing the photos, trying to determine their authenticity, where they might have come from, and whether there are any fingerprints or DNA that can be lifted from them.
Read more here:
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=157198&format=text
Related Article:
Mother of abducted Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch gets photos 24 years later of boy bound, gagged
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=155519
More on:
• Johnny Gosch
• Noreen Gosch
Official website of Johnny Gosch:
http://www.johnnygosch.com
Father rescues daughter in backyard abduction
By Associated Press
Monday, September 4, 2006
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=155890
Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs
Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne says nonlethal weapons should be tested on U.S. civilians before being used on the battlefield.
POSTED: 7:56 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."
The Air Force has paid for research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service is unlikely to spend more money on development until injury problems are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.
Nonlethal weapons generally can weaken people if they are hit with the beam. Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also can be effective in disabling some electronic devices.
On another subject, Wynne said he expects to choose a new contractor for the next generation aerial refueling tankers by next summer. He said a draft request for bids will be put out next month, and there are two qualified bidders: the Boeing Co. and a team of Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., the majority owner of European jet maker Airbus SAS.
The contract is expected to be worth at least $20 billion (€15.75 billion).
Chicago, Illinois-based Boeing lost the tanker deal in 2004 amid revelations that it had hired a top Air Force acquisitions official who had given the company preferential treatment.
Read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/12/usaf.weapons.ap/index.html
How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist : My Adventures with the FBI
JIM BENSMAN | September 13 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/bensman09132006.html
Spying bill clears Senate panel
http://tinyurl.com/f7vd5
O'Reilly Insists It's Not Torture
September 13, 2006
"Torture is taking my fingers off, disfiguring me, taking my eye out — not keeping me in a cold room and uncomfortable with blaring rock music."
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/09/13/oreilly_insists_its_not_torture.php
Crime, Punishment Made Easy
Reuters 14:00 PM Sep, 13, 2006
BEIJING - - A court in China has used a software program to help decide prison sentences in more than 1,500 criminal cases, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday.
The software, tested for two years in a court in Zibo, a city in the eastern coastal province of Shandong, covered about 100 different crimes, including robbery, rape, murder and state security offences, the South China Morning Post said, citing the software's developer, Qin Ye.
http://wirednews.com/news/technology/0,71777-0.html?tw=wn_index_7
Kill the Christians
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51955
HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA
Rosie: Radical Christians pose Islamofascist threat
O'Donnell maintains on 'The View':
'We are bombing innocent people in other countries'
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51956
FAITH UNDER FIRE
Chaplain convicted of saying prayers 'in Jesus' name'
Klingenschmitt jury to resume work in morning on punishment
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51973
FAITH UNDER FIRE
Pastors seek police help, get beatings
Hindu mobs attack Christian leaders, who are harassed by authorities
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51959
Wiccan Sign Allowed on Soldier's Plaque
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/14/D8K4DACO0.html
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
'Bioethicist': OK to kill babies after they're born
'Animal-rights' promoter asserts actual birth makes no difference
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51963
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
'Peaceful pill' would give patients permanent rest
Australian founder of suicide group promotes plan at conference
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51969
Germany Imprisons Mum.
Dad and Kids Flee to Austria
From the desk of Alexandra Colen on Tue, 2006-09-12 21:11
Last Thursday the German police arrested Katharina Plett, a homeschooling mother of twelve. Yesterday her husband fled to Austria with the children. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany since Hitler banned it in 1938. The Plett family belongs to a homeschooling group of seven Baptist families in Paderborn. We wrote about their case last year.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1330/
*Caution: Racy & Violent Themed Pictures in next article:
Police State Porn In Italian Fashion Magazine
Prison Planet.com | September 13 2006
These fashions shots feature in a current issue of an Italian fashion magazine.
Women are shown being physically assaulted by riot police, terrorized by dogs in Abu Ghraib style surroundings, and submitting to invasive TSA body scans and search procedures. In later shots, the models are shown working with 'terror cops' firing giant machine guns.
Is the photographer trying to make a serious point about police brutality and the erosion of our freedoms or is he using police state porn to sell clothes?
Wait for the flash showcase above to download and judge for yourself. Click 'next' in the lower right hand side of the frame to cycle through the images.
The comments on a fashion forum are not very encouraging. Half of these vacuous air-heads applaud the clothes and hairstyles of the models and don't even address the context. Why should that surprise us? The neo-nazi fashion fascists are more concerned about looking like a member of the super race than their own God given rights.
Click here for enlargements of the entire set of pictures.
"State of Emergency," a most disturbing fashion pictorial shot by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia, September 2006. Models: Hilary Rhoda & Iselin Steiro.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/police_state_porn_italian_fashion_magazine.htm
Senate to Settle Detainee Issue on Floor
Sep 15, 4:42 AM EDT
By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer
AP VIDEO
Bush Asks GOP to Back Terror Bills
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate GOP leaders facing rebellion in their own ranks against President Bush's plan to interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects will call for a vote on the proposal as early as next week.
Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell said no decision had been made on when to vote on the measure, but he added that he hoped a floor vote would settle the issue.
The election-year debate has pitted Republicans against each other and kept in limbo the legal bounds of the CIA program to detain and interrogate "high-value" terrorism suspects. A successful vote for Bush also would allow the president to begin prosecuting detainees allegedly connected to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"I think the president is right on this issue and I think the majority is correct on this," McConnell, R-Ky., said.
A Republican-led Senate committee defied Bush on Thursday and approved terror-detainee legislation the president has vowed to block. Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, normally a Bush supporter, pushed the measure through his Senate Armed Services Committee by a 15-9 vote, with Warner and three other GOP lawmakers joining Democrats.
The president's measure would go further than that bill, allowing classified evidence to be withheld from defendants in terror trials and using coerced testimony. The legislation also would revise the law that interprets the nation's obligations under the Geneva Conventions, the treaty that sets the standard for treatment of war prisoners, so that harsh interrogations of detainees would not be questioned in court.
Warner as well as Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., oppose the legislation because they say it could expose U.S. troops to abusive treatment in future wars. They also contend that barring a defendant from access to evidence used to convict them would undermine the credibility of the court.
With the two sides unable to reach an accord, McConnell said it was time to "let the Congress work its will."
But whether the majority of senators will agree remains unclear. Eleven Armed Services Committee Democrats joined Warner, McCain, Graham and Maine Republican Susan Collins in voting in favor of the alternative legislation.
The vote by the moderate Collins underscored that there might be broad enough GOP support to successfully take on Bush on the floor of the Republican-run Senate.
A surprise entry into the fray was Colin Powell, Bush's first secretary of state, who announced his opposition to his old boss' plan, saying it would hurt the country. Powell's successor, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, sprang to the president's defense in a letter of her own.
As the battle mushrooms, it threatens to undermine campaign season assertions by the administration that it has shown a steady hand on security matters and that Republicans should be trusted over Democrats on such issues.
Bush still has many congressional allies, including House and Senate leaders and conservatives, who want to align themselves with the president's tough stance on interrogation and prosecution. The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday passed a bill that supports the administration's position by 52-8.
But that support is not universal. Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., said he told Bush when the president visited House Republicans on Thursday to rally the troops that he should heed the military's top uniformed lawyers, who have previously opposed some provisions of the president's plan.
Bush was forced to propose the measure after the Supreme Court ruled in June that his existing court system established to prosecute terrorism suspects was illegal and violated the Geneva Conventions. The White House legislation would create military commissions to prosecute terror suspects, as well as redefine acts that constitute war crimes.
McCain, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, has become a moral authority in Congress on prisoner of war issues. The former Navy pilot spent more than five years in enemy captivity during the Vietnam War and last year successfully pushed through legislation opposed by the president that banned cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of military detainees.
McConnell acknowledged the president's proposal could lose, but said the war on terror "doesn't stop for elections." The senator also questioned whether Democrats would side against the president's proposal when trying to prove to the American public they are tough on national security.
"I think it would be awkward for Democratic senators to vote in favor of giving classified information to the terrorists," he said.
Another Bush bill would give legal status to the administration's warrantless wiretapping program. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill on a party-line vote Wednesday, but it is stalled in the House amid opposition from Democrats and some Republicans concerned that the program violates civil liberties.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CONGRESS_TERRORISM?SITE=LYCOS&SECTION=home&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
posted by Vetzine
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Bush, BEFORE ELECTED, Told of N. American Union Plans and related information:
The North American Union (Including Videos from CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight")
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Plan -
The Conspiracy to Destroy the United States,
North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc (NASCO),
Trans Texas Corridor (TTC),
(With Videos from Corpus Christi Environmental Impact Hearing on TTC)
Multi-Culturalism and Immigration,
The FTAA & the New World Order Plan
Plus, Recent Headlines and Articles, Many Very Shocking!
BUSH: THE "NEW AMERICAN"
Picture of the Trans Texas Corridor ,
1,200 foot new Super-Highway that TxDOT plans to build parallel to I-35,
a part of NASCO "Superhighway"
VIDEO - Public Hearing
re: Trans Texas Corridor (TTC),
held in Corpus Christi, TX
-Environmental Impact Hearing
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7372080705860978691&q=%25
CLICK LINK ABOVE TO WATCH THE 11 minute, 23 second VIDEO
NAFTA Super Highway Fleecing America
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), touted as the means of improving the lives of Americans through free trade with Mexico and Canada, was the first step in plans to create a North American Union similar to the European Union, according to Kelly Taylor, an Austin-based writer and producer of a politically based TV talk show. The new alliance will be served by a super highway that will run from Mexico through the United States, into Canada. The first leg is the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) to be built and maintained by private foreign contractors and plans call for similar super highways throughout the United States and into Mexico and Canada. For the most part, the public has been kept in the dark about the massive scope of the projects until recently. On June 29, 2006, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced S. 3622, the "North American Investment Fund Act" creating a fund to pay for highway infrastructure throughout Mexico. Section 4 reads: "The Fund shall make grants for projects...to construct roads in Mexico to facilitate trade between Mexico and Canada and Mexico and the United States." President Bush, along with Mexico's Vicente Fox and Canada's Prime Minister Martin set the wheels in motion when they signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) back in 2005. Taylor claims the SPP's "…ultimate aim is the dissolution of the United States into a North American Union patterned after the increasingly dictatorial regional government now running the European Union. Henceforth, under this plan, the borders between our nations will be incrementally erased in favor of a joint 'perimeter' around all three countries." After years of secrecy, the American people are finally seeing how they are being conned into building and paying for a super highway across North America.
http://www.libertymatters.org/newsservice/2006/newsservice08_01_06.htm
Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway
http://www.libertymatters.org/newsservice/2006/faxback/3032_NAFTA.htm
Tell your representative and senators to "Stop the NAFTA Super Highway Steppingstone to a North American Union" by phone, fax, or e-mail. Go to http://www.capwiz.com/jbs/home/ for contact information and a sample letter.
On the Road to EU-style Governance
http://www.libertymatters.org/newsservice/2006/faxback/3032_NAFTA.htm
The first time we saw Lou Dobbs mention the issue of the North American Union, in 2005.
That 2005 clip can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ensmPJm5B5A
The video from Lou Dobbs Tonight of June 21, 2006 is up as of now.
Here is the video which goes along with the transcript at the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCeWQ9Ge38
Read the transcript here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/Lou_Dobbs_transcript.html
The above link contains excerpts.
Mexican Flag Raised in Maywood California at Post Office 8-26-06
INVASION USA
Mexican Flag Flies
at U.S. Post Office
Old Glory Stamped on in Protest
by Backers of Illegal Immigration
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51746
Read George W. Bush's Speech,
which actually FORETOLD of HIS PLANS FOR A NORTH AMERICAN UNION,
which he made BEFORE he became president:
"George W. Bush's Speech on Latin America", which he made in Miami, Florida on Friday, Aug. 25, 2000 :
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/26/195405
George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000:
Excerpts:
We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.
Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.
For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.
As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.
...
Weak neighbors export problems: environmental trouble, illegal immigration, even crime, drugs and violence. Strong neighbors export their goods, and buy ours -- creating jobs and good will.
We seek, not just good neighbors, but strong partners. We seek, not just progress, but shared prosperity. With persistence and courage, we shaped the last century into an American century. With leadership and commitment, this can be the century of the Americas.
In 1992 -- the 500th anniversary of Spanish contact with America - we seemed well on our way toward that vision. The United States and our friends in the region had overcome the debt crisis. We negotiated the end of cruel and bloody wars. Together, we confronted inflation and checked nuclear proliferation. Democracy was advancing. And the North American Free Trade Agreement promised to be a blueprint for free trade throughout the hemisphere.
But the promise of that moment has been squandered. The Clinton/Gore administration has had no strategy. We have seen summits without substance, and reaction instead of action. We were promised fast-track trade authority -- as every American president has had for 25 years. And yet this administration failed to get it. We were promised a Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Yet it never happened. Chile was promised partnership in NAFTA. And it was "delayed."
And in spite of real, even dramatic progress in some parts of Latin America, problems have grown into crises. Narcotic traffickers seek to gain control of a government. Many free nations still struggle to show economic results for all their citizens. And we can never forget the vast urban slums where young children scramble for survival.
Should I become president, I will look South, not as an afterthought, but as a fundamental commitment of my presidency. Just as we ended the great divide between East and West, so today we can overcome the North-South divide.
This begins with a renewed commitment to democracy and freedom in this hemisphere -- because human freedom, in the long run, is our best weapon against poverty, disease and tyranny.
As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.
It is a tribute to a promising new president -- and a tribute to a visionary out-going president as well.
Later today, I will meet with the president-elect of Mexico, and begin what I hope is a strong and constant friendship. I have a vision for our two countries. The United States is destined to have a "special relationship" with Mexico, as clear and strong as we have had with Canada and Great Britain. Historically, we have had no closer friends and allies. And with Canada, our partner in NATO and NAFTA, we share, not just a border, but a bond of good will. Our ties of history and heritage with Mexico are just as deep.
Differences are inevitable between us. But they will be differences among family, not between rivals.
To strengthen that bond, our two countries need a meeting at the highest level, shortly after the American election -- even before the new presidents of our nations are inaugurated.
Should I be elected, I will use that November summit to keep Mexican-American relations moving forward.
We must talk about the availability and cleanliness of water on both sides of the border ... about opening the promise of NAFTA to small businesses and entrepreneurs ... about economic development in areas of Mexico that send illegal immigrants to this country ... about improving health and criminal justice in both nations.
Mexico is an emerging success story. Yet elsewhere in this hemisphere, democracy is still on trial -- threatened by the false prophets of populism.
I look forward to working closely with the nations of this hemisphere but recognize that they cannot be bullied into progress. We will treat all Americans -- North, Central and South -- with dignity. I will improve our bilateral relations and work with the Organization of American States to confront the problems of our hemisphere.
My administration will strengthen the architecture of democracy in Latin America -- the institutions that make democracy real and successful. The basics of democracy should be refreshed with programs that train responsible police and judges. We will encourage professional and civilian-controlled militaries, through contact with our own. The principles of free speech should be advanced through American media exchanges. We will create a new "American Fellows" program, inviting young men and women throughout the Americas to work for a year in various agencies of our government. We will encourage party-building and help monitor elections. These are ways to treat the symptoms of corruption and discord before they turn into violence and abuse of human rights.
To all the nations of Latin America I say: As long as you are on the road toward liberty, you will not be alone. As long as you are moving toward freedom, you will have a steady friend in the United States of America.
The health of a democracy depends on real economic gains for average citizens. And this requires Latin American governments to act for themselves: to lift the barriers of bureaucracy and over-regulation that prevent the poor from creating legal small businesses. To give more priority and funding to universal education -- because no nation can afford to squander the talent of its people.
Our nation can be an ally in these efforts. The future of this hemisphere lies with the creation of millions of small businesses among the poor - the surest path out of poverty. But the poor in Latin America often have no access to small amounts of working capital -- to credit cards or bank loans -- that would help them buy something as simple as an oven to bake and sell bread. So I support what are called "microloans" -- small, no-collateral loans allowing the poor to build a business and employ their neighbors. As president, I will ask Congress for $100 million dollars to help microcredit organizations that are working in Latin America. And I will ask the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to add to this investment. We will apply the power of markets to the needs of the poor.
We can also use the power of debt reduction to relieve poverty and protect the resources that sustain life in the Americas. We will link debt reduction and the conservation of tropical forests. These forests affect the air we breathe, the food we eat, medicines that cure disease, and are home to more than half of Earth's animal and plant species. Expanding the aims of the Tropical Forest Conservation Act, I will ask Congress to provide $100 million to support the exchange of debt reduction for the protection of tropical forests.
-George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000
Read George W. Bush's Speech,
which actually FORETOLD of HIS PLANS FOR A NORTH AMERICAN UNIION,
which he made BEFORE he became president:
"George W. Bush's Speech on Latin America", which he made in Miami, Florida on Friday, Aug. 25, 2000 :
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/8/26/195405
Here is an excerpt of an EXCELLENT article, which critiques the above speech by Bush, and in which, the author, Lawrence Auster,
TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT BUSH DESTROYING AMERICA'S SOVEREIGNITY:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on.
-From "My Bush Epiphany" By Lawrence Auster, Posted: September 20, 2000
My Bush Epiphany
and
Be sure to read an essay, also by Lawrence Auster, titled
"The Path to National Suicide", an Essay on Multi-Culturalism and Immigration,
http://jtl.org/auster/PNS.pdf
You'll need Adobe Reader to view the essay, "The Path to National Suicide", an essay on multi-culturalism and immigration, by Lawrence Auster (1990), as it is in PDF, so click here to download it if you don't have it yet:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
All of the above can be found here, in one post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691161/posts#17
also,
Be sure to read:
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Plan -
The Conspiracy to Destroy the United States
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=154441
and,
Check out this excellent article:
The FTAA & the New World Order Plan
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/ftaa_nwo_plan.htm
North American Union - World Net Daily articles:
http://tinyurl.com/r5b6m
SPP - World Net Daily articles:
http://tinyurl.com/murea
NASCO Superhighway - World Net Daily articles:
http://tinyurl.com/lwpvq
Google Search Results 1 - 10 of about 804 for "North American Union" NASCO SPP:
http://tinyurl.com/epgoo
More evidence of Mexican trucks coming to U.S.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50963
Docs reveal plan for Mexican trucks in U.S.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50938
Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50918
Tancredo confronts 'super-state' effort
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50657
Bush sneaking North American super-state without oversight?
Mexico, Canada partnership underway with no authorization from Congress
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50618
Coming soon to U.S.: Mexican customs office
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50500
Merger with Mexico
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45352
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?
WND investigation finds new evidence U.S. facility to be on foreign territory
Posted: July 5, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
A Mexican customs facility planned for Kansas City's inland port may have to be considered the sovereign soil of Mexico as part of an effort to lure officials in that country into cooperating with the Missouri development project.
Despite adamant denials by Kansas City Area Development Council officials, WND has obtained e-mails and other documents from top executives with the KCSmartPort project that suggest such a facility would by necessity be considered Mexican territory – despite its presence in the heartland of the U.S.
The documents were obtained with the assistance of Joyce Mucci, the founder of the Mid-America Immigration Reform Coalition, under the provisions of the Missouri Sunshine Law from the City of Kansas City, Mo., and from the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
The documents reveal a two-year campaign initiated in 2004 and managed by top SmartPort officials to win Mexico's agreement to establish the Mexican customs facility within the Kansas City "inland port." Kansas City SmartPort launched a concerted effort to advance the idea, holding numerous meetings with Mexican government officials in Mexico and in Washington to push the Mexican port idea in concert. The effort involved Missouri elected officials, including members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
The documents make clear that Mexico demanded Kansas City pay all costs.
To date, the Kansas City Council has voted a $2.5 million loan to KC SmartPort to build the Mexican customs facility in the West Bottoms near Kemper Arena on city-owned land east of Liberty Street and mostly south of Interstate 670.
"Kansas City, Mo., is leasing the site to Kansas City SmartPort," Tasha Hammes of the development council wrote to WND last month. "It will NOT be leased to any Mexican government agency or to be sovereign territory of Mexico."
Yet, an e-mail written June 21, 2004, by Chris Gutierrez, the president of the KC SmartPort, stated that the Mexican customs office space "would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory and meet certain requirements."
Even more recently, an e-mail dated March 10 of this year was sent by Gutierrez to a long list of recipients that left no doubt that KC SmartPort has not yet received federal government approval to move forward with the Mexican customs facility. Gutierrez informed the e-mail recipients that the processing a critical form, designated "C-175," needs approval by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection before the form is passed to the State Department for final approval. The processing and approval of the C-175 application is holding up the final approval of the Mexican customs facility.
In the same memo, Gutierrez reported on a recent meeting in Washington: "Both sides (U.S. and Mexican officials) met several weeks ago and the 'document' or as the U.S. refers to it the 'C-175' is near completion. This document is the basis for the procedural, regulatory, jurisdictional, etc. for the project. It defines what will happen and how and what laws, etc. allow this to happen. Both sides have put a lot of effort into this document."
Gutierrez appeared concerned that the intensive lobbying done by KC SmartPort could be a wasted effort if the final U.S. government approvals were not completed before Mexico elected a new president this week.
"The process for the document is for U.S. Customs to present the document to the acting Commissioner and officials with the Dept of Homeland Security," he wrote. "This will happen in March. The document will then be reviewed by the U.S. State Dept who has been consulted on the document all along so they are aware of it. State will make the recommendation on the diplomatic status of the Mexican officials and the documents fit with existing agreements, accords or treaties. Mexico will wait for this recommendation and then get the sign off of their Foreign Ministry (Secretary [Luis Ernesto] Derbez and Under Secretary [Geronimo] Gutierrez are well versed on the project and support it). The hope of both sides is that this will be completed before the Mexican presidential elections in July."
Gutierrez's March 10 e-mail ended by expressing a hope that discussion of the Mexican customs facility issue could be kept from the public, obviously concerned that press scrutiny might end up producing an adverse public reaction that could destroy the project. Gutierrez specifically proposes a low-profile strategy designed to keep the KC SmartPort and the Mexican customs facility out of public view.
"The one negative that was conveyed to us was the problems and pressure the media attention has created for both sides," he wrote. "They want us to stop promoting the facility to the press. We let them know that we have never issued a proactive press release on this and that the media attention started when Commissioner (Robert) Bonner was in KC and met with Rick Alm. The official direction moving forward is that we can respond to the media with a standard response that I will send out on Monday and refer all other inquiries to U.S. Customs. I will get the name from them to refer media calls."
Robert C. Bonner is the commissioner of CBP within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Rick Alm is a reporter for the Kansas City Star.
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NASCO Alters Super-Corridor Message
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jul 05, 2006
NASCO has altered the organization’s website homepage, apparently in direct response to the North American Union series we have published here, including discussion of NASCO and NAFTA Super-Highways.
NASCO appears to be reacting from recent publicity deriving from our argument that NASCO actively supports the goals of their members, including the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Kansas City SmartPort. TxDOT plans to start the first segment of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as early as next year and the Kansas City SmartPort plans to house a Mexican customs operation within their Inland Port design. These are new infrastructure developments along the North American NAFTA Super-Corridor that NASCO as a trade organization was created to support.
A box has been inserted to the left of the NASCO map on the homepage, emphasizing the following:
This map is not a blueprint or plan of any kind. The Infrastructure depicted on this map is not drawn to scale. The highways shown EXIST today, and have been enlarged to highlight the NASCO Corridor focus area. The rail lines have been placed on the map to show NASCO’s multimodal approach.
The subtitle on the home page still reads “Secure Multi-Modal Transportation System,” evidently referring to the automobile, truck, and railroad nature of the “NASCO Super-Corridor” described in the top title on the page. By so adding to the homepage, NASCO appears engaged in a public relations marketing effort to defuse concerns that the organization supports any new NAFTA Super-Highway development that would include TTC features.
This modification to the homepage echoes an email the author received from Tiffany Melvin, NASCO’s Executive Director, on June 23, 2006, in which she wrote:
If the map were drawn to scale, it would be very difficult to see our focus area. The map is designed for marketing purposes, to highlight the highways we are focusing on. It is for our Coalition. That’s it.
An insert box has been placed on the homepage in the Atlantic Ocean area east of Massachusetts, reading “NASCO Myths Debunked.” We understand that our articles are among the “myths” intended to be “debunked.” The first line of text in the 4-page document linked to the “debunked box” reads: “There is no new, proposed ‘NAFTA Superhighway.” The next paragraph seems to say the NAFTA Super-Highway already exists -- it is evidently the current I-35:
As of late, there has been much media attention given to the “new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway.” NASCO and the cities, counties, states and provinces along our existing Interstate Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor) have been referring to I-35 as the “NAFTA Superhighway” for many years, as I-35 already carries a substantial amount of international trade with Mexico, the United States and Canada. There are no plans to build a new NAFTA Superhighwary -- it exists today as I-35.
The “debunked text” even wants to de-emphasize the “Super” in the NASCO “Super Corridor” name. As Ms. Melvin expressed in a June 22, 2006 email to the author:
We have been using the name “SuperCorridor” since 1996. It does not mean huge, mega highway. We use “Super” in the sense of “more inclusive than a specialized category” (dictionary definition). Like Superman was not a huge, giant four football field wide man. He was MORE than a man. We are MORE than a highway coalition. We work to promote the use of multiple modes of transportation. We work on economic development along the corridor. We work on environmental issues. We work on networking inland ports. We work on developing business relationships for our members.
Perhaps NASCO would be well advised to review the Trans-Texas Corridor website of its member TxDOT agency. There the 4,000 page Environmental Impact Study (EIS) clearly describes the 1,200 foot new Super-Highway that TxDOT plans to build parallel to I-35. Page 4 of the EIS Executive Summary shows an artist’s rendition of the full build-out of the TTC-35 concept, an automobile-truck-railroad corridor with a utility space for energy pipelines and electronic circuits, along with tower electricity strung out on the perimeter. No artist’s conception of the TTC drawn by the TxDOT bears any resemblance to the current I-35 in Texas or anywhere else.
This TTC-35 description belies NASCO’s contention that the organization does not support the constructing any new Super-Highway infrastructure.
Perhaps NASCO wants to advance the argument that no state north of Texas will continue the TTC-35 project to connect through Oklahoma City with the Kansas City SmartPort, continuing north toward Duluth, or that TTC-35. As we have already shown, the investment bankers and international capitalists who are funding the development of TTC-35 can be expected to develop extend this NAFTA Super-Highway north, whether NASCO or the states north of Texas have the funds or current plans to do so.
From a public relations point of view, NASCO’s emphasis that the “NASCO Super-Corridor” only involves existing highways, truck routes, and rail lines is a strategy consistent with a desire to stay below the radar of public awareness, so as to avoid criticism that might otherwise stop or impede NASCO’s true mission -- to support the development of a NAFTA Super-Highway, either through enhancements to the existing north-south corridor along Interstate Highways 35/29/94 (the NASCO Corridor), or any Super-Highway enhancements its members initiate, including the TTC and the Mexican customs facility in the Kansas City SmartPort.
Today, there are some 50,000 miles of interstate highway in the U.S. and the TxDOT is proposing a full build-out of the TTC network that will build some 4,000 miles of TTC Super-Highways in Texas over the next 50 years. The TTC project at full development will involve the removal of as much as 584,000 acres of productive Texas farm and ranchland from the tax rolls permanently, while displacing upwards of 1 million people from their current residences. The 11 separate corridors planned will permanently cut across some 1,200 Texas roads, with cross-over unlikely for much of the nearly quarter-mile corridor planned to be built. Our research shows that dozens of small towns in Texas will be virtually obliterated in the bath of the advancing TTC behemoth. Reviewing statistics such as these, we can see why NASCO might prefer a low profile, preferring to stay below the radar of public scrutiny.
We also note that George Blackwood, NASCO President, attended the January 10-11 meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, held by the Council of the Americas and the North American Business Committee to conduct a “Public/Private Sector Dialogue” on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. A key finding of this meeting was that associations in the U.S. organized to promote particular corridors needed since the dawning of SPP in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, to coordinate their efforts in a less provincial style, more reflective of the North American regional orientation of SPP itself:
For instance, conversation at the Louisville forum raised the potential for commonalities and/or synergies between disparate transportation efforts in the US Midwest (the “SuperCorridor” initiative), the North American West (“CANAMEX Corridor”), and in the Southeast United States and Mexico (the “Gulf of Mexico Trade Corridor” initiative). Before SPP, there was no obvious mechanism through which to promote coordination of these discrete activities.
The Louisville SPP meeting also advised “the establishment of bilateral or trilateral commissions to facilitate border and cross-border infrastructure.”
While the NASCO “debunking text” is correct in asserting that NASCO is a trade organization, not a government organization, NASCO officers appear deeply involved in working with federal and state departments of transportation, local and state governments, and regulatory agencies in promoting the goal of developing a “Super Corridor” structure for “integrating” the U.S., Canada, and Mexico into a corridor-dimensioned transportation system to promote NAFTA trade. NASCO trade organization professionals evidently are much more comfortable working in professional SPP conferences and dealing with government bureaucrats in the closed confines of their offices than answering the questions that public citizens are openly discussing on the Internet.
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Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.
A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15497
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies
Some see secret efforts to scrap dollar, end U.S. sovereignty, combine nations
Posted: July 9, 2006
Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minutemen, welcomed Tancredo's efforts.
"It's time for the Bush administration to come clean," Gilchrist said. "If President Bush's agenda is to establish a new North American union government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, then the president has an obligation to tell this to the American people directly. The American public has a right to know."
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."
WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups nor any congressional committees taking charge of oversight.
Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.
Phyllis Schlafly, the woman best known for nearly single-handedly leading the opposition that killed the Equal Rights Amendment, sees a sinister and sweeping agenda behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
"Is the real push behind guest-worker proposals the Bush goal to expand NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which he signed at Waco, Texas, last year and reaffirmed at Cancun, Mexico, this year?" she asks. "Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father's oft-repeated ambition of a 'new world order.'"
She accuses the president and others behind the effort of wanting to obliterate U.S. borders in an effort to increase the Mexican population transfer and lower wages for the benefit of U.S. corporate interests.
"Bush meant what he said, at Waco, Texas, in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America' by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico," she said. "Bush's guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boardinghouse for the world's poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of 'willing workers' at foreign wage levels, and wipe out what's left of the U.S. middle class. Bush lives in a house well protected by a fence and security guards and he associates with rich people who live in gated communities. Yet, for five years, he has refused to protect the property and children of ordinary Arizona citizens from trespassers and criminals."
That's unusually harsh criticism of a Republican president from one of Ronald Reagan's most loyal supporters.
At least one of the nation's daily newspapers has officially weighed in in opposition to the mysterious plans for closer cooperation in security, commerce and immigration between the three North American nations.
Recently, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review questioned the unchallenged momentum toward merger.
"Will Americans trade their dead presidents for Ameros?" the newspaper asked in an editorial last month.
The paper chided efforts at replacing the U.S. and Canadian dollars and Mexican peso with "the amero" – a knockoff of the euro – along with the building of "a looming NAFTA-like superstate." Citing the meeting between the three national leaders at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in March 2005, the editorial warned: "Canadians, Mexicans and Americans who value the sovereignty of their respective countries should be concerned."
The Tribune Review editorial saw synergy between the plans of the national leaders and the ambitious agenda of the Council on Foreign Relations – seen by many as a kind of secretive, shadow government of the elite. The CFR issued a bold report in the spring of 2005, shortly after the joint announcements in Waco by Bush and his counterparts.
"The Council on Foreign Relations published a report in May -- "Building a North American Community" -- calling for, among other things, redefining the borders of the three nations, creating a super-regional governance board and the North American Paramilitary Group to ensure that Congress does not interfere with whatever the trilateral union feels like doing," said the paper. "Must the Bush administration happily sacrifice every shred of American sovereignty for the greater good of the New World Order?"
In fact, the CFR report is a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
Some see it as the blueprint for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It calls for "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital and people flow freely."
The CFR's strategy calls specifically for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people." It calls for laying "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." It calls for efforts to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations." It calls for efforts to "harmonize entry screening."
In "Building a North American Community," the report states that Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal March 23, 2005, at that meeting in Waco, Texas.
Alan Burkhart, who describes himself as a free-lance political writer, cross-country trucker "and proud citizen of one of the reddest of the Red States – Mississippi," is another critic seething over these plans that seem to have a life of their own – with little or no real public debate.
"As time passes, American corporations will find it unnecessary to move their facilities out of the country," writes Burkhart. "Our already stagnant wages will be just as low as those of Mexico. The cultures of three great nations will be diluted. Our currency will be replaced with the 'Amero.' And, we’ll be one giant step closer to the U.N.’s perverse dream of a one-world government."
The Amero is not a new concept. It was first proposed by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, in a monograph titled "The Case for the Amero" in 1999.
Last month, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America made one of its most visible and public moves since it was first announced last year. In Washington, on June 15, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba and Canadian Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier joined North American business leaders to launch the North American Competitiveness Council. It was a major development that showed the March 2005 meeting was no fluke – and that the plans announced by the three national leaders then were continuing to take shape. The NACC was first announced by Bush, Harper and Fox.
Made up of 10 high-level business leaders from each country, the NACC will meet annually with senior North American government officials "to provide recommendations and help set priorities for promoting regional competitiveness in the global economy."
Officially, the council has the mandate to advise the governments on improving trade in key sectors such as automobiles, transportation, manufacturing and services. The three countries do more than $800 billion in trilateral trade.
Gutierrez said the Bush administration is determined to develop a "border pass" on schedule despite worries about its implementation. The new land pass is to be in effect for Canadians, Americans and Mexicans by Jan. 1, 2008.
The U.S. executives involved in the NACC include: United Parcel Service Inc. Chairman Michael Eskew; Frederick Smith, chairman of FedEx Corp.; Lou Schorsh, chief executive of Mittal Steel USA; Joseph Gilmour, president of New York Life Insurance Co.; William Clay Ford, chairman of Ford Motor Co.; Rick Wagoner, chairman of General Motors Corp.; Raymond Gilmartin, CEO of Merck & Co. Inc.; David O'Reilly, chief executive of Chevron Corp.; Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric Co.; Lee Scott, president of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Robert Stevens, chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp.; Michael Haverty, chairman of Kansas City Southern; Douglas Conant, president of Campbell's Soup Co. and James Kilt, vice-chairman of Gillette Inc.
The concerns about the direction such powerful men could lead Americans without their knowledge is only heightened when interlocking networks are discovered. For instance, one of the components envisioned for this future "North American Union" is a superhighway running from Mexico, through the U.S. and into Canada. It is being promoted by the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, a non-profit group "dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America."
The president of NASCO is George Blackwood, who earlier launched the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership. In fact, NAITCP later morphed into NASCO. A NAIPC summit meeting in 2004, attended by senior Mexican government officials, heard from Robert Pastor, an American University professor who wrote "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.
Pastor also was vice chairman of the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force entitled "Building a North American Community" that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.
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Southern border blurs for global trade
Thursday, June 01, 2006 by Jerome R. Corsi -- The Texas segment of the NAFTA Super Corridor is moving rapidly toward approval. When built, the Trans-Texas Corridor, or TTC, will be a major super-highway
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50451
May Day protest organized by communists
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 by Jerome R. Corsi -- Radical organizations, including active communist and revolutionary socialist organizations, were the driving force organizing the immigration boycott rally at Union Square in New York City on Monday. WND attended the event and took over 35 ...
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50030
Bush's PR strategy to diffuse immigration furor
Thursday, April 27, 2006 by Jerome R. Corsi -- The Bush administration is in the process of launching a public-relations campaign on border security to disguise its true intention, which is to pass a de facto amnesty packaged as a "pathway to citizenship." The goal of the adm ...
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49942
Bush border policy linked to Carlyle deal?
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 by Jerome R. Corsi -- In January 2004, the Carlyle Group put together a new team to begin investing in Mexico. The team consisted of Luis Téllez, who was then an executive vice president of Desc, one of Mexico's largest ...
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50334
Canadian Action Party says this is bad news for Canada.
It spells the end of Canada!
Connie Fogal trys to warn Canadians.
The enemy: Council of Foreign Relations (CFR)
enemy 2: Canadian Council of Chief Exectutives (CCCE)
enemy 3: Consejo Mexicano de Ansuntos Internacionales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyWiGQ_tgM
The Morphosis and the sabotage of Canada by our own government
by Connie Fogal
written in three parts: print entire article (PDF)
The North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign nations Canada, USA, Mexico) into one regional corporate power base, the North American Union. Unlike the creation of the European Union, there is no public political/ academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of a North American Union building up to a vote within each nation as to the wish of the people to join such a union. Instead the union is being created by stealth, is already well on its way to fruition, and is being imposed on us by our own elected representatives and government with no opposition.
The driving force is corporate. The Chief Executive Officers of the most powerful corporations operating in the three countries want this union and have been working for some time devising their strategies and goals. Their facilitators are first, unelected officials and bureaucrats who move easily between corporations and government; second, former elected officials like John Manley , former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada; third, the heads of the three nations, Martin, Bush, and Fox; and finally, the governments and the rest of the elected members who apparently just rubber stamp what is put in front of them by the unelected officials- few questions, if any asked.
The ultimate enforcement mechanism for the North American Union is a police state.
The tools for the police state are "anti-terrorist" laws which, in themselves, are a ruse to strip the citizens of civil liberties in order to prevent dissent against the police state.
The Orwellian justification is "security", "safety".
• Part 1- The North American Union
• Part 2- Agreements, Arrangements, and Laws
• Part 3- Effect of the Bad Laws, some history, and what to do
http://www.paulgrignon.netfirms.com/CanadianActionParty/Metamorphosis0.html
North American Union:
CAP Demands full Accountability from Senators and MP's on SPP
Responses to date by
Ted Menzies, MP Macleod
Video trailer of documentary America: Freedom to Fascism (a must see)
Smart Border Declaration
Security and prosperity NA June 2005SPP-report.PDF
Biometric-id_ji-work-summer-2004_e.pdf
North American Community_TF_final.pdf
Do you want to live in the USA of dubya?
The Metamorphosis and the sabotage of Canada by our own government.
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Liberty vs. Security
Connie Fogal, Director, Defence of Canadian Liberty Committee, Canada's proposed antiterrorism law, Bill C 36, is an exploitive disguise to deliver us over to undemocratic globalization. It is a sword joining the USA, Australia and England slashing freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, and the right to protest in order to eliminate the increasingly effective international democratic opposition to global corporatization.
"Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security"....Benjamin Franklin
"And neither will he receive either"...Rocco Galati
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http://canadianactionparty.ca/temp/leader-messages/LIBERTY_vs_SECURITY.asp
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Canadians protest 'North American Union'
Party to fly national flag upside down in protest at convention
Posted: September 9, 2006
A Canadian political party intends to fly the national flag upside down during its convention this weekend as a signal of distress and resistance against the integration of Canada with the United States and Mexico into a North American Union regional government.
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From "Lou Dobbs Tonight" of June 21, 2006
The CNN video segment at http://youtube.com (Dobbs 2006) has been removed, and so we would like to provide you with a transcript of this segment from CNN's website, where a transcript of the whole show is still on file, as well as the first time we saw Lou Dobbs mention this issue, in 2005.
That 2005 clip can be found here:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ensmPJm5B5A
The notes below are quoted verbatim from CNN's transcript of the June 21, 2006 show, and reflect all that was said during this segment of the show.
Read the transcript here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/Lou_Dobbs_transcript.html
From Chuck Baldwin Live
The video from Lou Dobbs Tonight of June 21, 2006 is up as of now.
Here is the video which goes along with the transcript at the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCeWQ9Ge38
Read the transcript here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/Lou_Dobbs_transcript.html
The above link contains excerpts.
The whole transcript of the show is archived at CNN: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/21/ldt.01.html
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
CFR's solution to illegal immigration
Grandiose Council on Foreign Relations' plan barely mentions alien invasion of U.S.
Editor's note: With scarcely a mention of the horrendous illegal immigration problem plaguing America, the Council on Foreign Relations – which some call America's "shadow government" – has laid out a comprehensive plan to essentially merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one entity with an outer security perimeter. Following are selected excerpts of the 59-page document, titled "Building a North American Community."
Excerpts:
Establish a common security perimeter by 2010. The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should articulate as their long-term goal a common security perimeter for North America. In particular, the three governments should strive toward a situation in which a terrorist trying to penetrate our borders will have an equally hard time doing so, no matter which country he elects to enter first. We believe that these measures should be extended to include a commitment to common approaches toward international negotiations on the global movement of people, cargo, and vessels. Like free trade a decade ago, a common security perimeter for North America is an ambitious but achievable goal that will require specific policy, statutory, and procedural changes in all three nations.
Develop a North American Border Pass. The three countries should develop a secure North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers. This document would allow its bearers expedited passage through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout the region. The program would be modeled on the U.S.-Canadian "NEXUS" and the U.S.-Mexican "SENTRI" programs, which provide "smart cards" to allow swifter passage to those who pose no risk. Only those who voluntarily seek, receive, and pay the costs for a security clearance would obtain a Border Pass. The pass would be accepted at all border points within North America as a complement to, but not a replacement for, national identity documents or passports.
While polls show a majority of Americans favor a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the CFR report is advocating exactly the opposite:
Lay the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America. The three governments should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically diminishing the need for the current intensity of the governments’ physical control of cross-border traffic, travel, and trade within North America. A long-term goal for a North American border action plan should be joint screening of travelers from third countries at their first point of entry into North America and the elimination of most controls over the temporary movement of these travelers within North America.
Establish a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution. The current NAFTA dispute-resolution process is founded on ad hoc panels that are not capable of building institutional memory or establishing precedent, may be subject to conflicts of interest, and are appointed by authorities who may have an incentive to delay a given proceeding. As demonstrated by the efficiency of the World Trade Organization (WTO) appeal process, a permanent tribunal would likely encourage faster, more consistent, and more predictable resolution of disputes. In addition, there is a need to review the workings of NAFTA’s dispute-settlement mechanism to make it more efficient, transparent, and effective.
While America is being transformed demographically, and in particular the U.S. Southwest targeted for takeover by militant illegal immigrant groups, the CFR recommends "increased labor mobility" between Mexico and the U.S.
Increase Labor Mobility within North America
People are North America’s greatest asset. Goods and services cross borders easily; ensuring the legal transit of North American workers has been more difficult. Experience with the NAFTA visa system suggests that its procedures need to be simplified, and such visas should be made available to a wider range of occupations and to additional categories of individuals such as students, professors, bona fide frequent visitors, and retirees.
To make the most of the impressive pool of skill and talent within North America, the three countries should look beyond the NAFTA visa system. The large volume of undocumented migrants from Mexico within the United States is an urgent matter for those two countries to address. A long-term goal should be to create a "North American Preference" – new rules that would make it much easier for employees to move and for employers to recruit across national boundaries within the continent. This would enhance North American competitiveness, increase productivity, contribute to Mexico’s development, and address one of the main outstanding issues on the Mexican-U.S. bilateral agenda.
Canada and the United States should consider eliminating restrictions on labor mobility altogether and work toward solutions that, in the long run, could enable the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico as well. …
There is even a plan to open up Social Security to Mexicans:
Implement the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico. This agreement would recognize payroll contributions to each other’s systems, thus preventing double taxation. …
The entire CFR report, "Building a North American Community," can be read online here.
Read more:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51038
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies
Some see secret efforts to scrap dollar, end U.S. sovereignty, combine nations
Posted: July 9, 2006
WASHINGTON – Are secret meetings being held between the corporate and political elites of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to push North America into a European Union-style merger?
Is President Bush's reluctance to control the border and enforce laws requiring deportation of foreigners who enter the country illegally part of a master plan to all but eliminate borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico?
Does the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America include a common currency that would scrap the dollar in favor of what some are calling the "amero"?
It may be the biggest story of the 21st century, but few press outlets are telling it. In fact, until very recently, few in the U.S. were aware of the plans and even fewer denouncing what appears to be the implementation of an effort some have characterized as "NAFTA on steroids."
But opposition is mounting.
CNN's Lou Dobbs
Perhaps the most blistering criticism has come from Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of Bush's immigration policies.
"A regional prosperity and security program?" he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. "This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are -- we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is -- I mean, this is beyond belief."
What has Dobbs and a few other vocal critics bugged began in earnest March 31, 2005, when the elected leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada agreed to advance the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
No one seems quite certain what that agenda is because of the vagueness of the official declarations. But among the things the leaders of the three countries agreed to work toward were borders that would allow for easier and faster moving of goods and people between the countries.
Coming as the announcement did in the midst of a raging national debate in the U.S. over borders seen as far to open already, more than a few jaws dropped.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. and the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.
Responding to a WorldNetDaily report, Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.
Tancredo wants to know the membership of the Security and Prosperity Partnership groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada.
Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minutemen, welcomed Tancredo's efforts.
"It's time for the Bush administration to come clean," Gilchrist said. "If President Bush's agenda is to establish a new North American union government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, then the president has an obligation to tell this to the American people directly. The American public has a right to know."
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."
WND can find no specific congressional legislation authorizing the SPP working groups nor any congressional committees taking charge of oversight.
Many SPP working groups appear to be working toward achieving specific objectives as defined by a May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force report, which presented a blueprint for expanding the SPP agreement into a North American union that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a new governmental form.
Phyllis Schlafly, the woman best known for nearly single-handedly leading the opposition that killed the Equal Rights Amendment, sees a sinister and sweeping agenda behind the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
"Is the real push behind guest-worker proposals the Bush goal to expand NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which he signed at Waco, Texas, last year and reaffirmed at Cancun, Mexico, this year?" she asks. "Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father's oft-repeated ambition of a 'new world order.'"
She accuses the president and others behind the effort of wanting to obliterate U.S. borders in an effort to increase the Mexican population transfer and lower wages for the benefit of U.S. corporate interests.
"Bush meant what he said, at Waco, Texas, in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a 'Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America' by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico," she said. "Bush's guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boardinghouse for the world's poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of 'willing workers' at foreign wage levels, and wipe out what's left of the U.S. middle class. Bush lives in a house well protected by a fence and security guards and he associates with rich people who live in gated communities. Yet, for five years, he has refused to protect the property and children of ordinary Arizona citizens from trespassers and criminals."
That's unusually harsh criticism of a Republican president from one of Ronald Reagan's most loyal supporters.
At least one of the nation's daily newspapers has officially weighed in in opposition to the mysterious plans for closer cooperation in security, commerce and immigration between the three North American nations.
Recently, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review questioned the unchallenged momentum toward merger.
"Will Americans trade their dead presidents for Ameros?" the newspaper asked in an editorial last month.
The paper chided efforts at replacing the U.S. and Canadian dollars and Mexican peso with "the amero" – a knockoff of the euro – along with the building of "a looming NAFTA-like superstate." Citing the meeting between the three national leaders at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in March 2005, the editorial warned: "Canadians, Mexicans and Americans who value the sovereignty of their respective countries should be concerned."
The Tribune Review editorial saw synergy between the plans of the national leaders and the ambitious agenda of the Council on Foreign Relations – seen by many as a kind of secretive, shadow government of the elite. The CFR issued a bold report in the spring of 2005, shortly after the joint announcements in Waco by Bush and his counterparts.
"The Council on Foreign Relations published a report in May -- "Building a North American Community" -- calling for, among other things, redefining the borders of the three nations, creating a super-regional governance board and the North American Paramilitary Group to ensure that Congress does not interfere with whatever the trilateral union feels like doing," said the paper. "Must the Bush administration happily sacrifice every shred of American sovereignty for the greater good of the New World Order?"
In fact, the CFR report is a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."
Some see it as the blueprint for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It calls for "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital and people flow freely."
The CFR's strategy calls specifically for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people." It calls for laying "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." It calls for efforts to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations." It calls for efforts to "harmonize entry screening."
In "Building a North American Community," the report states that Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal March 23, 2005, at that meeting in Waco, Texas.
Alan Burkhart, who describes himself as a free-lance political writer, cross-country trucker "and proud citizen of one of the reddest of the Red States – Mississippi," is another critic seething over these plans that seem to have a life of their own – with little or no real public debate.
"As time passes, American corporations will find it unnecessary to move their facilities out of the country," writes Burkhart. "Our already stagnant wages will be just as low as those of Mexico. The cultures of three great nations will be diluted. Our currency will be replaced with the 'Amero.' And, we’ll be one giant step closer to the U.N.’s perverse dream of a one-world government."
The Amero is not a new concept. It was first proposed by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, in a monograph titled "The Case for the Amero" in 1999.
Last month, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America made one of its most visible and public moves since it was first announced last year. In Washington, on June 15, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Economy Minister Sergio Garcia de Alba and Canadian Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier joined North American business leaders to launch the North American Competitiveness Council. It was a major development that showed the March 2005 meeting was no fluke – and that the plans announced by the three national leaders then were continuing to take shape. The NACC was first announced by Bush, Harper and Fox.
Made up of 10 high-level business leaders from each country, the NACC will meet annually with senior North American government officials "to provide recommendations and help set priorities for promoting regional competitiveness in the global economy."
Officially, the council has the mandate to advise the governments on improving trade in key sectors such as automobiles, transportation, manufacturing and services. The three countries do more than $800 billion in trilateral trade.
Gutierrez said the Bush administration is determined to develop a "border pass" on schedule despite worries about its implementation. The new land pass is to be in effect for Canadians, Americans and Mexicans by Jan. 1, 2008.
The U.S. executives involved in the NACC include: United Parcel Service Inc. Chairman Michael Eskew; Frederick Smith, chairman of FedEx Corp.; Lou Schorsh, chief executive of Mittal Steel USA; Joseph Gilmour, president of New York Life Insurance Co.; William Clay Ford, chairman of Ford Motor Co.; Rick Wagoner, chairman of General Motors Corp.; Raymond Gilmartin, CEO of Merck & Co. Inc.; David O'Reilly, chief executive of Chevron Corp.; Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric Co.; Lee Scott, president of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Robert Stevens, chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp.; Michael Haverty, chairman of Kansas City Southern; Douglas Conant, president of Campbell's Soup Co. and James Kilt, vice-chairman of Gillette Inc.
The concerns about the direction such powerful men could lead Americans without their knowledge is only heightened when interlocking networks are discovered. For instance, one of the components envisioned for this future "North American Union" is a superhighway running from Mexico, through the U.S. and into Canada. It is being promoted by the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, a non-profit group "dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America."
The president of NASCO is George Blackwood, who earlier launched the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership. In fact, NAITCP later morphed into NASCO. A NAIPC summit meeting in 2004, attended by senior Mexican government officials, heard from Robert Pastor, an American University professor who wrote "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.
Pastor also was vice chairman of the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force entitled "Building a North American Community" that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.
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More evidence of Mexican trucks coming to U.S.
Docs reveal plan for Mexican trucks in U.S.
Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?
Tancredo confronts 'super-state' effort
Bush sneaking North American super-state without oversight?
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Coming soon to U.S.: Mexican customs office
Merger with Mexico
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents...to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as `internationalists`and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure- one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it".
David Rockefeller, from his book "Memoirs", page 405
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Some, (of many),positions held and institutions founded by David Rockefeller:
Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission;
Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations;
Honorary Chairman of Rockefeller University;
An original US founding member and life member of the Bilderberg Group;
Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank;
Co-founder and Chairman of the Chase International Advisory Committee;
Chairman and Honorary Chairman of the Council of the Americas;
Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Americas Society;
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The North American Union,
(which will become the American Union, eventually),
North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO),
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA),
North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) etc:
Regarding North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO),
there are 85 major highways in our country, and 83 of our highways have been openly handed over to a multinational organization,
the Security and Prosperity Partnership, SPP, http://spp.gov
who is taking over our highways.
1/3 of NASCO will be manned by Mexicans, 1/3 will be manned by U.S., 1/3 by Canadians. 1 leg of it in Mexico will be Canadian-run, 1 leg will be U.S.-run, and 1 leg will be Mexican-run, in Mexico. Same thing in U.S. Same thing in Canada. Delegates from each country will be in each group. This is all official.
To finish the roads in Mexico and Canada, the U.S. will pay most of the money for them, like we always do for global projects, like the IMF and World Bank Projects, and this is not just in the SPP agreement. Bush is trying to pass a retroactive law right now regarding all of this.
Chertoff is on the SPP Board. There's 3 people on board from U.S., 3 from Canada, and 3 from Mexico. Politicians have been bought off.
There are 8,000 miles of roads. Model state for NASCO is TX, (where it's going gang-busters, like nowhere else). NASCO traverses 11 states including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.
Inland port facilities will be roughly every 75 miles with huge exit lanes kind of like weigh stations for trucks which will be gigantic-100 times the size of a rest area, with have McDonald's and stores. Half of it will be huge lanes with Customs Police - North American Union SPP Police. The U.S. will run the port facility where the Chinese goods will come in in SW Mexico.
North American Union checkpoints will be north of Austin, TX, just up past Waco, TX, another just north of Dallas, TX, another one by Oklahoma border, one up by Oklahoma City, OK, and another really BIG one in Kansas City, MO.
The North American Union / NASCO, FTAA, NAFTA etc:
This is to use illegal aliens, (truckers, etc.), to haul cheap Chinese and Mexican slave-labor-made goods into the North American Union, further taking away our jobs, and at the same time bringing the U.S. and Canada down to the level of Mexico, while bringing up Mexico's economy, so all 3 countries will be on the same level, economically. We already have the United Nations, NATO, the European Union. The Bible fortells that we will have a one world government with a one world religion, ruled by the Antichrist.
Revelation
Ch.13
http://www.justbible.com/Chapters/B66C013.htm
King James Bible Online (Searchable):
http://www.justbible.com/
MAP SHOWS WHERE INLAND PORTS WILL BE:
North American Inland Ports Network (NAIPN)
INTRODUCTION
NAIPN is a working group in North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO). NAIPN advocates the interests of Inland Ports along the Mid-Continent International Trade and Transportation Corridor (MCITTC) and supports NASCO's mission to strengthen the Secure, Multi-Modal Trade and Transportation System.
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/ports_network/ports_network.htm
BIGGER MAP WITH ITS OWN WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THE INLAND PORTS:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/index.html
Initiatives of
North American Inland Ports Network (NAIPN):
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/initiatives.html
NASCO Alters Super-Corridor Message
NASCO has altered the organization’s website homepage, apparently in direct response to the North American Union series we have published here, including discussion of NASCO and NAFTA Super-Highways.
NASCO appears to be reacting from recent publicity deriving from our argument that NASCO actively supports the goals of their members, including the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Kansas City SmartPort. TxDOT plans to start the first segment of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as early as next year and the Kansas City SmartPort plans to house a Mexican customs operation within their Inland Port design. These are new infrastructure developments along the North American NAFTA Super-Corridor that NASCO as a trade organization was created to support.
A box has been inserted to the left of the NASCO map on the homepage, emphasizing the following:
Read more here:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15875
See Damage Control / LIES spoken of in article above
at the link below on the "About" NASCO page! http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/about.htm
This page flat out LIES!
Welcome to NASCO - International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor. Non-profit organization dedicated to developing a multi-modal transportation
corridor within the continent. Includes maps.
www.nascocorridor.com/ http://www.nascocorridor.com/
NASCO: (If you get error msgs. in pop up boxes,
just keep clicking okay to get to the pages shown below! It worked for me!)
About:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/about.htm
This page flat out LIES! See article above,
(or link below),entitled: "NASCO Alters Super-Corridor Message"
NASCO Alters Super-Corridor Message
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jul 05, 2006
NASCO has altered the organization’s website homepage,
apparently in direct response to the North American Union
series we have published here, including discussion of
NASCO and NAFTA Super-Highways.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15875
Also, see this article for the truth:
Bush Administration
Quietly Plans
NAFTA Super Highway
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to
build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart
of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the
Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15497
FAQ'S:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/NASCO_FAQs_072706.pdf
Board Members:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/board_members.htm
Executive Director and Marketing Director Info. and Contact Info:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/staff.htm
A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
Between
North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO)
and
The North American International Trade Corridor Partnership (NAITCP)
FOR THE AMALGAMATION
OF NASCO
AND NAITCP
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/about/mou.htm
Along the Corridor - October, 2005
U.S.-Mexico officials establish new international trade route at KellyUSA
October 24, 2005
San Antonio Business Journal
More than 10 years after the signing of NAFTA in San Antonio, U.S. and
Mexico officials have inked a new pact on Monday designed to increase
the flow of international trade between Mexico and KellyUSA in San Antonio.
Officials with Mexico's Secretary of Communications and Transportation
office and with the U.S. Department of Transportation joined more than
30 Mexican businesses and KellyUSA representatives to commemorate
the creation of the new trade route.
The signing ceremony took place at the Plaza San Antonio Hotel, the same
hotel where U.S. and Mexico officials signed NAFTA in 1995.
The letter of intent allows for the movement of air, rail and ground cargo,
principally from Asia and South America, through Mexico into the
United States via KellyUSA -- the industrial park created following the
closure of Kelly Air Force Base in 2001.
Within 30 days of signing the document, officials from both countries will
name an individual to begin facilitating all the necessary arrangements to
ship goods between Mexico and the new Port of San Antonio at KellyUSA.
Previously, all cargo traffic had to stop along the border for processing.
"What we are saying today with this agreement is that we are joining forces
with Mexico to develop multimodal corridors that will be mutually beneficial
to each partner," Greater Kelly Development Authority CEO Bruce Miller says.
"We're establishing synergies, origin and destination systems, facilitating
access to international markets and creating new pathways for producers,
importers and exporters to access the global market -- all of which means
economic gains for everyone involved," he adds.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Transportation Aaron Dychter says Texas' border
already processes more than 70 percent of the commercial products being
shipped between the Mexico and the United States.
Along the Corridor - September, 2005
Kansas City SmartPort Receives Federal Funding
The Federal Highway Bill, called SAFETEA-LU was approved by the Senate
and Congress on July 29, 2005. The total package for transportation
improvements amounted to $286.5 billion. This five year funding will be used
for highways, bridges, and mass transit and safety projects in the United States.
Kansas City SmartPort received $4 million which will be used to create
Intelligent Transportation Systems and highway corridor projects.
In addition, Senator Talent secured a U.S. Department of Commerce
earmark for Kansas City SmartPort in the amount of $500,000 to further
develop Kansas City as an inland port capable of processing a greater
volume of international trade. In order to achieve this goal SmartPort will
partner with Kansas City Area organizations to promote increased exports
to Mexico and Central America. Other activities will include marketing the
new Mexican Customs Facility and developing strategic alliances with
several southern U.S. ports to ensure the efficient flow of products to and
from Mexico and Central America.
Kansas City SmartPort ITS Projects Moving Forward
SmartPort and SAIC / TransCore have finished the user requirement
document and the systems architecture plan for an intelligent
transportation system for the greater KC area. The ITS system under
consideration will have a central data and control center in the KC
market and ITS technology employed along trade and transportation
corridors bringing freight to and from the KC market. SAIC / TransCore
will focus on the LA/Long Beach - Pacific Northwest corridor to Kansas City
in partnership with the BNSF Railroad.
SmartPort recently engaged B.V. Solutions Group to begin ITS testing on
the KC / Mexico corridor. This project will tie into the LC-KC Transportation
corridor for freight coming to the U.S. from Asia and the Mexican Customs
facility in KC for Midwest exports to Mexico. B.V.S.G. will partner with
Kansas City Southern and several trucking companies on this corridor.
Kansas City - North America Works - Friday October 13-14, 2005!
Join the excitement as leading business specialists from across
North America relay success stories regarding North American trade.
Business leaders, economic development and transportation
specialists, as well as political personalities in partner cities/states
throughout Mexico, Canada and the U.S. will showcase NAFTA's
triumphs and imminent opportunities. Contact Stephan Bras,
KCMO International Office, at 816-513-3521 for more information.
NASCO / TTC - 35 meeting in Austin-
NASCO, in conjunction with the Texas Department of Transportation, is
hosting a special forum to discuss the future Trans-Texas Corridor 35
(TTC-35) in Austin, Texas, on June 29, 2005. NASCO feels it is necessary
to bring together the communities impacted by the proposed TTC-35 to
share our thoughts about the future of this corridor with those directly
involved in the corridor planning and construction. Invited guests include
Governor Perry, elected officials from the cities and counties along I-35 in
Texas, representatives from the Texas Department of Transportation, the
Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Councils of Government along I-35
in Texas, the Texas Transportation Commission, and representatives of Cintra
Zachry, LP, the company awarded the contract to build TTC-35. Please
call Tiffany Newsom for more information about this event.
Kansas City SmartPort -
Customs Project Update -
Officials from Mexican Customs were in Kansas City
to discuss the implementation strategy for Mexico's
first international facility that it has chosen to locate
in the two-state metro. Five teams have since
been organized to make this project a success.
These include:
1) Customs planning team - evaluate facilities and locations,
as well as infrastructure details;
2) Field information team -
responsible for actual development of project;
3) Information technology team - develop database to coordinate
with U.S. Customs;
4) Security team - monitor freight tracking; and
5) Operations team - assesses and track process and procedures.
BTS Releases North American Surface
Trade Numbers for
February:
February Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico
Rose 11.3 Percent from February 2004
The United States traded $53.6 billion in goods using surface transportation
in February 2005 with its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
partners Canada and Mexico, 11.3 percent more than February 2004, the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of
Transportation reported.
Surface transportation consists largely of freight movements by truck, rail
and pipeline. About 90 percent of U.S. trade by value with Canada and
Mexico moves on land.
BTS, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA),
reported that total surface transportation trade rose 2.4 percent in February
from January. Month-to-month changes can be affected by seasonal
variations and other factors.
Total surface transportation trade value in February was up 28.5 percent
compared to February 2002 and 80.3 percent compared to February 1995,
a period of ten years. Exports in February were up 60.0 percent compared to
February 1995, while imports were up 99.0 percent.
U.S. - Canada surface transportation trade totaled $35.4 billion in February,
up 12.7 percent compared to February 2004. Carrying the largest amount by
value, exports by truck increased 11.0 percent from February 2004, while
imports by truck rose 12.4 percent. Michigan led all states in surface trade with
Canada in February with $6.2 billion.
U.S. - Mexico surface transportation trade totaled $18.2 billion in February,
up 8.6 percent compared to February 2004. Carrying the largest amount by
value, imports by truck increased 7.7 percent compared to February 2004,
while exports by truck rose 8.3 percent. Texas led all states in surface trade
with Mexico in February with $5.9 billion.
The Transborder Surface Freight Dataset is a special extract of the official U.S.
foreign trade statistics. The data are tabulated for BTS monthly by the U.S.
Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division. February transborder numbers
include data received by BTS as of April 15, 2005.
The press release and summary tables can be found at http://www.bts.gov
More information on transborder freight data and data from previous months
are posted on the BTS website at http://www.bts.gov/transborder/
BTS will release March transborder numbers on May 27.
Manitoba - During Manitoba's recent Trade Mission to Texas,
Manitoba's Premier, Honourable Gary Doer, invited NASCO to hold its
annual 2006 North American Convergence Summit in Winnipeg. As a
long-time friend of Manitoba, NASCO is pleased to accept this invitation.
The summit will be held May 31-June 2, 2006. Manitoba is pleased to invite
all NASCO members and friends to the 2006 Summit, and is looking forward
to hosting the event and extending its infamous friendly hospitality to all
Summit participants.
Manitoba is the northern terminus of NASCO's International Trade Corridor,
and the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg have been
important NASCO members since 1997. Both the Province and City
work closely with its local industry, the Winnipeg and Manitoba
Chambers of Commerce, Manitoba Trade and Investment Corporation,
economic development agencies such as Destination Winnipeg, and the
Federal Government under the Manitoba Corridor Partners Group in order
to further Corridor development initiatives.
Trans Texas Corridor 35 Update - BILL FILED TO ADDRESS PROBLEMS
IN TRANS TEXAS CORRIDOR LEGISLATION
Rep. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brehnam) and Rep. Dennis Bonnen (R-Angleton) have
filed HB1273, which addresses some frequent criticisms of the Trans Texas
Corridor package passed last session.
The bill limits the proposed Trans Texas Corridor to 800 feet from 1200 feet,
eliminates the franchising of businesses along the corridor by road
contractors and requires access on, off, and across every state highway and
local FM road. The bill also eliminates the "non-competition" clause in the
TTC, which currently allows the TTC operators the ability to stop other public
road projects in an area if they felt it would lower profitability of their
investment. Lastly, the bill requires that any toll fee increase or collection
fee increase must meet approval of the Transportation Commission and
not be left to the private company exclusively. The intent is to allow for
more transparency, accountability and less of a footprint on the land.
Also to ensure that rural areas can access the TTC.
Copyright February 18, 2005 by Harvey Kronberg, http://quorumreport.com
All rights are reserved.
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Federal Legislation
Special Projects:
North American Facilitation of Transportation, Trade, Reduced Congestion
& Security (NAFTRACS) is a three phase pilot project designed to focus on
business processes and information as freight is transported from buyers to
sellers. The project is intended to create a partnership between businesses
and local, state, and federal governments, while fostering cooperation
amongst the same entities. The pilot project will use actual freight
shipments moving through the I-35/29/80/94 trade corridor. This project will
engage voluntary industry participants who will allow actual freight shipments
to be tracked and monitored for location and condition of freight. Various
federal and state DOT participants will have access to the appropriate and
necessary information as necessitated by the pilot project concept of
operations rules and methodology. Business processes, systems architecture
and data flow will comply with World Customs Organization’s (WCO)
“Framework of Standards” to further facilitate North American trade and
transport.
Some of the important goals of NAFTRACS are:
1. Demonstrate the benefits of enhanced information sharing
and exchange on security in the trade process, while facilitating
the process of trade transactions and their transportation.
2. Demonstrate and evaluate true integration of tracking device
technologies, and how they perform with respect to security and
facilitating cargo movement.
The results of the pilot project will exhibit improvement in freight mobility,
velocity, and efficiency while reducing congestion and cost of trade. Some
of the participants in the pilot project will be trucking companies, 3PL’s,
brokers/freight forwarders, railroad operators, emergency responders and
local, state and federal governments.
An operational system derived from this pilot version of the proof-of-concept
information architecture will reduce the cost and congestion and improve the
efficiency, mobility and velocity of freight and security of the North American
trade, thus enabling U.S., Canadian and Mexican agencies to accomplish
their vital border security and trade facilitation missions - providing for the
Security and Prosperity of North America.
Support for Multi-state International Corridor Development Program
North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. supports the
Multi-state International Corridor Development Program in S. 1072
NASCO supports Sec. 1825, the Multi-state International Corridor Development
Program, new language initiated by NASCO, authorized in 2004’s Senate
passed version of S. 1072, the “Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient
Transportation Equity Act of 2004” and asks the House to consider supporting
this language in their bill or to accept the language in conference.
This program would develop international trade corridors to facilitate the
movement of freight from international ports of entry and inland ports
through and to the interior of the United States. NASCO supports the
Senate language regarding selection criteria for corridors including:
Must have Significant levels or increases in truck and traffic volume
relating to international freight movement [NASCO truck traffic has
increased 42.6 percent from 1996 to 2001 ]
Connection to at least 1 International Terminus or inland port
[NASCO has an international terminus in Laredo/Nuevo Laredo;
Manitoba; and Windsor, Ontario and serves 3 inland ports including
Detroit; Laredo and Pembina, N.D.]
Corridor must traverse at least three states;[NASCO traverses 11 states
including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota,
North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois ] and
Identified by Section 115 (c) of the Intermodal Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-240; 105 Stat. 2032)
[NASCO is High Priority Corridor #23]
Funding
NASCO supports the Senate proposed program because it would
provide a solution to the over subscribed “Cor Bor” program by
creating a separate, dedicated program for a small number of
true international trade corridors that meet the proposed criteria.
It would provide the opportunity for significant and targeted infrastructure
improvements along these most important trade corridors resulting in
tremendous economic benefits for communities along these corridors and
for the nation as a whole.
However, the Senate passed language did not authorize funding for this
program and without it this program cannot realize its potential.
Therefore, NASCO respectfully requests that the provision be granted
sufficient funding. In a 1996 study done for NASCO, it was estimated that
the corridor needed $2 billion per year in infrastructure improvements over
an 18-year period. NASCO supports as high a funding level as possible for
the Multi-state International Corridor Development Program to operate as
intended.
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/federal/special_projects.htm
Legislative Updates:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/federal/monthly_updates.htm
MAP SHOWS WHERE INLAND PORTS WILL BE:
North American Inland Ports Network (NAIPN)
INTRODUCTION
NAIPN is a working group in North America's SuperCorridor Coalition
(NASCO).
NAIPN advocates the interests of Inland Ports along the Mid-Continent
International Trade and Transportation Corridor (MCITTC) and supports
NASCO's mission to strengthen the Secure, Multi-Modal Trade and
Transportation System.
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/ports_network/ports_network.htm
BIGGER MAP WITH ITS OWN WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THE INLAND PORTS:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/index.html
Inland Port Participants
Below is a list of our current North America Inland Ports Network participants. The list will grow as NAIPN grows so check back often to see new members.
Click on a name or a dot on the map to see each participant's information.
Excerpt from the section on Alliance Texas:
The 17,000-acre AllianceTexas development is unparalleled in its vision of a dynamic and diversified community. The project’s foundation is an international trade and logistics complex, offering inland port transportation options via the world’s first 100% industrial airport, two north-south rail lines, the nation’s fourth largest Intermodal yard and connecting state and interstate highways. Stemming from this strong commercial base are corporate campuses, office complexes, tech and data centers, destination retail and entertainment venues, residential housing, schools, churches and community shopping. In total, the development encompasses 24.4 million square feet, over 140 corporate residents, 24,000 employees and more than 5,200 single-family homes.
AllianceTexas
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/alliancetexas.html
Kansas City SmartPort is an organization formed to promote and enhance the Kansas City metro area’s status as America’s Inland Port Solution.
SmartPort has two main focuses:
1. To grow the area’s transportation industry by attracting businesses with significant transportation and logistics elements;
2. To make it cheaper, faster, more efficient, and secure for companies to move goods into, from, and through the Kansas City area.
SmartPort plays an active role in three crucial areas:
Economic Development
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Business Services
Please see the attached June 6, 2005,
Traffic World article “The Next Coast”
http://nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/kc_images_docs/LogisticsHubKC.pdf
which describes how Kansas City is bringing freight from Mexico and Asia directly to the U. S . Heartland.
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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?
WND investigation finds new evidence U.S. facility to be on foreign territory
Posted: July 5, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
an e-mail written June 21, 2004, by Chris Gutierrez, the president of the KC SmartPort, stated that the Mexican customs office space "would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory and meet certain requirements."
The documents make clear that Mexico demanded Kansas City pay all costs.
To date, the Kansas City Council has voted a $2.5 million loan to KC SmartPort to build the Mexican customs facility in the West Bottoms near Kemper Arena on city-owned land east of Liberty Street and mostly south of Interstate 670.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50918
MEXICAN CUSTOMS OFFICE COMING TO KANSAS CITY!
Read about this at above link or Kansas City link below!
"Kansas City SmartPort, a nonprofit affiliate organization of the Kansas City
Area Development Council, is spearheading efforts to put a Mexican customs office - the first ever outside of Mexico - to screen and seal southbound containers."
"Smart Port also wants to bring containers from Asia directly to Kansas City along the Lazaro Cardenas-Kansas City Corridor, a rail rote linking Asian markets with Kansas City via Mexico's Pacific Ports. Containers would be shipped in-bond across Mexico, avoiding congested U.S. West Coast ports."
Kansas City
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/kansas_city.html
Related info. and links to Kansas City SmartPort:
http://kcsi.com
http://kcsi.com
"Kansas City Southern, a transportation holding company in Kansas City, MO, completed the purchase of controlling interest in TFM S.A. de C.V. (TFM), a north south rail line serving the developing West Coast Port of Lazaro Cardenas and the heartland of Mexico. Combined with KCS' primary U.S. holdings, the Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR) serving the southeastern and south central parts of the U.S., and the Texas Mexican Railway Company (Tex Mex) the bridge carrier between KCSR and TFM, today's KCS is strongly positioned to provide competitive and seamless rail transportation between the U.S. and Mexico. In addition to competitive access to major North American markets with this strategically important trade corridor, shippers will benefit from KCS' greater opportunities for investment in cross-border transportation infrastructure, implementation of advanced cargo tracing and tracking systems and improved security."
Phone: 1-816-983-1445
http://kcsi.com
http://kcsmartport.com
http://thinkkc.com
http://wagnerindustries.com
http://ctmt.com
http://edckc.com
San Antonio
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/san_antonio.html
Winnipeg
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/winnipeg.html
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/participants.html
Initiatives of
North American Inland Ports Network (NAIPN):
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/initiatives.html
NAIPN Calendar
2nd Annual Inland Ports Across North America (IPANA) Conference
San Antonio, Texas, October 11-13, 2006
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/around_calendar.html
NAIPN PRESS RELEASES:
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/around_releases.html
Benefits of Joining NASCO
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/join.html
Private Sector - Membership Levels and Benefits
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/contact/private_members.htm
Public Sector - Membership Levels and Benefits
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/contact/public_members.htm
Mexico - Membership Levels and Benefits
http://www.nascocorridor.com/pages/contact/mexico_members.htm
Networking Opportunities
Through exclusive NASCO events and other trade and transportation related events
Matchmaking specific business development opportunities with other members and contacts
Access to a wide range of contacts from various industries, Mexico, Canada and other geographic regions
Federal Projects
North American Facilitation of Transportation, Trade, Reduced Congestion and Security (NAFTRACS)
The results of the project will exhibit improvement in freight mobility, velocity, and efficiency while reducing congestion and cost of trade. Some of the participants in the pilot project will be trucking companies, 3PL’s, brokers/freight forwarders, railroad operators, emergency responders and local, state and federal governments
Information
Events
Newsletters
Lobby Updates
Internet Content
Publicity/Support
For projects, programs and initiatives
For individual members and companies
Media exposure
http://www.nascocorridor.com/naipn/pages/join.html
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Interstate X : 1200-foot wide super-highway will connect Mexico to Canada
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Interstate X : 1200-foot wide super-highway will connect Mexico to Canada
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7 min 21 sec - Aug 8, 2006
Bush is secretly planning the construction of a multi-modal supercorridor expressway going from Mexico to Canada, in his effort to bring ... all » the North American Continent under his control. ( http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/ )
We’ve gone to the breaking ground of this project which is Laredo, Texas where construction is set to begin in 2007.
This project is known as the NASCO International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor Secure Multi-Modal Transportation System http://www.nascocorridor.com/
The first phase of this project is known as the Trans-Texas Corridor http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/
This is a very controversial project, as some assume it will be used to transport tanks to Mexico and the South American continent, to engage Hugo Chavez. The immediate purpose is to take advantage of Mexico’s market of cheap labor.
NASCO Super Superhighway SuperCorridor Corridor perfect target for terrorists Mexico to Canada Highway Interstate Highways 35 29 94 I-35 I-29 I-94 the demoprotestant Daily Kos Rhizome.org International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor Trans-Texas Corridor North American Union NAFTA Bush administration Conspiracy Labor Immigration Superhighway North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. www.keeptexasmoving.org/ TTC
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2nd video
VIDEO - Public Hearing
re: Trans Texas Corridor (TTC),
held in Corpus Christi, TX
-Environmental Impact Hearing
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7372080705860978691&q=%25
CLICK LINK ABOVE TO WATCH THE 11 minute, 23 second VIDEO
"The Oklahoma to Mexico element, known as TTC 35 is in active development now.
Also in development is the Northeast Texas to Mexico element, which incorporates Texas' portion of proposed I-69. This TTC element is known as I-69 TTC."
The above quotes were taken word for word from video shown at Environmental Impact Hearing.
Texas 8 : Trans-Texas Corridor Public Hearing in Corpus Christi
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NASCO: a 1200-foot wide highway that will connect Mexico to Canada
Please support the Alternative Plan.
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Corridor Watch:
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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Canadians protest 'North American Union'
Party to fly national flag upside down in protest at convention
Posted: September 9, 2006
A Canadian political party intends to fly the national flag upside down during its convention this weekend as a signal of distress and resistance against the integration of Canada with the United States and Mexico into a North American Union regional government.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51904
From "Lou Dobbs Tonight" of June 21, 2006
The CNN video segment at http://youtube.com (Dobbs 2006) has been removed, and so we would like to provide you with a transcript of this segment from CNN's website, where a transcript of the whole show is still on file, as well as the first time we saw Lou Dobbs mention this issue, in 2005.
That 2005 clip can be found here:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ensmPJm5B5A
The notes below are quoted verbatim from CNN's transcript of the June 21, 2006 show, and reflect all that was said during this segment of the show.
Read the transcript here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/Lou_Dobbs_transcript.html
From Chuck Baldwin Live
The video from Lou Dobbs Tonight of June 21, 2006 is up as of now.
Here is the video which goes along with the transcript at the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCeWQ9Ge38
Read the transcript here:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/Lou_Dobbs_transcript.html
The above link contains excerpts.
The whole transcript of the show is archived at CNN: (Note: I copied the transcript and took out unrelated parts and bolded the text about the North American Union. If you'd rather read that, which came from this CNN transcript link, see below.) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/21/ldt.01.html
Here are the relevant parts of the CNN transcript of Lou Dobb's Tonight, which
Aired June 21, 2006 - 18:00 ET.
Also tonight, the Bush administration is pushing ahead with a plan to create a North American union with Canada and Mexico. You haven't heard about that? Well, that's because Congress hasn't been consulted, nor the American people. We will have that special report.
And we will go live to a town in Pennsylvania that's been overrun with illegal aliens. The mayor of that town says these illegal aliens are literally destroying his community, and he and city government are doing something about it. He's our guest here tonight.
Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS: Washington's failure to seriously address this nation's illegal immigration crisis is now a worsening public safety crisis.
Tonight, immigration officials are simply unable to explain how an illegal alien could have been arrested more than a dozen times on criminal charges and was never once deported -- all of this as our nation's very sovereignty is under assault from our growing relationship with the Mexican government.
We have two reports tonight, Lisa Sylvester from Washington on this nation's inability to protect American citizens from illegal alien criminals. And Bill Tucker reports on a new North American partnership that gives Mexico further control over this nation's dwindling sovereignty, its economy, and our very security.
We begin with Lisa Sylvester -- Lisa.
LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, a Nashville couple was killed two weeks ago in a tragic accident that many say should have been prevented.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SYLVESTER (voice-over): Nashville residents Donna and Sean Wilson were headed to the grocery store. They never made it. Their silver Buick was hit head on.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All of a sudden, I heard just real screeching, you know, tires and everything. And I heard, bam, and then another bam, and then another bam.
SYLVESTER: The driver of the other vehicle has been identified as Gustavo Garcia Rayes. Police found open cans of beer in his suburban, the tags on the vehicle expired.
Rayes has a lengthy rap sheet, four DUIs, five driving on a revoked license, two counts of resisting arrest, two counts of leaving the scene of an accident, more than 14 offenses in total. Rayes should not have been driving. In fact, he should not have even been in the country. Nashville authorities say he's an illegal alien. Despite repeated run-ins with police, he was never deported.
The Nashville Police Department says federal officials were notified.
DON AARON, NASHVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT: In Nashville, when a person from another country, another nationality, is booked into our system, an automated process alerts federal authorities in Vermont at a federal clearinghouse. What action is taken from there, I don't know. SYLVESTER: In a statement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged receiving four separate inquiries over a two-year period for Gustavo Rayes or Gustavo Garcia. At the time of each of these inquiries, ICE was not aware that these appeared to relate to a single individual.
Nothing was done. The Center for Immigration Studies says this is not an isolated incident.
STEVE CAMAROTA, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: We have numerous cases of people committing serious crimes, not being deported, and then going on to committing additional crimes.
SYLVESTER: Federal immigration officials have placed a detainer on Rayes, a little too late for Sean and Donna Wilson.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SYLVESTER: Rayes has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and is being held without bond.
He's represented by the public defender's office. And they declined to comment on the ongoing case -- Lou.
DOBBS: Lisa, thank you very much -- Lisa Sylvester.
The Bush administration's open-borders policy and its decision to ignore the enforcement of this country's immigration laws is part of a broader agenda. President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it, and he took the step without approval from either the U.S. Congress or the people of the United States.
Bill Tucker reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America sounds benign, hardly like a policy that critics call NAFTA on steroids. It's a deal that few have even heard of.
REP. MARCY KAPTUR (D), OHIO: It's being done, again, by very few people at the very top, on behalf of the investment class. But the working class of people, political officials across our country from communities, from cities and so forth, they don't know anything about this.
TUCKER: Yet, it was agreed to by Mexico's President Fox, Canada's Prime Minister Martin, and President Bush in 2005.
The administration officials counter their critics by saying everything about SPP is on the White House Web site. And they say the partnership is not a treaty, but more of an outline of priorities between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Still, some wonder why there haven't been public discussions about the goals being pursued. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This SPP includes, for instance, a committee that is sitting down to harmonize our meat inspection and food safety. So, how far away from a trade agreement can your dining room table and what you feed your kids be?
TUCKER: Other parts of the agreement mention border security as an issue, which include all of North America. In fact, the name of the agreement is not Security and Prosperity of the United States, but of North America.
PETER MORICI, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: When we elect officials, we expect them to act on our behalf. When we get involved in cooperative frameworks with other countries for joint regulation of fisheries or rail transportation or the skies, we're basically sharing our sovereignty with that government and outsourcing some of what we give our elected officials.
TUCKER: As disturbing as some find SPP, there is legislation in the House introduced by Florida's Katherine Harris that closely resembles the goals of the partnership.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TUCKER: Included in that bill is a section which calls for the securing of Mexico's southern border by the United States and Canada.
Lou, that's not the border with the United States. That's the border they share with Belize and Guatemala.
DOBBS: The idea that the White House would respond that this is on their Web site, this involves intricate workings amongst the Commerce Department of this country and Canada and Mexico's, of course.
A regional prosperity and security program? This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are -- we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about?
TUCKER: Well, they say, look, these are a declaration and an outline of our priorities.
And when I called them today, Lou, they said I was the first phone call they had received literally since the deal was first signed. So, people are not paying attention. And they're letting them, in fact, get away with this.
DOBBS: You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value.
And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is -- I mean, this is beyond belief.
Bill Tucker, thank you very much.
It brings us to the subject of our poll tonight: Do you think maybe somebody should take a vote if we're going to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico, maybe, you know, people like you and me vote? Yes or no. Please cast your vote at LouDobbs.com. We will have the results here later in the broadcast.
Taking a look now at your thoughts, Vincent in Texas: "Lou, it's a sad state of affairs when it seems we need to choose between our border being secured five years after September 11 and upholding laws already on the books about immigration. This is the greatest country in the world. Why can't we do both?"
Why can't we do either?
Sharon in Ohio: "Lou, I can't understand why we aren't going to take down North Korea's missile. Isn't it only fair that, if they have the opportunity to practice, then we should, too?"
And Mike in Nevada: "Just like we have separation of church and state, we should have separation of government and corporations."
Roy in New Mexico: "There is no wonder criminality in our legal system, with violation of our immigration laws, is tolerated by our House and Senate -- birds of a feather."
Send us your thoughts at LouDobbs.com. We will have more of your thoughts here later in the broadcast.
Next here: an exclusive interview with the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, on this nation's nuclear showdown with Iran.
Also, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, about to launch one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigration in the country -- the mayor of Hazleton will be our special guest here.
And congressional leaders challenging the president's illegal alien amnesty plan -- three of the country's most distinguished political analysts join me.
Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS:
One day after the House of Representatives announced hearings on the Senate's so-called comprehensive immigration reform bill, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, has announced he's scheduling hearings of his own on the House border security bill. Senator Specter says his first hearing will be held on July 5. He says the hearings could last into August.
Coming up next, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, it's a town cracking down on illegal immigration and companies that hire illegal aliens. The mayor says the proposed law in his city is one of the toughest in the nation. Mayor Lou Barletta joins us.
Will congressional hearings spell the end to the president's so- called comprehensive immigration reform, either in the House the Senate? Three of the nation's leading political analysts join us to try to find, or at least try to find out what in the world these elected officials think they're doing? Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS: In just a moment, I'll be talking with the mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Lou Barletta, who says illegal immigration is destroying his city and its way of life and he's doing something about it.
DOBBS:
The federal government's failure to address the illegal immigration crisis in this country is forcing many city leaders across the country to take action. The mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, has introduced legislation to crack down on illegal aliens and the companies in his city that hire them. Kitty Pilgrim has the report from Hazleton.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hazleton, Pennsylvania, population 31,000, has seen its illegal alien population soar. The police chief says something had to be done about it. CHIEF ROBERT FERDINAND, HAZLETON, PA POLICE: We're having a problem with violent crimes being committed by illegal aliens in the city. The last murder we had was involving illegal aliens. The last major drug bust we've had involved illegal aliens.
PILGRIM: Officer John Leonard is on night patrol. He tells us what it's like on the street.
JOHN LEONARD, HAZLETON POLICE DEPARTMENT: Right now we're compiling a database for any suspected illegal aliens.
PILGRIM: Tonight, a quiet night. Only a few kids. But now the police chief says any illegal involved in gang activity will be turned over to ICE, to be deported. There are no clear numbers on how many illegals are in Hazleton. Mayor Lou Barletta says pressure was on him to do something.
MAYOR LOU BARLETTA, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA: As the mayor of this city, I have an obligation to do something to restore and protect the quality of life in this city.
PILGRIM: He introduced a measure that would take away the business license of any company that hires illegal aliens. George Hayden runs a family contracting business started by his father, three decades ago in Hazleton. While many contractors nationally hire illegal aliens to keep costs down, he believes it is wrong.
GEORGE HAYDEN, CONTRACTOR: As a company, I don't believe -- I believe that we need to continue using the people that we have, the forces that we have that are legal in this area, in this region, to do the work.
PILGRIM: The mayor is also introducing provisions to fine any landlord $1,000 per occupant if they are illegal.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PILGRIM: Now, the mayor says he has only a small budget to provide services for the legal residents of Hazleton, and he says he is tired of spending so much of that money on crime -- Lou.
DOBBS: Kitty, what is the -- as best you can judge it, the support for the mayor on this issue?
PILGRIM: Yes, we've been talking to a lot of people. And, of course, this is very controversial, Lou, but sincerely everyone we talked to today was very glad it was happening.
DOBBS: Kitty, thank you very much. Kitty Pilgrim reporting live from Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
The mayor of Hazleton says his city's Illegal Immigration Relief Act is one of the toughest laws of its kind in the country. He says illegal aliens are simply destroying the city that he loves and he doesn't want them there any longer. The measure he introduced last week was tentatively approved by the city council and it could become law in just a matter of weeks.
Mayor Lou Barletta joins me now from Hazleton. Mayor, good to have you with us.
BARLETTA: Thanks, Lou. Glad to be here.
DOBBS: This is a strong move you're taking, unlike some cities, about 40 in the country that have sanctuary laws. You're doing the inverse. You're saying if you're illegal, you're not welcome in Hazleton. What's been the reaction?
BARLETTA: Well, the reaction is I'm doing what the people of Hazleton elected me to do and that's to protect them and protect the quality of life. And that's what makes this city, which is a small city in America, so attractive to those that have lived here their entire life or those that have moved here for the quality of life that we enjoy.
DOBBS: Have you received more criticism or more support for the plan?
BARLETTA: It's been incredible. We've touched a nerve in the American people across the country. I'm getting e-mails from every state in the United States in support of this. We have over 3,000 e- mails in support of what we're doing here and maybe 10 that have been negative in that aspect.
And I think there are a lot of Hazleton, Pennsylvanias in the United States and people feel the same. They want a quality of life. They feel that people that are in this country illegally are draining the resources, draining budgets that are meant to be used to provide services for those that are here legally and paying taxes.
DOBBS: Let me give you an example of something, Mayor, local police in Belmont County, Ohio. They detained 20 illegal aliens early in the morning one evening this week. They called the Immigration and Customs Enforcement people. The federal officials told them let all of the illegal aliens go, they weren't going to do anything about it. Is that the kind of response that you're getting from the federal government?
BARLETTA: Well, actually, that is not what's really happening here. When we round up somebody that's in the country illegally, it's usually because they've committed a crime, unfortunately. And that's the type of thing that has this town terrorized.
And when I say it is destroying our city, it really is. When senior citizens are afraid to walk the street, I need to do something about it as the mayor and I can't wait for somebody else to do it for me. These people that live here, they don't want to talk to somebody in Washington or in Harrisburg or anywhere else. They want to talk to the mayor, and they expect me to do something.
And that's what we're going to do. We're going to protect ourselves. I understand the federal government is doing what it can to develop policies to protect our borders, but I have an obligation to protect the borders of the people that elected me to be their mayor.
DOBBS: Mayor -- Mr. Mayor, let's be really honest, the federal government is doing almost nothing to secure our borders and doing almost nothing to enforce our immigration laws in this country. I think we can be honest about that and direct.
BARLETTA: Well, we're going to do what we can to take this matter in our own hands and that's what's happening here in Hazleton.
DOBBS: Let me also quote, though, from another resident. You talked about your residents being terrified. If you would listen to this soundbite from one of the residents of your community with whom we spoke.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When we came here, we find the door open. We find the word saying welcome. Now we feel that you are closing the door for us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DOBBS: That's another reaction. It is -- you've been mayor there for what, six years now, Mr. Mayor?
BARLETTA: That's correct. I'm in my seventh year now.
DOBBS: And what has changed over time? Why -- obviously, somebody was welcoming these illegal aliens, hiring them, giving them jobs and asking them to work for usually very much substandard wages. What's changed?
BARLETTA: Well, I want to say this first, Lou, is that I am not rolling up the welcome mat for those that want to come to -- for immigrants that want to come to Hazleton. The key here is as long as you are legal, I welcome immigration.
However, what I do not want in this city is illegal immigrants. And somehow, some way, that is being lost in translation here. If you are illegal, I do not want you in this city. That's as plain as that. I can't be any more direct than that, and I cannot be any more direct than saying that we welcome legal immigration.
And what's changed, Lou, is the fact that we've had some very violent murders, very violent crimes here, gangland, gang-related graffiti, someone shooting -- an illegal shooting a firearm on a playground where Hispanic children were playing. To me, that is sacred ground. And as the mayor, I have an obligation to protect everybody that's here.
DOBBS: Mr. Mayor, we appreciate you being here. At this point, have you been threatened with lawsuits? What's the status there? Because you know that you're inviting them.
BARLETTA: Well, we haven't been, Lou. And, you know, actually, we feel -- I have sound legal advice, you know, on what we're doing here. We're trying to protect the rights of legal citizens that are in this city.
DOBBS: Mayor Lou Barletta, we thank you very much.
BARLETTA: Thank you, Lou.
DOBBS: Mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, appreciate your being here.
BARLETTA: Thank you. You're welcome.
DOBBS: A reminder now to vote in our poll. Do you believe that -- and this is on the issue of the so-called North American security and prosperity plan. You haven't heard about it? Well, you and millions of other Americans. But the idea of just merging Canada, Mexico and the United States into one, sometime some say within say, the next three to four years.
Do you think, our question is, maybe somebody should take a vote if we're going to merge Canada, Mexico and the United States as the leaders of the three countries are attempting to do with the security and prosperity partnership? Yes or no. Cast your vote at LouDobbs.com. The answer is coming up here shortly.
Still ahead, three of the country's best political analysts join me to talk about immigration reform, Iran, North Korea, and upcoming midterm elections. Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS: Joining me now Michael Goodwin, columnist "New York Daily News"; James Taranto, editor of opinionjournal.com; Robert Zimmerman, Democratic strategist and good fellow.
Let me start with you, good fellow. The fact of the matter is that Senator Kerry, the Democrats are having a hard time coming to some consensus on Iraq at the same time they're challenging the administration. What is going on?
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: What's called leadership, it's called initiative. I'm incredibly proud of the Democratic senators for having the courage to challenge the status quo and to come out there with alternative ideas. We talk about what the plan is, Bush doesn't have a plan. The Bush administration doesn't have a prayer. I'm all for faith-based initiatives, but not when it come to fighting war.
DOBBS: James Taranto, can you top that? That was a very good line.
JAMES TARANTO, EDITOR, OPINIONJOURNAL.COM: I think the Bush administration does have a plan which is to stay there until we can get out and leave Iraq a stable and decently governed Iraq behind.
DOBBS: I don't see that on a bumper sticker anywhere.
TARANTO: Well fair enough, but you also don't see President Bush running for re-election.
DOBBS: I hope there's no correlation between our -- between that fact and the strategy. Is there, Michael?
MICHAEL GOODWIN, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: No, I think that the Democrats are being dragged to the left by the energy of their party, which is on the Internet, which is the Howard Dean crowd.
And I think they're going to regret this vote because I think that it shows -- even someone like Hillary Clinton who doesn't support a timetable, but yet wants to support -- feel she has to support a plan for a phased withdrawal without a date and without a demand. That's being dragged to the left against your better judgment because that still puts you in the same position of telling the terrorists and telling our allies we want to get out of this.
DOBBS: Help me out there. Robert, just help me out.
ZIMMERMAN: OK.
DOBBS: Now, the Republicans are led by the right and that's apparently a good thing. The...
ZIMMERMAN: I didn't say it was a good thing.
DOBBS: ... Democrats tend to be criticized when they move to the left. So what am I losing here?
ZIMMERMAN: I think what we're all losing is the fact that we're letting the Republicans define what is left and right in America today. If you look at the most recent CNN polls -- in fact the CNN polls over a period of time, a majority of Americans believe this war was a mistake, feel it has been poorly planned, terribly executed and they want to see American soldiers withdrawn so that Iraqi soldiers fight these battles. So I don't consider its a left wing position. I think what the Democrats are doing is very mainstream.
TARANTO: Yes, but they don't want to see America pull out immediately or on a date certain.
ZIMMERMAN: No one is advocating that.
TARANTO: Yes, that is exactly what John Kerry is saying.
ZIMMERMAN: Quite the opposite. He's talking about a redeployment, there's a very big distinction.
TARANTO: Redeployment is a euphemism for cut and run.
ZIMMERMAN: No, it is not.
TARANTO: Is the _expression stay the course simply a euphemism for continued disappointment and the continued loss of American lives without achievement of political and military objectives?
GOODWIN: I think the question is do we believe we have a purpose there? And unless you want to say we have no purpose, and then therefore we should go immediately. If we should go, then why not go immediately?
ZIMMERMAN: Because no one's saying we don't have a purpose. The reality of our role there is to create a stable government. The approach that John Kerry and many of the Democrats are putting on the table is creating a stable government by creating standards and deadlines.
TARANTO: John Murtha is holding up our withdrawal from Somalia as an example. Somalia, which emboldened our enemies.
DOBBS: Let me change the issue of illegal immigration or comprehensive immigration reform and an absolute lack of border security for a change. And this is what Senator Ken Salazar had to say about the House of Representatives deciding to hold hearings to find out what's really going on in illegal immigration and border security. If you would all listen along with us please.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. KEN SALAZAR (D), COLORADO: I smell a rat, you know? And I think the rat is that the House of Representatives under their leadership really don't want a bill at all. What they want to do is they want to orchestrate this issue for political advantage.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DOBBS: Well let me ask you, James. Now Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the judicial committee, the author of the comprehensive immigration reform legislation passed by the Senate, not to be outdone, has called for hearings of his own. Aren't you proud?
TARANTO: Well, look, accusing a politician of acting out of political motives is kind of redundant, it seems to me. I think that the House Republicans...
DOBBS: ... It was the best question I could come up with on the spur of the moment.
TARANTO: The House Republicans would like to get something passed on the enforcement side. I suspect if they tone down their proposal somewhat and get rid of this proposal to make 11 million illegal immigrants felons, they might be able to get something through the Senate.
ZIMMERMAN: James, they have no interest in getting anything through the process and that's the real tragedy here. The reality of what the House Republicans are proposing is a complete reversal of the process. In the old days, you had hearings, then you passed legislation. Here the House Republicans have passed legislation, now they want to hold hearings. It's like having...
DOBBS: ... So does the Senate.
ZIMMERMAN: I think it's deplorable on both sides. It is like having a Broadway opening before you have previews.
DOBBS: I think it's absolutely mind boggling that the Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans -- the Senate Republican leadership passed a piece of legislation in two weeks and those phony, lying sons of guns stand up and talk about this 715 pages as if it's a real achievement, is a mockery of everything the Senate's supposed to be about.
ZIMMERMAN: I think they read it.
DOBBS: But those are the Senate Democrats that the president made into the majority party for the day.
ZIMMERMAN: Well we're going to work on that for November, Lou.
DOBBS: Are they going to succeed in November?
GOODWIN: Well, right now, the way Democrats handle themselves today, no. I mean, I think -- look Bush is very weak. He's not on the -- on any ballot but he's at the head of every Republican ticket.
DOBBS: Is that part of the problem for the Republicans in the House?
GOODWIN: Absolutely.
DOBBS: The fact that he's not on the ticket?
GOODWIN: Look what happened in the race in San Diego where the -- it's a Republican district, but he made immigration the main issue and he won going away. And I think that emboldened the House conservatives, that they have the right side of this issue among the public.
DOBBS: You get the last quick word on this, James.
TARANTO: I think that's right. I think the politics are on the side of immigration enforcement. I say that as somebody who would like to make it easier to become a citizen.
DOBBS: OK, and we'll take that conundrum and enigma and mystery and we'll wait until the next time. Come back soon. James Taranto, thank you very much. Michael Goodwin, Robert Zimmerman, thank you. Still ahead here, we'll have more of your thoughts and some of those thoughts will sort out all of this, and the results of our poll which will be a clear declaration of the direction of this country over the next 10 years. Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
DOBBS: The results of our poll tonight, 98 percent of you say maybe, just maybe somebody should take a vote if we are going to go ahead and merge Canada, Mexico and the United States. There's still a suggestion that we do want to be of the people and by the people and for the people. That's reassuring to me. I hope it is to you.
Taking a look now at more of your thoughts.
Andrea in Missouri: Whatever happened to "proud to be an American?" Our government certainly doesn't make me proud. It disgusts me.
And John in Tennessee: Earned legalization for illegal aliens that have been here longer? Shouldn't they receive larger fines and possibly other legal actions taken against them for breaking our laws for a longer period of time?
Interesting point.
And Frank in Kentucky: Lou, don't put all the blame for the failure of students in our public schools and teachers and administration. Try putting it where it starts: the parents who wouldn't help their children and those who've taken the discipline out of public schools, mostly parents and lawyers.
And Cathy in Minnesota: Dear Lou, the minimum wage has not been increased since 1997. How about a maximum wage? Say it was $1,000 per hour, oh no. Poor CEOs would only make, let's see, 40 hours a week, 40,000 times, $2 million a year? Outrageous! How could they manage on such a paltry pay?
And Frank in New York: Shame on the Senate for accepting their pay raise while saying no to any legislation to raise the minimum wage for honest, hard-working Americans doing jobs congressional members will not do.
That's our broadcast for tonight. We thank you for being with us. Stay with CNN as "THE SITUATION ROOM" is about to begin right now with Wolf Blitzer -- Wolf.
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The first time we saw Lou Dobbs mention this issue,
"The North American Union", in 2005.
That 2005 clip can be found here:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ensmPJm5B5A
Note: The following phrase and source are talked about in the
Lou Dobbs' CNN video from 2005, (mentioned above):
"Building a North American Community"
Source: "Independent Task Force on the Future of North America".
Here's the Google search results on both terms:
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 563 for
"Building a North American Community"
"Independent Task Force on the Future of North America":
http://tinyurl.com/zb437
More Google search results:
Results 1 - 10 of about 24,000 for "Building a North American Community":
http://tinyurl.com/gszqj
Results 1 - 10 of about 596 for "Independent Task Force on the Future of North America".
http://tinyurl.com/mcxnz
For more on this subject,
check out more Google searches:
Results 1 - 10 of about 84,800 for
"Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America":
http://tinyurl.com/pc6xx
See spp.gov
and check this out:
Results 1 - 10 of about 38,000 for "North American Union" SPP:
http://tinyurl.com/q3qe6
Watch more videos on this subject:
Here's the link again to the June 21, 2006 CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight"
North American Union video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCeWQ9Ge38
There are lots of other videos about this subject. See the right side of the page at the link above.
Here are more links to the same video:
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Canadian Action Party says this is bad news for Canada.
It spells the end of Canada!
Connie Fogal trys to warn Canadians.
The enemy: Council of Foreign Relations (CFR)
enemy 2: Canadian Council of Chief Exectutives (CCCE)
enemy 3: Consejo Mexicano de Ansuntos Internacionales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyWiGQ_tgM
The Morphosis and the sabotage of Canada by our own government
by Connie Fogal
written in three parts: print entire article (PDF)
The North American continent is being transformed from three sovereign nations Canada, USA, Mexico) into one regional corporate power base, the North American Union. Unlike the creation of the European Union, there is no public political/ academic discourse on the merits, or pros and cons of a North American Union building up to a vote within each nation as to the wish of the people to join such a union. Instead the union is being created by stealth, is already well on its way to fruition, and is being imposed on us by our own elected representatives and government with no opposition.
The driving force is corporate. The Chief Executive Officers of the most powerful corporations operating in the three countries want this union and have been working for some time devising their strategies and goals. Their facilitators are first, unelected officials and bureaucrats who move easily between corporations and government; second, former elected officials like John Manley , former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada; third, the heads of the three nations, Martin, Bush, and Fox; and finally, the governments and the rest of the elected members who apparently just rubber stamp what is put in front of them by the unelected officials- few questions, if any asked.
The ultimate enforcement mechanism for the North American Union is a police state.
The tools for the police state are "anti-terrorist" laws which, in themselves, are a ruse to strip the citizens of civil liberties in order to prevent dissent against the police state.
The Orwellian justification is "security", "safety".
• Part 1- The North American Union
• Part 2- Agreements, Arrangements, and Laws
• Part 3- Effect of the Bad Laws, some history, and what to do
http://www.paulgrignon.netfirms.com/CanadianActionParty/Metamorphosis0.html
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
CFR's solution to illegal immigration
Grandiose Council on Foreign Relations' plan barely mentions alien invasion of U.S.
Editor's note: With scarcely a mention of the horrendous illegal immigration problem plaguing America, the Council on Foreign Relations – which some call America's "shadow government" – has laid out a comprehensive plan to essentially merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one entity with an outer security perimeter. Following are selected excerpts of the 59-page document, titled "Building a North American Community."
Excerpts:
Establish a common security perimeter by 2010. The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should articulate as their long-term goal a common security perimeter for North America. In particular, the three governments should strive toward a situation in which a terrorist trying to penetrate our borders will have an equally hard time doing so, no matter which country he elects to enter first. We believe that these measures should be extended to include a commitment to common approaches toward international negotiations on the global movement of people, cargo, and vessels. Like free trade a decade ago, a common security perimeter for North America is an ambitious but achievable goal that will require specific policy, statutory, and procedural changes in all three nations.
Develop a North American Border Pass. The three countries should develop a secure North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers. This document would allow its bearers expedited passage through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout the region. The program would be modeled on the U.S.-Canadian "NEXUS" and the U.S.-Mexican "SENTRI" programs, which provide "smart cards" to allow swifter passage to those who pose no risk. Only those who voluntarily seek, receive, and pay the costs for a security clearance would obtain a Border Pass. The pass would be accepted at all border points within North America as a complement to, but not a replacement for, national identity documents or passports.
While polls show a majority of Americans favor a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the CFR report is advocating exactly the opposite:
Lay the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America. The three governments should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically diminishing the need for the current intensity of the governments’ physical control of cross-border traffic, travel, and trade within North America. A long-term goal for a North American border action plan should be joint screening of travelers from third countries at their first point of entry into North America and the elimination of most controls over the temporary movement of these travelers within North America.
Establish a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution. The current NAFTA dispute-resolution process is founded on ad hoc panels that are not capable of building institutional memory or establishing precedent, may be subject to conflicts of interest, and are appointed by authorities who may have an incentive to delay a given proceeding. As demonstrated by the efficiency of the World Trade Organization (WTO) appeal process, a permanent tribunal would likely encourage faster, more consistent, and more predictable resolution of disputes. In addition, there is a need to review the workings of NAFTA’s dispute-settlement mechanism to make it more efficient, transparent, and effective. …
While America is being transformed demographically, and in particular the U.S. Southwest targeted for takeover by militant illegal immigrant groups, the CFR recommends "increased labor mobility" between Mexico and the U.S.
Increase Labor Mobility within North America
People are North America’s greatest asset. Goods and services cross borders easily; ensuring the legal transit of North American workers has been more difficult. Experience with the NAFTA visa system suggests that its procedures need to be simplified, and such visas should be made available to a wider range of occupations and to additional categories of individuals such as students, professors, bona fide frequent visitors, and retirees.
To make the most of the impressive pool of skill and talent within North America, the three countries should look beyond the NAFTA visa system. The large volume of undocumented migrants from Mexico within the United States is an urgent matter for those two countries to address. A long-term goal should be to create a "North American Preference" – new rules that would make it much easier for employees to move and for employers to recruit across national boundaries within the continent. This would enhance North American competitiveness, increase productivity, contribute to Mexico’s development, and address one of the main outstanding issues on the Mexican-U.S. bilateral agenda.
Canada and the United States should consider eliminating restrictions on labor mobility altogether and work toward solutions that, in the long run, could enable the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico as well. …
There is even a plan to open up Social Security to Mexicans:
Implement the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico. This agreement would recognize payroll contributions to each other’s systems, thus preventing double taxation. …
The entire CFR report, "Building a North American Community," can be read online here.
Related offer: To learn all about the plan to integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada, read the special edition of WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled "ALIEN NATION: SECRETS OF THE INVASION."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51038
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
U.S.-Mexico merger opposition intensifies
Some see secret efforts to scrap dollar, end U.S. sovereignty, combine nations
Posted: July 9, 2006
WASHINGTON – Are secret meetings being held between the corporate and political elites of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to push North America into a European Union-style merger?
Is President Bush's reluctance to control the border and enforce laws requiring deportation of foreigners who enter the country illegally part of a master plan to all but eliminate borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico?
Does the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America include a common currency that would scrap the dollar in favor of what some are calling the "amero"?
It may be the biggest story of the 21st century, but few press outlets are telling it. In fact, until very recently, few in the U.S. were aware of the plans and even fewer denouncing what appears to be the implementation of an effort some have characterized as "NAFTA on steroids."
But opposition is mounting.
CNN's Lou Dobbs
Perhaps the most blistering criticism has come from Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of Bush's immigration policies.
"A regional prosperity and security program?" he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. "This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are -- we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is -- I mean, this is beyond belief."
What has Dobbs and a few other vocal critics bugged began in earnest March 31, 2005, when the elected leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada agreed to advance the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
No one seems quite certain what that agenda is because of the vagueness of the official declarations. But among the things the leaders of the three countries agreed to work toward were borders that would allow for easier and faster moving of goods and people between the countries.
Coming as the announcement did in the midst of a raging national debate in the U.S. over borders seen as far to open already, more than a few jaws dropped.
Previous stories:
More evidence of Mexican trucks coming to U.S.
Docs reveal plan for Mexican trucks in U.S.
Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?
Tancredo confronts 'super-state' effort
Bush sneaking North American super-state without oversight?
Mexico, Canada partnership underway with no authorization from Congress
Related column:
Coming soon to U.S.: Mexican customs office
Merger with Mexico
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