De Pro Israel Lobby 6

De Amerikaanse voormalige ambassadeur in Irak Edward Peck schrijft: 'Of course Israel has a lobby. The London Review of Books recently published an article, by professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, on the Israel lobby's negative impact on U.S. domestic and international interests. The expected tsunami of rabid responses condemned the report, vilified its authors and denied there is such a lobby -- validating both the lobby's existence and aggressive, pervasive presence and obliging Harvard to remove its name. All democracies have lobbies. Shrill insistence that no groups promote Israel is ludicrous. Opinions differ on the long-term costs and benefits for both nations, but the lobby's views of Israel's interests have become the basis of U.S. Middle East policies. That this influence largely results from the efforts of people determined to exercise their democratic prerogatives is not open to question - - or to challenge. The dangerous, unacceptable result of that lobbying, however, is the stifling of public debate. Knowing the fiercely negative reactions to accurate, detailed reporting of controversies surrounding Israel, the media fail to cover Israel's violations of every principle for which the United States -- and Israel -- loudly proclaim they stand. There is only rare, skimpy coverage of the ongoing Israeli mass punishments, house demolitions, illegal settlements, assassinations, settler brutality, curfews and beatings. On the other hand, the blind Palestinian rage generated by decades of receiving humiliating, savage suppression in their homeland is reported in lurid, bloody detail.' Lees verder: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06099/680444-109.stm Of:
http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0604&L=justwatch-l&D=1&O=D&P=25692

Iran 23

De Independent bericht: 'Target Iran: US hints at a new battlefront. Tensions are rising over Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons programme as the Pentagon considers its military options.
They are the human shields. Every time there is the sound of sabre-rattling from the West over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme, the protesters are back in the picture. Some have been deployed in a human chain outside sensitive sites in remote areas of Iran. Others rally outside the embassies of the United States and Britain in Tehran. In the West, public opinion is hardening against the prospect of a nuclear-armed Islamic republic. Inside Iran, the public has been galvanised by its leaders into mobilising in support of the country's nuclear programme. The Iranian demonstrators are likely to be needed again in the light of a shock report by the authoritative journalist Seymour Hersh that the Bush administration is considering possible strikes by tactical "bunker-buster'' nuclear missiles able to destroy facilities deep underground. According to his article in The New Yorker, the plans aimed at engineering regime change in Tehran have split the Pentagon top brass to such an extent that some officers have threatened to resign their posts.' Lees verder:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article356854.ece

De Dollar Hegemonie 7

Ik kreeg net deze email van collega Peter Schumacher over de Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournalist en auteur Sterling Seagrave:
'Goede morgen Stan,

Ik kreeg dit van Sterling Seagrave. Heb jij hier iets meer over gehoord? Iran wel, natuurlijk (Hersh, New Yorker), maar over dat geld?

ACCORDING TO OUR SOURCES IN THE US TREASURY, THE WHITE HOUSE HAS SECRETLY ORDERED THE FEDERAL
RESERVE TO PRINT TWO TRILLION DOLLARS IMMEDIATELY, AND PUT INTO CIRCULATION! OUR
SOURCES IN THE TREASURY ARE FLABBERGASTED! IT MEANS THE COLLAPSE OF THE US DOLLAR'S VALUE, AND
PROBABLY PRESAGES THE DOWNFALL OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN CORROBORATED BY THREE SEPARATE U.S. TREASURY SOURCES.
Six months ago, the Federal Reserve quietly announced that as of March 20, 2006, they would no longer publish "M3" Data. The "M3" was the amount of cash the government printed to put into circulation, propping-up the U.S. economy.
As of eight days ago, M3 data is no longer being reported, so there is no way for the public, investors or bond holders to know how much currency exists - and no way to gauge how much a "dollar" is truly worth.
Three separate sources in the U.S. Treasury have told us that this week, the Federal Reserve ordered TWO TRILLION dollars to be printed secretly! The U.S. Treasury is allegedly running printing presses 24/7 to accommodate that order. Treasury employees were specifically ORDERED not to talk about this to anyone because it could cause economic collapse.
This probably explains why the US Treasury Secretary resigned several months ago and was replaced by a Bush flunkey, and why Greenspan resigned from the Fed several weeks ago, not wanting to go down with the Titanic.
We were also told that the whole Immigration Amnesty Debate (especially the well-funded well-attended protests) was deliberately
scheduled to take place now, to divert attention from this massive printing/devaluation of the U.S. Dollar. The White House apparently hoped that by the time anyone found out about the flooding of the market with dollars, they could stage an event, such as an air attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, that would distract the public entirely.
The leaking of this information by alarmed Treasury sources could effectively neutralize that strategy, although it may be too late to
call a halt to the attack on Iran.
Watch for Gold, Silver, Platinum and other precious metals to skyrocket in price within days as the world wakes up and begins dumping the U.S. Dollar in favor of precious metals and the Euro.
Last month a leading financial consultant told a Canadian television interviewer that he expected gold to jump to $2,000 an ounce in the coming months -- but did not explain why, except to blame the Bush Administrations squandering of dollar reserves.
As of this morning, Silver was already at a ten year high and Gold was alrready within a few dollars of a 25 year high. The U.S. Dollar is falling against all major world currencies.
We have been predicting this over the past two or three years, as the inevitable consequence of the Bush administration's bizarre policies, although we were not certain exactly when it would occur. More details as they become available.

Sterling (Seagrave)

Hartelijke groeten,

Peter'

Iran 22

De Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournalist Seymour Hersh bericht: 'The Iran Plans. Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium. American and European intelligence agencies, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.), agree that Iran is intent on developing the capability to produce nuclear weapons. But there are widely differing estimates of how long that will take, and whether diplomacy, sanctions, or military action is the best way to prevent it. Iran insists that its research is for peaceful use only, in keeping with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that it will not be delayed or deterred. There is a growing conviction among members of the United States military, and in the international community, that President Bush's ultimate goal in the nuclear confrontation with Iran is regime change. Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has challenged the reality of the Holocaust and said that Israel must be "wiped off the map." Bush and others in the White House view him as a potential Adolf Hitler, a former senior intelligence official said. "That's the name they're using. They say, 'Will Iran get a strategic weapon and threaten another world war?' " A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was "absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb" if it is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do "what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do," and "that saving Iran is going to be his legacy."
One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush Administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government." He added, "I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself, 'What are they smoking?' " The rationale for regime change was articulated in early March by Patrick Clawson, an Iran expert who is the deputy director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and who has been a supporter of President Bush. "So long as Iran has an Islamic republic, it will have a nuclear-weapons program, at least clandestinely," Clawson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 2nd. "The key issue, therefore, is: How long will the present Iranian regime last?"' Lees verder: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact Of:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040906Y.shtml

11 September 2001(6)

Van Bou Berkenbosch ontving ik deze email: 'De laatste dagen zie ik op Internet veel berichten en zelfs een website over 9/11 in het Nederlands. En het protest tegen de officiële verklaring omtrent 9/11 is ook veel sterker geworden.

Op 9 september 2005 heeft Twee Vandaag een reportage uitgezonden, waarin twee voormalige ministers, een Engelsman en een Duitser, hun twijfels uitten over 9/11. Zie: http://www.apollo98.nl/nieuws_911aanslagofgeschenk.html Maar sindsdien hoorden we er nauwelijks meer iets over, terwijl 9/11 wel nog voortdurend als reden wordt genoemd voor de huidige oorlogspolitiek, ook die van Nederland!
De Amerikaanse organisatie Reopen 9/11 heeft nu ook een Nederlandse website geopend: http://www.reopen911.nl/ Daarop staan met Nederlandse ondertiteling een 1 ½ uur durende film: "Painful Deceptions" en een 2 ½ uur durende documentaire: "Confronting the Evidence" in 5 afleveringen. Ook kan men er een petitie ondertekenen om het onderzoek te heropenen.
Op de Nederlandse website http://www.eqgen.nl/html/aanslagen911_twintorens.html staat te lezen hoe de Twin Towers waren gebouwd en hoe ze zijn ingestort.
http://www.vkmag.com/zapruder/ is en Nederlands weblog waarop 9/11 sinds 1 april uitgebreid wordt besproken. Er wordt daar nu ook een opiniepeiling gehouden.

Inmiddels zijn er een aantal documentaires over 9/11 online te zien. Aanraders vind ik: "Loose Change 2nd edition" en "9/11 Eyewitness." Ook "9/11 in Plane Site" vond ik een goede film, maar deze is niet gratis te bekijken.
Op http://thetruthseeker.org/item/11 staan bovengenoemde drie documentaires.
Op http://question911.com/links.php staan meer films over 9/11 en aanverwante zaken.
Op http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/ heeft men de films nu bijna bovenaan geplaatst.

Op 8 september 2005 verklaarde een groep belangrijke personen:
Top Politicians, Economists, Other Leaders State 9/11 Possibly an Inside Job
Zie: http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911
Op http://www.911falseflag.net/ noemt men het nu openlijk een Valse Vlag Operatie. Deze website is online sinds eind januari 2006.
Op 6 maart 2006 begon een groep geleerden een handtekeningenactie om alle in beslag genomen bewijsmaterialen van 9/11 vrij te geven. Zie: http://www.st911.org/
Op 13 maart 2006 verscheen er in drie grote dagbladen in de V.S. een oproep om president Bush af te zetten. Op http://www.impeachbush.org/ heeft men binnen drie weken reeds meer dan 700.000 handtekeningen verzameld en men gaat door tot 1 miljoen.
Op 20 maart 2006 verklaarde de acteur Charlie Sheen in een nieuwsshow van CNN, dat hij het officiële verhaal rond 9/11 niet gelooft. Daarop heeft CNN een opiniepeiling gehouden. Ruim 82% van de respondenten was het eens met Charlie Sheen. Zie: http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/sheen/index.htm
Op 31 maart 2006 kondigde president Chavez van Venezuela aan, dat hij een internationaal onderzoek wil helpen starten naar 9/11. Zie: http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060331002111585 en
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
articles/march2006/310306launchinvestigation.htm
Op 4 april 2006 verklaarde Robert Bowman, het voormalige hoofd van het Starwars-project, dat vice-president Dick Cheney de belangrijkste verdachte is van 9/11. Zie: http://www.prisonplanet.com/
articles/april2006/040406mainsuspect.htm

Ook dit een kettingbrief, dus als u dit wilt plaatsen, dan zou ik daar blij mee zijn.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Bou Berkenbosch'

Voor meer over 11 september 2001 zie: http://webdisk.planet.nl/houck006/default.aspx teksten/Bou Berkenbosch

Barbara Ehrenreich

De Amerikaanse auteur Barbara Ehrenreich schrijft: 'Was it only three years ago that some of our puffed up patriots were denouncing the French as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," too fattened on Camembert to stub out their Gaulois and get down with the war on Iraq? Well, take another look at the folks who invented the word liberté. Throughout the month of March and beyond, they were demonstrating, rioting, and burning up cars to preserve a right Americans can only dream of: the right not to be fired at an employer's whim. The French government's rationale for its new labor law was impeccable from an economist's standpoint: Make it easier for employers to fire people and they will be more willing to hire people. So why was Paris burning? What corporations call "flexibility" - the right to dispose of workers at will - is what workers experience as disposability, not to mention insecurity and poverty. The French students who were tossing Molotov cocktails didn't want to become what they call "a Kleenex generation" - used and tossed away when the employer decides he needs a fresh one.
You may recognize in the French government's reasoning the same arguments Americans hear whenever we raise a timid plea for a higher minimum wage or a halt to the steady erosion of pensions and health benefits: "What?" scream the economists who flack for the employing class. "If you do anything, anything at all, to offend or discomfit the employers, they will respond by churlishly failing to employ you! Unemployment will rise, and you - lacking, of course, the health care and other benefits provided by the French welfare state - will quickly spiral down into starvation."' Lees verder: http://progressive.org/mag_ehrenreich0506 Of: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040706LA.shtml

De Leugens van Bush

Common Dreams bericht: 'President Bush, 2003: 'Leaks of Classified Information Are a Bad Thing.' NEW YORK - With the revelations Thursday that former Vice President Cheney aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby had testified before a grand jury that President Bush had authorized him to leak classified information to reporter Judith Miller in July 2003, it seems appropriate to recall the president's response to questions on this subject a little more than two months later. It took place in Chicago on Sept. 30, 2003, at a meeting with business leaders.The transcript follows:Q Do you think that the Justice Department can conduct an impartial investigation, considering the political ramifications of the CIA leak, and why wouldn't a special counsel be better?THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There's leaks at the executive branch; there's leaks in the legislative branch. There's just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.And so I welcome the investigation. I -- I'm absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job. There's a special division of career Justice Department officials who are tasked with doing this kind of work; they have done this kind of work before in Washington this year. I have told our administration, people in my administration to be fully cooperative.I want to know the truth. If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business.' Lees verder: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0407-01.htm