The Arizona Sentinel

November 30, 2009

This is why we can not afford to put children in office

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 3:07 pm
  
A serious warning to consider! Read this post then click on this:
 
http://www.usdebtclock.org/  and this from the
  
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:45 AM
Subject: Fwd: EXTREMELY URGENT REPORT FROM BOB CHAPMAN-PLEASE REVIEW AND RETRANSMIT ASAP
Begin forwarded message:
From: EEXI
Date: November 28, 2009 9:28:10 PM PST (CA)
To: EEXI
Subject: EXTREMELY URGENT REPORT FROM BOB CHAPMAN-PLEASE REVIEW AND RETRANSMIT ASAP
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“What we are witnessing in the US and world economy is the result of the greed of central banks to make as much money as possible before they have to collapse the system to bring about World Government. “The final step will be the termination of the Federal Reserve and its monopoly on financial theft. Unfortunately it will mean the demise of the only financial system we have known for 315 years. We do not know as yet what the new system will be like, but the con game is over and most of the world’s inhabitants are broke. The debt that is owed simply cannot be repaid. Japan, the US, the UK and Europe will be the first to go followed by most of the rest of the world.”

The International Forecaster

Potential For Fed To Hyperinflate

November 28 2009

“In the final analysis banking is a fraud unless money is interest free. The Fed, and all the other banks are a fraud. The situation is still dire and the solution is temporary and unworkable and Washington and New York are well aware of this. The game will play out over the next few years. In the meantime the dollar will move lower and inflation, gold and silver higher.”
  The following information may be the most important we have ever published. One of our Intel sources, highly placed in banking circles, tells us that on 1/1/10 all banks that have received TARP funds have been informed by the Federal Reserve that they must further restrict any commercial lending. Loans have to be 75% collateralized, 50% of which has to be in cash, which is a compensating balance.

The Fed has to do one of two things: They either have to pull $1.5 trillion out of the system by June, which would collapse the economy, or face hyperinflation.

 
 

“The Fed also expects a meltdown in the bond market, especially in municipals. Public services will be cut drastically leading to increased crime and social problems, not to mention the psychological trauma that our country will experience. Already 50% of homes in hard hit urban areas are under water, nationwide more than 25%. That means you have to be out of bonds as well, especially municipals.”

 

  
  

“We have been told that the FDIC not only is $8.2 billion in the hole, but they have secretly borrowed an additional $80 billion from the Treasury. We have also been told that the FDIC is lying about the banks in trouble. The number in eminent danger are not 552, but a massive 2,035. The cost of bailing these banks out would be $800 billion to $1 trillion. That means 2,500 could be closed in 2010. Now get this, the FDIC is going to be collapsed before the end of 2010, which means no more deposit insurance. This follows the 9/18/09 end of government guarantees on money market funds. Both will force deposits into US government bonds and agency bonds in an attempt to save the system.”

  

“This will strip small and medium-sized banks and force them into shutting down or being absorbed. This means you have to get your money out of banks, especially CDs. We repeat get your cash values out of life insurance policies and annuities. They are invested 80% in stocks and 20% in bonds. Keep only enough money in banks for three months of operating expenses, six months for businesses.

  

“Major and semi-major banks are being told to obtain secure storage for new currency-dollars. They expect official devaluation by the end of the year.”

 

“We do not know what the exchange rate will be, but as we have stated previously we expect three old dollars to be traded for one new dollar. The alternative is gold and silver coins and shares. For those with substantial sums that do not want to be in gold and silver related assets completely you can use Canadian and Swiss Treasuries. If you need brokers for these investments we can supply them.”

  
 
“You ask who will be the big winners? Gold and silver of course. Just as we have been telling you they would for 9-1/2 years, since gold was $252.00 and silver $3.80. Look at the gains for those who listened.”
  
 “As you can see, the Illuminist program is going to come quicker than we anticipated. That in part is because they have had to expedite their program, due to exposure in the IF, other publications and especially via talk ratio and the Internet. There is no doubt we have the elitists on the run.We are reaching the masses. On TalkStreamLive.com we were on the Rumor Mill this past week and out of 50 talk radio programs we were 5th behind, Rush, Hannity, Dr. Laura and we were tied with Beck. On the Sovereign Economist on Wednesday night we were 5th behind Beck and Savage and ahead of Hannity. Both these programs are not well known and the Sovereign Economist is only about a month old. It shows you what you can do if you work hard enough at it.
  
  
  
The underlying problems are still not being addressed. The US government and the Fed cannot bail out banking, Wall Street, insurance and government indefinitely via monetization. Impaired corporations, no matter what their size, have to be allowed to fail. Stimulus cannot be used indefinitely. Both have to be reigned in, because the longer this charade continues the worse the final outcome is going to be. As we predicted six year’s ago, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae and FHA are the wards of American taxpayers, as is AIG. All their financial conditions worsen every day. They have again been insuring subprime mortgages by the thousands and when they begin to reset next year, we will be back to 60% failure rates.
  
  
Summary: always the question about what the Fed will do, more pressure on small and medium banks, municipal bond meltdown, bailouts cant go on indefinitely, looking at the banks, and recalling the French Revolution, the truth of fractional banking
The following information may be the most important we have ever published. One of our Intel sources, highly placed in banking circles, tells us that on 1/1/10 all banks that have received TARP funds have been informed by the Federal Reserve that they must further restrict any commercial lending. Loans have to be 75% collateralized, 50% of which has to be in cash, which is a compensating balance.The Fed has to do one of two things: They either have to pull $1.5 trillion out of the system by June, which would collapse the economy, or face hyperinflation. This is why the Fed has instructed banks to inform them when and how much of the TARP funds they can return. At best they can expect $300 to $400 billion plus the $200 billion the Fed already has in hand.We believe the Fed will opt for letting the system run into hyperinflation. All signs tell us they cannot risk allowing the undertow of deflation to take over the economy. The system cannot stand such a withdrawal of funds. They also must depend on assistance from Congress in supplying a second stimulus plan. That would probably be $400 to $800 billion. A lack of such funding would send the economy and the stock market into a tailspin. Even with such funding the economy cannot expect any growth to speak of and at best a sideways movement for perhaps a year.

We have been told that the FDIC not only is $8.2 billion in the hole, but they have secretly borrowed an additional $80 billion from the Treasury. We have also been told that the FDIC is lying about the banks in trouble. The number in eminent danger are not 552, but a massive 2,035. The cost of bailing these banks out would be $800 billion to $1 trillion. That means 2,500 could be closed in 2010. Now get this, the FDIC is going to be collapsed before the end of 2010, which means no more deposit insurance. This follows the 9/18/09 end of government guarantees on money market funds. Both will force deposits into US government bonds and agency bonds in an attempt to save the system.

This will strip small and medium-sized banks and force them into shutting down or being absorbed. This means you have to get your money out of banks, especially CDs. We repeat get your cash values out of life insurance policies and annuities. They are invested 80% in stocks and 20% in bonds. Keep only enough money in banks for three months of operating expenses, six months for businesses.

Major and semi-major banks are being told to obtain secure storage for new currency-dollars. They expect official devaluation by the end of the year.

We do not know what the exchange rate will be, but as we have stated previously we expect three old dollars to be traded for one new dollar. The alternative is gold and silver coins and shares. For those with substantial sums that do not want to be in gold and silver related assets completely you can use Canadian and Swiss Treasuries. If you need brokers for these investments we can supply them.

The Fed also expects a meltdown in the bond market, especially in municipals. Public services will be cut drastically leading to increased crime and social problems, not to mention the psychological trauma that our country will experience. Already 50% of homes in hard hit urban areas are under water, nationwide more than 25%. That means you have to be out of bonds as well, especially municipals.

As you can see, the Illuminist program is going to come quicker than we anticipated. That in part is because they have had to expedite their program, due to exposure in the IF, other publications and especially via talk ratio and the Internet. There is no doubt we have the elitists on the run.

We are reaching the masses. On TalkStreamLive.com we were on the Rumor Mill this past week and out of 50 talk radio programs we were 5th behind, Rush, Hannity, Dr. Laura and we were tied with Beck. On the Sovereign Economist on Wednesday night we were 5th behind Beck and Savage and ahead of Hannity. Both these programs are not well known and the Sovereign Economist is only about a month old. It shows you what you can do if you work hard enough at it.

The latest favorable events we are told are the seeds of recovery. The green-shoots of spring are to be harvested before winter sets in. We are skeptical of the strength and duration of such a recovery.

The underlying problems are still not being addressed. The US government and the Fed cannot bail out banking, Wall Street, insurance and government indefinitely via monetization. Impaired corporations, no matter what their size, have to be allowed to fail. Stimulus cannot be used indefinitely. Both have to be reigned in, because the longer this charade continues the worse the final outcome is going to be. As we predicted six year’s ago, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae and FHA are the wards of American taxpayers, as is AIG. All their financial conditions worsen every day. They have again been insuring subprime mortgages by the thousands and when they begin to reset next year, we will be back to 60% failure rates. Even government admits already they’ll see 20% failure rates. This, so that housing inventory can be cut from 11-1/2-months inventory to 7-months, again in order to bail out the lenders at the expense of taxpayers. Government and the Fed have no exit plans for these sinking ships, particularly Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie and FHA, never mind their meddling in the economy guaranteeing everything is sight. Benito Mussolini would be very proud of what they have done.

Then we have those on Wall Street, banking and corporate America who believe they are doing God’s work by looting the American public making outrageous profits by in part using taxpayer funds, and allotting themselves disgraceful bonuses as unemployment hovers at 22.2%. Haven’t these people heard of the French Revolution? Their arrogance has no bounds. The credit crisis hasn’t ended; the Fed has extended it by throwing money at problems. We have a mortgage market that is worse than it was a year ago, only kept from sinking by a tax credit 3% down. As a result now we have more than $1 trillion of new mortgage failures on the way.

Our monetary base has more than doubled. Interest rates will probably stay where they are for 18 months or more and we even have a dollar carry trade. The 2009 fiscal budget deficit was $1.5 trillion and 2010 will be worse. Government is not cutting expenses. They are increasing expenses.

In addition making matters worse corruption is flourishing via the incestuous revolving door between Wall Street, the Treasury, in a multiplicity of other appointments and with the Fed. Is it any wonder 75% of Americans want the Fed audited and investigated. That said, the present set of circumstances cannot be allowed to go on indefinitely. We cannot keep insurance, Wall Street and banking on life support forever. Not when we finance two occupations and an ongoing war, never mind our unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Social Security, etc. most all of these problems are being financed by debt to be paid by our great, great grandchildren. We just created $12.7 trillion for bailouts and the Inspector General tells us we are presently on the hook for $23.7 trillion. What happens if all the recipients need another $20 trillion?

The situation is still dire and the solution is temporary and unworkable and Washington and New York are well aware of this. The game will play out over the next few years. In the meantime the dollar will move lower and inflation, gold and silver higher.

Economics is not complex; it is very simple. Professors and economists would like to have you believe it is complicated when in fact they make it opaque, so you cannot understand it. The same is true with banking. In normal times through the century’s bankers using the fractional banking system usually lent 8 times their assets, or deposits. It was only until recently that the privately owned Federal Reserve told banks within the system to lend 40 times assets or more in order to accommodate the system.

All this is to cover to confuse and hide the truth of fractional banking. Bankers’ indebt borrowers with money they made up out of thin air. Debt is enslavement by the bankers upon the people by buying almost everyone off. In the final analysis banking is a fraud unless money is interest free. The Fed, and all the other banks are a fraud.

The game as we know it today began in 1694 when the Rothschild’s formed the privately owned Bank of England and the production of bank notes began and circulated along with sterling silver coins. The end result has been that the bankers own the world. The system today is based on confidence and trust, something that has been worn thin. A reflection of the loss of trust and confidence is that 75% to 80% of Americans want HR1207 and S604 passed by Congress, so that the Fed can be audited and investigated. The public no longer trusts the Fed and the banks. As a result the con game may well be coming to an end. Fifty years ago we and a handful of other conservative warriors set out to inform the public of the giant scam that the Fed really was. It has been a long hard road. Gary Allen and Alan Stang are gone and of the originals all that are left are G. Edward Griffin, Stan Monteith, Anthony Hilder and us. During our lifetimes we now probably will see the end of the Fed. Because the people have finally been awakened. It was a long hard battle that may soon come to fruition.

The final step will be the termination of the Federal Reserve and its monopoly on financial theft. Unfortunately it will mean the demise of the only financial system we have known for 315 years. We do not know as yet what the new system will be like, but the con game is over and most of the world’s inhabitants are broke. The debt that is owed simply cannot be repaid. Japan, the US, the UK and Europe will be the first to go followed by most of the rest of the world.

You ask who will be the big winners? Gold and silver of course. Just as we have been telling you they would for 9-1/2 years, since gold was $252.00 and silver $3.80. Look at the gains for those who listened. And, we still have a long, long way to go to preserve our wealth. Over all those years the gold suppression cartel fought to hold down gold prices by selling gold, using derivatives and futures and in collaboration with good producers such as Barrick Gold and others. Hopefully HR3996 (HR-1207) will now pass unchanged and we can take a look at what the Fed and the Treasury were doing and who aided them.

What we are witnessing in the US and world economy is the result of the greed of central banks to make as much money as possible before they have to collapse the system to bring about World Government.

Manufacturing activity in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s district improved in November.

 

November 29, 2009

Obama/Gates following the Johnson/MacNamara model

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 6:40 pm

Obama , is falling into the trap bush set, exactly like Johnson did after Eisenhower and Kennedy. What is surprising is that while Obama is supposed to be this mental giant. He is following the same path , Johnson took that killed fifty-eight thousand Americans, sent the American debt soaring, and destroyed Johnson’s Presidency and ultimately shortened is life. Unfortunately he did manage to shove this entitlement nonsense down our throats.

Lyndon Johnson listened to Robert McNamara , and history is repeating itself with Robert Gates current Sec of Defense advising Obama. Bush’s failure in Iraq, was largely due to pussy footing around. Sticking the American nose where it did not belong. We should have never been in Iraq with troops in the first place. Likewise we should have never sent ground troops into Viet Nam. If Communism is a failed system. We should have let it collapse under its own weight. And mind our own business.

Obama’s recent decision to send thirty five thousand more troops into Afghanistan is following the same pattern of troop deployment ,that Johnson followed during Viet Nam. And the same situation applies regarding , the Viet Cong, and its ability to re supply troop levels, being able to sustain causalities and keep on fighting. Obama is faced with budget restraints, (not sure he gives a dam), while giving off the appearance that he is being conservative with American troops. (Like Johnson). Eventually he Obama, or the next President, like Johnson will be forced to cut his loses and get out. But in the mean time the Pentagon will continue to ask for more troops , telling Obama, more troops and we can win this war. We keep hearing how we have won Iraq, Bull _ _ _ _. Those idiots over there will be fighting a hundred years from now. As for the American Military we keep doing the same things over and over expecting different results. Either go over there and turn the place into glass , or get out and stay out.

However until one or the other happens, the American Taxpayers will be saddled with debt that they can never repay. Under this current administration that would seem to fit the plan. Destroy the economy, destroy confidence in the American people, drive up debt, print money, destroying the dollar.

Eventually we will elect a President, like Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin that understand the simple premise. If you keep messing around in my back yard I’m going to kick your ass . Confidence in America will not return until we elect another Ronald Reagan. A solid down home, common sense, country bumpkin.

This same issue is one all 50 states are dealing with visa vie the federal government. The federal government, state government, county governments have created so many agencies with employees, that have to find ways to justify their existence. They are killing America.
Until one of two following things happen, we will continue to decline as a nation.

First , until the Federal , State, County Governments collapse under their own weight. California and Arizona have set the example of how a state can be destroyed by its own governmental agencies, elected officials, and bureaucracies.
Or sadly second until the dollar and the economy are completely destroyed. we will not see our future on the rebound. We see it from time to time at intersections, signs that say ” Will Work for Food”. Bartering may be in our near future.

The point in all of this is that history repeats itself. In 2010 we have a chance to elect public officials that recognize that Governments must get out of the way. And allow private, free enterprise to take off.

We need to elect public officials at the federal, state and county levels , that will stand up and say to special interests. NO!. Git Lost.

Excessive government, excessive taxes, dead end debt driven wars, excessive agencies and bureaucracies, drive away the entrepreneurial spirit.

It appears that obama is dead set on driving America to being a Communistic country. States must step up and dismiss obama. Put him on the back burner. Tell him we will get back to him at a later date. Make it clear that we are not going to play his game,. That we are going to secure our states, make them free enterprise zones,.  We are not going to allow him to flat line our country.

That we are not going to be subsidizing a failed foreign policy, driven by either his hidden agenda or the impulses of the military industrial complex.

Its time America, we have a country to save, not a presidency.

Ronald Reagan said ” Libertarianism is at the heart and soul of Conservatism” .

 

 

 

November 28, 2009

A Conservative Challenge for the Candidates of Arizona

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 11:02 pm
Well I hope every body had a great Thanksgiving. You’d never know I was a Conservative considering all the great chow I consumed.
 
 Speaking of Conservatives,. I have come up with a challenge, actually it wasn’t me, it was a voter that I met last week while collecting signatures to get on the ballot for Governor next fall. Anyway here’s the Challenge:
 
 
Arizona is broke,.  The State had to borrow , 250 million recently just to pay salaries. Employee salaries I would suggest should have been cut the day Brewer took the reigns.
 
  We have several folks running around wanting to be the next Governor of Arizona. Lets see how Conservative they really are.  Lets see if your conservatism is real or just a politically popular campaign banner.
 
Arizona , has a program called Clean Elections. For those of us that are running for Governor. If we go out and collect , 5500 five dollar donations to the clean elections fund, candidates are awarded with just over 700 thousand dollars to use for the primary , and then the successful primary winner , is awarded an additional one million plus to pay for TV ads or whatever for the General Election. 
 
So assuming that there are 5 Republicans, 2 Democrats and 1 Independent that will qualify, that would mean that 5.6 million dollars would be used by candidates just for the primary and another 2 million plus for the General.
 
So here is the challenge,.. Do what this Conservative Libertarian has done. We said NO.
 
No taxpayer state dollars will be used by my campaign. No So Called Clean Elections money will be used to fund TV and Radio ads. 
 
I say rather than spend all this money  7.6 million dollars. For a job that pays 95 thousand.  Give that money to State Treasure Dean Martin to pay down the debt.
 
If you are really a Conservative, this you will do.  If not here’s the question. Are you a Conservative unless Conservatism gets in the way?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

November 22, 2009

What R they afraid of & Is the U.S. going back to the gold standard via China?

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 7:58 pm

Since the recent decision by our Attorney General to try, the so called master mind of 911 in a New York Federal court. Many in the media, Rush,Sean,Glenn,Micheal,Rusty and others have blown their gaskets criticizing Holder for conferring with his wife over the decision. That does seem a bit perposterous however, as a happily married fella myself, I can assure you that a smart fella, will always confer with his bride before making any important decisions. :::(( I can certainly understand why he didnt discuss it with Obama. Decision making isn’t obamas strong suit. Why are we still in Iraq, Why are we still in Afghanistan? The answer is simple, they must keep our troops deployed overseas, or the plan will never work. 

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 Lets go back to Mark Rich. Lets consider the pardon that Eric Holder gave to Rich during the clinton years. Here is the question, that we all knew was out there during that time. Did Holder grant the pardon to protect, Bill and HIllary, or others in the House or Senate with strong ties to the Democrat political machine. And would a trial of Rich on U.S soil  have sent any number of individuals to prison for decades or life. I believe the answer to these questions is without a doubt “Yes.” So lets fast forward to 911. What are the folks on the so called Right worried about? Sure they bring up what sounds like legitimate issues of New York security, the revisiting of 911 mentally by those affected, and the cost associated with the trial. But the question in my mind. Is this all just a smoke screen to hide the deep dark secrets that may have played a roll in worst tragedy to happen on American soil since the civil war. I would like to think that the concerns spewed by Rush and the rest are legit. But are they missing something here. I have questions and I know millions of Americans have questions about 911. What if thru discovery we learn that, in fact there were others, power players in our country, that facilitated 911. In fact even planted the seeds within AlQeda, maybe provided funding thru whatever, saw to it that the families of these highjackers were well provided for going forward. There is no doubt in this Americans mind that those two aircraft, did not I repeat did not bring down those two towers, and certainly had nothing to do what so ever with building # seven. Here is the question that has plagued this American, that bored holes in the sky for 25 plus years. And spent several of those years and hours teaching others how to fly a variety of aircraft. And it is this, There is no way, given the training they received, that these members of Alqeda could have flown by them selves these aircraft into the towers or the pentagon on their own. They had to have had help, learning how to fly a two or four place aircraft is one thing, traveling at 90 -120 knots. And being able to line that aircraft up on a target, which would have been during that training the centerline of a runway, adjusting for speed, altitude, wind, and weight of the aircraft. There are certain aspects of “Seat of the Pants,” flying that are learned over the course of those training hours. Now you take those same trainees and put them in a jet, that weighs several hundred thousand pounds, traveling thru the air at speeds from 250 -500 knots, And on their virgin flight, do you think for a minute that they could operate the on board equipment, kill the crew, be able to correct for wind, altitude, speed, weight and no “Seat of the Pants” feel or training for these aircraft, especially in a turn, not knowing how to correct for centrifical force, on their maiden flight. In other words, the aircraft being shoved to the outside of a turn by its own weight. Nope, no way. So they had to have had help. I submit that the only way they could have driven those aircraft in to those targets is if they knew the longitude and latitude of those buildings and also knew how to plug those numbers in to the equipment and then knew how to couple the autopilot to the GPS system and allow the aircraft to drive its self. Those avionics boxes do not exist on 2 and 4 place training aircraft.  So then the question is where did they learn how to do that? To this date, Ive not heard anyone address these issues. Why? So to conclude, I believe that the resistance to having this trial in New York by some is a smoke screen. I believe that during discovery we will learn, who the real players were in the attack on New York KSM will have nothing to lose and will put it all out there.  Gulianni has come out veiminatly opposed to holding these trials in New York. Remember the rumors of all the gold that had been moved from Fort Knox to the World Trade Center? What happened to all that gold? Remember the rumors that the building site was closed for a few days? And the thinking was that, that was done to allow the gold to be removed , “To where?” . Recently we learned that some of the gold that the Federal Reserve has sold on the market was nothing more than gold plated tungsten. Personally, I want the trial to be held in New York. I want the facts and the truth to come out in this trial, Should KSM be executed, yes, but he may have to stand in line.

Benjamin Fulford
(Editor’s Note: The following missive, from Mr. Fulford, portends some radical changes ahead, Not only are they radical, he also suggests that they are imminent. Do your own “due diligence” but stay open to the possibilities. – JSB)

“China has stealthily introduced a new financial system based on the renminbi which is well on its way to becoming fully convertible, according to a high-level Chinese source. In addition, China is purchasing 10,000 tons of gold to back up a new fund designed to develop and market heretofore forbidden and suppressed technologies. The fund will be based outside of China and will be controlled by prominent members of the Chinese overseas community. The gold purchase will take some time because of the logistics of transporting it and the Chinese wish to test it thoroughly. Both the Chinese government and MI6 now confirm reports that much of the gold sold by the Federal Reserve Board over the past decade is in fact gold plated tungsten.”

Now about our currency. The Chinese have announced, their intention to replace the U.S. Dollar with the Hong Kong dollar. The difference is that the Chinese who have purchased 10,000 tons gold will use that gold to back up their new Currency. India is doing the same thing.  And they are forward thinking enough to store that currency at undisclosed locations around the world. Brilliant!!!

The question that comes to my mind is what method will the Chinese use to recover their investment in the United States. Well I may have the answer. Over the past many years this government or some government has been appraising our so called federal lands. As recently as last week I learned of a fella in a pickup, that had completely surveyed the state of Nevada, And was in the process of doing the same here in Arizona, We are working on gathering pictures of this vehicle and hopefully the equipment inside, It is my view that survey points, long and lat of these so called federal lands are being uploaded via satilite and sent to some government , probably China. Remember during the last presidential campaign, Ron Paul was warning America that the true value of the U.S. Dollar was around.04cents. its it expected that by Jan or Feb of 2010 that the dollars actual value will fall to.03cents. During the recent trip Obama made to China, there was a press briefing. During that briefing, Hu Jintao was looking at obama while he was speaking , the cameras were fixed on Hu Jintao. The expression on the Chinese leader were obvious. ” Where did America come up with this fella? Bush was stupid but obama is a liar and a traitor to his own county”. An observation made via 40 years in sales, and reading prospective customers. So unless we do something and soon. America, you will be using the Hong Kong Dollar. It will be backed by Gold. Isn’t this what we all have wanted? , Just asking. And in short order there could be Chinese flags flying in your schools, and public buildings. ” What will the teachers union say?” Will spanking return to the school class room?  Just asking.

One thing is certain,. This federal reserve has destroyed the American Currency. This president and past presidents have destroyed American Political Currency around the globe. Was that intentional or unintentional? I submit it was intentional. Take for example Jimmie Carter giving way the Panama Canal,. A facility bought and paid for by American dollars , Strategically vital to the national security and economic interest of the United States. And now being controlled at both ends by the Chinese. A few weeks ago in a meeting, I was reminded of the military base in southern Mexico, housing 80,000 plus Chinese Military forces. Now why is that so alarming. We have thousands in Germany , South Korea, and 150 other countries around the world,. Why would anyone think that China with all that American currency , wouldnt locate in a country close to America if for no other reason , than to protect its investment. Think of it this way, if Russia or say Venzualea with the aid of Russia invaded the U.S. What would happen to the investment China has made in America. Ive asked the question before “What would Russia do” . Well, ” What would China Do?”

This is certain , obama is just a puppet, Assuming that the assumptions are correct and that the American dollar is about to go to zero. What are we as Americans prepared to do? Will we stand up to an invasion? Our National guard troops are all conveniently deployed on foreign lands. The bulk of our Active duty are gone as well, and the equipment we would need to defend a nation is in shambles, and most likely would not function. Does our government already know whats coming? Does this explain the 30,000 plastic burial vaults that they planted in Pheonix. The word is these vaults will hold 4 humans per. So does the government , Napalitano expect that 120,000 Arizona’s will stand up and fight a invasion across our southern borders by Chinese Troops. Or some other ,say civilian obama youth security force. You know highschool drop outs looking to do some community organizing, with your tax dollars. Think Im kidding?  Ask your self this question. “I you had the ability to trade your U.S. Dollars backed by gietner,bernanke, obama,bush,and paulson,  for Hong Kong Dollars , backed by Gold , what would you do??”"

We as a nation are being artifically divided by social and political engineering.  We are a nation at war with itself. When the time comes will we drop our petty political differences and stand together to save America?

Since I announced my run for Governor of Arizona, I have had the opportunity to talk to hundreds of Arizonans and many via the Internet around the country. The country has no faith in its government, politically, economically or militarily. They know that unemployment will continue to decline, due to the actions of this clown in the WH , our Fed Chairman, and our Sec Treasury. The house and senate are meddling in health care when they should be addressing tax policy and regulatory reform to stimulate small business’s, rural agriculture, natural resource production, and the list goes on. But they instead are wasting time and money meddling in matters that the government has no business fooling with.

 One thing is certain, even if we make it to 2010. Its not going to make much difference who we send to Washington. The corruption, and the current political power structure will take decades to unravel. Not to mention all of the three letter agencies, with arrows aiming at our backsides. The answer lies within the states.

 We must be certain to elect strong Conservatives, with the character to make the difficult choices that we will be facing, The next 5 years we need make certain that we are not voting for career politically minded individuals. We must make certain the we elect folks that understand that their administration and their time in office must turn our states 180 degrees and fix our economic, and social problems going forward for decades, provided that we have the time. To conclude. Our only salvation will be our individual states, stepping up, making alliances with neighboring states, developing a plan, we may have to even develop our own currency, backed by, gold,silver,copper,uranium,timber,wheat,corn,water, what ever, Each State has an intrinsic value of natural resources, Maybe we keep our dollar and just remove the words Federal Reserve Note. Maybe its time to end our central government and return our nation to “We the People.” Our founders told us how to do this, maybe its time.

I have an economic plan for Arizona, that is so simple, that IM amazed that others havnt already developed it for their states. Nope not gonna give it away, saving it for Arizona. But once we implement it, Arizona will be the envy of the country. And there is no sense in training my competition.

 I cant help but wonder, will the Chinese let us have Christmas? I’ve already started my beard for the grandkids.  And if the forest service dont catch me I ve got a tree spotted.

www.az4therepublic.com 

Bruce Olsen Conservative Libertarian  Candidate for Governor of Arizona .

November 21, 2009

America is about to go over the cliff, or is it?

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 5:05 am
In January of 2009 I started this blog site “the Arizona sentinel” . Primarily because I needed an escape, a place to vent.  My immediate family weren’t interested and my friends, would look at me like I had lost my mind.  Well, things have changed. Now they are paying attention. Thanks obama, you’ve managed to wake my kids up.  Now the ole man, aint so stupid after all.
 
Having suffered thru the horrendous bush years, with phony wars, ridicules spending, prescription drug bill that is already bankrupt, failing to secure our ports and borders immediately after nine eleven and then not only leaving them open but, locking two of our border patrol heroes for doing their job, Anyone notice how no one is screaming today about Johnny Sutton and his phony prosecution. The one thing Americans can be proud of is that we managed to send Alberto Gonzales packing. Where’s John Ashcroft , we could sure use him now. This Holder fella is simply an idiot, Lets see, let me confer with my wife and motherinlaw to see what we should do with Masawi,. Probably not the right spelling but who really gives a ___________. 
Once we knew for sure that this fella obama or what ever his name is, was going to move into the White House.  It was obvious that he was going to continue the bush doctrine, of open borders, and insane spending.  So I came to the obvious conclusion. 
 
The only way we are going to save this country is if the states and citizens stop sending money to DC.  Finally last month Glenn went there and said “only one time” that we must isolate Washington. Today I received two articles that other thinking Americans have writen that go to the same premise. 
 
We all know now that the intent of the so called leaders in Washington is to bankrupt America, To destroy capitalism, free enterprise, and private property. They intend to destroy our currency, and kill the American spirit with bribes, and social giveaways.  If there was ever a good reason for students to drop out of school and give up, its the obama,pelosi,reid,bush, example.
 
I can hear them saying on the White House lawn, having a beer with Rev Wright, Lets flat line America. Lets knock them down to size. Lets show them what it is like to live in a third world county. Lets make a banana republic out of all 50 states.
 
Well, what if America aint ready for that deal. What if America says to Washington, DC.  No Sir, not today, not tomorrow, not next year, not by God Ever. 
 
So now the lights are on in America’s heartland. We are home, wide awake and working out the details.  We are gathering our spirits, our patriotism is coming together. And more people every day are joining the cause of Freedom.
 
So what do we do now, Well instead of waiting around and having to play defense, lets get a jump on Washington.  Lets all gather around our kitchen tables and prepare for the inevitable.  Some really tough times. Lets find those Conservative leaders, that finally see light at the end of the tunnel and are thinking about or have already stepped up and said, Count me in.
Remember the Poster of Uncle Sam pointing his finger and saying “Uncle Sam wants you.” Well, he is screaming at the top of his lungs.  If your a Conservative, and you’ve ever thought of getting involved politically, now is the time.
 
America we have got to stop spending money at every level of government, Federal, State and County, We have go to cut,slash,and burn budgets until we get our fiscal house in order. We need to cut taxes, roll back regulation, and get the governments out of the road. We must allow startups to startup. All these idiotic state and county regulations that Arizona and other states have adopted from California, Think about it, If California policy makers were so smart, why are they broke.  Come to think of it Arizona, your broke, is there a chance you drank the coolaid? You are fundamentally bankrupt.  
 
These presidential wars, Iraq,Afghanistan, served no useful American purpose, Was Iraq about Oil, ok where is the oil. And how about all those rail cars full of American currency. Is that what bush used to buy his ranch in South America.  Or was Iraq just about Saddam, trying to kill old man bush. Jr, never quite measured up , maybe this was his chance.  Afghanistan, is that really about Osama, or the taliban, or is it about heroin, and poppy seeds, If the taliban take over, the price of American heroin will triple.  Have you ever wondered how many coke heads there are inside the beltway?
 
Bottom line on Iraq, and Afghanistan is this, We have some of the brightest, most capable covert operation teams in the world. Why didn’t bush use them?  If obama is the genius that CBS and NBC,Oprah and the View say he is, why is he not using them.  There is no mission, that our Special Forces, Navy seal teams or special ops within the CIA and the FBI, could not accomplish.  Think of the billions we would have saved if we had sent a covert team into the Sudan, Afghanistan or Pakistan, snuffed out Osama , and been done with it, Stopped this political correctness and sealed our ports and borders. No other country in the world treats its borders like our federal government. Is there a message here?
 
Well its time for states to step up, develop a plan going forward and tell obama, akorn, seiu, your done. Its over, you can have washington dc, but your not going to destroy America.
 
Just a thought but lets keep the Dollar and drop the Federal Reserve. Our Government is leveraging our forest,lakes,rivers, and streams, for the debt that they have created . Are we going to let them get away with it? Dont think so.
 
 
 
 

November 20, 2009

American Grand Jury has filed “Conspiracy and Fraud” Charges against Nancy Pelosi/Barack Obama

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The Criminal charges of “Conspiracy and Fraud” are served against Nancy Pelosi in US District Court, Nashville, Tennessee PRESS RELEASE: November 19th, 2009 by American Grand Jury Charges filed with multiple State Election Commissions claiming Election fraud by Pelosi and Obama. American Grand Jury has incorporated the Nancy Pelosi/Barack Obama criminal complaints within its Presentments. The Presentments were served on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville, TN on November 6th, 2009. A Response in the form of an “Order” has been issued by Judge Todd Campbell and received by American Grand Jury this week. American Grand Jury will answer the response in the form of a Motion. The American Grand Jury Motion and a copy of the Court’s Order will be published on the AGJ website within the next few days. If acted upon, the Grand Jury Presentments would require that Pelosi and Obama be criminally indicted for “Fraud, Conspiracy and Treason.” American Grand Jury is actively pursuing the serving of Presentments in a number of United States District Courts in different States. Please visit ProsecuteObama.org for further details.

November 15, 2009

Montana leads the way in a open and free Republic

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 10:44 pm

Montana: Red Light Camera Ban Heads to Governor
Montana legislature gives final passage to legislation that will ban all red light cameras from the state.

Senator John BrueggemanA veto-proof majority of the Montana Legislature decided yesterday to drive red light cameras out of the state. By a 33-17 vote in the Senate and a 75-25 vote in the House, lawmakers approved a measure introduced by state Representative Bill Nooney (R-Missoula) to prohibit the use of “automated enforcement systems,” including systems already installed in the city of Bozeman. The ban will take effect upon the signature of Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer (D).

Legislators went back and forth on the question of whether to pull the plug on existing photo ticketing programs. Out of a sense of fairness, state Senator John Brueggeman (R-Polson) convinced the Senate in March to allow cities to continue issuing citations if they had entered into a binding legal contract to operate red light camera programs. Yet subsequent actions by the cities of Bozeman and Billings generated so much outrage among previously sympathetic lawmakers that a conference committee stripped the grandfather provision on a 6-1 vote.

“The committee saw fit, and I think rightly so, to remove the savings clause,” Brueggeman said on Monday. “We saw a couple municipalities rush to get contracts signed before the effective date of the bill — which I found offensive. The one municipality that pursued a contract said that they were going to shorten the time of yellow lights at intersections… So I think it’s time as Montanans to simply say: enough, we’re not going to have red light cameras in this state.”

Legislators obtained copies of the agreement between Bozeman and Australia’s Redflex Traffic Systems and discovered, contrary to municipal assertions, that Bozeman would not actually face any penalties upon the ban’s enactment.

“When I read the contract I was even more more opposed,” state Representative Deborah Kottel (D-Great Falls) said. “This is entrepreneurial criminal justice… The city of Bozeman agrees to prosecute every ticket. They’ve relinquished prosecutorial discretion to feed the company’s greed… Good law enforcement is about safety, it’s about education. What this company is about is generating revenue.”

A handful of members still stood by the principle of allowing cities to operate automated ticketing machines.

“I can’t let this go,” state Senator Jesse Laslovich (D-Anaconda) said. “Not one person thus far has talked about local control. Not one. Well, maybe one — I wasn’t listening, Mr Chairman… I don’t think this is snooping. It’s the law. You can’t run a red light. What are we afraid of here?”

Senator Brueggeman explained that he feared cities like Billings were jeopardizing safety by shortening yellow times, as a city memo suggested was under consideration (view memo). Citing data from the Texas Transportation Institute (view study), he suggested interest in proposing a legislative alternative to increase intersection safety.

“If safety is your fundamental concern, red light cameras could have an impact,” Brueggeman said. “But the largest impact right off the bat is lengthening the yellow light. In the research available, it reduces accidents somewhere in the range of forty percent, whereas if you shorten the yellow lights, which was proposed — if you read the article — in Billings, it actually increases traffic accidents at intersections upwards of 150 to 200 percent… The problem with red light cameras is that it is a perverse incentive to increase the safety hazard by shortening the yellow light to collect more revenue. Perhaps I’ll bring a bill next session to require standardization of yellow lights at a time frame proven to reduce intersection accidents.”

Upon enactment, Montana will join the state of Mississippi where a photo enforcement ban was signed into law last month. Alaska, Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin have also banned automated citations through judicial or legislative action.

A copy of the final version of the legislation is available in a 25k PDF file at the source link below.

Source:

PDF File House Bill 531 – Final (Montana Legislature, 4/22/2009)

The Continental Congress is now in Session

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http://www.givemeliberty.org/CC2009

Americans working to take our country back.

Oklahoma, its time to get it right,

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 3:27 pm

As a former Oklahoman and a current candidate for Governor of Arizona.  I am in complete support of  Randy Brogdon for the next Governor of Oklahoma.   Its time for every state that will elect a new Governor in  2010. To make certain that they elect true Conservatives to their states top job.  The nation will only succeed if we return to the Conservative values that made this country the envy of the world.  The following link will take to Randys web site.

http://www.randybrogdon.com/biography.html

Regardless of where you are ,  lets all do what ever we can to support the Brogdon for Governor campaign.

Bruce Olsen

Candidate for Governor of Arizona

http://www.randybrogdon.com/biography.html

November 11, 2009

Candidate For Idaho Governor has a plan, Conservative, you betcha!!

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 12:43 am

Rex Rammell Candidate for Governor of Idaho

Do you know that within one year America will be in the next Great Depression? According to Harry S. Dent, a famous and accurate economic forecaster for the last twenty years, “the first and last economic depression that you will experience in your lifetime is just ahead.” He predicts the next Great Depression will occur between mid to late 2009 into 2010. Are you prepared? Is your government prepared?

Maybe you are one of those eternal optimists that believe America is too strong to fail. Or maybe you are one of those eternal pessimists who think it will happen, but there is nothing you can do about it. I believe it will happen and we can do something about it. However, it is going to take some major changes in Idaho leadership and policy.

We are facing an American crisis! We need a governor who can influence policy changes in Idaho immediately. Only the voice of the governor can effect the drastic changes Idaho needs to curtail the suffering of a decade of economic depression.

 My Plan:

 Taxes must be cut across the board to stimulate the economy. Idaho currently ranks 13th highest in state and local tax burden and 29th best business tax climate.

The size and scope of government must be drastically curtailed to decrease business costs and regulatory burdens. All departments need audited retaining only the most essential programs and personnel. Private contracts must replace government bureaucracy.

Major reforms in government welfare are required to shift the responsibility from government to families, churches, and charitable organizations. Currently one out of every four Idahoans is receiving some form of welfare benefit.

 Health insurance reform must move towards private Health Savings Accounts in order to lower premiums and shift responsibility to individuals and doctors.

 Eliminate the Federal education program “No Child Left Behind.” This burdensome and unnecessary mandate usurps the parent’s and state’s responsibility to educate our children.

Deport all illegal immigrants. The high cost of their cheap labor is costing Idahoan’s more than it is worth. The social-welfare burden imposed by the illegal immigrants on our hospitals, schools, prisons, and welfare system must be eliminated. Those who wish to stay and work legally can do so through a state guest worker program. However, they must pay for their own health insurance, pay to use our public school system, and stay out of our welfare lines.

 Make English Idaho’s official language. All services provided by the Idaho government must be in English. This will decrease the expense associated with administering Idaho’s laws. Immigrants who want to be Americans must learn our language.

 Build nuclear power plants. Idaho can be America’s leader in nuclear power, creating new jobs and providing cheap clean energy for Idaho and the surrounding states.

 Remove all Canadian wolves from Idaho. The wolves continue to slaughter Idaho’s big game herds, kill and maim livestock and pets, and are dangerous to Idahoans. If Idaho’s mountains are to be safe for people and if our big game herds are to be the envy of the world, the wolves can not stay.

 Assert Idaho’s state rights. Challenge the authority of any federal mandate which violates Idaho’s sovereign rights over water, air, natural resources, education, welfare or any other infringement. Idaho must become independent of our failing federal government.

Are you a state in need of a Conservative , Freedom and Liberty lovin Governor,..  Well keep a sharp lookout, and get yours while they last. 

Some one asked me the otherday at an event how I would describe Freedom and Liberty, “two words = private property” .

For those of you in Idaho,, make certain you elect Rex Rammell as your next Governor, http://rexrammell.com/

 

November 9, 2009

MY view of the Arizona Economy

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My views on the economy

To begin lets look at the current condition of the Arizona Economy. Currently we are looking at another year of reduced revenue projections. The deficit is projected to be 2 Billion dollars. That is a disaster for Arizona. And it must be addressed , with strong , decisive action.
According to the reports I’ve read, we have a 7.1 billion dollar anticipated revenue and a 12.5 billion dollar budget. The bad news combined with a 7-9% drop in revenue, the deficit number is going thru the roof.

So what do we do ? Well the choices are simple. We must have leadership that is willing to make the hard decisions. 

We must shut down all financial cost to the state due to Federal mandates,.. That right, Medicaid, Education, Transportation and the list goes on. We must stop subsidizing colleges and universities. If you want tuition rates to go down, stop giving them money. And make them stand on their own. Same with all these Junior colleges around the state. If they can not stay afloat on the revenues they generate,. They close. Trust me their tuitions will go down and they will be more competitive.

Second we must reduce the size and scope of the State government. That means every agency across the board must be downsized 40-50%.

Legacy costs, on all current and former government employees must see a haircut. 15-20%. State must enter a 3 year hiring freeze. All government non essential vehicles should be parked and sold at auction. Equipment purchases should be frozen for 3 years. Travel by state employees must be frozen for 3 years.

In short , every line item in the AZ budget will need to be reduced by 30-40%.

Seems drastic doesn’t it. But lets look at some facts.

Tthe Arizona state budget was exploded by a number of methods.

A governor that drove state costs in the tank , by creating unsustainable social programs. By a governor that failed to secure her borders, allowing millions of illegals to flood into the state , sucking the economic life blood (money) from the state. Add to that the housing debacle. Arizona and indeed the country until the summer of 2007 were living in a completely false economy , caused by the federal government, Wall Street and banks that crossed state lines , took cash flow and converted it to unearned salaries, commissions and bonuses. Remember folks , Wall street makes money when the folks on the street lose or if they can sell something to somebody that has no intrinsic value, no equity, such as no net worth backing home loans. And for all you Arizonans that are still asleep, eventually you will realize that the destruction to your state ,your economy and your freedoms was all intentional because we did not pay attention to those we elected.

We must do everything possible, to bring industry back into the state. Government must back off and allow this to happen. Who ever is your next Governor must be willing to generate signing statements declaring that Arizona will take no part in any trade policy related to Nafta and Cafta. 

The one thing Obama has done right , was to put tariffs on Chinese made tires. He said he would end Nafta, he needs to get it done. The federal government has borrowed billions from China and thrown it in the wind. They announced a 3-5 % GDP gain on Thursday,. But that gain was generated not from equity in America. But by borrowing from china. The gain is not sustainable because the money was throw at government workers including teachers . Non of which produces anything that can be sold.

Banks are failing everyday,.. One hundred and twenty five banks so far this year. The so called president runs around condemning the country ,. Thirty two CZAR out there everyday , throwing spears at the American way of life. So there is no economic confidence out there. We have to change that.

The states must by regions step up , and create a economic environment that gives people economic confidence going forward.

Now lets look at what needs to be done with tax policies.

We need to remove property taxes on all personal primary residences. What would that do . It would immediately encourage growth In Arizona. The money that would be brought into Arizona by the millions of baby boomers would be staggering. Think about it as long as you are paying property taxes on a your home , you never own it,. Your just renting it from the government. Given that many of those would be bringing billions of retirement savings and revenue with them.  They would buy up all these vacant, foreclosed new and used homes sitting around the state. Why some other state hasn’t done this is mind boggling.

Now you say, well what would that do to education. Frankly it would be the best thing in the world for government run public miseducation.

Im told that 70% of property tax dollars goes to education.

So if we remove all the residential  property tax from the system,. That would starve out the teachers unions, legacy costs due to pensions, it would send the money generated from Commercial property directly to the students,and while Im on commercial property a subject near and dear to my heart, commercial property taxes should be taken back to the 1998 or earlier levels.  And of course since we have fewer dollars to work with , we will be forced to stop attempting to educate illegal aliens. We will need less teachers,but better teachers,fewer teachers aids, school nurses, school police officers and the list goes on and on.

We have to have leadership that will support state law and remove illegals from our states cost burden. Our Governor must stand firm in support of our County Sheriffs. All of them.

We  must remove the illegals from Arizona. States all across America are being bankrupt , due to the cost of crime resulting from open borders. Now I have to say here though, if you come to the border, apply for a work permit, have a legitimate sponsor, submit to a background check, and a physical exam.  They could be given a 6 month work visa, providing they are not pregnant or inflicted with some other medical issue. Then they would be required to leave the state for a minumum of 3 months. Coming into Arizona and delivering a child will get you sent back to Mexico. Regardless of your country of origin.

 We need to close half of our prisons.,, Release any and all prisoners that are incarcerated for non violent crimes. Release them and require them to do community service work, such as , clean up the trash in the desert, along the state highways,. Send them to the forest to clean up the underbrush, remove the trees and vegetation growing in the what used to be creeks and streams.

We must return the operational control of all currently federal managed lands back to the state of Arizona. The timber industry, and mining must be revitalized.

We must eliminate all franchise and , business taxes,.. Workers comp and benefits must be rolled back. Get out of the road of business growth. When we shifted from a agriculture and manufacturing based economy, our days were numbered. Housing should have never been a economic indicator. Agriculture, Manufacturing and Commercial real estate are the true indicators of an economy. Housing was shoved into first place because of government intervention, creating a false, base line. That line had nothing holding it up.

I will sign any bill that eliminates state income taxes and property taxes on primary residences.

I would stop the practice of sending taxes on highway fuel to the Federal Treasury,. That money is generated here and needs to stay here and pay down the debt. And then should be reinvested in Arizona not in Iraq, Afghanistan or Congressional pay raises.

Create a statute that says that any group, special interest that brings a lawsuit on the state. Must put up a One million dollar cash bond with the state to cover any unintended consequences from any issue brought before a court.

And finally , we must stop investing state money outside of the state. Once we have a balance budget and the state again has a budget surplus , those dollars should stay right here in Az. Invest in business, infrastructure, home schooling, and so on. We should never invest in any thing tied to contributing to any kind of legacy cost. Such as union pensions, teacher pensions and so on.

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury , will only kick the can down the road,. We must have a plan with in the states. Depending on the beltway will go nowhere.

And finally , we must sever our financial ties with Washington DC. Money created within the states stays with in the state, money created by Washington thru international trade , shipping and tariffs, well they can have it. We must be able to invest in our local banks, they invest in our local community , the banks pay a reasonable rate to depositors and they charge a reasonable rate to investors. We must end the practice of branch banks across state lines. The depositors money winds up in Wall street. Keep your banks close and your money closer.

Wall Streeters continue to say that there is still billions of dollars sitting on the side lines,.. They are right,. Those dollars are waiting for a place to go and grow,.. But it wont be Wall Street any time soon. The recent gains were hype do to the cash for clunkers,. that’s over,. By the way the real cost to the taxpayers was 24 thousand per unit sold,.. Sounds like a great deal to me.

The money on the sidelines will emerge once the state economies start to show some positive signs,. But as long as the Fed keeps the interest rates at artificially low rates,. Private investment dollars will remain in the mattress. So again, its up to the states.

The Fed is keeping the rates down , because it generats more revenue for the Treasury. Here’s how , the lower your mortgage rate, the less you claim as a home mortgage interest  credit on your 1040. Therefore your taxable income goes up. I submit until interest rates, across the board go up , the economy will remain stagnate,flat and going no where. The government needs to let the market create the interest rate. In 1993 when Allen Greenspan started driving rates down, he created the systemic conditions that assisted us in getting where we are today.

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Mr. President , Im moving to mexico, can you help?

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 I am moving to Mexico I can’t stand it anymore, so I’m moving on if Obama can pull some strings for me. Hope they have some nice golf courses in Mexico.

 Dear Mr. President: I’m planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We’re planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and we’ll need your help to make a few arrangements. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following: 1. Free medical care for my entire family. 2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not. 3. Please print all Mexican government forms in English. 4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bilingual) teachers. 5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history. 6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school. 7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch. 8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services. 9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but, I don’t plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won’t make any special effort to learn local traffic laws. 10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer. 11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put U.. S. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals. 12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start. 13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say a critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy. 14. I want to receive free food stamps. 15. Naturally, I’ll expect free rent subsidies. 16. I’ll need Income tax credits so although I don’t pay Mexican Taxes, I’ll receive money from the government. 17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Gov’t pays $ 4,500 to help me buy a new car. 18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I’ll get a monthly income in retirement. I know this is an easy request because bush taught you how to do all these things for all his people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. . I am sure that President Calderon won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. Thank you so much for your kind help. You’re the man!!!

November 8, 2009

U.S. Forest Service disobey’s 9th Circuit order. No Travel Plan

Filed under: Most Recent Posts — thearizonasentinel @ 1:58 pm

It’s the jewel of Arizona: A spot of Switzerland on the eastern border. At 8,000 feet, Alpine is a hamlet, surrounded by U.S. forest land in the Apache/Sitgreaves district. Lush, beckoning and priceless.

High, along the southeast rim which frames the valley, is a country road providing the young, old and disabled opportunity to commune with raw nature. Few can walk it. Motors are needed to get us in and out.

My family escapes to that paradise from the hot Valley weather. We cherish every blue spruce, aspen and wildflower; downed logs litter the landscape, serving as hotels for critters on a heavenly floor of rich fern.

On both ends of this stretch of rough road are gates, installed by the U.S. Forest Service and poised to block out motorized vehicles. Hundreds of thousands of roads, such as this one, are targeted across the state and the nation. If you’re young and can afford good hiking shoes, you can access some of the closed areas. Otherwise folks, too bad. And you should see the fine print in regards to hunting and fishing.

You think America is in danger from outside enemies? You fear the so-called One World Order; the end of the American dollar? It gets worse from here.

American human species are threatened, and attacks against our habitats of survival, which historically have supported American families, are at crisis level, in this “land of the free.” Astoundingly, our tax dollars fund much of the war against our cultures and our families.

In a time of deep recession, a time in which millions of jobless Americans frantically seek ways to feed their families, this land grab will force Americans into confined spaces — all in the name of environmentalism. It matters not that billions of dollars, generated by the outdoor industry, will disappear.

The Arizona Fish and Game Department reports fishing and hunting is a “powerful part of Arizona’s economic fabric,” offering thousands of jobs, millions in tax revenues and billions in retail sales. Arizona State University researchers tell us the economic impact of back-country driving, alone, provides Arizona $4 billion annually — including more than a billion dollars in household income with 37,000 jobs.

Yeah. Let’s close these forests and desert areas. This is really a good time in our history to be brainless.

Those fighting the “Travel Management Plan” implementation say more than two-thirds of America’s back country roads are registered for closure. Vacationing families will be funneled into confined camp spaces, manned by toll gates, just like in Yosemite National Park.  When the campgrounds are full, the overflow will be sent on their way.

Despite the fact that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has twice stopped this directive, (latest ruling in June), the plan is still targeted to be fulfilled. Several eastern states have already completed the process.

For decades, the “green” movement, once with good intentions, now hell bent on economic destruction, has successfully blocked opposition. Deception is common among the extreme factions. Believe it. They launch one lawsuit after another, often funded by U.S. grants. The treasury is bottomless for them, and private citizen resistance funds are a pittance, equal to David and Goliath. Remember that analogy.

Watch this group. Citizens for Multiple Land Use and Access (www.cmlua.com) was formed three years ago to take on Goliath. Its web site gives important background and maps. Note the roads to be closed that are in black ink, samples of the nationwide plan.

CMLUA founders say they’ve committed their lifetimes to educate the public. So far, they’ve been amazingly successful in shining light on the illegality of many schemes. One of the founders, Doyel Shamley of Eagar, is up to his neck in research. And thanks to the web, he’s joined by thousands of independent researchers, tracking those who are intent on cutting us out of our country.

Shamley says: “Recreation is not just a matter of some sick individual slaughtering Bambi. It’s important to the very fabric of society; it’s how we recreate and generate revenue through trickle-down economics.”

He points out a minute number of outdoor people have stigmatized the view of the industry and given it a bad name. Then, there is the issue of discrimination:  without wheels to access the spaciousness, children, seniors and the disabled will forever be blocked from much of America’s beauty; i.e. mule trips ending their descent into the Grand Canyon.

There’s something else. Shamley said research shows that crime, divorce, suicide and other social ills decrease when communities thrive. Strip our cities of their economic base and the social decline of America continues.

Shamley believes that everyday citizens can stop the power grabs. He reminds us less than 7 percent of patriots fought in the Revolutionary War, “taking on the greatest empire ever set on earth (Goliath) — and they won.”

He’s certain people will hold onto the glory of this state, and right now, ladies and gentlemen, Arizonans are hungry enough to do just that.

Linda Turley-Hansen is a syndicated columnist and former veteran Phoenix television news anchor who lives in the East Valley. She can be reached by e-mail at turleyhansen@gmail.com.

November 3, 2009

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Osama bin Laden Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks? Where is the Evidence? by David Ray Griffin
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The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand, no one in these circles publicly challenges this idea.

On the other hand, as I pointed out at length in two of my books – 9/11 Contradictions1 and The New Pearl Harbor Revisited,2 no good evidence has ever been publicly presented to support it.

Colin Powell’s Withdrawn Promise Two weeks after 9/11, Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking to Tim Russert on Meet the Press, said that he expected “in the near future . . . to put out . . . a document that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have linking [bin Laden] to this attack.”3

Powell reversed himself, however, at a press conference with President Bush in the White House Rose Garden the next morning, saying that, although the government had information that left no question of bin Laden’s responsibility, “most of it is classified.”4 According to Seymour Hersh, citing officials from both the CIA and the Department of Justice, the real reason for the reversal was a “lack of solid information.”5

This was the week that Bush, after demanding that the Taliban turn over bin Laden, refused their request for evidence that bin Laden had been behind the attacks.6 A senior Taliban official, after the US attack on Afghanistan had begun, said: “We have asked for proof of Osama’s involvement, but they have refused. Why?”7 Hersh’s answer was that they had no proof.

Tony Blair’s Weak Document

The task of providing such proof was taken up by Bush’s chief ally in the “war on terror,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair. On October 4, 2001, Blair made public a document entitled: “Responsibility for the Terrorist Atrocities in the United States .” Listing “clear conclusions reached by the government,” it stated: “Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, the terrorist network which he heads, planned and carried out the atrocities on 11 September 2001.” Blair’s report, however, began by saying: “This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case against Osama Bin Laden in a court of law.”8 Although the case was not good enough to go to court, Blair seemed to be saying, it was good enough to go to war.

The weakness in Blair’s report, in any event, was noted the next day by the BBC, which said: “There is no direct evidence in the public domain linking Osama Bin Laden to the 11 September attacks. At best the evidence is circumstantial.”9

The FBI’s Surprising Statement

What does our own FBI say? Here is a surprising but little-known fact, because it has scarcely been reported in the mainstream media: The FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorist” webpage on “Usama bin Laden” does not list the 9/11 attacks as one of the crimes for which he is wanted. It does list bombings in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania , and Nairobi as terrorist acts for which he is wanted. But it makes no mention of 9/11.10 In 2006, Rex Tomb, then the FBI’s chief of investigative publicity, was asked why not. He replied: “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”11

After this story started flying around the Internet and was even covered by a TV station in Louisiana ,12 Dan Eggen tried to downplay its significance in an August 2006 Washington Post article entitled “Bin Laden, Most Wanted For Embassy Bombings?”13 Complaining about “conspiracy theorists” who claimed that “the lack of a Sept. 11 reference [on the FBI's "Most Wanted" webpage for bin Laden] suggests that the connection to al-Qaeda is uncertain,” Eggen quoted the explanation offered by a former US attorney, who said that the FBI could not appropriately “put up a wanted picture where no formal charges had been filed.”

But that explanation, while true, simply pushes the issue back a step to this question: Why have such charges not been filed? Rex Tomb’s fuller statement, which Eggen failed to mention, had answered this question the previous June, saying:

The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, Bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.14

The 9/11 Commission

What about the 9/11 Commission? Its report gave the impression that it was in possession of solid evidence of bin Laden’s guilt. But the Commission’s co-chairs, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, undermined this impression in their follow-up book, which they subtitled: “The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.”15 (I discussed this book at length in Chapter 2 of my 2007 book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking.16)

As the endnotes for The 9/11 Commission Report reveal, whenever the Commission referred to evidence of bin Ladin’s responsibility for the 9/11 attacks, the Commission was always referring to CIA-provided information, which had (presumably) been elicited during interrogations of al-Qaeda operatives. By far the most important of these operatives was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, generally called simply “KSM,” who has been called the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. The Commission, for example, wrote:

Bin Ladin . . . finally decided to give the green light for the 9/11 operation sometime in late 1998 or early 1999. . . . Bin Ladin also soon selected four individuals to serve as suicide operatives. . . . Atta – whom Bin Ladin chose to lead the group – met with Bin Ladin several times to receive additional instructions, including a preliminary list of approved targets: the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Capitol.17

The note for each of these statements says: “interrogation of KSM.”18

Kean and Hamilton, however, reported that they had no success in “obtaining access to star witnesses in custody . . . , most notably Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”19 Besides not being allowed to interview these witnesses, Commission members were not even permitted to observe the interrogations through one-way glass or to talk to the interrogators.20 Therefore, Kean and Hamilton complained: “We . . . had no way of evaluating the credibility of detainee information. How could we tell if someone such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed . . . was telling us the truth?”21

An NBC “deep background” report in 2008 pointed out an additional problem: KSM and the other al-Qaeda leaders had been subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” i.e., torture, and it is now widely acknowledged that statements elicited by torture lack credibility. “At least four of the operatives whose interrogation figured in the 9/11 Commission Report,” NBC pointed out, “have claimed that they told interrogators critical information as a way to stop being ‘tortured.’” NBC then quoted Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, as saying: “Most people look at the 9/11 Commission Report as a trusted historical document. If their conclusions were supported by information gained from torture, . . . their conclusions are suspect.”22

The “Bin Laden Confession Tapes”

As we have seen, neither the 9/11 Commission, the Bush-Cheney White House, the FBI, the British government, nor the 9/11 Commission provided good evidence that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Many people, however, have assumed that the question of his responsibility was settled by the existence of videotapes and audiotapes in which he himself confessed to the attacks. There are, however, good reasons to believe that these so-called confession tapes are fakes. I will illustrate this point in terms of the two best-known videotapes of this nature.   

The “Jalalabad Video” Released December 13, 2001: The first and most famous of the “Osama bin Laden confession video tapes” was released by the Pentagon on December 13, 2001. It had purportedly been made on November 9, 2001, after which it was allegedly found by US forces in a private home in Jalalabad , Afghanistan . In this video, an Osama bin Laden figure is seen talking about the 9/11 attacks with a visiting sheikh. During the course of the conversation, the bin Laden figure boasts about the success of the attacks, saying that he had planned them.23 Both US and British officials claimed that this tape left no doubt about bin Laden’s guilt.24

Stories in both the Canadian and British media, however, raised questions about the tape’s authenticity. These stories, besides pointing out the existence of the technical ability to create fake video tapes, also mentioned the suspicion of some people that the bin Laden figure was not Osama bin Laden himself.

A BBC News report said: “Washington calls it the ‘smoking gun’ that puts Bin Laden’s guilt beyond doubt, but many in the Arab world believe the home video of the al-Qaeda chief is a fake.”25 This report was, in fact, entitled, “Could the Bin Laden Video Be a Fake?”

This question was also raised in Canada by CBC News, which pointed out that some people had “suggested the Americans hired someone to pretend to be the exiled Saudi.”26

This question was raised even more insistently in a Guardian story with the title, “US Urged to Detail Origin of Tape.” Reporting “growing doubt in the Muslim world about the authenticity of the film,” writer Steven Morris said:

The White House yesterday came under pressure to give more details of the video which purports to show Osama bin Laden admitting his part in the September 11 attacks.27

Morris, pointing out that the White House had provided no details about how the Pentagon came to be in possession of the tape, added:

According to US officials the tape was found in a house in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan , and handed to the Pentagon by an unnamed person or group. . . . But for many the explanation is too convenient. Some opponents of the war theorise that the Bin Laden in the film was a look-alike.

Morris then quoted one such opponent in Pakistan , who said: “This videotape is not authentic. The Americans made it up after failing to get any evidence against Osama.”

Morris also cited Bob Crabtree, the editor of Computer Video magazine, who explained that it was impossible to determine whether the video was authentic without more details of its source, adding: “The US seems simply to have asked the world to trust them that it is genuine.”28

This skepticism about the authenticity of this “Jalalabad video” was based on sound reasons. For one thing, this video’s bin Laden figure appeared too heavy and healthy, compared with the bin Laden who made the last of the undoubtedly authentic bin Laden videos, which was made sometime in 2001 between November 16 (on which occurred an event mentioned on the tape) and December 27 (the date on which the tape was released). In this post-November 16 video, bin Laden’s beard was white, he had a “gaunt, frail appearance,” and his “left arm hung limply by his side while he gesticulated with his right.”29 This immobile left arm, Dr. Sanjay Gupta observed on CNN, suggested that bin Laden had suffered a stroke, adding that this plus a “frosting of the appearance” suggested that bin Laden was in the final stages of kidney failure.30

But in the “Jalalabad video,” which was reportedly made at about the same time (being dated November 9 and released December 13), the bin Laden figure was heavier and also darker, in both skin and beard color; his nose had a different shape;31 and his hands were shorter and heavier than those of Osama bin Laden as seen in undoubtedly authentic videos.32

Still another problem is that, whereas bin Laden was left-handed, the man in the “Jalalabad video” wrote with his right hand. Although it might be thought that this was because his left arm was immobile, the bin Laden figure in this video was easily able to lift his left arm above his head.33

If this video was made on November 9, as claimed, then it would have been made at most only a few weeks before the post-November 16 video. It is very hard to believe that the heavy, dark-skinned, healthy-looking man with a dark beard could have, within two or three weeks, turned into the pale, gaunt, white-bearded, man seen in the post-November 16 video.

If one accepts the Jalalabad video as authentic, one not only has to accept these radical changes in bin Laden’s physical appearance; one must also accept a complete change in his statements about 9/11. In the previous weeks, he had repeatedly – on September 12, 16, 17, and 28 – stated that he had had nothing to do with the attacks.34 In the September 28 statement, he had even declared:

I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States . As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. . . . [W]e are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed.35

Is it likely that he would have made such statements if he himself had authorized the attacks and thereby the killing of innocents?

Whatever be one’s opinion about that, the bin Laden figure in the “Jalalabad video” made other statements that Osama bin Laden himself would surely not have made. For example, he said:

[W]e calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy who would be killed based on the position of the tower. . . . [D]ue to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for.36

But in light of the real bin Laden’s “experience in the field” as a building contractor, he would have known that high-rise buildings are framed with steel, not iron. Even more important, he would have known that the buildings’ support columns – whether made of steel or iron – would not have been melted by the “fire from the gas in the plane.” Why? Because he would have known, on the one hand, that a building fire, even if fed by jet-fuel (which is essentially kerosene), could not, even under the most ideal conditions, have risen above 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius). And he would have known, on the other hand, that iron and steel do not begin to melt until they are heated to a temperature far higher than that: to almost 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit (1,540 degrees Celsius). The real bin Laden, therefore, would not have expected any iron or steel to melt. 

A final reason to consider the “Jalalabad video” a fake is that bin Laden experts have declared it to such. When Dr. Bruce Lawrence, a Duke University history professor widely considered the country’s leading academic bin Laden expert,37 was asked what he thought about this video, he said, bluntly: “It’s bogus.” Some friends of his in the US Department of Homeland Security assigned to work “on the 24/7 bin Laden clock,” he added, “also know it’s bogus.”38

General Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan ‘s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), suggested that the man in the video was an “Osama bin Laden lookalike.”39

Former Foreign Service officer Angelo Codevilla, after saying “[t]he guy just does not look like Osama,” added: “The fact that the video had been made for no self-evident purpose except perhaps to be found by the Americans should have raised suspicion.”40

A fourth expert opinion has been issued implicitly, it would seem, by the Department of Justice and its FBI. If they considered this “confession video” authentic, would they not consider it “hard evidence” of bin Laden’s responsibility for 9/11? They say, however, that they have no such evidence, so they must not consider this video authentic.

The “October Surprise Video of 2004: The other most famous of the “bin Laden confession tapes” is the video tape that was released on October 29, 2004, just before the presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry, leading to its being called “the October Surprise video.” In this one, for the first time, a bin Laden figure directly addressed the American people. The Associated Press, focusing on the most important aspect of the speaker’s message, entitled its story: “Bin Laden, in Statement to U.S. People, Says He Ordered Sept. 11 Attacks.”41 However, although the AP accepted the authenticity of the tape, there are serious reasons to doubt it.

A reason to be at least suspicious is the very fact that it appeared just four days before the presidential election and seemed designed to help Bush’s reelection – an assessment that was made even by CIA analysts.42 The video, moreover, evidently did help: Bush’s lead over Kerry in national polls increased right after it appeared,43 and both Bush and Kerry said that this tape was significantly responsible for Bush’s victory.44 Given the fact that this video would quite predictably help Bush win reelection, it would seem to have been issued by his friends, not his enemies.

There are also substantive reasons to doubt this tape’s authenticity, one of which is the speaker’s language. The clearly authentic bin Laden messages were filled with religious language. A bin Laden video released October 7, 2001, for example, began thus:

Praise be to God and we beseech Him for help and forgiveness. We seek refuge with the Lord of our bad and evildoing. He whom God guides is rightly guided . . . . I witness that there is no God but God and Mohammed is His slave and Prophet.45

Even though this talk as a whole had only 725 words, bin Laden referred to God (Allah) 20 times and to the prophet Mohammed 3 times. Likewise, his message of November 3, 2001, which contained 2,333 words, referred to God 35 times and to the prophet Mohammed 8 times.46 By contrast, the 2004 October Surprise video, which had almost the same number of words as the November 3 video, referred to God only 12 times. The only “Mohammad” mentioned, moreover, was Mohamed Atta.

Another substantive difference involved the type of causal analysis provided. Bin Laden’s clearly authentic messages had portrayed historical events as occurring only because they were caused, or at least allowed, by God. In his message of October 7, 2001, for example, he said: “God Almighty hit the United States . . . . He destroyed its greatest buildings.” Human agents were involved, to be sure, but they were successful only because “Almighty God . . . allowed them to destroy the United States .”47 In his message of November 3, likewise, bin Laden said that, if people are helped or harmed, it is always by “something that God has already preordained for [them].”48

The message on the 2004 confession video, however, reflected a worldview in which events can be understood through a causal analysis based on secular rationalism. “One of the most important things rational people do when calamities occur,” the lecturer asserted, “is to look for their causes so as to avoid them.” He himself, in analyzing “the [ Iraq ] war, its causes and consequences,” provided a causal analysis involving purely human actors: Bush, al-Qaeda, and the American people. Far from suggesting that everything is finally in the hands of God, he said to the American people: “Your security is in your own hands” – a statement that a devout Wahabi Muslim such as Osama bin Laden would surely have considered blasphemous.

Still another reason to doubt the authenticity of this 2004 video is that, although the speaker was addressing the American public, he spoke Arabic rather than English. This is strange, because Osama bin Laden was reportedly fluent in English, which he had started studying when he was 11 years old.49 A British journalist reported that, when he and bin Laden met in 1989, they conversed in English for 45 minutes.50 General Hamid Gul, speaking to United Press International in 2001, said: “I know bin Laden and his associates. They are graduates of the best universities and . . . speak impeccable English.51 If bin Laden spoke impeccable English, would he not have used it when speaking directly to the American people?52

Accordingly, this video does not, any more than the “Jalalabad video,” provide evidence that Osama bin Laden himself confessed to planning the 9/11 attacks.

Conclusion

I showed in a previous essay that, according to the best evidence presently available, Osama bin Laden has been dead for many years.53 In the present essay, I have shown that there is not even any good evidence for the claim that bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Accordingly, insofar as the justification for the continuation of the AfPak war is based on the fact that bin Laden in the region both before and after the 9/11 attacks, that justification would seem to be doubly baseless.

David Ray Griffin is the author of 36 books, nine of which are about 9/11. His most recent book is The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 Is Unscientific and False (Olive Branch, 2009). In 2008, he put out two books: The New Pearl Harbor: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé (which was named a “Pick of the Week” by Publishers Weekly) and Osama bin Laden: Dead Or Alive? (which has generated considerable media coverage in England ).

David Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of The New Pearl Harbor – Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 ,  The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions — A Critique of the Kean-Zelikow Report as well as Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?

Notes

  1. 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press ( Northampton : Olive Branch, 2008), Chap. 18, “Does the Government Have Hard Evidence of Bin Laden’s Responsibility?”
  2. The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé ( Northampton : Olive Branch, 2008). This book was named Publishers Weekly’s “Pick of the Week” on November 24, 2008 (http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47159).
  3. “Meet the Press,” NBC, September 23, 2001 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/nbctext092301.html).
  4. “Remarks by the President, Secretary of the Treasury O’Neill and Secretary of State Powell on Executive Order,” White House, September 24, 2001 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010924-4.html).
  5. Seymour M. Hersh, “What Went Wrong: The C.I.A. and the Failure of American Intelligence,” New Yorker, October 1, 2001 (http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Hersch_OCT_01.htm).
  6. “White House Warns Taliban: ‘We Will Defeat You,’” CNN, September 21, 2001 (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/21/ret.afghan.taliban).
  7. Kathy Gannon, “Taliban Willing to Talk, But Wants U.S. Respect,” Associated Press, November 1, 2001 (http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2001nn/0111nn/011101nn.htm#300).
  8. Office of the Prime Minister, “Responsibility for the Terrorist Atrocities in the United States ,” BBC News, October 4, 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1579043.stm).
  9. “The Investigation and the Evidence,” BBC News, October 5, 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1581063.stm).
  10. Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Most Wanted Terrorists: Usama bin Laden” (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm).
  11. Ed Haas, “FBI says, ‘No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11′” Muckraker Report, June 6, 2006 (http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html).
  12. “Bin Laden’s FBI Poster Omits Any 9/11 Connection,” KSLA 12 in Shreveport , Louisiana
    (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6443576002087829136).
  13. “Bin Laden, Most Wanted For Embassy Bombings?” Washington Post, August 28, 2006 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700687.html)
  14. Haas, “FBI says, ‘No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.’” 
  15. Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, with Benjamin Rhodes, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
  16. David Ray Griffin, Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory, revised and updated edition (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2007). This book won a bronze medal in the 2008 Independent Publishers Book Awards.
  17. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States , authorized edition ( New York : W. W. Norton, 2004), 149, 155, 166; henceforth 9/11CR.
  18. See 9/11CR Ch. 5, notes 16, 41, and 92.
  19. Kean and Hamilton, Without Precedent, 118.
  20. Ibid., 122-24.
  21. Ibid., 119. I have discussed this issue at greater length in Ch. 8, “9/11 Commission Falsehoods about Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Pakistanis, and Saudis,” of The New Pearl Harbor Revisited.
  22. Robert Windrem and Victor Limjoco, “The 9/11 Commission Controversy,” Deep Background: NBC News Investigations, January 30, 2008 http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/30/624314.aspx).
  23. “U.S. Releases Videotape of Osama bin Laden,” Department of Defense, December 13, 2001 (http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=3184); “Pentagon Releases Bin Laden Videotape: U.S. Officials Say Tape Links Him to Sept. 11 Attacks,” National Public Radio, December 13, 2001 http://www.npr.org/news/specials/response/investigation/011213.binladen.tape.html). The entire video can be viewed at this NPR Web page.
  24. See my book Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? ( Northampton : Olive Branch [Interlink Books], 2009), 23-26.
  25. “Could the Bin Laden Video Be a Fake?” BBC News, December 14, 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1711288.stm).
  26. “‘Feeble’ to Claim Bin Laden Tape Fake: Bush,” CBC, December 14, 2001 (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2001/12/14/bush_osama011214.html).
  27. Steven Morris, “US Urged to Detail Origin of Tape,” Guardian, December 15, 2001 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/dec/15/september11.afghanistan).
  28. Ibid.
  29. Toby Harnden, ” US Casts Doubt on Bin Laden’s Latest Message,” Telegraph, December 27, 2001
  30. “Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Bin Laden Would Need Help if on Dialysis,” CNN, January 21, 2002
    (http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/21/gupta.otsc/index.html). For the tape, see “”Osama Bin Laden Tape Dezember [sic] 2001″ (http://www.myvideo.de/watch/3760193/Osama_Bin_Laden_Tape_Dezember_2001).
  31. For a nose comparison, see “Osama bin Laden Gets a Nose Job” (http://www.awitness.org/news/december_2001/osama_nose_job.html),
    or “Bruce Lawrence,” Radio Du Jour (http://www.radiodujour.com/people/lawrence_bruce).  
  32. Compare his hands with bin Laden’s hand as shown in the post-November 16 video (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1729882.stm).
  33. This can be seen in a portion of the Jalalabad video placed on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FVeqCX6z8).
  34. For documentation and discussion, see Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? 27-29.
  35. “Interview with Usama bin Laden,” Ummat ( Karachi ), September 28, 2001
    http://www.robert-fisk.com/usama_interview_ummat.htm).
    Bin Laden’s statement about innocents repeated what he had said in an interview with John Miller of ABC News in 1998: “Our religion forbids us from killing innocent people such as women and children”
  36. “Transcript of Usama bin Laden Video Tape,” Department of Defense, December 13, 2001 (http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/d20011213ubl.pdf).
  37. Bruce Lawrence is the editor of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden ( London and New York : Verso, 2005).
  38. Lawrence made these statements on February 16, 2007, during a radio interview conducted by Kevin Barrett of the University of Wisconsin at Madison . It can be heard at Radio Du Jour (http://www.radiodujour.com/people/lawrence_bruce).
  39. BBC News, “Tape ‘Proves Bin Laden’s Guilt,’” December 14, 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1708091.stm).
  40. Angelo M. Codevilla, “Osama bin Elvis,” American Spectator, March 2009 (http://spectator.org/archives/2009/03/13/osama-bin-elvis/print).
  41. Maggie Michael, “Bin Laden, in Statement to U.S. People, Says He Ordered Sept. 11 Attacks,” Associated Press, October 29, 2004 (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20041029-1423-binladentape.html).
  42. Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America ‘s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 ( New York : Simon & Schuster, 2006), 336.
  43. Philip Sherwell, “Bush Takes a Six-Point Lead After New Bin Laden Tape,” Telegraph, November 1, 2004 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1475515/Bush-takes-a-six-point-lead-after-new-bin-Laden-tape.html).
  44. “Kerry Blames Defeat on Bin Laden,” BBC News, January 31, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4222647.stm); “Bush Says Bin Laden Tape Aided Re-Election: Report,” Reuters, February 28, 2006 http://www.redorbit.com/news/politics/408991/bush_says_bin_laden_tape_aided_reelection_report/).
  45. “Bin Laden’s Warning: Full Text,” BBC News, October 7, 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1585636.stm).
  46. “BBC Transcript Of Osama Bin Laden Statement,” November 7, 2001 (http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0111/S00049.htm).
  47. “Bin Laden’s Warning: Full Text.”
  48. “BBC Transcript Of Osama Bin Laden Statement.”
  49. See “In the Footsteps of Bin Laden,” CNN, August 23, 2006 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/23/cp.01.html), and Steve Coll, “Young Osama,” New Yorker, December 12, 2005 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/12/12/051212fa_fact).
  50. “In the Footsteps of Bin Laden.”
  51. “Arnaud de Borchgrave Interviews Hameed Gul, Former Chief of Pakistan ‘s Inter Services Intelligence,” UPI, September 26, 2001 (http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/594-499.aspx; also available at(http://www.robert-fisk.com/hamid_gul_interview_sept26_2001.htm).
  52. I have given a more thorough analysis of the problems in these two “confession videos” in my book Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? ( Northampton : Olive Branch [Interlink Books, 2009).
  53. “Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?” Veterans Today, October 22, 2009 (http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9079).
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