Bush Appointee Overruled EPA Staff In Order To Deny California Waiver On Emissions
Bush Appointee Overruled EPA Staff In Order To Deny California Waiver On Emissions
In December, EPA administration Stephen Johnson rejected “California’s long-standing request for a waiver from federal law to be able to implement its own landmark regulations to slash greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.”
According to new documents released today by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Johnson, a political appointee, overruled his own staff, who in October recommended that California receive the waiver. According to the case laid out in briefing slides, EPA staff believed that legally, the agency could not deny California’s waiver:
SLIDE - “If We Grant . . .”
· “Likely suit by manufacturers”
· “EPA is almost certain to win such a suit”
· “Grant will likely allow CA standards to go into effect . . . ”
· “Grant would be generally consistent with federal GHG rule”SLIDE - “If We Deny . . .”
· “Almost certain lawsuit by California”
· “EPA likely to lose suit”
Substantively, the staff also argued in this October presentation that California needed the waiver in order to mitigate the effects of climate change:
California continues to have compelling and extraordinary conditions in general (geography, climatic, human and motor vehicle populations - many such conditions are vulnerable to climate change conditions) as confirmed by several recent EPA decisions.
Earlier this month, California and 15 other states sued the EPA over its refusal to allow them to set their own tougher vehicle-emissions standards. Under the 1970 Clean Air Act, California has regularly been allowed to set its own standards and has emerged as a “national leader in developing air quality protections.”
Johnson’s decision to overrule his staff follows a trend by President Bush’s political appointees to put politics over science. In 2003, for example, FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford decided to block over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill, despite recommendations by the agency’s scientists. Career professionals at the Justice Department who advised rejecting Georgia’s discriminatory voter ID law were also overruled by the department’s political appointees.
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HOW IS THE WAR IN IRAQ TIED TO 9/11 AND HALLIBURTON’S ASBESTOS LIABILITY?
ASK DICK CHENEY THE QUESTION!
Ask the EPA's Christine Todd Whitman!
BUSH ORDERED THE LIE…
PEOPLE ARE DYING:
LEVELS OF ASBESTOS
A statement about discovery of asbestos at higher than safe levels in dust samples from lower Manhattan was changed to state that "samples confirm previous reports that ambient air quality meets OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) standards and consequently is not a cause for public concern."
Language in an EPA draft stating that asbestos levels in some areas were three times higher than national standards was changed to "slightly above the 1 percent trigger for defining asbestos material."
This sentence was added to a Sept. 16 news release: "Our tests show that it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York's financial district." It replaced a statement that initial monitors failed to turn up dangerous samples.
A warning on the importance of safely handling ground zero cleanup, due to lead and asbestos exposure, was changed to say that some contaminants had been noted downtown but "the general public should be very reassured by initial sampling."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm
COLLEGE STUDENTS DYING FROM INHALED ASBESTOS:
http://www.bupipedream.com/pipeline_web/display_article.php?id=3259
ALL SO HALLIBURTON COULD REMOVE THE WTC ASBESTOS LIABILITY FROM ITS BOOKS:
The WTC was a $15 billion HALLIBURTON liability.
HALLIBURTON HAD ACQUIRED DRESSER TO SAVE THE BUSH FAMILY FROM THE LOSING POSITION IT WAS STUCK IN…all because of the pending Asbestos law suits:
GW included the issue in his State of the Union speech in 2005.
"To make our economy stronger and more competitive, America must reward, not punish, the efforts and dreams of entrepreneurs. Small business is the path of advancement, especially for women and minorities, so we must free small businesses from needless regulation and protect honest job-creators from junk lawsuits. (Applause.) Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back by irresponsible class-actions and frivolous asbestos claims -- and I urge Congress to pass legal reforms this year."
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:24 pmIf you don't believe your own experts, just make the stuff up and do it the way you wanted to anyway...
The Bush Doctrine
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:24 pmScience? Science, go f**k yourself!
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 pmScience? We don' need no stinkin' science!
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 pmI hope the American people who hated the clintons and gore so much that they though...huh I'll just vote republican this time....it can't be any worse.......are happy now....
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:26 pmI wonder if that effing geek wears that hardhat to keep the science out?
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:26 pmThe EPA has become yet another arm of the Corporate Fascist Dictatorship.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:27 pmgot any facts on this for us plunger?
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:29 pmI suppose that Exley will come along to explain to us why this doesn't make Republicans hypocritical about States' rights.
Don't take that comment as an invitation, Exley.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:33 pmFoxes guarding the henhouse.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 pmIt boils down to this: do you want to have a solid economy or do you want to preserve the nature and accept the financial losses?
Comment by Frank M — January 23, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Ah, yes, a troll classic: the False Choice.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:36 pmThe latest from Chef Frank M: boiled strawman.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:38 pmOf course, Frank's latest ignores the fact that with Bush, we have neither a solid economy nor preservation of nature.
How's that work exactly, Frank?
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:40 pmIt boils down to this:
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:40 pmDo you want a livable environment for this generation and the next, or are you willing to let your children and theirs live in a smog ridden cancerous atmosphere so you can keep all your material crap you put on your plastic?
More corrupt Bush administration officials?? No! All of the fingers of blame are beginning to point to one place and one place ONLY - that's right - the office of the POTUS himself!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:41 pmRU: It's a waste of time to attempt to provide insight to these sick twisted greed monsters or to instill a scintilla of human "conscience". They're dead already - these monsters - and want to take their own children and grandchildren down with them. Their personal and collective deathwish is obvious.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:42 pmgot any facts on this for us plunger?
Comment by Fred — January 23, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
This one is just blatant. It pales in comparison to the slow-motion homicides enabled by the lies of the EPA at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11 when Christine Todd Whitman intentionally lied through here teeth about the levels of asbestos in the air and on the pile.
The reason Ms. Whitman wouldn't disclose high levels of asbestos was to hide the fact that the MAIN REASON the towers were target for destruction was that they were asbestos-laced dinosaurs that Halliburton and the Port Authority were carrying on their books as a $15 billion liability.
They didn't DARE reveal the high levels of asbestos, as that would reveal the motive for the ARSON that Dick Cheney was directly responsible for on 9/11 when he directed the Sysplan-Guided planes to their targets.
When Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton, he acquired Dresser to save the Bush family's ass from pending asbestos litigation. This caused Halliburton's stock to plummet once the asbestos class action lawsuits began to roll in.
The plan from the outset was to ensure that Cheney be (s)elected in order to guarantee that the Twin Towers would be "taken down" AND - in order to ensure a rebound in Halliburton's stock price, they would be given the no-bid contract for the entire Middle East operation - more than making up for the prior loss of stock value tied to the Dresser acquisition.
THESE ARE FACTS - and the evidence is all over the internet.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:43 pmRU: The syndrome is called "eating one's own" - one way or another, the offspring dies.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:43 pmfrom Jefferson on the environment
Jefferson's philosophy that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living at least partially reiterates the biblical/Lockean paradigm of the earth as intergenerational commons, the fruits and benefits of which should be accessible to every member of every generation. f126 He takes the position that no landholder has a natural right to control the land or dispose of it after his or her death. The land is entailed to the larger society; it reverts to the larger society upon the holder's death. Society may choose to pass the land on to beneficiaries or assignees chosen by the original landholder, but there is nothing in natural law which requires this. "By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or moveable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it." f127
Society, as trustee of the earth, reasonably expects the natural estate to be returned undiminished at the end of each landholder's tenure. Jefferson maintains that each individual, and each generation collectively, has the obligation to pass on his, her, or its natural estate undiminished and unencumbered to later generations:
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:43 pmPlunger: I should think that the survivors of those who died as a result of 911 pollution would have much to say and much to swiftboat the Republican candidate with??
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 pmWhen the Port Authority unloaded the buildings onto Silverstein, the fix was already in. Cheney literally ran the entire operation on 9/11 (as witnessed by Mineta) and used Dov Zakheim's SYSPLAN technology to guide the CONVERTED FUEL TANKERS to their targets (remember the huge fireball that exploded OUTSIDE the building?).
It was Cheney who instructed Christine Todd Whitman to lie about the levels of asbestos at ground zero, because he didn't want people to make the connection that the entire operation was simply arson on a grand scale, which eliminated a $15 billion liability from Halliburton's books.
Need more evidence of the quid pro quo?
GW included the issue in his State of the Union speech in 2005.
"To make our economy stronger and more competitive, America must reward, not punish, the efforts and dreams of entrepreneurs. Small business is the path of advancement, especially for women and minorities, so we must free small businesses from needless regulation and protect honest job-creators from junk lawsuits. (Applause.) Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back by irresponsible class-actions and frivolous asbestos claims -- and I urge Congress to pass legal reforms this year."
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 pmCHENEY, HALLIBURTON, THE BUSH FAMILY, AND ASBESTOS
Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Inc., and, reportedly, the Bush family are surprisingly well acquainted with asbestos-related concerns.
On December 18, 2002, CBS News reported that Halliburton "has agreed to pay about $4 billion in cash and stock to settle hundreds of thousands of asbestos claims against it." Reportedly, Halliburton inherited its asbestos liability from Harbison-Walker, a unit of Halliburton's subsidiary Dresser Industries, and from Halliburton's Kellog Brown & Root subsidiary.
On December 13, 2001, the World Socialist Web Site reported that "During the 2000 election campaign critics noted that in the last several years Cheney and Halliburton had contributed $157,500 to congressional candidates who had co-sponsored legislation to cut off victims' rights to a fair recovery when injured or killed as a result of asbestos exposure."
And on August 11, 2002, The Olympian (from Olympia, WA), carried a Washington Post article noting that:
"Dresser had close ties to a family Cheney knew well: the Bushes. Cheney's boss while he served as Secretary of Defense, President George H.W. Bush, was once being groomed to run Dresser, a company that Bush's father and grandfather had reshaped decades earlier.
When Dresser went public in the 1920s, it turned to W.A. Harriman & Co., whose president was George Herbert Walker, grandfather and namesake to former president Bush. Prescott Bush, the former president's father, helped organize Dresser and select its new president, H. Neil Mallon. Prescott Bush eventually sat on the board and by 1941, still held 1,900 shares of Dresser stock. Mallon was so close to former president Bush that he described him in his autobiography as "surrogate uncle and father-confessor." One of his sons, Neil Mallon Bush, is named after him. After World War II, Mallon employed George H.W. Bush and Dresser executives expected him to take over the company, according to journalist Darwin Payne, who wrote a history of Dresser. Instead, the former president left to prospect for oil.
While Cheney saw sound business reasons for acquiring Dresser, there was a problem in its past -- the use of asbestos in Harbison-Walker division products."
GW included the issue in his State of the Union speech in 2005.
"To make our economy stronger and more competitive, America must reward, not punish, the efforts and dreams of entrepreneurs. Small business is the path of advancement, especially for women and minorities, so we must free small businesses from needless regulation and protect honest job-creators from junk lawsuits. (Applause.) Justice is distorted, and our economy is held back by irresponsible class-actions and frivolous asbestos claims -- and I urge Congress to pass legal reforms this year."
ASBESTOS AT GROUND ZERO?
WOW, WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
WHAT WOULD THE DEMO COST HAVE BEEN TO DISMANTLE THE TOWERS IN ANY OTHER WAY - GIVEN THAT THEY WERE FULL OF ASBESTOS?
WOW, WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329&q=silverstein&hl=en
WOW, WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:45 pmRU: Thanks for the Jeffersonian insight, too. The bible also tells us that we are to become "stewards of the environment" which parallels the definition of "caretaker" to do what's necessary and best for future generations. And these bible thumping hypocrites are the very ones who disagree with the now-irrefutabe science on global warming. Their personal level of hypocrisy is astounding; the collective level of reichwing hypocrisy is downright criminal.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:46 pmThat story about Halliburton acquiring the asbestos liabilities of Dresser Industries raises an interesting point...
Cheney KNEW that Dresser had the most massive liability issue on planet earth (he had to have known) yet decided to pay good money to bring Dresser's problems under Halliburton's tent.
This raises the question...who were the largest shareholders of Dresser - in need of a lifeboat to save their own personal bacon? Anyone named Bush? Anyone named Carlyle?
The deal went like this:
Cheney agrees for Halliburton to take on the Dresser asbestos liability.
It is determined that Bush and Cheney will be (s)elected, and that the PNAC plan will be implemented - using 9/11 as the essential pretext.
Ken Lay plays his role using his Enron smoke and mirrors tactics to create a faux energy crisis in California, causing the public to demand an energy-savvy administration be elected.
With the asbestos liability and other matters hanging in the balance, the election of 2000 simply had to be rigged in order for the plan to go in to effect.
Following the appointment of Bush and Cheney, the secret energy planning meeting established which oil companies would reap the rewards of the pending invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
The timing and the pretext were predetermined, and 9/11 was greenlighted for 9/11/2001. Cheney outsourced the implementation to Mossad, and ran the show from his bunker on D Day under the cover of preplanned drills simulating the exact attack that was proscribed, with NORAD as coconspirator. At least 50 administration officials and countless foreign agents were in on it.
Once the entire charade was concluded, the Administration generally, and Cheney specifically, had every reason in the world to blame Iraq.
The Afghanistan mission could not provide Halliburton with enough revenue to offset the massive asbestos liability claim. Iraq and Iran are essential wars in order to provide cover for the infusion of the billion of TAX DOLLARS necessary to both profit Halliburton for its actual work AND cover the massive asbestos liability claims.
Now you know why Halliburton was awarded the contracts without the need to bid for them. This was all prearranged.
NOTE: Private enterprise pushed its legal/financial obligations onto tax payers using war as the excuse.
The asbestos liability claims of Dresser Industries were ultimately paid by you and me, and our troops in the field, all to ensure that the investors in Dresser didn't take the multibillion dollar loss.
Just one piece of a very large chessboard.
Hang them for TREASON.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:47 pmPlunger: What webs we weave when we intend to deceive! Sure makes sense now - Dresser and elephantass Pappy Bush worrying about their fortune being plundered due to asbestosis claims from the WTC. No doubt there's a lot more to be learning about what the background really was for the false flag operation on 911. Can't wait for it all to unfold. Any wonder why the BushCrime Family will scurry to Paraguay the day following the end of this reign of terror??
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:49 pmAny questions about WTC 7 were answered by the owner himself when he confessed to ordering that the building be demolished on PBS:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7750532340306101329&q=silverstein&hl=en
When you have the man himself admitting on camera that he ordered the towers be "pulled" (down), it's GAMEOVERVILLE.
Any demolitions expert will tell you that the building had to have been pre-wired weeks earlier - and it had to have been done secretively as well.
Unless we are all just supposed to shut off our collective ability to reason, there is only one conclusion that can be drawn.
The man ordered that his building be prepared for demolition prior to 9/11 - and then ordered it to happen at 3:00 - and watched it drop into its own footprint successfully - as planned - at 5:00.
There's really nothing left to question about the matter.
He admitted it on camera - and you saw it fall on camera.
CONSPIRACY FACT.
http://www.infowars.net/articles/may2007/160507Probe.htm
9/11 Toxic Dust: Official Who Knowingly Lied Refuses To Testify
Whitman in the frame to take the fall for Guiliani, Rice and The White House
In a recent decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found that former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman's falsely reassuring and misleading statements of safety after the September 11, 2001 attacks were "without question conscience-shocking." The court also found the facts "support an allegation of a violation of the substantive due process right to be free from official government policies that increase the risk of bodily harm" by Whitman's misstatements regarding the air quality of the affected area. An EPA Inspector General review reached similar conclusions.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:51 pmIt boils down to this: do you want to have a solid economy or do you want to preserve the nature and accept the financial losses?
Comment by Frank M — January 23, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
Frank, you ignorant simpleton.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:51 pmShut up!
Plunger: I hope you will send this information to every sycophantic MSM news outlet you know! No such thing as coincidence - something the initiated know for certain. I think Kucinich is reopening the 911 commission and some of this new information will be spewing out of every nook and cranny soon. I don't think Bush and Cheney will beat the clock and get their sorry butts out of office before the entire house of cards comes toppling down and takes them under with it.
Let's see - as the information comes forth, The Dick, Cheney, will develop a heart problem; Herr Chimp will claim temporary insanity (or profound insanity as the case may actually be).
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:52 pmThis one is just blatant. It pales in comparison to the slow-motion homicides enabled by the lies of the EPA at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11 when Christine Todd Whitman intentionally lied through here teeth about the levels of asbestos in the air and on the pile.
THESE ARE FACTS - and the evidence is all over the internet.
Comment by plunger
I've heard enough from the workers speaking out publicly to know this is true......
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:53 pmHey Plunger: Remember the days when C & L and other blogs wouldn't public the "now obvious" 911 inconsistencies?? They preferred to shove them under the rug and trump up their amiercan incredulity to a fever pitch. Now they are beginning to see the light; now they know that something's amiss with the official story and it has absolutely nothing to do with "conspiracy theories"; it has everything to do with TRUTH!
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 pmFred: I also have heard stories from workers and families at ground zero. This information has been squelched by Rudy and Bush which is why Bush hopes that Rudy will become his successor - the lies will continue if that is the case.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:55 pmIt boils down to this: do you want to have a solid economy or do you want to preserve the nature and accept the financial losses?
Comment by Frank M — January 23, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
I want to have a solid economy and preserve nature. Given the recent recessionary outlook, it appears that Bush doesn't want to preserve nature and is more than willing to accept the financial losses.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:55 pmFred and Plunger: Yes, the flow of 911 information and the fact that the official story is bogus and/or an overt obstruction of justice is all over the internet now. Too much scientific evidence, personal testimonies, and medical information on those first responders to not have it reopened. The last poll I saw had americans at near 85% in the column of "disbelief" of the official story and more than half of them believing that it was, indeed, an inside job. Wouldn't be the first false flag in this country.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:58 pmThe Bush Administration and all of the rest of these criminals insist on talking about 9/11 to justify their evil deeds.
FINE.
Let's talk about 9/11, and let's NOT STOP.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:59 pmdimwit: Don't allow the moronic troll to have you believe that these two concepts are mutually exclusive. That's his typical "trick". In fact, the argument is now made that by making these adjustments in lifestyle, our economy becomes kickstarted with new businesses in this country. It's a fallacious argument Frank's trying to make here. The question for him would be: How can our economy get any worse than it is right now? And who are the ones making money hand over fist? That would be Bush's cronies who are the major polluters of our planet.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pmAbsolutely, plunger! Thanks to Rudy highlighting his role in 911, I say that it should be on the lips of every american over the next months - until we impeach Bush and Cheney in order to get to the truth.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:01 pmNote to Ghouliani: Be careful what you ask for!
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:01 pmThe second argument vis-a-vis the need to change our addictive ways in order to preserve the planet is this: WHY NOT?????
If, in fact, Mother Nature is kinder to us than the prevailing science indicates, so be it and what have we lost? For openers, we've become less energy dependent which is a HUGE step in the right direction.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:03 pmLet’s talk about 9/11, and let’s NOT STOP.
Comment by plunger — January 23, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
God Please NO!
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:05 pmIt boils down to this: do you want to have a solid economy or do you want to preserve the nature and accept the financial losses?
Comment by Frank M — January 23, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
No, you buffoon, it doesn't boil down to your stupid little false dichotomy at all. These two goals are compatible, in fact.
Mind. Numbing. Stupidity.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:10 pmLet’s talk about 9/11, and let’s NOT STOP.
Comment by plunger — January 23, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
God Please NO!
Comment by dim wit — January 23, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Meaning what? That you want to fight a forever war against a Boogieman that had nothing to do with 9/11, and you don't want to know the truth?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:11 pmStephen L. Johnson is going to HELL!!!!
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 pmComment by plunger — January 23, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
Meaning I don't want you posting reams and reams of 9/11 crap.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 pmComment by plunger — January 23, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
Meaning I don’t want you posting reams and reams of 9/11 crap.
Comment by dim wit — January 23, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
So if it's never "on topic to post "tons of 9/11 crap" (otherwise known as the TRUTH), then you are in favor of living this lie for the rest of your life under a fascist dictatorship?
If we don't reveal the truth here, then where?
If not now, then when?
“Most people prefer to believe that their leaders are just and fair, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which he lives is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.â€
Michael Rivera
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:23 pmMilitary's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive
By JEFF GERTH
"The media center in Fayetteville, N.C., would be the envy of any global communications company ...
"The center is not part of a news organization, but a military operation, and those writers and producers are soldiers. The 1,200-strong psychological operations unit based at Fort Bragg turns out what its officers call "truthful messages" to support the United States government's objectives, though its commander acknowledges that those stories are one-sided and their American sponsorship is hidden.
"We call our stuff information and the enemy's propaganda," said Col. Jack N. Summe, then the commander of the Fourth Psychological Operations Group, during a tour in June. Even in the Pentagon, "some public affairs professionals see us unfavorably," and inaccurately, he said, as "lying, dirty tricksters."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/politics/11propaganda.html?pagewa
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pmAccording to the US State Department, the definition of TERRORISM is not confined to the physical act of killing.
Terrorism occurs when a state utilizes fear tactics against its own people to accomplish political objectives.
The mere act or announcing a falsely construed terror alert - or overplaying the significance of a plot known not to be viable - is itself terrorism.
Tom Ridge admitted that many of the Terror Alerts announced under his command were in fact phony.
Remember the run on duct tape?
That was a clear case of state sponsored terrorism by the Government of the United States under the direction of Karl Rove against the people of the United States to achieve a political objective.
Karl Rove is a Terrorist under the definition ascribed by the US State Department.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm"Every pretext for war is created by those with the capacity to profit from it."
Plunger
http://www.rense.com/general31/cyc.htm
The CIA's "Operation
Cyclone" - Stirring The Hornet's
Nest Of Islamic Unrest
FriendsOfLiberty.com
10-27-2
Zbigniew Brzezinski not long ago revealed that on July 3, 1979, unknown to the American public and Congress, President Jimmy Carter secretly authorized $500 million to create an international terrorist movement that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and "de-stabilise" the Soviet Union...
The CIA called this Operation Cyclone and in the following years poured $4 billion into setting up Islamic training schools in Pakistan (Taliban means "student").
Young zealots were sent to the CIA's spy training camp in Virginia, where future members of al-Qaeda were taught "sabotage skills" - terrorism.
Others were recruited at an Islamic school in Brooklyn, New York, within sight of the fated Twin Towers.
In Pakistan, they were directed by British MI6 officers and trained by the SAS.
The result, quipped Brzezinski, was "a few stirred up Muslims" - meaning the Taliban.
The Wall Street Journal declared: "The Taliban are the players most capable of achieving peace. Moreover, they were crucial to secure the country as a prime trans-shipment route for the export of Central Asia's vast oil, gas and other natural resources."
No American newspaper dares suggest that the prisoners in Camp X-Ray are the product of this policy, nor that it was one of the factors that led to the attacks of September 11.
Nor do they ask: who were the real winners of September 11?
The day the Wall Street stock market opened after the destruction of the Twin Towers, the few companies showing increased value were the giant military contractors Alliant Tech Systems, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon (a contributor to New Labor) and Lockheed Martin.
As the US military's biggest supplier, Lockheed Martin's share value rose by a staggering 30 per cent.
Within six weeks of September 11, the company (with its main plant in Texas, George Bush's home state) had secured the biggest military order in history: a $200 billion contract to develop a new fighter aircraft. The greatest taboo of all, which Orwell would surely recognize, is the record of the United States as a terrorist state and haven for terrorists.
This truth is virtually unknown by the American public and makes a mockery of Bush's (and Blair's) statements about "tracking down terrorists wherever they are."
They don't have to look far.
THERE IS NO OSAMA BIN LADEN.
AL QAEDA IS MERELY AN IDEA.
THERE IS NO "WAR ON TERROR"
THERE IS MERELY TERROR, CAUSED DIRECTLY BY THOSE WHO GAIN THE MOST FROM IT.
AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM PRODUCTION IS AT ALL TIME HIGHS SINCE 9/11 AND OUR RESULTING INVASION.
GEORGE HW BUSH'S CIA/DEA DRUG IMPORTATION OPERATIONS ARE AS PROFITABLE AS EVER.
THE US IS LEADING THE "WAR OF TERROR."
GOOGLE: "FALSE FLAG"
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:26 pmThey don't show the next slide in the presentation which says:
HOWEVER, ...
Predicted conclusion to all lawsuits - 2009
So, SCREW IT!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA!
(Meeting adjourned)
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:33 pmIn less than a year Johnson will leave the EPA for a cushy industry job, no doubt.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 pmExplain to me how making better products will ruin the economy?
This has been the whine of Republicans for ages:
We can't pay a living wage:
We can't put in safety equipment in the mines!
WE can'r have a minium wage!
We can't raise the minimum wage!
We can't hace a 40-hour work week, overtime, workmen's compensation, parental leave!
....we'll go broke!
They've been whining like this throughout the 20th Century--and the result? America has an enormous economy, and the rich are richer than ever.
They whine like spoiled children every time, and every time they're wrong.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:40 pmIt's amazing how the exchanges on this forum took a quick turn from California and it's quest for tougher emission standards to 9/11 and the war. Somehow, thankfully, I notice that tread that seems to link thees discourses together. Looks like there is a lot off skepticism toward our government and it's controversial policies.
About the EPA... it just looks like the process is being drawn out. Those new standards will pass.
I pinpointed the shift in conversation topics and it all begins with POST 18.
Plunger:
You are cohesive in your thought process and what you say does make sense but I'm going to go out on a ledge here and say that you might be hovering along very thin conspiracy theories.
Cheers,
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pmRobert
The Issue | http://www.TheIssue.com
(1) So if it’s never “on topic to post “tons of 9/11 crap†(otherwise known as the TRUTH), then you are in favor of living this lie for the rest of your life under a fascist dictatorship?
(2) If we don’t reveal the truth here, then where?
(3) If not now, then when?
Comment by plunger — January 23, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
1) life, lie, fascist dictatorship, whatever
2) I don't care where, just not here
3) preferably when I'm not around
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 pmI pinpointed the shift in conversation topics and it all begins with POST 18.
Plunger:
You are cohesive in your thought process and what you say does make sense but I’m going to go out on a ledge here and say that you might be hovering along very thin conspiracy theories.
Cheers,
Robert
The Issue | http://www.TheIssue.com
Comment by Robert @ TheIssue — January 23, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
Thin?
The thinnest conspiracy theory of 9/11 is that proposed by the government itself, which is proven to be virtually impossible.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm1) life, lie, fascist dictatorship, whatever
2) I don’t care where, just not here
3) preferably when I’m not around
Comment by dim wit — January 23, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Thanks, Karl. Nice to see you.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pmI'd hate to see Congress saying anything impolite about the almighty Bush Administration's EPA strangling us in our own smog. After all, it might damage the spirit of bipartisan cooperation so necessary for implementing solutions to the recession-related economic problems of our betters.
Maybe that environmental extremist Arnold der Governator will sic Jerry Brown on those Republicans and save us from the timidity of the Democrats, who only hold a majority in Congress.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:07 pmI take it that you are referring to Osama being the ring leader of a network of terrorist cells he had across the country waiting on his command to carry out his plan to destroy the us economy and credibility worldwide.
Was it proven to be impossible?
Robert
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 pmThe Issue | http://www.TheIssue.com
I take it that you are referring to Osama being the ring leader of a network of terrorist cells he had across the country waiting on his command to carry out his plan to destroy the us economy and credibility worldwide.
Was it proven to be impossible?
Robert
The Issue | http://www.TheIssue.com
Comment by Robert @ TheIssue — January 23, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
No - I'm speaking specifically of the story that was put out about what happened on 9/11 itself and who was actually involved in the planning and implementation and financing.
The government's version of events is impossible, and a lie.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 pmcaption:
"The oil pipeline is only this wide, so it's a tight squeeze for me.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:12 pmThank goodness for my official Christie Todd Whitman helmet that protects my head when they pump me headfirst to work in the morning."
Is the man in the photo actually wearin his chinstrap on his hardhat. I have worked in industry for a lot of years and have never seen anyone use a chinstrap.
Perhaps, well I'm not gonna guess why he did that!
January 24th, 2008 at 10:24 amDoes anyone know whether there is a study or report evidencing the trend that this trend of Bush appointees advancing the administration's agenda and how the courts are systematically striking those provisions down.
Anything similar to what Union of Concerned Scientists put out to expose the political pressure put on Federal scientists? Thanks.
February 29th, 2008 at 4:43 pm