SUN AND WINDBURN FACE SAYS: Warm December day mate,,, short and long sleeve-ed-ed shirt weather,,, birds can do it all, whoop-whoop all,,, 10 minutes mediation, twenty minutes bike riding,,,5 minutes napping in the sun,,, on moonstone shaped rocks all,,, roll over on my back and look up into the blue sky,,, sparkle vision?,,,, nope,,, circling above me seagulls riding a thermal updraft,,, wide loops,,, tight loops coming close to each, then further apart,,, then close again,,, at first you could make out the bands of black on the ends of their wings but as time went on and they kept going up,,, and up and up-up-up,,, ascending- ascending- ascending- ascending- ascending- ascending, they became specks in the sky,,, they weren’t trying to mate, mate,,, they weren’t trying to establish their territory, mate,,, they were doing it for fun, mate,,,, they were doing it because they could, mate,,, The, The, The, The, waves broke in two rows today,,, the stones in the sea water salt, hey,,, tumbling in the waves, rounding out the edgy,,, thousands of waves non-judgmental, breaking non-sentimental, swooshing non-emotional,,, kah-pow!!!!!,,,, top over bottom they burst before they’re done, sun,,, the first wave breaks left to right, the second wave breaks, right to left,,, in quick succession,,, with me hoodie on,mate,,,a stereo sound they did make,,, like a Cocteau Twins loop-d-loop studio session The Cocteau Twins - Ivo (1984) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDyujx0BZSg Cocteau Twins - Song to the Siren (TV Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Xz7m-mdLE This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren 2010 HQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HphVfIswoYE&NR=1&feature=fvwp Cocteau Twins 'Musette & Drums' (version 2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTSximJUQqk Cocteau Twins - Musette and Drums http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1PiE2DeyxE Echo and The Bunnymen - Going Uphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeOJ2C3EKiI Birds, Thermals & Soaring Flight http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/nature/q0253.shtml Very rare and special, I witnesses them off shore in December 2002 Gannets diving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2IhK15mbfM Gannet Diving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32q838jMUX0 BOSS GT10 phase loophttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjmULidfMQ8 I hope you all enjoy,,, white carrara marble floor with 12 x 3 ¾ inch bull-nose base,,, shim the bottoms, keep the tops evens,,, before you install the field, you want to open up all the packages of ten and shuffle them, to get that random look,,, get them out of the cold garage the night before you set them,,, 100 percent back-butter them and puh-please-whatever-you-do, make sure to use white Thinset !!!

“May all sentient beings be free from suffering,” a Buddhist Mantra,,, having that mindset is a good way to start off,,, so that’s one vibe on the spectrum and on the other side is talking about the yucky stuff and the sentient beings that produce the yucky stuff ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ‘Not knowing’ is the source or a sub-source of suffering,,, how many times do we start off an unconstructive criticism with this in the sentence?,,, ‘I don’t know why’,,, I don’t know why anyone would want to…‘I don’t know why they don’t just… I don’t know what they think they are doing…‘I don’t know where they think they are going… it’s the ‘I don’t know’ that is in common ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… And yet even though we don’t know ‘why’ we still go ahead with the criticism anyway,,, Check this out,,, ‘I don’t know’ why that is …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Sometimes they browbeat someone for the answer,,, sometimes under pressure the person asked to have the answer can’t think of the answer, without the added pressure the answers would come to them,,, A: “For Game Hunting Survival And Gardening ”,,,, din-din-din, that is correct!!!!Come back next week for the next round …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. A teachers college thing,,, remembering the rules of my version of a samurai warrior for peace or Jene Reno in the movie The Professional, “No women- no kids” they are out of bounds,,, that’s a good rule, perhaps a tad sexist?, but women can bring life into the world and that puts them in higher category worth protecting,,, old fashioned rules that work, for peace ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Power over younger people,, browbeating someone for the answer and making fun of them,,, a student with something to say walks out the door for good, weeding out “the different”, the real geeks, fabricating bubble think and conformity ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. “Science has no conscience” -Mark Stewart and Mafia,,,, “We are technological giants and moral pigmies” – Someone Famous …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… So we can find a song using online technological in instant but should we give that song the light of day? Another good rule: Just because you can-doesn’t mean you have to ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Another good rule is: Suicide is out of bounds ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Mark Stewart & Lee Perry - Gang war (2012) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdKOeKpInQU ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Lee "Scratch" Perry - Panic in Babylon http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=F8cXSqB5j0M ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Scientist On Dub http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GvhMHJKJvM …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… http://www.azevedo.ca/scratch/images/lee_scratch_perry.jpg ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/6221949/Lee+Scratch+Perry++The+Upsetters+upsetters_1978.jpg ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… http://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/legacy/files/leescratch.jpg ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… http://murdamw.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/scratch-002.jpg ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ONE LOVE ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Chillout Peaceful Warrior http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hANZBqimFlI ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Tony Scott - Zen Meditation (1964) HD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1J8aYzMno

You Spin Me Round (Like a record) Lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKP2sGxiPvU

Alison Weir on Al Jazeera discussing AIPAC during their annual policy conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTgC-eKTRU May 21, 2011 Alison Weir, president of the Council for the National Interest Foundation, appeared on Al Jazeera English to discuss AIPAC during AIPAC's annual policy conference as a part of the Move Over AIPAC counter-conference.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Bibi more powerful than Obama?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56nFHAcxBos Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress today in Washington D.C. Congress rumbled in applause as he spoke about the longstanding relationship between Israel and the US. It was a sure sign of the power that Israel exerts over US politics. Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew weighs in............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ US lap dog to Israel?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhVUGveplNQ Israel/Palestine issue has once again become the focus of all attention for those living through or watching the Arab Spring, as well as those who listened to President Obama's speech yesterday. The reaction so far from the right has been outrage and calls of betrayal. Over the weekend, Obama is meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and speaking at AIPAC. CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin and Jeff Berkowitz, former Bush liaison to the Jewish Community discuss....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Alison Weir Alison Weir, President Alison Weir former is a journalist and the founder of If Americans Knew, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the Israel-Palestine conflict, specializing in statistical analysis. Weir writes and speaks widely about Israel-Palestine, with particular focus on media coverage. Her articles on the subject have been published in anthologies both in the U.S. and abroad and in diverse online and print publications.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Ms. Weir has given talks at numerous universities, including Harvard Law School, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Yale, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Naval Postgraduate Institute; four times at the Asia Media Summit in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, and has twice given briefings on Capitol Hill.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Former U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell (R-CA) said of her presentation: “Ms. Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today. She is intelligent, careful, and critical. American policy makers would benefit greatly from hearing her first-hand observations and attempting to answer the questions she poses.”..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... The New York Times reported of her lecture in Greenwich, Connecticut: “When the speech ended, Ms. Weir was met with thunderous applause, and across the room there was a widespread sense of satisfaction that someone was saying what needed to be said.”....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... In 2004 she was inducted into honorary membership of Phi Alpha Literary Society, founded in 1845 at Illinois College. The award cited her as a: “Courageous journalist-lecturer on behalf of human rights. The first woman to receive an honorary membership in Phi Alpha history.”................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Philip Giraldi ........................................................................................................... Philip Giraldi, Executive Director............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Philip Giraldi is a recognized authority on international security and counterterrorism issues. He is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served eighteen years overseas in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. He was Chief of Base in Barcelona from 1989 to 1992 designated as the Agency’s senior officer for Olympic Games support. Since 1992 he consulted for a number of Fortune 500 corporate clients....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Mr. Giraldi was awarded an MA and PhD from the University of London in European History and holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the University of Chicago. He speaks Spanish, Italian, German, and Turkish.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... His columns on terrorism, intelligence, and security issues regularly appear in The American Conservative magazine, Huffington Post, and antiwar.com. He has written op-ed pieces for the Hearst Newspaper chain, has appeared on “Good Morning America,” MSNBC, National Public Radio, and local affiliates of ABC television. He has been a keynote speaker at the Petroleum Industry Security Council annual meeting, has spoken twice at the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC convention in Washington, and has addressed several World Affairs Council affiliates. He has been interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Britain’s Independent Television Network, FOX News, Polish National Television, Croatian National Television, al-Jazeera, al-Arabiya, 60 Minutes, and other international and domestic broadcasters......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/staff ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Alison Weir: Israel & Palestine and Why Americans Should Care http://vimeo.com/20720158 ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Jonathan Pollard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... http://www.corbettreport.com/a-brief-history-of-israeli-spying-in-the-us/ .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Maybe there’s some benefit from not getting a formal education, a silver lining, looking for something positive, making the best of a situation,,, The Pete Says that the ‘something positive’ is Pete doesn’t feel like he has to fit into some groupthink mindset that schools create,,, The Pete Says he has a healthy distrust for rules and other artificial man/woman made boundaries,,, ‘question authority’, a healthy understanding that laws, regulations and rules are made in a flawed processes and it’s the spirit or intention and motivation behind the rules or laws that matters most, if its valid in the first place……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Believing in the laws of nature and phenomena including vibrations inspired by Nature/God/Just Is/Karma that can’t be explained with our 2012 minds trumps all else………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. I learned that wisdom grouting thousands of squares feet of ceramic tile in a university kitchen and dining hall, not in the classroom or from any NpR hurried talk show,,, and I’m proud of that physical humble work……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Why does this matter? ,,,, because throughout world history large masses of people that were too willing to confirm, following the rules including unwritten rules or social conventions driven by a need to fit in have participated in some really nasty things,,, others became resigned silently allowing crimes against nature or humanity to go down ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. This time of year I think (whoops, The Pete thinks) about what I value beyond friends and family which the Buddhists say are extensions of the ego,,, ‘my’ family ,,, ‘my’ friends,,, me-me,,, my-my,,, I-I,,, all ego stuff anyway side thing…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Mostly kindness matters,,, the size or location of someone’s house,,, or how sweet of a ride someone has,,, or vacations they ‘take’ or how much money and power someone has doesn’t mean $h!t in the larger cosmic picture,,, having and doing all those “things” doesn’t prevent someone from being an @$$h@le toward other people and stinking up the palace,,, owning material things and sighting literary passages doesn’t make the owner or blabber happy for a sustained period of time…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. The laws of “it’s never enough” kick in and more desire based suffering ends up owning you, never feeling satisfied,, something I learned years ago sleeping on rock face in the White Mountains, sleeping under the stars that talk to those that listen to nature, something that might be taught in a classroom but not likely…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Kindness and empathy matters more than the type of intelligence that’s void of wisdom,,, the environment gets trashed by the side effects of development and so-called ‘progress’,,, it is highly functioning, highly educated people that know how to pull the permits BS congress and drill a holes deep into the ground and fracture the earth with high pressure toxic water …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… So what are college degrees worth to the planet and the rest of us in that situation?,,, a poisoned aquifer drinking water table and earthquakes…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Group think can’t stop that scenario because of another flaw in human nature, no guts, no balls, lack of courage……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ‘Courage’,,, we don’t here that word very often on NpR ,,,we here Chicken-Hawk,,, chicken as in ‘coward’ hawk as in war monger,,, a chicken hawk is someone that never put on a uniform or fought in a war but want other to fight in war and calls high ranking military officers traitors if they are not onboard and not feeling wars ‘neo-con’,,, new-conservatives, nut jobs…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… A NpR Chicken-Hawk is someone all brave and loud n’$h!t behind the wheel of a car, until the other car stops,,, then they worm their way around accountability with additional bla- bla- bla………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. With empathy I can appreciate that being famous or sort of famous can have a negative effect on their identities and that’s way they do things they wouldn’t otherwise do or say,,, ‘do or say’ same-same but different,,, so all you can do is say, “it is what it is” and thank the good Lord and Dharma books for ones higher values………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… So who cares about all this stuff? Palestinians that need you to break the silence about their epic mistreatment…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. So who cares about all this stuff? People that don’t like being manipulated and lied to by NpR and other war mongering media that brainwash us to be polite to them, tricking people into defending them and not defending the lives of the Palestinians,,, rearrange our discernment centers and values,,, being polite is more important than potentially stopping ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and ending the 2012 apartheid,,, parrots call post like this ‘trash talk’ without even thinking outside the box,,, up is now down and down is now up, and nickel has more value than a quarter,,, all the side effect of being propagandized…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… So who cares about all this stuff? People that don’t like having the United State isolated from the rest of the world beholding to political American Zionist with dual citizenship pulling the puppet string of Obama, Clinton and Rice……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Side thing: Rice lacks the gravitas to sit across the table with foreign Heads of State,,, Hillary sounds solid as a rock when she talk,,,, Susan Rice on the other hand sound unsteady as a feather in the wind but with a loud voice, a quite yelling sound she makes,,, yet maybe I shouldn’t say that, I might be missing other talks and interview she gave, but what she said about the United Nation / recognizing Palestine she sounded like a bought and paid for bully,,, I’m surprised she doesn’t see Palestinian as South African black PEOPLE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Sometimes I have summons up The Rock or Gunnery Sergeant Hartman spirit on the inside, getting me out of a slump for a benevolent cause, that’s all ,,, just for fun………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. A mix of empathy, imagination and guts is required for world peace workers…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. For the drone heads, soundscapes people…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Cocteau Twins From the Flagstones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdwguwOwi4 crappie sound but recorded live………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Cocteau Twins Hitherto BBC Sessions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfJPjH6SYBg …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Cocteau Twins - Seekers Who Are Lovers [Live @ the BBC '96] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D0CYBiiDUI ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Cocteau Twins - From the Flagstones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkifcLr4dc …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-iOOsZHS6s ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup [12" Version] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fveetFoPViU …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Massive Attack & Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxmxIbr_SVA …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The Cure - Never Enough http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnNYWlSsLkE

This is sadder than suicidal sad, because really deep down, I like you

“You do not have the level of privilege to…” do something or other on this public computer it just laid on me,,, well no Sherlocks lost in a forest on that one, but what a metaphor for just about everything these days,,,, people with privilege are not allowed to make fun of us “shabbily dressed people at the bottom” Tackhead,,,, not with impunity or some push back……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… in this real time moment, I must tell myself that I and I must change my mood,,, this mood of being so disappointed, depressed, frustrated and angry at my fellow lefties in the media,,,, tell myself not to point out all things they do wrong too,,, I must change my mood because I don’t want to be a buzz- kill or a wet blanket in the tent during a snow storm becuse that vibe is not the original me, it’s not the real me,,, can’t you see,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I must tell myself ‘not’ to point how many people are suffering and slowly recovering from the hurricane out here in the outskirts of your air drift signal,,, how not to be a “weird and unhappy dude”(shame on you C.M.) and inform others about some yucky stuff and ask for help when I’m frightened shitless at the same time,,, asking for help from The Last Chance Hotel, not really a hotel but a super fine university,,, where the intelligent thoughtful people chill and could help prevent a Zionist Spy Jane Harmon from taking over the CIA,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the writer postings is being mocked for talking about himself ,,,well I say, if one does not know how to write and struggles with mild dyslexia and can’t understand the logic of grammar and spelling and was written- off by teachers with little patience in school, perhaps by teachers taught to be teachers at UCONN [you fix the grammar and spelling you know what I mean, snob] and has short comings trying to be understood by others in the ways they have been trained or ‘programmed’ in schools to understand, then why not dot, dot, dot, talk in testimonial style as long as the topics are more than self-indulgent navel gazing and the topic could benefit everyone?,,,, why not, if the testimony style is a ‘real teaching’ tool for others that are afraid to join in and are self-conscious like me because they weren’t privileged enough to get a formal education but whose voices NEEDS to be heard in these rapidly changing times,,, why not try writing the best you can if its serious enough of a topic??????? ,,, maybe in the third person like Bob Dole Or The Rock just for fun,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The Rock: Funniest Moments 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRaHH18l3cs just some over -the -top fun that’s all,,, cathartic!!!! It de-fags my damn self,,, no animosity or threats intended or directed at anyone,,,, OMG gone over the top, perhaps five minutes to long,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, LSD colored skies and the all-white jets that make them,,, they criss -cross the sky and no one says why,,, that’s Why I’m So Unhappy,,,, I reach out to the religious, medical and law enforcement communities and they respond by saying “chemtrails are only ice vapor trails”,,, where else do I turn to for help?,,, the bottom of the Breachway?,,, making your day?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Why I’m so unhappy,,, people sit in front of high definition TV sets and absorbs a stealth ‘shock and awe’,,, violent images produced in Hollywood so real in the room causing thousands of American people in parks to walk right past each other with even recognizing and acknowledging each other’s humanity too afraid to say hello to the otherwise would be allies,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, on NpR, Terry Gross quacks and laughs like the Penguin on the TV Show Batman over Palestinians wanting to be represented at the United Nation like everyone else,,, deceiving her audience into thinking that Palestinians are not human beings,,,, for 25 years at that,,,tenured deceiver with public funding that sell us Islam-a-phobia,,, is why I’m so unhappy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,this bringing down the debt during a depression fiscal cliff crap is like nine-eleven and a nine-eleven vibe economic banking /mortgage bag pop swindle of 2007/2008,,, “austerity” in the cold, making life even harder for people like me and YOU,,, WBUR slash NpR’s show ‘On Point’ says Medicaid and Medicare are the main cost-burden on the New United States and not the wars and military spending ,,,,ignoring how ‘single payer ‘or ‘public option’ health care and government regulation of prescription drugs cost to those systems could have saved the system, is why I’m so unhappy and why I drop the ‘P’ to show in visual artist fashion how little public oriented NpR has become over the years,,,, NZR,,,, National Zionist Radio ,,,, send them money,,, NZR gets our minds right into accepting the loss of our privacy in their push for war after war and covers up what happen on that day in September 2001 is why I’m so unhappy<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Elite Intrigues: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid! James Petras :: 21.11.12 Introduction: The headline stories claim that CIA Director General David Petraeus resigned as head of the CIA because of an adulterous relation with his young biographer and that General John Allen, Supreme Commander of US troops in Afghanistan, was under investigation and his promotion to top commander of US troops in Europe was on hold, because, we are told, of his ‘inappropriate’ comments in the exchange of e-mails with a civilian female friend……………………………………………………………………………………………... . We are told that a ‘hard-charging’ local FBI agent, Frederick Humphries, Jr., had uncovered amorous e-mails sent by General Petraeus to his girlfriend-biographer in the course of investigating a complaint of ‘cyber-stalking’. Out of concern that the General’s ‘adulterous behavior’ posed a risk to US national security, Florida-based FBI Agent Humphries handed the evidence over to one of Washington, DC’s most powerful Republican, Congressman Eric Cantor, who in turn passed them on to the Director of the FBI… leading to Petraeus resignation………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... In other words, we are asked to believe that a single, low-ranking, zealous FBI agent has toppled the careers of two top US Generals: one in charge of the principle global intelligence agency, the CIA, and the other in command of the US and allied combat forces in the principle theater of military engagement – on the basis of infidelity and flirtatious banter!............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Nothing could be more far-fetched simply on prima facie evidence…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… In the sphere of tight hierarchical organizations, like the military or the CIA, where the activity and behavior of subordinate functionaries is centrally directed and any investigation is subject to authorization by senior officials (most especially regarding prying into the private correspondences of the heads of the CIA and of strategic military operations), the idea that a lone agent might operate free-lance is preposterous. A ‘cowboy’ agent could not simply initiate investigation into such ‘sensitive’ targets as the head of the CIA and a General in an active combat zone without the highest level authorization or a network of political operatives with a much bigger agenda. This has much deeper political implications than uncovering a banal sexual affair between two consenting security-cleared adults despite the agent’s claim that fornication constitutes a threat to the United States……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Clearly we are in deep waters here: This involves political intrigue at the highest level and has profound national security implications, involving the directorship of the CIA and clandestine operations, intelligence reports, multi-billion dollar expenditures and US efforts to stabilize client regimes and destabilize target regimes. CIA intelligence reports identifying allies and enemies are critical to shaping global US foreign policy. Any shift at the top of the US empire’s operational command can and does have strategic importance……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. The ‘outing’ of General Allen, the military commander in charge of Afghanistan, the US main zone of military operations occurs at a crucial time, with the scheduled forced withdrawal of US combat troops and when the Afghan ‘sepoys’, the soldiers and officers of the puppet Karzai regime, are showing major signs of disaffection, is clearly a political move of the highest order…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. What are the political issues behind the beheading of these two generals? Who benefits and who loses?............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. At the global level, both Generals have been unflinching supporters of the US Empire, most especially the military-driven components of empire building. Both continue to carry out and support the serial wars launched by Presidents Bush and Obama against Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as, the numerous proxy wars against Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, etc. But both Generals were known to have publicly taken positions unpopular with certain key factions of the US power elite………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. CIA Director, General Petraeus has been a major supporter of the proxy wars in Libya and Syria. In those efforts he has promoted a policy of collaboration with rightwing Islamist regimes and Islamist opposition movements, including training and arming Islamist fundamentalists in order to topple targeted, mostly secular, regimes in the Middle East. In pursuit of this policy – Petraeus has had the backing of nearly the entire US political spectrum. However, Petraeus was well aware that this ‘grand alliance’ between the US and the rightwing Islamist regimes and movements to secure imperial hegemony, would require re-calibrating US relations with Israel. Petraeus viewed Netanyahu’s proposed war with Iran, his bloody land grabs in the Occupied Territories of Palestine and the bombing, dispossession and assassination of scores of Palestinians each month, were a liability as Washington sought support from the Islamist regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Gulf States, Iraq and Yemen. Petraeus implied this in public statements and behind closed doors he advocated the withdrawal of US support for Israel’s violent settler expansion into Palestine, even urging the Obama regime to pressure Netanyahu to reach some settlement with the pliable US client Abbas leadership. Above all, Petraeus backed the violent jihadists in Libya and Syria while opposing an Israel-initiated war against Iran, which he implied, would polarize the entire Moslem world against the Washington-Tel Aviv alliance and ‘provoke the US-proxy supplied Islamist fundamentalists to turn their arms against their CIA patrons. The imperial policy, according to General Petraeus world view, was in conflict with Israel’s strategy of fomenting hostility among Islamist regimes and movements against the US and, especially, the Jewish state’s promotion of regional conflicts in order to mask and intensify its ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Central to Israeli strategy and what posed the most immediate threat to the implementation of a Petraeus’ doctrine was the influence of the Zionist power configuration (ZPC) in and out of the US government………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… As soon as General Petraeus’ report naming Israel as a ‘strategic liability’ became known, the ZPC sprang into action and forced Petraeus to retract his statements – at least publicly. But once, he became head of the CIA, Petraeus continued the policy of working with rightwing Islamist regimes and arming and providing intelligence to jihadi fundamentalists in order to topple independent secular regimes, first in Libya, then on to Syria. This policy was placed under the spotlight in Benghazi with the killing of the US ambassador to Libya and several CIA/Special Forces operatives by CIA-backed terrorists leading to a domestic political crisis, as key Republican Congress people sought to exploit the Obama administration’s diplomatic failure. They especially targeted the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, whose maladroit efforts to obscure the real source of the attacks in Benghazi, have undermined her nomination to replace Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… General Petraeus, faced with mounting pressure from all sides: from the ZPC over his criticism of Israel and overtures to Islamist regimes, from the Republicans over the Benghazi debacle and from the FBI, over the personal investigation into his girlfriend and hyped up media smear, gave in. He ‘fessed up’ to a ‘sexual affair’, saluted and resigned. In so doing, he ‘sacrificed’ himself in order to ‘save the CIA’ and his strategy of long-term alliance-building with ‘moderate’ Islamist regimes while forming short-term tactical alliances with the jihadists to overthrow secular Arab regimes………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The key political operative behind the high-level FBI operation against Petraeus has been House Majority leader Eric Cantor, who cynically claims that the General’s romantic epistles represent a national security threat. We are told that Congressman Cantor gravely passed the e-mails and reports he had received from the ‘Lone Ranger’ FBI agent Humphries to FBI Director Mueller ordering Mueller to act on the investigation or else face his own Congressional inquiry……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Washington-based Representative Cantor is a zealous lifetime Israel-firster and has been hostile to the Petraeus report and the General’s assessment of the Middle East. Florida-based, Agent Humphries was not just any old conscientious gum-shoe: He was a notorious Islamaphobe engaged in finding terrorists under every bed. His claim to fame (or infamy) was that he had arrested two Muslims, one of whom, he claimed, was preparing to bomb the Los Angeles airport while the other allegedly planned a separate bombing. In a judicial twist, unusual in this era of FBI sting operations, both men were acquitted of the plots for lack of evidence, although one was convicted for publishing an account of how to detonate a bomb with a child’s toy! Agent Humphries was transferred from Washington State to Tampa, Florida – home of the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM)……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Despite their clear differences in station and location, there are ideological affinities between House Majority Whip Cantor and Agent Humphries – and possibly a common dislike of General Petraeus. Concerns over his Islamophobic and ideological zealotry may explain why the FBI quickly yanked Agent Humphries out from his mission of ‘obsessive’ prying into CIA Director Petraeus and General Allan’s e-mails. Undeterred by orders from his superiors in the FBI, Agent Humphries went directly to fellow zealot Congressman Cantor……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Who would have benefited from Petraeus ouster? One of the top three candidates to replace him as head of the CIA is Jane Harmon, former California Congresswomen and Zionist uber-zealot. In another twist of justice, in 2005 the Congresswoman had been captured on tape by the National Security Agency telling Israeli Embassy personnel that she would use her influence to aid two AIPAC officials who had confessed to handing classified US documents to the Israeli Mossad, if the AIPAC could round up enough Congressional votes to make her Chairwoman of the US House Committee on Intelligence, an act bordering on treason, for which she was never held to account. If she were to take his position, the ousting of CIA Director Petraeus could represent to the greatest ‘constitutional coup’ in US history: the appointment of a foreign agent to control the world’s biggest, deadliest and richest spy agency. Who would benefit from the fall of Petraeus? – first and foremost – the State of Israel…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. The innuendos, smears and leaked investigation into the private e-mails of General Allen revolve around his raising questions over the US policy of prolonged military presence in Afghanistan. From his own practical experience General Allen has recognized that the puppet Afghan army is unreliable: hundreds of US and other NATO troops have been killed or wounded by their Afghan counterparts, from lowest foot soldiers to the highest Afghan security officials, ‘native’ troops and officers that the US had supposedly trained for a much ballyhooed ‘transfer of command’ in 2014. General Allen’s change of heart over the Afghan occupation was in response to the growing influence of the Taliban and other Islamist resistance supporters who had infiltrated the Afghan armed forces and now had near total control of the countryside and urban districts right up to the US and NATO bases. Allen did not believe that a ‘residual force’ of US military trainers could survive, once the bulk of US troops pulled out. In a word, he favored, after over a decade of a losing war, a policy of cutting the US’ losses, declaring ‘victory’ and leaving to regroup on more favorable terrain……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Civilian militarists and neo-conservatives in the Executive and Congress refuse to acknowledge their shameful defeat with a full US retreat and a likely surrender to a Taliban regime. On the other hand, they cannot openly reject the painfully realistic assessment of General Allen, and they certainly cannot dismiss the experience of the supreme commander of US ground forces in Afghanistan………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… When, in this charged political context, the rabidly Islamaphobic FBI agent Humphries ‘stumbled upon’ the affectionate personal correspondences between General Allen and ‘socialite’ femme fatale Jill Kelly, the Neocons and civilian militarists whipped up a smear campaign through the yellow journalists at the Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal implying another ‘sex’ scandal – this time involving General Allen. The neo-con– militarist-mass media clamor forced the spineless President Obama and the military high command to announce an investigation of General Allen and postpone Congressional hearings on his appointment to head the US forces in Europe. While the General quietly retains his supreme command of US forces in Afghanistan, he has become a defeated and disgraced officer and his expertise and professional views regarding the future of US operations in Afghanistan will no longer be taken seriously……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Key Unanswered Questions Surrounding Elite Intrigues and Military Purges……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Given that the public version of a lone-wolf, low ranking, zealously Islamophobic and incompetent FBI agent who just happened to ‘discover’ a sex scandal leading to the discrediting or resignation of two of the US highest military and intelligence officials is absurd to any thinking American, several key political questions with profound implications for the US political system need to be addressed. These include:………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1. What political officials, if any, authorized the FBI, a domestic security agency to investigate and force the resignation of the Director of the CIA? 2. Have the current police state structures, with their procedures for widespread and arbitrary spying led to our spy agencies spying on each other in order to purge each other’s top personnel? Is this like the sow devouring her own offspring? 3. What were the real priorities of the political power-brokers who protected the insubordinate FBI agent Humphries after he defied top FBI officials’ orders to stop meddling in the investigation of the CIA Director? 4. What were FBI Agent Humphries ties, if any, to the neo-con, Zionist or Islamophobic politicians and other intelligence operatives, including the Israeli Mossad? 5. Despite Obama’s effusive praise of his brilliant ‘warrior-scholar’ General Petraeus in the past, why did he immediately ‘accept’ (aka ‘force’) the CIA Director’s resignation after the revelation of something as banal in civilian life as adultery? What are the deeper political issues that led to the pre-emptive purge? 6. Why are critical political issues and policy disputes resolved under the guise of blackmail, smears and character assassination, rather than through open debates and discussions, especially on matters pertaining to the nation’s choice of strategic and tactical ‘allies’ and the conduct of overseas wars? 7. Has the purge and public humiliation of top US military officers become an acceptable form of “punishment by example”, a signal from civilian militarists that when it comes to dealing with politics toward the Middle East, the role of the military is not to question but to follow their (and Israel’s) directives? 8. How could a proven collaborator with the Israeli-Mossad and Zionist zealot like Jane Harmon emerge as a ‘leading candidate’ to replace General Petraeus, as Director of the CIA, within days of his resignation? What are the political links, past and present between Congressman Eric Cantor, (the fanatical leader of the pro-Israel power bloc in the US Congress, who handed Agent Humphries’ unauthorized files on Petraeus over to the FBI Director Muellar) and Zionist power broker Jane Harmon, a prominent candidate to replace Petraeus? 9. How will the ouster of Director Petraeus and Jane Harman’s possible appointment to head the CIA deepen Israeli influence and control of US Middle East policy and the US overtures to Islamist countries? 10. How will the humiliation of General Allen affect the US ‘withdrawal’ from the disaster in Afghanistan?...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. The purge of top-level generals and officials from powerful US foreign policy and military posts reflects a further decay of our constitutional rights and residual democratic procedures: it is powerful proof of the inability of leadership at the highest level to resolve internecine conflicts without drawing out the ‘long knives’. The advance of the police state, where spy agencies have vastly expanded their political power over the citizens, has now evolved into the policing and purging of each other’s leadership: the FBI, CIA , Homeland Security, the NSA and the military all reach out and build alliances with the mass media, civilian executive and congressional officials as well as powerful foreign interest ‘lobbies’ to gain power and leverage in pursuit of their own visions of empire building…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The purge of General Petraeus and humiliation of General Allen is a victory for the civilian militarists who are unconditional supporters of Israel and therefore oppose any opening to ‘moderate’ Islamist regimes. They want a long-term and expanded US military presence in Afghanistan and elsewhere……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. The real precipitating factor for this ugly ‘fight at the top’ is the crumbling of the US empire and how to deal with its new challenges. Signs of decay are everywhere: Military immorality is rampant; the be-medaled generals sodomize their subordinates and amass wealth via pillage of the public treasury and military contracts; politicians are bought and sold by millionaire financial donors, including agents of foreign powers, and foreign interests determine critical US foreign policy……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The disrepute of the US Congress is almost universal – over 87% of US citizen condemn ‘the House and Senate’ as harmful to public welfare, servants of their own self-enrichment and slaves of corruption. The economic elites are repeatedly involved in massive swindles of retail investors, mortgage holders and each other. Multi-national corporations and the fabulously wealthy engage in capital flight, fattening their overseas accounts. The Executive himself (the ever-smiling President Obama) sends clandestine death squads and mercenary-terrorists to assassinate adversaries in an effort to compensate for his incapacity to defend the empire with diplomacy or traditional military ground forces or to prop-up new client-states. Cronyism is rife: there is a revolving door between Wall Street and US Treasury and Pentagon officials. Public apathy and cynicism is rife; nearly 50% of the electorate doesn’t even vote in Presidential elections and, among those who do vote, over 80% don’t expect their elected officials to honor their promises. Aggressive civilian militarists have gained control of key posts and are increasingly free of any constitutional constraints. Meanwhile the costs of military failures and burgeoning spy, security and military budgets soar while the fiscal and trade deficit grows. Faction fights among rival imperial cliques intensify; purges, blackmail, sex scandals and immorality in high places have become the norm. Democratic discourses are hollowed out: democratic state ideology has lost credibility. No sensible American believes in it anymore……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Is there a broom large enough to clean this filthy Augean stable? Will a ‘collective Hercules’ emerge from all this intrigue and corruption with the strength of character and commitment to lead the revolutionary charge? Surely the sell-out and crude humiliation of American military officials on behalf of the ‘chicken-hawk’ civilian militarists and their foreign interests should make many an officer re-think his own career, loyalty and commitment to the Constitution………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1920&print=1.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Israel runs one of the world's most aggressive and damaging espionage networks against the U.S. One senior American diplomat explains that inside the State Department "everybody knows that Israel spies on us. When someone is caught, they’re 'punished' by being promoted." In 2006 a Pentagon judge stated categorically: “The Israeli government is actively engaged in military and industrial espionage in the United States.” http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/spying?tmpl=component&print=1........................................................................................................................................................................................ WEEKEND EDITION FEB 28-MAR 01, 2004 Serving Two Flags Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Administration by STEPHEN GREEN Since 9-11, a small group of "neo-conservatives" in the Administration have effectively gutted–they would say reformed–traditional American foreign and security policy. Notable features of the new Bush doctrine include the pre-emptive use of unilateral force, and the undermining of the United Nations and the principle instruments and institutions of international law….all in the cause of fighting terrorism and promoting homeland security. Some skeptics, noting the neo-cons’ past academic and professional associations, writings and public utterances, have suggested that their underlying agenda is the alignment of U.S. foreign and security policies with those of Ariel Sharon and the Israeli right wing. The administration’s new hard line on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict certainly suggests that, as perhaps does the destruction, with U.S. soldiers and funds, of the military capacity of Iraq, and the current belligerent neo-con campaign against the other two countries which constitute a remaining counterforce to Israeli military hegemony in the region–Iran and Syria. Have the neo-conservatives–many of whom are senior officials in the Defense Department, National Security Council and Office of the Vice President–had dual agendas, while professing to work for the internal security of the United States against its terrorist enemies? A review of the internal security backgrounds of some of the best known among them strongly suggests the answer. Dr. Stephen Bryen and Colleagues In April of 1979, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Robert Keuch recommended in writing that Bryen, then a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, undergo a grand jury hearing to establish the basis for a prosecution for espionage. John Davitt, then Chief of the Justice Department’s Internal Security Division, concurred. The evidence was strong. Bryen had been overheard in the Madison Hotel Coffee Shop, offering classified documents to an official of the Israeli Embassy in the presence of the director of AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. It was later determined that the Embassy official was Zvi Rafiah, the Mossad station chief in Washington. Bryen refused to be poly-graphed by the FBI on the purpose and details of the meeting; whereas the person who’d witnessed it agreed to be poly-graphed and passed the test. The Bureau also had testimony from a second person, a staff member of the Foreign Relations Committee, that she had witnessed Bryen in his Senate office with Rafiah, discussing classified documents that were spread out on a table in front of an open safe in which the documents were supposed to be secured. Not long after this second witness came forward, Bryen’s fingerprints were found on classified documents he’d stated in writing to the FBI he’d never had in his possession….the ones he’d allegedly offered to Rafiah. Nevertheless, following the refusal of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to grant access by Justice Department officials to files which were key to the investigation, Keuch’s recommendation for a grand jury hearing, and ultimately the investigation itself, were shut down. This decision, taken by Philip Heymann, Chief of Justice’s Criminal Division, was a bitter disappointment to Davitt and to Joel Lisker, the lead investigator on the case, as expressed to this writer. A complicating factor in the outcome was that Heymann was a former schoolmate and fellow U.S. Supreme Court Clerk of Bryen’s attorney, Nathan Lewin. Bryen was asked to resign from his Foreign Relations Committee post shortly before the investigation was concluded in late 1979. For the following year and a half, he served as Executive Director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and provided consulting services to AIPAC. In April, 1981, the FBI received an application by the Defense Department for a Top Secret security clearance for Dr. Bryen . Richard Perle, who had just been nominated as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, was proposing Bryen as his Deputy Assistant Secretary! Within six months, with Perle pushing hard, Bryen received both Top Secret-SCI (sensitive compartmented information) and Top Secret-"NATO/COSMIC" clearances. Loyalty, Patriotism and Character The Bryen investigation became in fact the most contentious issue in Perle’s own confirmation hearings in July, 1981. Under aggressive questioning from Sen. Jeremiah Denton, Perle held his ground: "I consider Dr. Bryen to be an individual impeccable integrity….I have the highest confidence in [his] loyalty, patriotism and character." Several years later in early 1988, Israel was in the final stages of development of a prototype of its ground based "Arrow" anti-ballistic missile. One element the program lacked was "klystrons", small microwave amplifiers which are critical components in the missile’s high frequency, radar-based target acquisition system which locks on to in-coming missiles. In 1988, klystrons were among the most advanced developments in American weapons research, and their export was of course strictly proscribed. The DOD office involved in control of defense technology exports was the Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA) within Richard Perle’s ISP office. The Director (and founder) of DTSA was Perle’s Deputy, Dr. Stephen Bryen. In May of 1988, Bryen sent a standard form to Richard Levine, a Navy tech transfer official, informing him of intent to approve a license for Varian Associates, Inc. of Beverly, Massachusetts to export to Israel four klystrons. This was done without the usual consultations with the tech transfer officials of the Army and Air Force, or ISA (International Security Affairs) or DSAA (Defense Security Assistance Agency. The answer from Levine was "no". He opposed granting the license, and asked for a meeting on the matter of the appropriate (above listed) offices. At the meeting, all of the officials present opposed the license. Bryen responded by suggesting that he go back to the Israelis to ask why these particular items were needed for their defense. Later, after the Israeli Government came back with what one DOD staffer described as "a little bullshit answer", Bryen simply notified the meeting attendees that an acceptable answer had been received, the license granted, and the klystrons released. By now, however, the dogs were awake. Then Assistant Secretary of Defense for ISA, (and now Deputy Secretary of State) Richard Armitage sent Dr. Bryen a letter stating that the State Department (which issues the export licenses) should be informed of DOD’s "uniformly negative" reaction to the export of klystrons to Israel. Bryen did as instructed , and the license was withdrawn. In July, Varian Associates became the first U.S. corporation formally precluded from contracting with the Defense Department. Two senior colleague in DOD who wish to remain anonymous have confirmed that this attempt by Bryen to obtain klystrons for his friends was not unusual, and was in fact "standard operating procedure" for him, recalling numerous instances when U.S. companies were denied licenses to export sensitive technology, only to learn later that Israeli companies subsequently exported similar (U.S. derived) weapons and technology to the intended customers/governments. In late1988, Bryen resigned from his DOD post, and for a period worked in the private sector with a variety of defense technology consulting firms. Bryen and the China Commission In 1997, "Defense Week" reported (05/27/97) that, …." the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence reaffirmed that U.S.- derived technology from the cancelled [Israeli] Lavi fighter project is being used on China’s new F-10 fighter." The following year, "Jane’s Intelligence Review" reported (11/01/98) the transfer by Israel to China of the Phalcon airborne early warning and control system, the Python air-combat missile, and the F-10 fighter aircraft, containing "state-of-the-art U.S. electronics." Concern about the continuing transfer of advanced U.S. arms technology to the burgeoning Chinese military program led, in the last months of the Clinton Administration, to the creation of a Congressional consultative body called the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The charter for the "The China Commission", as it is commonly known, states that its purpose is to…."monitor, investigate, and report to the Congress on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China." The charter also reflects an awareness of the problem of "back door" technology leaks: "The Commission shall also take into account patterns of trade and transfers through third countries to the extent practicable." It was almost predictable that in the new Bush Administration, Dr. Stephen Bryen would find his way to the China Commission. In April 2001, with the support of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) Bryen was appointed a Member of the Commission by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Last August, his appointment was extended through December of 2005. Informed that Bryen had been appointed to the Commission, the reaction of one former senior FBI counter-intelligence official was: "My God, that must mean he has a "Q clearance!" (A "Q" clearance, which must be approved by the Department of Energy, is the designation for a Top Secret codeword clearance to access nuclear technology.) Michael Ledeen, Consultant on Chaos If Stephen Bryen is the military technology guru in the neo-con pantheon, Michael Ledeen is currently its leading theorist, historian, scholar and writer. It states in the website of his consulting firm, Benador Associates, that he is "…one of the world’s leading authorities on intelligence, contemporary history and international affairs" and that…."As Ted Koppel puts it, ‘Michael Ledeen is a Renaissance man….in the tradition of Machiavelli.’" Perhaps the following will add some color and texture to this description. In 1983, on the recommendation of Richard Perle, Ledeen was hired at the Department of Defense as a consultant on terrorism. His immediate supervisor was the Principle Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Noel Koch. Early in their work together, Koch noticed with concern Ledeen’s habit of stopping by in his (Koch’s) outer office to read classified materials. When the two of them took a trip to Italy, Koch learned from the CIA station there that when Ledeen had lived in Rome previously, as correspondent for The New Republic, he’d been carried in Agency files as an agent of influence of a foreign government: Israel. Some time after their return from the trip, Ledeen approached his boss with a request for his assistance in obtaining two highly classified CIA reports which he said were held by the FBI. He’d hand written on a piece of paper the identifying "alpha numeric designators". These identifiers were as highly classified as the reports themselves….which raised in Koch’s mind the question of who had provided them to Ledeen if he hadn’t the clearances to obtain them himself. Koch immediately told his executive assistant that Ledeen was to have no further access to classified materials in the office, and Ledeen just ceased coming to "work". In early 1986, however, Koch learned that Ledeen had joined NSC as a consultant, and sufficiently concerned about the internal security implications of the behavior of his former aide, arranged to be interviewed by two FBI agents on the matter. After a two hour debriefing, Koch was told that it was only Soviet military intelligence penetration that interested the Bureau. The follow-on interviews that were promised by the agents just never occurred. Koch thought this strange, coming as it did just months after the arrest of Naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard on charges of espionage for Israel. Frustrated, Koch wrote up in detail the entire saga of Ledeen’s DOD consultancy, and sent it to the Office of Senator Charles Grassley, then a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which had oversight responsibility for, inter alia, the FBI. A former senior FBI counter-intelligence official was surprised and somewhat skeptical, when told of Koch’s unsuccessful attempts to interest the Bureau in an investigation of Ledeen, noting that in early 1986, the Justice Department was in fact already engaged in several on-going, concurrent investigations of Israeli espionage and theft of American military technology. Machiavelli in Tel Aviv Koch’s belated attempts to draw official attention to his former assistant were too late, in any event, for within a very few weeks of leaving his DOD consultancy in late 1984, Ledeen had found gainful (classified) employment at the National Security Council (NSC). In fact, according to a now declassified chronology prepared for the Senate/House Iran- Contra investigation, within calendar 1984 Ledeen was already suggesting to Oliver North, his new boss at NSC…." that Israeli contacts might be useful in obtaining release of the U.S. hostages in Lebanon." Perhaps significantly, that is the first entry in the "Chronology of Events: U.S.- Iran Dialogue", dated November 18,1986, prepared for the Joint House-Senate Hearings in the Iran-Contra Investigations. What is so striking about the Ledeen-related documents which are part of the Iran-Contra Collection of the National Security Archive, is how thoroughly the judgements of Ledeen’s colleagues at NSC mirrored, and validated, Noel Koch’s internal security concerns about his consultant. - on April 9, 1985, NSC Middle East analyst Donald Fortier wrote to National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane that NSC staffers were agreed that Ledeen’s role in the scheme should be limited to carrying messages to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres regarding plans to cooperate with Israel on the crisis within Iran, and specifically that he should not be entrusted to ask Peres for detailed operational information; – on June 6, 1985, Secretary of State George Shultz wrote to McFarlane that, "Israel’s record of dealings with Iran since the fall of the Shah and during the hostage crisis [show] that Israel’s agenda is not the same as ours. Consequently doubt whether an intelligence relationship such as what Ledeen has in mind would be one which we could fully rely upon and it could seriously skew our own perception and analysis of the Iranian scene." - on 20 August, 1985, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense informed Ledeen by memorandum that his security clearance had been downgraded from Top Secret-SCI to Secret. - on 16 January, 1986, Oliver North recommended to John Poindexter "for [the] security of the Iran initiative" that Ledeen be asked to take periodic polygraph examinations. - later in January, on the 24th, North wrote to Poindexter of his suspicion that Ledeen, along with Adolph Schwimmer and Manucher Ghorbanifar, might be making money personally on the sale of arms to Iran, through Israel. During the June 23-25, 1987 joint hearings of the House and Senate select committees’ investigation of Iran-Contra, Noel Koch testified that he became suspicious when he learned that the price which Ledeen had negotiated for the sale to the Israeli Government of basic TOW missiles was $2,500 each. Upon inquiring with his DOD colleagues, he learned the lowest price the U.S. had ever received for the sale of TOWs to a foreign government had been a previous sale to Israel for $6,800 per copy. Koch, professing in his testimony that he and his colleagues at DOD were not in favor of the sale to begin with, determined that he–Koch–should renegotiate the $2,500 price so that it could be defended by the "defense management system." In a clandestine meeting on a Sunday in the first class lounge of the TWA section of National Airport, Koch met over a cup of coffee with an official from the Israeli purchasing mission in New York, and agreed on a price of $4,500 per missile, nearly twice what Ledeen had "negotiated" in Israel. There are two possibilities here–one would be a kickback, as suspected by his NSC colleagues, and the other would be that Michael Ledeen was effectively negotiating for Israel, not the U.S. Like his friend Stephen Bryen (they’ve long served together on the JINSA Board of Advisors) Ledeen has been out of government service since the late1980s….until the present Bush Administration. He, like Bryen, is presently a serving member on the China Commission and, with the support of DOD Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, he has since 2001 been employed as a consultant for the Office of Special Plans OSP). Both involve the handling of classified materials and require high-level security clearances. The Principals: Perle, Wolfowitz and Feith One might wonder how, with security histories like these, Messrs. Bryen and Ledeen have managed to get second and third chances to return to government in highly classified positions. And the explanation is that they, along with other like-minded neo-conservatives, have in the current Bush Administration friends in very high places. In particular, Bryen and Ledeen have been repeatedly boosted into defense/security posts by former Defense Policy Council member and chairman Richard Perle (he just quietly resigned his position), Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. As previously mentioned, Perle in 1981 as DOD Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy (ISP) hired Bryen as his Deputy. That same year, Wolfowitz as head of the State Department Policy Planning Staff hired Ledeen as a Special Advisor. In 2001 Douglas Feith as DOD Under Secretary for Policy hired, or approved the hiring of Ledeen as a consultant for the Office of Special Plans. The principals have also assisted each other down through the years. Frequently. In 1973 Richard Perle used his (and Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson’s) influence as a senior staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to help Wolfowitz obtain a job with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In 1982, Perle hired Feith in ISP as his Special Counsel, and then as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Negotiations Policy. In 2001, DOD Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz helped Feith obtain his appointment as Undersecretary for Policy. Feith then appointed Perle as Chairman of the Defense Policy Board. In some cases, this mutual assistance carries risks, as for instance when Perle’s hiring of Bryen as his Deputy in ISP became an extremely contentious issue in Perle’s own Senate appointment hearings as Assistant Secretary. Every appointment/hiring listed above involved classified work for which high-level security clearances and associated background checks by the FBI were required. When the level of the clearance is not above generic Top Secret, however, the results of that background check are only seen by the hiring authority. And in the event, if the appointee were Bryen or Ledeen and the hiring authority were Perle, Wolfowitz or Feith, the appointee(s) need not have worried about the findings of the background check. In the case of Perle hiring Bryen as his deputy in 1981, for instance, documents released in 1983 under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the Department provided extraordinarily high clearances for Bryen without having reviewed more than a small portion of his 1978-79 FBI investigation file. RICHARD PERLE: A HABIT OF LEAKING Perle came to Washington for the first time in early 1969, at the age of 28, to work for a neo-con think tank called the "Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy." Within months, Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson offered Perle a position on his staff, working with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And within months after that–less than a year–Perle was embroiled in an affair involving the leaking of a classified CIA report on alleged past Soviet treaty violations. The leaker (and author of the report) was CIA analyst David Sullivan, and the leakee was Richard Perle. CIA Director Stansfield Turner was incensed at the unauthorized disclosure, but before he could fire Sullivan, the latter quit. Turner urged Sen. Jackson to fire Perle, but he was let off with a reprimand. Jackson then added insult to injury by immediately hiring Sullivan to his staff. Sullivan and Perle became close friends and co-conspirators, and together established an informal right-wing network which they called "the Madison Group," after their usual meeting place in–you might have guessed–the Madison Hotel Coffee Shop. Perle’s second brush with the law occurred a year later in 1970. An FBI wiretap authorized for the Israeli Embassy picked up Perle discussing with an Embassy official classified information which he said had been supplied to by a staff member on the National Security Council. An NSC/FBI investigation was launched to identify the staff member, and quickly focused upon Helmut Sonnenfeldt. The latter had been previously investigated in 1967 while a staff member of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, for suspected unauthorized transmission to an Israeli Government official of a classified document concerning the commencement of the 1967 war in the Middle East. In 1981, shortly before being appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (ISP)–with responsibility, inter alia, for monitoring of U.S. defense technology exports, Richard Perle was paid a substantial consulting fee by arms manufacturer Tamares, Ltd. of Israel. Shortly after assuming that post, Perle wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Army urging evaluation and purchase of 155 mm. shells manufactured by Soltam, Ltd. After leaving the ISP job in 1987, he worked for Soltam. PAUL WOLFOWITZ : A WELL PLACED FRIEND In 1973, in the dying days of the Nixon Administration, Wolfowitz was recruited to work for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). There was a certain irony in the appointment, for in the late 1960?s, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Wolfowitz had been a student and protege of Albert Wohlstetter, an influential, vehement opponent of any form of arms control or disarmament, vis a vis the Soviets. Wolfowitz also brought to ACDA a strong attachment to Israel’s security, and a certain confusion about his obligation to U.S. national security. In 1978, he was investigated for providing a classified document on the proposed sale of U.S. weapons to an Arab government, to an Israel Government official, through an AIPAC intermediary. An inquiry was launched and dropped, however, and Wolfowitz continued to work at ACDA until 1980. In 1990, after a decade of work with the State Department in Washington and abroad, Wolfowitz was brought into DoD as Undersecretary for Policy by then Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney. Two years later, in 1992, the first Bush Administration launched a broad inter-departmental investigation into the export of classified technology to China. O particular concern at the time was the transfer to China by Israel of U.S. Patriot missiles and/or technology. During that investigation, in a situation very reminiscent of the Bryen/Varian Associates/klystrons affair two years earlier, the Pentagon discovered that Wolfowitz’s office was promoting the export to Israel of advanced AIM-9M air-to-air missiles. In this instance, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, aware that Israel had already been caught selling the earlier AIM 9-L version of the missile to China in violation of a written agreement with the U.S. on arms re-sales, intervened to cancel the proposed AIM (-M deal. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the time was General Colin Powell, currently Secretary of State. Wolfowitz continued to serve as DoD Undersecretary for Policy until 1993, well into the Clinton Administration. After that, however, like most of the other prominent neo-conservatives, he was relegated to trying to assist Israel from the sidelines for the remainder of Clinton’s two terms. In 1998, Wolfowitz was a co-signer of a public letter to the President organized by the "Project for the New American Century." The letter, citing Saddam Hussein’s continued possession of "weapons of mass destruction," argued for military action to achieve regime change and demilitarization of Iraq. Clinton wasn’t impressed, but a more gullible fellow would soon come along. And indeed, when George W. Bush assumed the Presidency in early 2001, Wolfowitz got his opportunity. Picked as Donald Rumsfeld’s Deputy Secretary at DoD, he prevailed upon his boss to appoint Douglas Feith as Undersecretary for Policy. On the day after the destruction of the World Trade Center, September 12, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz raised the possibility of an immediate attack on Iraq during an emergency NSC meeting. The following day, Wolfowitz conducted the Pentagon press briefing, and interpreted the President’s statement on "ending states who sponsor terrorism" as a call for regime change in Iraq. Israel wasn’t mentioned. Douglas Feith: Hardliner, Security Risk Bush’s appointment of Douglas Feith as DoD Undersecretary for Policy in early 2001 must have come as a surprise, and a harbinger, even to conservative veterans of the Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration. Like Michael Ledeen, Feith is a prolific writer and well-known radical conservative. Moreover, he was not being hired as a DoD consultant, like Ledeen, but as the third most senior United States Defense Department official. Feith was certainly the first, and probably the last high Pentagon official to have publicly opposed the Biological Weapons Convention (in 1986), the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (in 1988), the Chemical Weapons Convention (in 1997), the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (in 2000), and all of the various Middle East Peace agreements, including Oslo (in 2000). Even more revealing perhaps, had the transition team known of it, was Feith’s view of "technology cooperation," as expressed in a 1992 Commentary article: "It is in the interest of U.S. and Israel to remove needless impediments to technological cooperation between them. Technologies in the hands of responsible, friendly countries facing military threats, countries like Israel, serve to deter aggression, enhance regional stability and promote peace thereby." What Douglas Feith had neglected to say, in this last article, was that he thought that individuals could decide on their own whether the sharing of classified information was "technical cooperation," an unauthorized disclosure, or a violation of U.S. Code 794c, the "Espionage Act." Ten years prior to writing the Commentary piece, Feith had made such a decision on his own. At the time, March of 1972, Feith was a Middle East analyst in the Near East and South Asian Affairs section of the National Security Council. Two months before, in January, Judge William Clark had replaced Richard Allen as National Security Advisor, with the intention to clean house. A total of nine NSC staff members were fired, including Feith, who’d only been with the NSC for a year. But Feith was fired because he’d been the object of an inquiry into whether he’d provided classified material to an official of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The FBI had opened the inquiry. And Clark, who had served in U.S. Army counterintelligence in the 1950?s, took such matters very seriously…..more seriously, apparently, than had Richard Allen. Feith did not remain unemployed for long, however. Richard Perle, who was in 1982 serving in the Pentagon as Assistant secretary for International Security Policy, hired him on the spot as his "Special Counsel," and then as his Deputy. Feith worked at ISP until 1986, when he left government service to form a small but influential law firm, then based in Israel. In 2001, Douglas Feith returned to DoD as Donald Rumsfeld’s Undersecretary for Policy, and it was in his office that "OSP", the Office of Special Plans, was created. It was OSP that originated–some say from whole cloth–much of the intelligence that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have used to justify the attack on Iraq, to miss-plan the post-war reconstruction there, and then to point an accusing finger at Iran and Syria…..all to the absolute delight of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Reason for Concern Many individuals with strong attachments to foreign countries have served the U.S. Government with honor and distinction, and will certainly do so in the future. The highest officials in our executive and legislative branches should, however, take great care when appointments are made to posts involving sensitive national security matters. Appointees should be rejected who have demonstrated, in their previous government service, a willingness to sacrifice U.S. national security interests for those of another country, or an inability to distinguish one from the other. STEPHEN GREEN is a freelance journalist in Vermont http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/02/28/neo-cons-israel-and-the-bush-administration/ . Jane Harmon and the Israeli Spies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl0tv6Q9Zj0.................................................................................................................................................................... Congresswoman Jane Harman Caught Spying for AIPAC (Pro Israel Lobby In US) On http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpRvj-JRV00 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................liar, look around her eyes ,how strained they are...the camera cuts away when she really look obvious,, Wolf Blitz Bag wrote for a major Israeli newspaper,,, where does his loyalty lie? ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Possible New CIA Director Already Politically Compromised Jane Harman and Israeli Spying by ALISON WEIR It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus is a person reportedly implicated in a 2005 Israeli spy scandal. CNN, Politico, and others have all listed former Congresswoman Jane Harman as a potential new CIA head. Oddly, however, none have mentioned reports in 2006 and again in 2009 that an NSA wiretap in 2005 had picked up Harman promising a suspected Israeli agent that she would aid people indicted for espionage on behalf of Israel. According to reports, Harman allegedly told the Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two top officials for the powerful Israel lobby organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In return, the suspected Israeli agent (who may have been a dual-citizen American) reportedly pledged to help lobby for Harman to become chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Harman was already the ranking Democrat on the committee. At the end of the conversation, Harman reportedly said: “This conversation doesn’t exist.” The two AIPAC officials had been indicted for illegally obtaining classified documents about Iran and passing these on to Israel. They also gave them to prominent Washington Post journalist Glenn Kessler, whose speaker bio lists three topics: “Global Affairs, Jewish Interest, Middle East Issues.” One of the indicted AIPAC officials has since defended himself by stating that his actions were routine for AIPAC – that AIPAC staffers regularly obtain and hand on classified U.S. information to Israel and others. AIPAC, worried at public exposure caused by the indictments, fired the two men. Subsequent lawsuits over their firing provided considerable information, from sleazy details about AIPAC high officials to the fact that dozens of AIPAC donors had provided monetary assistance to the two men, despite evidence that they had leaked classified U.S. documents to a foreign country. Among these donors were Slim-Fast billionaire Daniel Abraham, philanthropist Lynn Schusterman, and Haim Saban, an Israeli-American who is one of the major donors to Democratic candidates. Saban, who is close to Harman, says his “greatest concern is to protect Israel.” (His wife was recently nominated to be US ambassador to the UN.) Harman, who frequently speaks at AIPAC events, is widely known for her strong advocacy for Israel and of Middle East wars on behalf of it. She backed the attack on Iraq and now similarly maintains that Iran is a threat to Americans, despite the fact that Iraqquickly turned into a tragic, unnecessary, and disastrously costly debacle; that Iraq had none of the weapons of mass destruction that had been claimed; and that current claims against Iran are similarly tenuous. The Jewish Forward calls her a “pro-Israel stalwart,” and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports, “Harman is beloved by the pro-Israel lobby and is a sure-bet appearance at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference.” According to Open Secrets, Harman was one of the top recipients of pro-Israel campaign donations. JTA reported that her departure from Congress in 20011, “earned her an unusually effusive statement of regret from AIPAC director Howard Kohr.” Like AIPAC, Harman currently pushes the alleged need, often promoted by flawed media reports, for the U.S. to address what she claims is Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, despite the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies continue to find that Iran is actually not developing them. (She also neglects to mention that Israel has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the nonproliferation treaty). In her nine terms in Congress, Harman focused on military and security affairs and served on all the major security committees: six years on Armed Services, eight years on Intelligence, and four on Homeland Security. Harman, who was married to billionaire Sidney Harman, owner of Newsweek, until his death last year, was listed as the second-richest member in congress. Harman resigned from Congress in 20011 to head up the Washington DC Woodrow Wilson Center, part of theSmithsonian. The Wilson Center is listed as the 16th most powerful think tank in the world. Like Harman, the longtime chair of the Wilson Center, Joseph B. Gildenhorn, is extremely close to Israel. He endowed theInstitute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland and may at one point have been an AIPAC board member. Wilson Co-chair Sander R. Gerber has been an AIPAC board member for many years. In explaining her decision to leave Congress in order to direct the Wilson Center, Harman said: “Serving at its helm provides unique opportunities to involve the House and Senate, top experts and world leaders in ‘great debates’ about the most pressing foreign and domestic policy matters.” While Congressional Quarterly’s Roll Call contains an article in which Harman denies the espionage-related reports, the publication seems to have taken down the report to which Harman was responding and to which numerous other articleslink: “Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC,” by Jeff Stein, Congressional Quarterly, April 19, 2009. (It’s unclear whether the removal of Stein’s article is related to the fact that three months after the story broke, Congressional Quarterly was bought by the Economist Group.) In the report, investigative journalist Jeff Stein provided additional details about the incident and explained that whether or not Harman delivered on her promise (she did not attain her desired chairmanship), the making of the promise was sufficient to constitute, in legal terms, a “completed crime.” Despite considerable outcry and calls for a Justice Department investigation, Harman eluded prosecution, the expected full investigation of the powerful southern California Democrat never happened, and Harman’s allegedly subversive actions seem to have dropped from sight. While former Petraeus deputy (and currently acting director) Michael J. Morell seems to be the current frontrunner for CIA head, Harman and others are reported to still be in the running. Also, Morell could prove to be a temporary choice to prevent a lapse in leadership while the long-term director is chosen. If Harman does becomes CIA director, her appointment would no doubt be greeted with glee by the Israeli government. Whether or not Harman made treasonous promises to an Israeli agent, there is no doubt that she is a committed advocate for the Israeli regime. Americans, on the other hand, might have less reason for joy. * * * For more information on the incident, see TPM, Salon, Time, Stephen Walt, the New York Times, Antiwar.com and C&L. For more information on the AIPAC case, see the investigative work by Grant Smith at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy – IRmep. For more information on the pro-Israel lobby, see Introduction to the Israel Lobby by the Council for the National Interest. # Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/14/jane-harmon-and-israeli-spying/ ..PenguinQuackhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rag_UHK5lT0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, There's Something Wrong With Human Nature - Gary Clail - Emotional Hooligan - Dubb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTqwj1GoUWw,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Human Nature by Gary Clail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56O1XVmEwEU,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Gary Clail On-U Sound System - These Things Are Worth Fighting For http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUeRZZdHHIc,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Gary Clail Two thieves and a liar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSVpCBAPw48,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Gary Clail Privatise The Air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ClpJrNdqI,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ...................................................................................................................... Chemtrails - Beck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeiFVfyiSiw ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ chemtrails , a song by beck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VmAQqi3OJc ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Puklele where does the money come from for the chemical skies project?,,, balance the budget uh?,,, cut spending uh?,,, to not be why I’m so unhappy is to be living in LSD land believing in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr2n-9p7WM,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Dntel - Why I'm So Unhappy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3O4mawboc

“Some people have wwaaaay too much time on their hands.” And anonymous who might that be, nameless? Lots of people have extra time on their hands, but not by choice. Thanks to high unemployment and politicians, lawmakers, policy setters etc. caving in to corporate interest that try to tell us sending jobs overseas is an ‘Act of God’ and not an act of man. And thanks (not) for the mass media helping the greedos create an environment where some people accept their unemployment or mortgages underwater. Nina Totenbag called the British Petroleum crime against the sea and those that live off it an ‘Act of God’, when it was nothing more than an act of greed. But anyway, who cares? What’s the tone in this moment? Chill vibe,,,, J.C. Giant Steps bro,,, just so you know, man that dude could blow,,, what kind of Ska-Jazz thing could J.C. compose?,,, who the blank word knows? I was thinking about the post by nameless, “Some people have wwaaaay too much time on their hands.” I found it just a tad insulting and worrisome. It inspired me to write.Last night I wondered; doesn’t ‘nameless’ care about his or her country? Or does ‘nameless’ have dual citizenship and care about Israel more than the United States? An, Israel firster by any chance? Last night I wondered doesn’t nameless care about his or her neighbors? Or care about the quality of life and pursuit of happiness for the next generation?,,,,, It was a predictable response AND it did not address the issues I raised,,,[the heck with this period and capital letter stuff I gots to be me] that’s the way its always done, never address the issue, just attack the man or women that brings up the topic,,, ‘ad hominem’ is something young activist or new to the social justice cause activist will have to learn how to handle,,, I think we learn this ‘attack the messenger’ and ignore the message’ from the mass- ass- meadow- muffin- media,,, the so-called news and talk shows operate that way because they don’t want the topic to be understood by any additional people, they don’t want to give it any traction,,, they want give to brand them in derogatory ways,,, they have been doing it as soon as they went on the air,,, that’s why they went on the air in the first place,,,,, The time we have on our hands is a profound question and so much pivots around the sentiment and mindset that says ignore what he’s saying to other people,,, it’s very odd,,, it’s one thing to disagree and ignore the topic but it’s a manipulative thing to get other people to ignore the topic at their own detriment,,, what motivates someone to do that crap? Worrisome, because that mindset is the mindset of someone who thinks we should act like sheep or cattle? Worrisome because it so regressive as the world of ‘conflict, consume and dispose’ moves so fast it makes everything else look like its standing still,,,,,,,,, William Wilberforce was told he“had too much time on his hands” to,,, they said it about Gandhi and King and Susan B, Gloria Steinem, Rachel Corrie, Father Roy, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, Frederick Douglass, Mike Douglas, a long list of people that were told to go away or sit down and shut up by the establishment and status quo,,, thank God they said ”f” that noise,,, women and black folk can vote thanks to people who stand up for other people,,,,,, Worrisome, because it discombobulates ones discernment center,,, our sense of priorities get all jumbled up,,,, we lose or sense of values,,, a nickel is valued more than a quarter,,,,$h!t like that,,, anyway peace out and lit the may road rise with you http://revcom.us/i/bourge.jpg,,,,,,,,,,,,, http://revcom.us/a/v21/1005-009/1008/rb.htm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Rachel Corrie – Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3JI-axaRF4,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=les%3Bcrnk_timediscountb&pq=rachel+corrie&cp=13&gs_id=1k&xhr=t&q=arch+bishop+romero&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bpcl=38897761&biw=1440&bih=805&wrapid=tljp1354137834617024&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=9IC2UP28BamG0QHjqIDQDg ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Mahatma Gandhi - "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Blonde Redhead – Messenger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBB17CJ2dBA,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Japan - Art Of Parties (OGWT) pt 2 of 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp8N5A-RM5k&feature=related,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Blonde Redhead: Messenger (featuring David Sylvian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPbOmfeRuKw pete said this in publicwith peacefulness

The Gov't wants us to do what then? ~Wisco G

Comments:



Please confirm the characters in the above image: