Written by 1942. US concentration camp for relocated Japanese-Americans. Amateur 16mm Kodachrome film.
Monthly archives for November, 2009
New FBI and CIA Files, Tapes about JFK Assassination Revealed
(MMD Newswire) November 30, 2009 — FBI files at the National Archives say that in 1985, Louisiana-Texas godfather Carlos Marcello confessed to a “reliable” Bureau informant that he ordered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Marcello’s confession to the informant was obtained during a long-secret FBI undercover operation, code-named CAMTEX. According to the files, the FBI used a bugged transistor radio in Marcello’s prison cell to secretly record “hundreds of hours” of tapes of Marcello talking to confidants about his crimes. The tapes included Marcello talking about his meetings with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Tampa-Miami mob boss Santo Trafficante.
In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, chaired by Rep. Louis Stokes, published their conclusion that “Kennedy was probably killed as a result of a conspiracy.” Their final report stated that “the Committee found that Trafficante, like Marcello, had the motive, means, and opportunity to assassinate President Kennedy.” Marcello died in 1993, and Trafficante passed away in 1987, after discussing his role in Kennedy’s murder with his attorney, the late Frank Ragano. As for motive, the Committee pointed out that from 1961 to 1963, President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had waged a massive war against organized crime. They had especially targeted the mob families of Marcello in New Orleans, Trafficante in Tampa, and the Chicago Mafia.
The full story of Marcello’s confession–confirmed by the FBI supervisor of CAMTEX and the informant himself–is told for the first time in a just-published edition of “Legacy of Secrecy” by Lamar Waldron and radio host Thom Hartmann. The authors say they interviewed two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, starting with JFK’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. This led them to files in the National Archives that showed how Marcello and Trafficante murdered President Kennedy in such a way that high US officials, including Attorney General Robert Kennedy, were forced to withhold key information from the Warren Commission and the press on the grounds of national security. “Legacy of Secrecy” is the main focus of a new Discovery Channel special entitled “Did the Mob Kill JFK?,” produced by NBC. It airs on Discovery on December 4, 2009 at 9 p.m. and midnight (Eastern).
MSM – Man Made Drought In California Causing Food Shortages
This is all bieng done by our federal government by design. Why else would they not give the farmers water. They don’t want you to have food. They are starving you out! Wake up … this will keep happening until we are all broke and starving in the streets.
Al Gore confronted on Climategate in Chicago
We Are Change Chicago confronts Al Gore at a Borders book signing on Climategate, carbon taxes, and the New World Order. Click the link for more info on the confrontation:
CIA pulls SWIFT one to get peak at your bank records
European Union governments have given in to the pressure and appear set to make a last-minute agreement with the United States to allow its intelligence agencies to monitor bank accounts and transactions across the bloc.
Actually, the EU has been clandestinely allowing US intelligence agencies to have access to these financial records since 2001, allegedly to fight terrorism.
However, EU citizens were outraged when this invasion of privacy was revealed in 2006.
Now, however, interior ministers and security officials of the 27-member bloc are going to meet on November 30 to make a decision on legally allowing the United States to have access to bank data across the EU.
‘Re-education’ for those who hold ‘wrong’ views
A program proposed at the University of Minnesota would result in required examinations of teacher candidates on “white privilege” as well as “remedial re-education” for those who hold the “wrong” views, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
The organization, which promotes civil liberties on the campuses of America’s colleges and universities, has dispatched a letter to University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks asking him to intervene to prevent the adoption of policies proposed in his College of Education and Human Development.
“The university’s general counsel should be asked to comment as soon as possible,” said the letter from Adam Kissel, an officer with FIRE. “If the Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group achieves its stated goals, the result will be political and ideological screening of applicants, remedial re-education for those with the ‘wrong’ views and values, [and] withholding of degrees from those upon whom the university’s political re-education efforts proved ineffective.”
Climate email hackers had access for more than a month
Computer hackers who broke into the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) server at the University of East Anglia had access to its systems for more than a month.
The full data – covering 1,000 emails and 3,000 documents in which the most recent document and email is dated 12 November – came to wider notice when a copy was posted on a web server in Russia on 19 November.
But a month earlier a BBC weatherman who had expressed doubts about climate change on his blog was sent a sample of the email exchanges, suggesting the hackers already had access to the private system.
Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails
Details of a university inquiry into e-mails stolen from scientists at one of the UK’s leading climate research units are likely to be made public next week.
Announcement of a chair of the inquiry and terms of reference will probably be made on Monday, a source says.
The University of East Anglia’s (UEA) press office did not confirm the date.
But a spokesperson said information about the investigation into the hack at UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) would be made public very soon.
Scientists will be scrutinising the choice of chair and the terms of reference.
One senior climate scientist told me that the chair would have to be a person accepted by both mainstream climate scientists and sceptics as a highly respected figure without strong connections to either group.
Family of slain photojournalist enter legal battle with Iran
MONTREAL – A legal showdown is set to take place in a Quebec courtroom this week pitting the government of Iran against the estate of slain photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.
Kazemi’s estate and son Stephan Hashemi are suing the Iranian government for $17 million for her arrest, detention and killing.
But Iran will argue that they have immunity from Canadian courts under the State Immunity Act, which restricts the conditions under which a foreign government can be sued here.
Hashemi says the dollar figure isn’t as important as achieving justice in his mother’s death.
The Montreal photographer was arrested in 2003 outside an Iranian prison but never charged, then was beaten to death in jail.
Bernanke Says Limiting Fed Independence Would ‘Impair’ Economy
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said curbing the central bank’s authority to supervise the banking system and tampering with its independence would “seriously impair” economic stability in the U.S.
“A number of the legislative proposals being circulated would significantly reduce the capacity of the Federal Reserve to perform its core functions,” the Fed chairman said in a commentary in today’s Washington Post. The measures “would seriously impair the prospects for economic and financial stability in the U.S.”
Tarpley-False Flag Red Alert
Webster talks about the potential of a false flag coming as the climate gets hotter for one happening..
Russians told to hit ‘bad cops’ back if they attack
If you’re assaulted by a police officer – fight back. That’s the advice of the Russia’s Interior Minister, speaking to students at a police training academy. The Minister’s comments follow a series of incidents of police brutality.
Human Driven Climate Change; Greed and the Manipulation of Science
Written by I do have a bit of a science background. Granted, it’s not much, but it is enough to understand certain concepts that others might have trouble wrapping their minds around. It was at least partially due to this background, due to being trained in the scientific method, observation, and critical thinking, that I began to question this notion of man made global warming, or human driven climate change. There was just so much that didn’t make sense to me. But that wasn’t all I learned by attending a university. It wasn’t all about science, math and liberal arts. I learned quite quickly how a bureaucracy works. I learned that a bureaucracy doesn’t care about truth, about what is right or what is wrong, about principle, or about anything ethical that might be of concern to an ordinary human, a bureaucracy only cares about money and paperwork. READ MORE »
Land Mine Treaty Won’t Be Signed By Obama Administration
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy.
“We decided that our land mine policy remains in effect,” he said.
More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty’s provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the United States, holdouts include: China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia.
Van Rompuy 2009 is “First Year of Global Governance.”
On November 19, Van Rompuy announced that 2009 is the first year of global governance. He said the climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet
