White House Releases Photos of Abuse and Torture

The photos do not even have to be of Gitmo.

“How U.N. Conventions on Women’s and Children’s Rights Undermine Family, Religion, and Sovereignty”

Citizens for Community Values, in conjunction with Family Research Council and various statewide pro-family organizations, has just released a new study, entitled “How U.N. Conventions on Women’s and Children’s Rights Undermine Family, Religion, and Sovereignty,” by Patrick Fagan, William Saunders and Michael Fragoso. The 36-page study describes the negative consequences of United States ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (“CEDAW”) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (“CRC”).

"Obama Man," Greg Morton, from Our Cousins in Canuckland

China Cars

As U.S. taxpayers will assist China, since we have loaned millions to GM (formerly known as General, now Government Moters) and profit from our taxes, many Americans may want to know what we are paying for. This site describes some of the leading Chinese cars.

Will on Obamabow: "Lawlessness," 'Ya Think?

From the venerable Washington Post arises the editorial from George Will that Obambow's policies appear to be lawless. I wonder how long it will take American elites to catch up with the electorate. It appears to be happening though.

The Specter of Internment

The American Daughter web site has a handy article about the concentration camps proposed to house American citizens.

American Pharma Baxter Vaccine Against Flu Found Contaminated by H5N1 Virus in 18 European Countries

The links to the original Czech Republic articles that broke the story of Baxter deliberately contaminating vaccines is included here.

FACT CHECK: Data belie Biden stimulus anecdotes

The AP says it a bit more tactfully but let's face it these are lies.

Foreign Money Bought and Paid for the U.S. Presidency?

These legal records document the holding company of now convicted fraudulent organization ACORN--as CCI, a holding company for ACORN that shows the group registered as a foreign corporation which is a clear violation of U.S. election laws.

Too Much Today: A Summary

In and of itself, none of these stories released just today would mean all that much. However, when taken altogether, a patter is certainly emerging. The attack on the free market continues as Obamabow increases business taxes.

Another story states that the Air Force and DARPA are developing a super blimp that remain aloft for a year virtually undetected. If deployed against our enemies then this would be a worthwhile tool. If this is intended as surveillance on American citizens then this is not good at all.

Universal health care could be a good thing but for the elderly they are not eligible for all the benefits of such care.

A massive oil deposit has been found in the northern part of the U.S., over the Dakotas and Montana but there may no impetus to exploit it which would keep Americans more dependent on imported foreign oil.

Here is a really odd story. The text to the Comprehensive Health Reform Act of 2009 is not available on either Govtrack.com or thomas.loc.gov, although both sites feature the entire bills so citizens can actually read the proposed bills. The public is not able to view the bill.

The first encounter with the swine flu appears to be a dry run. The next round of (H1N1)(+) - Avian Bird Flu, might well be more deadly than Swine Flu.

A story circulating on the Internet is sourced by the FSB, the former KGB. According to this Russian source, Justice Souter was forced to resign over his refusing an order from Chief Justice John Roberts to support the implementation of Martial Law within the US planned for this coming fall.

And of course not after the bail out of GM, in a move to fire the CEO, it looks like the Government Motors will start selling Chinese vehicles in the U.S.

Americans are really going to have to stay vigilant and not get fatigued since the assaults on their sensibilities seem designed to wear them down.

1971 CIA Cuban Pig Virus

San Francisco Chronicle
January 10, 1977 Front page

1971 Mystery

CIA Link to Cuban
Pig Virus Reported

With at least the tacit backing of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officials, operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971.
Six weeks later an outbreak of the disease forced the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a nationwide animal epidemic.

A U.S. intelligence source told Newsday last week he was given the virus in a sealed, unmarked container at a U.S. Army base and CIA training ground in the Panama Canal Zone, with instructions to turn it over to the anti-Castro group.

The 1971 outbreak, the first and only time the disease has hit the Western Hemisphere, was labeled the "most alarming event" of 1971 by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. African swine fever is a highly contagious and usually lethal viral disease that infects only pigs and, unlike swine flu, cannot be transmitted to humans.

All production of pork, a Cuban staple, halted, apparently for several months.

A CIA spokesman, Dennis Berend, in response to a Newsday request for comment, said, "We don't comment on information from unnamed and, at best, obscure sources."

Why the virus turned up in Cuba has been a mystery to animal investigators ever since the outbreak. Informed speculation assumed that the virus entered Cuba either in garbage from a commercial airliner or in sausages brought in by merchant seamen.

However, on the basis of numerous interviews over four months with U.S. intelligence sources, Cuban exiles and scientists concerning the outbreak — which occurred two years after then-President Nixon had banned the use of offensive chemical and biological warfare — Newsday was able to piece together this account of events leading up to the outbreak.

The U.S. intelligence source said that early in 1971 he was given the virus in a sealed, unmarked container at Ft. Gulick, an Army base in the Panama Canal Zone. The CIA also operates a paramilitary training center for career personnel and mercenaries at Ft. Gulick.

The source said he was given instructions to turn the container with the virus over to members of an anti-Castro group.

The container then was given to a person in the Canal Zone, who took it by boat and turned it over to persons aboard a fishing trawler off the Panamanian coast. The source said the substance was not identified to him until months after the outbreak in Cuba. He would not elaborate further.

Another man involved in the operation, a Cuban exile who asked not to be identified, said he was on the trawler when the virus was put aboard at a rendezvous point off Bocas del Toro, Panama. He said the trawler carried the virus to Navassa Island, a tiny, deserted, U.S.-owned island between Jamaica and Haiti. From there, after the trawler made a brief stopover, the container was taken to Cuba and given to other operatives on the southern coast near the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in late March, according to the source on the trawler. The base is 100 miles due north of Navassa.

The source on the trawler, who had been trained by the CIA and had carried out previous missions for the agency, said he saw no CIA officials aboard the boat that delivered the virus to the trawler off Panama, but added: "We were well paid for this and Cuban exile groups don't have that kind of money . . ." He said he was revealing the information because he is a member of an exile group being investigated by the United States in connection with terrorist activity in Florida. His account was confirmed by another intelligence source in Miami. The source said he had no proof that the operation was approved by CIA officials in Washington, but added: "In a case like this, though, they would always give them (CIA officials in Washington) plausible deniability."

The investigation referred to by the operative on the trawler involves a federal inquiry into terrorist acts allegedly carried out by Cuban exiles. Those include bombings and assassination attempts in the United States and Venezuela. Trained originally by the CIA for operations against Cuba, the exiles have become more restive as they view what they believe to be an increasing move toward rapprochement between Fidel Castro and the United States.

Fred Tausch Flyover

A wealthy Obamabow donor, businessman Fred Tausch of New Hampshire, announced he’d be sinking some $100,000 into assaults on Obamabow. Now he’s adding the Air Farce One flyover snafu to his list of grievances, tying it to “wasteful spending” in a direct mail piece sent out to his state’s voters.

American Taxpayers Pay for Grant: Chinese Prostitutes, Alcohol Abuse, and HIV

The headline "U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job" caught my eye which I hope would interest American taxpayers as well. The story was just reported and it is a legitimate story, as unlikely as it seems, though the recently released CNSNews version does not highlight, but mentions, that the study was awarded in November of last year. I know it may be difficult for the politicians to find things to cut in the strapped U.S. economy but shouldn't this type of thing be on the chopping block when the American economy is not doing well? The study is being conducted by a Wayne State professor. I do not know if any one noticed but Americans right down the road might need studies to get their flailing American car manufacturing industry back on the right track. Shouldn't they be a higher priority than Chinese prostitutes?

ObamabowNation!

If You Had $9 Trillion, Would You Know Where You Put It?

Top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Is Fired

Bird Flu Distributed by the DHS

I thought this video was scrubbed because I posted it before and it was gone. I found it on another source and maybe it will remain available.

Demofascism

Statement of the 27 April Photo Op Flyover Analyzed

The subject line of the memorandum states that this was "Air Force One."

At other points, the plane was described as a backup Air Farce One but the subject line states differently.

The memorandum states the radio call sign, if a president is aboard, is "Air Force One." No radio transmissions are included in the statement so presumably Obamabow could have been on board.

"Our review was limited to the White House's involvement in the April 27 flyover."

The limited review might imply that the WH is not in control of other agencies or that they did not expect cooperation from others.

This internal review "did not review the conduct of other federal agencies or departments that participated in the flyover, including the Department of Defense (the "DoD") or the Federal Aviation Administration (the "FAA").

What is the role of the DoD and the FAA in this fiasco? Is there any coordination between the agencies? Will there be subsequent reviews in these agencies? Is there no coordination, e.g., as in the case of the lack of coordination between the FBI and the CIA which led to the mistakes on 9/11?

The memorandum states that there are "reviews," plural, in the DoD? Are there competing factions in the DoD?

Nothing is mentioned about a FAA review. Why?

No one thought to interview or question Obamabow?

Another obvious question, where is the passenger manifest? Who was on the plane?

The White House Military Office (WHMO) discussion seems like a red herring. The ruse seems to be to provide lots of irrelevant detail which does not clarify the basic questions about the flight.

The initial planning states that the idea was floated in March or earlier although there is no evidence provided.

If it is true that the first real discussion began on 3 April, it seems that the flight was out of the ordinary from the very beginning. If so, there is no reason for the obvious gaffes in planning and lack of attention to what the memorandum describes from the very beginning as an unusual event.

The evidence presented, if true, states that on 9 April the photo shoot is described as "unusual."

As planning continued, on 20 April, the flight is again characterizes as "unusual."

Now, around the 23 - 24th, as plans solidified, everything seemed to be in order for the out-of-the ordinary flight.

If the quoted email is accurate, it states the "WH shouldn't catch any questions about it." Why? Why would the WH not catch any flak? Is it so the WH can claim plausible denial? In the three days before the flight, is something not being stated that might cause the WH to catch flak? It is also, oddly, described as an "AF" [Air Force] operation, in close coordination with FAA."

How is this an Air Force operation? Is this really a military flight? Why?

The WHMO Director states that he did not read the plans until after the flight on the 27th. Why? He didn't review the unusual flight plan for three days, between the 24th to the 27th?

What email accounts does he have? The Director states he has two accounts: the WHMO account, and a WH account? What's the difference and why does he have two work email accounts? In any event, he didn't check his more frequently accessed account, and besides he left work early a couple days. Neither explanation makes much sense. He could check his accounts, plural, and from any location even if waylaid by health issues.

On the 24th, the Deputy and the Director had a brief but "direct" conversation of thirty seconds about the flight. This thirty second conversation covered all the issues related to the unusual, imminent flight three days hence. No one seemed to think the odd flight required any more attention than this?

The Deputy and the Director's account differs, both appear to be covering their derriere, but the essentials are troubling enough. No one seems to have taken the flight very seriously. And, since there is disagreement here, I would suspect that the flight was not really planned at all until differing accounts, and contradictory details could emerge, i.e., that the flight was not planned, or the mission changed, on the 24th or thereafter as another unstated issue emerged.

Neither individual had any issues according to the statement's account of the exchange by the early afternoon on the 24th and no one reported up the chain of command for the unusual flight.

The most garbled portion of the memorandum is the Director's summary. He didn't seem to understand the mission, though no one else seemed to be asking many questions or planning very well either. Perhaps no one knew the actual mission of the flight.

Then, at almost 3 p.m., Colonel Turner seems to have the sign off with the Deputy, and all along on the planning for this sensitive flight, no one seems to have made concrete plans, and the approvals are coming from lower members of the echelon the entire time. If this flight really was about something else, as it appears to be, then the photo excuse is barely plausible. Someone higher up was calling the shots since no one at this lower level seems to be planning much of anything.

Colonel Turner followed up on the 25th, the most active of the planners, as seems befitting of an Air Force operation, rather than a White House photo opportunity flight. He included the Air Force Mobility Command and the FAA in the notifications.

The reaction, or should I say fall out, fell on the shoulders of the Director. But something transpired from the 24th - 27th to make this more of an Air Force operation. The Director, although his actions seem to be lethargic, is not the sole individual to blame. I think it rather that he was the highest ranking WH employer that could take the fall. It fell to him to make apologies and allow the WH to present a public face of anger and a promise that something like this would not happen again.

The memorandum is obfuscating. Nowhere does it identify the passengers, the actual mission, the military implications of relevant Air Force involvement, and numerous critical issues along these lines. There are many details but little substantive information. This was an unusual flight from the very beginning which flies in the face of the lack of detailed planning and coordination that would accompany such a flight.

The eyewitnesses, those how have nothing to hide, stated that the flyover appeared to be a pursuit. Sidney Bordley, a floor director in an office building at 1 Battery Park Place, said, “People were running out of the office, claiming they saw a commercial flight being pursued by F-16’s.”

Illustrated Swine Flu Symptons

The flu is spreading more rapidly than can be easily tracked and the primary emphasis according to experts is to check with your local health providers who will the first line of defense.