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Now, I just found this last night and it is very disturbing to me insomuch as it ties in many loose threads for me. I do not believe we're here by mistake nor do I believe we're here because some men decided to write a book and tell me some entity created the universe in 7 days.
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http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/expert_alien_ufo_government/
Where would we be without a good conspiracy theory? Here’s one that’s currently circulating the web, from a Doctor of Inter-Stellar Anthropology (no really), who was allegedly hired as a “special consultant” to the CIA, on the project “dubbed Red Rock,” to locate and operate a mysterious “device” that emitted all-powerful sound waves, which the Doc had to get working before 2012, otherwise we’re all dead. This, according to the voice on the video, is the reason America invaded Iraq. Hm…so that explains it..eh?
The people controlling our planet DO NOT WANT YOU TO HEAR what this guy has to say, but he is a respected academic and has first hand knowledge of the real reason the US invaded Iraq and ancient, alien tech - ET disclosure in imminent, we may as well know the truth. This video explains why everyone is trying to buy up the gold, the stuxnet virus, the NWO’s plans to attack China, the real reason behind the September 11th attacks and what is going to happen on December 21, 2012.
Make your own mind up, but just remember, this guy gets to vote.
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An opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal serves up Sri Lanka as an example of the importance of getting the Afghanistan surge strategy right. The editorial concludes that with the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, a designated terrorist organization, Sri Lanka "is closer to resolving its problems than at any time since the Tigers started fighting in 1983. Sri Lanka isn't exactly analogous to Afghanistan. But the island does demonstrate the benefits of defeating terrorists on the battlefield."
The one benefit – “the green shoot” -- the WSJ highlights is that Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who called early elections to capitalize on his popularity after defeating the Tigers after 26-years of fighting, is now facing a surprise challenge in a race that he must have assumed was already in the bag. The challenge comes from none other than General Sarath Fonseka, the military commander who also takes much credit for winning the war. The two candidates will likely split the vote among the country's Sinhalese majority, which means they will have to reach out to Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, many of whom were on the shit end of Sri Lanka's military “surge”.
We examined the end of Sri Lanka's war in the Vanguard piece "Notes from a War on Terror", including the argument that some security analysts have made that the country provides a case study in how to defeat an insurgency. The Journal is right that "Sri Lanka isn't exactly analogous to Afghanistan". But the differences are perhaps more important than any similarities.
First, Sri Lanka is an island. The Tamil Tigers didn't have a Pakistan to retreat to. Unlike Bin Laden, Mullah Omar or other key Taliban commanders, who are apparently able to slip across an international border, the elusive and charismatic leader of the Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, eventually ran out of real estate. In a scene that a US administration has thus far only been able to dream about, Prabakharan’s body was displayed on national television after he was reportedly killed in a last ditch battle.
Second, the Tamil Tigers didn't have heroin. When the US and Europe began enforcing anti-terror finance laws after 9/11, the Tigers found much of their funding cut off. With access to 90-percent of the world's heroin supply, the Taliban probably aren’t too concerned with having their assets frozen by some bank.
Third, and most important, the Sri Lankan military didn't care about winning hearts and minds. While no one would argue that there aren’t benefits to “defeating terrorists on the battlefield”, the Journal glosses over how the war in Sri Lanka was prosecuted. While "hearts and minds" is central to US counter-insurgency strategy, I never once heard the words uttered while reporting in Sri Lanka. In fact, the Sri Lankan military seemed to employ the opposite strategy, showing not only wanton disregard for Tamil hearts and minds, but also lives and limbs.
With the defeat of a brutal terror organization like the Tamil Tigers its easy to say the end justified the means. But if we’re looking for examples on how to "get it right" in Afghanistan, you can probably forget about Sri Lanka. I don’t think the US or citizens of our NATO allies could ever stomach the brutal and draconian measures that Sri Lanka resorted to in the final weeks and months of the Sri Lankan surge.
And for those few who think that winning “hearts and minds” isn’t important, just ask President Rajapaksa and General Fonseka who’s presidential ambitions now ultimately depend on it.
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Marvin Pierce Bush, born October 22, 1956, is the brother of President George Walker Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush.
Marvin Bush was described in 2000 by ABCNews as a "venture capitalist in Alexandria, VA. ... Marvin pitched in on his father's campaigns and his doing his part to help George W. raise cash. He and wife Margaret have two children, Marshall and Walker."[1]
Margie Burns, "Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United," Prince George's Journal, February 4, 2003. Also here and here.
George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.
The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a 'completion contract' to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center 'up to the day the buildings fell down.'
It also had a three-year contract to maintain electronic security systems at Dulles Airport, according to a Dulles contracting official. Securacom/Stratesec also handled some security for United Airlines in the 1990s, according to McDaniel, but it had been completed before his arriving on the board in 1998.
McDaniel confirmed that the company has security contracts with the Department of Defense, including the U.S. Army, but did not detail the nature of the work, citing security concerns. It has an ongoing line with the General Services Administration - meaning that its bids for contracts are noncompetitive - and also did security work for the Los Alamos laboratory before 1998.
Marvin P. Bush, the president's youngest brother, was a director at Stratesec from 1993 to fiscal year 2000. But the White House has not publicly disclosed Bush connections in any of its responses to 9/11, nor has it mentioned that another Bush-linked business had done security work for the facilities attacked.
Marvin Bush joined Securacom when it was capitalized by the Kuwait-American Corporation, a private investment firm in D.C. that was the security company's major investor, sometimes holding a controlling interest. Marvin Bush has not responded to telephone calls and e-mails for comment.
KuwAm has been linked to the Bush family financially since the Gulf War. One of its principals and a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, Mishal Yousef Saud al Sabah, served on the board of Stratesec.
The managing director at KuwAm, Wirt D. Walker III, was also a principal at Stratesec, and Walker, Marvin Bush and al Sabah are listed in SEC filings as significant shareholders in both companies during that period.
Marvin Bush's last year on the board at Stratesec coincided with his first year on the board of HCC Insurance, formerly Houston Casualty Co., one of the insurance carriers for the WTC. He left the HCC board in November 2002.
But none of these connections has been looked at during the extensive investigations since 9/11. McDaniel says principals and other personnel at Stratesec have not been questioned or debriefed by the FBI or other investigators.
Walker declined to answer the same question regarding KuwAm, referring to the public record.
Walker is also chairman and CEO of Aviation General, a Tulsa, Okla.-based aviation company with two subsidiaries. SEC filings also show al Sabah as a principal and shareholder in Aviation General, which was recently delisted by the Nasdaq. Stratesec was delisted by the American Stock Exchange in October 2002.
The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there. The White House has not responded to various requests for comment.
Speaking of the Watergate, Riggs National Bank, where Saudi Princess Al-Faisal had her 'Saudi money trail' bank account, has as one of its executives Jonathan Bush, an uncle of the president. The public has not learned whether Riggs - which services 95 percent of Washington's foreign embassies - will be turning over records relating to Saudi finance.
Meanwhile, Bush has nominated William H. Donaldson to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Donaldson, a longtime Bush family friend, was a Yale classmate of Jonathan Bush.
On the very day of the tragic space shuttle crash, the government appointed an independent investigative panel, and rightly so. Why didn't it do the same on Sept. 12, 2001?Marvin Pierce Bush, born October 22, 1956, is the brother of President George Walker... more
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The government of Afghanistan has drafted proposed changes to its election laws that would remove all three foreign members from the body that investigates fraud, limit the number of women in parliament and establish a host of new qualifications for candidates to run for office.The government of Afghanistan has drafted proposed changes to its election laws that... more
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Evidence has recently emerged from multiple sources, including from recently declassified U.S. State Department documents, showing that the Taliban regime led by Mullah Omar imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carrying out any plots against the United States.Evidence has recently emerged from multiple sources, including from recently... more
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The mother of Amanda Ross, the Lexington woman allegedly slain by former state Rep. Steve Nunn, appeared on Good Morning America on Monday to discuss a bill named in honor of her daughter.
Diana Ross, the mother of state worker Amanda Ross, supports Kentucky's House Bill 1, known as "Amanda's Bill." The measure would allow judges to electronically track the whereabouts of people accused of domestic violence. The House Judiciary Committee unanimously passed Amanda's Bill on Thursday.
"It would've saved my daughter's life if it had been in place Sept. 11," the day her daughter was shot to death outside her Lexington home, Ross said during a live interview with Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Amanda Ross had previously sought and received a domestic-violence protective order against Nunn, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate, who has been charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty.The mother of Amanda Ross, the Lexington woman allegedly slain by former state Rep.... more
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From the New York Times: A series of internal government reviews have presented the Obama administration with a dire portrait of Afghanistan’s military and police force, bringing into serious question an ambitious goal at the heart of the evolving US war strategy — to speed up their training and send many more Afghans to the fight.From the New York Times: A series of internal government reviews have presented the... more
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According to British newspaper the Telegraph, a former UK Army officer says the Afghan National Police have been penetrated by the Taliban “at every level.”According to British newspaper the Telegraph, a former UK Army officer says the Afghan... more
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