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Lance Ciepiela is a retired senior who had an interesting career in government service - a United States Marine Corps [ USMC ] Vietnam Era veteran, who became interested in restoring the Constitution after I realized that George W. Bush had attacked Iraq on false pretense and got away with it. First thing I asked myself on 9/11 as the two planes smashed into the Twin Towers was - "where are the interceptors"? - this could not have been a terrorist attack with NORAD nowhere in sight, not even at the Pentagon. My hope for restoring the Constitution is that Congress will get back to the "rule of law" by bringing George W. Bush to justice - and every Representative and Senator in Congress, and the President, would finally arrive at the "third stage" of accepting the truth about 9/11 = "knew it all along", was explosives and demolitions, and not the office fires or two planes like they said.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Illusion of Recovery: Feellings vs. Facts
The recovery storyline being touted by the oligarchy of politicians, bankers and media is designed to make consumers feel better. This is a key part of their master plan. Any honest assessment of the financial disaster that struck in 2008 would conclude it was caused by too much debt peddled to too many people incapable of paying it back, too few banks having too much power, the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates too low for too long, and that same Federal Reserve doing too little regulating of the Too Big To Fail Wall Street mega-banks.
Monday, January 30, 2012 What Would War with Iran Look Like?
Those who fear Iranian nukes above all else tend to minimize the risks of using force, while those who fear war tend to exaggerate them. Neither side, however, has persuasively spelled out the reasons for their assessment, leading one to suspect that much of the argument rests on less than rigorous analysis.
Friday, January 27, 2012 The State of Obama's Facts (1 comments)
Mostly, the president’s specific factual claims were well-founded, as we’ve come to expect from a speech that has gone through several drafts and thorough vetting. But some were dubious or debatable. An assessment of what was said, and left unsaid, at the State of the Union address.
Friday, January 20, 2012 Extensive Mitt Romney Opposition File Surfaces (1 comments)
The huge timeline of references to Romney's life and political career, entitled, "The Romney Book", seems to have been designed by John McCain's '08 staff to use as a tool against Mitt Romney during the race for the 2008 GOP Presidential nomination.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Single State Defies OBAMA Detention Plan (1 comments)
"Given the fact that the constitutions of Rhode Island and that of the United States are replete with guarantees of individual liberties, right to habeas corpus, and right to freedom of speech, the offending sections of that law are repugnant to the sensibilities of anyone that has a basic understanding of the foundation of this country" - Rhode Island State Lawmaker Rep. Daniel P. Gordon Jr
Monday, January 16, 2012 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free (1 comments)
Americans remain confident that any definition of a free nation must include their own - the land of the free. Yet, the laws and practices of the land should shake that confidence. In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has comprehensively reduced civil liberties in the name of an expanded security state.
Saturday, January 7, 2012 Is it time for a new Declaration of Independence? (2 comments)
"The actions of our government have created a moral and Constitutional crisis that demands a response from the people. Americans have patiently suffered mounting government outrages against us -- lies, corruption, legal plunder, and terror. We have waited in despair for reforms and redress, but the outrages have only gotten worse. We can now wait no longer".
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons - "No Option can be taken off the Table." (1 comments)
When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an "instrument of peace", condoned and accepted by the World's institutions and the highest authority, including the United Nations, there is no turning back - human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Surrendering More American Rights (1 comments)
More than a decade after the 9/11 attacks -- even after Osama bin Laden's death and U.S. intelligence assessments that al-Qaeda is collapsing -- Congress keeps on chipping away at U.S. constitutional rights in the name of fighting terrorism, and President Obama is ready to go along,
Saturday, December 3, 2011 Kucinich bill seeks to end the Federal Reserve (6 comments)
The National Emergency Employment Defense (NEED) Act of 2011 would place the Federal Reserve, a private, qusai-governmental institution that controls the nation's monetary policy, under control of the U.S. Treasury..
Monday, November 7, 2011 Meet The 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers
There's the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there's the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 The Elite Plan For A New World Social Order
The events of 9/11 led directly to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and in general helped create a climate where invasions of sovereign nations could be readily justified, with one excuse or another. International law was to be as thoroughly abandoned as was civil liberties..
Thursday, October 20, 2011 The Federal Reserve Bank ( Inc. ) (5 comments)
They have literally got the world to hand them the right to manufacture money out of nothing and then to turn around and lend the mammon back to the world plus usurious interest!
Monday, October 17, 2011 Lawyers Against the War calls for prosecution of George W. Bush ahead of Surrey visit by Charlie Smith (1 comments)
A legal group has advised the RCMP that it has a "duty" to arrest former U.S. president George W. Bush when he visits Surrey this month. In an October 11 letter to the Mounties, Lawyers Against the War cofounder Gail Davidson cited "widely available" documented evidence of Bush's "complicity in the widespread use of torture by the United States.
Monday, October 17, 2011 Arrest Bush! Canadians call for presidential scalp by RT
There is "overwhelming evidence" that both Bush and other senior officials in his administration signed off on and ultimately executed a regime of torture which affected hundreds of detainees
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
It's called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York's finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye. The corporations pay an average of $37 an hour (no medical, no pension benefit, no overtime pay)for a member of the NYPD, with gun, handcuffs, and the ability to arrest. New York City gets a 10 percent administrative fee on top of the $37 per hour paid to the police. The City's 2011 budget called for $1,184,000 in Paid Detail fees, meaning private corporations were paying wages of $11.8 million to police participating in the Paid Detail Unit. The program has more than doubled in revenue to the city since 2002.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Banker Brutality: Beyond Tony Bologna by Linh Dinh (1 comments)
If you grant private banks the monopoly to create money, of course they will shower themselves with cash, year in and year out, and use this unlimited power to buy up all of our politicians.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 American People To Congress: Shut Up And Get The Hell Out Of Office by Paul Joseph Watson (2 comments)
Widespread revulsion at Congress for repeatedly pushing legislation opposed by the majority of Americans, such as the increasingly unpopular Obamacare as well as cap and trade, have undoubtedly been the primary influence behind the slump in approval ratings for lawmakers.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Why 'Israelis' Danced on 911 (8 comments)
Bush personally and his administration, under his orders, covered up the crime of 911, warning 'free' Americans that they must not inquire beyond his official statements, that they must not indulge 'outrageous conspiracy theories' even as he rolled out the most outrageous, the most absurd, the most ludicrous conspiracy theory of them all.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 Obama's Green Light to Israeli Massacre by Ray McGovern (2 comments)
Obama was careful to say nothing about the brutal Israeli blockade against the 1.5 million people in Gaza, about to enter its fourth year. As president-elect he stayed mum as the Israelis attacked densely populated Gaza, killing some 1,400 Gazans. As President, he has backed down at every significant moment when Netanyahu thumbed his nose at Obama or at Vice President Joe Biden.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Breaking-NY Police Release 9/11 Photos
These aerial images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, were released by ABC News on Wednesday, showing the attacks from new angles. They were taken by the New York City Police Department. Here, smoke billows from one of the towers after being hit by an airliner as part of a coordinated terrorist attack.
Saturday, September 5, 2009 Graphic Photos-Embassy Guards Misbehaving In Kabul (1 comments)
Private security contractors who guard the US Embassy in Kabul have engaged in lewd behavior and humiliated subordinates, according to a report released this week. Photographs and video footage show scantily dressed guards engaging in drinking and demeaning sex games
Sunday, August 23, 2009 Exclusive Interview With FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
A follow-up phone interview with Edmonds, who was visiting New Zealand. The interview is an overview of what has transpired in her case since 2007, with emphasis on her deposition in the Schmidt vs. Krikorian case in Ohio earlier this month.
Monday, August 10, 2009 The Obama Opiate-Crisis Deepens, Crowds Cheer
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.
Thursday, July 9, 2009 Global Banking Economist Warned of Coming Crisis
William White predicted the approaching financial crisis years before 2007's subprime meltdown. But central bankers preferred to listen to his great rival Alan Greenspan instead, with devastating consequences for the global economy.
Monday, July 6, 2009 Happy 4th-China Bidding on Iraq's Oilfields (1 comments)
After six deadly years of war, neither the Americans nor Iraqis figured China to come out of this nightmare as a winner of Iraqi oil. But then, stuff happens.
Thursday, July 2, 2009 John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld, and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld instructed officials at the Department of Defense to organize a working group to access the fallout from harsh interrogation methods.
Monday, June 22, 2009 Confidential MEMO Reveals US Plan to Provoke Invasion of Iraq
The memo, written on 31 January 2003, almost two months before the invasion...confirms that as the two men became increasingly aware UN inspectors would fail to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) they had to contemplate alternative scenarios that might trigger a second resolution legitimising military action.
Thursday, June 18, 2009 Gonzales' Advise to Bush on How to Avoid War Crimes
White House counsel Alberto Gonzales advised George W. Bush in a memo to deny al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners protections under the Geneva Conventions because doing so would "substantially reduces the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act" and "provide a solid defense to any future prosecution."
Monday, June 15, 2009 The Obama Enigma: Imperial Interventionism and Militarism
Those who thought that the election of Barack Obama as American President would mean a fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy should have lost their illusions by now. Faces change but the system remains. When you want change, it's necessary to look beyond a single individual and evaluate the team he is working with ...or for.
Saturday, June 13, 2009 Outline of Evidence for the JFK Assassination
The doctors at Parkland Hospital are on record as saying that both the fatal bullet to the head and the one that caused the throat wound came from the front. The autopsy report, on the other hand, indicates that those bullets came from the back.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too. (5 comments)
Cheney's admission that 9/11 caused him to reassess the threats to the nation only underscores how, for months, top officials had ignored warnings from the CIA and the NSC staff that urgent action was needed to preempt a major al-Qaeda attack.
Saturday, May 30, 2009 9/11-A Time To Take A Second Look (10 comments)
Audio for the David Ray Griffin Event at Boston University, April 11, 2009, now available.
Download or play high quality audio (length is 74:30)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Trade Protectionism and Worldwide Economic Contraction
According to the World Bank's projections, total world trade in goods and services this year is expected to fall 6.1 percent. The decline will particularly hurt large export-led economies such as Mexico, Germany and Japan.
Monday, May 25, 2009 Bush's Tortuous Attempt To Fix The Intelligence
During 2002 and 2003, President George Bush insisted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was linked to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Vice President Dick Cheney repeated these assertions ad-infinitum; in 2004 he told NPR that there was "overwhelming evidence" of that link.
Saturday, May 23, 2009 C-SPAN Interview With President Barack Obama
On Friday, May 22, C-SPAN sat down with Pres. Obama at the White House for an exclusive interview. He talked with us on a wide-range of topics including the auto industry, health care, and the Supreme Court.
Monday, May 18, 2009 The 13 People Who Made Torture Possible (3 comments)
The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
Sunday, May 17, 2009 Obama/Congress Must Tell The American People The Truth About 9/11
Overwhelming scientific and eye witness evidence indicates positively without a doubt that the Pentagon was struck by a missile (or something other than a 757 commercial airliner), that Flight 93 was shot down over Pennsylvania, and the World Trade Center buildings, 1, 2, and 7, were blown up.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Breaking-Demjanjuk Lands In Munich
Flight N250LB landed in Munich on Tuesday, finally bringing the alleged war criminal John Demjanjuk to Germany after his long-drawn-out bid to fight deportation from the US. He will now face what is in all likelihood Germany's last big Nazi trial
Sunday, May 3, 2009 Defending The U.S. Constitution-Thank You Lt Watada
Bush launches his crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by attacking Iraq on false pretenses. Lt Ehren Watada says NO, no way, his orders to Iraq illegal and immoral, a war of aggression as defined at Nuremberg, and not sanctioned by the UN Security Council. Thank You Lt Watada.
Monday, March 30, 2009 Lawyer: Ex-U.S. Officials Must Face Torture Charges
The case against the American officials - including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith - was brought by human rights lawyers before Spain's investigative judge Baltasar Garzon, who has sent it on to prosecutors to see if the charges merit a full investigation.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 Spanish Court Considers Trying Former U.S. Officials (2 comments)
A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday.
Thursday, March 26, 2009 Prosecute or Perish (3 comments)
It would make no sense, for example, for a man charged with armed robbery to come before a judge and say, "Well, the robbery was in the past. You've got to look forward. I have every intention of abiding by the law in the future. So why prosecute me?"
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The Dance of the Trillions to Shore up Banks, Bankers, and Gamblers
After ten years of wholesale financial deregulation, bad policies and unsound banking practices, and facing a worsening recession, over the last year and a half the U.S. government has been pumping trillions of dollars in order to deleverage and recapitalize banks that were on the brink of insolvency
Saturday, March 21, 2009 Ottawa:Bush-Persona Non Grata
Thousands of Ottawa citizens take to the streets to tell Bush he is not welcome in Canada, a Persona Non Grata (person not welcome).
Thursday, March 19, 2009 Preparing For Civil Unrest In America (3 comments)
The internment camps are intended to "protect the government" against its citizens, by locking up protesters as well as political activists who might challenge the legitimacy of the Administration's national security, economic or military agenda.
Sunday, March 15, 2009 Real Estate Downfall
The Housing Bubble bursts on a speculator. Parody using a clip with Hitler as the real estate investor. He bought a house to flip, faces foreclosure, and now wants to get bailed out.
Thursday, March 12, 2009 Ban Bush From Canada (2 comments)
Bush is scheduled to speak in Calgary March 17, but Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson says that because Bush has been "credibly accused" of supporting torture in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Canada has a legal obligation to deny him entry under Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The law says foreign nationals who have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity, including torture, are "inadmissible" to Canada.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Civil Unrest In America?
The United States is going to have millions and millions of unemployed, people really facing dire straits. And we're going to be having that for some period of time before things hopefully improve. And at the same time there is public awareness of this extraordinary wealth that was transferred to a few individuals at levels without historical precedent in America.
Saturday, March 7, 2009 George W. Bush-The First American Dictator
They said it couldn't happen here, but from late 2001 until January 19, 2009 we Americans were living in George W. Bush's warped vision of a secure homeland, a totalitarian regime that anointed Bush supreme ruler and stripped all citizens of basic Constitutional rights.
Thursday, March 5, 2009 John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic (1 comments)
Memo shows that Bush sought the power to deploy any number of U.S. military into the U.S. itself for any reason he chose; direct them to rip through your home without a warrant, even if you have not been charged with anything; seize material and documents; and even gave Bush the power to use deadly force against you -- yes, you, innocent US citizen -- "in self-defense." In your homes and streets -- not on a faraway battlef
Thursday, March 5, 2009 How Tinkering With Inflation May Have Led To The Current Financial Crisis
When the history of this financial and economic crisis is written, it shall be recorded that the Fed and other government agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), did little or nothing to prevent the debt pyramid from reaching the dangerous levels it attained and which is now crashing down, dragging down with it the entire U.S economy and most of the world economies
Thursday, March 5, 2009 On Bush, Cheney Crimes: Seek Truth And Accountability (1 comments)
Leahy's proposal to remove from the table the prospect of prosecution of officials who have committed crimes goes against the fundamental American precept that the rule of law must apply to all of us -- even presidents, vice presidents, attorneys general and White House aides.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 America's Fiscal Collapse (2 comments)
The Obama promise largely serves the interests of Wall Street, the defence contractors and the oil conglomerates. In turn, the Bush-Obama bank "bailouts" are leading America into a spiralling public debt crisis. The economic and social dislocations are potentially devastating.
Monday, March 2, 2009 Herbert Hoover Copycat
Faced with the financial meltdown of the Great Depression, the Hoover administration created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that poured taxpayers' money into the coffers of the influential Wall Street banks in an effort to save them from bankruptcy. Like today's Bush/Obama administrations, the Hoover administration used the "too-big-to-fail" scare tactic in order to justify the costly looting of the national treasury.
Monday, March 2, 2009 The Untermensch Syndrome: Israel's Moral Decay (4 comments)
In the minds of those groups seeking to invade, conquer, pilfer and exploit, the invaded and conquered must be seen as sub-human, creatures not worthy of protection or life. The human mind, in order to justify the ruthlessness it will inflict on less able peoples, creates the impression that those now controlled are sub-humans and therefore not immune to the restrictions of human morality.
