U.S. Attempts To Extradite 9/11 Whistleblower

U.S. ATTEMPTS TO EXTRADITE 9/11 WHISTLEBLOWER

Kurt Sonnenfeld and unidentified search and rescue specialist in subterranean void beneath Ground Zero

Slowly but surely the pieces are falling into place on the most treasonous act in American History ~ the 9/11 false flag operation which most likely implicates George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and other high level White House officials. Kurt Sonnenfeld, who fears for his life, holds the key video tape evidence: Allen L Roland

Press TV News recently interviewed 9/11 whistleblower Kurt Sonnenfeld in Argentina as the U.S. attempts to extradite the FEMA Videographer ~ who firmly believes that 9/11 was an inside job and False Flag Operation and has the video tapes to prove it.
http://www.infowars.com/us-attempts-to-extradite-911-fema-videographer-from-argentina/

"False flag terrorism" occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia defines it: " False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as if they are being carried out by other entities.."

As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he wrote "El Perseguido" ( The Persecuted ).

I am sure his 'disturbing findings' included Molten steel and traces of thermite that we now know were found after the collapse, providing more proof that thermite explosive charges were used. (Thermite is the only substance that could melt steel )

His recently-published book tells the story of his unending nightmare and drives another nail into the coffin of the government’s official account of the 9/11 events and increases the likelihood that 9/11 was a false flag operation.

Below is an exclusive interview by The Voltaire Network on June 22, 2009 from Buenos Aires (Argentine)
http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html

Excerpts: Voltaire Network: You have suggested that you observed things at Ground Zero that did not tally with the official account. Did you do or say anything to arouse suspicion in this respect?
Kurt Sonnenfeld: In that same telephone call I said that I would “go public”, not only with my suspicions about the events surrounding September 11, 2001, but about several contracts I had worked on in the past.

Voltaire Network: What are your suspicions based on?
Kurt Sonnenfeld: There were many things, in hindsight, that were disturbing at Ground Zero. It was odd to me that I was dispatched to go to New York even before the second plane hit the South Tower, while the media was still reporting only that a “small plane” had collided with the North Tower ~ far too small of a catastrophe at that point to involve FEMA . FEMA was mobilized within minutes, whereas it took ten days for it to deploy to New Orleans to respond to Hurricane Katrina, even with abundant advance warning! It was odd to me that all cameras were so fiercely prohibited within the secured perimeter of Ground Zero, that the entire area was declared a crime scene and yet the “evidence” within that crime scene was so rapidly removed and destroyed. And then it was very odd to me when I learned that FEMA and several other federal agencies had already moved into position at their command center at Pier 92 on September 10th, one day before the attacks !!

Voltaire Network: To what degree would your discoveries at Ground Zero expose the government’s involvement in those events? Are you familiar with the investigations that have been carried out by numerous scientists and qualified professionals which not only corroborate your own findings but, in some instances, far exceed them? Do you regard such people as "conspiracy nuts"?
Kurt Sonnenfeld: At the highest levels in Washington, DC, someone knew what was going to happen. They wanted a war so badly that they at least let it happen and most likely even helped it happen.
Sometimes it seems to me that the “nuts” are those who hold to what they’ve been told with an almost religious fervor despite all of the evidence to the contrary ~ the ones who won’t even consider that there was a conspiracy. There are so many anomalies to the “official” investigation that you can’t blame it on oversight or incompetence. I am familiar with the scientists and qualified professionals to whom you refer, and their findings are convincing, credible, and presented according to scientific protocol ~ in stark contrast to the findings of the “official” investigation. In addition, numerous intelligence agents and government officials have now come forward with their very informed opinions that the 911 Commission was a farce at best or a cover-up at worst. My experience at Ground Zero is but one more piece of the puzzle."

Voltaire Network: As we said, deciding to write this book and to go public was a huge step. What pushed you to do it?
Kurt Sonnenfeld: To save my family. And to let the world know that things are not what they seem.

Voltaire Network: Last but not least: what will you do with your tapes?
Kurt Sonnenfeld: I am convinced that my tapes reveal many more anomalies than I am capable of recognizing given my limited qualifications. I will therefore cooperate in any way that I can with serious and reliable experts in a common endeavour to expose the truth." http://www.voltairenet.org/article160636.html

Only the truth is revolutionary and it always, as Schopenhauer wrote, goes through three stages ~ First, it is ridiculed, Second, it is violently opposed and Finally, it is accepted as being self-evident. The self-evident truth of the 9/11 cover-up is, in this case, paramount for America to eventually reclaim its once proud moral standing . Seen in this context, America's unjustified and illegal War on Terror is now rightfully seen as a rationale for global imperialism and an ongoing War of Terror.

The Obama administration refuses to investigate and re-open the 9/11 Pandora's Box for fear that the foundation of its on-going War Of Terror would be exposed as a now self-evident cover up and false flag operation.

A reminder ~ Bin Laden began as a CIA asset, and two months before the 9/11 attack, he was at the American hospital in Dubai, where a CIA agent visited him. On September 10, 2001, he was at the Army Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to receive dialysis treatment. Again, no attempt was made to arrest him. Today, we're also not trying to arrest this man, and what does that tell you ? It's telling you that Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent ~ who was conveniently used by Bush and Cheney to scare the world and provide a convenient scapegoat for the 9/11 false flag operation.

But do sleeping sheep really want the truth ? Unfortunately, in light of our shameful short attention span, that question still remains unanswered.

Allen L Roland http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/us-atempts-to-extradite-911.html

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SEND IN THE CLOWNS / GLENN BECK SCHEME RALLY TODAY

Fox News host Glenn Beck, will be joined today on his march on Washington by former Alaska governor and fellow Republican buffoon Sarah Palin. Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Images

The only effective means of dealing with someone as outrageous and irrelevant as Glenn Beck is parody and Jon Stewart is more than up to the task: Allen L Roland

As Glenn Beck has his moment of infamy, at the Lincoln Memorial, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's historic ' I have A Dream ' speech ~ I realize that Beck is just being Beck so why glorify his I Have A Scheme insanity with serious dialogue.

I agree with Simon Maloy who wrote ( Media Matters ) ~ "Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" is a cynical ploy that exploits the hopes, fears, and faiths of his followers, a "sick farce" in which Beck is trying to advance his own politics and ambitions while hiding behind "deranged posturing."

So why not ridicule it with satire and parody which is far more effective in exposing hypocrisy ~ and delivers its message while making us rightfully laugh.

No one is more effective in penetrating the bubble of hypocrisy than Jon Stewart ~ so here's his ten minute must see video take on Glenn Beck's ' Restoring Our Honor ' rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on August 28th.
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2063?akid=151.3890.-DIkRP&t=16

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/dend-in-clowns-glenn-beck-scheme-rally.html


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Seniors Unite Against Simpson And Obama

SENIORS UNITE AGAINST SIMPSON AND OBAMA

















Obama appointed co-chairman of the budget deflcit commission, Alan Simpson, recently offended all seniors by calling them 'lesser people in society' and in the process infuriated a voting block that all but insures an Obama one term presidency: Allen L Roland

The fact that President Obama picked Alan Simpson as co-chairman of the budget deficit commission is a tip off that Obama has already written off not only the progressives but also seniors ~ which will come back to haunt him in 2012.

Simpson has called seniors “greedy geezers;” described lower-income Americans as “lesser people in society;” and complained that he is frustrated hearing from retirees who “live in gated communities and drive their Lexus to the Perkins restaurant to get the AARP discount "

Well, Mr Simpson ~ I happen to be a proud senior who is still working, making a difference, not living in a gated community or driving a Lexus and if it wasn't for social security ~ I, like millions of Americans, would fall below the poverty line. For your information ~ the average beneficiary receives only $13,900 a year and has not received a cost of living increase for two years.

You're a crusty, entitled and mean 79 year old geezer, Mr Simpson ~ and it's pretty obvious why Obama chose you to chair his bipartisan commission on reducing the federal deficits ~ so he could eventually cut social security benefits.

Simpson recently compared Social Security to "a milk cow with 310 million tits" ~ so his job essentially is to fire the opening administration salvo against Social Security.

William Greider, The Nation nailed it when he recently wrote ~ " Simpson should have been turned out to pasture years ago but Obama made him co-chair of the President's bipartisan commission on reducing the federal deficits....Every savvy player in the Capital knows what the president has in mind ~ whack Social Security benefits to lure Republicans into a grand deal on raising taxes. As I have written more than once, when Washington talks up bipartisan compromise it usually means the people are about to get screwed.

That train is rolling down the tracks now, but don't expect major media coverage to alert the populace. The prestige newspapers are on board for this deal and Obama's commission won't reveal its recommendations until right after the election. Too late for folks to make a stink."
http://www.thenation.com/article/154187/alan-simpson-senator-guttermouth-spews-again

Greider offers an excellent suggestion for Senator Guttermouth ~ " In the interest of fairness, for instance, why not cut Simpson's government pension benefits as much or more than they intend to cut Social Security benefits. After all, he can afford it. And Simpson likes to talk about his new knee ~ recently replaced with a $70,000 operation. Did he pay for his new knee or did the taxpayers? It would be fun to find out."

Simpson is obviously uninformed about Social Security, ideologically biased, and unfit for this position. Seniors rightly see Obama's Deficit Commission stacked with people hostile to Social Security and intent on cutting it ~ despite the fact that social security does not contribute to the deficit.

However, it's not too late to make a stink so sign this petition and send it to all your senior friends and let's stop that train before it leaves the station.
http://action.ourfuture.org/action/sacksimpson

By the way, if Pew’s latest numbers are even halfway accurate, they should frighten Obama and the Democrats. Their surveys show voters 65 and over, who gave Democrats a 50 percent to 39 percent edge on the generic ballot in November 2006, giving Republicans a 51 percent to 43 percent edge now. If that reversal holds, Democrats could be ruing the "year of the angry white senior” at the polling place, not just the town hall.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/angry-white-seniors-and-2010.html

Allen L Roland
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OBAMANOMICS / RUNNING ON EMPTY

Let's face it, Obamanomics is all style with very little if any substance ~ to the extent that the White House has no idea of the mistrust and anger that it has generated with its misleading cheerleading of an economic recovery that is little more than a mirage: Allen L Roland

I cringe every time I hear President Obama talking about economic recovery when neither he nor any of his 'economic czars' have fully acknowledged that we are in a deepening Depression and that Obamanomics is running on empty. The Obama administration still seems unbelievably committed to a top down recovery where cash flush banks will loosen credit and the housing and credit bubble will inflate again. Guess what ~ it ain't gonna happen !

Here's what's really happening ~ Transnational corporations have made billions by moving 39% of US manufacturing offshore to boost the GDP and employment of foreign countries, such as China, while impoverishing their former American work force. Congress and the corpocracy have welcomed this as the New Global Economy ~ but it has left Main Street unemployed and over extended.

Sales of US previously owned homes plunged 27 percent in July, twice as much as forecast, which is further evidence that foreclosures and limited job growth are depressing the market.
For example, there have been 300,000 foreclosure filings every month for the past 17 months. This year, 1.9 million homes will be lost, down from 2 million last year. In July alone, 92,858 homes were repossessed. These are Depression sized numbers numbers ~ which cannot be covered up with wishful thinking or happy talk !

Let's start with the very real possibility of a permanent housing collapse.

Shamus Cooke, writes in Truthout of that possibility ~ "The recent chaos that erupted when 30,000 people waited hours in the Atlanta, Georgia, heat to receive applications for subsidized housing is a mere symptom of a worsening national problem " and she's absolutely correct.

Excerpt: " The housing market appears to be on a never-ending downward spiral, with the much-discussed "recovery" always around the next corner... The reasons that such a recovery is impossible at the moment should be obvious: millions of people do not have jobs; millions of others work only part time; millions more work full-time but make very little money; and additional millions fear losing their jobs... Under these circumstances, there can be no recovery in the housing market, which will continue to contribute to the broader depression-like economy in the US. "
http://www.truth-out.org/a-permanent-housing-collapse62505

So what we need now are truth tellers as well as concerned citizens who demand truth and transparency ~ for without those two ingredients, a legitimate economic recovery will be impossible.

Americans do not trust their political leaders, including Obama, who are obviously beholden to an out of control corpocracy and military industrial complex. Rasmussen Polls reveal " that only 23 percent of the people in this country believe today's federal government has the consent of the governed ... The major division in this country is no longer between parties but between political elites and the people," Mr. Rasmussen reports.

On that very same subject, here's a must see video of Chris Hedges' one hour talk on HOW CORPORATIONS DESTROYED AMERICAN DEMOCRACY where Hedges explains how an American empire of production became an empire of consumption and how free market capitalism and globalization have economically brought America to its knees.

Hedges uses the exploitation and demise of Michael Jackson as a metaphor for our present society of sound bites and illusions.

Hedges also explains how Bill Clinton led the Democratic Party to the corporate watering trough and how NAFTA was the knife in the heart of the U.S./ working class. It was Clinton and Summers who destroyed the Glass/Steagal Act and put the Democrats in the same bed with the Republicans and Wall Street financial elite.

Now 50 million Americans are in poverty and millions more are near poverty. The corporate state has hijacked our government and the actual unemployment rate is now closer to 20%.

Hedges correctly identifies Obama as a cheerleader for the Oligarchy and our current flight into corporate illusion and that we all must become invisible witnesses for a moral imperative for true change ~ and that no real reform or change is possible with an out of control Military/Industrial complex powered by corporate greed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRQjF1IPgKQ&feature=related

As Susan Cooke correctly states ~ " It will take a mass movement of working people to rearrange the priorities of those in power, or to put different people in power, so that the country's resources are directed to those creating the wealth, or in the most need of it "

It all starts,of course, with truth and transparency from our political leaders. We must mobilize and nonviolently demand it before the mid-term elections or we will eventually run out of fuel.

Theodore Roethke wrote ~ In a dark time, the eye begins to see ~ So let's end our cultural retreat into illusion and demand the truth from our political leaders and effectively harness the corporate state in the process.

Forty seven percent of the voters believe the Federal budget deficit is primarily due to the wars while joblessness continues to climb. The number one concern for a majority of people is the economy. It is the perfect storm for new organizing efforts to end the wars, cut military spending and rebuild our communities.

Peace Action is helping to organize a national march on Washington, October 2, One Nation Working Together. We are calling on the Obama administration and Congress to create jobs and "move the money" from wars and weapons to our communities.

Sign on, get involved and make a difference.

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/obamanomics-running-on-empty.html

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The Shot Heard Round The World

THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD















This Oct. 3, 1951, file photo shows Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants hitting a home run, to win the national League pennant against the Brooklyn Dodgers, in the ninth ining of a baseball game at the Polo Grounds in New York. Famed home run hitter Bobby Thomson died Monday night, Aug. 16, 2010. He was 86. (AP Photo/File)

I will never forget that afternoon of October 3,1951 ~ it's emblazoned in my soul for the sheer emotion and excitement lifted me to unparalled bliss, if not ecstacy. Yes, it was the day I became a Giant fan forever: Allen L Roland

It was a crisp typical late fall afternoon in Western Massachusetts ~ I had just finished football practice and was sitting on the stairs of the Mount Hermon Prep School Fieldhouse listening to the radio play by play of the last game of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers National League playoff.

The Giants had won 37 of their last 44 games to force this three game playoff with the powerful Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants had won the first game at home 4 to1 but had lost the second 10 to 0 in Brooklyn and were now trailing 4 to1 going into the last of the ninth of the final and decisive game at the Polo Grounds ~ with the fearsome Don Newcombe on the mound for the Dodgers.

Things looked very grim indeed for the Giants ~ but Newcombe was showing the effects of overuse from the season's final days. Pitching on only two days' rest and tiring badly, he attempted to take himself out of the game, only to have Jacky Robinson talk him into trying to finish the ninth inning.

Giants shortstop Alvin Dark singled to start the ninth inning rally. Then Don Mueller singled to right, which sent Dark from first to third base. Monte Irvin followed, with a chance to drive in a run, but he chased the first pitch and popped out. Whitey Lockman followed with a double down the left-field line, scoring Dark and advancing Mueller to third. Mueller slid awkwardly into the bag and broke his ankle, forcing the Giants to send in Clint Hartung to pinch-run for him.

Charlie Dressen, the Brooklyn manager, finally pulled the obviously drained Newcombe and sent Ralph Branca into the game. (That move has bewildered baseball historians to this day ) Branca had pitched and lost Game 1 of the series and had given up several home runs that year to Thomson, who had hit 31 during the season. However, in Dressen's defense, he had no well-rested pitchers available; in the last regular-season game alone the Dodgers had sent seven men to the mound . Besides that , Willie Mays was on deck behind Thomson ~ so he couldn't pitch around Thomson. During the pitching change, Giant manager Leo Durocher reportedly implored Thomson ~ " If you ever hit one, hit one now ! "

So the stage was set and I was besides myself in excitement ~ Branca's first pitch was a fastball down the middle for a strike. His second pitch was a fastball up and in to Thomson, intended as a setup for his planned next pitch, a breaking ball down and away ~ which never happened. For Thomson pounced on that fast ball and drove it down the left-field line, a rising shot toward the invitingly close outfield fence, and into the third row of a frenzied mass of Giants fans who went stark raving mad ~ including myself as I screamed with broadcaster Russ Hodges ~ The Giants win the Pennant, The Giants win the pennant ...

So here is that moment frozen in time ~ this treasured memory was indelibly implanted in my young mind for it was etched in total joy and delight ~ forever associated with the late Bobby Thomson who died last week at 86 years old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI7dVj90zs

Allen L Roland
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GOP Strategy / Dumbing Down The Dumb With Lies

GOP STRATEGY / DUMBING DOWN THE DUMB WITH LIES

The Republican Party has no platform but has the capability of shifting the blame of Bush's financial recklessness and place it squarely in Obama's hands while proclaiming themselves reformers to their dumb downed base : Allen L Roland

The wooden stake of the truth was never used to pierce the heart of the dark soul of the Cheney/Bush administration.
As such, their evil deeds of illegal preemptive war, occupation, illegal renditions, spying and torture continue to be unpunished and seemingly swept under the rug by an Obama administration ~ who has gladly adopted some of these very same abuses of power.

But the Republicans can't run away from one date and that date is 9/11/2001. No amount of Obama bashing or obscuring the facts can hide their culpability for knowingly allowing America's greatest tragedy ~ now that the glaring reality of our preemptive failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan are becoming common knowledge.

The 9/11 Pandora's treasonous horror box will be opened eventually and the Achilles' heel will be the torture induced false confessions to 9/11 ~ which were sanctioned by two of the 9/11 facilitators, VP Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In an interview with Press TV, Philip Sands, the author of Torture Team, blamed lawyers close to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for marginalizing international laws to sanction the torture of detainees at US-run prisons. Sands cited a memo that Rumsfeld signed on December 2, 2002 as proof of the US officials' crime. The memo sought to help the US government coerce imprisoned suspected terrorists into revealing intelligence.

It's all an elaborate Kabuki theater with the Republicans doing their so-called obstruction dance with the gutless Democrats, who have settled for piecemeal change, while Wall Street continues to raze Main street ~ and it's all based on lies !

President Obama has become a true master of deception. Obviously, Obama is fully in sync with BP and the global financial elite ~ that photo of him swimming in the oil laden Gulf with his daughter was, in actuality, not in the gulf. The official WH picture was intended to provide evidence that the region's beaches are back to normal. Yet it soon emerged that the private beach on which it was taken, in St Andrew Bay, north-west Florida, isn't technically in the gulf ~ It's a bay inside the Gulf protected by barrier islands. All of this while unexplained dead fish are piling up on the East coast as toxic Oil plumes make their way north and eventually Europe ~ where all hell will break loose.

Meanwhile, A University Study contradicts Government Estimates, and reports that up to 79% of Oil could remain ~ a group of scientists say that most of that BP oil the government claimed was gone from the Gulf of Mexico is actually still there ~ raising the possibility of another undisclosed BP gusher well. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/gulf-oil-spill-university_n_684343.html

But the biggest ongoing lies are the deceptive economic statistics which are seemingly propping up a deepening economic depression ~ which neither Republicans or Democrats will reveal to the American public.

Here's the truth, as revealed by Paul Craig Roberts, ICH ~ " Our government tells us that the unemployment rate is just under 10 percent, a figure that would have wrecked any post-Great Depression administration. But, again, “our government” is lying. The reported unemployment rate is just below 10% because the US government no longer, since the corrupt Clinton administration, counts Americans who have been unemployed for longer than one year. Once the unemployed hit one year and one day, they are dropped from the unemployment roles and no longer counted as unemployed.... Compare this fact with the number you read from the financial press. Right now, if measured according to the methodology of 1980, the US unemployment rate is about 22%. Thus, the reported rate of unemployment hides more than half of the unemployed." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26182.htm

So this deceptive political theater goes on and the Republicans are in essence saying to their dumbed down base and the American electorate ~ Why settle for Bush lite, Why not go with the real thing, We Republicans are no worse than those wimpy Democrats, We all lie, Obama lies just like Bush did, Welcome us back, We know you and love you, We will protect you, you are going to sleep ... going to sleeeeep ...

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/gop-strategy-dumbing-down-dumb-with.html

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Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
Cartoon courtesy of Pat Oliphant / Washington Post

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Creeping Climate Change Becomes Deadly Obvious

CREEPING CLIMATE CHANGE BECOMES DEADLY OBVIOUS

Creeping climate change, like fascism, only becomes deadly obvious when it directly effects us ~ and then it's usually too late ~ for we all ignored the early warning signs: Allen L Roland

With the worst monsoon floods in living memory killing at least 1600 people along with 20 million people effected in Pakistan ~ it's time to acknowledge that Global Warming has finally become deadly obvious.

Pastor Martin Niemoller's famous quote about creeping fascism in the 1930's is oddly appropriate in that Climate Change eventually effects us all ~ First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist ... Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist...Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew ... Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

But the more appropriate quote regarding the analogy of creeping climate change and fascism in the 30's would be from Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 ~ " Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next.
"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. "

Well, the shocking occasions of Global Warming are now happening and they can no longer be ignored.
The world is getting hotter as 17 countries are now experiencing record high temperature as 2010 sees record highs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine but also many African, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries. http://bit.ly/cgpOBf

The incredible flooding in Pakistan is a case in point and the experts seem to agree ~ Brian Tokar is the director of the Institute for Social Ecology and the author of “Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change,” and he believes that the Pakistan flood, along with recent freak weather like Russia’s drought and fires, can be traced back to our destruction of the environment ~“The weather is noticeably more chaotic,” he writes in his book, “corresponding rather closely to climate scientists’ long standing predictions.”

Mathew Rothschild writes in Global Warming and the Pakistani Flood of those earlier global warming predictions in 2007 now becoming reality ~ " In one of those predictions from 2007, the IPCC said global warming will cause “increased deaths, disease, and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fire, and drought.” And while pinning any one event on global warming is tricky, Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, director-general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, told Reuters: "The only explanation can be the link to climate change. Because that area very rarely receives monsoon rains." http://www.progressive.org/wx081310.html

The Center for American Progress sums it all up by stating that all of these catastrophic events including the 100 square mile island of ice that recently broke away from Greenland's glacier are fueled by Global Warming.
Excerpt: " The flooding in Pakistan comes during a time when smoke from unprecedented wildfires outside of Moscow have "choked the city," major landslides in China have killed at least 1,000, and a "sweltering" heat wave descended on the Middle East. Meanwhile, a 100-square-mile chunk of ice calved off from a glacier in Greenland -- "the most massive ice island to break away in the Arctic in a half-century of observation."
" Some scientists are now stating the obvious: these disasters are fueled by global warming. "It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way," the AP reports. The "weather-related cataclysms of July and August fit patterns predicted by climate scientists."
" Indeed, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "has long predicted that rising global temperatures would produce more frequent and intense heat waves, and more intense rainfalls." The 2007 IPCC report said rains "have grown heavier for 40 years over north Pakistan and predicted greater flooding this century in south Asia's monsoon region." In Russia, it's been "the hottest summer ever recorded," fitting with the 2007 report, which predicted "a doubling of disastrous droughts in Russia this century." China is witnessing its "worst floods in decades," something the 2007 IPCC report also warned of."

So there you have it ~ Creeping climate change has not only become deadly obvious but the global warming signs have now become storm warnings.

Allen L Roland http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/creeping-climate-change-becomes-deadly.html

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American Iraq Vet says ~ Enough, No More !

AMERICAN IRAQ VET SAYS ~ ENOUGH, NO MORE !






The illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan will only end when the Veterans themselves take a stand against the out of control Military Industrial Complex and greed driven financial elite, as Iraq Vet Mike Prysner has, and say ~ Enough, No More ! : Allen L Roland

WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just confirmed what most progressives already know ~ the progressives are considered roadkill ~ run over by Obamanomics and the corporate oligarchy. But our day is coming and it will be heralded by transparency and the truth, starting with the illegal and corrupt occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan ~ and the Veterans will lead the way as they did with Vietnam.

Hear the Global elite in their own words:Henry Kissinger “military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy”.Chapter 14 page 194 Henry Kissinger: The Final Days, (1994) Woodward and Bernstein ISBN-10: 0743274067

An American Tank Man has been found and he is Iraq Vet Mike Prysner (IVAW) , standing in front of the Military Industrial Complex and greed driven financial elite saying ~ " Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in another country to make the rich richer, and without racism soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war."

4:39 Video / AMAZING SPEECH BY IRAQ WAR VETERAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8

But this is a speech from the heart of a Veteran who has been there and participated in the atrocities of these illegal occupations. Every courageous word must be digested and savored for it is indeed the light of truth in the dark room of American Imperialism. So here is the complete unedited transcript courtesy of spktruthtopower200@yahoo.com

" My name is Mike Prysner. I joined the Army and went for basic training on my eighteenth birthday in June of 2001. I was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division and in March of 2003 I was attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade deployed to northern Iraq. When I first joined the Army, we were told that racism no longer existed in the military. A legacy of inequality and discrimination was suddenly washed away by something called the 'Equal Opportunity Program. We would sit through mandatory classes and every unit had this EO representative to ensure that no elements of racism could resurface. The Army seemed firmly dedicated to smashing any hint of racism. And then September 11th, 2001 happened and I began to hear new words like 'towel head' and 'camel jockey' and the most disturbing: 'sand nigger.' And these words did not initially come from my fellow soldiers but from my superiors: my platoon sergeant, my company first sergeant, battalion commander. All the way up the chain of command these terms, these viciously racist terms were suddenly acceptable.And I noticed that the most overt racism came from veterans of the first Gulf War. And those were the words they used when incinerating civilian convoys. Those were the words they used when this government delivered any target(ing) of civilian infrastructure; bombing water supplies knowing it would kill hundreds of thousands of children. Those are the words the American people used when they allowed this government to sanction Iraq. And this is something many people forget. And we can't forget. We've just learned that we've killed over a million Iraqis since the invasion. But we already killed a million Iraqis in the '90s through sanctions and bombings prior to this invasion. But the number is truly much higher.When I got to Iraq in 2003 I learned a new word and that word was "Hajji". Hajji was the enemy. Hajji was every Iraqi. He was not a person, a father, a teacher, or a worker. And it's important, we've heard this word a lot during Winter Soldier but it's important to understand where this word came from and to Muslims the most important thing is to take a pilgrimage to Mecca. It's the Haj. And taking this pilgrimage is the Hajji. And, it's something in traditional Islam that is the highest calling in their religion. So we took the best thing from Muslim and made it into the worst thing. But, history did not start with us and since the creation of this country, racism has been used to justify expansion and oppression. The Native Americans were called savages. The Africans were called all sorts of things to excuse slavery. And Vietnam veterans know of the multitude of words used to justify that imperialist war. So, Hajji was the word we used...it was the word we used on this particular mission I'm going to talk about and we've heard a lot about different raids and kicking down doors of people's houses and ransacking their houses. But this mission was a different kind of raid. I never got any explanation for these orders. We were only told that this group of houses, of five or six houses, were now property of the U.S. military and we had to go in and make those families leave those houses. So, we went to these houses and informed the families that those homes were no longer their homes. We provided them no alternative, nowhere to go, no compensation. And they were very confused and very scared and did not know what to do, would not leave, so we had to remove them from those houses. One family in particular, a woman with two small girls, very elderly man and two middle-aged men, we dragged them out of their houses and threw them onto the street and arrested the men because they refused to leave. Uh, arrested the old man and sent them off to prison. And, at that time I didn't know what happened to people when we tied their hands behind their back and put a sandbag over their head. Unfortunately, a few months later, I had to find out. We were short interrogators so I was assigned to work as an interrogator. I oversaw and participated in hundreds of interrogations, one in particular I'm going to share with was a moment for me that really showed me the nature of this occupation. This particular detainee...when I was sent to interrogate him he was stripped down to his underwear, hands behind his back, and sandbag on his head. I never actually saw this man's face. My job was to take this metal folding chair and just smash it against the wall next to his head, he was faced against the wall with his nose touching the wall while a fellow soldier asked the same questions over and over again, no matter what his answer, my job was to slam this chair against the wall. We did this until, basically, we got tired. And, I was told to make sure he stood against the wall for however long and I was guarding this prisoner and my job was to make sure he kept standing up. But I noticed that there was something wrong with his leg and he was injured and he kept, like, falling to the ground. And the sargeant in charge would come and tell me to get him up on his feet so I'd have to pick him up and put him against the wall and he kept going down and I'd have to keep pulling him up and putting him against the wall. And my sargeant came around and he was upset with me for not, you know, continue making him to stand. He picked him up and slammed him against the wall several times and then he left and when the man went down on the ground again I notice blood pouring down from under the sandbag. And so I let him sit and I noticed my sargeant coming again and I would tell him quickly to stand up and I realized that I was supposed to be guarding my unit from this detainee and I realized at that moment that I was guarding the detainee from my unit. And I tried hard to be proud of my service but all I could feel was shame and racism could no longer mask the occupation. These were people. There were human beings. I've since been plagued by guilt anytime I see an elderly man, like the one who couldn't walk and we rolled onto a stretcher, told the Iraqi police to take him away. I feel guilt anytime I see a mother with her children like the one who cried hysterically and screamed that we were worse than Saddam as we forced her from her home. I feel guilt anytime I see a young girl like the one I grabbed by the arm and dragged into the street. We were told we were fighting terrorists, but the real terrorist was me and the real terrorism is this occupation. Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. It has long been used to justify the killing, subjugation, and torture of another people. Racism is a vital weapon deployed by this government. It is a more important weapon than a rifle, a tank, a bomber or a battleship. It is more destructive than an artillery shell, or a bunker buster, or a tomahawk missile. While all of those weapons are created and owned by this government, they are harmless without people willing to use them.Those who send us to war do not have to pull a trigger or lob a mortar round. They do not have to fight the war. They merely have to sell the war. They need a public who is willing to send their soldiers into harm's way and they need soldiers who are willing to kill or be killed without question. They can spend millions on a single bomb, but that bomb only becomes a weapon when the ranks in the military are willing to follow orders to use it. They can send every last soldier anywhere on earth, but there will only be a war if soldiers are willing to fight, and the ruling class: the billionaires who profit from human suffering care only about expanding their wealth, controlling the world economy, understand that their power lies only in their ability to convince us that war, oppression, and exploitation is in our interests. They understand that their wealth is dependent on their ability to convince the working class to die to control the market of another country. And convincing us to kill and die is based on their ability to make us think that we are somehow superior. Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, have nothing to gain from this occupation. The vast majority of people living in the US have nothing to gain from this occupation. In fact, not only do we have nothing to gain, but we suffer more because of it. We lose limbs, endure trauma, and give our lives. Our families have to watch flag draped coffins lowered into the earth. Millions in this country without healthcare, jobs, or access to education must watch this government squander over $450 million a day on this occupation. Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in another country to make the rich richer, and without racism soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.I threw families onto the street in Iraq only to come home and find families thrown onto the street in this country in this tragic, tragic and unneccesary forclosure crisis; only to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land. But not people whose names we don't know, and cultures we don't understand. The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify. The enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable. The enemy is the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable; it's the insurance companies who deny us health care when it's profitable; it's the banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not 5000 miles away, they are right here at home. If we organize and fight with our sisters and brothers, we can stop this war, we can stop this government, and we can create a better world."

Send this column far and wide for it is the voice of a truth that is rapidly being accepted as self-evident.

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/american-iraq-vet-says-enough-no-more.html

This weblog is sustained through donations from people like yourself. Please send check or Money Order to Allen L. Roland, PO Box 1221, Sonoma,CA 95476 Also accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover .

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

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