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·         FW: Elizabeth Warren: "I want to see who else gets in this race ..."

·         FW: imperialism

·         FW: I just signed this important petition against war with Iran -- will you?

·         FW: Outrage! Republican Congress wants to eliminate the estate tax. Please sign and share.

·         FW: We need to end tax giveaways to the 1%

·         FW: Call Pres. Obama: Strike a blow vs. Citizens United

·         FW: PFAW’s Supporter Update: White House or Radical Right House?

·         FW: FBI accused of whitewashing Saudi Arabian involvement in 9/11 attacks

·         FW: President Obama will sign this executive order if he hears from you

·         FW: Time is running out on Iran

·         FW: Tweet now to defend diplomacy with Iran

·         FW: The Science of Climate Change: It’s Bigger than Everything Else

·         FW: False Flag Terrorism: Are Terrorist Acts Being Manipulated?

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From: Mark, Stephen, Ben O., Maria, and the rest of the team, MoveOn.org Political Action [mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org]
Subject: Elizabeth Warren: "I want to see who else gets in this race ..."

"... and what the issues are that they push." Have you heard Elizabeth Warren's recent interview? Check out this video.

Just two days before Hillary Clinton made her candidacy for president official, this is what Senator Elizabeth Warren said on CNN when asked about whether she'd consider stepping into the presidential race:

I want to see who else gets in this race, and I want to see what the issues are that they push, because this is really key. What issues are people going to talk about?¹

That's exactly what the Run Warren Run campaign is about—elevating that unique voice that Sen. Elizabeth Warren gives to the most important issues we face today and bringing it into the presidential debate.

Recently, Sen. Warren appeared on The HuffPost Show to talk about the issues that matter most to her—those that she considers to be the most pressing for our country.

The interview epitomizes the reason people can't stop talking about Elizabeth Warren. She speaks with conviction and moral clarity on the issues in a way nobody else is doing right now.

Check out the video today and share it with friends. It's the best reminder we've seen in a long time of the politics we should be aspiring to:

P.S. The interview's a little long, but it's entirely worth it. And be sure to watch the part where the hosts play a special message from actor and activist Mark Ruffalo that he recorded especially for Sen. Warren—it's just after the 21-minute point.

Sources:
1. "Elizabeth Warren: My 2016 dream candidate fights for middle-class families," CNN, April 10, 2015 http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=304053&id=111820-1195276-HXPFsOx&t=3

We're part of a growing grassroots movement to convince Senator Warren to run for president. Help build the momentum—start a monthly donation here or chip in a one-time donation here.

PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

 

 

From: James Lucas
Subject: imperialism

For a short visual history of the decline and fall of the American Empire, see the video “Imperial Decay” by Class War Films (8:50 minutes) or at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLG5Hx1eceY

 

 

From: Khurshid Ahmad
Subject: I just signed this important petition against war with Iran -- will you?

I just took action to tell Senator Chuck Schumer not to lead Democrats in supporting war with Iran. I think you should too:
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/schumer_iran?sp_ref=115023322.4.12437.e.50365.2&referring_akid=.3152865.spKRAM&source=mailto_sp

 

 

From: MARGARET PETERS
Subject: Outrage! Republican Congress wants to eliminate the estate tax. Please sign and share.

On Tax Day, Congress plans to repeal the estate tax—a $270 billion gift to the 0.2%. Join me in signing the petition to House Speaker John Boehner: Repealing the estate tax is wrong! http://signforgood.com/estatetax/?sp_ref=114713305.270.12465.e.50532.2

 

 

From: AlterNet
Subject: We need to end tax giveaways to the 1%

The following sponsored message was sent to you by AlterNet on behalf of CREDO Action:
Tell President Obama: End tax giveaways to the 1%

Petition to President Barack Obama:
"Use your executive authority to direct the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service to end tax giveaways to large corporations, multimillionaire hedge fund managers, and the worst of the 1% that will cost America more than $100 billion over the next decade, including the 'check-the-box,' 'earnings stripping,' 'valuation discount,' 'carried interest,' 'Hewlett-Packard,' and 'Real Estate Investment Trust' tax loopholes."

Add your name:

Just in time for tax day, Senator Bernie Sanders has figured out how President Obama can close massive tax loopholes with a few strokes of a pen, and he needs our help.

In a recent letter to President Obama, Senator Sanders outlined six loopholes that massive corporations, hedge fund managers, and the worst of the 1% use to dodge taxes and avoid paying us back for providing roads, courts, and an educated workforce.¹

Closing all six loopholes would raise more than $100 billion that could be invested in America — and best of all, the president can do it all without Congress.

Tell President Obama: End tax giveaways to the 1%. Click here to sign the petition.

The list of loopholes that the worst of the 1% use to avoid taxes reads like a how-to guide for multimillionaire hedge fund managers and multinational corporations trying to rip off a nation:

• The "check-the-box" loophole. Simply by checking one box, companies can claim that an entity it owns should be ignored by the IRS for tax purposes. By giving different stories to different governments, they can transfer profits between subsidiaries tax free. Closing this loophole would raise up to $78 billion over the next decade.²
• The "Hewlett-Packard" loophole. Companies are supposed to pay taxes when they bring offshore profits back to America. But if their offshore subsidiaries only provide a short-term "loan" to the onshore parent company, they can dodge the law. At one point, Hewlett-Packard was found to be "borrowing" billions, tax-free.³
• The "Real Estate Investment Trust" loophole. Real estate investment trusts are like mutual funds for real estate, and they don't pay corporate income tax. But all sorts of companies, from private prisons to casinos, now claim to be real estate investment trusts in order to dodge taxes.⁴
• The "carried interest" loophole. Wealthy investors pay hedge fund managers billions to manage their money. But this loophole allows those fund managers to pretend that their income is actually a capital gain from selling investments -- and capital gains are taxed at a far lower rate. Closing this loophole would raise up to $18 billion.⁵
• The "earnings stripping" loophole. CREDO members have fiercely fought corporate inversions, where big U.S. companies merge with a smaller foreign company to avoid paying taxes. The Treasury Department has already cracked down on one tax dodge related to inversions, and closing the other, the "earnings stripping" loophole, could raise up to $13 billion over the next decade.⁶
• The "valuation discount" loophole. If wealthy parents put a restriction on selling a company before transferring it to their children, it is considered less valuable and so they pay less in taxes -- even if that restriction is then removed or ignored. The IRS could overlook these meaningless restrictions and raise up to $18 billion over the next decade.⁷

Tell President Obama: End tax giveaways to the 1%. Click here to sign the petition.

The Internal Revenue Service created the first three loopholes by accident, with administrative rulings that had unintended consequences -- and President Obama could easily order the IRS to fix its mistake. The other three could be closed if the Treasury Department used its existing authority to call hedge fund managers "service providers" and issued new rules under the tax code.⁸

The Obama administration has likely held off on making these changes in order to meet Republican demands that any new investments be "paid for" by closing a loophole. But with a new, right-wing Congress adamantly opposed to any new spending or tax increases, the time for bargaining chips is over. President Obama needs to know that if he takes a bold stand in favor of tax fairness, Americans will stand with him.

Tell President Obama: End tax giveaways to the 1%. Click below to sign the petition:
http:// act.credoaction.com/sign/sanderstaxloopholes_alt/

Murshed Zaheed, Deputy Political Director; CREDO Action from Working Assets

Add your name:

1. "Sanders Asks Obama to Close Six Egregious Corporate Tax Loopholes," Sanders.Senate.gov, March 3, 2015.
2. "Potential Executive Actions to Close Tax Loopholes," Budget.Senate.gov, Retrieved April 6, 2015.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.

 

 

From: Jo, Jadzia, Bobby, Justin K., and the rest of the team, MoveOn.org Civic Action
Subject: Call Pres. Obama: Strike a blow vs. Citizens United

Can you take a moment to call President Obama and ask him to strike a blow against Citizens United? He needs to hear from you today.

Over 500,000 Americans—including more than 100,000 MoveOn members—recently signed a petition asking the president to sign an executive order requiring federal contractors to disclose all their political spending, which amounts to potentially hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from some of our nation's biggest corporations into political organizations. Then, two weeks ago, many Americans joined rallies across the country to sound the alarm.¹

Now, it's time to call the president directly.

Can you call the White House to support an executive order combating political dark money?

When you call, deliver a message like this: "The president was right when he called for 'better politics' during his State of the Union address. That's why he should use his authority to combat dark money and sign an executive order requiring government contractors to disclose their political spending."

Here's where to call: 855-980-5638
You'll hear a short message about this executive order, then be directed to the White House comments line where you can speak to an operator.

Then, report your call so we can hear your feedback and count you among the thousands of Americans who are speaking out for reducing corporate influence in our political system.

Right now, the country's biggest corporations can funnel millions of dollars into political organizations without disclosing it—and some of these companies are federal contractors, which means they are using taxpayer dollars.²

We have a right to know whom they're donating to and how much. Shining a light on that information may reveal the contours of pay-to-play politics in America and may make CEOs think twice about how they are using their corporate coffers.

The president can take this step with a stroke of his pen—and Republicans in Congress can't stop him.³ But he needs to know that this is what the American people want.

Many of the other organizations that work on getting big money out of politics are asking members to call the White House today—and all of us together can create a clamor so loud that the president and the media will have to pay attention. That's why MoveOn members are joining this action today to help amplify this message—and why we'll stay in this fight against Citizens United for the long haul.

Please call the White House now and help strike a blow against Citizens United.

Please call now:

855-980-5638—which will direct you to the White House comments line.  

Then, click here to tell us about your call.

Sources:

1.     "Will Obama Shine Light on Dark Money?" Bloomberg View, April 10, 2015  
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-10/will-obama-force-corporate-donors-to-disclose-

2.     "Dark Money Casts a Sinister Shadow Across the Land," The Huffington Post, March 2, 2015       
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=303774&id=&id=111941-1195276-3NPJ%3Dpx&t=3

3.     "President Obama Could Unmask Big Political Donors," The New York Times, March 23, 2015  
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=303773&id=&id=111941-1195276-3NPJ%3Dpx&t=4

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From: Michael Keegan; President, People For the American Way
Subject: Supporter Update: White House or Radical Right House?

With the 2016 presidential race now well underway, we’re continuing to expose Republican candidates’ extremism, hypocrisy and dishonesty.

Sen. Marco Rubio officially announced his candidacy this week. PFAW stepped on his press day with a Spanish language radio ad, airing in Miami and Denver, exposing his and the Republican Party's terrible agenda on issues that impact Latinos. The ad and its important message also made national headlines in both English and Spanish print media.

The other Florida presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, made some news of his own this week, with the help of PFAW’s Right Wing Watch. He’s often discussed as a so-called 'moderate' because, unlike some of his fellow GOP candidates, he doesn't kowtow to nativists with anti-immigrant "deport ‘em all" rhetoric, or preach that nefarious gays and President Obama are provoking God's wrath on the country. But make no mistake -- Jeb has impressive Radical Right credentials of his own, and he’s out there flaunting them as he tries to win over far-right base voters. In fact, just yesterday, the Washington Post reported that Bush will give this year’s commencement address at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University -- the same place Sen. Ted Cruz kicked off his own presidential campaign.

On Monday, Right Wing Watch caught Bush in a radio interview with the right-wing Focus on the Family bragging about his intrusive and unconstitutional involvement in the 2003 case of Terri Schiavo, when then-Gov. Bush turned one family’s tragic and deeply personal end-of-life decision into a vicious, very public battle in the Religious Right’s culture war. He also touted Florida’s pioneering, under his administration, of “TRAP” laws -- designed to shut down family planning clinics -- and funding of crisis pregnancy centers -- which are notorious for lying to pregnant women about medical consequences of abortion and peddling other misinformation.

During the Schiavo debate, Gov. Bush said, “I’m probably the most pro-life governorin modern times.”

It’s a claim he is clearly still trying to live up to.

The Right Wing Watch story has gotten some good pick up -- you might have already seen it on other blogs you read or in your Facebook feed. And it’s helped remind people about the Terri Schiavo incident. See also my piece from earlier this month in the Huffington Post, "If You Liked the Handling of the Terri Schiavo Case, You'll Love President Jeb Bush.”

Stay tuned to PFAW.org and RightWingWatch.org, and for the next update, when we’ll share our upcoming Right Wing Watch In Focus report on the emerging field of 2016 GOP candidates.

And please check out a new report from our affiliate PFAW Foundation, written by its Senior Fellow, constitutional scholar Jamie Raskin, “The Supreme Court in the Citizens United Era: A Century After the Lochner Era, the Roberts Court Imposes a Startling New Corporatism on America.”

The report details how by radically distorting the First Amendment in order to allow corporations to influence elections, by inventing corporate religious liberty rights to clamp down on women’s health choices, by interpreting federal law in ways that erase corporate liability, and by preempting state laws intended to protect employees and consumers against corporations, the Supreme Court seems to be embracing unencumbered corporatism. Read it now>>

 

 

From: CLG_News
Subject: FBI accused of whitewashing Saudi Arabian involvement in 9/11 attacks

News Updates from CLG

12 April 2015; http://www.legitgov.org/
All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

FBI accused of whitewashing Saudi Arabian involvement in 9/11 after quashing report about Florida family who mysteriously fled US two weeks before attack --Al-Hijji family left cars and food behind when they fled in August 2001 --FBI agent's report said family of Saudi advisor had 'many connections' to hijackers, some of whom were said to have visited the house | 12 April 2015 | The Federal Bureau of Investigation is facing accusations that it is 'whitewashing' possible Saudi Arabian involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Relatives of homeowner Esam Ghazzawi lived in the plush Sarasota dwelling until they fled and left cars, furniture and food in their refrigerator behind right before the 9/11, prompting some to say they knew about the attacks. The daughter and son-in-law of Ghazzawi, who worked as an adviser to a member of the Saudi royal family, had stayed at the 3,300 square foot house for six years but left in late August 2001, not even leaving a forwarding address. At least one 'family member' had attended the same Venice, Florida, flight school as some of the hijackers, according to a piece in the New York Post. Mohamed Atta, the leader of the hijackers, and two other terrorists on the flights, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah, were also reported to have visited the Sarasota house, according to Florida Bulldog.

How the FBI is whitewashing the Saudi connection to 9/11 | 12 April 2015 | Just 15 days before the 9/11 attacks, a well-connected Saudi family suddenly abandoned their luxury home in Sarasota, Fla., leaving behind jewelry, clothes, opulent furniture, a driveway full of cars -- including a brand new Chrysler PT Cruiser -- and even a refrigerator full of food. About the only thing not left behind was a forwarding address...Former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, who in 2002 chaired the congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11, maintains the FBI is covering up a Saudi support cell in Sarasota for the hijackers. He says the al-Hijjis "urgent" pre-9/11 exit suggests "someone may have tipped them off" about the coming attacks. Graham has been working with a 14-member group in Congress to urge President Obama to declassify 28 pages of the final report of his inquiry which were originally redacted, wholesale, by President [sic] George W. Bush.

 

 

From: Carissa Miller, Daily Ko
Subject: President Obama will sign this executive order if he hears from you.

On April 2nd, Daily Kos and allies delivered over 500,000 petition signatures to the White House calling on President Obama to sign an executive order requiring companies with federal contracts to disclose all political campaign contributions.

Unfortunately, President Obama still has not acted. Today, Daily Kos and allies are calling the White House to urge him to act.

Please, take two minutes to call the White House and tell President Obama to reduce the influence of money in politics. We have provided the phone number and a sample script for your phone call.

Can’t call? Please click here to send an email to the White House, urging President Obama to sign this executive order.

This would be a huge step in the fight to get money out of politics. As it stands, Federal Contractors could be funneling vast sums of money to candidates in return for contracts. Because of corporate money, elected officials end up beholden to corporations, instead of serving the people they are supposed to represent.

Please join Daily Kos, as part of a huge coalition, and make a phone call directly to the White House to encourage President Obama to take action now.

 

 

From: Alana Krivo-Kaufman, Jewish Voice for Peace
Subject: Time is running out on Iran

    Action Alert

Dear Munsup, Unless we act now, AIPAC its allies could succeed in undermining diplomacy with Iran, and possibly lead us to war. The committee will vote on the Corker bill tommorrow. Call now to tell your senators to take us off the path to war with Iran.   - Alana

Tell Congress to Let Diplomacy Work

AIPAC’s #1 legislative goal this year has been to throw a wrench in diplomacy and march the US to war with Iran. Unless each one of us picks up the phone in the next few days, they might actually succeed.

The Obama Administration is in the middle of negotiating a historic deal with Iran, but as soon as next week, the Senate will vote on AIPAC’s centerpiece legislation The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, sponsored by Republican Senator Bob Corker, would give Congress the power to reject any final agreement with Iran.  

Munsup, will you join me and thousands of others and call your Senator today. Demand that they #LetDiplomacyWork and reject this bill. Keep us off the war-path.

Click here to get the phone number for your Senator and a sample script.

By funneling millions in campaign donations, AIPAC has spent years building a bipartisan consensus for Israeli policies of endless occupation, war and dispossession. 

AIPAC seeks to ensure unconditional support for Israeli military dominance in the name of security by inflaming fear of Iran’s nuclear program, while Israel has maintained a large cache of nuclear weapons for decades without admitting it or signing treaties. 

Unless we act now, AIPAC and the many Republicans who will do anything to oppose President Obama, could succeed in undermining diplomacy, and possibly send us to war.

Please join me, and call your Senator today and urge him or her to reject the bill in favor of diplomacy.

This isn’t just about Republican efforts to stymie the president— now Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is recklessly supporting the bill, encouraging other Democrats to sign on to this meshugenah effort.

If we generate enough calls, we know that Members of Congress will put our issues on their weekly agendas and we can make the difference. Thousands of you did it a few weeks ago when close to 60 Members of Congress skipped the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, because they knew they had grassroots support for taking a principled stand.

As Jews and allies, it is critical that we state clearly that we support diplomacy with Iran and reject AIPAC-led efforts to lead us down the path towards war.

 

 

From: Jo, Erica, Ben O., Brian, and the rest of the team, MoveOn.org Civic Action
Subject: Tweet now to defend diplomacy with Iran

Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed S.615, which is essentially an anti-diplomacy bill that—if it becomes law—would give hawks in Congress the power to block a deal with Iran.¹

And today, the fight for diplomacy with Iran made its way to the House of Representatives, with three lawmakers—Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), and David Price (D-NC)—circulating a letter to President Obama expressing their strong support for the ongoing nuclear negotiations between the P5+1 nations and Iran.

We need MoveOn members to support these historic talks and the emerging framework for peace. Can you tweet at your representative right now asking that he or she sign on to the Schakowsky-Doggett-Price letter to President Obama? 

We've made it easy for you to tweet at your representative. All you have to do is click on the link below. The deadline for sign-ons is noon tomorrow.

Tweet your representative now.

Let's be clear: Yesterday's Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on S.615, the so-called Corker bill, was a setback for MoveOn members who have fought long and hard for diplomacy. But it's certainly not the end of the fight, and diplomacy can still prevail.

The Schakowsky-Doggett-Price letter is an opportunity for us to get pro-diplomacy Democrats in the House on the record. And we'll need them to be visible as we press on to the June 30 deadline for negotiations. 

Signing on to a high-visibility, pro-diplomacy letter is a great first step.

Thanks for all you do.

Source:
1. "How Ben Cardin and Bob Corker clinched the Iran deal," Politico, April 14, 2015 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=304075&id=111844-1195276-yDPVOjx&t=1

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From: Jim Hagan
Subject: The Science of Climate Change: It’s Bigger than Everything Else

Two pages that tell the "facts" story on Climate Change, all the facts you need to know.

 

 

From: tbacane
Subject: FW: False Flag Terrorism: Are Terrorist Acts Being Manipulated?

We must not allow Israel and its American Traitors fool us into another false flag operation like 9/11!  Spread the word.  WAKE UP AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!!

Definition of False Flag

"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. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy's strategy of tension.

The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy's flag was hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, it was called a "false flag" attack.

9/11 Note: For those wanting to explore the possibility of 9/11 as a false flag operation, click here.

Historical False Flag Attacks

There are many examples of false flag attacks throughout history. For example, it is widely known that the Nazis, in Operation Himmler, faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. And it has now been persuasively argued — as shown, for example, in this History Channel video — that Nazis set fire to their own parliament, the Reichstag, and blamed that fire on others. The Reichstag fire was the watershed event which justified Hitler's seizure of power and suspension of liberties.

And in the early 1950s, agents of an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers). Israel's Defense Minister was brought down by the scandal, along with the entire Israeli government. Click here for verification.

The Russian KGB apparently conducted a wave of bombings in Russia in order to justify war against Chechnya and put Vladimir Putin into power (see also this essay and this report). And the Turkish government has been caught bombing its own and blaming it on a rebel group to justify a crackdown on that group. Muslim governments also play this game. For example, the well-respected former Indonesian president claimed that their government had a role in the Bali bombings.

This sounds nuts, right? You've never heard of this "false flag terrorism," where a government attacks its own people then blames others in order to justify its goals, right? And you are skeptical of the statements discussed above? Please take a look at these historical quotes:

"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - U.S. President James Madison

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.

What about the U.S.?

Is it logical to assume that, even if other countries have carried out false flag operations (especially horrible regimes such as, say, the Nazis or Stalin), the U.S. has never done so? Well, as documented by the New York Times, Iranians working for the C.I.A. in the 1950's posed as Communists and staged bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected president (see also this essay).

And, as confirmed by a former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence, NATO carried out terror bombings in Italy with the help of the Pentagon and CIA and blamed communists in order to rally people's support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: "You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security."

Moreover, declassified U.S. Government documents show that in the 1960s, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan code-named Operation Northwoods to blow up American airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. The operation was not carried out only because the Kennedy administration refused to implement these Pentagon plans.

For lots more on the astonishing Operation Northwoods, see the ABC news report; the official declassified documents; and watch this interview with James Bamford, the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. One quote from the the declassified Northwoods documents states: "A 'Remember the Maine' incident could be arranged: We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

What about Al-Qaeda?

You might think Al-Qaeda is different. It is very powerful, organized, and out to get us, right? Consider this Los Angeles Times article, reviewing a BBC documentary entitled The Power of Nightmares, which shows that the threat from Al Qaeda has been vastly overblown (and see this article on who is behind the hype). And former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski testified to the Senate that the war on terror is "a mythical historical narrative."

And did you know that the FBI had penetrated the cell which carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, but had – at the last minute – cancelled the plan to have its FBI infiltrator substitute fake powder for real explosives, against the infiltrator's strong wishes? See also this TV news report.

Have you heard that the CIA is alleged to have met with Bin Laden two months before 9/11? Did you know that years after 9/11 the FBI first stated that it did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute Bin Laden for 9/11? (See also this partial confirmation by the Washington Post) And did you see the statement in Newsweek by the CIA commander in charge of the capture that the U.S. let Bin Laden escape from Afghanistan?

Have you heard that the anthrax attacks – which were sent along with notes purportedly written by Islamic terrorists – used a weaponized anthrax strain from the top U.S. bioweapons facility? Indeed, top bioweapons experts have stated that the anthrax attack may have been a CIA test "gone wrong." For more on this, see this article by a former NSA and naval intelligence officer and this statement by a distinguished law professor and bioterror expert (and this one).

It is also interesting that the only Congress members mailed anthrax letters were key Democrats, and that the attacks occurred one week before passage of the freedom-curtailing PATRIOT Act, which seems to have scared them and the rest of Congress into passing that act without even reading it. And though it may be a coincidence, White House staff began taking the anti-anthrax medicine before the Anthrax attacks occurred.

Even General William Odom, former director of the National Security Agency, said "By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism, yet in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation" (the audio is here).

Why Does This Matter?

Please read what the following highly respected people are saying:

Former prominent Republican U.S. Congressman and CIA official Bob Barr stated that the U.S. is close to becoming a totalitarian society and that elements in government are using fear to try to bring this about.

Republican U.S. Congressman Ron Paul stated that the government "is determined to have martial law." He also said a contrived "Gulf of Tonkin-type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran." Former National Security Adviser Brzezinski told the Senate that a terrorist act might be carried out in the U.S. and falsely blamed on Iran to justify yet another war.

The former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Paul Craig Roberts, who is called the "Father of Reaganomics" and is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Scripps Howard News Service, has said:

"Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging 'terrorist' attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?"

Retired 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who prepared and presented Presidential Daily Briefs and served as a high-level analyst for several presidents, stated that if there was another major attack in the U.S., it would lead to martial law. He went on to say:

"We have to be careful, if somebody does this kind of provocation – big violent explosions of some kind – we have to not take the word of the masters there in Washington that this was some terrorist event because it could well be a provocation allowing them, or seemingly to allow them to get what they want."

The former CIA analyst would not put it past the government to "play fast and loose" with terror alerts and warnings and even terrorist events in order to rally people behind the flag.

General Tommy Franks stated that if another terrorist attack occurs in the United States "the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government." Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter stated before the Iraq war started that there were no weapons of mass destruction. He is now saying that he would not rule out staged government terror by the U.S. government. And British Parliament Member George Galloway stated that "there is a very real danger" that the American government will stage a false flag terror attack in order to justify war against Iran and to gain complete control domestically.

The abundance of reliable information in this essay suggests that not only has the U.S. in the past conducted false flag operations, but there is a possibility that 9/11 involved some element of this deceit, and a future false flag operation cannot be ruled out. Let us spread this news to all who care so that we might build the critical mass necessary to stop these secret operations and work together for a more caring civil society.

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