new world next week - may5

new world next week: episode072 - obama ground zero, radioactive playgrounds, canadian sElection


Welcome to another important episode of New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week:

Story #1: President Obama To Meet 9/11 Families, Lay Wreath At Ground Zero
Related: Data Dump on the Osama Psyop
NWNW Flashback: 'Get Osama!' Segment on April 7, 2011

Story #2: Fukushima Parents Dish the Dirt in Protest Over Radiation Levels
Related: Top Nuclear Official Resigns Over Japan's Decision To Disobey Law and Subject Children To High Radiation
NWNW Flashback: 'Holy Hex' on JPMorgan Over WV Mountaintop Removal

Story #3: Prime Minister Returns to Ottawa After Majority Win
Related: North American Perimeter Security and the Militarization of the Northern Border

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previous episode: apr28 - 9/11 'hijack', running on empty, god particle

on 'nightvision radio' - may4

rené barnett, director of 'bloodline', has media monarchy on nightvision radio to discuss the "conspiracy theories whirling around the osama bin laden story and the different ways the news is affecting people. what do we believe? how should we react?"


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on 'the bob tuskin show' - may4

on the first wednesday of every month, media monarchy joins bob tuskin on oracle broadcasting for a rundown of the most pressing developments on the grand chessboard ... this month's appearance on the bob tuskin show gets into the obsama psyop and the collective amnesia of a nation ripe for a massive fall.


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previous: april episode

may day: obama announces death of bush business partner

video: osama pronounced dead… for the 9th time
from cnn: The mastermind of the worst terrorist attack on American soil is dead, U.S. President Barack Obama announced late Sunday night, almost 10 years after the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people. Osama bin Laden -- the longtime leader of al Qaeda -- was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, a senior U.S. official told CNN. In an address to the nation late Sunday night, Obama called bin Laden's death "the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda."

liberals willing to trade blood & treasure for oil profits under obama

related update: central bank of libya is 100% state owned
from activist post: It's perplexing to see a high level of support for the unprovoked bombing of Libya on so-called "progressive" websites. There has been an endless stream of humanitarian propaganda flowing from these sites trying to convince average liberals that the "human thing to do" is to rain down tomahawk missiles with depleted uranium to bring freedom and democracy to an oppressed people. Huffington Post ran a piece by Ed Schultz titled Why I Support President Obama's Decision to Invade Libya where he described his reasoning as follows:

amid reporter's assault in cairo, pentagon sued over rape coverup

the disturbing story of lara logan, the cbs reporter raped in cairo and the resulting tabloid aftermath in the corporate media, now seems to have become a sexual abuse meme - but these celebrity stories distract from institutional violence that goes under-reported...

video: veterans say rape cases mishandled
from ap: More than a dozen U.S. veterans who say they were raped or assaulted by comrades filed a class-action suit in federal court Tuesday attempting to force the Pentagon to change how it handles such cases. The current and former service members - 15 women and two men - describe circumstances in which servicemen allegedly got away with rape and other sexual abuse while their victims were ordered to continue to serve with them. The suit names Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his predecessor, Donald H. Rumsfeld. The plaintiffs say individual commanders have too much say in how allegations are handled and that they want reforms in the system. The alleged attackers in the lawsuit include an Army criminal investigator and an Army National Guard commander. The abuse alleged ranges from obscene verbal abuse to gang rape.

related geopolitiks/warwhores updates:
colin powell demands answers over curveball's wmd lies*
video: iraqi defector 'curveball' admits to wmd lies that led to war*
internet explodes as egypt's dictator finally quits*
egypt's hunt for red mercury*
has there been an egyptian revolution?*
is mubarak a mason?*
mubarak falls into coma after final speech?*
former tunisian dictator ben ali reportedly in coma after stroke*
teenager finds priceless ancient sculpture of a pharaoh near a rubbish bin in cairo*
algerian police try to quell egypt-inspired protest after mubarak's downfall*
military patrols streets of bahrain*
abc journalist beaten, and at least one is killed as protests in bahrain turn violent*

warwhores: occupations & electrodes

US presence in afghanistan now longer than soviet occupation
from allgov: The United States has passed an unfortunate landmark… U.S. troops have now been stuck in Afghanistan longer than was the Soviet Union. As of November 26, the American military matched the length of time that the once mighty Red Army spent in Afghanistan: nine years, 50 days.

The Soviet occupation last from December 27, 1979, to February 15, 1989. The continuing U.S. campaign to route the Taliban and al Qaeda started on October 7, 2001.

The Soviet army withdrew in defeat, having suffered more than 14,000 deaths and more than 50,000 wounded. By comparison, the U.S. involvement has been less costly; 1,403 Americans have died, although that number has been rising rapidly. Half of the U.S. deaths have been in the last two years. About 7.000 Americans have been wounded.

The latest Pentagon “Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan” paints a bleak picture of the current situation, with violence on the rise, corruption increasingly entrenched and the Taliban gaining strength.

Polls show that the majority of Americans have grown disillusioned with the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. Nonetheless, both President Barack Obama and the Congressional leadership of the Republican Party are committed to keeping American troops in the country until as least until 2014.

related updates:
cia planted electrodes in soldiers' brains suit alleges*
cia brain experiments pursued in veterans' suit*
video: gates announces results of 'don’t ask, don’t tell' study*

threataganda, warnings & rumors

now updated with 40% more terronoia!
most dangerous week ever*
warnings about this coming week*
bank holiday rumors swirl amidst currency crisis*
update: atm's crash across the country after 'bank holiday' warning*
flight school arrests raise terrorism fears*
video update: illegals say tsa approved their flight training*
obama, gates & clinton in asia: US expands military build-up in the east*
video: obama needs an okc bombing to 'reconnect with voters'*
dead or alive: yemen orders arrest of radical cleric awlaki*
buckley afb f-16's in colorado prepare for mission to brazil*
around the world, a race against time bombs in air*
drudge stirs national debate on tsa abuse*
tsa fondles women & children refusing airport naked body scanners*
tsa official put white powder into fliers' bags, told them they're under arrest for coke*
tsa employee arrested for stealing out of luggage & trying to sell them on ebay*
tsa cuffs radio host meg mclain to chair*
tsa: no fondling, groping or squeezing is taking place at airports*
video: msnbc's ratigan invites guest to advocate violent revolution*
police lift lockdown on florida schools*
radio host leaves job with florida congressman due to school lockdown*
video: florida swat raids on unlicensed barbershops*
fbi to anti-military shooter: give us a call*
docs detail rogue seal’s gun-running, work on transformers 3*
US agencies were forewarned about suspect in 2008 mumbai bombings*
terrorist plotted to bomb a US plane with exploding dogs*
is al-qaida planning to plant bombs in christmas toys?*

60 dead as helos & drones strike pakistan (but don't call it a war)

from danger room: U.S. officials don’t like calling what’s going on in Pakistan a war. But the US-led conflict, whatever name you give it, has never been this violent. The drone component of the campaign hit a new high over the weekend — 20 attacks in September alone, killing as many as 101 people. Today, NATO confirmed that a pair of its helicopters, based in Afghanistan, chased militant suspects across the border. 53 more are now reported dead.

In the Beltway, it’s considered bad form to refer to the Pakistan “war.” The term is too loaded with geopolitical baggage, and raises too many questions about who should be overseeing the conflict at home. But when NATO helicopters kill more than four dozen in Pakistan in a single day; when the CIA-led drone campaign hits 20 targets in 23 days; when thousands of U.S.-trained Afghans cross the border to fight insurgents on Pakistani soil; when American troops ferry aid to Pakistan’s flood victims; when the U.S. Air Force flies surveillance sorties over Pakistan; when American security contractors operate on Pakistani turf; and when U.S. Special Operations forces school Islamabad’s army in counterinsurgency (and sometimes lose troops to firefights in the process), what else should we name this multi-pronged military campaign? What other term would possibly apply?

warwhores updates:
pentagon to funnel US arms to yemen to fight al-qaeda*
9 nato troops killed in afghan helicopter crash*
woodward: cia has 3,000 man covert army in afghanistan*
army reveals afghan biometric id plan; millions scanned, carded by may*
mexican city aims to be first to use widespread eye-scanning technology*
white house 'dissapointed' with vote on 'don't ask, don't tell'*
fmr marine corps sniper & security contractor shane schmidt dies at 33*
obama: 'we need to make clear to people that the cancer is in pakistan'*
despite clinton pledge, state dept. to pay out billions more to mercs*
gates (delicately) criticizes the all-volunteer military*
army's largest base, ft hood, reeling from 4 apparent suicides in 1 weekend*
charlie wilson's warrior becomes top pentagon spook*

obama rebrands iraq war as 'operation new dawn'

prince of peace prize acts like changing name is ending war...
from afp: President Barack Obama's administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq "Operation New Dawn," beginning September 1, a Pentagon memorandum shows.

The memo, signed by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, shows the Pentagon approving a request to switch the name of the US military effort in Iraq from its current designation - "Operation Iraqi Freedom."

"The request... is approved to take effect 1 September 2010, coinciding with the change of mission for US forces in Iraq... Aligning the name change with the change of mission sends a strong signal that Operation Iraqi Freedom has ended and our forces are operating under a new mission ," Gates wrote in the memo, first reported by ABC News.

charlie wilson, fmr texas rep & mujahedeen funder, dead at 76

from ap: Charlie Wilson, the fun-loving Texas congressman whose backroom dealmaking funneled millions of dollars in weapons to Afghanistan, allowing the country's underdog mujahedeen rebels to beat back the mighty Soviet Red Army, died Wednesday. He was 76. Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after having difficulty breathing after attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived, said hospital spokeswoman Yana Ogletree. Wilson was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, she said.

Wilson represented Texas' 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House from 1973 to 1996 and was known in Washington as "Good Time Charlie" for his reputation as a hard-drinking womanizer. He once called former congresswoman Pat Schroeder "Babycakes," and tried to take a beauty queen with him on a government trip to Afghanistan.

Wilson, a Democrat, was considered both a progressive and a defense hawk. While his efforts to arm the mujahedeen in the 1980s were a success — spurring a victory that helped speed the downfall of the Soviet Union — he was unable to keep the money flowing after the Soviets left. Afghanistan plunged into chaos, creating an opening eventually filled by the Taliban, which harbored al-Qaida terrorists. After the Sept. 11 attacks — carried out by al-Qaida terrorists trained in Afghanistan — the U.S. ended up invading the country it had once helped liberate.

flashbacks: 'charlie wilson's war' helped give us 9/11 &
'charlie wilson's war' imperialist propaganda

police state int'l: threataganda rising & more warwhores

intel chiefs 'certain' al-CIAda will stage terror soon
from paul joseph watson & kurt nimmo: Using information gleaned from the blatantly set-up underwear bomber patsy Umar Abdul Muttalab, intelligence chiefs have assured us that their bosses will stage another terror attack in the U.S. within the next three to six months.

“According to the nation’s intelligence chiefs, a terror attack in the United States will likely be launched within the next six months... ABC News has learned some of the intelligence has come from the accused Christmas Day bomber,” states the report.

Despite the fact that the official story behind the Christmas Day bombing has been discredited beyond all recognition, the establishment is still constantly invoking it as yet another reason for Americans to obediently line up for naked body scans in fear of whatever boogeyman is being waved in front of their faces this week.

related: obama administration vision: war without end

amid media blackout: congressional hearing reveals US intel agencies shielded flight 253 bomber*
flight 253: unidentified witness a likely mossad asset?*
radiation safety group: body scanners increase risk of cancer*

police state updates:
arrested tsa worker asked girl to be his 'sex slave'*
airport-security plan calls for 500 body scanners in '11*
'virtual' border fence plagued by glitches, long delays*
obama opponents urge census boycott*
plan to oust saddam drawn up 2yrs before the invasion*

warwhores:
why is america in so many wars?*
defense contractors go offshore to avoid payroll taxes*
US military spending keeps growing & growing*
pentagon's black budget tops $56b*
prince of peace prize increases spending for nuclear weapons*
gates seeks to change 'out of date' vision of military challenges*
gates tries to get f-35 program back on course*
defense chiefs support "don't ask" repeal*
gays in the military no big deal…in 30 other countries*

video flashback: bill hicks on gays in the military*

2/4 updates:
marine corps air station leads disaster drill:
'operation desert eagle 2010 in yuma,az*
video: activists sneak into nuke base*
fort stewart conducted exercise '2009 stewart guardian'*
intel chief acknowledges US may target americans involved in terrorism*
uk army may patrol streets to confront terror threat*
counter-terrorism police stationed on uk campuses*
budget: billions more for counterterror*
officials look for clues in fatal black hawk crash*

obama administration vision: war without end

from politics daily: Suicide bombers inside the United States. Nuclear-armed nations collapsing and losing control of nuclear weapons. Bloody new conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan. American troops under attack at bases around the world. Terrorist attacks using unknown new diseases. Chinese missile attacks on Taiwan. The Obama administration has unveiled a scary new view of the global security landscape and a new strategy intended to protect Americans and U.S. allies. It is a sharp change from previous Pentagon strategic assessments in that it focuses on the wars Americans are currently fighting, rather than on future conflicts in which the United States might be involved. And that future, in the Pentagon's view, is quite grim.

download: quadrennial defense review report [7.1mb PDF]

warwhores: spy surge, drones, dirigibles & future wars

what can americans do to oppose the warfare state?*
military growing impatient with obama on afghanistan*
cia launching spy 'surge' into afghanistan*
mcchrystal troop boost comes friday 9/25*
reading the mcchrystal report: interesting times*
air force crashes out-of-control drone in afghanistan*

inside bob gates' overhaul of the pentagon*
science behind US coercive interrogations missing in action*
US to deploy 'optionally manned' hover-dirigible in 2011*
army wants ideas on future wars*
district 9: smart guns that read your dna*
saic moves corporate headquarters to mclean, virginia*
the untold story of saic, network solutions & the rise of the web*

killer mccrystal warns 'more troops or mission failure' in afghanisurge

from washington times: Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said in a confidential report that without additional forces, the war against insurgents there will end in failure, The Washington Post reported Monday. McChrystal's grim assessment of the war was published on the Post's Web site, with some portions withheld at the government's request. "Although considerable effort and sacrifice have resulted in some progress, many indicators suggest the overall effort is deteriorating," McChrystal wrote in his summary. The report was sent to Defense Secretary Robert Gates in August and is now under review by President Barack Obama, who is trying to decide whether to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

a day late & a dollar short: another 'new message' from 'osama'

'osama' reportedly calls obama 'powerless' as cia-linked 'intel center' releases another highly suspicious bin laden tape
from ap: In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan.

SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel lobby" and corporate interests.

IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the 11-minute video shows a still picture of bin Laden while audio of the address plays.

Bin Laden's address to the American people comes two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He typically addresses the United States in a message around the Sept. 11 anniversary.

The purpose of his address Sunday, bin Laden said in the SITE translation, is "to remind you of the causes" of Sept. 11, chiefly "your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine."

Bin Laden argued against the claims that the war is necessary for U.S. security, saying current White House officials are merely following the strategy of former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to "promote the previous policies of fear to market the interests of big companies."

When Obama became president and retained many of the Bush administration's military leaders, such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised," bin Laden said.

"If you end the war, so to it," bin Laden said. "But if it is otherwise, all we will do is continue the war of attrition against you on all possible axes."

flashbacks: suspicious s.i.t.e. to release another 'bin laden' tape &
digital forensics expert on osama video: definite fake

ugly rundown: police state, geopolitiks, warwhores & more

america's summer of discontent:
some fear a looming class war, others cite racism

pentagon wants to post almost 400k military personnel in US
from matthew rothschild: The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster. This request has already occasioned a dispute with the nation’s governors. And it raises the prospect of U.S. military personnel patrolling the streets of the United States, in conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. In June, the U.S. Northern Command distributed a “Congressional Fact Sheet” entitled “Legislative Proposal for Activation of Federal Reserve Forces for Disasters.” That proposal would amend current law, thereby “authorizing the Secretary of Defense to order any unit or member of the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve, to active duty for a major disaster or emergency.”

rumors of large troop deployment to iraq

US to resume training georgian troops
from nytimes: The United States is resuming a combat training mission in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to prepare its army for counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, despite the risks of angering Russia, senior Defense Department officials said Thursday. The training effort is intended to prepare Georgian troops to fight at NATO standards alongside American and allied forces in Afghanistan, the Pentagon officials said. Russian officials have been informed, American officials said. The training should not worry the Kremlin, they said, because it would not involve skills that would be useful against a large conventional force like Russia’s. “This training mission is not about internal defenses or any capabilities that the Georgians would use at home,” said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary. “This is about the United States supporting Georgia’s contribution to the war in Afghanistan, which everybody can recognize is needed and valued and appreciated.” At the same time, officials in Washington said, the Georgians should not see the new training mission as a military counterweight to Russian influence along Georgia’s borders and within the separatist regions they fought over. A year ago, the republic’s brief, disastrous war with Russia froze a similar American training operation that prepared Georgian troops for deployments to Iraq.

canada to train mexican police in $15m program

gates: it's a 'mystery' how long US forces will be in afghanistan
from ap: The Pentagon presented a grim portrait of the Afghanistan war Thursday, offering no assurances about how long Americans will be fighting there or how many U.S. combat troops it will take to win. Defeating the Taliban and al-Qaida will take "a few years," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, with success on a larger scale in the desperately poor country a much longer proposition. He acknowledged that the Taliban has a firm hold on parts of the country President Barack Obama has called vital to U.S. security. Congress wants answers to what lawmakers described as basic questions to soothe a war-weary American public. "In the intelligence business, we always used to categorize information in two ways, secrets and mysteries," Gates, a former CIA director, told a Pentagon news conference. He added: "Mysteries were those where there were too many variables to predict. And I think that how long U.S. forces will be in Afghanistan is in that area."

who is funding the afghan taliban? you don’t want to know

video: 'incestuous' relationships between blackwater & US govt
from russia today: Obama did extend the contract for Blackwater in Iraq because the infamous contractor and the government are closely tied, believes investigative journalist Wayne Madsen. “So we have a lot of very “incestuous” relationships here between the government and Blackwater and key individuals who were responsible for contracts, and some still are,” he told RT.


state dept upholds blackwater 'license to kill'

lynndie england talk canceled after threats
from ap: A lecture by the woman who became the public face of the Abu Ghraib scandal was canceled Friday at the Library of Congress after threats caused concerns about staff safety. Former Army reservist Lynndie England had been scheduled to discuss her biography as part of a veterans forum on Capitol Hill. The book by author Gary S. Winkler is called "Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs That Shocked the World." Members of the Library of Congress Professional Association, the employee group holding the talk, received an e-mail from president Angela Kinney saying the event was canceled due to staff safety concerns. A spokeswoman for the library said Kinney would not comment further. The group had received "numerous expressions of protest" about the lecture from its members, the e-mail said.

wyoming & guam civil support teams hold anti-terror drill

uk anti-terror technology: 007 or 1984?
from danger room: The British government is launching a new initiative for technology to fight terrorism. As the BBC report it this will involve “real life versions of the scientist Q in the 007 films” getting funding for gadgets to defeat groups like al-Qaeda. The BBC even uses a picture of the fictional Q. But a closer look at the initiative suggests that much of the technology being sought is closer to George Orwell than James Bond... Darpa have previously investigated brain-screening technology which might be able to detect intent, which led to some concern about prosecutions for “thoughtcrime.” And Darpa’s Rapid Checkpoint Screening Program looked at a range of physiological indicators to see whether it would be possible to spot whether someone was lying at a checkpoint interview (the answer appears to be “yes”, with some provisos), and whether the technology could be extended to read the body language, pulse rate and so on of people just standing in line. Britain differs from America in the level of surveillance that is considered acceptable. Omnipresent CCTV cameras are a fact of life here, though their effectiveness in combatting crime and terrorism is still a matter of debate. The Evening Standard newspaper complained that in spite of over 10,000 official CCTV cameras, 80% of crimes in London remain unsolved. The existing network means that, unlike in the US, it would be relatively easy to deploy new technology to detect hostile intention alongside or within the CCTV set up. Admiral Lord West, Britain’s counter terrorism minister, also mentioned to the BBC that there were other initiatives which include countering cyber terrorism and “investigating how to intercept new methods of telecommunications.” New technology is clearly on the way. And it’s not just about providing James Bond with a boat-stopping bazooka.

natl guard exercise hits western new york;
prep for full scale exercise nov1-9

report: israeli troops killed unarmed gazans carrying white flags
from antiwar: The latest in a long line of charges of war crimes by Israeli forces during January’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, a new report by Human Rights Watch cites investigations and reports of eyewitnesses who say Israeli soldiers shot 11 unarmed Palestinians, including five women and four children, who were waving white flags at them. The report urged the Israeli military to conduct a thorough investigation into the charges, but this appears unlikely as the Israeli military publicly condemned Human Rights Watch for releasing the report, saying that it was unreliable because it included eyewitness accounts and accusing the US-based rights group of unfairly criticizing Israel for an invasion that killed well over 1,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians. The Israeli military also claimed that on occasion Gazans had acted illegally in waving white flags, insisting that this had endangered the civilian population. It did not appear to provide any information to directly dispute the evidence of the particular incident, but merely appeared irked that Human Rights Watch didn’t present it to them before releasing it to the public. Israel’s own probes into the Gaza War have largely stalled without result, most notably when it abandoned an investigation stemming from the direct public testimony of several of its own soldiers who reported indiscriminate killing of civilians just days after announcing it. The military declared that all the testimony was “hearsay” and that not a single claim was true.

fighter jets collide, crash into houses near moscow

obamessiah & the apostles of war: strange change & nope hope

apologies, but we have to deal w/ some soap opera issues ... these topics are important & worth discussing, but not nearly as important as why goldman, gates, monsanto & the council on foreign relations seem to be running this fake change ... more on those later

obama rushes to quell racial uproar he helped fire
from ap: President Barack Obama concedes his words — that a white police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home — were ill-chosen. But, while he invited both men to visit him at the White House, Obama stopped short of publicly apologizing for his remark. The president personally telephoned the two men, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley, in an effort to end the rancorous back-and-forth over what had transpired and what Obama had said about it. Trying to lighten the situation, he even commiserated with Crowley about reporters on his lawn.

video: police release 911 call leading to gates arrest

now, as i've repeatedly mentioned on the show: the birther meme is akin to paying attention to the building collapses on 9/11 - it's the spectacle that draws attention, but it's not the key to unlock what goes on behind our latest puppet. if only 9/11 questions got this much attention...

obama press sec exasperated over 'birther' issue
from infowars: The New York Times claims the Obama birth certificate issue is “a rumor that has been widely discredited,” and yet the state of Hawaii, where Obama was allegedly born, refuses to release the primary birth certificate document, instead offering this image, declared to be a Photoshop fake.

It is an obvious fake for the following reasons: 1) the document does not have a raised, embossed seal 2) it is not signed (take a look at your birth certificate and see if it has the signature of a physician or hospital officials) 3) there are no creases from folding in the scanned version above 4) the certificate number is redacted 5) the document claims to be a “certification of birth,” not a “certificate of birth,” and 6) the date supposedly bleeding through the back of the document says 2007, not 2008, when it was allegedly released.

The Annenberg Political Factsheet claims to have examined the original document and says it is legitimate (see Born in the U.S.A., The truth about Obama’s birth certificate). “Recently FactCheck representatives got a chance to spend some time with the birth certificate, and we can attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional and resides at the Obama headquarters in Chicago. We can assure readers that the certificate does bear a raised seal, and that it’s stamped on the back by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka.”

Annenberg is a less than credible source considering Obama was chairman of the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago. One of his cohorts in that position was none other than the terrorist Bill Ayers.

Instead of releasing the original document, the Obama administration trots out White House press secretary Robert Gibbs to make sarcastic comments about those crazy birthers. Gibbs’ comments reveal the Obama administration and his supporters are sincerely worried about the issue.

updates: video: colbert interviews birther lawyer orly taitz & rep louie gohmert quietly signs onto birther bill (or: left-wing website with direct ties to white house smears infowars, again

video: matthews says truthers & birthers are insane


also, we need to remember that this was started by a left-dem from pennsylvania named phil berg. so, just as the phony right said 9/11 questions came from the fringe left; the phony left now says that obama questions come from the extreme right: either way, the false left/right paradigm wins again...

obama admin begins opposition to states claiming sovereignty & gun rights

video: obama's new war
from brasschecktv: Why it is possible for part-time researchers to scoop the New York Times over and over again? Because the Times is not a news source. It's a disinformation bureau and they have other things in their minds. Their current project: Erasing public memory of the fact that the US trained and armed the Taliban, the same people who are slaughtering our troops in Afghanistan right now.


video: obama's soylent green health care


updates from jul30:
obama faces carter/clinton parallels*
california man found guilty of making threats against obama*
widespread domestic surveillance continues under obama*
hillary moved to halt disclosure of cia torture evidence, court told*
holt calls for next church committee on cia*
officers run background check on obama; placed on leave*

power shifts in plan for capital calamity:
obama's continuity of the shadow government
from nytimes: A shift in authority has given military officials at the White House a bigger operational role in creating a backup government if the nation’s capital were “decapitated” by a terrorist attack or other calamity, according to current and former officials involved in the decision.

The move, which was made in the closing weeks of the administration of President George W. Bush, came after months of heated internal debate about the balance of power and the role of the military in a time of crisis, participants said. Officials said the Obama administration had left the plan essentially intact.

Under the revamped structure, the White House Military Office, which reports to the office of the White House chief of staff, has assumed a more central role in setting up a temporary “shadow government” in a crisis.

And the office, a 2,300-person outfit best known for flying Air Force One, has taken on added responsibilities as the lead agent in shepherding government leaders to a secure site at Mount Weather in rural Virginia, keeping classified lists of successors and maintaining computer systems, among other operational duties. Many of these types of tasks were previously handled by civilians at other agencies, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

cyber/space\war: lost tapes, underground labs & more moon memes

nasa conveniently finds missing moon landing tapes
a few weeks before anniversary! what are the odds?
from express.co.uk: Ecstatic space officials at NASA could be about to unveil one of their most stunning discoveries for 40 years - new and amazingly clear footage of the first moon landing. The release of the new images next month could be one of the most talked about events of the summer. The television images the world has been used to seeing of the historic moment when Neil Armstrong descended down a ladder onto the moon’s surface in 1969 is grainy, blurry and dark. The following scenes, in which the astronauts move around the lunar lander, are so murky it is difficult to make out exactly what is going on, causing conspiracy theorists to claim the entire Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate fraud.

However, viewers have only ever seen such poor quality footage because the original analogue tapes containing the pictures beamed direct from the lunar surface were lost almost as soon as they were recorded. Instead, a poor quality copy made from a 16mm camera pointing at a heavily compressed image on a black and white TV screen has been the only record of the event. The Sunday Express can now reveal that the missing tapes containing the original high quality images have been found. If the visual data can be retrieved, Nasa is set to reveal them to the world as a key plank of celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the landings next month. The tapes show in much more detail than almost anyone has previously seen the surface of the moon beneath the patriotic symbol of the US flag. Crucially, they could once and for all dispel 40 years of wild conspiracy theories.

aldrin creates buzz opposing nasa moon plan*

is there a secret water table hidden on mars?*

work begins on world's deepest underground lab
from ap: Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings - a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter. Scientists, politicians and other officials gathered Monday for a groundbreaking of sorts at a lab 4,850 foot below the surface of an old gold mine that was once the site of Nobel Prize-winning physics research. The site is ideal for experiments because its location is largely shielded from cosmic rays that could interfere with efforts to prove the existence of dark matter, which is thought to make up nearly a quarter of the mass of the universe.

1st signs of internet censorship in europe?*

uk ministry of defence blocks wikileaks
from guardian: The Ministry of Defence is trying to block all internet access to the whistleblowing site Wikileaks from thousands of its own computers after discovering that dissidents have been using it to leak copies of British military manuals. Newly obtained MoD emails reveal alarm over the discovery that Wikileaks is freely publishing manuals that are used by patrols in Iraq. One email says: "There are thousands of things on here, I literally mean thousands. Not just UK MoD but other places as well. Everything I clicked on to do with MoD was 'restricted' ... It is huge." Dismay was sparked by the discovery that Wikileaks had posted copies of a 2007 manual on UK tactics for Iraq and Afghanistan, and a handbook on Istar (intelligence surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance) on its website.

russia & US in dispute over computer attacks*

a czar you can believe in:
or, why neocons think we need cybercom*

US cyber command: 404 error, mission not (yet) found
from danger room: Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the military to start setting up a new “U.S. Cyber Command.” It’s a move that’s been discussed in defense circles for more than a year. But despite the announcement — and despite the lengthy debate – no one in the military-industrial complex seems all that sure what this new fighting force is supposed to do, exactly. Officially, the Pentagon still has a few months to figure things out. Gates told his troops in a Tuesday memo that they have until September 1st to come up with an “implementation plan” for the new command. But there’s a ton to figure out in the next ten weeks. As Gates notes, that plan will have to “delineate USCYBERCOM’s mission, roles and responsibilities,” detail the command’s “minimum requirements” to get up and running, and sort out its “relationships” with the rest of the military – and the rest of the government. In other words, just about everything.

meade picked for new cyber security command*
5 silly reasons there's no cyberczar yet*
obama admin to involve nsa in defending civilian agency networks*
judge acquits lori drew in cyberbullying case, overrules jury*