#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode239 - China In Alaska, Migrant Crisis Explained, Harperman Song

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode239 -
China In Alaska, Migrant Crisis Explained, Harperman Song

Interview w/ Jon Rappoport on MKULTRA Jazz

Investigative journalist Jon Rappoprt's article, 'US Jazz Musicians Were Drafted Into the CIA’s MKULTRA,' caught my ear so he's joining Media Monarchy for some classic 'Acid Dreams'. Why did Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, Elvin Jones and so many more great musicians take the 'Lexinton Cure' at the CIA-connected 'Narcotic Farm'? Who was Harris Isbell and what did he do at Lex? And the real question: Why do intelligence agencies use art as a weapon?



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Corbett Report: Episode244 - Secret Weapons Technology

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from corbett report: We all know about the secret weapons of WWII or the spy planes of the cold war…but what about today? What weapons are the DoD working on behind our backs in this day and age? Given the secrecy around this question, what can we say about this topic and how can we discover the answers? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore the mysteries of the secret weapons programs.

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#Newspurge: The Hallways of the Always

Econocrash:
Tax day is even deadlier than you think*

Stress, deadlines linked to deadly car crashes*
Almost Half of US Taxes Go to Military, Health Care*
Banker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy*
Dow Jones industrial average falls 200 points as stocks extend worst slump of the year*
Employment Increase in US Trails Most-Pessimistic Forecasts*
Government Jobs Disappearing…Unlike Other Post-Recession Periods*
Eighth GSA employee placed on leave in scandal*
Video: Rapping Federal Worker Adds To Evidence Of Waste And Excess*
#Audio #Satire: Pentagon Gets 12 Weapons For Only A Penny From Columbia Missile and Tank Club*

Geopolitiks:
NAFTA Partners Take Steps to Boost Trilateral Relationship*
U.S. Aid to Israel Equals $4.9 Million a Day for 64 Years*
Connecticut Candidate Calls Opponent 'Whore' for AIPAC*
Dem Senatorial Candidate Calls Opponent Whore on Live TV*
German Railway Hires Lawyers and PR Firm before Holocaust Lawsuits in U.S.*
‘Ex’ KGB man wins presidency in South Ossetia*
Russia installs S-400 on Polish Border in response to US missile defense system*
Tension ahead of Pyongyang Missile Test* North Korea's rocket launch ends in failure: South Korea
S.Korea, U.S. Practice Invasion of North Korea During Civil War*
Cameron In Asia: PM Defends Seeking Arms Sales In Indonesia*
Cameron on Trade Trip to Asia; Touts UK Military Hardware*
The documents that prove Britain initiated rendition*
In Syria, send in the mercenaries*
Video: Hersh Says US trained MEK/MKO*
The balance of super-powers ahead of the 3rd Gulf war*
Video: Nonstop U.S. backed bombardment of Southern Yemen*

Media/Memes:
Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield*
'Simpsons' creator: Oregon town inspired Springfield* Exclusive: Nope, Springfield is Not in Oregon, Clarifies The Simpsons' Matt Groening
Mike Wallace, CBS Pioneer of '60 Minutes,' Dead at 93*
Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' star interviewer, dies*
Ferdinand Porsche: Designer of 911 dies at 76*
Flashback: Ferdinand Porsche, Creator of the Sports Car That Bore His Name, Is Dead at 88*
Ferdinand Porsche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia*
Thomas Kinkade, Painter for the Masses, Dies at 54*
Princess Di was in talks to star in 'The Bodyguard 2', reveals Kevin Costner*
Video: Whitney Houston 911 call released*
Potential jurors in Hudson slaying case asked about singer*
Studio halts Mel Gibson film*
Julia Roberts, 44, Shows Off Killer Beach Bod*
Ashley Judd lashes out at those who have criticized her looks*
SOPA lobby games: Why Netflix PAC agenda NOT convincing*
Jack Outside the Box: Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time*
Coachella Music Festival Begins This Weekend*
Coachella 2012 Set Times Revealed! Let's Plan Our Stage-Hopping*
Remember: Coachella Connects to Casolaro's Octopus*

Obamessiah:
Obama heads (back) to the golf course (again)*
Obama administration diverts $500M to IRS to implement healthcare reform law*
Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu Are Old Friends*
Jury selection begins in John Edwards' criminal trial*

Oregon Oddities:
Five Suspects Busted in Funny Money Ring*

Feds say Portland counterfeiters cheaply created bogus bills, put $70,000 in circulation*
Hillsboro police and Force Science Institute hold traffic stop study on officer memory, safety*

Police State Updates:
Video: "The Control Grid is Being Put Into Place to Handle What They Know Is Coming."*
Gil Scott-Heron knew about "The King Alfred Plan"*
News Organizations Protest Closed Hearing of USS Cole Terror Suspect*
Navy simulated Virginia Beach jet crash in December 15, 2011 drill*
US State To Ban Saggy Trousers*
Video: Police tracking cell phones w/o warrants*

West Virginia Worry:
WV women who became Rosie the Riveter during WWII share their stories*
West Virginia moves to revoke Upper Big Branch foreman's certificate*
WV Board to Allow Counties Under State of Emergency to Participate in Innovation Zones*

labor day 2011: what are we celebrating, the lack of jobs in america?

from the economic collapse blog: If you still have a good job, you certainly have something to celebrate on Labor Day 2011. So far you have survived the decline of the U.S. economy. But your day may be coming soon. This weekend, there will be millions of Americans that will not be doing any celebrating. They are not enjoying a break from their jobs because they don't have any jobs. In fact, it seems kind of heartless for the rest of us to be celebrating while so many of our countrymen are destitute. What are we celebrating on Labor Day 2011? The lack of jobs in America? At this point, the U.S. economy closely resembles a gigantic game of musical chairs. Every time the music stops, even more good jobs are pulled out of the game and even more workers are added. Once upon a time, if you really wanted a job in America you could get one. But now the competition for even the most basic jobs is absolutely brutal. If you gathered together all of the unemployed people in the United States, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the world. It would be a nation larger than Greece. All of those unemployed people are not going to be taking trips with their families this holiday weekend. Instead, most of them are going to be trying to figure out what to do with their shattered lives.

related econocrash updates:
first month without job growth since month after wwii ended*
illegal workers received $4b in refundable tax credits last year*
is the end of the euro in sight?*
obama 'to inject $300b' in bid to create jobs*
obama jobs plan seeks payroll tax cut*

97yr-old cleared of nazi war crimes charges

from god discussion: Yesterday, 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro, suspected of Nazi war crimes, was acquitted by a Hungarian court. Kepiro topped the most-wanted list at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He had been accused of ordering the executions of 35 Jews and Serbs in Serbia during World War Two. Kepiro says that he was a police captain on the forces that invaded northern Serbia. Jewish groups and Serbian officials say the verdict is outrageous and they will push for an appeal.

related history/mystery updates:
video: Top Nazi Rudolf Hess exhumed from 'pilgrimage' grave*
Iran unveils documents on WWII*
Anthrax Attacks: Justice Dept. Destroys FBI Case Then Does A 180 Reversal Days Later*
Justice Department reverses course on Ivins*
Video: Groundbreaking Interview With Oswald’s Girlfriend Judyth Vary Baker*

US recession longest since wwii; recovery around the corner!

in other news: crumbling bridge for sale
from bbc: The US recession lasted 18 months and was the most prolonged since World War II, a report has concluded. The National Bureau of Economic Research said the recovery began in June 2009, with recession having begun in 2007. Its views carry weight in the US, even though there is usually a lag before it reaches a view, said BBC World Service economics editor Andrew Walker. The organisation's figures take in data beyond simply GDP. Income, employment industrial production and wholesale retail sales also from part of the analysis. The previous longest postwar recessions in 1973-75 and 1981-82 both lasted 16 months, it said.

pearl harbor: 68yrs later, all war still based on deception

from gather: Today lives in infamy, but not for the reasons you’ve been told. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, exactly 68 years ago today, was not an unprovoked, dastardly assault on an unsuspecting nation. It was a carefully orchestrated trap, engineered by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR’s purpose was to overcome domestic opposition to America’s involvement in the European war thousands of miles from the Pacific isles.

A tri-party agreement between Japan, Germany and Italy, executed one year earlier, gave Roosevelt the key he needed to get into Europe through the “back door.” The agreement stipulated that a war against any one of the parties would be considered to be a war against all three.

These facts would still be buried in the dustbin of history but for some sixteen years of work by author Robert Stinnett, uncovering and examining documents under the Freedom of Information Act. His eventual book on the subject is entitled Day of Deceit.

flashbacks: history channel: 'conspiracy: fdr & pearl harbor' & nytimes 'debunks' pearl harbor prior knowledge

abc news special 1979: mission mind control

from unemployed sociopath: We can see in this ABC News Special from 1979 what the CIA has been up to, and how they've been corrupted to consider dehumanizing American citizens and the rest of the World as 'normal'. To learn how to weaken and control people they conducted hundreds of 'Naziesque' experiments, no surprise since the CIA was founded by hiring thousands of Nazi's after WWII.

poll: use of atomic bombs in wwii was ok

from ap: A majority of Americans surveyed think dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was the right thing to do, but support was weaker among Democrats, women, younger voters and minority voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. The poll, released Tuesday, found 61% of the more than 2,400 American voters questioned think the U.S. did the right thing; 22% called it wrong, and 16% were undecided. The first bomb was dropped Aug. 6, 1945, on Hiroshima. An estimated 140,000 people were killed instantly or died within a few months. Tens of thousands more died from radiation poisoning in the years following. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people. Japan surrendered less than a week later.

'legendary' newsman walter cronkite, 92, dies at home

...now walter cronkite can truly be
"glad to sit on the right hand of satan"...

from dpa: Iconic news anchor Walter Cronkite, whose journalism shaped US views and policies from World War II to the Vietnam War died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.

Cronkite, who was born in St Joseph, Missouri, in 1916, had been ill for several months with cerebrovascular disease. Among the many paying tribute to him were President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W Bush.

Often called "the most trusted man in America," Cronkite's deliberate reporting and analysis, together with his rare displays of emotion made him a key observer and interpreter of seminal moments in US history including the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights struggle and the moon landing.

Regarded as one of the all time greats of US journalism, Cronkite also played a decisive role in establishing television as a leading news medium and in defining the standards for news anchors during his stint as anchor at CBS News from 1962 to 1981.

Obama called him "a voice of certainty in an uncertain world... For decades, Walter Cronkite was the most trusted voice in America. His rich baritone reached millions of living rooms every night," said Obama. "He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down."

"Walter Cronkite was an icon of American journalism who shaped his profession in countless ways during his decades on the air. Tonight, his family is in our thoughts and prayers," Bush said.

"It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism or indeed America without Walter Cronkite," Sean McManus, president of CBS News, said in a statement. "More than just the best and most trusted anchor in history, he guided America through our crises, tragedies and also our victories and greatest moments."

Cronkite established his legendary reputation with his marathon coverage of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in 1963. His sympathetic reporting of the civil rights struggle was key in winning over American public opinion, while his conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable in 1968 eroded the support of middle America for the controversial conflict. "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America," said President Lyndon Johnson after Cronkite concluded that the war could not be won.

Katie Couric, the current anchor of the CBS Evening News, said Cronkite was so trusted "because he exhibited a sense of purpose and compassion, night after night. He was the personification of excellence."



walter cronkite: most trusted asset of operation mockingbird
from kurt nimmo: “It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism or indeed America without Walter Cronkite,” said Sean McManus, president of CBS News, on the passing on Walter Cronkite. “More than just the best and most trusted anchor in history, he guided America through our crises, tragedies and also our victories and greatest moments.”

I wonder if Mr. McManus knew the real Cronkite — Cronkite the a former intelligence officer who was lured away from his UPI Moscow desk by Operation Mockingbird’s Phil Graham.

Of course he did. Because the corporate media, at least at the level Walter Cronkite occupied, is rife with spooks, government agents, and disinfo operatives. The CIA has “important assets” inside every major news publication in the country, a fact established by numerous FOIA documents. A rare glimpse was also provided by Frank Church’s committee in the mid-70s.

Some of the journalists working the CIA’s side of the street “were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors-without-portfolio for their country,” Carl Bernstein wrote in an article published in Rolling Stone in October, 1977. “Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested it the derring-do of the spy business as in filing articles, and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad.”

“It was not until 1982 that the Agency openly admitted that reporters on the CIA payroll have acted as case officers to agents in the field,” writes Alex Constantine in The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA’s Operation MOCKINGBIRD. “Most consumers of the corporate media were — and are — unaware of the effect that the salting of public opinion has on their own beliefs... In the 1950s, outlays for global propaganda climbed to a full third of the CIA’s covert operations budget. Some 3, 000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts. The cost of disinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated $265 million a year by 1978, a budget larger than the combined expenditures of Reuters, UPI and the AP news syndicates.”

Cronkite was a trusted and valued part of that huge mass propaganda effort.

and even george carlin didn't "believe that shit" either...

update: uncle walter & the cia*

lifestyles of the rich & nazi: chanel, hearst & art auctions

chanel & the nazis: what the films won't tell you
from times online: Why is Coco Chanel getting a free pass on her collaboration with the Nazis? Her past was deeply compromised... As we gear up for cultural Chanel-mania this summer with two hagiographic films about the designer, a new biography and the sound of slavering from glossy magazines, it is worth pausing to investigate Coco Chanel's wholesale - and retail - involvement with the Nazis. The world's greatest fashionista may have rescued women from the corset, but she did not have a good war. When shoppers swoon over the iconic quilted handbag with the CC logo, most are unaware that Chanel once went to Berlin to plot with Walter Schellenberg, who wore his Waffen SS logo as Hitler's chief of foreign intelligence. Perhaps Chanel-lovers also have no idea that she tried to wrest control of her perfume manufacturing from a Jewish family, taking advantage of pro-Aryan laws. Or that she was arrested for war crimes - and then mysteriously released.

Previously, I'd seen it mentioned that Chanel had survived the war rather comfortably at the Paris Ritz in the arms of a Nazi officer, Hans Gunther von Dincklage, and then gone into exile in Switzerland with him, but a few hours spent in the library revealed that she was far more deeply involved with the Germans than that. There was even a (somewhat ridiculous) Nazi plot, using Chanel as bait, called “Operation Modelhut”. None of this will be discussed, of course, in two upcoming biographical films: Coco Avant Chanel, starring Audrey Tautou, and Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, with Anna Mouglalis, about Chanel's relationship with the Russian composer. Nor was it detailed in a Chanel television mini-series with Shirley MacLaine last year, or in the 1981 film Chanel Solitaire. With commercial good sense, all films avoid the German invasion of Paris and Chanel's collaboration. It's a case of “Don't Mention The War!”

hitler's painting of black cat to be auctioned
from telegraph: The piece depicts a black cat sitting up on its haunches, looking upwards, and bears the fascist leader's initial's – A.H. It is one of an array of 13 watercolours which were recently found, forgotten in a collector's garage. They are early examples of Hitler's work and were painted during his twenties, when he was a struggling artist. The pieces are expected to attract great interest and could fetch thousands of pounds at auction on April 23.

sale of nazi housewife magazines
from bbc: A collection of the official women's magazine of the Nazis could fetch up to £700 when it goes up for sale at an auction next week. The magazine, called NS Frauen Warte, aimed at the German housewife during World War II, gives recipes, knitting patterns and other household tips. Several of the magazines will feature in a lot being put up for sale by Shropshire auctioneers Mullock's. Experts said the collection could fetch between £500 and £700. Richard Westwood-Brookes, from Mullock's, said it was "everything you'd expect a woman's magazine to have and more... [You see] nice articles about what women are doing in their groups and things like that... Then you turn the page and then you find there [a] banner-waving Nazi soldier with a big headline saying 'would you have your daughter marry a Jewish man?'" It was a fortnightly publication and ran from 1935 to 1945, Mr Westwood-Brookes added. He said the publication's idea was to provide a "subtle stream of propaganda information to women". Mullock's also has a collection of boys' magazines from the 1930s, which are "fairly unsubtle" and include "lots of battle scenes", Mr Westwood-Brookes said. He expects those to make about £200. Mr Westwood-Brookes said: "The way in which the propaganda machine worked, it went to everybody right the way down to almost babes in arms."

donald duck & the taxes you pay to international banksters

from kurt nimmo: It’s that time again, time to pay the bankers what is owed at gunpoint. Back in the day, when fear of the IRS was not as prevalent as it is today, the government employed Hollywood propaganda to make the plebs feel good about forking over their hard-won earnings. In the cartoon here, produced in 1943 during the Second World War, Donald Duck is pressed into service to make Americans feel good about paying taxes. Donald’s cartoon was rolled out the same year Milton Friedman, a Treasury Department economist at the time, came up with the idea of imposing a withholding tax.

Hollywood no longer needs to make cartoons to convince us paying taxes to international bankers is the “patriotic” thing to do. Millions of people accept this federally enforced fleecing operation with a mixture of resignation and fear. In fact, decades of propaganda have reduced many Americans to the point where they believe forking over a huge share of their earnings is a positive thing. Of course, they have no idea the money is going to the bankers. Just less than half of U.S. residents asked say the amount of federal income taxes they pay is 'about right,' a Gallup Poll reported on April 8, according to United Press International. Donald Duck’s services are no longer required.

new year's clearinghouse

end of the year or end of the world (as we know it)?
from global research: [A]n end-of-year essay of sorts is in order, especially so given the bumpy ride capitalism has bestowed on us this past twelve months. And the portents for 2009 look to be even worse as capitalism, desperate to shed over-valued assets, descends into the abyss. Look at it this way: after the Crash of ‘29 and the launch of the New Deal, it took some six years to engineer the outbreak of WWII, the surefire way of literally burning up surplus capital in awesome quantities. And if history has any lessons for us, some equivalent global conflagration is now in order. However, is this possible under these new circumstances and over what timescale can such a capitalist catastrophe be engineered?

chronology: major world events in 2008: part1 & part2

and a few other last-minute downers...
sewage & drinking water mingle in texas*
automatic speed-limiting devices should be fitted to cars*
nobody frightens children like the tsa*
US/japanese bioterrorists recreate 1918 flu*
nixon/kissinger celebrated ‘72 bombing of north vietnam*
henry kissinger: eminence noire*
lbj's treason tapes*
did poppy bush kill kennedy & frame nixon?*
new proof of lies/deception by US/uk & the sinking of the lusitania*
holocaust love story a fabrication*
ex-army employee pleads guilty to acting as israeli agent*
cdc to oregon: why aren't you taking our yummy shots?*
defense contractors see $$$ in cyber security*
new year’s eve security enhanced in nyc*
national guard soldiers to usher in new year at times square*
US stocks suffer worst year since great depression*
blackout looms in time warner/viacom fight*
kathy griffin says 'dicks' during live cnn new year's show*
this modern world 2008 year in review, part1: goodbye to all that*
this modern world 2008 year in review, part2: the end of an error*
2008: the year the US media lost relevance*

patton assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders

from telegraph: The newly unearthed diaries of a colourful assassin for the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA, reveal that American spy chiefs wanted Patton dead because he was threatening to expose allied collusion with the Russians that cost American lives.

The death of General Patton in December 1945, is one of the enduring mysteries of the war era. Although he had suffered serious injuries in a car crash in Manheim, he was thought to be recovering and was on the verge of flying home.

But after a decade-long investigation, military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General "Wild Bill" Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname "Old Blood and Guts".

His book, "Target Patton", contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton's Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch.

Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general.

Mr Wilcox told The Sunday Telegraph that when he spoke to Mr Bazata: "He was struggling with himself, all these killings he had done. He confessed to me that he had caused the accident, that he was ordered to do so by Wild Bill Donovan.

questions about general patton's death

interview w/ robert wilcox, part1

and here is part2, part3 & part4

nytimes 'debunks' pearl harbor prior knowledge

in honor of 67th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor, the old grey lady offers up more debunking of another 'catalyzing event'
from nytimes: It has remained one of World War II’s most enduring mysteries, one that resonated decades later after Sept. 11: Who in Washington knew what and when before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941?

Specifically, who heard or saw a transcript of a Tokyo shortwave radio news broadcast that was interrupted by a prearranged coded weather report? The weather bulletin signaled Japanese diplomats around the world to destroy confidential documents and codes because war with the United States, the Soviet Union or Britain was beginning.

In testimony for government inquiries, witnesses said that the “winds execute” message was intercepted as early as Dec. 4, three days before the attack.

But after analyzing American and foreign intelligence sources and decrypted cables, historians for the National Security Agency concluded in a documentary history released last week that whatever other warnings reached Washington about the attack, the “winds execute” message was not one of them.

A Japanese message intercepted and decoded on Nov. 19, 1941, at an American monitoring station on Bainbridge Island, in Washington State, appeared to lay out the “winds execute” situation. If diplomatic relations were “in danger” with one of three countries, a coded phrase would be repeated as a special weather bulletin twice in the middle and twice at the end of the daily Japanese-language news broadcast.

“East wind rain” would mean the United States; “north wind cloudy,” the Soviet Union; and “west wind clear,” Britain.

In the history, “West Wind Clear,” published by the agency’s Center for Cryptologic History, the authors, Robert J. Hanyok and the late David Mowry, attribute accounts of the message being broadcast to the flawed or fabricated memory of some witnesses, perhaps to deflect culpability from other officials for the United States’ insufficient readiness for war.

flashback: history channel: 'conspiracy: fdr & pearl harbor'

breaking the silence of a secret nazi pow camp in virginia

from npr: About two years ago, National Park Service employees stumbled upon a fascinating and largely untold piece of American history. It involves a secret World War II interrogation camp at Fort Hunt, Va., not far from the Pentagon. During and right after the war, thousands of top German prisoners were questioned there about troop movements and scientific advances.

Soldiers at the site also prepared special "care packages" for American POWs that they sent overseas. They included maps, radios and other escape tools.

Many of the camp's records were destroyed right after the war, and those who worked there were sworn to secrecy. Many veterans never spoke about it, even to family and friends, although the operation has been gradually declassified over the past two decades.

The National Park Service, which now runs Fort Hunt Park, has been trying to piece together the story of the interrogation facility — code-named P.O. Box 1142 during the war.

julia child was an oss spy

from ap: Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world. They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt.

The secret comes out Thursday, all of the names and previously classified files identifying nearly 24,000 spies who formed the first centralized intelligence effort by the United States. The National Archives, which this week released a list of the names found in the records, will make available for the first time all 750,000 pages identifying the vast spy network of military and civilian operatives.

US finally closes last wwii internment camp

bird flu, nazi loot, wilkes fraud, rule by law & nyfd spies

indonesia’s health minister: bird flu a US bioweapon
from paul joseph watson: Indonesia’s Health Minister has implicated the U.S. government in an international conspiracy to develop the bird flu virus into a deadly bio-weapon in a new book which is also endorsed by Indonesia's President. Indonesia has been worst hit by the bird flu virus, with eleven people having died from contracting H5N1 this year. "Indonesia’s uniquely virulent strain of H5N1 gave the country 'bargaining power' according to Indonesia’s Health Minister Dr Siti Fadilah Supari, in her new book called 'It’s Time for the World to Change' and strangely subtitled 'The Divine Hand Behind Avian Influenza,'" reports ABC News Australia. click here for a bbc clip with indonesia's health minister (1.5mb MP3)

discovery of nazi-looted russian treasure?
from washington times: Treasure hunters in Germany say they have located a large quantity of gold looted by the Nazis and think they are close to solving one of the most enduring mysteries of World War II - the whereabouts of the fabled Amber Room, the 18th-century chamber decoration Germany stole from the Soviet Union in 1941... "We have not entered the vault yet because we think it may have been booby-trapped. We don't want any mines to blow up, and we need expert help," Deutschneudorf Mayor Heinz-Peter Haustein told The Washington Times.

defense contractor gets 12yrs for bribery
from washington post: Brent R. Wilkes, a California defense contractor and prominent GOP campaign contributor, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison yesterday for lavishing a Republican congressman with money, prostitutes and other bribes in exchange for nearly $90 million in work from the Pentagon. Wilkes, 53, was convicted in November of 13 felony crimes including bribery, conspiracy and fraud for giving the gifts to former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), who is serving an eight-year prison term for accepting millions in bribes from Wilkes and others.

rule by fear or rule by law?
from san francisco chronicle: Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." ... What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?

dhs training nyfd to spy on y-o-u
from in these times: In New York City, the Department of Homeland Security is training New York City firefighters to assist in gathering intelligence information during routine inspections and emergencies. In November, the Associated Press reported that in New York, Homeland Security was testing a program called the Fire Service Intelligence Enterprise (FSIE) to help identify “material or behavior that may indicate terrorist activities.”