Replica of a 32-point compass rose from a chart by Jorge de Aguiar (1492), the oldest personally signed and dated Portuguese nautical chart----------------- Thursday, October 1, 2009 Puzzle by Patrick Blindauer & Rebecca Young, edited by Will Shortz COMPASS ROSE(18A. With 55-Across, direction indicator),ELOP HTRON (6D. Toymaking center?), SOUTH PARK(33D. Long-running TV series set in Colorado),TNIOP TSEW(27A. Its motto is “Duty, Honor, Country”) and EAST ENDER(45A. Cockney, e.g.) are the interrelated group of this Thursday crossword. Mid-size entries include A A MILNE(56A. “Mr. Pim Passes By” playwright);ABC NEWS (8D. “Nightline” presenter);ACTED UP (8A. Raised Cain);CATALOG (17A. Something made to order?); 31A. “The COLBERT Report”; ELEANOR (60A. “The Lion in Winter” queen);IN A PILE (15A Heaped together);LEG REST(7D. Recliner feature); MELROSE (54A. Place name popular in the 1990s);PETER PAN (51A. Story that begins “All children, except one, grow up”); PRICIER (61A. Like penthouse suites vis-à-vis other apartments, typically); SADNESS (62A Melancholy); SATCHEL (1A. Paper carrier); SKEETER (63A. Picnic pest, informally);SOPRANOS (19A. Women who get high?);T-STRAPS (41D. Features of some sandals);TUNED IN (41A. Hip to). Six-letter -- DIAPER (12D. Something needed for a change); HASTEN (26D. Get the lead out);O’BRIEN (28D. Pat of “Knute Rockne All American”);OUT-ATE(35A. Defeated, as at a Nathan’s hot dog contest); PAMELA (43D. Bobby’s wife of “Dallas”); PESTER (14D. Nag); RIFLED (44D. Ransacked); SBARRO (34A. Fast-food chain whose logo features a modified Italian flag); SLIMES (42D. Slanders really badly); TEETER (40D. Could fall either way); UNSURE (13D. Dubious). Five -- BERTH (48A. Ship’s resting place); BESOS (48D. Spanish kisses); CROON (9D. Sing like Andy Williams or Russ Columbo); HELEN (25A. Euripides play or its heroine); PARER (30A. Apple gadget);PER SE (29D. As such); PRUNE (30D. Trim, as a topiary); SPREE (42A. Jag). Short stuff -- ADDS, ALE, AMIE, ANA, ARE, CPAS, EKG, EMP, ENRY, ERR, ETCS, GILA, HERE, HILO, IMF, ISNT, KNOB, LAIN, LIT, NEE, NICE, PONE, PUT, RAN, SAY, SIC, SSRS, TAT, TIEA, TOMS. -------------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated.Click on image to enlarge.Puzzle available on the internet atTHE NEW YORK TIMES -- Crossword Puzzles and Games
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Remaining clues -- Across: 21. Lay; 22. Med. Readout; 26. “Catch!”; 32. Cold war grp.; 39. “___ It Time” (1977 hit); 47. Been abed; 49. “I have an idea ..”; 50. Global finance org. Down: 1. Attack signal; 2. Santa ___; 3. Bit of art on a chest, in slang; 4. Balancing pros; 5. Hawaii county seat; 10. ___ River, N.J.; 11. Titus or Tiberius: Abbr.; 20. It may be red or brown; 22. Series conclusions: Abbr.; 23. Remote ancestor?; 24. Arizona’s ___ Mountains; 36. Puts on; 37. How to ___ knot (Boy Scout’s lesson); 38. One of eight English kings, to a 45-Across) 51. Soul food side dish; 52. Le Havre honey; 53. “Well done!”; 55. Split; 57. Pie-eyed; 58. Name tag?; 59. Give all for one or one for all, e.g.?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Puzzle by Kevin G. Der, edited by Will Shortz CONCORD MA in circles, RALPH WALDO EMERSON(1A. With 6- and 22-Across, noted 19th century writer),NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (24A. With 53-Across, noted 19th-century writer), LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (39A. Noted 19th-century writer) and HENRY DAVID THOREAU (70A. With 71- and 55-Across, noted 19th century writer) are the interrelated group of this Wednesday crossword. Other -- ANIMATO(21D. Lively, on a score); EURASIA (28D. Superstate in Orwell’s “1984”);HYDRAS (5D. Many-headed serpents); ORIENTAL (10D. Monopoly avenue in the light-blue group);PLAINTS (32D. Lamentations); RELICS (23D. Tomb artifacts, e.g.);SAW TEETH (40D. Cutting-edge features); SHOWED (48D. Didn’t skip something); WILIER (34D. More artful). Five-letter -- AKRON (12D. Goodyear’s Ohio headquarters); A PAIR (15A. It beats nothing); ATHOS (25D. Friend of Aramis); DUBAI (18A. Where Emirates Airline is based); ELMER (59A. Bull on glue bottles);E-MAIL (68A. IPhone function); HUMAN (53D. Any of us); ICILY (14A. With aloofness);JEANS (13D. Casual wear); LABEL (8D. Place for a designer’s name); LAIRS (36A. Places to hibernate); NEONS (29A. Some saloon signs); OBAMA (54D. “The Audacity of Hope” author);OCTAD (17A. The Ivies, e.g.); OTHER (50D. Alternative to this and that, with “the”); OWLET (50A. Little hooter); PLATH (4D. Sylvia who wrote “The Bell Jar”); ROWER (37D. Galley toiler); RUSSO (11D. Rene of “Lethal Weapon” movies); SPLAT (43A. Mushy snowball sound); STAIN (38D. Coffee spot);TEE UP (26D. Prepare to drive); TIARA (67A. Pope’s triple crown);WALL-E (62A. 2008 Pixar robot); WHINY (51D. Prone to complaining). Short stuff -- ACC, ALIE, APU, ATE, CHEW, DIAM, EIN, ELD, ENG, ERR, HID, IONS, ITEM, IWO, LAV, LII and LIT, MER, NACL, PTL, RAJ and RAY, RIO, RYE, SEI, SITU, SOB, SRA and TRA, TYNE, UKE, WAD, YEOW. ------------------ For today’s cartoons, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated.Click on image to enlarge.Puzzle available on the internet atTHE NEW YORK TIMES -- Crossword Puzzles and Games
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Remaining clues -- Across: 11. British rule in India; 16. Arthur Godfrery’s instrument, informally; 19. Malaga Mrs.; 20. Refrain syllable; 30. Took in; 31. In ___ (as found); 32. The Bakkers’ old ministry, for short; 33. Meditate (on); 35. Subject of a Debussy piece; 44. Tre + tre; 45. Have influence on; 46. 1945 Pacific battle site, briefly; 47. Solar wind particles; 49. “A” in German 101?; 57. ___ sister; 58 Went underground; 66. H.S. subj.; 69. Alternative to white. Down: 1. Copacabana locale; 2. Georgia Tech’s sports org.; 3. On; 6. Glob of gum; 7. TV’s Kwik-E-Mart clerk; 9. Circular meas.; 24. Table salt, chemically; 27. Bullet point; 41. “That hurts!”; 42. Daly of “Judging Amy”; 56. Get caught in ___; 60. Muff one; 63. Head of London?; 64. 52, in old Rome; 65. Days of yore, in days of yore.
American political writer, author, biographer, historian and the last surviving protege of the 20th century intellectual giant poet and writer, Ezra Pound, Eustace Mullins died Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the home of his caretaker in a small town in Texas.
In 1949, Mr Eustace Mullins saw first hand the injustice of Jewish Gulagism inside America when he visited Ezra Pound during his period of incarceration in 'St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Mentally Ill' in Washington, D.C. between 1946 and 1959. Ezra Pound was being held as a political prisoner on the behest of Jewish cabal President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Ezra Pound, famed poet and PATRIOT, was convicted of treason by the U.S. of America for his calls for peace during WW2. He was well aware who was behind the manufactured conflict. His consciousness compelled him to act and when he attempted to alert the warring nations that JEW central-bankers and their pimps were responsible for the new Bankster war, he was arrested.
If you ask anyone these days who Ezra Pound was, 99.9 % would answer "poet" Sure, Ezra Pound was a poet, and his poetry was censored... but in reality more than his poetry, his whole person was censored, quarantined from the outside world, by the Rothschilds et al.... Ezra Pound became the most dangerous person on the planet. The Antichrist Freemasonic elite 'legal system' gave him but one choice either play insane or die by hanging... Had his message been propagated, the world would be very a very different place today... Eustace Mullins in his book This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound touches on this subject while he was alive. Now gone and may God bless his soul, we can only hope that unpublished notes may surface. (More on Ezra Pound in a future post)
Initially Ezra Pound was not allowed any visitor either in Europe where he was caged like an animal (Much worse than Saddam Hussein) once back in America's madhouse he was found insane by eight 'certified federal psychiatrists', confined in a straight-jacket in a hospital for the Insane, overlooking Washington, DC, to rot for the rest of his life.
In 1949, EUSTACE MULLINS was introduced to EZRA POUND, who was then a librarian at the Library of Congress. He often visited Pound at the madhouse called 'St. Elizabeth Hospital' where Pound guided Mullins, urging him to research the global JEW conspiracy. He started his research that same year he met Ezra Pound, and spent three years going through 2000 books at the Library of Congress to get the material for the "SECRETS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE"
Mullins' most notable work, Secrets of the Federal Reserve, the only book burned in Germany since Hitler, was written in consultation with George Stimpson, founder of the National Press Club. Mullins himself says that at the time he was writing his first book, he was on the staff of the Library of Congress, but that shortly after it came out in 1952, he was fired. This is repeated by Boller and George (They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions, by Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George, published by Oxford University Press (1989), p. 15. The word "discharged" is used, rather than fired.)
According to Eustace Mullins, based upon his research combined with the research and experience of Dr. Ezra Pound, there exists only ONE Conspiracy, that being, the Rothschild Central Bank Conspiracy.
All else are simply lower level spin offs conspiracies. They are dependent upon the major conspiracy. Eustace says...
"what isn't a conspiracy?"
All the same people at the top of the corporations, one way or the other, are Sabbatean/Freemasonic Rothschild agents, who would take their secrets to the graves.
When Eustace published his ground breaking documentation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1952, he brought the story out into daylight for the first time. In order to counter what he did, Rothschild agents came up with the concept and called Eustace a "conspiracy theorist (i.e. nut)."
There is nothing more to the story. All else is distraction I'm afraid. The problem isn't in any way political, it's strictly economic. The simplicity of the problem and the solution alludes most all people on the planet. That's why the problem persists in plain sight.
The man who has all of the pieces to the global conspiracy puzzle - considered the greatest conspiracy theorist alive. But did he create these conspiracy theories? Or did he discover real conspiracies?
In honor of free speech and critical thinking I present you with the most powerful interview I've done to date with one of the most controversial - and yet respected - people in the entire world, Eustace Mullins, the last living protégé of Ezra Pound. Eustace joins me for this explosive two part series on the history of the Federal Reserve, WWI, WWII, the Rothschilds, JP Morgan, the New World Order, banking, Zionism, farming, G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island, Ron Paul, the gold standard, and the state of world affairs. He'll be joining me with his only protégé, Jesse Lee, who will help guide our discussion through the many rabbit holes of history, uncovering some of the most startling information many of you have ever heard."
Rumours of Hitler’s survival have been widespread for years, with some even claiming he is alive today.
While that is unlikely – the Nazi leader would celebrate his 121st birthday in April – the possibility that he made it out of the Berlin bunker has been seriously put forward on several occasions. Here are four of the strangest theories.
Several prominent Nazis – including 'architect of the Holocaust' Adolf Eichmann and Dr Josef Mengele, the 'Angel of Death' – certainly did flee to Argentina.
And the arrival of two U-Boats in the South American country in the weeks after the war led to more speculation that Hitler joined his former underlings there. But Heinz Schäffer, one of the officers on the U-Boats, has alwas strenuously denied being part of a 'ghost convoy'.
The two U-Boats, U-530 and U-977, surrendered at Mar del Plata in Argentina in July and August 1945 respectively.
Among the theories of Hitler's whereabouts after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 was that he was smuggled out of Germany and onto a U-Boat.
From there, the story goes, the Nazi leader was taken to a secret military base in Antarctic. In the late 1950s British and American forces found the base and destroyed it with atomic weapons.
The theory falls down on three major points. One, there was never a German military presence in Antarctica, despite a pre-war mission there to see whether a whaling base would be feasible.
Two, while the two U-Boats mentioned above did arrive in Argentina after the war, they could not possibly have made it to Antarctica. The sea ice in the winter blocks all access to the land where any base would have been.
Three, while atomic bombs were detonated in the southern hemisphere in 1958, they were atmospheric tests, hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth. All three took place between 1400 and 2150 miles north of Antarctica.
The point when Hitler conspiracy theories lose touch with reality altogether. The Nazis' development late in the war of high-technology weapons – including the V2, an early ballistic missile, and the Me 262 jet fighter – inspired some to believe that Germany had secretly won the space race.
It was also suggested that the Nazis had made contact with UFOs and that they had made it to the Moon as early as 1942. Furthermore, Russian and American astronauts actually made it there in the 1950s, and stayed at a Nazi lunar base.
For added measure, it is claimed that the Moon is perfectly habitable for humans, but that NASA claims it is barren and airless in order to stop Third World countries visiting it.
Well, not really. This one is a joke – but there is a structure, visible on Google Maps, that might make you think otherwise. A barracks building in the US Navy base in San Diego's Coronado island, known as the 'Seal's Lair', is very definitely in the shape of a swastika.
In 2007, the US Navy said it was going to redesign the 1960s-built edifice, spending around $600,000 (£375,000) to make it less master-racy. They admitted they noticed the shape when it was built, but didn't think anyone would spot it from the ground. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6242144/Adolf-Hitler-alive-weird-conspiracy-theories.html
Last week I was very pleased that the Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, HR 1207. The bill has 295 cosponsors and there is also strong support for the companion bill in the Senate. This hearing was a major step forward in getting the bill passed.
I was pleased that the hearing was well-attended, especially considering that it was held on a Friday at nine o’clock in the morning! I have been talking about the immense, unchecked power of the Federal Reserve for many years, while the attention of Congress was always on other things. It was gratifying to see my colleagues asking probing questions and demonstrating genuine concern about this important issue as well.
The witness testifying in favor of HR 1207 made some very strong points, which was no surprise considering the bill is simply common sense. It was also no surprise that the witness testifying against the bill had no good arguments as to why a full audit should not be conducted promptly. He attempted to make the case that the fed is already sufficiently accountable to Congress and that the current auditing policy is adequate. The fact is that the Fed comes to Congress and talks about only what it wants to talk about, and the GAO audits only what the current laws allow to be audited. The really important things however, are off limits. There are no convincing arguments that it is in the best interests of the American people for anything the Fed does to be off limits.
It has been argued that full disclosure of details of funding facilities like TALF and PDCF that enabled massive bailouts of Wall Street would damage the financial position of those firms and destabilize the economy. In other words, if the American people knew how rotten the books were at those banks and how terribly they messed up, they would never willingly invest in them, and they would fail. Failure is not an option for friends of the Fed. Therefore, the funds must be stolen from the people in the dark of night. This is not how a free country works. This is not how free markets work. That is crony corporatism and instead of being a force for economic stabilization, it totally undermines it.
If the Fed gave its actual arguments against a full audit, they would not have mentioned anything about political independence or economic stability. Instead they would admit they don’t want to be audited because they enjoy their current situation too much. Under the guise of currency control, they are able to help out powerful allies on Wall Street, in exchange for lucrative jobs or who-knows-what favors later on. An audit would expose the Fed as a massive fraud perpetrated on this country, enriching a privileged few bankers at the top of our economic food chain, and leaving the rest of us with massively devalued dollars which we are forced to use by law. An audit would make people realize that, while Bernie Madoff defrauded a lot of investors for a lot of money, the Fed has defrauded every one of us by destroying the value of our money. An honest and full accounting of how the money system really works in this country would mean there is not much of a chance the American people would stand for it anymore.
----------------- Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Puzzle by Paula Gamache, edited by Will Shortz AT SEA(71A. Clueless … or where the answers to this puzzle’s starred clues were all first used),LOOSE CANNON (17A. * Dangerously unpredictable sort),DEEP SIX (39A. *Junk),HARD AND FAST (61A. *Inviolable, as rules),IN THE OFFING (11D. *Likely to happen) and CHOCK A BLOCK (25D. *Jammed) are the interrelated group of this Tuesday crossword. LEND-LEASE (8D. War aid program passed by Congress in 1941) and REBEL ARMY(33D. Insurgent group) are the other long entries, followed by two of seven letters, ADSPEAK (4D. Marketers’ “language”),LESS FAT (47D. Healthful claim on labels), and six of six -- ALLIES(58A. They’re on your side);ARTHRO (49D. Joint: Prefix), INHALE (28A. Take a breath);NO NO NO (10D. “That is completely the wrong way!”), PLACID (20A. Even-tempered); 50A. VIENNA Boys’ Choir. Five-letter entries dominate the crossword -- ANNIE(7D. Photographer Leibovitz);ANTIS(52D. Nay sayers); ARENT (36D. Ain’t right?); AWARE (48A. Clued in); BLASS (55D. Bill of fashion);CEDAR (1A. Moth-repellent closet material); ELUDE (14A. Get around); ENERO (15A. First month in Mexico) and ECONO (30A. Commercial prefix meaning “low price”); ILIED (46A. Coming-clean declaration);INLET (57A. Entrance to a bay) and INTEL (24D. Big chipmaker);NAMES (68A. May and June, but not July); NOELS (27A. Christmas carols); OHYES (70A. “But of course!”); OLDIE (54D. Any Beatles tune, now); OTHER (21A. Last choice on a questionnaire); RAMIS (67A. Harold who directed “Groundhog Day”); SABER (51A. Cousin of a foil); SIGMA (51D. Summation symbol); STARS (13D. Roster at the Oscars); STOKE (32A. Add fuel to, as a fire); TADAS (37D. Triumphant cries); TALON (6A. Osprey’s claw); TEACH (6D. Show the ropes); VISTA (23D. Scene from a summit); VOWEL (12D. One of five different ones in “sequoia”). Short stuff -- AAH, ABIE, ALKA, AMS, ASK, AWEE, CASE, CEL, CPI and EPI, DUO, EAR, ELO, FRA, GTO, IFAT, IVS, LED, LOBE, MIC, NOT, ORO, REAP, REEL, SEE, SGTS, SHEL, TEC, TONI, TSA and TWA, VEIN, VICE, XII.Way hay and up she rises, early in the morning!
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Remaining clues -- Across: 11. E.R. hookups; 16. “Just kidding!”; 19. Old “Up, up and away” carrier; 23. Nasty habit; 26. Silverstein of children’s literature; 33. Harvest; 35. “___ first you don’t succeed …”; 38. Sleuth, slangily; 42. Monk’s title; 43. ___-Seltzer; 45. Irish Rose’s beau; 46. Coming-clean declaration; 53. Bottom of a 40-Down; 56. Three-stripers: Abbr.; 60. Bygone muscle car; 66. Abbr. on an input jack; 69. “___ and ye shall receive”. Down: 1. Animation frame; 2. “Evil Woman” band, for short; 3. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, e.g.; 9. Conquistador’s quest; 18. Private eye’s project; 22. Collette of “The Sixth Sense”; 29. Set the pace; 31. Cost-of-living stat.; 34. Prefix with center or cycle; 41. Noon, on a sundial; 44. Bide-___; 50. Blood line; 59. ___ Krabappel of “The Simpsons”; 62. “That feels so-o-o good!”; 63. Morning hrs.; 64. Visit with; 65. Luggage inspection org.
----------------- Monday, September 28, 2009 Puzzle by Lynn Lempel, edited by Will Shortz Synonymy with failure in the guises of bomb, bust, dud, flop, turkey and perhaps tank comprises the interrelated group of this Monday gloom-and-doom crossword -- COLD TURKEY(17A. Abrupt way to quit),MILK DUD(40A. Chocolaty morsel munched at movies),CHERRY BOMB (63A. Round, red firecracker),DRUG BUST (11D. Narc’s raid);FLIP FLOP (39D. Beach wear) and maybe/maybe notTANK TOP (26D. Close-fitting sleeveless shirt). On top of it all, CRAP (16A. Losing roll in a casino) and RESIGN (67A. Quit one’s job) render this beginning-of-the-week puzzle even DIRER (18D. More grim)! Seven-letter entries include ACROBAT(10D. Circus performer); ITALICS (44D. Type for book titles); RAMADAN (22D. Month-long Islamic observance) and ZAMBEZI (31D. Africa’s fourth-longest river and site of Victoria Falls). Six-letter -- ADLIBS(43A. Talks off the cuff); ALINES (59A. Flared skirts);APEMEN (51D. Tarzan and kin); AZALEA (15A. Relative of a rhododendron);BATSIN (36A. Brings home for a score); ELOISE (2D. Fictional girl at the Plaza Hotel); GEEZER (8D. Old, crotchety guy); JOSHES (48D. Teases playfully);LISBON (52D. Portugal’s capital); MILLER (3D. Arthur who wrote “Death of a Salesman”); OILIER (20A. More greasy); RATON (34A. Betray by blabbing);RAWEGG (4A. Nog ingredient); RECOUP (1D. Get back, as lost money); SONORA (50D. Mexican state on the Gulf of California); USOPEN (70A. Annual tennis championship in Queens, N.Y.). Five -- ABBOT(27A. Monk’s superior); AZURE (5D. Color of a picture-postcard sky); FLIES (57a. Gets around like Superman); LAPAZ(53A. Bolivian capital);MAUVE (33A. Purplish); 49A. NASAL congestion); PEREZ (30A. Actress Rosie of “Do the Right Thing”); SAHIB (46D. Form of address in British India);SARGE (55D. Beetle Bailey’s boss); TUNAS (45A. Bluefin and albacore); UNITE (47A. Join forces); ZEROG (21A. State of weightlessness, as in space). Short stuff -- ADDS, ALL, ALPS, ANN, BLOC, BUN, DAD, DUET, ECRU, EDNA, ELI and ELK, ESO, ETTE, GAYE, HOPI, JOE, LYNN, MALI, MBA, OAR, OPTS, OVID, RATE, RAUL, REF, REM and REO, RIP, RUDY, SPY, TDS, TENS, “TIS better to have loved and lost …”,TOOL, USER and the WARof 1812.Ah, a paean to the pain of FAILURE!
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Remaining clues -- Across: 1. Sleep stage, for short; 10. Opposite of subtracts; 14. The “E” in 68-Across; 23. Consumer; 24. Suffix with cigar; 32. Boat rower; 37. B-ball official; 42. N.F.L. six-pointers; 48. V.P. Biden; 54. Chooses, with “for”; 56. Southwest Indian; 61. Saharan country south of Algeria; 66. Political coalition; 68. Classic car inits.; 69. High points of a European trip?; 71. Advice columnist Landers. Down: 4. Label G or PG, e.g.; 6. ___ of 1812; 7. Antlered animal; 9. Marvin of Motown; 12. Mom’s mate; 13. Nathan Hale, notably; 25. Hammer or saw; 28. Roman love poet; 29. Fives and ___; 35. “___ better to have loved and lost …”; 36. Hot dog holder; 37. Fidel Castro’s brother; 38. “Giant” writer Ferber; 41. Performing pair; 58. Light brown; 60. One of the Redgrave sisters; 61. Degree for a C.E.O.; 62. Entirely; 64. That, south of the border; 65. ___ Van Winkle.
Americans need to wake up to the fact that the Israelis, US, UK and France continue to try to manipulate world media and world opinion regarding Iran. They are knowingly lying to achieve that end.
I met Dr. ElBaradei and his wife one Saturday morning in Vienna and we had a long talk. He is the Director General of the IAEA, the non-proliferation watch dog of the UN. The IAEA is based in Vienna Austria.
Fact: Iran has absolutely no nuclear weapons program. The CIA has known that all along, but lies are the operative word of the day, every day, at the CIA, DoD and our federal government.
Fact: It is the CIA that is waging a covert war of terrorism, provocation and attempts at internal disruption. That is happening right now in the Baluchistan province of Iran where the IPI Pipeline it being built connecting Iran oil and natural gas supplies to Pakistan and India.
Fact: There are greedy interests in the UK and US that want to be the ones selling oil and natural gas to Pakistan and India, via their yet to be achieved 'pipeline dream' of Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the ocean.
Fact: The easiest route from Turkmenistan to the ocean is across IRAN, but then the US and UK would have to eat crow and change their policies.
Fact: The IAEA has inspected the Iran facilities on multiple occasions, even surprise inspections, and no evidence whatsoever has been found of any nuclear weapons program.
Fact: Iran has the world's second largest known reserves of uranium. As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the absolute right to build nuclear generation plants to make electricity to power their economy. Problem is Israel does not want any nation in the Middle East to be prosperous and have modern infrastructure and economies.
This is why Iraq had to be destroyed according to Zionist Jew Neocon Edward Luttwak, stated in 1991 before Desert Storm:
"Saddam is not like the Saudi Princes who spend the bulk of their lives outside of their country, and who fritter away the Kingdom's oil profits on prostitutes and bottles of champagne in Paris. No, Saddam is building railways! Creating electrical networks! Highways and other important elements of a serious State infrastructure! After eights years of war against the Iranian regime of Khomeini, he desperately needs to demobilize his Republican Guard, which incorporates so many of this technical elite, in order to rebuild the war-devastated country. These people are his technicians, his engineers. If they are put to work in the way Saddam wishes, they will rapidly make Iraq the most advanced power in the region, and we cannot allow this to happen."
That was in my email update December 5, 2005 titled 'Enemies Within Our Gates' and was also cited in the book "Neoconned".
Fact: They even have the absolute right to enrich and use their own uranium for peaceful purposes.
Fact: Certain parties in the US and UK do not want Iran to process uranium and sell it to India and other nations to power their nuclear electrical plants. That would cut into the monopoly (and profits generated by same) that the US and UK have on the enrichment and sale of enriched uranium to generate electricity.
It is all about control, profiteering, not a non-existent Iran nuclear weapons program.
Fact: Now we have Robert Gates pushing a lie that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. Never, not once, has the DoD admitted that on one side they are planning for war and on the other side the CIA is trying to create the excuse through lies just like they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I find such media manipulation from the French to be quite disgusting, since it was that nation that aided Israel with nuclear technology so it could become a rogue nuclear weapon possessing nation. Israel has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and actually uses its possession of nuclear warheads to extort other nations, including the US.
What Israel could not get from the French, they stole nuclear weapons technology from the US with insider help within our government and certain US DOE labs.
I find Secretary of Defense Robert Gates knowingly lying about the matter to be equally despicable.
Fact: The US lied about Afghanistan and they lied about Iraq. Now they are lying about Iran but the greedy elite thugs of the UK and US do not control or profit from the vast oil, natural gas and uranium reserves that Iran has. That is the problem.
Fact: Certain greedy elite want to be the ones to profit from the sale of those Iranian assets, just like they are trying to do in their grand fiascos in Afghanistan and Iraq. That is their objective with their latest wave of lies.
Fact: If you have never read about such, the Rense website has had a US Air Force paper posted for years so people can read the ugly truth about Israel. If you have never read it, take to time to learn how a 'shitty little nation' is actually a nuclear terrorist and blackmail artist to get their way in the Middle East.
http://www.rense.com/general35/isrnuk.htm
Fact: During the Bush Administration the CIA intentionally, willfully, and with intent to entrap, tried to sneak fake NUCLEAR WEAPON PLANS TO IRAN.
By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer| January 04, 2006
WASHINGTON - In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency. But the Iranians were tipped to the scheme by the Russian defector hired by the CIA to deliver the plans and may have gleaned scientific information useful for designing a bomb, writes New York Times reporter James Risen in "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."
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'CIA ignored facts on nuclear weapon plans'
By Joby Warrick Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service
Published: July 02, 2008, 00:08
Washington -- A former CIA operative, who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons programmes, now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended work on a nuclear bomb. The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by CIA from using his real name, filed a motion in federal court late on Friday asking the government to declassify legal documents describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to agency views at the time. The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that CIA fired him after he repeatedly clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional wisdom about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the Middle East.
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Fact: Anyone in the CIA that dares to report that IRAN DOES NOT HAVE ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM are drummed out of the CIA and then attacked to discredit them.
Fact: The US government thinks nothing at all about such things a 'baiting', lying, manipulation of intelligence and the truth and even ENTRAPMENT. Even many of the 'terrorists' that have been arrested since 9-11-2001 were instances that the CIA or FBI were literally the sellers of bomb making equipment and then trumpeting about what a great job they are doing defending America.
If one follows the media regarding Iran, the lies, the constant misstatement of facts, just like Afghanistan and Iraq, it is apparent that they are trying to manipulate and stage another armed robbery of the Iranian people just like they have done to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Wake up America. These idiots in DC think America can afford endless wars and no, we as a nation cannot.
“A Whole Lot Like Déjà Vu” Congressman Paul presents a balanced view of the Iranian nuclear program while pointing out who really benefits from the administration’s more-of-the-same foreign policy.
Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has accused the US, Britain, and France of deceiving the international community over their nuclear programs.
In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh rejected remarks by President Barack Obama of US, British Premier Gordon Brown, and Nicolas Sarkozy of France over Iran's nuclear program.
The three leaders earlier attacked the Islamic Republic over its second under-construction enrichment facility, located 100 kilometers south of Tehran, calling it a "deception."
"I categorically reject that there have been any concealment or any deception," Soltaniyeh said on Saturday.
IAEA Safeguards Agreements declared that Iran is only obliged to inform the UN nuclear watchdog of the existence of enrichment plants 180 days before the introduction of nuclear materials into the facility.
The Iranian envoy noted that he gave a letter to the agency on September 21 and informed the deputy general, elaborating that its new plant would be operational in about 540 days.
He added that there were no obligations to inform the IAEA sooner, according to the agency's document 153.
"It is a pity that none of these three leaders have legal advisers to inform them that according to comprehensive safeguards we are only obliged to inform six months before we put nuclear material."
"This site does not have any nuclear material at all now," according to Iran's representative to the IAEA.
"The problem is that we are the victim of negligence of those who claim that they know in fact the international law. They are talking in the UN but they are not aware of the very principles of the Statue of the IAEA."
Soltaniyeh also clarified that Washington, London, and Paris deceive the people around the world by violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty articles.
"Those three countries in fact have violated for the last 40 years NPT articles."
"The United Kingdom has under secret program of the nuclear submarines so-called trident with over 30 billion pounds and the people of the world and even the British people are not well aware of that. This is a real deception that Mr. Brown has to answer the international community because this is a shocking threat to the international peace and security.
"France is also working on the nuclear weapon programs continuously."
"Americans are working hard on the nuclear weapon posture review. These are all deceptions and concealment."
The western countries have a "long-term strategy" and a "hidden agenda" to "destroy and jeopardize the spirit of cooperation between Iran and the IAEA in order to find an excuse and pretext for sanctions and other measures," Soltaniyeh concluded. PressTV
Obama, Sarkozy and Brown's Iran Nuclear Speech at G-20 Summit :
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning. We are here to announce that yesterday in Vienna, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France presented detailed evidence to the IAEA demonstrating that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years.
Earlier this week, the Iranian government presented a letter to the IAEA that made reference to a new enrichment facility, years after they had started its construction. The existence of this facility underscores Iran’s continuing unwillingness to meet its obligations under U.N. Security Council resolutions and IAEA requirements. We expect the IAEA to immediately investigate this disturbing information, and to report to the IAEA Board of Governors.
Now, Iran’s decision to build yet another nuclear facility without notifying the IAEA represents a direct challenge to the basic compact at the center of the non-proliferation regime. These rules are clear: All nations have the right to peaceful nuclear energy; those nations with nuclear weapons must move towards disarmament; those nations without nuclear weapons must forsake them. That compact has largely held for decades, keeping the world far safer and more secure. And that compact depends on all nations living up to their responsibilities.
This site deepens a growing concern that Iran is refusing to live up to those international responsibilities, including specifically revealing all nuclear-related activities. As the international community knows, this is not the first time that Iran has concealed information about its nuclear program. Iran has a right to peaceful nuclear power that meets the energy needs of its people. But the size and configuration of this facility is inconsistent with a peaceful program. Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow — endangering the global non-proliferation regime, denying its own people access to the opportunity they deserve, and threatening the stability and security of the region and the world.
It is time for Iran to act immediately to restore the confidence of the international community by fulfilling its international obligations. We remain committed to serious, meaningful engagement with Iran to address the nuclear issue through the P5-plus-1 negotiations. Through this dialogue, we are committed to demonstrating that international law is not an empty promise; that obligations must be kept; and that treaties will be enforced.
And that’s why there’s a sense of urgency about the upcoming meeting on October 1st between Iran, the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, and Germany. At that meeting, Iran must be prepared to cooperate fully and comprehensively with the IAEA to take concrete steps to create confidence and transparency in its nuclear program and to demonstrate that it is committed to establishing its peaceful intentions through meaningful dialogue and concrete actions.
To put it simply: Iran must comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions and make clear it is willing to meet its responsibilities as a member of the community of nations. We have offered Iran a clear path toward greater international integration if it lives up to its obligations, and that offer stands. But the Iranian government must now demonstrate through deeds its peaceful intentions or be held accountable to international standards and international law.
I should point out that although the United Kingdom, France, and the United States made the presentation to Vienna, that Germany, a member of the P5-plus-1, and Chancellor Merkel in particular, who could not be here this morning, wished to associate herself with these remarks.
I would now like to turn to President Sarkozy of France for a brief statement.
PRESIDENT SARKOZY: (As translated.) Ladies and gentlemen, we have met yesterday for a meeting — a summit meeting of the Security Council on disarmament and nuclear disarmament. I repeated my conviction that Iran was taking the international community on a dangerous path. I have recalled all the attempts that we have made to offer a negotiated solution to the Iranian leaders without any success, which what has been revealed today is exceptional. Following the enriching plant of Natanz in 2002, it is now the Qom one which is revealed. It was designed and built over the past several years in direct violation of resolutions from the Security Council and from the IAEA. I am expecting from the IAEA an exhaustive, strict, and rigorous investigation, as President Obama just said.
We were already in a very severe confidence crisis. We are now faced with a challenge, a challenge made to the entire international communities. The six will meet with the Iranian representatives in Geneva. Everything — everything must be put on the table now.
We cannot let the Iranian leaders gain time while the motors are running. If by December there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders, sanctions will have to be taken. This is for the peace and stability. Thank you.
PRIME MINISTER BROWN: America, the United Kingdom, and France are at one. Iran’s nuclear program is the most urgent proliferation challenge that the world faces today.
As President Obama and President Sarkozy have just said, the level of deception by the Iranian government, and the scale of what we believe is the breach of international commitments, will shock and anger the whole international community, and it will harden our resolve.
Confronted by the serial deception of many years, the international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand. On October the 1st, Iran must now engage with the international community and join the international community as a partner. If it does not do so, it will be further isolated.
And I say on behalf of the United Kingdom today, we will not let this matter rest. And we are prepared to implement further and more stringent sanctions.
Let the message that goes out to the world be absolutely clear: that Iran must abandon any military ambitions for its nuclear program. Thank you.
Judge Richard Goldstone, the head of a United Nations commission that this week charged Israel with committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during its offensive there last winter, believes bringing war criminals to justice stems from the lessons of the Holocaust, according to a lecture he delivered in Israel in 2000.
Goldstone spoke about the subject at Jerusalem's Yakar: Center for Tradition and Creativity, at a lecture attended by former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak. The Israeli jurist introduced Goldstone as "a dear friend" with "very deep ties to Israel." Goldstone, in turn, said Barak was his hero and inspiration.
In the lecture, concerning international efforts to bring war criminals to justice, Goldstone said the Holocaust has shaped legal protocol on war, adding that it was "the worst war crime in the world."
He also said the perception of war crimes against humanity should resonate differently to Jewish ears, in light of how the Holocaust shaped conventions relevant to the subject.
Goldstone added that as a jurist, he viewed the Holocaust as a unique occurrence because of how it affected judicial protocol on war, as well as international and humanitarian judicial approaches.
The laws that had been in place before the Holocaust were not equipped to deal with crimes of the Holocaust's scale and therefore sought to define a new crime, which they labeled a crime against humanity, he said.
These crimes were so great, he explained, they went beyond their direct victims or the countries in which they were perpetrated, to harm humanity as a whole. This definition, he said, meant that perpetrators were to be prosecuted anywhere, by any country.
This rational, he went on to say, constituted the basis for the concept of universal jurisdiction, which is being applied by some countries where Israel Defense Forces officers are charged for alleged violations during their command in the West Bank and Gaza.
The formative event of the universal jurisdiction concept, Goldstone told listeners, was the trial that Israel gave the high-ranking Nazi officer Adolf Eichman in 1961.
The international tribunals that judged Serbian war criminals for their actions in Bosnia, and the establishment of tribunals to review the actions of perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide - in which South Africa-born Goldstone served as chief prosecutor - also relied on lessons drawn from the Holocaust, he said at the lecture.
He noted that no similar courts were set up to look into the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia in the '70s or Saddam Hussein's acts against Iraqi Kurds.
The first time such tribunals were set up were for Bosnia, Goldtone said, because this was the first time after the Holocaust that such occurrences happened in "Europe's backyard." The war in Bosnia led to the formation of tribunals on crimes against humanity, he said, because European men with "blue eyes and light skin" again carried out actions similar to those observed in the Holocaust.
Israel, he added, was one of the first countries to support the formation of permanent court of law for crimes against humanity - a proposal that came up following the successful performance of the special tribunals on Bosnia.
However, that changed, he said, after Egypt insisted at the Rome conference that the mandate of this permanent court include occupied territories. This prompted Israel to join the six other countries that voted against the formation of the International Court of Justice, including the United States, China and Libya.
American and Israeli military planners have been examining options for an attack on Iran for almost three decades. There is no shortage of possible targets: Iran has dozens of nuclear-related sites that are known to western officials.
Yet military experts in Washington and Tel Aviv acknowledge that a surprise airstrike would be likely to succeed only in delaying Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. It would also present daunting logistical and political challenges with no guarantee that even a sustained assault on known facilities would eradicate Tehran’s nuclear threat.
With President Barack Obama committed to diplomatic pressure, the most likely military scenarios involve Israeli airstrikes that would require mid-air refuelling and long flights through potentially hostile Arab air space. “Anyone who meets regularly with senior Israeli officials knows that Israel is considering military options ... with an understanding that they pose serious problems and risks,” said Anthony Cordesman, a former Pentagon planner.
The three likeliest targets for an Israeli attack are reactors at Bushehr and Arak and a centrifuge production facility at Natanz. All are 1,000 miles or more from Israel, at the outer operating margins of Israeli air force bombers.
The Bushehr light water reactor is being built and fuelled by Russia and is not yet operational. Any attack on it would be certain to infuriate Moscow and might provoke the Russians into supplying Iran with more advanced anti-aircraft defences.
The heavy water reactor at Arak has been at least partially sheltered from air attack and is not expected to be completed for several years.
The Natanz facilities have also been sheltered underground and are defended by short-range Russian TOR-M surfaceto-air missiles.
The Israeli air force is equipped with US-supplied GBU-28 earth-penetrating bombs designed to destroy underground targets. Israel may also have developed its own variant of a nuclear-tipped bunker-busting bomb.
Yet the real problem for military planners is that no outside agency has a clear idea of where else Iran may have hidden its weapons-related technologies, notably the long-range missiles that might one day deliver nuclear warheads.
“It is doubtful that even the US knows all the potential targets,” said Cordesman. “They may now be in too many places for an Israeli strike to destroy Iran’s capabilities.”
US experts believe that while Israel unquestionably has the military capability — and may have the political will — to mount a long-range attack, it could not sustain the kind of long-term barrage that Washington launched against Baghdad in the early phases of two Gulf wars.
The diplomatic uproar that would be certain to follow any Israeli attack might limit Tel Aviv to a one-off operation that it could never hope to repeat. “That would not be on the scale required to do more than delay parts of the Iranian programme,” said Cordesman.
Only if America joined in would Iran have reason to worry. There is no immediate likelihood of a US military strike; but there are still some in Tel Aviv who believe that an Israeli raid might force Obama’s hand and persuade the Pentagon to join the attack.
Bone with bullet hole found by Russians in 1946 came from an unknown woman, not the German leader
A general view of what Russian officials claim to be a fragment of Adolf Hitler's skull, at an exhibition in Moscow, Wed April 26, 2000. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP
In countless biographies of Adolf Hitler the story of his final hours is recounted in the traditional version: committing suicide with Eva Braun, he took a cyanide pill and then shot himself on 30 April 1945, as the Russians bombarded Berlin.
Some historians expressed doubt that the Führer had shot himself, speculating that accounts of Hitler's death had been embellished to present his suicide in a suitably heroic light. But a fragment of skull, complete with bullet hole, which was taken from the bunker by the Russians and displayed in Moscow in 2000, appeared to settle the argument.
Until now. In the wake of new revelations, the histories of Hitler's death may need to be rewritten – and left open-ended. American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment, secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence, belonged to a woman under 40, whose identity is unknown. DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler's Escape, astonished scientists.
According to Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni, it was clear from the outset that something was amiss. "The bone seemed very thin; male bone tends to be more robust," he said. "And the sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40." In April 1945 Hitler turned 56.
Bellantoni had flown to Moscow to inspect the gruesome Hitler trophies at the State Archive, which included the skull fragment as well as bloodstains from the bunker sofa on which Hitler and Braun were believed to have committed suicide. He was allowed only one hour with the Hitler trove, during which time he applied cotton swabs and took DNA samples. "I had the reference photos the Soviets took of the sofa in 1945 and I was seeing the exact same stains on the fragments of wood and fabric in front of me, so I knew I was working with the real thing."
The samples were then flown back to Connecticut. At the university's centre for applied genetics, Linda Strausbaugh closed her lab for three days to work exclusively on the Hitler project. "We used the same routines and controls that would have been used in a crime lab," she said. To her surprise, a small amount of viable DNA was extracted. She then replicated this through a process known as molecular copying to provide enough material for analysis. "We were very lucky to get a reading, despite the limited amount of genetic information," she said.
The result was extraordinary. According to witnesses, the bodies of Hitler and Braun had been wrapped in blankets and carried to the garden just outside the Berlin bunker, placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol and set ablaze.
But the skull fragment the Russians dug up outside the Führerbunker in 1946 could never have belonged to Hitler. The skull DNA was incontestably female. The only positive physical proof that Hitler had shot himself had suddenly been rendered worthless. The result is a mystery reopened and, for conspiracy theorists the tantalising possibility that Hitler did not die in the bunker.
For decades after the war the fate of Hitler's corpse was shrouded in secrecy. No picture or film was made public. As the Soviet Army secured control of Berlin in May 1945, Russian forensic specialists under the command of the counterintelligence unit Smersh (an acronym for "Death to Spies") dug up what was presumed to be the dictator's body outside the bunker and performed a post-mortem examination behind closed doors. A part of the skull was absent, presumably blown away by Hitler's suicide shot, but what remained of his jaw coincided with his dental records, a fact reportedly confirmed when the Russians showed his surviving dental work to the captured assistants of Hitler's dentist. The autopsy also reported that Hitler, as had been rumoured, had only one testicle.
But Stalin remained suspicious. In 1946 a second secret mission was dispatched to Berlin. In the same crater from which Hitler's body had been recovered, the new team found what it believed was the missing skull fragment with a bullet exit wound through it. The Russians also took fragments of Hitler's bloodstained sofa.
Even this failed to satisfy Stalin, who clamped a secrecy order on all matters related to Hitler's death. Unknown to the world, Hitler's corpse was interred at a Smersh centre in Magdeburg, East Germany. There it remained long after Stalin's death in 1953. Finally, in 1970, the KGB dug up the corpse, cremated it and secretly scattered the ashes in a river. Only the jawbone, the skull fragment and the bloodstained sofa segments were preserved in the deep archives of Soviet intelligence. The bunker was destroyed in 1947 and eventually paved over. Then, in 2000, the Russian State Archive in Moscow staged an exhibition, The Agony of the Third Reich. The skull fragment was displayed, but only photographs of Hitler's jawbone were on view. The head of the archive, Sergei Mironenko, said he had no doubt the skull fragment was authentic. "It is not just some bone we found in the street, but a fragment of a skull that was found in a hole where Hitler's body had been buried," he said.
In the wake of Bellantoni and Strausbaugh's findings, Mironenko's confidence was clearly misplaced. But could the fragment of skull belong to Eva Braun, who died at 33 and was laid alongside her beloved Führer in the same crater? "We know the skull corresponds to a woman between the ages of 20 and 40," said Bellantoni, but he is sceptical about the Braun thesis. "There is no report of Eva Braun having shot herself or having been shot afterwards. It could be anyone. Many people were killed around the bunker area."
Sixty-four years later, the world is still in the dark about what really happened in Hitler's bunker on 30 April 1945.
Uki Goñi is author of The Real Odessa (Granta), about the escape of Nazi war criminals from Europe
ACROSTIC, Puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, edited by Will Shortz
Barbara Wallraff is a weekly syndicated columnist for King Features and a contributing editor and words columnist at The Atlantic Monthly, where she has worked since 1983. She is the author of the nationally best-selling book "Word Court," "Your Own Words," and "Word Fugitives."
The quotation: WORDS EXIST TO DESCRIBE ALL SORTS OF IDEAS CONSIDER MISNOMER A WRONG OR UNSUITABLE NAME MNEMONIC A DEVICE SUCH ASA FORMULA OR RHYME TO ASSIST MEMORY MUMBO JUMBO GIBBERISH AND MYTACISM EXCESSIVE USE OF THE LETTER M
The author’s name and the title of the work: BARBARA WALLRAFF WORD COURT
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