Sunday, October 28, 2007

IranianRadio - Your Radio! :: View topic - Holocaust Miniseries on Iranian TV

This story illustrates the complexity of Iranian society, and the many and conflicting levels at which they can see things -- they don't think like we do, and our administration has to realize this to deal with Iran effectively.
IranianRadio - Your Radio! :: View topic - Holocaust Miniseries on Iranian TV

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The Clinton Death Cult

The following conspiracy theory email was sent to me by a friend. OK, it could be just the imagination of a "right wing conspiracy", in Hillary's words, but can one also ask whether, "where there is smoke, isn't there usually fire?" How may people do YOU know who have died mysteriously or tragically? Forty seven dead Clinton friends or interested parties, and counting...

"Strange that with Clinton buddies crowding various morgues with suicide(?) gunshot wounds to the back of the head, bodies splattered around parkway poles and doing Superman out of windows, the liberal press has found nothing strange about all of this gruesome business. Check out these facts yourself and be aware that the Mena Airport in Arkansas was a major drug entry point for Central American drug cartels. Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas during its heyday. Wonder who's next?"
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Victims with ties to the Clinton's


>> Norman Hsu’s life isn’t worth a dime. He’ll die while in prison and never have a chance to testify…
>>
>> Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what has happened to many friends of the Clintons.
>>
>> 1-James McDougal - Clinton's convicted Whitewater partner died of an
>> apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key
>> witness in Ken Starr's investigation.
>>
>> 2 -Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a
>> Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown .. The murder happened just after she
>> was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.
>>
>> 3- Vince Foster - Former White House counselor and colleague of Hillary
>> Clinton at Little Rock's Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide by the world famous DC Park Police. They are famous for catching those who don't pick up their dogs poop. The suicide weapon was found 10 feet from Foster's body.
>>
>> 4- Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to
>> have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the
>> investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull
>> resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being
>> investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with
>> prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days
>> later the air Traffic controller committed suicide.
>>
>> 5- C. Victor Raiser II- Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund-
>> raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992
>>
>> 6-Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director found
>> dead in a hotel room in Little Rock , September 1992. Described by
>> Clinton as a "Dear friend and trusted advisor".
>>
>> 7-Ed Willey - Clinton fund raiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the
>> woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey
>> died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped
>> her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in
>> several Clinton fund raising events.
>>
>> 8-Jerry Parks -Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little
>> Rock. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little
>> Rock. Park's son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.
>>
>> 9-James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had
>> a "Black Book" of people which contained names of influential people who
>> visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas ..
>>
>> 10-James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging
>> suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater.
>>
>> 11-Kathy Ferguson- Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found
>> dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was
>> ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if
>> she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with
>> Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Kathy Ferguson was a possible
>> corroborating witness for Paula Jones.
>>
>> 12-Bill Shelton - Arkansas State Trooper and fiance of Kathy Ferguson.
>> Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiance, he was found dead in June,
>> 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his
>> fiance.
>>
>> 13-Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton's friend Dan Lassater, died by
>> jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a
>> convicted drug distributor.
>>
>> 14-Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related
>> to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. He died of three
>> gunshot wounds.
>>
>> 15- Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was
>> Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the
>> head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.
>>
>> 16-Paula Grober - Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978
>> until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one car accident.
>>
>> 17-Danny Casolaro - Investigative reporter. Investigating Mena Airport
>> and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists,
>> apparently, in the middle of his investigation.
>>
>> 18- Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with
>> Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June
>> 22, 1993 in his Washington DC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet
>> Reno 3 weeks before his death.
>>
>> 19-Jon Parnell Walker - Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust
>> Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment
>> balcony August 15, 1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty
>> scandal.
>>
>> 20-Barbara Wise - Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron
>> Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown Died November 29, 1996.
>> Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department
>> of Commerce.
>>
>> 21-Charles Meissner -Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang
>> special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane
>> crash.
>>
>> 22-Dr. Stanley Heard - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care
>> Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane
>> crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton's advisory council
>> personally treated Clinton's mother, stepfather and brother.
>>
>> 23-Barry Seal -Drug running pilot out of Mena Arkansas , death was no
>> accident.
>>
>> 24-Johnny Lawhorn Jr. - Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton
>> in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after
>> his car had hit a utility pole.
>>
>> 25-Stanley Huggins - Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a
>> purported suicide and his report was never released.
>>
>> 26- Hershell Friday - Attorney and Clinton fund raiser died March 1, 1994
>> when his plane exploded.
>>
>> 27-Kevin Ives & Don Henry - Known as "The boys on the track" case.
>> Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport
>> drug operation. A controversial case, the initial report of death said,
>> due to falling asleep on railroad tracks. Later reports claim the 2 boys
>> had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case
>> died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury.
>>
>> THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:
>>
>> 28-Keith Cone y - Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a
>> truck, 7/88.
>>
>> 29-Keith McMaskle - Died stabbed 113 times, Nov, 1988
>>
>> 30-Gregory Collins - Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.
>>
>> 31-Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump
>> in April 1989.
>>
>> 33-James Milan - Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death
>> was due to "natural causes".
>>
>> 34-Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death in the front seat of his
>> pickup truck in June 1990.
>>
>> 35-Richard Winters - A suspect in the Ives / Henry deaths. He was killed
>> in a set-up robbery July 1989.
>>
>> THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD:
>> 36 -Major William S. Barkley Jr.
>> 37-Captain Scott J . Reynolds
>> 38-Sgt. Brian Hanley
>> 39-Sgt. Tim Sabel
>> 40-Major General William Robertson
>> 41-Col. William Densberger
>> 42-Col. Robert Kelly
>> 43-Spec. Gary Rhodes
>> 44-Steve Willis
>> 45-Robert Williams
>> 46-Conway LeBleu
>> 47-Todd McKeehan
>>
>> Quite a list. Pass it on. The public should be aware of what has happened to 'friends' of the Clintons.

>>
>>
>> HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT?

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Friday, October 05, 2007

Palestinians divided over future under Hamas - Independent Online Edition > Middle East

Palestinians divided over future under Hamas - Independent Online Edition > Middle East: "Asked a routine question about the 2006 Palestinian elections yesterday, Khaled abu Ahmed slipped off his sandal and used it to beat his head several times to demonstrate his remorse for voting Hamas. 'We wanted change and reform,' he said. 'We thought they would bring prosperity. We thought they were people who knew God. But, believe me, they don't know God.' He was standing outside his white goods shop in al Khawaja street, where the first intifada famously began 20 years ago and where the yellow flags of Fatah have recently begun to flutter obtrusively above many of the houses. Before the elections and the subsequent international boycott, he said, he used to make between £1,200 and £1,400 a month. Now, he said, thanks to closures and two years of only sporadic payments to public employees, he is lucky to make £25. 'People have no money to buy anything,' he said, pointing to the street's many shuttered shops. 'We have been occupied by the Turks, the British, and the Egyptians,' he added, his voice rising rapidly. 'We were occupied by Fatah and now we are occupied by Hamas. And the best of these occupations was by the Jews".

Iranian Military in a Panic--Now is the Time for Some Creative Statecraft by the US

SILENCE IN SYRIA, PANIC IN IRAN



If the following article has it half-correct (and suspect it does), now is the time for some creative statecraft by the US to disarm the Iranians and prevent a massive war. Statecraft is only successful when the threat of the "stick" is a real threat, and it may be today. The question: does this administration have the skills to accomplish anything in that regard? One caution -- while the Iranian military may be nervous the question is whether the fanatical ruling Iranian leadership is nervous, and are they nervous enough for their political survival to be concerned about possible combat between the less politically reliable regular military, and the Revolutionary Guard. Keep an eye out for that one -- more than once in human history has a purportedly de-fanged military come in, on a wave of popular support, to save a nation from its political leadership... We have heard a lot about the Iranian regime's political crackdown on civil society in recent months (surely a sign of nervousness and weakness) but haven't heard much about what is happening in their military (good reporting, Western press).

Iranian Military in a Panic



Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler

Wednesday, 19 September 2007


One of India's top ranking generals assigned to liaise with the Iranian military recently returned to New Delhi from several days in Tehran - in a state of complete amazement.

"Everyone in the government and military can only talk of one thing," he reports. "No matter who I talked to, all they could do was ask me, over and over again, 'Do you think the Americans will attack us?' 'When will the Americans attack us?' 'Will the Americans attack us in a joint operation with the Israelis?' How massive will the attack be?' on and on, endlessly. The Iranians are in a state of total panic."

And that was before September 6. Since then, it's panic-squared in Tehran. The mullahs are freaking out in fear. Why? Because of the silence in Syria.

On September 6, Israeli Air Force F-15 and F-16s conducted a devastating attack on targets deep i nside Syria near the city of Dayr az-Zawr. Israel's military censors have muzzled the Israeli media, enforcing an extraordinary silence about the identity of the targets. Massive speculation in the world press has followed, such as Brett Stephens' Osirak II? in yesterday's (9/18) Wall St. Journal.

Stephens and most everyone else have missed the real story. It is not Israel's silence that "speaks volumes" as he claims, but Syria's. Why would the Syrian government be so tight-lipped about an act of war perpetrated on their soil?

The first half of the answer lies in this story that appeared in the Israeli media last month (8/13): Syria's Antiaircraft System Most Advanced In World. Syria has gone on a profligate buying spree, spending vast sums on Russian systems, "considered the cutting edge in aircraft interception technology."

Syria now "possesses the most crowded antiaircraft system in the world," with "more than 200 antiaircraft batteries of different types," some of which are so new that they have been installed in Syria "before being introduced into Russian operation service."

While you're digesting that, take a look at the map of Syria:

syria_map

Notice how far away Dayr az-Zawr is from Israel. An F15/16 attack there is not a tiptoe across the border, but a deep, deep penetration of Syrian airspace. And guess what happened with the Russian super-hyper-sophisticated cutting edge antiaircraft missile batteries when that penetration took place on September 6 th.

Nothing.

El blanko. Silence. The systems didn't even light up, gave no indication whatever of any detection of enemy aircraft invading Syrian airspace, zip, zero, nada. The Israelis (with a little techie assistance from us) blinded the Russkie antiaircraft systems so completely the Syrians didn't even know they were blinded.

Now you see why the Syrians have been scared speechless. They thought they were protected - at enormous expense - only to discover they are defenseless. As in naked.

Thus the Great Iranian Freak-Out - for this means Iran is just as nakedly defenseless as Syria. I can tell you that there are a lot of folks in the Kirya (IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv) and the Pentagon right now who are really enjoying the mullahs' predicament. Let's face it: scaring the terror masters in Tehran out of their wits is fun.

It' s so much fun, in fact, that an attack destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and the Revolutionary Guard command/control centers has been delayed, so that France (under new management) can get in on the fun too.

On Sunday (9/16), Sarkozy's foreign minister Bernard Kouchner announced that "France should prepare for the possibility of war over Iran's nuclear program."

All of this has caused Tehran to respond with maniacal threats. On Monday (9/17), a government website proclaimed that "600 Shihab-3 missiles" will be fired at targets in Israel in response to an attack upon Iran by the US/Israel. This was followed by Iranian deputy air force chief Gen. Mohammad Alavi announcing today (9/19) that "we will attack their (Israeli) territory with our fighter bombers as a response to any attack."

A sure sign of panic is to make a threat that everyone knows is a bluff. So our and Tel Aviv's response to Iranian bluster is a thank-you-for-sharing yawn and a laugh. Few things rattle the mullahs' cages more than a yawn and a laugh.

Yet no matter how much fun this sport with the mullahs is, it is also deadly serious. The pressure build-up on Iran is getting enormous. Something is going to blow and soon. The hope is that the blow-up will be internal, that the regime will implode from within.

But make no mistake: an all-out full regime take-out air assault upon Iran is coming if that hope doesn't materialize within the next 60 to 90 days. The Sept. 6 attack on Syria was the shot across Iran's bow.

So - what was attacked near Dayr az-Zawr? It's possible it was North Korean "nuclear material" recently shipped to Syria, i.e., stuff to make radioactively "dirty" warheads, but nothing to make a real nuke with as the Norks don't have real nukes (see Why North Korea's Nuke Test Is Such Good News , October 2006).

Another possibility is it was to take out a stockpile of long-range Zilzal surface-to-surface missiles recently shipped from Iran for an attack on Israel.

A third is it was a hit on the stockpile of Saddam's chemical/bio weapons snuck out of Iraq and into Syria for safekeeping before the US invasion of April 2003.

But the identity of the target is not the story - for the primary point of the attack was not to destroy that target. It was to shut down Syria's Russian air defense system during the attack . Doing so made the attack an incredible success.

Syria is shamed and silent. Iran is freaking out in panic. Defenseless enemies are fun.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

The New L-Word: Neocon - New York Times

"what's a Neocon? A Liberal mugged by reality." Almost sounds like one of Joel's book titles.

Great op-ed by a guy I don't usually agree with, Roger Cohen, who argues that the attack on neocons has made it impossible for liberals to ever support military intervention for the greater good. If this is how liberals thought in 1941, g-d forbid, what would have become of the world? This might be the greatest long-term damage of the Iraq invasion...

Op-ed Excerpt:

"Neocon has morphed into an all-purpose insult for anyone who still believes that American power is inextricable from global stability and still thinks the muscular anti-totalitarian U.S. interventionism that brought down Slobodan Milosevic has a place, and still argues, like Christopher Hitchens, that ousting Saddam Hussein put the United States “on the right side of history... the term, in these Walt-Mearsheimered days, often denotes more than that. Neocon, for many, has become shorthand for neocon-Zionist conspiracy, whatever that may be, although probably involving some combination of plans to exploit Iraqi oil, bomb Iran and apply U.S. power to Israel’s benefit."

The New L-Word: Neocon - New York Times