Letters to the Editor
thelastnamechosen
Published Letters: 161
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More FARA
[Read the article: More on Zelikow, the BGR firm and Allawi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Another interesting thing in BGR's FARA disclosure is the representation that Allawi is not financed or subsidized by a foreign government, political party or other foreign principal.
This representation is made on 8/20/07.
Since Allawi was "paid salaries and benefits worth about $120,000" (1) as a member of the Iraqi parliament, and he apparently did not resign that position until 8/24/07 at the earliest (2), this representation by BGR seems to be false. And this does not take into account any other funding Allawi is receiving.
On a side note, I get the feeling that the ascension of Allawi is seen as necessary for an upcoming attack on Iran.
(1) http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0124-11.htm
(2) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR2007082401449.html?hpid=topnews
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The FARA faucet
[Read the article: More on Zelikow, the BGR firm and Allawi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to the FARA filing for the six month period ending Nov. 30, 2006, Zelikow was one of the lucky ones in the State Department to meet with BGR and be lobbied on behalf of the Kurds.
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/links/search.html
(search for Barbour under registrant name)
I want to emphasize again that Zelikow problem is not one of conflict of interest, it is the potential legal problem of not registering to lobby for foreign agents that carries criminal penalties.
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The Burning Bed
[Read the article: More on Zelikow, the BGR firm and Allawi]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Analysts: Lobbyists Must Name Allawi's Backer
DC Lobbying Firm's Initial Statements to Justice Dept. Inaccurate, Incomplete
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/4114/subscriptions/splash.html
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Is this real-world or exercise?
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The administration is consciously cheering for another attack on our country. Any argument for incompetence must at least take into account the unconscious, sublimated desire for an attack to be successful.
NewLeft,
While everything you listed is intriguing in one way or another, I've basically resigned myself to the consession that nothing involving the hard stuff (WTC implosions, scrap sent to India, etc.) will ever be satisfactorily proven by the 9/11 Truth community. If anything, I'd say that much of the list you presented consists of red herrings to distract from the big picture - the geopolitics behind 9/11.
Very well said.
1) That no reasonable explanation has ever ben given for the failure of the world's most expensive national defense system - and no high-profile punishments for that failure were ever handed out.
I am betting you know this, but I think it is still worth highlighting--
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/08/norad200608?printable=true¤tPage=all
There was a training exercise on 9/11 with simulated highjackings and fake radar data inserted into the NORAD control room.
Powell's question—"Is this real-world or exercise?"—is heard nearly verbatim over and over on the tapes as troops funnel onto the ops floor and are briefed about the hijacking. Powell, like almost everyone in the room, first assumes the phone call is from the simulations team on hand to send "inputs"—simulated scenarios—into play for the day's training exercise.
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"When they told me there was a hijack, my first reaction was 'Somebody started the exercise early,'" Nasypany later told me. The day's exercise was designed to run a range of scenarios, including a "traditional" simulated hijack in which politically motivated perpetrators commandeer an aircraft, land on a Cuba-like island, and seek asylum. "I actually said out loud, 'The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour,'" Nasypany recalled.
A coincidence so large that even the most hackneyed hollywood writer would reject it as not believable. Whether this is evidence of a government plot or a high level Al-Qaeda spy in the government, I don't know, but the truth makes even the most outrageous conspiracy theory seem unimaginative.
On a side note, nabalzbbfr is the fucking best--serious high art.
That was just a sign. Also a foretaste of the Rapture. That's why most of the bodies weren't found.
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NORAD
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]NewLeft,
While I am not yet convinced of their authenticity, you may be interested in what purports to be 120 hours of just released raw audio from NORAD.
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10975
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Genesis: What a piece of work is man
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Although no one has asked, and at the risk of interrupting the always productive controlled demolition debate, especially when it has turned to metaphor, (I like brown sugar and a rare NY strip--run with that if you want) this is what really bothers me about the NORAD exercises on 9/11.
It is just plain shit stupid to insert fake data into our air defenses for the purpose of a test because we are left extremely vulnerable in case of a real attack.
While it may be important to find out who can cut it when they think we are in a real emergency, and this might seem like a good way to figure this out, that is not what they did.
They told everyone that this was to be an exercise.
So what we end up with is data that could have been gleaned from a simulator, with our air defenses compromised by extraneous information and the casual attitude that comes with knowing a fake threat is going to appear.
While I would never attribute malice to the author of the aphorism, "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence", I would offer this:
"Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence."
I am off to grill my steak with thermite.
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WT
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I will have to decline the Nobel prize, like everything else I offer it has been stolen. In my own defense, the true measure of a thief is not what he takes but what he leaves behind.
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Lowenbrau
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Totally harsh, bordering on trolling and I am loving every minute of it.
Enjoy Mark in a press photo from his stint in the band "Cartel"
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8075/1150/1600/Cartel2.jpg
He pictured in the back-left (who am kidding, you can't miss him)
You cannot make this shit up. My sides hurt...