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Saturday, December 30, 2006

The Death of Saddam Hussein


30 December 2006
Cryptome


Video of preparation of Saddam hanging

Unedited Saddam Hussein Execution, taken by a cell phone (graphic)

Video of Saddam dead

Captions and Photos by Associated Press

This video image released by the Biladi TV stations, which are affiliated with the Dawa party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. appears to show the body of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein wrapped in a white shroud following his execution Saturday Dec. 30. 2006. Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen after a quarter-century of remorseless brutality that killed countless thousands and led Iraq into disastrous wars against the United States and Iran. (AP Photo/BILADI TV)

This video image released by Iraqi state television shows Saddam Hussein's guards wearing ski masks and placing a noose around the deposed leader's neck moments before his execution Saturday Dec. 30. 2006. Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen after a quarter-century of remorseless brutality that killed countless thousands and led Iraq into disastrous wars against the United States and Iran. (AP Photo/IRAQI TV, HO)

Source Cryptome:
http://cryptome.org/hang/hang-saddam.htm
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A Dictator Created
Then Destroyed by America


By Robert Fisk
The Independent UK
December 30, 2006


Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a "great day" for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi "government", but on behalf of the Americans - on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.

But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?

No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don't gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn't invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.

In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent - we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam's shame at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created.

Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability.

And the mass killings we perpetrated in 2003 with our depleted uranium shells and our "bunker buster" bombs and our phosphorous, the murderous post-invasion sieges of Fallujah and Najaf, the hell-disaster of anarchy we unleashed on the Iraqi population in the aftermath of our "victory" - our "mission accomplished" - who will be found guilty of this? Such expiation as we might expect will come, no doubt, in the self-serving memoirs of Blair and Bush, written in comfortable and wealthy retirement.

Hours before Saddam's death sentence, his family - his first wife, Sajida, and Saddam's daughter and their other relatives - had given up hope.

"Whatever could be done has been done - we can only wait for time to take its course," one of them said last night. But Saddam knew, and had already announced his own "martyrdom": he was still the president of Iraq and he would die for Iraq. All condemned men face a decision: to die with a last, grovelling plea for mercy or to die with whatever dignity they can wrap around themselves in their last hours on earth. His last trial appearance - that wan smile that spread over the mass-murderer's face - showed us which path Saddam intended to walk to the noose.

I have catalogued his monstrous crimes over the years. I have talked to the Kurdish survivors of Halabja and the Shia who rose up against the dictator at our request in 1991 and who were betrayed by us - and whose comrades, in their tens of thousands, along with their wives, were hanged like thrushes by Saddam's executioners.

I have walked round the execution chamber of Abu Ghraib - only months, it later transpired, after we had been using the same prison for a few tortures and killings of our own - and I have watched Iraqis pull thousands of their dead relatives from the mass graves of Hilla. One of them has a newly-inserted artificial hip and a medical identification number on his arm. He had been taken directly from hospital to his place of execution. Like Donald Rumsfeld, I have even shaken the dictator's soft, damp hand. Yet the old war criminal finished his days in power writing romantic novels.

It was my colleague, Tom Friedman - now a messianic columnist for The New York Times - who perfectly caught Saddam's character just before the 2003 invasion: Saddam was, he wrote, "part Don Corleone, part Donald Duck". And, in this unique definition, Friedman caught the horror of all dictators; their sadistic attraction and the grotesque, unbelievable nature of their barbarity.

But that is not how the Arab world will see him. At first, those who suffered from Saddam's cruelty will welcome his execution. Hundreds wanted to pull the hangman's lever. So will many other Kurds and Shia outside Iraq welcome his end. But they - and millions of other Muslims - will remember how he was informed of his death sentence at the dawn of the Eid al-Adha feast, which recalls the would-be sacrifice by Abraham, of his son, a commemoration which even the ghastly Saddam cynically used to celebrate by releasing prisoners from his jails. "Handed over to the Iraqi authorities," he may have been before his death. But his execution will go down - correctly - as an American affair and time will add its false but lasting gloss to all this - that the West destroyed an Arab leader who no longer obeyed his orders from Washington, that, for all his wrongdoing (and this will be the terrible get-out for Arab historians, this shaving away of his crimes) Saddam died a "martyr" to the will of the new "Crusaders".

When he was captured in November of 2003, the insurgency against American troops increased in ferocity. After his death, it will redouble in intensity again. Freed from the remotest possibility of Saddam's return by his execution, the West's enemies in Iraq have no reason to fear the return of his Baathist regime. Osama bin Laden will certainly rejoice, along with Bush and Blair. And there's a thought. So many crimes avenged.

But we will have got away with it.

Source:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece
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Friday, December 29, 2006

Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq


By Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writer
December 28, 2006


Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration.

In a four-hour conversation at his house in Beaver Creek, Colo., Ford "very strongly" disagreed with the current president's justifications for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously. In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice President Cheney -- Ford's White House chief of staff -- and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his Pentagon chief.

"Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do."

In a conversation that veered between the current realities of a war in the Middle East and the old complexities of the war in Vietnam whose bitter end he presided over as president, Ford took issue with the notion of the United States entering a conflict in service of the idea of spreading democracy.

"Well, I can understand the theory of wanting to free people," Ford said, referring to Bush's assertion that the United States has a "duty to free people." But the former president said he was skeptical "whether you can detach that from the obligation number one, of what's in our national interest." He added: "And I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security."

The Ford interview -- and a subsequent lengthy conversation in 2005 -- took place for a future book project, though he said his comments could be published at any time after his death. In the sessions, Ford fondly recalled his close working relationship with key Bush advisers Cheney and Rumsfeld while expressing concern about the policies they pursued in more recent years.

"He was an excellent chief of staff. First class," Ford said. "But I think Cheney has become much more pugnacious" as vice president. He said he agreed with former secretary of state Colin L. Powell's assertion that Cheney developed a "fever" about the threat of terrorism and Iraq. "I think that's probably true."

Describing his own preferred policy toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Ford said he would not have gone to war, based on the publicly available information at the time, and would have worked harder to find an alternative. "I don't think, if I had been president, on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly," he said, "I don't think I would have ordered the Iraq war. I would have maximized our effort through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever, to find another answer."

Ford had faced his own military crisis -- not a war he started like Bush, but one he had to figure out how to end. In many ways those decisions framed his short presidency -- in the difficult calculations about how to pull out of Vietnam and the challenging players who shaped policy on the war. Most challenging of all, as Ford recalled, was Henry A. Kissinger, who was both secretary of state and national security adviser and had what Ford said was "the thinnest skin of any public figure I ever knew."

"I think he was a super secretary of state," Ford said, "but Henry in his mind never made a mistake, so whatever policies there were that he implemented, in retrospect he would defend."

In 1975, Ford decided to relieve Kissinger of his national security title. "Why Nixon gave Henry both secretary of state and head of the NSC, I never understood," Ford said. "Except he was a great supporter of Kissinger. Period." But Ford viewed Kissinger's dual roles as a conflict of interest that weakened the administration's ability to fully air policy debates. "They were supposed to check on one another."

That same year, Ford also decided to fire Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger and replace him with Rumsfeld, who was then Ford's White House chief of staff. Ford recalled that he then used that decision to go to Kissinger and say, "I'm making a change at the secretary of defense, and I expect you to be a team player and work with me on this" by giving up the post of security adviser.

Kissinger was not happy. "Mr. President, the press will misunderstand this," Ford recalled Kissinger telling him. "They'll write that I'm being demoted by taking away half of my job." But Ford made the changes, elevating the deputy national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, to take Kissinger's White House post.

Throughout this maneuvering, Ford said, he kept his White House chief of staff in the dark. "I didn't consult with Rumsfeld. And knowing Don, he probably resented the fact that I didn't get his advice, which I didn't," Ford said. "I made the decision on my own."

Kissinger remained a challenge for Ford. He regularly threatened to resign, the former president recalled. "Over the weekend, any one of 50 weekends, the press would be all over him, giving him unshirted hell. Monday morning he would come in and say, 'I'm offering my resignation.' Just between Henry and me. And I would literally hold his hand. 'Now, Henry, you've got the nation's future in your hands and you can't leave us now.' Henry publicly was a gruff, hard-nosed, German-born diplomat, but he had the thinnest skin of any public figure I ever knew."

Ford added, "Any criticism in the press drove him crazy." Kissinger would come in and say: "I've got to resign. I can't stand this kind of unfair criticism." Such threats were routine, Ford said. "I often thought, maybe I should say: 'Okay, Henry. Goodbye,' " Ford said, laughing. "But I never got around to that."

At one point, Ford recalled Kissinger, his chief Vietnam policymaker, as "coy." Then he added, Kissinger is a "wonderful person. Dear friend. First-class secretary of state. But Henry always protected his own flanks."

Ford was also critical of his own actions during the interviews. He recalled, for example, his unsuccessful 1976 campaign to remain in office, when he was under enormous pressure to dump Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller from the Republican ticket. Some polls at the time showed that up to 25 percent of Republicans, especially those from the South, would not vote for Ford if Rockefeller, a New Yorker from the liberal wing of the Republican Party, was on the ticket.

When Rockefeller offered to be dropped from the ticket, Ford took him up on it. But he later regretted it. The decision to dump the loyal Rockefeller, he said, was "an act of cowardice on my part."

In the end, though, it was Vietnam and the legacy of the retreat he presided over that troubled Ford. After Saigon fell in 1975 and the United States evacuated from Vietnam, Ford was often labeled the only American president to lose a war. The label always rankled.

"Well," he said, "I was mad as hell, to be honest with you, but I never publicly admitted it."

Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701558.html
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Ohio Lawmakers
Gut Consumer Rights


Sheryl Harris
Plain Dealer Columnist
December 17, 2006


Ohio's legislature has swindled the state's consumers.

Last week, lame-duck members of the House and the Senate waved goodbye to us with one hand and yanked away our consumer rights with the other. In a single day, they tore the heart from the state's 30-year-old Consumer Sales Practices Act and crippled the state's tough new predatory-lending law before it even went into effect.

Why?

Lobbyists representing car dealers told them that a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision would open the floodgates of litigation and allow consumers to line their pockets with court winnings.

What the Supreme Court actually did was knock down a rogue court of appeals decision that said defrauded consumers couldn't sue for noneconomic damages.

The Supreme Court simply said that lower courts were acting within the law when they awarded triple damages for stress and humiliation to consumers who proved they were victims of deceptive or unconscionable sales tactics.

This is something the law has allowed for the last 30 years.

The floodgate rusted open a long time ago, and there never was a flood.

Most businesses simply aren't out there defrauding people.

But a few do.

The damage provisions of the Consumer Sales Practices Act are aimed at them.

So couples tricked into predatory loans can sue for the humiliation of losing their homes to foreclosure.

So senior citizens ripped off by fly-by-night contractors can be compensated for the anguish of dealing with shoddy repairs.

So customers who are cheated on car lots have recourse.

But the legislature didn't listen to any of those folks.

Nope, in a spectacular display of arrogance and cynicism, it arranged this whole thing so the public wouldn't realize it had been swindled out of both the Sales Practices Act and the predatory-lending law until the deed was done.

Here's how the legislature pulled it off: At the last minute, a House committee rewrote an unrelated bill that had already passed the Senate, ensuring there would be no public hearings.

The rewrite could simply fly through the House for a vote and then back to the eagerly waiting Senate for a quick concurrence vote.

When Attorney General Jim Petro dispatched an attorney to the Statehouse, testimony in hand, to defend the existing law, he was invited to sit down and shut up. And then House Speaker Jon Husted had the audacity to say that Petro "wasn't part of the debate."

"He didn't sit through the hearings, so he doesn't know what he's talking about," Husted said.

There was no debate for Petro - the public official charged with enforcing the Sales Practices Act - to be part of.

Or any of the rest of us.

Thanks to the legislature, non- economic damages will be capped at $5,000.

A court won't be able to triple that figure - as it can now - to teach fraudulent businesses a lesson.

Our fate rests in the hands of Gov. Bob Taft.

Unless he vetoes Substitute Senate Bill 117 within 10 days after it hits his desk, it will become law.

Urge Taft to use his veto. Call him at 614-644-4357.

E-mail him through
http://governor.ohio.gov/contactinfopage.asp

Democracy shouldn't be a shell game.

To contact Sheryl Harris call 216-999-6344 or sherylharris@plaind.com

Source:
http://tinyurl.com/tshxq
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Monday, December 25, 2006

The Influence of Fly Agaric
on the Iconography of
Father Christmas


'SHROOMS, URINE, AND SANTA CLAUSE


Most people are familiar with the traditional image of Father Christmas (aka Santa Claus). The 1823 poem of Major Henry Livingston Jr, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'1 crystallized this image, and countless Christmas cards reinforced it. Father Christmas appears as a rather plump, white-bearded old man, dressed in red clothing with white buttons and trimmings. Such imagery also frequently depicts him:

Flying through the air.

Flying through the air in or on a sleigh, pulled by reindeer.

Delivering children's presents down a chimney.

Although an advertising campaign by the Coca Cola Company in the 1930s made this image of Father Christmas almost universal, it was fairly ubiquitous by the late 19th Century. With an expansion of global exploration in Victorian times, travellers returned home from visiting the Sami of Lapland2 with the story of flying reindeer, spreading the tale all over central Europe.

The question arises; does some underlying connection pull all these characteristics together into a coherent synthesis? Perhaps...

Flying Reindeer

Although the Johnny Marks hit song, 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' popularized the link between reindeer and Father Christmas in 1949, the association of reindeer with Christmas was already well established. For example, centuries before the development of the legend of Father Christmas, English texts from the Renaissance mention reindeer antlers being displayed during Christmas festivities.

The first reference in print connecting Santa Claus and reindeer appears in the 1823 poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' by Major Henry Livingston Jr (the famous 'Twas the Night Before Christmas').

Reindeer are a kind of deer found in the cold regions of Europe and North America (locally referred to as 'caribou'). They feed on grass and lichens, but also have a taste for the fly agaric toadstool, Amanita muscaria, because of its intoxicating and euphoric effects. Amanita muscaria is found in pine and birch woods of western North America, northern Europe, and Asia.

The Sami have a custom of feeding fly agaric to their deer and collecting the urine to drink. The reindeer's digestive system metabolizes the more poisonous components of the toadstool, leaving urine with the hallucinogenic and psychotropic elements of the fungus intact. Drinking the urine gives a high' similar to taking LSD. Under the hallucinatory effects of the drink, the Sami thought their reindeer were flying through space, looking down on the world. The reindeers' liking for the toadstool hallucinogens are such that they, in turn, have been known to eat the snow on which intoxicated humans have urinated, creating a reciprocating cycle.

When the first missionaries reached Lapland they heard stories of such reindeer flight, and integrated those tales into the existing Christmas folklore of Western cultures concerning Saint Nicholas.

Red and White Clothing

The word 'toadstool' refers to poisonous or inedible mushrooms. The Amanita muscaria toadstool, instantly recognizable for its brilliant scarlet cap with white warts, has long been used in the rituals of certain Asian societies. This use has arisen due to the psychotropic and hallucinogenic compounds contained within the toadstool. Ingestion leads to 'expanded perception', macropsia (perceiving objects as enlarged)3, rapid heartbeat, dry mouth, and the belief that one could talk directly with one's god. It is no accident that fly agaric toadstools often appear in books of fairy tales.

Fly agaric is a source of the hallucinogenic components ibotenic acid (an amino acid) and muscimol. Ibotenic acid, only present in fresh mushrooms, has insecticidal properties4. When dried, ibotenic acid degrades (decarboxylates) into muscimol5, which has ten times the potency. Taken orally, Ibotenic acid is entheogenically active6 at 50-100 mg, whilst muscimol displays activity at 10-15 mg.

The shamans7 of Siberia use Amanita muscaria for recreational or ritualistic purposes. They use a dried preparation called 'mukhomor' to speak to their gods. These people, the Kamchadales and the Koryaks, eat between one and three dried mushrooms. They believe that smaller mushrooms and those with a large quantity of small warts are more active than pale red ones and ones with fewer spots. The Koryak women chew the sun-dried agaric and roll the product into small sausages, which the men swallow. The Koryaks also eat the flesh of slaughtered reindeer which have recently eaten fly agaric, but whose psychotropic condition has subsided. In a similar fashion to the Sami, the Siberians discovered that their urine contained the active principle of the fungi and they could consume this recycled product with less of the undesirable poisonous effects of the raw toadstool.

During a mushroom-induced trance, the shaman would start to twitch and sweat before falling into a deep coma-like sleep. During his coma, the shaman's soul left his body as an animal and flew to the 'other world' where it communicated with the spirits. The shaman hoped these spirits could help him deal with major problems, such as outbreaks of sickness in the village, by
imparting medical knowledge from the gods.

On awaking, the shaman found their muscular systems had been so stimulated that they were able to perform spectacular physical feats with seemingly little effort - such as making a gigantic leap to clear a small obstacle. The effect on animals was the same, and a 'bemushroomed' 8 reindeer traditionally guarded each shaman.

The poorer classes, who could not afford the time to gather the toadstools, would drink the urine of the better-off, collected in bowls or skin bags. Evidence suggests the drug's hallucinogens remained effective even having passed through five or six people, and some scholars maintain that this is the true origin of the expression 'to get pissed' - rather than having anything to do with alcohol intoxication 9.

The fly agaric may have been one of the earliest entheogens, that is hallucinogenic substances used for religious or shamanic purposes. Such use dates back as much as 10,000 years. The oldest archaeological evidence discovered so far of mushroom use by man exists as an image in a cave in Tassili, Algeria. The image dates back to 3500BC and depicts the mushrooms with electrified auras outlining dancing shamans.

Furthermore, the fly agaric has appeared for a long time as a popular image on Christmas cards in central Europe. In Kocevye, in southern Yugoslavia, folklore tells of the Germanic god, Wotan (the king of the gods, synonymous with the Norse god, Odin) who rides on horseback through the woods on Christmas night, pursued by devils. Red and white flecks of blood and foam spray from the horse's mouth to the ground, where fly agaric toadstools emerge in the following year.

Climbing Down the Chimney Bearing Gifts

Siberian shamans live in tepee-like structures made of reindeer skin, called yurts, with a roof supported by a birch pole and a smokehole at the top. At the midwinter festivals of Annual Renewal, the shaman gathers the fly agaric from under sacred trees. Interestingly, whilst harvesting the toadstools, the shaman wears special attire, consisting of red and white fur-trimmed coats and long black boots ie, very much like the modern day depiction of Santa Claus. He then enters his yurt through the smokehole, carrying a sack full of dried fly agaric, and descends the birch pole to the floor. Once inside, the shaman performs his ceremonies and shares out the toadstool's gifts with those gathered inside. Following this, he leaves up the pole and back through the smokehole.

It is interesting to note that, in central Europe, the fly agaric has been adopted as the symbol of chimney sweeps.

St Nicholas

Saint Nicholas is a legendary figure who supposedly lived during the 4th Century. He is best known as the patron saint of children, to whom he brings presents on the eve of his feast day, 6th December.

Most religious historians now agree that St Nicholas never actually existed, but was instead a Christianized amalgam of the historical bishops, Nicholas of Myra (4th Century) and Nicholas of Sion (d. 564) together with a number of pagan gods including the Teutonic god, Hold Nickar, corresponding to the Greek god, Poseidon. Legend tells that Hold Nickar galloped through the sky during the winter solstice, granting favours to his worshippers below.

St Nicholas is associated with a number of miracles, but it is the following one that integrates him into the legend of Santa Claus:

There was a nobleman who had three daughters, and who had fallen on hard times. As the nobleman could not afford their dowries his daughters had little prospect of marriage; and so they faced a life of prostitution. St. Nicholas heard of this and, one night, threw a sack of gold through a window of the nobleman's castle. The sack contained enough gold to provide for one
daughter's marriage. The next night he tossed another sack of gold through the window for the second daughter. But, on the third night the window was closed, so St. Nicholas dropped the third sack of gold down the chimney. On hearing of this, townsfolk began hanging stockings by the fireplace at night to collect any gold that might come their way.

So also was born the tradition of the Christmas stocking and Santa arriving down the chimney.

The early Christians soon incorporated these traditions and folklore into their own 'Holy Day'. Many images of Saint Nicholas from these early times show him wearing the red and white robes of bishops of the Roman Catholic church or standing in front of a red background with white spots, the design of the Amanita mushroom.

It would appear that around 1300AD, imagery of St Nicholas fused with the pagan god Wotan. Wotan rode an eight-legged white horse, Sleipnir, through the night skies, his long white beard blowing in the wind. Prior to this time, Saint Nicholas was depicted as having a dark beard.

In 1823, Major Henry Livingston published his 'Twas the Night Before Christmas...' poem in which the connection between Santa Claus and reindeer appeared for the first time. Here, eight reindeer pulled a white-bearded Santa Claus in a sleigh. Livingston based his ideas on popular views of Christmas based mainly on his knowledge of diverse customs involving St Nicholas, brought to the area by Dutch, German and Scandinavian immigrants. Perhaps the eight reindeer echo Wotan's eight-legged steed.

And to All a Good Night


In summary, it seems quite possible that the traditional image of Father Christmas, described in Livingston's poem and universalised by the Coca Cola Company during the 1930s, has its real origins in shamanistic rituals involving the red and white fly agaric toadstool. From climbing into
chimneys and gift giving, to dressing in red and white and flying through the air with reindeers, travellers and storytellers have fused these ancient customs with other pagan traditions and imagery. As is the wont of Christianity, these pagan customs have pragmatically been adapted and integrated into our Christmas traditions.


1 Attributed until recently to the author and scholar Clement Clarke Moore.
2 One of the oldest indigenous cultures in the world.
3 This is almost certainly the origin of the episode in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) where Alice eats a mushroom, one side of which makes her grow very tall, while the other makes her very small.
4 People once chopped the toadstool up and floated pieces in milk to attract, intoxicate and kill flies. Hence, the name 'fly agaric'.
5 Ibotenic acid is alpha-amino3-hydroxy-5-isoxazole acetic acid. This is decarboxylated to form muscimol (3-hydroxy-5-aminomethyl isoxazole).
6 Capable of inducing an altered state of consciousness.
7 Village holy men.
8 Word coined by the ethnomycologist, Robert Gordon Wasson, to describe the state of mushroom intoxication.
9 Indeed, urine-drinking activity preceded alcohol consumption by thousands of years.

Source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A6084218
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Federal Reserve Board
Impedes The Wanta Plan


Bernanke Defies The US Treasury & The American People, New 'Marshall Plan For America' Sabotaged By The Fed


Indy Media
7-20-2006


The Federal Reserve Board, a private corporation owned mainly by foreign interests dominated by Germany, is dubiously blocking the [opening small] crediting of $4.5 trillion of repatriated offshore funds that were transferred into the United States in May and June 2006, in fulfillment of an agreement reached last year between the US authorities and the US financial engineering genius, Leo Wanta, which would transform the financial and economic outlook for the US Treasury, the US economy, the American people, and the whole world.

In so doing, the Federal Reserve, which under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 [H.R. 3723]* "protecting proprietary economic information, and for other purposes", is not even entitled to knowledge of the agreements and intended transactions, is in breach of a large number of statutes ­ rendering the Fed's Chairman, Dr Ben Bernanke, an American of German extraction, and senior Fed officers, liable to severe consequences, not excluding being picked up in front of TV cameras by Federal Marshals.

At the G-8 Meeting in St Petersburg, one subject dominated the discussions behind-the-scenes: The Wanta Plan. This is the new name for the long-awaited Settlement with Leo Wanta, the distinguished US Treasury/Secret Service financial genius chosen by President Reagan to develop and implement financial strategies for the transformation [ahem, the financial destruction] of the USSR under Gorbachëv.

[The origins of the money was a U.S. state terrorism cache that has been illegally held from being repatriated--and it was siphoned off to help only the Clinton and Bush families demolish the U.S. instead. Wanta however still is fighting for its repatriation, which would change the U.S. and global financial arrangements overnight. With interest, the billions for it have become mega-trillions sitting there, legally U.S. Treasury money property all this while. The treasonous network called the Federal Reserve wants to keep this saving of America--and the world economy--from happening.]

Under a revised agreement reached with the White House and the US Treasury, finalised in November 2005 and signed in December, Leo Wanta, the Trustor of giga-funds raised internationally and held offshore, agreed to implement a financial strategy to rehabilitate the finances of the US Federal Government.

The Wanta Plan is of greater relative importance, by an order of magnitude, even than the Marshall Plan, under which war-torn Europe was rehabilitated in the later 1940s.

PROSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA'S PROSPECTS

For as soon as it is implemented, the US Treasury/Internal Revenue Service, will begin to receive a stream of 'windfall' funds organised by Leo Wanta's AmeriTrust Group. Inc. which will result in the transformation of the American Government's underlying debt posiition ­ while at the same time delivering a profound and lasting shot-in-the-arm to the US economy that will reverberate around the world.

The agreement provides for the prepayment of taxes to the US Treasury, at the rate of 35% of the $4.5 trillion, equating to $1,575,000,000,000, together with prepayment of taxation to the State of Virginia at 6%, amounting to some $270,000,000,000. In addition, Leo Wanta has put mechanisms in place for the further generation of corporation tax deposits payable to the US Treasury Department/Internal Revenue Service of about $96 billion per banking day. Because of financing transactions which will consequently be carried out by other US financial institutions, estimated total windfall accruals to the US Treasury are likely to exceed $200 billion per banking day, from the moment of start-up. This is now running nearly three months late.

Furthermore, the Republican Party (undeservedly, but as a matter of fact) will be empowered to enter the forthcoming election seasons with promises of tax cuts, which could even include the outright abolition of Inheritance Tax ('the death tax'), and reductions in both income and corporation taxes, depending on the timeframe officially decided upon. Policymakers will need to weigh the paying-down of the $8.6 trillion of Federal debt ­ as reported by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ­ against obvious political priorities, including prospective tax cuts across-the-board.

MARKET DISTURBANCES REFLECTED TRANSFER OF THE $4.5 TRILLION

Under the Wanta Plan, $4.5 trillion of off-balance sheet offshore funds were transferred to the United States in May and June, so as to fulfil the obligations entered into last December. This represents just a fraction of the aggregate value of the so-called 'Global Security Fund', consisting of off-balance sheet USG funds originally worth $27.5 trillion raised from 200+ international banks to finance the 'management' of the 'post-Cold War' environment.

The accumulated value of these funds, held offshore in bank accounts linked to Title 18, Section 6 US Government intelligence corporations established under President Reagan's Executive Order 12333, is now believed to exceed $70 trillion.

The original $27.5 trillion was raised from the 200+ banks at a deep discount for 20 years at 7.5% per annum.

President Reagan is asserted by British intelligence sources to have been poisoned with a pathogen that is capable of reproducing Alzheimer's disease, developed in Germany or the United States by heirs of Himmler's scientists. The purpose would have been to ensure that Reagan could never recall any of his instructions or undertakings while President, should the crooks be exposed ­ as is happening 'as we speak'.

COMPROMISE SO THAT EVERYONE 'CAN MOVE ON'

The Wanta Plan represents a compromise arrangement which will facilitate the transfer of originally off-balance sheet funds, onto the US Treasury's books and the generation of further taxable transactions ­ enabling the Treasury to pay down debt, while at the same time freeing up funding resources for an unprecedented boost to the US economy, attainable through tax reductions, infrastructure projects and programmes to address some of the intractable problems facing the American people.

It also provides the compromise context for a veil to be drawn over rampant past financial corruption embroiling both the corrupt intelligence cadres and the compromised banks. If this window of compromise is closed, all concerned will be vulnerable to systematic exposure, and worse, without future let or hindrance.

For the alternative to The Wanta Plan would be the repatriation of the full $70 trillion worth of financial assets held in US Government corporate accounts abroad, some of which has been stolen by corrupt intelligence operatives and banking sector co-conspirators.

Other components of the funds have been cross-collateralised and otherwise tied up during Leo Wanta's illegal incarceration and confinement [see below]. Hence, certain institutions' continued existence might be jeopardised if the Trustor were to exercise his right to call for 100% disgorgement of the funds and the closure of the corporations and their accounts, as confirmed by US Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on 15th April 2003, in a Memorandum Opinion.

This stated that "Plaintiff's sole remedy in this matter is to proceed with the liquidation of the corporations and report these transactions to the Internal Revenue Service in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code and then challenge the assessment of any taxes in a refund proceeding".

In his compromise accord, Leo Wanta concurred with the transfer of $4.5 trillion, being a fraction of the original $27.5 trillion, and of course a much smaller proportion of the $70 billion, which, as indicated, is the estimated value of these financial assets today.

However the Trustor has made it plain that he will be left with no option but to collect the aggregate $70 trillion if the long-delayed Wanta Plan is not implemented by close of business on Monday 31st July 2006.

Given that the Federal Reserve, which is simply a clearing house, cannot now be trusted to release funds, the resulting USG accruals may have to be stored temporarily offshore until the tensions between the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, which have come into the open as a result of this crisis, have been resolved or the Fed has been nationalised, as most knowledgeable observers now consider to be essential.

Certainly, there is no way that the United States can continue to tolerate its financial affairs being compromised by a private financial institution which British intelligence sources inform International Currency Review is taking orders from Germany, and blocking the new US 'Marshall Plan'.

WANTA FRAMED AND REMOVED TO OBLIVION SO THEY COULD STEAL AND PLAY WITH THE FUNDS


Leo Wanta was illegally arrested in 1993, incarcerated and later released into house arrest for an intended period of 22 years, after he had refused to accommodate illegal demands by two US Presidents for funds held in Title 18, Section 6 offshore USG corporate accounts to be siphoned off into accounts for their personal ultimate benefit ­ and after he had annotated a Federal Reserve print-out which identified $1.0 billion that had been sent by Banco Exterior de Espana, Malaga, Spain, to Banco de Panama, Panama City for credit to 'Pilgrim Investments/Jorge Bush'.

Against this entry, Leo Wanta, who was auditing and checking Federal Reserve records for disbursements of the $27.5 trillion raised in 1989-92 from the 200+ international banks, wrote as follows:

"Acceptance of value by former U.S. President of the United States, George (Jorge) Bush is direct violation of our USA Title 5, Section 7353, et seq: Jim Baker III told me to just "SHUT UP" as I am protected by Rogers Houston Memorandum to "co-operate", but I kept Receipts and Notes".

The complete set of Federal Reserve print-outs showing the disbursements, including amounts that aggregated at least $742.5 billion identified as having been stolen, and authorised by then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Dr Alan Greenspan, were published in International Currency Review, Volume 30, Numbers 2 and 3 [January 2005]. Late last year, Dr Greenspan reportedly obtained lifetime immunity from retiring Supreme Court Judge, Sandra Day O'Connor, but the likelihood is that the document may not provide the former Fed Chairman with the protection he sought.

Experts believe he could still be arrested.

The false arrest, imprisonment and confinement of Leo Wanta, President Reagan's specially selected international financial operative, was intended to have lasted until 2015, beyond the maturity date for the original $27.5 trillion principal. The CIA lied to all and sundry that Leo Wanta was dead ­ thereby giving the green light to corrupt intelligence operatives and their co-conspirator banks to assume that the funds were theirs to exploit and use for their own self-enrichment and funding purposes.

But when Leo Wanta was freed from all illegal restrictions with effect from 14th November 2005 ­ after a large financial payment was made on his behalf on 27th July 2005 to a court in Wisconsin in settlement of illegally charged State taxes and penalties that he did not owe ­ the corrupt elements of the intelligence community and the conniving international banksters, received a collective high-voltage electric shock that reverberated around the world.

For all concerned had accepted the CIA's convenient lie that Leo Wanta was dead, so that the funds would never be claimed. Leo had been framed on trumped-up charges in a conspiracy ordered by President Clinton and illegally implemented without a warrant by the Wisconsin authorities.

When implemented, the Wanta Plan will bring renewed prosperity and untold benefits to the American people, transforming the outlook for the Government's finances, the economy, the dollar, the United States and the whole world. Because of its links to other crucial overdue international financial accords, its final comsummation ­ triggering what is known as a refinancing will transform both the US and the world economies.

GLOBAL FINANCE HOUSES FURIOUS AT THE FED'S OBSTRUCTION

Yet final implementation of The Wanta Plan is being obstructed by a private organisation owned mainly by European interests, known as the Federal Reserve. Dr Greenspan's replacement, Dr Ben Bernanke, was reported on 17th July to be frustrating the consummation of Leo Wanta's international agreement, to the extreme annoyance of Swiss, Chinese, Russian and other foreign parties for whom The Wanta Plan unlocks other related beneficial geofinancial agreements.

The failure of the Federal Reserve to authorise Bank of America, Richmond, VA, the bank holding the transferred funds for the account of Leo Wanta, to credit the repatriated giga-funds to the account there of AmeriTrust Group, Inc., which he controls, is believed to contravene US legislation, rules and regulations, and represents a gross breach of national security, as well as of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 4, 35, 371, 372 and other provisions.

It is difficult to distinguish what the Federal Reserve is up to without reference to the verb "to steal".

The Fed's behaviour also represents a fraud against the United States, the American people, AmeriTrust and Leo Wanta ­ the Trustor of the funds raised in 1989-92 in belated fulfillment of President Reagan's instructions.

Conspiracy to defraud the United States implies the possibility of RICO charges, which can land convicted conspirators with between three and seven times damages.

As uncovered by International Currency Review, the original funds were ransacked by criminal gangs working with foreign intelligence penetrations operating within the US structures, led by successive US Presidents and corrupt US intelligence 'barons' and operatives ­ some of whom have placed their stolen funds with foreign institutions under their own names to escape claims by holders of corporate Powers of Attorney.

In a wide-ranging conversation yesterday with Christopher Story, the Editor of International Currency Review, Leo Wanta stated that the Federal Reserve had illegally provoked what amounts to a massive default. Mr Story believes that the Fed may have ordered the Bank of America to withhold the transfer of the $4.5 trillion into the AmeriTrust Group, Inc. account that was established for the ongoing transactions which are to transform the US Treasury's finances.

Following the rumbling international financial market disturbances induced by liquidity shortages arising from the remittance of the trillions of US dollars required for implementation of The Wanta Plan in May and June ­ factors of which the 'mainstream' media remained curiously ignorant ­ the funds were consolidated and then transferred to an account earmarked for Leo Wanta at the Richmond institution. However, as indicated, they have not been released for use by Leo Wanta's corporation, which owns the funds, AmeriTrust Group, Inc. The corporation is ready, and all the necessary formal documentation and procedures have long since been set up with the Treasury and other parties, for the daily transactions to begin, in line with last December's agreement.

After it had been confirmed on 17th July that the Federal Reserve was holding up consummation of the deal, the Editor of International Currency Review, who has a responsibility to report accurately to the international financial community, emailed the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, as follows:

'I have been informed that The Wanta Plan, a.k.a. the Settlement with Leo Wanta worth $4.5 trillion, agreed with the US Treasury and involving substantial continuing taxation remittances to the US Treasury including a prepayment amount equivalent to 35% of the principal (i.e. $1.6 trillion, viz. $1,575,000,000,000), and $270,000,000,000 by way of 6% tax payable to the State of Virginia, may be being held up by the Federal Reserve. The funds have been repatriated and are known to be available now at a certain US institution. Would you please confirm to me that the situation is as described above, and if so, would you please provide me with the Board's explanation for this apparent interference with the agreement reached with the US Treasury, and for the Board's stance concerning this matter? If the position is not as described, would you kindly provide me with a statement as to the Board's position concerning this matter, so that we may inform our international financial community subscribers accordingly? Thank you for your urgent attention to this enquiry. Christopher Story FRSA, Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review, World Reports Limited, London Office: cstory@worldreports.org'.

As expected, of course, there was no response.

PARALLEL SCAREMONGERING REPORT BY THE ST LOUIS FED

In addition to the fact that the Fed's sabotaging of The Wanta Plan is reportedly illegal, as indicated, the Federal Reserve itself appears to be in a state of confusion, since it is impeding the long-term solution of the US Federal Government's financial problems ­ identified in mid-July by a a component of the Federal Reserve System itself.

Specifically, the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis published a report in mid-July by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff, suggesting that the United States is going bankrupt. This extreme proposition flies in the face of schoolbook economics, which teaches that so long as a sovereign government enjoys a reliable taxation stream, it cannot become bankrupt in the same way as a corporation or an individual.

In a departure from its usual high standard of analysis, the St Louis Fed entered the realm of make-believe, giving publicity to a calculation by Professors Gokhale and Smetters, cited by Professor Kotlikoff, to the effect that a long-term US 'fiscal gap' of $65.9 trillion will open up between all future Government spending and all future receipts (no timeframe).

According to the Office of Management and Budget, the underlying Gross US Federal debt will exceed $11.5 trillion by fiscal year 2011. This, however, fails to take account of the earmarked Budget Trust Fund accruals that are required by law to be 'invested' in the Federal Funds Accounts at the US Treasury, meaning that the earmarked funds are consumed in current and capital spending.

The OMB's Gross Federal debt numbers 'add back' Budget Trust Funds 'held in Federal Government Accounts', being funds earmarked for future welfare and pension obligations which have been spent so that these accruals need to be 'added back' a second time, to yield a true adjusted Gross Federal debt figure which, by 2011, will have reached some $17 trillion.

Even this calculation omits off-off-budget debt, such as that accumulated by the Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), much of which has been obliterated from the OMB's latest data.

Yet these official numbers bear little relationship to the scaremongering calculations suddenly publicised by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis - which 'just happened' to coincide with the time when The Wanta Plan, already delayed by two and a half months, was meant to have gone on-stream.

CALLS FOR THE FEDERAL RESERVE TO BE NATIONALISED

The suspicion has therefore arisen that the privately-owned Fed, the members and foreign shareholders of which thrive in a deficit-financing environment, is sabotaging the bona fide financial and economic rehabilitation agenda of the US Treasury ­ contrary to the interests of the American people.

In 1973, President Kennedy was assassinated after intelligence cadres working within the corrupted and penetrated US intelligence community, became aware that he was intending to abolish the Federal Reserve System and to replace it with a central bank network fully owned by the United States and therefore exclusively loyal to the interests of the American people.

As matters stand, this private corporation, owned mainly by foreigners, is now impeding the will of the US Treasury under its superbly qualified new Secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and is depriving the United States and the American people of the benefits which will accrue following implementation of The Wanta Plan, which was the primary subject of behind-the-scenes discussions in St Petersburg.

If this matter is not resolved, the American people will have every right to demand the nationalisation of the Federal Reserve, the indictment of its senior officers, and the bringing to justice of those office-holders and corrupt intelligence community cadres owing allegiance to foreign powers which appear to be working through the Federal Reserve to frustrate this new 'Marshall Plan for America'.

On the basis of Christopher Story's calculations, given that the original start-up date for The Wanta Plan was the beginning of May 2006, the US Treasury has already foregone perhaps $7.5 trillion of windfall accruals ­ excluding revenues arising from tax payable on parallel transactions, which would have yielded an estimated further $6.2 trillion (calculations based on 62 banking days since the beginning of May).

With legitimate, real funds pouring onto the balance sheet from private transactions at this rate, the US Treasury's finances, and the outlook for the US and world economies, would be transformed within two years. This was fully agreed and understood at St Petersburg, where it was learned that over 20 financial groups are standing by to participate in this refinancing.

No-one who is somehow still unaware of the extent of malevolent foreign penetration of the US structures, can understand why the Federal Reserve is impeding The Wanta Plan ­ not least since the bulk of the transactions will be monetarily sterilised through largely remaining within the financial system, while the resulting secondary transactions, taking place on a global scale, will revitalise the world economy in a structured and orderly manner.

FOREIGN INTERESTS HOLDING AMERICA TO RANSOM?

The conclusion reached by knowledgeable observers is that the United States is being held to ransom by foreigners through the Federal Reserve. The primary culprit is Germany, and its secret 'Black' Nazi Continuum agency, Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD), Dachau.

On 13th July, an Iron Mountain document storage warehouse located at Bow, East London, adjacent to the City of London, caught fire and continued burning for three days. And on the preceding evening (12th July), the Iron Mountain warehouse located in the Cyrville Industrial Area, Ottawa, Canada, also mysteriously burned to the ground. These fires were 'no coincidence'.

British intelligence sources have confirmed to the Editor of International Currency Review that a substantial volume of Deutsche Bank files perished in the London warehouse fire. Deutsche Bank and German institutions have dominated the heavy high-yield investment programmes and financial trading operations that characterise hidden financial activity in the intergovernmental financial sector (to which the mainstream financial media is blind), since the late 19th century.

BURNING THE RECORDS ­ AND COVERING FOR BUSH SR.

The Iron Mountain fires have been described as panic measures by criminalist foreign cadres to destroy the evidence of the massive serial financial fraud that has been exposed by International Currency Review and its associated intelligence publications. If so, the arson was wholly in vain, as duplicate and original copies of the relevant documents are stored in 25 special locations worldwide.

These frauds have been driven by criminal gangs operating within the US official structures, allegedly led by George Bush Sr., who has been exposed by British and other intelligence informants as the actual head of Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst.

According to these sources, Bush (Busche) Sr., who allegedly holds dual German and US nationality, succeeded the long-term German (Nazi) Abwehr chief, Admiral Canaris, after Canaris fell ill in 1976 (he died in 1978).

The interim head of DVD, to cover Bush Sr. while he occupied the post of Director of Central Intelligence, is alleged to have been Dr Henry Kissinger whose Soviet codename is BOR, but who has also been identified by sources as allegedly the head of DVD, pending Bush Sr.'s accession.

In January 2005, Jack Roach, a CIA officer, was brutally murdered and tortured in the basement of the head office of Union Bank of Switzerland in Zürich. British intelligence sources have confirmed to Christopher Story that instructions for this murder were allegedly given by the head of the DVD: George Bush Sr.

The Editor of ICR has also been informed that the assassination was allegedly approved by the President of Switzerland. The late brave Mr Roach, who was tortured with cigarette butts, was carrying banking codes that were seized from him to the benefit of German banks and 'Black' intelligence, and to the detriment of the United States.

In October last year, a contingent of US intelligence officers attended the Münich Beer Festival. However the purpose of their presence was not to quaff amber liquid, but rather to stake out the headquarters of Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst, at Dachau, which is close to Münich.

A satellite was positioned above the nondescript building, and on the basis of the evidence of comings-and-goings obtained, the existence and significance of DVD was indeed confirmed; and the White House was finally, reluctantly, belatedly brought to understand at last that the Nazi Continuum 'Black' intelligence strategic intelligence centre in Dachau exists. The British had been trying to make the Bush Jr. Administration understand this, previously without success ­ since the President is the son of the alleged actual Head of the DVD.

The head of the DVD resides in the United States because America is the largest component of the 'Main Enemy'. Britain is targeted by DVD via the European Union, which is dominated by the long-range penetration, subversion and control strategy laid down by the Nazis in 1942, in a compendium of papers published in Berlin entitled 'Europaische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft' [European Economic Community].

In the early 1950s, the Allies captured a Nazi document that was en route from the German Geopolitical Centre in Madrid the long-range Nazi planning apparat established there when the Nazi intellelligentsia realised that Germany might lose the war. Called 'The Madrid Circular Letter', this document promulgated two themes for the attention of the 200,000 Nazis by now scattered around the globe.

They were:

1. 'For us, the war never ended': 'Fur uns, der Krieg ist niemals vorbei'; and: 2. 'We shall build the Thousand-Year Reich on the ruins of the United States'.

With the West mesmerised by the Cold War, which German 'Black' intelligence under General Reinhard Gehlen (DVD) systematically promoted by feeding false information to the Allies about Soviet intentions, the Nazis created a 'safe haven' for their operations behind the cover of the Soviet and STASI facade. This cover has now been blown, and the lethal dangers presented by the secret power of Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst is now exposed for all to see and understand.

Following the murder of Jack Roach and confirmation of the existence of DVD, there is now talk in certain intelligence circles of the need for this strategic Nazi Continuum organization to be decapitated and the long-range offensive against the joint 'Main Enemy' ­ Britain and the United States ­ to be decisively terminated once and for all. DVD merely informs the German Chancellor of its operations, if it feels like it; but as it is self-financed from immense hidden funds, especially heroin proceeds, it does not accept his or her instructions. Rather, it arrogantly considers itself, as custodian of Nazism, to be above the Government, having hidden for half a century behind the Soviet threat and the Cold War, for which it was itself largely responsible.

In other words, the German Chancellor is as powerless against these entrenched Nazis as the US Government and its Treasury appear to be in the face of their 'in-your-face' sabotage of the new 'Marshall Plan' for the United States designed by the US Treasury financial genius, Leo Wanta.

For this reason, there is today actually discussion about a Third World War and not just in the Middle East. A reference to this possibility appeared in an op-ed column by a known intelligence analyst in The Daily Telegraph, London, on 19th July. The apparent ongoing sabotage of The Wanta Plan by the German- directed Federal Reserve may prove to be just about the last straw.

Recall again, finally, that President Kennedy was assassinated after it became known that he intended to nationalise the Federal Reserve System.

Bush Sr. was present in Dallas on the date of the assassination, and was allegedly exfiltrated by plane in a hurry following the atrocity.

How long will the American people tolerate this endless foreign intermeddling in their affairs?

Note: The Economic Espionage Act, 1996 [H.R. 3723] reads in part as follows:

'WHEREAS, the President of the United States of America, having signed H.R. 3723 on October 11, 1996, has protected this transaction by allowing Corporations the right to declare their Contracts, Clients, Internal Procedures and Information, and the transactions they engage in, as a Corporate or Trade Secret fully protected under the Economic and Industrial Espionage Laws of the United States of America and the International Economic Community.

INASMUCH, the names, identities, names coordinates and other identifying information of persons or entities that are party to this transaction, contained herein, or learned hereafter, shall be a Corporate Trade Secret that shall not be disseminated other than as provided for herein, or as allowed under applicable law. Any unauthorized Disclosure of the Private Transaction, parties to, or other material fact of, shall subject the violator(s) to Criminal prosecution'.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
www.worldreports.org

Click the mini-Archive on the Home Page, or 'Back to Archive', above. The mini-Archive contains earlier analyses on this millennial crisis.

See also the following World Reports intelligence publications: International Currency Review, Volume 28, Number 4, March 2003. International Currency Review, Volume 30, Numbers 2 & 3, January 2005. Economic Intelligence Review, Volume 10, Numbers 5 & 6, March 2006

More on Wanta story background:

Title: Netting the Bush-Clinton Crime Family? Fitzgerald's Plamegate to Switzerland for $27.5T
Author: Symanski report, with many others

Date: 2006.04.15 09:37
Description: This is a judicious summary of a big story that should be blown wide open.

Fitzgerald's Plamegate heads to Switzerland for approx. $2T stolen U.S. dollars from $27.5T belonging to U.S. Treasury? Who can say. It does connect with the same banking account names mentioned by Wayne Madsen's (ex NSA whistleblower) sources though!

Below connections click well, and despite being immense, make sense of a lot of
(1) Bush-Clinton two-steps, particularly Hillary Clinton's connections and motives in Vince Foster's death,

(2) in the CIA's "Children's (Slush) Fund"--out of Wisconsin (with Clinton's Shalala and Bush's Tommy Thompson looking over the CIA nest egg in Wisconsin for explaining back-to-back, Bush-to-Clinton double Wisconsinite appointments to the Sec of Health and Human Services of Shalala and Thompson);

(3) the deaths of Vincent Foster, connected to the murder of Israeli PM Rabin, who attempted to help Foster get U.S. Treasury Agent Wanta out of illegal jail "disappearance" in Switzerland;

(4) Wanta himself, due to recent federal court suit 2003 verification that he is the public trustholder of 27.5 trillion dollars of U.S. public money that Bush-Clinton have been slushing off of privately and illegally for 15 years; the corporate media is desperate to keep this trillion dollar theft of Bushite-Clintons from being public; the money came from U.S. "Cold War booty" grown to $27.5 TRILLION dollars, and once Wanta was thrown in jail to stop him from turning it back into the Treasury, the Bush-Clintons for 12 years have been using it as their personal drug/gunrunning/global bribery for NWO creation slush fund.

More info on this story.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/337782.shtml

Learn about the U.S.'s International Money Trust:

The Money Masters 1 of 3 How International Bankers Gained Control of America
1 hr 11 min 41 sec
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4408935028560288440

The Money Masters 2 of 3 How International Bankers Gained Control of America
1 hr 12 min 26 sec
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6802938500605858947

The Money Masters 3 of 3 How International Bankers Gained Control of America
1 hr 11 min 28 sec
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3510313821923167501l
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Sunday, December 24, 2006

A CHRISTMAS GREETING

Or Remembering that Everything You Know is Wrong


News2U Research Staff
Christmas Eve 2006


As a nation, we have drifted very far from the principles upon which our country was founded. I doubt that Washington and Jefferson would even recognize what their posterity has done to what was once a constitutional republic. I am old enough to say that I don't even recognize my country anymore.

As another year passes, remind yourself in the coming year that some fundamental, earth shaking events have changed the world we live in, altered our American system of government, and reduced our Constitution to ashes. I have added a few thought provoking links for you to review and think about, and remember this website has an archive of 4 years of articles and commentary of thought and information that is not generally found on your mainstream corporate & foreign interest controlled media outlets.

Don't believe the corporate media lies or the government doublespeak lies...........

Remember that the Truth is Out There, So Do Your Own Research


When you Vote. Vote for Change.

But Anyway, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, if you believe in that stuff, and have a safe and secure New Year.



Stop Blaming Theology For Your Apathy
I know dispensationalists who will excuse their apathy by saying, "It's the last days, and there is nothing we can do about it." Or, "This is just prophecy being fulfilled; we can't stop it."
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin336.htm


Maybe... The Best 911 Explanation Available
Well, the end game was this: Flight 93 was to land on the Whitehouse. You see, under US law at the time, if that happened, it would be martial law in the US and under those conditions, the entire 911 plot could have been completely tidied up, all the evidence buried.
http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=41818&Disp=0#C0
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=107154;title=APFN


Pilots for 9/11 Truth
We are focused on determining the truth of that fateful day since the United States Government doesn't seem to be very forthcoming with answers. We stand with the Scholars and Veterans for Truth along side family members of the victims.
http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/


VIDEO: Bush Knew 9/11 Was Coming
It's been categorically proven that the Bush Administration knew 9/11 was coming. They knew the exact date, the exact place, and the exact means, and still, even while it was in progress, did nothing to stop it. During and after 9/11, they told the public that the reason they took no action to halt the attacks or warn the people in tower 2 was that they were caught by surprise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXV73jFtTVk&NR

VIDEO: Evidence Showing US Government Complicity in the 911 Attack
This is a ten-minute clip from the new public domain documentary "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime". You can watch the whole thing at Google Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswVPEZvFZM&mode=related&search

VIDEO: Evidence that the U.S. Government Planned & Executed 9/11
Great set of interviews that outline the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was an inside job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVzQfa_V1jw


About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
Interviews with active-duty soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who have signed the Appeal for Redress reveal an array of motivations.
http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=41703


Appeal for Redress From the War in Iraq
As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home.
http://www.appealforredress.org/php/appeal.php


VIDEO: Daily Show on Bush's "We're Not Winning, We're Not Loosing"
Jon Stewart tracks Bush's clear and consistent message on Iraq and throws in a Tony "I Don't Know" Snow instant classic for good measure.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/21/daily-show-on-bushs-were-not-winning-were-not-losing/


Iraq's Death Squads: An Instrument Of The Occupation
The U.S. did not invade Iraq to establish "democracy" and "free Iraqis". The U.S. invaded and destroyed Iraq in order to humiliate and divide Muslims - Arabs in particular -, protect Israel's Zionist expansion and control Iraq's natural wealth. So, the U.S.-imposed democracy by force is fraud. 'Democracy is like a plant; it grows from bottom up, not from top down'.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAS20061207&articleId=4071


Video: Scarborough Sees The Light--"Bush is delusional"
Scarborough has made a definite turn-around on Bush over the past year, but it hasn't been as evident as it was on Wednesday's Scarborough Country.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/21/12969/

Navy Vet Says He Was Tortured By U.S. Forces
The 29-year-old Navy veteran was held at Camp Cropper, the United States military's maximum security detention site in Baghdad. To this day, Vance has no idea why the U.S. government imprisoned him and, he says, tortured him from April to July of this year.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4862858
http://qwstnevrythg.blog-city.com/former_us_detainee_in_iraq_recalls_torment.htm


Torture Is Now Part of the American Soul
You might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators have found a new way of destroying a human being
http://qwstnevrythg.blog-city.com/torture_is_now_part_of_the_american_soul.htm


VIDEO: Abu Ghraib - The Bottom Line
Video collage about the torture of Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15966.htm


Ex-soldiers break `silence' on Israeli excesses
There were pictures of Palestinians bound and blindfolded. There was a photo of a settler carrying an assault rifle with a decal on the magazine clip: "Kill 'em all, Let God sort 'em out." Another was of graffiti on a wall: "Arabs to the gas chamber."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1166271550356&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist969907621513


AUDIO: George Galloway - Israel : A History Of Violence
British Member Of Parliament, George Galloway Answers Questions From A Zionist Supporter.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15976.htm


The De-Zionization Of America (And Israel)
"Jewish politics" has come to be exemplified by Zionism, a racist ideology calling for a Jewish supremacist state in all of Palestine (and parts of other countries neighboring Israel), and this is supposedly somehow "justified" by "The Holocaust"
http://www.rense.com/general74/nene.htm


Guest Opinion: North American Union Would Supplant U.S. Sovereignty
That information clearly reveals that the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which unelected bureaucrats are crafting a broad range of policy changes.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/opinion/34211.php


North American Union Leader Says Merger Just Crisis Away
Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53378


Law-Enforcement Socialism
Every year, more prisons are built, more money is funneled to police departments, more criminal law is written and yet domestic crime remains a major problem.
http://www.mises.org/story/2423


Esteemed Professor and Law Expert Warns Of Police State
Francis A Boyle says 9/11 was allowed to happen, war on terror is facilitating the downfall of The Republic, concentration camps are in place and US citizens are the targets.
http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/191206Boyle.htm


The War On Toddlerism
Treating children as young as four as sexual deviants, criminals and subversives emphasizes slip towards the police state
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=62961422&blogID=208633164


Neocon Lapdogs: "Round Up Traitors And Put Them In Camps"
These idiots demonize such allegations against their ilk as the frothing of "leftist internet junkies" while at the same time calling for internment camps to be used against law abiding American citizens in a Hitler-esque fashion.
http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/201206camps.htm


US Army Announces Readiness for Total Military Takeover of America
The first of the USANORTH plans for the total military takeover of the United States, from its few remaining civilian overseers, rest with a new series of draconian laws recently enacted by their top Military Leaders.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/211006Takeover.htm


What Patriotic Christians Can Do For America?
What can those of us do who plan to stay and "tough it out" in America? Are we totally without recourse? Is there nothing we can do to truly help turn the ship of state around?
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin337.htm


At The Very Least We Should Petition Our "Leaders" To Bring Our Troops Home
All of the justifications initially provided by the U.S. for waging war on Iraq have been exposed as lies; the real reasons for the invasion -- to control Iraq's oil reserves and to increase U.S. strategic influence in the region -- now stand revealed.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Put on the Spot,
Our Punk President
Lies Yet Again


By Walter C. Uhler
December 20, 2006


Whenever I hear President Bush tell another lie (or read that he has told another lie) I'm reminded of the Liar-in-Chief's former professor at the Harvard Business School, Yoshi Tsurumi, and his spot-on recollection of this president's punk past. According to Professor Tsurumi, Bush "showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him." [Mary Jacoby, "The Dunce," Salon.com, 16 September 2004]

Tsurumi concluded: "Behind his smile and his smirk…he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy." "He was just badly brought up, with no discipline, and no compassion." [Ibid] In conservative Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where I grew up during the 1950s and 1960s, such people were called "punks."

Perhaps, it's fair to say that the world would be a much better and safer place if America's mainstream news media had challenged Bush as much as Professor Tsurumi and his classmates did. Alas, it let the punk candidate slide during his first run for president, notwithstanding such smug and asinine assertions as: "I may not know where Kosovo is, but I know what I believe."

Thus, alas, many Americans voted for an admitted alcoholic (and, allegedly, a former drug using) twit, who would come to believe that God spoke directly to him and wanted him to be president.

The mainstream news media also failed to challenge seriously the Bush administration's campaign of lies, which it employed to frighten witless Americans into supporting an unprovoked - and, thus, illegal, immoral -- invasion of Iraq. Specifically, the news media paid insufficient attention to an outrageous assertion by Bush that proved he was either a bald-faced liar or an extremely reckless ignoramus.

On September 7, 2002, President Bush asserted: "I would remind you that when the inspectors first went into Iraq and were denied -- finally denied access, a report came out of the Atomic -- the IAEA that they were six months away from developing a [nuclear] weapon. I don't know what more evidence we need."

Yet, not only was there no such report, but the report actually written by the IAEA in 1998 reached precisely the opposite conclusion: "Based on all credible information available to date…the IAEA has found no indication of Iraq having achieved its programme goal of producing nuclear weapons or of Iraq having retained a physical capability for the production of weapon-useable nuclear material or having clandestinely obtained such material." [MSNBC.com, 7 Sept. 2002]

And although a White House official subsequently admitted that the IAEA report did not say what Bush claimed, the spokesman's own dissembling shed further light on the dishonesty driving Bush's push for war: "What happened was, we formed our own conclusions based on the report."[Ibid] Why this entire episode failed to send red flags of suspicion flying across our entire news media remains an open question.

Yet, worse was to come. On October 2, 2002, Bush lied when he told Congressional leaders: "None of us here today desire to see a military conflict." How do we know he lied? Because in March 2003, in the moments "before he gave his national address announcing that the war had just begun, a camera caught Bush pumping his fist as though instead of initiating a war he had kicked a winning field goal or hit a home run. 'Feels good,' he said." [Paul Waldman, Fraud, 2004, p.8]

Once a punk, always a punk?

In December 2003, months after the Bush administration's reckless assertions about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction proved to be false, ABC's Diane Sawyer pressed Bush about justifying a war to the American public by stating "as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he [Saddam] could move to acquire those weapons." Put on the spot, Bush resorted to his punk college ways by responding: "So what's the difference?"

Two months later, Bush weaseled again. When put on the spot by Tim Russert, of Meet the Press, Bush justified his illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq by asserting: "Saddam Hussein was dangerous, and so I'm not going [sic] leave him in power and trust a madman…He had the ability to make weapons, at the very minimum." Such a snotty and infantile excuse for sending thousands to their deaths should have persuaded even the most brain-dead of Bush supporters that he had wasted his vote on a reckless punk.

In late 2005, Bush told another lie, when attempting to justify his unconstitutional order permitting the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens without obtaining the required court-approved warrants. Bush defended his directive as a "vital tool" in the war against terrorism, evidently forgetting that, in April 2004, he assured an audience in Buffalo, New York: "When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so."

Bush lied again on December 14, 2005, when discussing what intelligence was available to Congress, when it voted to support his decision to invade Iraq. Bush lied when he asserted: "Some of the most irresponsible comments - about manipulated intelligence - have come from politicians who saw the same intelligence I saw and then voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein."

In fact, the Congressional Research Service (CSR) released a report the very next day that exposed his lie: "The President and a small number of presidentially designated cabinet-level officials, including the vice president …have access to a far greater overall volume of intelligence and to more sensitive information, including intelligence sources and methods." In all, the report identified "nine key U.S. intelligence 'products' not generally shared with Congress."

And Bush lied again, on the eve of the November 2006 mid-term elections, when he said that he wanted Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to stay on until the end of his presidency. In fact, Bush already had commenced work on replacing Rumsfeld and knew he was lying when he said Rumsfeld would stay on. Bush even admitted to this deliberate deception.

Two days ago, Bush lied again.

In a December 19, 2006, interview with the Washington Post , America's Liar-in-Chief was once again put on the spot. According to the Post, when he was asked to reconcile his "absolutely, we're winning" in Iraq assertion of October 25, 2006, with his new assertion, "We're not winning, we're not losing," Bush "recast" his former assertion "as a prediction rather than an assessment."

Bush's Harvard classmates and Professor Tsurumi would have understood all too well: Once a punk, always a punk.

Indeed, if "once a punk, always a punk," then columnist Joseph L. Galloway is on to something when he asks: "Can nothing save this man from himself?" [See Galloway's splendid article, "Desperation in the White House," Miami Herald at: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/16250266.htm]

And, indeed, if nothing can save Bush from himself, the citizens of the United States have an obligation to remove him from office - impeach, convict, remove - before he does more damage to American and the world.

But only after first removing the thug, who has so perniciously enabled the punk.

Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).

Source:
http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/punk.html
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Japan's Neocons


By Eric Johnston
Ad Busters #69


When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stepped down in September 2006 after five and a half years, nobody was sadder than George W. Bush and his neocon allies. During his years in office, Koizumi tied Japan’s geopolitical fate to the United States, sending Japanese soldiers to Iraq despite huge public doubts, pushing hard to renounce the Constitution to allow closer US-Japan military relations, and adopting a tough line towards both China and North Korea that pleased American hawks.

Koizumi liked Bush so much that in October 2004 he declared he wanted Bush to win re-election. When Bush met Koizumi in Kyoto in November 2005, the president was hugely unpopular at home due to his criminally negligent response to Hurricane Katrina and a growing realization in the US that was losing the war in Iraq. Internationally, Koizumi was a welcome friend in a world of leaders who were turning away from Bush and the neocons.

Much has been made in US media of the unique friendship that Dubya and Koizumi enjoyed. But it’s a mistake to conclude Japan’s official embrace of US policy over the past five years was due to the personal relations of the two leaders. Bush and Koizumi were merely the point men in a tangled web of strategic relationships between right wing, xenophobic politicians and defense bureaucrats in Japan, and senior members of the Bush administration, not all of whom were neocons but most of whom share a Malthusian view of the world as a dark place full of demons that have to be slayed by Captain America.

These strategic relationships became politically potent in October 2000, when Richard Armitage, who would soon be the number two man in the US State Department, but was then simply another Washington DC insider jockeying for influence, co-authored a report on America’s relationship with Japan. The Armitage Report warned that US-Japan relations had ``drifted’’ since the end of the Cold War, and that it was time to embrace Japan, or, rather, the Japanese defense establishment, so that US and Japanese troops could team up to fight some enemy of the future, not mentioned, but clearly implied, as China.

In Japan, a loose clique of Japanese neoconservative politicians in their forties and fifties with right-wing views and, often, international academic or work experience, as well as loud cretins in the media who made Bill O’Reilly of Fox News look quiet and thoughtful – embraced the Armitage report as a blueprint for Japan’s political and diplomatic future. The Japanese neocons, were, at heart, xenophobic nationalists. But they agreed to a Faustian bargain with the US because when the time came to confront China (and many of Japan’s right wingers seemed to welcome all-out war) Japan would need America on its side not, like the 1930s and 1940s, against it.

Those identified as neocons included Shinzo Abe, grandson of a convicted war criminal who had studied in the US and was noted for his anti-North Korea remarks; Shigeru Ishiba, who became head of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces; Katsuei Hirasawa, a former cop who once attended Duke University; Ichita Yamamoto, a Georgetown University graduate who had worked for the United Nations; Takeo Hiranuma, who became trade minister and was connected to the ultra rightwing group Japan Conference; Taro Aso, a supposedly devout Christian whose family business used Korean slave labor during the war, and Shintaro Ishihara, perhaps the most extreme right wing nationalist of the group, who was governor of Tokyo.

Two prominent female neocon politicians were Yuriko Koike, who graduated from American University in Cairo and is fluent in Arabic and English, and Sanae Takaichi, who once worked for former US congresswoman Patricia Schroeder. Koike openly admired US neocon John Bolton who, before his current post as UN ambassador, was America’s envoy to diplomatic talks in Asia designed to find a solution to North Korea’s suspected nuclear weapons program. Bolton’s contempt of anybody who disagreed with him meant the talks were doomed to failure, but to Koike, who shared his hatred of North Korea and his distrust of China, he was a model diplomat. She became Environment Minister under Koizumi.

Takaichi’s political model was Margaret Thatcher, and she was farther to the right than Koike, and far less discreet. In 1995, as Japan’s parliament debated a formal apology to Asia to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, Takaichi criticized the discussions as meaningless, saying she herself had been born after the war and felt no sense of responsibility for what had happened. Several years ago, Takaichi got into trouble for insisting that Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria, which led to the war in the Pacific, was an act of inevitable self-defense.

After 2001, Japan’s neocon politicians moved quickly to form personal relationships with not only Armitage, but other influential Washington players like former Defense Policy Board chairman and Iraq war architect Richard Perle and US Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (who once lived in Osaka). Former US Vice President Dan Quayle kept up his connections to Japan’s neocons, and would, in 2004, be a top candidate for US ambassador to Japan.

These connections were not limited to the political realm. Since the mid-1990s, military experts in both the US and Japan had been quietly researching a Japan-based theater missile defense system (TMD) to be developed by both countries. US firms like Lockheed Martin and Boeing McDonnell Douglas sent American aerospace engineers and technical experts to industrial Nagoya, home of Japan’s own nascent military-industrial complex and far away from the media glare of Tokyo. The increased cooperation between the US military industrial complex and major Japanese firms like Mitsubishi and Kawasaki, and their recent political influence on Japanese politics, is one of the most powerful, and least investigated, aspects of Japan’s shift to the right over the past five years.

Today, Shinzo Abe is Prime Minister and his good friend Sanae Takaichi is in charge of a ministry that deals with both Okinawa, where the majority of US military bases in Japan are located, and four small, bleak islands of the coast of the northern island of Hokkaido which Japan claims but which are occupied by Russia. Taro Aso, or Francisco Aso as he’s known among fellow Christians, is one of Japan’s most rabid anti-China, anti-Asia politicians, and was criticized by the New York Times for his undiplomatic tenure as Foreign Minister under Koizumi. He retained his post under Abe, proof that Japan’s neocons are going to be around a while, perhaps even after their American counterparts are gone.

Upon assuming office, Abe was faced with his first test in Asian diplomacy. During a trip to meet with the leaders of China and South Korea, North Korea tested a nuclear device. Suddenly, the Japanese neocons arguments over history and domestic issues were far less important than the present. One of those was whether Japan’s neocons would now push for a public discussion on what was once unthinkable, the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Abe rushed to assure a nervous international community that Japan had no intention of doing so and the discussion remained confined primarily to right-wing blogs and websites. But with a nuclear North Korea now at its doorstep and the most hawkish, conservative government in recent memory, the world remains rightly concerned about whether or not Japan’s neocons, like their American counterparts, will lead the country down a path to disaster.

Source:
http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/69/Japans_Neocons.html
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