January 2010

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Glenn Greenwald: "Obama Confidant's Spine-Chilling Proposal" (cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups)

Glenn Greenwald has written a scathing indictedment of Cass Sunstein's odious proposal.

From the article:

"What is most odious and revealing about Sunstein's worldview is his condescending, self-loving belief that "false conspiracy theories" are largely the province of fringe, ignorant Internet masses and the Muslim world. That, he claims, is where these conspiracy theories thrive most vibrantly, and he focuses on various 9/11 theories -- both domestically and in Muslim countries -- as his prime example.

It's certainly true that one can easily find irrational conspiracy theories in those venues, but some of the most destructive "false conspiracy theories" have emanated from the very entity Sunstein wants to endow with covert propaganda power: namely, the U.S. Government itself, along with its elite media defenders. Moreover, "crazy conspiracy theorist" has long been the favorite epithet of those same parties to discredit people trying to expose elite wrongdoing and corruption.

FBI admits it used traces of leftist spanish party leader for their Bin Laden

El FBI admite que usó rasgos de Llamazares para 'su' Bin Laden por un error human
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/01/16/internacional/1263598044.html

Nafeez Ahmed at BoilingFrogsPost: Interview and 3 Part Series on Yemen and the MIC

1/15/10: Podcast Show #19: The Boiling Frogs Presents Dr. Nafeez Ahmed

"Dr. Nafeez Ahmed provides us with an overview of the role played by US military and intelligence practices in the creation of terrorism, particularly Al-Qaeda. He tells us about the status of investigations into the Blair government’s complicity with the Bush administration in supporting the invasion of Iraq. He discusses possible factors behind Americans’ long-held denial and dismissal of dark US foreign policy practices as conspiracies. Mr. Nafeez talks about the Obama administration, the ongoing posture of US corporate interests and the desire to dominate world energy supplies, the so-called liquid bombing plot and how it was mythologized in the US, and more."
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/01/15/podcast-show-19/

Congressman calls on Obama to formally restore 9/11 Commissioners

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/75497-congressman-calls-on-obama-to-formally-restore-911-commissioners

Congressman calls on Obama to formally restore 9/11 Commissioners
By Jordan Fabian - 01/12/10 02:41 PM ET

A Republican congressman on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to formally restore the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission to review the implementation

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) penned a letter to the president requesting that he bring aboard 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean (R) and vice chairman Lee Hamilton (D) to conduct a six-month review of the U.S. intelligence system and its congressional oversight.

"I urge you to encourage this effort by bringing back these two co-chairs for a six-month period to conduct a formal review and 9/11 Commission follow-up," he wrote. "They would be charged with evaluating which of the Commission’s original recommendation have been implemented and to what end, and which have failed to be implemented and at what cost."

FBI issues new Bin Laden photo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011501695.html

Bin Laden's photo digitally updated for age, beard

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The Associated Press
Friday, January 15, 2010; 11:26 AM

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has updated its 1998 file photo of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, digitally altering it to account for a decade of age and possible changes in his facial hair.

There is a $25 million bounty on bin Laden's head for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. Bin Laden is now 52. And he is believed to be hiding in the lawless Pakistan frontier bordering Afghanistan, though his exact whereabouts have been unknown since late 2001, when he and a small contingent of body guards walked out of the Tora Bora mountains, evading air strikes and U.S. special forces and Afghan militias,

The photos and bounty on bin Laden and 41 others wanted for terrorism is on the State Department's web site rewardsforjustice.net.

Should Individuals That Use Sockpuppets Be Tolerated?

Recently, it has been discovered that "Insane Hussein" that posts at my personal psyop, "Hussein," that posted at truthaction.org, "kameelyun," and Adam Syed are all one and the same. Should individuals who participate in this practice be tolerated?

According to wiki, a "sockpuppet" is "an online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community."

Judgment begins: Dutch govt declares Iraq war unlawful in first "Emperor has no clothes" report

hyperlinks and videos live at source: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m1d13-Judgment-begins-Dutch-govt-declares-Iraq-war-unl...

You’ll be so embarrassed in the near future if you have to admit you never learned the laws of war to add your self-expression to this “Emperor has no clothes” historical judgment of early 21st Century US history.

Imagine telling your children and grandchildren, “Nope. I just believed George Bush and then Obama. I didn’t think dying people in the Middle East worth my time to understand the issue clearly. That’s all the love I had in my heart, all the responsibility I carried for my citizenry, all the attention I had outside my little self.”

Ending mass-murder is something you want to do as soon as humanly possible.

Like now.

The government of the Netherlands commissioned a study to answer the question of legality of the US-led armed attack of Iraq (here, here, here). Their conclusion is unanimous among their panel of legal experts: there is no legal justification; the war is unlawful.

Obama adviser suggests 'breaking up core' of 'conspiracy theorists'

Got Fascism? : Obama Advisor Promotes 'Cognitive Infiltration'

Your government appointees at work: Cass Sunstein seeks "cognitive" provocateurs.

WRITTEN By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2010

Cass Sunstein is President Obama's Harvard Law School friend, and recently appointed Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

In a recent scholarly article, he and coauthor Adrian Vermeule take up the question of "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures." (J. Political Philosophy, 7 (2009), 202-227). This is a man with the president's ear. This is a man who would process information and regulate things. What does he here propose?

[W]e suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups, thereby introducing beneficial cognitive diversity. (Page 219.)

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