World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 has closed with a call by business, government and civil society leaders for a new brand of collaborative and innovative leadership to address the challenges of globalization, particularly the pressing problems of conflict, terrorism, climate change and water conservation.

More talk and rhetoric. We have no leaders who can actually come up with a viable plan to change anything. There is to much corruption and greed, more than enough to go around.

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Terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla sentenced to 17 years and four months in jail

The accusations that he plotted to set off a radioactive "dirty bomb" are long gone, but Padilla was still convicted last summer of conspiring to support Islamic extremists around the world.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, appointed by President Bush, had wide discretion in determining how much time the three men would spend behind bars.
There is no evidence that Padilla ever committed a terrorist act.

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WTF! TerrorBusters?

From Jeff Herz - My view of the World

I came across a new image in the fight against terrorism. Meet the new logo from
the CIA. The Terror Busters:

One can’t help but notice the similarity to the old Ghostbusters logo:

When I first saw the TerrorBusters logo, I thought it was a joke. But the above
image comes straight from the CIA website. It is real.

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Jose Padilla Found Guilty

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A Sit Down With An 9/11 Fire Fighter

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Bush's Wooden-headedness Kills

By Ray McGovern
July 18, 2007

President George W. Bush is convinced, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that he is on the right course in the war in Iraq and the struggle against terrorism. He says he will not change his mind.
Thus, we are at an historic moment; and we would be well advised to see what light historians might shed on our current predicament in Iraq and the basic (but unanswered) question as to why so many people resort to terrorism against us.

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The Patriot Act Makes Us All Terrorists

In a chilling analysis of the PATRIOT Act, the ACLU points out that the new definition of "domestic terrorist" redefines any US criminal as a terrorist, exempt from due process and an open trial. "Domestic terrorists" can have their assets seized without a hearing, have their educational records pulled, and a host of other nasties. "Terrorism" is now officially meaningless: as far as the PATRIOT Act is concerned, if you do anything the government doesn't like, you're a terrorist. When you put it that way, it seems even less likely that we'll win the "war on terrorism."
Section 802 does not create a new crime of domestic terrorism. However, it does expand the type of conduct that the government can investigate when it is investigating "terrorism." The USA PATRIOT Act expanded governmental powers to investigate terrorism, and some of these powers are applicable to domestic terrorism.
The definition of domestic terrorism is broad enough to encompass the activities of several prominent activist campaigns and organizations. Greenpeace, Operation Rescue, Vieques Island and WTO protesters and the Environmental Liberation Front have all recently engaged in activities that could subject them to being investigated as engaging in domestic terrorism.
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I have referred to this a few times in previous Posts, I call it a return to McCarthyism. It is frightening to me that all someone has to do is "suggest" that a person is this or that and a full blown Investigation into the life of that individual could be initiated. In My View of It, The Bush Administration is now structured so that they can break any and every Constitutional Amendment without consequence!

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I Can't Believe They Actually Sell This Stuff!

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A Miracle In London Or a Lying Government?

No terror attack over holidays proves one of two things

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Do miracles really happen? Jesus turned water into wine, but do the spooks that staff the hierarchies of the British and American intelligence establishment possess the same divine powers? Or were they simply lying again when it was sternly reported that only a "miracle" would prevent London from being attacked by terrorists over the holiday period?
British Home Secretary John Reid, former hardcore Stalinist, member of the Scottish Communist Party and an alcoholic bully with a penchant for thumping people in the face, reiterated the threat that it was "highly likely" that terrorists would attempt an attack before the first of the year.
"It will be a miracle if there isn't a terror attack over the holidays in London," a senior American law enforcement official told ABCNews.com on December 21st.By that logic, the fact that a terror attack did not happen proves one of two things - that miracles really do happen in the modern world or governments are lying to us about terrorism in order to scare populations into accepting the deliberately engineered drift towards authoritarianism.
Which do you think it is?

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Jules Naudet's 9/11 Film was Staged

by Leslie Raphael6 February 2006

Introduction
At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, at the intersection of Church and Lispenard Streets in Manhattan, one of two French film-making brothers, 28-year-old Jules Naudet, was filming a group of firemen from Ladder 1/Engine 7 at 100 Duane Street, checking for an alleged suspected gas leak, when he captured what was thought to be unique film of American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston flying into the north tower of the World Trade Center, three quarters of a mile away. Two years later — the delay still not satisfactorily explained — a Czech immigrant called Pavel Hlava produced his own video film of the event, shot from south-east of the tower and much further away, at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Naudet's film, with its almost straight-ahead view of the plane hitting the tower, is still in many ways unique, and far superior to the "new" film. Naudet claims his film exists only because of pure luck — as would seem to be logical, given that this was the first attack of the whole "9/11" sequence, and was totally unexpected. When United Airlines Flight 175 flew into the south tower twenty minutes later, it was captured by several photographers who were filming the aftermath of the attack on its neighbour, but who had not, of course, filmed that attack itself. After the first attack, the second one was easy to film — but how else could the first one have been captured than by luck?

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Bush's 'Global War on Radicals'

George W. Bush is laying the groundwork for a wider war in the Middle East by stretching the parameters of the "global war on terrorism" to add to his enemies list what he calls "radicals and extremists."
The change makes the struggle so amorphous that Bush theoretically could strike at anyone he doesn't like whether there's a credible link to international terrorism or not. The word shift also portends an endless war between the United States and the world's one billion Muslims.
To see the full story about how Bush has expanded the "war on terror," go to Consortiumnews.com at.

We couldn't see this coming? Right!!

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Robert M. Gates

As the next Defense Secretary, Robert M. Gates will be in charge of a new star-chamber legal system that can lock up indefinitely “unlawful enemy combatants” and “any person” accused of aiding them. Yet, despite these extraordinary new powers, his confirmation is being treated more like a coronation than a time for tough questions.
In 1991, for reasons mostly of political expediency and personal friendship, Gates’s last confirmation process for CIA director never got to the bottom of allegations linking Gates to some of the most serious national security scandals of the 1980s, including illegal involvement in arms deals with Iran and Iraq.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/113006.
Hmmmmm..who's agenda is this?? Only in America could someone with his past behavior could be put in a position to make people "disappear" at will!

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