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Starting
with a new publication concerning the background behind the 9/11
attacks, TBR News will be presenting a series of interesting,
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include the complete Voice of the White House with much more added
material that was considered too controversial to post, the
heavily-censored Armenian Holocaust of 1916, the Bush-Lay private
correspondence, the Assassination of JFK,Pearl Harbor intrigues and
rare documents, Malaparte’s inside study of the making of
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The
Editors
Descending
Into Darkness: The Harring Report
A
well-researched study into the background of the 9/11 attack: Who
knew what and when did they know it. Russian and German intelligence
material, not published before show that the U.S. had ample
warning...and did nothing about it.
THE
VOICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE
The
full collection of the twice-weekly commentary of what is really
going on inside the corrupt Bush White House. The spectrum includes
the Gannon scandal, the planned invasion of Iran, many stories of
stupidity and corruption coupled with biting sarcasm. Interesting to
note that many, if not most, of the predictions have come true.
REGICIDE
The Official Assassination of John F. Kennedy
A
landmark book that sold very well in hardback, this work contains
actual intelligence documents concerning the inside U.S. plans to
kill Kennedy; the reasons, the methods and the results.
The
Final Reckoning: An Analysis of Demographics in Holocaust Literature
By
Harold Kreig, Lt.Col, AUS ret.
This
is the first rational, heavily documented work on the subject of the
Holocaust. Colonel Krieg has taken thousands of documents, including
the official SS concentration camp records from 1935 through 1945
and official U.S. government postwar analysis of the system and the
casualties and causes of death and produced a book that is highly
informative and readable. Heavily footnoted and annotated, ‘The
Final Reckoning’ is logical and compelling and is an historical
work that should be read through by any student of the period and
subject.
Coup
D’Etat: The Technique Of Revolution
By
Curzio Malaparte
First
published in Italy by Curzio Malaparte in 1928, this is a seminal
work on historical seizures of power from Napoleon through Hitler.
Gestapo-Chief:
The CIA & Heinrich Müller by Gregory Douglas
In 1948, the former head of Hitelr’s Gestapo was
interviewed by senior officials of the CIA in Switzerland where
Müller had been in hiding since the end of the Second World War.
His interview, for Colonel James Critchfield of the CIA’s Gehlen
Organization, runs to nearly a thousand pages and for years was
hidden in the CIA’s files.
This is a translation of a part of the interview, which was
initially conducted in German and then translated into English for
CIA use.
It is a fascinating series of historical episodes covering
both the Axis and Allied sides with comments on Hitler, Stalin,
Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Winston Churchill, the 20th of
July bomb plot against Hitler, Bishop von Galen’s heroic, and
successful, attacks on the Nazis and their euthanasia program, the
concentration camps, the Duke of Windsor, the Roger Casement diaries
and many more fascinating and insightful views of a man who ran the
most effective counter-intelligence agency in modern times.
There is also extensive information on the attempts on the
part of the CIA to silence or discredit the fact that the Gestapo
Chief worked for the United States and eventually came to live in
Washington, D.C. as part of the notorious “Operation Paperclip.”
Fascinating inside views of many top
Nazis and CIA officials.
The
CIA COvenant: Nazis in Washington
by Gregory Douglas
* From the end of
World War II, the American CIA imported thousands of Nazis into the
United States to work for them, many on the list of wanted war
criminals
*One of the most
important of these was Heinrich Mueller, once head of Hitler's
Gestapo. Mueller was recruited by Colonel James Critchfield who ran
the CIA's "Gehnel Organization' in Munich.
* Mueller kept
journals and this book is a translation of three years (1948-1951)
of notes and observations made of top CIA officials, President
Truman, top U.S. government officials, plans for murder, thefts,
kidnappings, wholesale thefts of public money and a terrifying
pattern of uncontrolled ambition, unchecked by any person or agency.
* Also included are
CIA and other agency's activities that have never been revealed.
*Mueller's deals in
stolen Nazi art for the CIA are covered in detail.
*Also to be found are
the steps the frightened CIA have taken to prevent the publication,
sales or distribution of this work.
An
Essay on the Principle of Population
by
Thomas Malthus
The
1798 classic study of how supplies of food do not keep up with an
expanding population
Malthus'
theory is that population growth is geometric while the food supply
increase is arithmetic.
A
very literate and current study that clearly highlights present and
current population problems
With
the world's population higher than ever before, this is a work of
great and current interest
CONSPIRACIES
for Fun and Profit
Contents
The Evil Catholics Murdered Abraham Lincoln
TWA Flight 800: The Gathering of the Nuts
The Real Truth About the Kennedy Assassination!
The Great 9-11 Plot
Who is Sorcha Faal?
The Bush Indictments
Faked Conspiracy photos
The Sinking of the MV Estonia
The German Guy and the Destruction of Houston
The Great Contrail Conspiracy
Planet X
Remote Viewing unveiled
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“As
democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people, On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s
desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright
moron.”
-
H.L. Mencken
“That
we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public.”
-Theodore
Roosevelt
“Mass
movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been
discredited. The discrediting is not an automatic result of the
blunders and abuses of those in power, but the deliberate work of
men of words with a grievance.”
-Eric
Hoffer The True Believer
In
accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior
interest in receiving the included information for research and
educational purposes.
America’s
Enemies!
There
are four entities who represent the most dangerous enemies to
American liberties since George III.
They
are:
1.
The
Neocons or Likudists who owe their personal allegiance to another
country and now completely control our foreign policy. They lied and
deceived us into the Iraq war and are demanding that more and more
American soldiers die to preserve their own country and ideals.
2.
The
Christian Evangelical right who is trying to force the United States
into becoming a theocracy under their rule. They know in their
hearts that they alone can restructure a secular humanist America
into their idea of Heaven on Earth.
3.
An
element of American society that call themselves Patriots and are
obsessively militaristic and great admirers of the corporate or
fascistic state. Many of these have been very minor members of the
American military and as a counterbalance to their reserve or rear
area tours of duty, are rabidly in favor of draconian military
action, the bloodier the better. Usually these drumbeaters are too
old, or too fat, to fight and have no sons of draft age.
4.
George
W. Bush, who is the worst president in the history of the United
States and directly responsible for the huge death tolls in Iraq, is
determined to rule the United States until God puts a stop to him
and is even more determined to force the American people into
becoming obedient, Christian and self-sacrificing lemmings who
worship at his shrine and march in step.
In
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educational purposes.
The Voice of the White House
Washington, D.C., July 7, 2007: “If Bush were
not such a vicious and vindictive man, I would feel sorry for him.
He has been soundly thrashed in the court of public opinion, his
actual (as opposed to faked polls by the friendly media) poll
numbers have dropped to 19% and are sharply and quickly falling, his
top Republicans in Congress have run away from him in panic lest too
close an association with him and his failed policies besmirch their
reelection to the Great Hog Trough.
And how does Bush react? He
gets shit-faced drunk in the private quarters and the Secret Service
people have to pry him up off the rug and put him to bed. They
refuse, however to clean up the puke and piss he had left all over
the floors and leave that to the White House maintenance staff.
Nancy Reagan had George 86ed out of the White House during her
husband’s occupancy because he once pissed all over the carpets in
the hall during a dinner.
Let’s face it, George is a
binge drinker and always has been. He was passed out cold the second
day of Katrina down at the Old Ranch in Crawford and none of his
frantic staff in the White House could get through to him. Can you
imagine the major panic if, say, Mexico attacked us while Bush was
out cold? Or North Korea launched a missile aimed at Alaska?
On the other hand, his
second-in--command, Dirty Dick Cheney (whose real poll
numbers are at 6%!) is
not a drunk but he is a flaming fascist nut and a genuine basket
case. I have never met such a cold, really evil man in my entire
life. Cheney was behind the war in Iraq and Cheney wants desperately
to bomb Iran. It was because Cheney has done so many criminal acts
that Libby got off. Now we hear here that Bush will give Libby a
full and complete pardon later on so he can continue to practice law
and make more millions.
But on the Libby matter, Bush
was in the perfect corner. If he did not pardon or commute Libby’s
justified jail sentence, Libby would go to jail and talk and talk.
He had no choice at all and the only question was how to tart the
inevitable decision up to at least pass muster with the press.
My advice? Impeach both of them
before, in their frantic desperation, they try to start another war
somewhere.
And don’t think Cheney
isn’t capable of pushing the button. He hates Putin, who is
running rings around him and his crew, and wants to have our useless
CIA assassinate him or at least encourage others to do this.
Cheney is especially pissed off
because he is deeply involved in the oil industry and Putin
is taking it over. Because Saudi Arabian oil fields are
running out very quickly, the US and the oil people are really
frantic to lay their hands on oil. Not from Chavez either. They have
pissed in the bathtub and now they have to lie in it.
When the American public learns
that light sweet crude has gone to $100 a barrel, they will drown
all of these sleazy crooks in the bathwater and set the White House
on fire.
Impeach Now!”
Addition on July 8.: George and
Laura just returned from a weekend visit to Camp David. It was his
61st birthday the other day and when they left the White
House for the helicopter, the staff had put together a crowd of
staffers and their families that Bush wouldn’t recognize, lined
them up behind a yellow tape and had them wave and shout nice things
as the Royal Couple walked by. Bush was waving gleefully with both
hands like a small child before opening his Christmas presents. One
of my friends heard him say to the wife as they neared the
helicopter, “I told you they all still love me!” And his wife
nodded and said, ”Yes, they surely do, George.” She lied. After
she complained to Barbara about Karen Hughes and George, and Karen
was shipped back to Texas, she has been much happier. Now she has
him all to herself, poor woman. And after the Departure and the
chance for George to get plastered again, the Secret Service passed
out little bags of nuts with official emblems on them to some of the
children. These came off of Air Force One and were not very fresh. I
personally think they dated back to Reagan and
I know because I picked up two packets for my wife’s
parakeet who likes to nibble on nuts (no nasty comments here,
please) but the bird sniffed at the soggy relics and flew back up to
her perch and took a dump on the Imperial nuts. I checked the other
packet out and the nuts were very soft and basically rotten..
Typical of what goes on around here. And pathetic. Bush had no idea
this was a planted crowd and was very happy. Recently, he has been
so depressed that everyone is afraid he will get shitfaced in public
and fall down at a press conference.”
Addendum on Monday, July 9,
2007 at 8:25 EST. “There is absolute panic here in the White House
over the swelling defections of major Republican lawmakers over the
Iraq war. Everyone but Karl Rove and Cheney insist that Bush make
public some serious withdrawal plan before September next. Most of
the White House staffers have always supported Bush but now that it
is evident that his ship is about to sink, everyone is rushing
around here trying desperately to get him to save something,
anything, by actually withdrawing troops before September. Only Rove
and Cheney, being nuts, demand he ’hold the line’ and not yield
any of his invented power to the evil and treacherous Congress. This
is like doing ward duty over at St. Elisabeth’s local loonie bin,
believe me. You can smell the fear all over this place and frankly,
it’s fun to observe the rats looking for a way to the deck to jump
off the ship.”
Lonely and lame, Bush agonises over legacy
· President
avoids limelight after Libby backlash
· Republican
ally withdraws support over Iraq
July 7, 2007
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
The Guardian
President
George Bush turned 61 yesterday but he had little to celebrate at
the end of a week in which his isolation has been exposed as never
before.
Laura Bush held an early family party
for him on Wednesday, to which a few professional golfers were also
invited, and on Thursday the president made a rare outing to watch a
baseball game. But these few birthday celebrations apart, it has
been a relentless week for the US president.
A
backlash against his decision on Monday to commute the jail sentence
of the former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was
followed on Thursday by the withdrawal of support for his Iraq
strategy by Pete Domenici, a Republican senator for 35 years. The
loss of such a loyal senator is ominous for Mr Bush's war plans.
More defections are expected, and Mr
Bush cuts a lonely figure, holed up in the White House fretting over
his legacy.
Professor Robert Dallek, author of
several books about the presidency, said that while it was not
unusual for a president to limp to the end of his term as a lame
duck, he saw Mr Bush as a particularly pronounced case. "If you
are looking at defeat, no one wants to be associated with the person
responsible. This is the case with Bush. You do not see his party
rally round. He has united opinion against him and it makes for a
lonely, isolated position," Prof Dallek said. "Once a
president loses trust, he cannot govern effectively."
Although he has 18 months left in
office, Mr Bush's options are limited. Last week, he lost his last
chance for snatching a lasting domestic legacy when his immigration
reform bill was destroyed in Congress. On foreign policy, there is
little optimism of a late breakthrough on Israel-Palestine, Iran or
Iraq.
The Washington Post reported this week
on academics invited to the White House to discuss with him his
legacy, including Sir Alistair Horne, author of a history of the
Algerian revolt, which has parallels with Iraq. They, as well as
former staffers and friends, spoke of his loneliness, his agonising
over how history will portray him. Michael Conaway, a still loyal
senator and long-time friend, said the president appeared to be worn
down by the pressure and spoke of "a marked difference in his
physical appearance".
Although never a social animal, he is
reluctant to drop into Washington restaurants unannounced for
dinner, as the Clintons did, in part because he is fearful of the
public response. This week, in particular, because of the Libby
decision, he has largely avoided public contact - his July 4 speech
in West Virginia was invitation-only.
The White House presented the Libby
decision as a non-political compromise.
A well-connected source in Washington
challenged the consensus that Mr Bush's poll ratings, at just under
30%, could not fall much further because that figure represented
bedrock Republican support. The source said commuting Mr Libby's
sentence, a popular move among Republicans, was a panic measure
after an alarming erosion in support, mainly because of hostility to
the immigration plan.
Mr Domenici's withdrawal of support
followed the desertion of the Republican senator Richard Lugar last
week, also over Iraq. About 50% of the sitting Republican senators
face re-election in November next year and their constituents have
made them well aware of how unpopular the Iraq war is.
The White House yesterday expressed
disappointment, saying it had hoped the senators would not go public
with their frustration before September, when the army and others
report back on whether Mr Bush's "surge" strategy is
working.
Steve Clemons, head of the progressive
thinktank the New America Foundation, has heard the reports of Mr
Bush's decline in power and is sceptical. He cautioned: "Even
though he has lost some ability to dictate events, he is still
capable of deploying major influence on the big issues. We went
through the same thing with [Vice-president Dick] Cheney when people
thought he was down and out. I think it is a big mistake to think
Bush is now powerless."
With little positive to show from six
years in office, Mr Bush has been talking up his transformation of
the supreme court as his legacy. He has given it a strong rightwing
bias, demonstrated by rulings on abortion, employment discrimination
and rejection of death penalty appeals. That will please
Republicans, at least.
But Prof Dallek remains unimpressed.
Rating the worst presidents, he said: "Hoover was a disaster.
Warren Harding rates very low in the pantheon of presidents and it
is likely that Bush will be seen as a bottom feeder."
Comment: Bush is, without question, the worst
president in American history. He has left a legacy of ineptness,
cruelty, viciousness, greed and lunatic behavior that has done, and
is doing, terrible damage to the institutions of our government and
to all the people of this country.
BH
White
House Again to Defy Congress on Attorney Firings
July
8, 2007
by Peter Baker
San Frencisco Chronicle
WASHINGTON - The White House has
decided to defy Congress in its latest demand for information
regarding the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys, sources familiar
with the decision said Saturday. Such an action would escalate the
constitutional struggle and propel it closer to a court showdown.
Senate and House committees have
directed President Bush to provide by Monday a detailed
justification of his executive privilege claims and a full
accounting of documents he is withholding. But White House counsel
Fred Fielding plans to tell lawmakers that he has already provided
the legal basis for the claims and will not provide a log of
withheld documents, the sources said.
The standoff suggests that neither side
is prepared to budge in the fight over documents and testimony in
the widening U.S. attorney investigation. Officials in both camps
said no serious negotiations are taking place to resolve the
dispute, while Fielding plans to follow up his letter by further
asserting executive privilege later this week, directing former
White House aides Harriet Miers and Sara Taylor not to testify in
response to congressional subpoenas.
The two sides increasingly believe the
matter will lead congressional Democrats to seek criminal contempt
citations against the White House, which could result in a
protracted court battle over the contours of the president’s power
to shield White House deliberations. Both sides insist the other’s
legal position is weak and argue that this could be one of the most
important test cases in years.
The impasse is leading to “a
monumental clash between the executive and legislative branches of
government,” Taylor’s attorney, W. Neil Eggleston, wrote in a
letter sent Saturday to Fielding and leaders of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. The conflict stems from congressional investigations into
the dismissal last year of nine chief federal prosecutors. The
Senate and House judiciary committees issued five subpoenas seeking
documents and testimony by Taylor, who until six weeks ago was the
White House political director, and Miers, the former White House
counsel. Bush asserted executive privilege June 28 in refusing to
respond to the subpoenas for documents, and the committees responded
by demanding that he provide a legal basis and the log.
The log, according to the committees,
should describe each document withheld, including its source,
subject matter, date and recipients. White House officials viewed it
as a backdoor attempt to get sensitive information about
deliberations, the sources said.
A White House spokesman declined to
comment Saturday. But the White House in recent days has said it has
already cooperated extensively with congressional investigators and
is now standing on principle.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Saturday that withholding the legal basis
and log would suggest the White House is trying to cover something
up or realizes it does not have a reasonable claim. He noted that
the administration was willing to give some of the information
previously under strict conditions.
“This latest stonewalling attempt
raises troubling questions about what the White House is trying to
hide by refusing to turn over evidence it was willing to provide
months ago as long as the information was shared in secret with no
opportunity for Congress to pursue the matter further,” Leahy said
through a spokeswoman.
Iraq minister:
140,000 Turkey troops on border
Foreign
minister cites Ankara’s concern over Kurdish militants in north
Iraq
July
9, 2007
MSNBC
BAGHDAD - Turkey has massed 140,000
soldiers on its border with northern Iraq but so far there have been
no violations, Iraq's foreign minister said Monday.
Hoshyar Zebari's comments came amid
calls by Turkey's military for the government to give it the green
light to carry out military operations in northern Iraqi against the
rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
"Turkey is building up forces on
the border. There are 140,000 soldiers fully armed on the border. We
are against any military interference or violation of Iraqi
sovereignty," Zebari said during a news conference in Baghdad.
He said that any problem should be
solved through dialogue adding that "Turkey's fears are
legitimate but such things can be discussed."
The Iraqi government try to diffuse the
situation," said Zebari, a Kurd from northern Iraq. "The
perfect solution is the withdrawal of the Turkish forces from the
borders."
"No one wants a new military
conflict in the region. These matters should be solved through
dialogue and direct negotiations ... there hasn't been any Turkish
military violation until now. There are some artillery shelling and
some surveillance by Turkish plane."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19676021/
Where
is Barney??----the Presidential Dog.
July
19, 2005
by
James P. Boyne
Where
is Barney?-- the First Dog. The Presidential Dog.That cute little,
black Scottish Terrier.
It’s
been a while. I haven’t seen the First Dog in about two
months, at least, now.
What
gives?
Poor
Barney.
Is
he not being walked?
Is
no one playing fetch with him?
Is
he not being taken to his weekly trip to the First Dog groomer?
I
demand an answer.
Barney
is why I voted for President Bush.
I
feel betrayed.
I’m
worried.
About
Barney.
The
only reason I ever watched the nightly news was to see if Barney was
being taken on his daily Presidential walk from the White House to
the shiny green Presidential helicopter; and then from the
helicopter across the White House lawn back to the White House; and
then back out of the White House, across the lawn and into the
helicopter again; and over and over and over.
He
used to be one of the most exercised dogs in America.
I
loved the way President Bush would scoop up Barney in his
Presidential arms, salute the on-guard Marine,and carry Barney up
the helicopter’s Presidential steps and turn around and give the
crowd a Presidential wave.
It’s
why I voted for “Presidential” George W. Bush. It was Barney
that did it. I voted for Barney.
God,
I love that dog.
I
don’t care if President Bush spent $300 billion of taxpayer’s
money on Iraq and we have nothing to show for it.
I
don’t care if we have 70 million Americans with no health
insurance; 9 million unemployed; 12 million long term unemployed;
over a million jobs outsourced to China and India; a minimum wage of
$5.15 an hour (about $10,000 a year); and the fact that almost 8
million Americans have declared bankruptcy in the past five years.
I
don’t care.
I
miss Barney.
I
don’t even much care if 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in Iraq,
mostly by Americans.
I
try to care, but can’t, about the 18000 Americans that have been
killed in Iraq and the 12,000 that have been seriously wounded.
I
don’t know a single victim.
I rarely see a single “fallen hero” on TV.
And now I don’t see Barney, who I use to see almost
every day, scampering across the White House lawn with the President
of the United States of America.
It’s why I voted for him, the President that is, not
Barney.
God, I love that dog.
I don’t care if there are 20 million illegal aliens
living in the United States and 3 million more sneak across our
southern border every year.
Is Barney OK?
I don’t care about creationism vs. evolution, pro-life
vs. pro-choice; the Ten Commandments, whether our little one’s
should be praying in school, whether we should fly the flag or
desecrate it, or who is or who isn’t “born again”.
Barney doesn’t care.
Barney doesn’t have a religion.
How is Barney doing?
That’s all I care about.
I don’t even care about my own personal dilemma.
I don’t care about the fact that I, at 55,have been
laid off from my job and still
can’t find a new one after 18 months.
I don’t care about the fact that my health insurance
company has dropped me from my policy and that a new policy would
cost me over $1500 a month.
Barney,
I miss you.
I
don’t care if my lifelong employer where I worked for the past 30
years has reneged on my retirement pension leaving me to twist in
the wind.
I
don’t care if my wife recently ran up $150,000 in medical bills
for back surgery and 8 days in the hospital.
I
don’t care if I need to spend $1000 a month on prescription
medication and have no way to pay for it.
Will
we ever know if Barney is safe and warm and happy?
I
don’t care if I’m a Vietnam veteran and I’m not even eligible
for any health coverage at the VA center (which just closed down
anyway).
I
don’t even care if my application for personal bankruptcy is
approved at the bankruptcy hearing that is scheduled for my wife and
I next month.
I
just don’t care.
All
I can think about is ----how is Barney?
Barney
always did what dogs do best. Nothing.
Damn,
I love that dog.
I
don’t care if Rove leaked the identity of a CIA undercover agent
to Cooper who may have repeated it to Novak who wrote about it in
his column after he revealed it to Miller who may have heard it from
Libby who did or did not hear it from Cheney
who knew nothing about Plame being the wife of Wilson who
wrote about yellowcake uranium not being purchased by Saddam Hussein
from Niger.
I
don’t care if the
President is not talking because the investigation is not finished
because all the facts have not come out and because no one can come
forward and tell the truth until it is all resolved by Patrick
Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor.
Barney
probably knows more than anyone about everything that goes on in the
White House.
He
just isn’t talking. And no one can make him talk.
Where
oh where is Barney?
I
hope he didn’t get out and run away and get lost.
Doesn’t
anyone care but me?
Last
week I saw the President on TV walking across the White House lawn
with Karl Rove in tow apparently orchestrated to show that the
President supports Mr. Rove in this time of tribulation about Plame/Novak/Cooper/Miller,
etc.
Scott
McClellan was close behind as if being walked on a dog leash by the
President.
Barney
would have been jealous.
Barney
was nowhere in sight.
I’m
worried.
I
don’t care about the $500 billion deficit, what happened to the
$350 tax giveback for the wealthy or the $8 trillion national debt.
I can’t care about money at a time like this.
I’m
worried about Barney.
Sometimes
I think I am being set-up.
I
know politics can be sinister and manipulative.
I’ve
heard all about “dirty tricks”, leaking to the press, and staged
photo-ops. Is this a ploy?
Is
information about Barney being withheld to purposely distract me
about the plight of our great nation when the scourge of
international terrorism and evildoers is challenging us?
Is
this a political trick to divert me from concern about issues like
the national health care crisis and the economic and financial
precipice from which our nation teeters on the edge?
Bush
should thank God that Barney can’t be called to testify before the
Grand Jury.
If
Barney was subpoenaed to testify, the President’s goose would be
cooked.
Barney,
under oath, and threatened with jail time, would have to spill the
beans.
It
would be worse than a Cessna flying low and slow directly over the
White House.
It
would be implosion time for all of the regular, big-wig, special
interest parasites who visit the White House.
Barney
has taken names, and dogs don’t forget easily.
Barney
knows who is a friend of America and who is a foe.
It’s
instinctive with dogs. They just know.
If
only I knew----about Barney, that is.
If I
could be assured that Barney was safe everything would be okay.
All
I want is just one more 30-second video clip on TV showing Barney
walking proudly across the White House lawn to the shiny green
helicopter.
I
love that dog.
James
Boyne
dboyne@aol.com
Oil may
hit $100 a barrel
July 7, 2007
aftenposten.no
A leading Norwegian economist
and one of the oil-producing country's major investors think oil
prices will keep rising until alternative energy starts paying off.
That can mean prices of more than USD 100 a barrel within a few
years.
The sun isn't expected to set
on oil prices any time soon.
Spot prices for North Sea oil
went over USD 74 a barrel on Tuesday. Some analysts think they'll
keep rising, as the summer driving season gets underway in both
North America and Europe.
Others think they'll fall back,
but not banking firm Nordea's chief economist Steinar Juel. Both
Juel and industrialist Jens Ulltveit-Moe, now a private investor,
contend that prices will rise until alternative energy sources
become economically advantageous.
Juel told newspaper Dagens Næringsliv
Wednesday that he wouldn't rule out oil prices of more than USD 100
a barrel, a level considered unthinkable just three years ago.
"When we look back, we see
that USD 40 a barrel was a prelude to today's USD 70 range,"
Juel said. "Then USD 70 a barrel can absolutely be a prelude to
USD 100 a barrel."
World economic growth, Juel
noted, points toward an ongoing need for high oil and energy demand.
And the world seems to be living with high oil prices, which so far
haven't blocked the growth.
Moreover, he notes, there's
little sign of any new large sources of oil coming on line. "I
have difficulty seeing where a lot of new oil will come from,"
Juel told Dagens Næringsliv.
Investor Ulltveit-Moe, a former
head of Norway's largest employers' association, agrees, and notes
that oil prices will likely approach levels that will make
alternative energy more viable. Coal, he notes, is the biggest rival
to oil, and the costs of extracting it and cutting its emissions
will guide oil prices.
Aftenposten English Web Desk
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article1870492.ece
Pope's move on Latin mass 'a blow to Jews'
July 8, 2007
by
Jason
Burke in Paris
The Observer
Jewish leaders and community
groups criticised Pope Benedict XVI strongly yesterday after the
head of the Roman Catholic Church formally removed restrictions on
celebrating an old form of the Latin mass which includes prayers
calling for the Jews to 'be delivered from their darkness' and
converted to Catholicism.
In a highly controversial concession to
traditionalist Catholics, Pope Benedict said that he had decided to
allow parish priests to celebrate the Latin Tridentine mass if a
'stable group of faithful' request it - though he stressed that he
was in no way undoing the reforms of the Sixties Second Vatican
Council which allowed the mass to be said in vernacular languages
for the first time.
'What
earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred and great for us
too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even
considered harmful,' Benedict wrote.
However, the older rite's prayers
calling on God to 'lift the veil from the eyes' of the Jews and to
end 'the blindness of that people so that they may acknowledge the
light of your truth, which is Christ' - used just once a year during
the Good Friday service - have sparked outrage.
Yesterday the Anti-Defamation League,
the American-based Jewish advocacy group, called the papal decision
a 'body blow to Catholic-Jewish relations'.
'We are extremely disappointed and
deeply offended that nearly 40 years after the Vatican rightly
removed insulting anti-Jewish language from the Good Friday mass, it
would now permit Catholics to utter such hurtful and insulting words
by praying for Jews to be converted,' said Abraham Foxman, the
group's national director, in Rome. 'It is the wrong decision at the
wrong time. It appears the Vatican has chosen to satisfy a
right-wing faction in the church that rejects change and
reconciliation.'
Some bishops in France as well as
liberal clergy and Catholics elsewhere have expressed concerns that
allowing freer use of the Tridentine liturgy would imply a negation
of Vatican II, the 1962-65 meetings that modernised the Roman
Catholic Church. They also feared it could create divisions in
parishes, since two different liturgies would be celebrated.
The liberal French Catholic magazine
Temoignage Chretien published an editorial in Latin explaining that
it was not concerned about the language in which the mass was
celebrated but by 'the view of the outside world held by most
supporters of the traditional rite ... of a church that sees itself
as the sole holder of the truth. Forty years after the Second
Vatican Council, this stand is untenable'.
Benedict has told bishops that such
fears are 'unfounded' as the mass celebrated in the vernacular
remained the 'normal' form while the older version was an
'extraordinary' one that would probably be sought by relatively few
Catholics.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev Federico
Lombardi, said the new rules did not 'impose any return to the past,
nor any weakening of the authority of the council, nor the authority
and responsibility of bishops'.
Benedict was acting in a bid to reach
out to the followers of an excommunicated French
ultra-traditionalist, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who split
with the Vatican over the introduction of the new mass and other
Vatican II reforms. The Vatican excommunicated him in 1988 after he
consecrated four bishops without Rome's consent. The bishops were
excommunicated as well.
Benedict has been keen to reach a
reconciliation with Lefebvre's group, the Society of St Pius X,
which has demanded freer use of the old mass as a precondition for
normalising relations. It also demands the removal of the
excommunication decrees. The group said in a statement that it
rejoiced over the document and thanked the pope for it.
In one small village in western France,
a church was recently occupied by Catholic traditionalists demanding
a mass in Latin. A new priest, who succeeded a conservative who had
served the community of 300 for 40 years, had been ordered by the
local bishop to end the unauthorised but previously tolerated older
rites, sparking a sit-in. Mathieu Mautin, 30, said that for him the
older rite 'was very important in [his] life'.
'I want my children to enjoy it too,'
Mautin said. 'The liturgy creates a universe that makes the mystery
palpable. The fact that the priest faces the altar signifies for us
that he is leading the people of God.'
Pope Benedict, who was elected in April
2005, has provoked emotional reaction from other faiths on a number
of occasions. He apologised in September last year for offending
Muslims after quoting a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said:
'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will
find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by
the sword the faith he preached.'
The Pope also sparked bewilderment when
he made no mention of anti-Semitism, or the fact that the Nazis
killed millions of people because they were Jewish, in a speech last
year at Auschwitz. He also failed to acknowledge that there might be
some degree of collective responsibility of the German people.
Comment: The Pope should show far more sensitivity
towards the Jews. Doesn’t he know how much they have suffered? He
should use his influence to get a pardon for the Rosenbergs, Pollard
and Libby and persuade Bush to remove the Torah he has hidden next
to the Oval Office and put it right out in public view!
BH
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