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Joe Quinn has written a good article about peak oil and the 911 Truth Movement called Ruppert and Hopsicker Co-Opting the 9-11 Truth Movement which I thought might interest a passersby or two.

Be sure and take a look if you’re interested in these two topics.

Excerpt from a satirical, yet thought-provoking piece published yesterday on the international alternative news site, Signs of the Times:

Open Letter from George Bush to the American People

SOTT

Dear Western World (and all others blessed by a Western-style corpotocracy instead of a representative government),

It has come to my attention that you are unaware of one very important piece of information. This information is so important that I (along with my media whores) will be taking time out from my busy schedule to personally bring you the facts over the next few months.

This information is shocking, not least for a decent home-loving boy like myself, so I urge you to brace yourself and ensure that you are in a seated position:

IRAN IS THE LIVING INCARNATION OF…..EVIL! (cue orpheus)

Yes indeedy folks, while we may have been buddies up until recently, we may have meddled in their affairs and installed the regime that suited us best at the time, we may have known for years that the Iranian clerics pursue a somewhat less than “free” form of government, but things have changed, and current needs dictate that you, my darling public morons, begin to believe fervently that Satan himself lives in Tehran.

To this end you will begin to see all manner of reports in the mainstream media which will subtly inform you of just how evil Iran is, and just how much its people need a good dose of American-style freedom and democracy.

During this time, you may feel slightly uncomfortable and the nagging sense that you are being manipulated may arise; this is normal, do not adjust your television sets, the feeling will pass - try eating a tube of toothpaste (the extra flouride kind).

To get the ball rolling, consider the following:

Journalist is jailed for 14 years after ‘insulting’ authority

By Daniel Howden
25 February 2005

A prominent Iranian journalist and blogger has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges ranging from spying to aiding counter-revolutionaries. His sentence comes as part of the latest clerical crackdown on freedom of speech.

Arash Sigarchi, a regional newspaper editor, was accused of inciting a riot through his writings and insulting the authorities. His lawyer, Mohammad Saifzadeh, questioned the authority of the court and said he would appeal. […]

I know you will all join with me in condemning those evil Iranian Muslim, Persian devils! All this poor guy was doing was exercising his free speech on the net! And he gets 14 years in jail for it! Now that’s just pure old-fashioned evil folks! These people need to be taught a lesson!

Mr Sigarchi is said by authorities to be a paid employee of Farda radio, a US-funded station based in Prague. Hardliners in Iran accuse the network of seeking to incite public unrest and destabilise the ruling Islamic establishment.

Now just in case you happen to come across it, there are some reports out there that this particular person was being used by the CIA to stir up popular revolt in Iran and that, as such, he has little to complain about. There are also some allegations that the CIA facilitated his arrest so that the Iranian government could then be condemned in the world press. I would just like to confirm that such claims are scurrilous and that such covert operations simply do not occur.

The previous August (1989) a contingent of the Maktal (Mossad reconnaissance unit) and several naval commandos had headed up the Euphrates, their target was an explosives factory located in the city of Al-Iskandariah. Information the Mossad had received from American intelligence revealed that every thursday a small convoy of trucks came to the complex to be loaded with explosives for the purpose of manufacturing cannon shells. The objective was to take position near the base on Wednesday August 23rd and wait until the next day when the trucks would be loaded. At that point, several sharpshooters would fire one round each of an explosive bullet at a designated truck while they were in the process of loading, so that there would be a carry on explosion into the storage facility.

The operation was quite successful and the explosion generated the sort of publicity the Mossad was hoping for in attracting attention to Saddam’s constant efforts at building a gigantic and powerful military arsenal. The Mossad shared its “findings” with the Western intelligence agencies and leaked the story of the explosion to the press.

Since this was a guarded facility Western reporters had minimal access to it. However, at the beginning of September, the Iraqis were inviting Western media people to visit Iraq and see the rebuilding that had taken place after the [Iran-Iraq] war, and the Mossad saw an opportunity to conduct a damage assessment.

A man calling himself Michel Rubiyer saying he was working for the French newspaper “le figaro”, approached Farzad Bazoft, a thirty one year old reporter freelancing for the British newspaper the Observer. Rubiyer was in fact Michel M. a Mossad agent.

Michel told Farzad that he would pay him handsomely and print his story if he would join a group of journalists heading for Baghdad. The reason he gave for not going himself was that he had been black-listed in Iraq. He pointed out the Bazoft could use the money and the break especially with his criminal background. Michel told the stunned reporter that he knew of his arrest in 1981 for armed robbery in Northhampton England. Along with the implied threat he told Bazoft that he would be able to print his story in the Observer as well.

Michel told Bazoft to collect information regarding the explosion ask questions about it get sketches of the area and collect earth samples. He told the worried reporter that Saddam would not dare harm a reporter even if he was unhappy with him. The worst the Saddam would do was kick him out of the country, which would in itself make him famous.

Why this particular reporter? He was of Iranian background and would make punishing him much easier for the Iraqis and he wasn’t a European whom they would probably only hold and then kick out. In fact, Bazoft had been identified in a Mossad search that was triggered by his prying into another Mossad case in search of a story involving an ex-Mossad asset Dr Cyrus Hashemi who was eliminated by mossad in 1986. Since Bazoft had already stumbled on too much information for his own good - or the Mossad’s for that matter - he was the perfect candidate for this job of snooping in forbidden areas.

Bazoft made his way to the location as he was asked and as might be expected was arrested. Tragically, his British girlfriend, a nurse working in a baghdad hospital was arrested as well.

Within a few days of his arrest, a Mossad liaison in the US called the Iraqi representative in Holland and said that Jerusalem was willing to make a deal for the release of their man who had been captured. the Iraqi representative asked for time to contact Baghdad, and the liaison called the next day, at which point he told the Iraqi representative it was all a big mistake and severed contact. Now the Iraqis had no doubt that they had a real spy on their hands, and they were going to see him hang. All the Mossad had to do was sit back and watch as Saddam proved to the world what a monster he really was.
On March 15th 1990 Farzad Bazoft, who had been held in the Abu Gharib prison met briefly with the British Ambassador to Iraq.

A few minutes after the meeting he was hanged. (The Other Side of Deception, Victor Ostrovsky)

I know y’all will join with me in condemning the targetting of journalists for simply reporting factual information that is damaging to a government as despicable behavior that should never be tolerated.

Iran girl gets 100 lashes for sex

A teenage girl and two young men in Iran have been sentenced to lashes for having sex.

The court dismissed the girl’s claim that she was raped. It said she had sex of her own free will, the official Iran Daily newspaper reported.

The girl was sentenced to 100 lashes because her accusations of rape and kidnap could have landed her partners a death penalty, the Tehran judge said.
Sex outside marriage is illegal in Iran and capital punishment can be imposed.
The young men in the case were sentenced to 30 and 40 lashes each.

Rights violations

The Iran paper quotes the girl, who has not been named, as confessing: “I trusted one of these young men, whom I got to know by phone, and went to his place.

“But because he betrayed me, I filed the case against him and his friend out of revenge.”

This kind of thing goes on all the time in Iran, people! What more do we need to know?! This country is clearly in need of democratising! Think about the children! Think back to just before Gulf War I. Remember those babies in incubators? Okay, so we made that story up, but it was true in the sense that it correctly protrayed the image that we wanted you all to have of Saddam, and it worked! Sure, we may have killed 500,000 Iraqi children as a result of sanctions in the 10 years after the Gulf war, but that wasn’t our fault! It was Saddam and his evil regime who wouldn’t allow a US take over of his oil fields!

Clearly something must be done for the Iranian people. I know that my fellow Americans will join with me in refusing to sit back smugly and keep all of the freedom and democracy to ourselves, heck! there’s plenty to go around, right!? I mean, have ever thought about just what we have to offer the world! […]

For full article, see: George Bush to the American People

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I came across a weblog entry today regarding the demonstrations in front of the Supreme Court which I would like to include here.

It reads:

Commandments Debate Prompts Demonstrations

The Associated Press reported today via Yahoo News that demonstrators were protesting Wednesday in front of the Supreme Court. Quoting from that article:

“Shouts of “Amen” and a response of “hypocrites” pierced the chill air Wednesday as demonstrators protested in front of the Supreme Court while inside justices considered cases involving displays of the Ten Commandments on government property. ” [….]

[….] “The cases before the court centered on whether a 6-foot-tall monument of the Ten Commandments in Texas should be allowed to remain on Capitol grounds and a copy of the Commandments can stay posted in a courthouse in Kentucky. ” [….]

Towards the end of the piece, the author writes:

[….] “Christan Stapleton, 13, of Newland, N.C. carried a homemade, cardboard Ten Commandments tablet. She came to the Supreme Court with her church and family members.

‘We do need them in our school,’ she said, ‘to help us know what to do, what God wants us to do as we go through our day.’ ” [….]

“What God wants us to do” ??

How about: THINK FOR YOURSELVES, rather than expecting someone else to do it for you?

How about: stop your government from going into foreign countries and murdering the citizens of said countries - all in the “name of God”, in the name of “democracy”, in the name of “freedom”, in YOUR name?

How about: WAKING UP and smelling the flipping coffee, for Pete’s sake?

How’s that for starters?

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