The 9/11 attacks were planned in Hamburg, Germany and, apparently, Madrid, Spain, not by al-Qaida in Afghanistan, as the US claimed. The planners and executors of the attacks were mostly Saudis, not Afghans.
Frankness and honesty are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy.
Bibi Netanyahu owes his entire political career to the Henry Kissinger group in the U.S. who financed his education, got him a job on Wall Street and guided his rise in Israeli politics.
The more the corrupt western politicians and media whores demonized [Hugo] Chavez, the more Venezuelans loved him. They understood completely that anyone damned by Washington was God’s gift to the world.
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Let us then come to a preliminary finding, to the effect that the past lends itself all too readily to use by those who have a political axe to grind. Nothing works better to further a cause—good or bad—than to lend it legitimacy by supplying it with a long heritage.
I am frankly opposed to this war criminal stuff. It is not cricket and is Semitic. I am also opposed to sending POW's to work as slaves in foreign lands (i.e., sent by the US to the USSR's Gulags, France), where many will be starved to death.
Genl George S Patton, Sep 14, 1945 (The Patton Papers, vol 2, p 750)
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
All Hawaii citizens should read Ben, particularly to make themselves aware of the kind of power plays and pressures that take place in our legislature.
They're [Congress] so far removed from admitting the seriousness of this ["Fiscal Cliff" budget] crisis and if they don’t admit it, they can’t solve the problem.
Both Alex Jones and Glenn Beck say the Boston Marathon bombing is the most important story they've ever covered. Neither one will ever say a word against Israel or Jews, no matter how well deserved. Alex simply doesn't bring up the subject, and Beck thinks of Israel and Jews as God's chosen. So any negative role either might play is not going to figure in this discussion or any other.
The AlexJonesChannel introduction:
PROOF! Boston Marathon Bombing is Staged Terror Attack
Unlike Oaklahoma City the FBI cannot confiscate all of the surveillance, cell phone, and thousands of cameras that were at the finish line of Boston Marathon. 4Chan posted dozens of photos showing Navy Seal or Private Security personnel carrying the same black back packs which are the same style backpacks showed in FBI photos. It's becoming crystal clear. Get these articles and this video out to everyone you know.
Views as of Hawaii Political Info posting: 1,115,698
YouTube introduction: Glenn Beck says the response to the Boston Marathon bombing will determine whether America survives and says The Blaze will expose the government cover-up on Monday.
Hoover Presidential Library introduction: Historian George H. Nash speaks about Herbert Hoover and his efforts to write "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) makes the preposterous statement, repeatedly, that taxes are voluntary. It looks like he might actually believe that.
Leave it to Russia Today to bring us the news the American mainstream news isn't. But let's hope they follow up.
Russia Today YouTube introduction: The Boston bombing suspects are 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who remains at large, and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnayev [sic], who was killed after a police car chase. Their family originates from Russia's North Caucasus, but settled in the United States more than a decade ago. RT talks to the mother of the two suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva.
On the other hand, according to Russia Today the father of the two brothers, Anzor Tsarnaev, confessed to reporters that he talked with his son about the bombing earlier this week.
“We talked about the bombing. I was worried about them," he said.
Anzor Tsarnaev called on his son to give up peacefully. At the same time he warned that if the U.S. kills his son, "all hell will break loose."
Submitted by Pat Beekman on Thu, 04/18/2013 - 23:16
Ernie Pyle grave, Punchbowl Cemetery/Click photo for full size
Ernie Pyle, famed WWII journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, was killed by enemy fire on April 18, 1945 on Iejima, Okinawa, Japan, three months before the war ended. He was well-known among Americans, who followed his stories about the war in both the European and Pacific theaters.
The commanding general at Iejima, known at the time as Ie Shima (both are alternative Japanese pronunciations of the same kanji), reported Pyle's death to his superiors as follows: "I regret to report that War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, who made such a great contribution to the morale of our foot soldier, was killed in the battle of Ie Shima today."
His remains were removed from Okinawa to be re-interred at the new Punchbowl Cemetery, more formally known as the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in 1949. In the immediate years that followed, Punchbowl was often noted as the cemetery where Ernie Pyle was laid to rest.
This writer remembers meeting a man in Florida in 1988 or so who reminisced about Ernie Pyle, whom he knew through their mutual membership in a New York City go club. Go is a Japanese game similar to chess, but reputed to be more complicated. The man said Ernie was a good player. Back then there were few to no Japanese members of the club, and it was an obscure hobby in the U.S.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is interviewed by the BBC's aggressive chief international correspondent, Canadian Lyse Doucet. It sounds like Israel is arming Syrian rebels, but he refuses to confirm this.
The pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at the same horrible vision.
"My God, this is a nightmare," the co-pilot said.
"He's going to destroy us," the pilot agreed.
The men were looking at a gray German Messerschmitt fighter hovering just three feet off their wingtip. It was five days before Christmas 1943, and the fighter had closed in on their crippled American B-17 bomber for the kill.
Monsanto GMO corn on Kunia Rd, Oahu. Click photo for enlargement
Alan Takemoto of Monsanto emailed the following this morning to all Hawaii state senators. It may have gone out to all representatives besides.
This gives a small but significant glimpse into the kind of "information" our elected officials are getting from the company that many of the people, if not their elected representatives, love to hate.
From: TAKEMOTO, ALAN (AG/2111) [mailto:alan dot takemoto at monsanto dot com] [email address edited by HPI to prevent problems that could be caused by posting it as is online]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:39 AM
To: All Senators
Subject: Monsanto Public Relations - April
Importance: High
Aloha Senators,
Please find attach [sic] a Community Letter advertisement placed in the Star Advertiser this past Sunday, April 14th [sic]. The same ad will be placed tomorrow, Wed., April 17th [sic]. We will be following up with another advertisement towards the end of the month.
Mahalo,
Alan
Hawaii Political Info note: Click on "1 attachment" below to see the attachment that came with the above email. It may take up to 45 seconds or so for the document to change from blank to normal.
