Iran-Contra’s ‘Lost Chapter’

By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
June 30, 2008

As historians ponder George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.

To understand this extraordinary development, historians might want to look back at the 1980s and examine the Iran-Contra scandal’s “lost chapter,” a narrative describing how Ronald Reagan’s administration brought CIA tactics to bear domestically to reshape the way Americans perceived the world.

That chapter – which we are publishing here for the first time – was “lost” because Republicans on the congressional Iran-Contra investigation waged a rear-guard fight that traded elimination of the chapter’s key findings for the votes of three moderate GOP senators, giving the final report a patina of bipartisanship.

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by Lorie Anderson

Many are excited about the upcoming New Age movie, “Indigo,” written, produced, and directed by three renowned individuals who now live in Ashland – James Twyman, Neale Donald Walsch, and Stephen Simon. Appealing are the career opportunities, the camaraderie of movie-making, the promoting of spirituality and messages of peace and love. Promoters say it will stimulate the local economy and help our schools. But after examining the Indigo Child movement, and specifically the activities of co-writer/producer James Twyman, I see potential consequences for the community — and for children.

INDIGO CHILDREN

The Indigo Child concept was first popularized by the book, “The Indigo Children,” written by the husband and wife team Lee Carroll and Jan Tober. Carroll also portrays himself as a channeler for “Kryon,” a spiritual entity who predicted the coming of the Indigo Children – will wonders never cease?

The authors say that “the Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before.” For example, they act like royalty, have difficulty with absolute authority unless given choices or explanations, are easily frustrated (e.g. when waiting in line), are not shy, have difficulty with guilt-based discipline, are non-conformist, may seem antisocial and prefer to be with their own kind, and may have social difficulties in school. I, for one, see nothing new, unusual, or unheard-of here.

The Indigo Child concept may appeal especially to parents of children with mental health challenges, e.g. ADD, ADHD, autism, bi-polar disorder, conduct disorder, or a difficult temperament. Proponents target these label- and medication-wary parents. So, what is the harm in giving parents a positive spin on their children for a change — like Indigo?

INDIGO: THE COLOR OF MONEY – Indigo Children – a skeptical viewpoint

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• Mexican Army Members Busted for Home Invasion and Murder in Phoenix.
• Happy St. John’s Day from Loren Coleman.
• BBC NEWS – Nurse writes book on near-death.

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Police reports show that three men arrested in a Phoenix home invasion and homicide Monday may have been active members of the Mexican Army.
Click Here to listen to Mark Spencer’s entire interview on the J.D. Hayworth show.

However, Phoenix Police have not confirmed the men were Mexican Army members.

Sgt. Joel Tranter said one suspect revealed that he had “prior military training,” but “no credible evidence” that any of them were active in the military.

Click Here for more from Sgt. Tranter with KFYI reporter Bob Bennett. 

While on the J.D. Hayworth show, Phoenix Law Enforcement Association President Mark Spencer said that the men involved were hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and assassinations.

The Monday morning incident at 8329 W. Cypress St. resulted in the death of the homeowner.  Between 50 and 100 rounds were fired at the house.

Spencer said a police officer told him that one of the men captured said they were completely prepared to ambush Phoenix police, but ran out of ammunition.

He added that all were all dressed in military tactical gear and were armed with AR-15 assault rifles.  Three other men involved in the invasion escaped.

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The date June 24 is one tied to some of the weirdest happenings. Enjoy the day, and keep a watch out for the unusual to occur.

Cryptomundo.com » Happy St. John’s Day

Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 24th, 2008

An intensive care nurse from Swansea has published an academic book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.

Penny Sartori, who works at Singleton and Morriston Hospitals in Swansea, has 15 accounts, mainly from heart attack patients, of near-death experiences.

They include out-of-body occurrences, reports of a tunnel leading to a bright light and meeting dead loved ones.

The book, costing £85, is intended for academic study and college libraries.

Ms Sartori decided to launch her formal study in 1998 after working closely with critically-ill patients throughout the 1990s and discovering there was very little reference data available for nurses and other healthcare workers.

She spent five years compiling the study, three years writing it up and two years preparing it for publication. The book is called Near Death Experiences of Hospitalized Intensive Care Patients, a Five Year Clinical Study.

Read complete article: Nurse writes book on near-death

How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it

JULIAN ASSANGE (investigative editor)
Monday June 15, 2008

Wikileaks has released a sensitive 219 page US military counterinsurgency manual. The manual, Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004), may be critically described as “what we learned about running death squads and propping up corrupt government in Latin America and how to apply it to other places”. Its contents are both history defining for Latin America and, given the continued role of US Special Forces in the suppression of insurgencies, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, history making.

The leaked manual, which has been verified with military sources, is the official US Special Forces doctrine for Foreign Internal Defense or FID.

How to train death squads and quash revolutions from San Salvador to Iraq – Wikileaks

Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming?

June 23rd, 2008 Posted in DUI/DWI

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist

If you’re not a convicted drunk driver, should you still be required to have an in-car breathalyzer fitted (at your expense, ‘natch) to your next new vehicle?

Apparently, some automakers — including GM and Toyota — think so. They and a few others are working together under the auspices of something called the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, which is a $10 million federal “research program” that is trying to develop just such technology for mass introduction a few years from now.

At the moment, the only people who have to deal with (and pay for) in-car Breathalyzers are convicted drunks; the devices are basically ignition locks that prevent the vehicle’s engine from being started until the would-be driver blows into the tube and the system determines he’s not liquored up.

But by 2012 or so, in-car breath sniffers could be standard equipment in every new vehicle sold, force-fed to you by the tag team of Washington, Detroit and, of course, the ever-busy Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).

No conviction necessary.

READ MORE: Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming? and GET MADD!!!

When Paul Kaminski completed his graduate work in 1971 with degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford, he started building advanced airplanes for the U.S. Air Force. By the time he stopped several decades later, he had played a pivotal role in producing a flock of new weapons, including radar-evading stealth aircraft.

If Kaminski were coming out of a university today, chances are that he would be going to work for the likes of Microsoft or Google.

Over the past decade, as spending on new military projects has reached its highest level since the Reagan years, the Pentagon has increasingly been losing the people most skilled at managing them. That brain drain, military experts like Kaminski say, is a big factor in a breakdown in engineering management that has made huge cost overruns and long delays the maddening norm.

High-technology brain drain takes heavy toll on U.S. military projects – International Herald Tribune

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Speaking of “brain drain” … kinda reminds me of ALTERNATIVE 3:

Alternative 3 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alternative 3 by Leslie Watkins, David Ambrose, Christopher Miles …

Army Spot UFOs Over Shropshire

By ANDREW PARKER and JOHN COLES

A SHAKEN soldier told last night how he saw THIRTEEN UFOs spinning in the skies above his military barracks.

Corporal Mark Proctor was among three squaddies who spotted the objects while out on night patrol.

He filmed them on his mobile phone and reported the close encounter to Army top brass.

Ministry of Defence experts were studying his report and video yesterday — after ordering Mark and his pals NOT to say anything else about the incident.

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The sighting, at Tern Hill barracks near Market Drayton, Shrops, came two hours before helicopter police officers reported an encounter with a huge craft 80 miles away near Cardiff.

And three hours before a couple claimed they were followed by a strange light in the sky along the A5 near Shrewsbury.

Yesterday further mind-boggling evidence emerged as dog walker Bonnie Lewis, 29, told how she filmed seven UFOs at Bromsgrove, Worcs, last Friday.

Cpl Proctor, 38, of the 1st Battalion Irish Regiment, recalled how he saw the amazing ?craft? just after 11pm on Saturday, June 7.

He said: ?I was on duty in the guard room when the other boys outside began shouting. I went out to see what the commotion was about and could see thirteen craft in the skies.

?They were zig-zagging, but I filmed two before they disappeared. They were like rotating cubes with multiple colours.

?I made a full report to my commanding officers and gave them my footage. The other lads were as amazed by it as I was.?

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Many Dutch prepare for 2012 apocalypse – UPI.com

Controversialist Carlin Dead In LA…

…mourned as counterculture hero

George Carlin, irreverent comedian, dies at 71 – International Herald Tribune

WASHINGTON (CNN) — It’s a safe bet that every time you fly, you show a photo ID to an official at the airport checkpoint.

A TSA officer checks a passenger’s ID at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

Every time Nick Kloiber flies, he doesn’t.

Kloiber, 23, a University of Kentucky Law School student and privacy advocate, knows something that you probably don’t — contrary to popular belief, and contrary to some airport signs, travelers are not required to present identification at airport checkpoints.

Under current Transportation Security Administration policy, passengers can refuse to show identification and can still fly — as long as they agree to secondary screening, meaning a search of their carry-on bags and a pat down.

But all that is about to change.

Beginning Saturday, June 21, travelers like Kloiber who “willfully refuse” to show IDs won’t be allowed through checkpoints or onto planes. Only passengers who show IDs, and “cooperative” passengers, who explain why their IDs are missing and help police confirm their identities, will get through. Watch a report on the policy change »

The TSA says it is changing the policy “to facilitate travel for legitimate passengers” while helping its security work force focus on “people, not things.”

Flying without an ID is coming to a controversial end – CNN.com