SANDY'S SECRETS: THE TWA 800 COVER-UP AND 9/11 By Jack Cashill

On July 6, 2006, Stonebridge International, a global strategy firm, announced that it had added a new member to its high-profile, five-member advisory board—former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton.

True to form, the major media ignored the Hamilton appointment. They should not have. Hamilton, who had served as Vice-Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, had just joined a firm headed by the man who had criminally undermined that very Commission, Stonebridge chairman and founder, Samuel "Sandy" Berger.

In the words of a House Committee report, Berger had perpetrated "a dis-turbing breach of trust and protocol that compromised the nation's national security," a breach that had come at the expense of the 9/11 Commission's very mission.

(Editor's note: Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, ranking Republican on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, points out that Berger, former National Security Advisor to President Clinton, was sentenced to community service and probation and fined $50,000 plus court costs in September 2005 for removing documents related to 9/11 from the National Archives. Berger agreed to take a polygraph test as part of his guilty plea in the case but the Justice Department never administered one. As a result, 18 Members of Congress, led by Davis, sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking that a test be administered to him promptly. "This may be the only way for anyone to know whether Mr. Berger denied the 9/11 Commission and the public the complete account of the Clinton administration's actions or inactions during the lead-up to the terrorist attacks on the United States" in 2001, Davis says. The report issued by Davis characterized the Justice Department's investigation of Burger's thievery as "remarkably incurious.")

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Anatomy of Iraq By Victor Davis Hanson

It’s make it or break it in Iraq in 2007. Or so we are told, as America nears four years of costly efforts in Iraq. But how did we get to this situation, to this fury over a war once supported by 70 percent of the public and a majority of Congress, but now orphaned by both?

How did a serious country, one that endured Antietam, sent a million doughboys to Europe in a mere year, survived Pearl Harbor, Monte Cassino, Anzio, the Bulge, Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, the Yalu, Choisun, Hue and Tet, come to the conclusion — between the news alerts about Britney Spears’ shaved head and fights over Anna Nicole Smith’s remains — that Iraq, in the words of historically minded Democratic senators, was the “worst” and the “greatest” “blunder,” “disaster,” and “catastrophe” in our “entire” history?

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Returning the GOP to Conservative Principles by Sen. Mitch McConnell

Thanks Ed [Feulner] for that kind introduction. Few people have done more for the conservative movement than Ed. Conservatives were in the wilderness when the Heritage Foundation opened its doors in 1973. But in the three decades that Ed’s been there, Heritage has become the biggest think tank in town and a big part of the reason conservatives now drive just about every policy discussion in America.

And I’m not just saying that because my wife used to work there. If Heritage gets any bigger, it’s going to have a higher gas and electric bill than Al Gore. Ed, thanks for your commitment to the conservative cause and, especially, for doing so much to train the next generation of conservative leaders. Many of them, I’m sure, are here. Thank you.

It’s great to be here, but I won’t keep you long. I don’t want to be like the Englishman that Winston Churchill once described as having “a great gift … for compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”

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Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says By Kate Ravilious - National Geographic News

Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.

Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (Get an overview: "Global Warming Fast Facts".)

Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.

In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.

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America's Islamist Threat by Joe Kaufman

Muslim Brotherhood and the Nazis


For decades, adherents of the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) have threatened the existence of their respective governments, considering them to be secular, illegitimate and traitorous. As more and more of this brand of fundamentalist – and many times fanatic – Islam reaches our shores, will the same threat for us become reality?
State-run regimes have, time and time again, taken extreme measures against the Iquan. These measures include imprisonment, expulsion, execution, and in the case of the Syrian Hama massacre of 1982, mass murder. Life at home for Brothers has never been that brotherly. For this reason, many chose to temporarily forego the quest for regional domination, in hopes of finding acceptance elsewhere.
Beginning in the 1950s, Saudi Arabia happily opened its doors to these unwanted travelers. Unlike many Muslim nations, Saudi Arabia was/is ruled by a fundamentalist form of Islam known as Wahhabism. The Islamist movement of the Ikhwan, having a similar religious underpinning, allowed for mutual understanding and acceptance from the royal family. As such, the Brotherhood was the perfect vehicle to spread the Wahhabi philosophy to other parts of the world.

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Pure Evil ... Is All Around Us By John LeBoutillier

If you ever doubted that Evil exists, all you have to do is look at the news recently. Two stories have come to the fore that demonstrate the tantalizing and seductive nature of the Devil:

1) Christ was married, had a son and his grave has ben found.

Oh, really? Says who?

Says James Cameron, a Hollywood producer desperate to make an even bigger mark from his latest documentary than he did from TITANIC.

The obsequious news media has fallen all over themselves to broadcast this latest ‘revelation.’

Well, the true purpose of this story is to undermine the fundamentals of Christianity itself. If Christ was married and fathered a child - and his body still exists, that means no resurrection thus no truth to the underlying purpose of the New Testament.

Please don’t doubt that this story surfacing now is a mere coincidence while we - Christians - are at war with Fundamentalist Islam. Indeed, Evil wants this story out there - and believed by many. Evil wants to undermine the Faith of billions of Christians who marvel at God calling home His Son to set the example of the after life in Heaven - and the power of Forgiveness.
Believe this: we are engaged in an epic struggle of Faith - faith that what we believe in is indeed God’s will - and that what these radical murderers believe in is wrong and the work of Evil.

So, just at a time when our Faith is being questioned by this phony archaeological ‘find,’ the Radical Muslims will try to convert those wavering souls that their way is God’s way.

It is decidedly not His way.

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Beware the 'Christianists'? by Robert Spencer

A new book climbing the New York Times Bestseller List warns Americans of a minority of religious fanatics who are hijacking a great religion and working to destroy the United States Constitution and set up a theocracy in America. Nonbelievers will be discriminated against or even summarily killed.

Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atta? No, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Tim LaHaye. The book in question is Chris Hedges’ American Fascists, which argues that America as we know it is under threat -- not from Islamic jihadists, but from a small group of evangelical Christians who are determined to remake the United States as a Christian state. Warning about “Christianism,” a neologism coined to parallel “Islamism,” has become fashionable. Ranging from the merely hysterical to the ranting and paranoid, books sounding the alarms about Christian theocracy are appearing in large numbers. Hedges claims that “those arrayed against American democracy are waiting for a moment to strike, a national crisis that will allow them to shred the Constitution in the name of national security and strength.

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Add BP Agent Gary Brugman to Sutton’s list - Bear Creek Ledger

You can read about former BP Agent Gary Brugman who was prosecuted by US Attorney Johnny Sutton. Again this case involves incentives to Mexican illegals just as what happened with Ramos & Compean plus disreputable witnesses were brought in who really had nothing to do with the trumped up charges. Granted this story is written by Gary Brugman but after reading his story my stomach was in knots with anger at our government.


A scandalous, but creative twist to this prosecution was that the Sutton gang also brought a convicted and incarcerated drug smuggler from his prison cell to testify against Agent Brugman. A drug smuggler who Agent Burgman himself had captured six weeks after the incident for which he was being prosecuted. Once again, there had been no previous accusation of any civil rights violation. Now however, the convicted drug smuggler conveniently offered supporting testimony to the prosecution’s false accusation that Gary Brugman was a rogue agent and a criminal. The false and vengeful testimony of this convicted drug smuggler should never have been allowed by the judge.

No one would listen to Gary Brugman several years ago and he spent two years in the general population at federal prisons wearing newspapers and magazines taped to his body as hopeful protection against inmate attacks. In view of what has recently been disclosed about Johnny Sutton’s malicious tactics, his story will be viewed with great interest now. Gary lost everything and his life was ruined but he survived his sentence and is now a free man again. Gary Brugman remains a patriotic American and tells his story now only in an effort to help Ignacio Ramos, Jose Compean, and Gilmer Hernandez prove their innocence against the power, influence, and treachery of the U.S. Attorney and George Bush water boy, Johnny Sutton.

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More on Sutton: The Dirty History of US Attorney Johnny Sutton

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Why Confront Islamism? By Amil Imani

Why confront Islamism? Because if we don't it will continue to get more extreme. This is not Islamophobia, as many Muslims and their apologists protest. A phobia is a baseless irrational fear. Detestation of Islamism, the violent form of Islam, is based on irrefutable facts and it is not only rational, it is ethically imperative.

It is a virtue to take action to oppose the hateful, a vice to ignore it. It is a virtue to hate tyranny, misogyny, discriminations of all sorts, oppression, and all manners of violations of the legitimate rights of individual and peoples. Islamism is a mutation of Islam into a terrible menace. It is religious fascism, a destroyer of liberty and much of what free people cherish. Therefore, it must be confronted.

Islamism, Islamofascism, radical Islam and political Islam, are different terms for essentially the same thing: a virulent, hateful, and violent system of beliefs and practices. Yet, one and all are progeny of Islam itself.

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George Soros and the Problem of the Radical Non-Jewish Jew By Dennis Prager

What do Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky and George Soros have in common?
They were/are all radicals, born to Jewish parents, had no Jewish identity and hurt Jews (not to mention non-Jews).

George Soros, Chairman of the Open Society Institute, speaks at a forum sponsored by the New America Foundation in Washington September 13, 2006. Soros discussed 'the age of fallibility, the consequences of the war on terror'. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES) The term 'non-Jewish Jew' is generally attributed to the Jewish historian Isaac Deutscher, who wrote an essay by that name in 1954. The term describes the individual who, though born a Jew (Judaism consists of a national/peoplehood identity, not only a religious one), identifies solely as a citizen of the world and not as a Jew, either nationally or religiously.
Once the walls of Jewish ghettos broke down and European Jews were allowed to leave Jewish societies, many Jews became non-Jewish Jews. In most cases, either they or their children assimilated into the societies in which they lived. However, a small but significant percentage became radicalized. They came to loathe 'bourgeois,' i.e., traditional middle class, values and Judeo-Christian society; Western national identities (though they generally supported anti-Western national identities); and they particularly loathed Jewish religious and national identity.

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Appeasing Our Enemies Won't Bring Peace By Ed Koch

A few days ago, The New York Times published a truly frightening article on insurgent battlefield tactics in Iraq. The article reported that 'Insurgents are likely to continue combining car bombs with chlorine gas and other chemicals to launch attacks similar to three in recent weeks that spewed chlorine and sickened scores of Iraqi, the military warned Thursday.'
Chlorine gas was first used as a weapon by Germany in World War One. France and Britain responded with poison gas of their own. Their lungs destroyed, tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides choked to death. Thousands more were wounded. Gas attacks were so horrible that neither side used poison gas in World War Two.
But between 1980 and 1988, Saddam Hussein used poison gas against Iraqi Kurds and against the Iranian army. Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda terrorists have not hesitated to employ the worst tactics of terror, using car bombs in marketplaces killing and injuring thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, as well as torturing and beheading civilians, American and Iraqi, in their efforts to drive the U.S. out of Iraq. Now they are using chlorine gas. Are they practicing tactics to use against us here at home?
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Raised the Titanic but sinking Jesus By Judi McLeod

It must be Lent. Not only has Canadian-born Titanic producer James Cameron found the tomb of Jesus Christ--backed up with what he claims is the DNA to prove it--but also his discovery was announced on Time Magazine's blog.
That sinking feeling starts to hit even before knowing that the five-times-married Cameron is both a Freemason and a member of the Mars society.
'In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the startling claim that Jesus wasn't resurrected--the cornerstone of Christian faith--and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene,' (sic). (Tim McGirk, Tales from the Crypt, Time magazine Middle East blog, Feb. 24, 2007).
This wasn't the comeback of The Da Vinci Code in time for last night's Oscars. Ronnie Howard, who tanked out in Cannes last year, won't be back for seconds, at least on his fateful betrayal of Jesus as a married man.

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Do Murtha & Pelosi Cause Americans and Iraqis to Be Killed? by Lee Ellis

The American People have demanded a new direction in Iraq by voting in a majority of Democrats during the last election,” shout Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha and other Democrats in Congress.
I thought that the election was close and that Ms. Pelosi became a majority leader with just a thin separation between the two parties. Consider what could have happened, for example, if Ted Kennedy had gone back to Chappaquiddick just before January 4, and had accidentally slipped into the water without being able to swim there as well as he did back in 1969. Mitt Romney, still Governor, might have appointed a Republican to take his place. Or, if Senator Joe Lieberman, now an Independent, gets tired of seeing his former party move closer and closer to the left, and, as a result, decides to join the Republican Party. If anything like this were to happen, the Republicans would be in control of the Senate because Vice President Dick Cheney would have the deciding vote in case of a tie. This is how close the Congress is divided.
There may be other cases where this could happen because too many people are troubled by how these Socialists or Far Leftists, who now dominate the Democrat Party, are doing all they can to get our nation to surrender to the terrorists. They claim to be patriotic and perhaps they believe this to be true. But if they are, then they are either fatally misguided or are simply pandering to frightened or uneducated voters who see or read only news such as IEDs exploding in Iraq.

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I’m not Homophobic; I’m Chick-O-Centric By Doug Giles

I think I speak for most heterosexual males when I say I’m not homophobic but chick-o-centric. Let’s keep it positive, okay? It’s not that we dislike you, the gay guy; it’s just that we really like girls. It seems no matter how long we compliantly spend in rehab undergoing the most stringent psychotherapy to rid ourselves of our knee-jerk to your mate choice, the simple fact is . . . heterosexual guys don’t “get” gays. Period.
Heck, we don’t understand women. What makes you think we’ll ever understand a man who doesn’t like women yet wants to be a woman? You just rifled right over our heads. In addition, not only are most men incapable of comprehending what a man sees in another man, we also don’t care to try to because football is on—so can we all just shut the hell up with the gay stuff and watch the game?!?

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Gates of Vienna: Martin Luther on the Jihad

In the early 16th century, nearly a hundred years after the conquest of Constantinople by the Turkish Sultan, the Turks had overrun much of the Balkans and recently subdued Hungary. The Germanic principalities in Central Europe were threatened by the Turkish advance, but their customary fractiousness — and the advent of the Protestant Reformation — had made it that much harder for Christendom to unite and repel the invaders.

In 1528, Martin Luther had no way of knowing that a century and half later the Christian states of Europe would unite long enough to drive the Turks back from the Gates of Vienna. In his day, Europe was up for grabs.

Here are some excerpts from what Luther had to say about Islam, and the necessity for a robust military defense of Christendom, from Vom Kriege wider die Türken (On War Against the Turk):

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Dump the 'gay' beat By Joseph Farah

No matter where you turn today in the so-called 'mainstream' media (you know, the part of the press losing all the readers and viewers), practically all you see is coverage of people with aberrant sexual practices.
I'm sure this is happening because social activists, including many who just want to feel good about their own aberrant sexual practices, have thoroughly dominated America's newsrooms.

As a newsman of more than 30 years, I actually witnessed this takeover of newspapers, wire services and the broadcast outlets. It started slowly, innocently. Before we knew it, the journalism business had gone as fey as Broadway.

I deal with this subject at considerable length in my upcoming book, "Stop the Presses." But I want you to understand that I witnessed this sea change in my business up close and personal.

I also saw how it changed news coverage for the worse.

Today, no story that reflects negatively on homosexuality can or will be published, disseminated or broadcast because of this internal pressure lobby inside the "gay media complex.

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Peak Performance? By Vaclav Smil

Peter Odell, one of the most astute, life-long observers of global oil scene, calls them 'peak-oilers.' Some of them were quite unhappy when I pointed out (in Energy at the Crossroads, in these pages, and in Worldwatch in January 2006) their propensity for wholesaling catastrophic scenarios of the world once the global oil production peaks and begins to decline. But how else can one label such writings as Richard C. Duncan's 'Olduvai theory' according to which the declining oil extraction will plunge humanity into life comparable to that experienced by some of the first primitive hominids who inhabited that famous Kenyan gorge some 2.5 million years ago?
And no one else can be blamed for the repeated failure of their forecasts but the prominent peak-oilers themselves. According to Colin Campbell the global oil extraction was to peak in 1989; Ivanhoe's peak was in 2000; Deffeyes set it first in 2003 and then, with ridiculous accuracy, on the Thanksgiving of 2005.

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Supporters of US Vice President Dick Cheney hold a banner outside the hotel where he delivered his Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Sydney.

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