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To the Teabaggers, and other right wing Christian fascists:

Titus 1:15-16 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Suppressed Truth in the US -
Here are the 25 Top Articles of 2011

If you read my commentaries regularly, you know that I am steadily criticizing the suppression of the truth or the telling of lies. To give you a heads up what is going on in the Media department, here another article from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info, who keep track of the Truth.

Top 25 Stories of 2011 Subjected to Press Censorship

1. More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat (For full story, click here)
For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462). In 2009, the 381 suicides of active-duty soldiers recorded by the military also exceeded the number of deaths in battle. The Good report, which references the Congressional Quarterly as a source, was published in January 2011, just weeks after military authorities announced that a psychological screening program seemed to be stemming the suicide rate among active-duty soldiers. “This new data, that American soldiers are now more dangerous to themselves than the insurgents, flies right in the face of any suggestion that things are ‘working,’” Good Senior Editor Cord Jefferson wrote.

Sources: Good Report, “More US Soldiers Killed Themselves Than Died in Combat in 2010” Truthdig, “Death and After in Iraq” Alternet, “Can You Face the True Consequences of War?"

2. US Military Manipulates the Social Media (For full story, click here)
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. Anyone suspicious of “sock puppets” ... would be unnerved by the US military’s “online persona management service,” a little-known program described in The Guardian UK, Raw Story, and Computerworld stories. The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) is developing the program. Using up to 10 false identities, they can counter charged political dialogue with pro-military propaganda. These "personas" can be given detailed, fictionalized backgrounds to make them believable to outside observers, and a sophisticated identity protection service to back them up, preventing suspicious readers from uncovering the real person behind the account.

Sources: Guardian UK, “Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media” Raw Story, "Military’s ‘persona’ software cost millions"; Computerworld, "Army of fake social media friends to promote propaganda"

3. Obama Authorizes International Assassination Campaign (For full story, click here)
The Obama administration has quietly put into practice an ‘incomplete idea’ left over from the G.W. Bush presidency: creating a de facto ‘presidential international assassination program.’ U.S. citizens suspected of encouraging “terror” are being put on “death lists” without any due process of law. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. military have the authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad without a trial and outside war zones if strong evidence exists that they’re involved in terrorist activity, the Washington Post reported in a front page story. A moral, ethical, and legal analysis of the assassinations seems to be significantly lacking inside the corporate media. In December of 2010, Human Rights Watch asked for clarification of the legal rationale behind this practice after a judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the notion.

Source: Human Rights Watch, “Letter to President Obama – Targeted Killings” Inter Press Service, “Judge Declines to Rule on Targeted Killings of U.S. Citizens” Salon, “Obama Authorizes Assassination of U.S. Citizen” Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings

4. Human Caused Food Crisis Expands (For full story, click here)
A new worldwide spike in agricultural commodity and food prices is generating both predictable and extraordinary fallouts. The search for causes once again leads to a conjuncture of flawed policies in trade, environment, finance and agriculture that is likely to produce more dangerous volatility in years to come. David Moberg, offering an in-depth breakdown of the global food crisis in In These Times, places the blame for rising food prices and increasing malnutrition on flawed economic policies. “Hunger is currently a result of poverty and inequality, not lack of food,” he concludes. “Since 2010 began, roughly another 44 million people have quietly crossed the threshold into malnutrition, joining 925 million already suffering from lack of food,” Moberg writes. “If prices continue to rise, this food crisis will push the ranks of the hungry toward a billion people.”

Sources: In These Times, “Diet Hard: With A Vengeance”

5. Private Prison Companies Fund Anti–Immigrant Legislation (For full story, click here)
Over the past four years roughly a million immigrants have been incarcerated in dangerous detention facilities in our taxpayer-financed private prison system. Children were abused, women were raped, and men died from lack of basic medical attention. When Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ran for reelection in 2010, her greatest out-of-state campaign contributions came from high-ranking executives of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), one of the nation’s largest prison companies. CCA profits directly from building and operating prisons and detention centers. CCA previously employed two of Brewer’s legislative aides as lobbyists. Peter Cervantes-Gautschi spotlights Brewer’s links to CCA and goes deeper still, offering an historic account of how investors in CCA and prison giant Geo Group have for years actively pushed for legislation that would result in the widespread incarceration of undocumented immigrants.

Sources: Social Policy, "Wall Street & Our Campaign to Decriminalize Immigrants"

6. Google Spying? (For full story, click here)
Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated Internet search engine giant Google for illegally collecting personal data such as passwords, emails, and other online activities from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in homes and businesses across the US and around the world. A flurry of stories aired in the spring of 2010 when it became apparent that Google Street View vehicles, in the process of collecting data for its mapping service, also picked up consumer “payload” data on Wi-Fi networks, including e-mail messages, website data, user names, and passwords. The tech giant publicly apologized for what it characterized as a mistake, saying it had “failed badly.” The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) admonished Google in a letter, but declined to pursue it further. Project Censored authors claim that the FTC abandoned its inquiry because a week earlier, Obama attended a Democratic Party fundraiser at the Palo Alto home of Google executive Marissa Mayer, citing a San Francisco Chronicle article about the $30,000-per person affair.

Sources: United States Federal Trade Communication, Personal Communication of David Vladeck; San Francisco Chronicle, "Google’s Marissa Mayer Hosting Obama At $30,000-A-Head Fundraiser Tonight"

7. U.S. Army and Psychology’s Largest Experiment–Ever (For full story, click here)
In the January 2011 issue of American Psychologist, the American Psychology Association (APA) dedicated 13 articles to detailing and celebrating a 117 million dollar collaboration with the US Army, called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF). It’s being marketed as a resilience training to reduce adverse psychological consequences to soldiers who endure combat. Comprehensive Solider Fitness (CSF) is described as a “holistic approach to warrior training,” emphasizing positive psychology as a means to counter mental health problems arising from horrific combat situations. Yet there are many questions about the wisdom of launching a required, untested psychology program for more than a million soldiers, one that encourages soldiers to think positive even in the face of traumatizing events. This “training” program might better be described as a research project. The core hypothesis of this massive program’s success has yet to be confirmed through further research.

Sources: Truthout, “The Dark Side of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness” Psychology of Well Being, A Holistic Approach to Warrior Training; Truthout, “Army’s 'Spiritual Fitness' Test Comes Under Fire”

8. The Myth of Clean and Safe Nuclear Power (For full story, click here)
The terrifying meltdowns of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors reignited worldwide debate about the wisdom of relying on nuclear energy as an electricity source. While Germany opted to phase out its nuclear facilities by 2022 in the wake of the tragedy, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) came under scrutiny after a Union of Concerned Scientists report analyzed 14 “near misses” at nuclear power plants in 2010, revealing the shortcomings in NRC inspections. Yet mainstream media’s treatment of nuclear power is all too willing to endorse the idea that nuclear power is safe. Major news publications readily go along with the nuclear industry’s branding of the power source as “clean” and “carbon free” when it’s really not. Nuclear power presents a security threat of unprecedented proportions: It’s capable of a catastrophic accident that can kill hundreds of thousands of people, with a byproduct that is toxic for millennia. To call nuclear power “clean” is an affront to science, common sense, and the English language itself.

Sources: Union of Concerned Scientists, “Nuclear Reactor Crisis in Japan FAQs” Nuclear Information and Resource Service, “Nuclear Energy Is Dirty Energy"; U.S. NRC, “Radiation Exposure and Cancer”

9. The Government is Manipulating the Weather (For full story, click here)
Rising global temperatures, increasing population, and degradation of water supplies, have created broad support for the growing field of weather modification. The U.S. government has conducted weather modification experiments for over half a century, and the military-industrial complex stands poised to capitalize on these discoveries. One of the latest programs is HAARP, the High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program. This technology can potentially trigger floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. The scientific idea behind HAARP is to “excite” a specific area of the ionosphere and observe the physical processes in that excited area with intention of modifying ecological conditions. HAARP can also be used as a weapon system, capable of selectively destabilizing agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions. At a recent international symposium, scientists asserted that manipulation of climate through modification of cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory and is fully operational.

Sources: Global Research, “Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails” Dr. Coen Vermeeren, Symposium speech; Commonwealth Club, “Man-Made Climate Change in the Skies”
[For highly revealing documentaries on HAARP by Canada's CBC and the History Channel, click here]

10. Real Unemployment: One Out of Five in US (For full story, click here)
The corporate media wants America to feel secure during a time of unemployment crisis, but people deserve to know what is really happening rather than a statistical lie. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates the “official unemployment rate” by counting everyone who had no job, was available for work, and had actively sought work in the last four weeks, according to the BLS website. But alternative BLS statistics incorporate so-called “discouraged workers,” unemployed individuals who’ve given up on the job hunt. In the first four months of 2011, the national unemployment rate officially stood at around 9 percent, while a BLS statistic incorporating discouraged workers and the marginally employed bumped that figure up to 15.9 percent. Yet according to San Francisco-based economist John Williams, who maintains a website called Shadow Government Statistics, the “real” unemployment rate is actually 22.1 percent, or more than one out of five US residents.

Sources: Information Clearing House, “9% Unemployment Rate is a Statistical Lie” Shadow Government Statistics, "Alternate Unemployment Charts"

Thanks to the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Rebecca Bowe for parts of the above summaries.

More of the Top 25 Press Censorship Stories of 2011

11. Trafficking of Iraqi Women Rampant (For full story, click here)
Human trafficking occurs throughout the world, yet has become increasingly more prevalent in Iraq due to the instability produced by the war. Many Iraqi women and girls are widowed or orphaned by wartime casualties. Currently, more than 50,000 Iraqi women have fled to Jordan and Syria and are trapped in sexual servitude with no possibility of escape.

12. Pacific Garbage Dump: Did You Think Your Plastic Was Being Recycled? (Story here)
Many people do not realize that there is a swirling mass of plastic in the middle of the Pacific ocean that qualifies as the planet’s largest garbage dump. Recent research sponsored by the National Science Foundation suggests the affected area may be twice the size of Hawaii. The 5 Gyres Project estimates that there are 315 billion pounds of plastic in the ocean right now.

13. Will a State of Emergency Be Used to Supersede Our Constitution? (Story here)
A program dating back to the Eisenhower era is now converted to bestow secret powers on the president for anything he considers an emergency. Recent “Continuity of Government” planning has quietly removed time-honored constitutional protections and increased the militarization of civilian law enforcement. For the first time in US history, military troops are allowed to do police actions in US cities. Recently the US Army established an active-duty brigade trained to manage civil unrest and crowd control. Historically this has been illegal. There has been a loss of local authority and sustained preparations for the possibility of martial law.

14. Family Pressure on Young Girls for Genitalia Mutilation in Kenya (For full story, click here)
Girls as young as nine years old were threatened with death if they tried to escape the Kamunera location, where they awaited female genitalia mutilation in Kenya. Some are still in hiding, fearing that their parents will disown them for running away to avoid circumcision. Many girls have been forced to cut short their studies and married off at a young age because of parental fear the daughters will be ostracized if too educated.

15. Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight (For full story, click here)
The Obama administration has distributed billions of dollars in stimulus money to some of the nation’s biggest polluters and granted exemptions from basic environmental errors. The administration’s main goal in Energy Secretary Steven Chu words was to “get the money out and spent as quickly as possible”.

16. Sweatshops in China Are Making Your iPods While Workers Suffer (Story here)
Apple’s suppliers routinely violate China’s “Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases.” Several manufacturers replaced alcohol with n-hexane, which is used to clean parts. It is a chemical that works better than alcohol, but poisons workers. In these factories the workers, often women in their teens or 20s, were forced to work with the poison in unventilated rooms.

17. Superbug Bacteria Spreading Worldwide (For full story, click here)
Lethal superbugs are emerging that do not respond to any known drugs. The World Health Organization states that the New Delhi or NDM-1 superbug was recently found in UK patients and has reached a critical point. These super bugs are resistant to carbapenem antibiotics, which is a major concern to experts because they are used for hard to treat infections that evade other drugs. Already 25,000 people die each year from superbugs in Europe.

18. Monsanto Tries to Benefit from Haiti’s Earthquake (For full story, click here)
In May 2010, five months after an earthquake destroyed Haiti, the American multinational Monsanto donated the country 60 tons of corn and vegetable hybrid seed. USAID took charge of the seed distribution. A month later, on June 4, 2010, around 10,000 Haitian farmers demonstrated against Monsanto’s donation. Haitian farmers denounced Monsanto’s seeds as they can’t be reused each year, which leads to the necessity of buying new seed from the multinational every new sowing season. This dependence could also extend to the fertilizers and herbicides required by the american multinational who also produces them.

19. Oxfam Exposes How Aid Is Used for Political Purposes (For full story, click here)
In a new report, Oxfam has found that billions of dollars in international aid which could have transformed the lives of many people in some of the poorest countries in the world, was spent on unsustainable, expensive and dangerous aid projects which international donor governments used to support their own short-term foreign policy and security objectives. This type of aid often bypasses the poorest people and dangerously distorts the line between civilian and military activity. The politicization and militarization of aid has in some places made it much harder for aid agencies to provide help to those in need.

20. US Agencies Trying to Outlaw GMO Food Labelling (For full story, click here)
There is increasing concern over the health impact of growing and eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The World Health Organization has identified allergenicity, antibiotic resistance, gene transfer, outcrossing, escape of GM genes into the wild population, gene stability, susceptibility of non-target organisms (insects), and loss of biodiversity as potential issues of using GM seeds. Multiple, reliable sources show that you may be eating genetically modified food daily which scientific experiments have repeatedly demonstrated can cause sickness and even death in lab animals. (More here)

21. Lyme Disease: An Emerging Epidemic (For full story, click here)
Lyme disease is one of the most political and controversial epidemics of our time. Lyme originates from a bacteria transmitted through the bite of a tick which can remain hidden for years, with symptoms mimicking other diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, and ADHD. And it is growing – new cases of Lyme occur each year at a rate ten times higher then that of AIDS and the West Nile Virus combined. Yet doctors risk losing their license if they treat Lyme as the chronic disease it is known to be. (Powerful documentary here)

22. Participatory Budgeting: A Method to Empower Local Citizens, Communities (Story here)
“Participatory Budgeting” (PB) is a process that allows citizens to decide directly how to allocate all or part of a public budget. The process typically involves a series of meetings, work by community “delegates” or representatives, and ultimately a final vote. It was first implemented in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1990, and has since spread.

23. Worldwide Movement To Ban or Charge Fees For Plastic Bags (For full story, click here)
Shoppers worldwide are using 500 billion to one trillion single-use plastic bags per year. These bags pollute our waters, smother wetlands and entangle and kill animals. As larger animals eat smaller plastic-laden creatures, this also affects our health as we end up eating some form of plastic in our sea food. Now 35 countries have already banned the use of plastic bags, nine countries have passed levies and fees on use, and 12 countries are considering bans or fees.

24. South Dakota Takes Extreme Measures to Be the Top Anti-Abortion State (Story here)
South Dakota is taking extreme action against any person who performs an abortion within the states borders. The South Dakota House is taking up a bill to redefine “justifiable homicide” that may “make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions,” Mother Jones reports.

25. Extension of DU to Libya (For full story, click here)
President Obama’s undeclared and Congressionally unauthorized war against Libya may have been compounded by the crime of spreading toxic uranium oxide in populated areas of that country. Concern has been voiced by groups such as the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, which monitor the military use of so-called depleted-uranium (DU) anti-tank and bunker-penetrating shells.

Important: Top 20 Articles Ever Published Revealing Media Censorship
For concise summaries of the top 20 most revealing articles ever published in the major media with links to the full articles on their media websites, see www.WantToKnow.info/newsarticles. For some of the top stories ever which the press failed to cover, click here. And for an empowering website which specializes in providing fact-filled news articles and concise summaries of major cover-ups which impact our lives and world, see www.WantToKnow.info. All information is provided to inspire us to work together for a brighter future for us all.

Please keep telling and spreading the Truth! Have a wonderful and prosperous year 2012!

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 30, 2011

We Are the 99 Percent

GOD is 100 percent on the side of the 99 percent who are occupying Wall Street and other financial abusive places in our United States. Abusive to the good Americans, the patriots, the veterans who are being beaten, battered and severely injured by just being part of a – so far – peaceful revolution of, or at least for, 99 percent of Americans. Personally I am surprised how long it took Americans to see that they are being used, abused and enslaved by a filthy rich minority who holds the power, directs the violent forces to enforce their will and interest against everyone in our country whose blood paid to build this wealth.

It seems like people are catching on to what is going happening, to what the whole world has seen and understood during the past decade. There is nothing that the one percent would not do to keep their wealth and power. 9-11 – do you still believe the official fairytale that the government has constructed? Do you still believe that the people who are having veterans beaten up without any reason, who have killed over and over, who are dancing on your wounded bodies have your best interest in mind?

And this is not about parties or politicians, who have been bought a long time ago already to deliver your souls to the richest and most unscrupulous in our country, it is about the Trillions that outweigh your personal tragedy by far in their eyes. The people who tossed you – our whole country – in the worst economic crisis, who laugh while evicting you from the house you have worked your whole life for. Those are the people who claim Jesus for their goals. They do not believe, but they know that you believe and that your – by mountains of false information unfortunately mostly misguided – love for GOD and HIS will keeps you obeying their commands, that they deliver through their also readily bought clergy in the right wing fascist churches all over our country.

If anyone tells your anything else than “GOD is Love”, “You shall NOT kill” and “Love your neighbor like yourself” and includes EVERYONE in the neighborhood they are talking about – including all religions and all skin colors – run as fast as you can. This person belongs to the financed brigades that are supposed to keep you quiet and in hate of Muslims, people of other color, people of other cultures. And they do a good job at keeping you busy not thinking about what is really going on.

Jesus and his message have always been on the side of the poor, abused and enslaved. And we are at a point in our country, where one percent abuses 99 percent. GOD and Jesus are with us and with the people who are fighting for GOD's real message. A special thanks to the protesters all over our country who are fighting for our rights. GOD bless you!

And meanwhile the one percent held our healthcare hostage, boycotted any job plans and improvements our government might have made on our behalf. Including restoring civil rights to the US which have been taken away by the so called patriot act under the Cheney dictatorship. For any parallels in history, please feel free to browse this site and you will find ample information about the blueprints that led to similar situations in other countries as they appear in ours since 2001.

Familiar are also the ways in which the peaceful protests are met by the ones in power. Police is beating up peaceful protesters and undercover personnel is trying to stir violence among the peaceful, or committing crimes and violence themselves in the name and under the banner of the peaceful. Videos and Pictures on TV remind me of the early stages of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the subsequent fall of the USSR, Eastern Europe, of student protests in China and of the Vietnam protests.

A very good and close friend of mine told me about his struggle during the civil rights movement in the 60’s, when African-Americans were treated worse than the protesters now. He said: “Martin Luther King marched peacefully, turned the other cheek and did everything peaceful. But don’t forget: The establishment began to move when we started burning their houses down.”

Let’s hope that it will not come this far. GOD loves HIS people. And no, HE does not love the rich because they are rich, HE loves them in spite of it and only if they respect and love their neighbors. Us, the 99 Percent.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, November 15, 2011

Stealing from the poorest and starving your family!

It is amazing to me that America can sit still while these “deficit reduction” talks are going on. What about all these Christian bible thumpers who claim Jesus as their savior? Jesus Christ, who was the champion of the poorest of the poor and despised the rich, would have taken you on already. But you are barely fans, not followers, as comedian Bill Maher put it so wisely. If you do the opposite of what Jesus Christ wants you to do and did himself, you are definitely not a follower. You just collect money and spread lies in His name.

Now the Republicans and too many Democrats are sold on stopping to feed their sick mothers and starving children, and instead order the fifth Rolls Royce and the newest Bentley. They watch the poor and the medium wealthy lose their houses and everything that they have worked for all their lives. And now they take the social security away – a program in which the recipients have PAID FOR all their working lives, and to cut Medicare, another program that the recipients have PAID for all their working lives. This is not cutting spending. This is stealing from 98 percent of the Americans to further the insane amount of wealth of two percent of America. And that is exactly what this ideological reform is about. America is starving and instead of feeding America and creating jobs for America, the richest two percent of Americans are ordering their new cars while watching the poorest of the poor fading away in agony.

One more word to the Republicans that are bringing down our country: Jesus was NOT blond and blue eyed. Jesus was a Mediterranean Jew. So how can all you so called Christians hate the President for the color of his skin? His skin color is closer to the one of Jesus than yours. Racism is only in the Bible as long as you are not Jewish. So, all you non-Jews please be aware that you are not part of the blessings of the Bible except for Paul’s part of the New Testament. Everything else belongs to the Jews. They are the chosen people. Not you. So you better try to get in GOD’s good graces. And you will NOT do that in making the rich richer but in helping the poor, feeding your old mother and your hungry children. If you go for ordering the new Bentley, be advised, you will end up where Jesus told you that you would. And I heard that it is supposed to be warm. Very warm.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, July 15, 2011

Jesus is on His own in the US

The Democrat's donation machine is back in full swing. Today they asked me to donate because the Republicans pulled off their - admittedly scary - pre-want-to-be-Presidential debate. Since it is really hard for me to believe that my fellow Americans would really commit this kind of political suicide, I am not really worried about anything that was said there. America is smarter than that.

Since I had hoped for some Christian support from the Democrats - Jesus was a real liberal - I am deeply disappointed that they only support the corporate agenda and not the American people. Here my brief answer to their donation request.

"Since Obama has promised everything and kept nothing I will not donate for now. Let me tell you that I am deeply disappointed that the Democrats fulfill the Republican agenda (who in turn moved to the right to leave some space for you). Civil Rights have not been reinstated, a possible single payer system for healthcare was taken off the table, because Democrats are just as bought and bribed as the Republicans by the big Corporations, BP is off the hook for the whole mess - it is sad to see. Since you already get paid by the big corporations that destroy our country please do not expect me to add funding to this endeavor. I will contribute again when promises are kept, Change is imminent (for the good, not this one) and our country is being lead on the right path again. Thanks."

And in addition to this situation Anthony Weiner, who was on the correct side of things politically succumbed to the temptations of the modern technology and took himself out the equation by "Sexting". And the Democrats sacrificed him readily and happily because he was a thorn in their flesh as well. He tried to get something positive done for the American people and this is currently not on any of the political agendas in our country.

Unfortunately Jesus has not real lobby in the US anymore. His teachings are distorted and misinterpreted for the sake of corporate gains and to gain and maintain power over the people who should and could know better if they would read the Bible. All they do is listen to right-wing operatives in the Media, corporately paid, controlled and misguided preachers and to Televangelists who sell the message that they are paid to advertise. Jesus is on his own, only supported by a few charitable Organizations that do the Government's job, while the funds that should rebuild America are routed to richest of the rich for their pleasure. America deserves something - a lot - better.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, June 14, 2011

Suppressed Truth in the US -
Here are the 25 Top Articles of 2010

Project Censored specializes in covering the top stories which were subjected to censorship either by being ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. The Project Censored research team is composed of over 200 university faculty, students, and community experts drawn from an international network of 30 colleges and universities. This capable team annually reviews up to 1,000 news story submissions for content, reliability of sources, and significance. The top 25 stories selected are submitted to a distinguished panel of judges who rank them in order of importance. The results are published each year in an excellent book available for purchase at their website, amazon.com, and major book stores.

A summary of the top 10 media censorship stories of 2010 provided below proves quite revealing and most informative. Each summary has a link for those who want to read the entire article. For whatever reason the mainstream media won't report these stories. Yet thanks to the Internet and wonderful, committed groups like Project Censored, the news is getting out to those who want to know. By revealing these examples of media censorship, we can stop the excessive secrecy and work together for a brighter future. And don't miss the section on little-known inspiring stories, too. Please help to spread the word, and take care.

Note: Major parts of these summaries were taken from an article by Rebecca Bowe at the SF Bay Guardian.

Top 10 Stories of 2010 Subjected to Media Censorship

1. Global Plans to Replace the Dollar (For full story, click here)

Since the financial meltdown of 2008 sent a jarring ripple effect throughout the global economy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been talking up the idea of an international market that doesn't use the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency. The dollar now holds the status of the predominant anchor currency held in foreign exchange reserves, securing the United States' strategic economic position. In July of 2009 at the Group of Eight Summit in Italy, President Medvedev underscored his call for a newly conceived "united future world currency" when he pulled a sample coin from his pocket and showed it off to heads of state, the Bloomberg news service reported. And the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development suggested in a report that the present system of using the dollar as the world's reserve currency should be subject to a wholesale reconsideration, according to an article in the U.K.'s Telegraph.

Sources: Christian Science Monitor, “Iran and Russia Nip at US Global Dominance” Truthdig, “The American Empire Is Bankrupt” Bloomberg, “Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8” Telegraph (UK), “UN Wants New Global Currency to Replace Dollar”.

2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet (Full story here)

The U.S. military burns through 320,000 barrels of oil a day. Yet that tally doesn't factor in fuel consumed by contractors, or the energy and resources used to produce bombs, grenades, missiles or other weapons of the Department of Defense. By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products – yet it has a blanket exemption in commitments made by the United States to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Despite its status as top polluter, the Department of Defense received little attention during talks at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, human health is threatened by the long-term environmental impacts of military operations throughout the globe. And depleted uranium contamination from the Iraq conflict has been linked to widespread health problems. "The greatest single assault on the environment comes from one agency," author Barry Sanders wrote in The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism, "the Armed Forces of the United States."

Sources: International Action Center, “Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes: Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe” Planet Green, “Can You Identify the Worst Polluter on the Planet? Hint: Shock and Awe” New America Media, “Cancer: The Deadly Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq” Ottawa Citizen, “U.S. Plots Arctic Push”.

3. Internet Privacy and Personal Access at Risk (For full story, click here)

The Cybersecurity Act was proposed in June of 2009, giving the president the power to "declare a cyber security emergency" and do whatever is necessary to diffuse a cyber attack. The Senate Homeland Security Committee approved a comprehensive cybersecurity bill this past June, which has drawn sharp criticism for the inclusion of a provision that would allow the president to shut down networks in the event of an emergency. Reporting in Wired, Noah Schachtman broke the story that the Central Intelligence Agency was investing in Visible Technologies, a software firm that can collect, rank and analyze millions of posts on blogs, online forums, Flickr, Youtube, Twitter and other social media sites. Wired also reported that the Obama administration had followed the lead of George W. Bush by urging a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.

Sources: CNET News, “Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet” Wired, “U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm that Monitors Blogs, Twitter” Wired, “Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case”.

4. ICE Operates Secret Detention and Courts (For full story, click here)

The federal office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is confining people in 186 unlisted and unmarked subfield offices, many in suburban office parks or commercial spaces that reveal no information about their ICE tenants. Reporting in The Nation, Jacqueline Stevens describes ICE's jail network and the agency's penchant for secrecy when it comes to withholding public information about the facilities. "The absence of a real-time database tracking people in ICE custody means ICE has created a network of secret jails," Stevens wrote. "Subfield offices enter the time and date of custody after the fact, a situation ripe for errors ... as well as cover-ups." As a result, detainees can literally be "lost" by attorneys or family members for days or weeks at a time after being transferred.

Source: The Nation, “America’s Secret Ice Castles” Human Rights Watch, “Locked Up Far Away, The Transfer of Immigrants to Remote Detention Centers in the US” The Nation, “ICE Agents’ Ruse Operations”: The Nation, “Secret Courts Exploit Immigrants”.

5. Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan (For full story, click here)

The notorious private military contractor Blackwater has changed its name to Xe Services, but it hasn't escaped scrutiny. According to a story that ran in The Nation in December 2009, the contractor is at the center of a covert program in Pakistan run by the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command in the city of Karachi. Blackwater (Xe) is involved in planning targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida operatives and helps direct a U.S. military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the U.S. military. The Pentagon has disputed the claim, stating, "There are no U.S. military strike operations being conducted in Pakistan." More recently, The New York Times reported that Blackwater had created a web of more than 30 shell companies to win defense contracts, and specifically mentioned that the company employees had loaded bombs and missiles onto predator drones in Pakistan.

Sources: New York Times, "30 False Fronts Won Contracts For Blackwater" The Nation, “The Secret US War in Pakistan” Antiwar.com, “Blackwater Wants to Surge Its Armed Force in Afghanistan” Raw Story, “Ex-employees Claim Blackwater Pimped Out Young Iraqi Girls”.

6. Health Care Restrictions Cost Thousands of Lives in US (For full story, click here)

As the health-care debate raged on and Americans heard over and over again about supposed "death panels" and the government's infringement on personal freedom, one important study was largely drowned out. Research led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center revealed that lack of health insurance may have figured into 17,000 childhood deaths among hospitalized children in the U.S. in the span of less than two decades. The results of a study published in the Journal of Public Health compared more than 23 million hospital records from 37 states between 1988 and 2005, and found that uninsured children in the study were 60 percent more likely to die in the hospital than those with insurance. "Can we say with absolute certainty that 17,000 children would have been saved if they had health insurance? Of course not," notes a co-investigator. "From a scientific perspective, we are confident in our finding that thousands of children likely died because they lacked insurance or because of factors directly related to a lack of insurance."

Source: Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, “Lack of Insurance May Have Figured in Nearly 17,000 Childhood Deaths” Physicians for a NHP, “Over 2,200 Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance” Democracy Now!, “Mother Speaks Out on CIGNA’s Denial of Healthcare to Cancer-Stricken Twin Daughters”.

7. External Market Forces Wreak Havoc in Africa (For full story, click here)

Vast tracts of land are being purchased by wealthy nations from mostly poor, developing countries in order to produce crops for export. Throughout the African continent, an estimated 50 million hectares (200,000 square miles) of land have been acquired or are in the process of being negotiated for purchase over the last several years, with international agribusinesses, investment banks, hedge funds, and commodity traders leading the rush for cheap, undeveloped, arable land. Ethiopia has approved at least 815 foreign-financed agriculture projects since 2007, but the food that is produced there will be exported rather than used to feed the 13 million people in need of food aid in that country. Food shortages and riots in 28 countries in 2008, declining water supplies, climate change and huge population growth together have made land attractive. Africa has the most land and, compared with other continents, it is cheap.

Sources: New York Times, “Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?” Christian Science Monitor, “Africa: From Famine to World’s Next Breadbasket?” Oakland Institute, “Great Land Grab: Rush for World’s Farmland Threatens Food Security for the Poor” Inter Press Service, “Land Grabs for Food Production Under Fire”.

8. Massacre in Peruvian Amazon over US Free Trade Agreement (Full story here)

While this story highlighted a "massacre in the Amazon," a later installment appeared in the Huffington Post titled "Victory in the Amazon." On June 5, 2009, 50 or more Peruvian Amazon Indians were massacred after a 57-day protest against the implementation of decrees under the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. These decrees would have opened vast swaths of indigenous land in the Peruvian Amazon to private investment by gas, mining, and oil companies. This prompted Amazon peoples to block highways and gas and oil pipelines. But the conflict escalated when armed Peruvian government agents attacked the protesters with rifles and, according to eye witnesses, burned bodies and threw them into a river. In the aftermath Peru's Congress voted 82 to 12 to repeal two of the decrees that the indigenous groups had been standing against. Daysi Zapata, a representative of the association of indigenous groups, celebrated the triumph: "Today is an historic day. We are thankful because the will of the indigenous peoples has been taken into account."

Sources: Center for International Policy, “Massacre in the Amazon: The US-Peru Free Trade Agreement Sparks a Battle over Land and Resources” Inter Press Service, “‘Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,’ Say Native Protesters” Huffington Post, "Victory in the Amazon".

9. Human Rights Abuses Continue in Palestine (For full story, click here)

While there is a great deal of coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Project Censored highlights little-discussed human rights abuses. An Amnesty International report charges that Israel is denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over the shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies. Other articles detail how Israel had begun barring movement between Israel and the West Bank for those holding a foreign passport, including humanitarian aid workers and thousands of Palestinian residents. After a 15-month study conducted by an international team of scholars, the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa concluded that Israel is, from the perspective of international law, an occupying power in Palestinian territories which implements a system of apartheid. Rare mainstream media glimpses of Israel's apartheid system, like the CBS 60 Minutes segment 'Is Peace Out of Reach?' in January 2009, air and then fade away after drawing vitriolic, selectively focused criticism.

Sources: Amnesty International, “Israel Rations Palestinians to Trickle of Water” Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, “Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid” Electronic Intifada, “Israel Brings Gaza Entry Restrictions to West Bank” CBS 60 Minutes, "Is Peace Out of Reach?".

10. US Funds and Supports the Taliban (For full story, click here)

While this story appeared on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, they omitted some key facts. The Nation broke the story, and at the time Project Censored was researching it, there was nary a mention in the mainstream media of how American tax dollars wind up in the hands of the Taliban. In some cases, money goes to Afghan companies run by former Taliban members like President Hamid Karzai's cousin, Ahmad Rateb Popal, who was charged in the 1980s with conspiring to import heroin into the United States. U.S. military contractors in Afghanistan also pay suspected insurgents to protect supply routes. "It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the U.S. government funds the very forces American troops are fighting," according to the Nation story.

Sources: The Nation, “How the US Funds the Taliban” New York Times, ”U.S. Said to Fund Afghan Warlords to Protect Convoys"; Washington Post, "Mismanaged U.S. contractor money aids enemy in Afghanistan".

Other Media Censorship Stories in the Top 25

11. H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies (Full story here)

The H1N1 virus spawned widespread panic and fear throughout the world. However, upon closer examination, many of the claims made by the World Health Organization (WHO) seem to be based on weak and incomplete data. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created and used data to grossly exaggerate the need for an expensive and unnecessary vaccine aimed at creating profits for the pharmaceutical industry—not protecting Americans. For summaries of dozens of major media articles exposing clear manipulation and profiteering on the fear generated around the swine flu, click here.

12. Cuba Provided the Greatest Medical Aid to Haiti after the Earthquake (Full story here)

Cuba was the first to come into Haiti with medical aid when the January 12, 2010, earthquake struck. Among the many donor nations, Cuba and its medical teams played a major role in treating Haiti’s earthquake victims. Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up medical facilities among the debris and to revamp hospitals immediately after the earthquake struck. Their pivotal work in the health sector has, however, received scant media coverage. It is striking that there was virtually no mention in the media of the fact that Cuba had several hundred health personnel on the ground before any other country.

13. Obama Cuts Domestic Spending, Increases Military Corporate Welfare (Full story here)

President Obama’s decision to increase military spending this year and in the future will result in the greatest administrative military spending since World War II. This decision is being made in spite of continued evidence of extreme waste, fraud, abuse, and corporate welfare in the military budget. At the same time, spending on “non-security” domestic programs such as education, nutrition, energy, and transportation will be frozen, resulting in inflationary cuts to essential services for the US public over the upcoming years. For an excellent article by a top U.S. general revealing how politics is beholden to the military/industrial complex, click here.

14. Increased Tensions with Unresolved 9/11 Issues (For full story, click here)

Several contentious issues still plague the US government and their version of the events of 9/11. How did WTC Building 7 fall? Where is Osama bin Laden? How could US air defense fail so completely? Mountains of evidence that suggest that American citizens were told little about the truth of the biggest single-day attack on their homeland in history. Are the hundreds of politicians and professors and over 1,000 architects and engineers who have raised serious questions about the official story dangerous conspiracy theorists? For an abundance of reliable, verifiable information suggesting a major cover-up around 9/11, click here.

15. Bhopal Water Still Toxic Twenty-five Years After Deadly Gas Leak (For full story, click here)

Around midnight on December 2, 1984, the citizens of Bhopal, India, a city of over 500,000 people in central India, were poisoned by approximately forty tons of toxic gases pouring into the night air from a largely abandoned chemical insecticide plant owned by the US-owned Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). The long-predicted gas leak at UCC was, and remains today, the worst industrial disaster in history.

16. US Presidents Charged with Crimes Against Humanity as Universal Jurisdiction Dies in Spain (For full story, click here)

In October 2009, under great pressure from the US, the government of Spain limited its own jurisdiction in cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, thus closing one of the last windows of accountability for the most serious crimes committed by the most powerful nations on Earth. Under international law, such crimes fall under the universal jurisdiction of any nation, whether one’s own citizens are victims or not. The logic is that crimes against humanity are offenses against every member of the human species—a crime against all.

17. Nanotech Particles Pose Serious DNA Risks to Humans, Environment (Full story here)

Personal products you may use daily and think are harmless—cosmetics, suntan lotion, socks, and sports clothes—may all contain atom-sized nanotech particles, some of which have been shown to sicken and kill workers in plants using nanotechnology. Known human health risks include severe and permanent lung damage. Cell studies indicate genetic DNA damage. Extremely toxic to aquatic wildlife, nanoparticles pose clear risks to many species and threaten the global food chain.

18. The True Cost of Chevron (For full story, click here)

Chevron’s 2008 annual report to its shareholders is a glossy celebration heralding the company’s most profitable year in its history. Profits of $24 billion catapulted Chevron past General Electric to become the second most profitable corporation in the United States. The oil company’s 2007 revenues were larger than the gross domestic product (GDP) of 150 nations. So who benefited from the record high gas prices of 2008?

19. Obama Administration Assures World Bank and International Monetary Fund a Free Reign of Abuse (For full story, click here)

In April 2009, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner hosted meetings with finance ministers from the world’s top economies to discuss increased oversight of the global financial system in the wake of the meltdown. The meetings preceded semi-annual gatherings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC. The April G20 meeting in London secured a lot of positive media attention after world leaders announced a global package of $1.1 trillion for economic recovery and reform, mostly for the IMF. The plan, however, did not include specific information about the much needed operational reforms to the IMF and the World Bank.

20. Obama’s Charter School Policies Spread Segregation and Undermine Unions (For full story, click here)

Charter schools continue to stratify students by race, class, and sometimes language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country. Charter schools are often marketed as incubators of educational innovation, and they form a key feature of the Obama administration’s school reform agenda. But in some urban communities, they may be fueling de facto school segregation and undermining public education.

21. Western Lifestyle Continues Environmental Footprint (For full story, click here)

Rajendra Pachauri, the United Nation’s leading climate scientist, warned that Western society must enact radical changes and reform measures if it is to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told the Observer that Western society urgently needs to develop a new value system of “sustainable consumption.” The Nobel Prize winner stated, “Today we have reached the point where consumption and people’s desire to consume has grown out of proportion.”

22. 1.2 Billion People in India to be Given Biometric ID Cards (For full story, click here)

India’s 1.2 billion citizens are to be issued biometric identification cards. The cards will hold the person’s name, age, and birth date, as well as fingerprints or iris scans, though no caste or religious identification. Within the next five years a giant computer will hold the personal details of at least 600 million citizens, making this new information technology system the largest in the world. The project will cost an estimated $3.5 billion. The 600 million Indians will receive a 16-digit identity number by 2014.

23. Afghan War: Largest Military Coalition in History (For full story, click here)

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has become history’s first global army. Never before have soldiers from so many states served in the same war theater, much less the same country. At the eighth anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, the world is witness to a twenty-first-century armed conflict waged by the largest military coalition in history.

24. War Crimes of General Stanley McChrystal (For full story, click here)

McChrystal is a man accused of committing war crime atrocities as head of the Pentagon's infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Established in 1980, JSOC is a special black operations commando unit of the Navy Seals and Delta Force so clandestine that the Pentagon for years refused to acknowledge its existence. Its special ops teams were a virtual executive office assassination wing engaged in extrajudicial killings, systemic torture, and bombing of civilian communities. Most of what McChrystal has done over a 33-year career, including service between 2003 and 2008 as commander of the JSOC, remains classified.

25. Prisoners Still Brutalized at Gitmo (For full story, click here)

In Guantánamo, the notorious but seldom-discussed thug squad, officially known as the Immediate Reaction Force (IRF), deployed by the US military remains very much active. IRF is an extrajudicial terror squad, the existence of which has been documented since the early days of Guantánamo. IRF has rarely been mentioned in the United States media or in congressional inquiries into torture.

Please keep telling and spreading the Truth! Have a wonderful and prosperous year 2011!

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 30, 2010

Burning the Quran –
from one Extremist to another

There is no difference between so-called Christian or Muslim extremists. Both want the same: Violence against others in the name of the same GOD. And they either have a political agenda or are plain stupid. Burning the Quran requires a lot of both.

The Rev. Terry Jones, the "religious leader" of a church of 50. Yes, fifty. This would not be so bad, if there was intelligence or any kind of knowledge about the subject behind this action of burning something. Burning a book is in itself already an action of highest stupidity. If he would burn all the books he did not understand, he should start with the Bible. Christians do not burn books – or flags for that matter. Jones has proclaimed Islam as devil's religion – without ever having read it, has called on the people to burn a Quran on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States – which were very likely carried out by Christians for the benefit of VP Cheney’s Corporation. Jones says that he does not personally know any Muslims, he is a man who does not know where the Sharia law came from, and has apparently learned the little, if any, that he knows about Islam by watching YouTube videos.

The German poet Heinrich Heine already wrote in 1821: "Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people". He was right at that time, he was right – long after his death - about the Nazis who first burned the books and later the people. And we are at this starting point of violence against humanity again. This time in our own country.

Adding to this equation is that there is only one GOD. And one GOD means that there is only ONE. The Quran derives in large parts from Christian and Judean Writings. From the Torah and the Bible which have influenced Mohammad all his life and also during the creation of the Quran. Considering the fact that GOD is not a flawed individual but GOD, he is not jealous, or violent – (If you believe in Jesus Christ, how could you ever consider violence, lies or deception as an option in the first place? If you do, you are NOT a Christian – you are not Muslim either, because the Quran is actually a book of peace and Islam is a religion of peace!) he sent Jesus Christ to bring us this message of Non-violence. Christ as in Christian – you call yourself Christian, you subscribe to the message of Love, Peace and Understanding. Turning the other cheek is one of your duties being a Christian.

But back to the morons in Florida. Now there is one crazy person with a following of 50 probably equally disturbed and ignorant bystanders who wants to burn a book he does not even know to help reignite the hated of Muslim extremists who are just as stupid as his own flock, while the silent majority of peaceful Christians and Muslims is standing by in awe. How can this moron get so much attention? If you burn a book you don’t even know, you cannot set a signal. You just show that you are an idiot.

Talking about idiots, please allow me one more observation that is really stunning. Only in America Christians will follow a Mormon to crucify another Christian. I am talking about Glen Beck's crusade against the Christian Barack Obama. Please be aware that Glen Beck is a racist by design. Mormons think that Black people are black because GOD punished them for being bad. Mormon Glen Beck is using American Christians - admittedly not bright ones - to help his Mormon agenda to fight the Black guy. And everyone should be aware of the fact that Barack Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, September 8, 2010

GOD's signs ignored by
so called 'Pro-lifers'...

Pro lifers are really insane. This is a statement I can absolutely support. One of my favorite email spammers is a religious nut who somehow got the idea that he would have to save unborn life. Besides the point that he also got me on the spamming list of the Teabaggers (!), he began collecting money, because his life was falling apart. His son had serious health challenges and his money to kill mothers and protect the fetus was running out. So he began begging for money in his emails. I had the audacity to write the following email to help him re-evaluate his situation - because those are usually signs that someone is straying off GOD's intended way:

Dear Randall,

Did you ever consider that GOD keeps sending you those signs because he does not want you to continue on your way? Sometimes “pro life” means death for another person or a life in torture when a child is really not wanted. Maybe GOD is trying to ask you to reconsider your position.

Our prayers are with you and your family.

Blessings,
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast

And the answer came fast from an email address that is called 'StopObamaNotredame@gmail.com' which gives me the idea that his agenda might be very political indeed. The good thing is that the spamming has stopped - at least for now he has unsubscribed me from the never solicited hatemail-list of his money-begging email account. So, here his answer:

Honestly, are you demon possessed? Think through the logic of what you just said. Are you demon possessed? Would you know if you were?

Isn't it amazing how little people think about GOD's will and signs. If Jesus Christ would appear today - and maybe he has - the so called Christians would lynch him because of his 'socialist agenda'. And people like Mr. Teabag himself never consider GOD or even look into the Bible to see if their insanity is in any way supported by the word of GOD... They think that they turned into GOD, kill Doctors that actually save lives or applaud the murderers of those who actually save lives instead of living in a bubble of satanic ignorance and insanity.

Please understand that I am very much for Life, I love children and I am not for abortion as a means of replacing a condom. But when the life of the mother is at stake, or if the child would be born into a situation where he or she would suffer all her life because of being an unwanted child, then there should be the option to save their lives. I will never understand that people who want to kill mothers call themselves pro-life. Sanity is from GOD.

Let's pray for them.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, May 30, 2010

Happy New Year 2010...
and some thoughts for survival

Every year this subject is one of my favorites because it proves just how out of tune we are with GOD, our world and our own will to survive.

Project Censored specializes in covering the top stories which were subjected to censorship either by being ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. Project Censored is a research team composed of more than 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who annually review up to 1,000 news story submissions for content, reliability of sources, and national significance. The top 25 stories selected are submitted to a distinguished panel of judges who rank them in order of importance. The results are published each year in an excellent book available for purchase at their website, amazon.com, and major book stores.

A summary of the top 25 media censorship stories of 2009 provided below proves quite revealing and most informative.

Top 25 Stories of 2009 Subjected to Media Censorship

1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street (For full story, click here)

Americans get the best democracy money can buy, money coming more than ever today from Wall Street. Since 2001, eight of the most troubled financial firms have donated $64.2 million to congressional candidates, presidential candidates and the Republican and Democratic parties. Is it surprising how much they control them? Influential House and Senate finance and banking committee members got $5.2 million from bailout recipients like Goldman Sachs, Citibank, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and others. In the last election cycle, Obama received at least $4.3 million from the same institutions. From 1998 - 2007, financial and banking companies spent $1.7 billion on federal campaign contributions and another $3.4 billion on lobbyists. In 1999, the Glass-Steagall Act was gutted – the landmark 1933 law that prevented banks from getting into the insurance business. In January 2000, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act legitimized swap agreements and other hybrid instruments, at the core of today's problems, by preventing regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging, thus letting Wall Street legally pillage and speculate. The result was a financial coup d'etat cementing the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders who choose candidates, control elections, weaken financial regulations, and basically run the country for their own self-interest. As a result, Washington today has become largely a subsidiary of the Wall Street financial giants.

Sources: Truthout/McClatchy, Oct. 2, 2008, “Lax Oversight? Maybe $64 Million to DC Pols Explains It,” by Greg Gordon. Rolling Stone, Mar. 19, 2009, “The Big Takeover,” by Matt Taibbi. OpenSecrets.org, Feb. 10, 2009, “Congressmen Hear from TARP Recipients Who Funded Their Campaigns,” by Lindsay Renick Mayer.

2. US Schools Are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s (For full story, click here)

According to a UCLA Civil Rights report, "schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and ... Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago." The result is: unequal education which denies disadvantaged youths access to college and better jobs; growing numbers of these youths becoming "virtually unemployable" for anything more than menial labor or the military; greater vulnerability to future poverty, poor health, gangs, crime, and prolonged incarceration in America's vast prison/industrial complex. The report stresses the need for "leaders who recognize that we have a common destiny in an America where our children grow up together, knowing and respecting each other, and are all given the educational tools that prepare them for success in our society." The UCLA Civil Rights Study shows that most severe segregation in public schools is in the Western states, including California – not in the South, as many people believe. Eighty-five percent of the nation’s teachers are white, and little progress is being made toward diversifying the nation’s teaching force.

Source : The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, January 2009, “Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge,” by Gary Orfield.

3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates (For full story, click here)

The international community has come out in force to condemn and declare war on the Somali fishermen pirates, while discreetly protecting the illegal, unreported and unregulated fleets from around the world that have been poaching and dumping toxic waste in Somali waters since the fall of the Somali government eighteen years ago. Foreign interests have been using hundreds of vessels to loot the country's food supply, according to the High Seas Task Force (HSTF), stealing "an estimated $450 million in seafood from Somali waters annually" and ruining the livelihoods of Somali fishermen. Somalia has also been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the civil war there. Instead of rectifying the problem, the UN passed "aggressive resolutions that entitle and encourage transgressors to wage war on Somali pirates." NATO, the EU, and other countries issued similar orders. Some say that the acts of piracy may actually be born of desperation. What is one man’s pirate may be another man’s Coast Guard.

Sources: UK's Independent, January 5, 2009, “You are being lied to about pirates,” by Johann Hari. Al Jazeera English, October 11, 2008, “Toxic waste behind Somali piracy,” by Najad Abdullahi. WardheerNews, January 8, 2009, “The Two Piracies in Somalia: Why the World Ignores the Other,” by Mohamed Abshir Waldo.

4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina (For full story, click here)

North Carolina's Shearon Harris nuclear plant contains the largest radioactive waste storage pools in the country. If the cooling system malfunctions, the resulting fire would be virtually unquenchable and could trigger a nuclear meltdown. Between 1999 and 2003, there were twelve major problems requiring the shutdown of the plant. In 2002, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) put the plant on notice for nine unresolved safety issues detected. When the NRC returned to the plant a few months later, it determined that the corrective actions were “not acceptable.” Between January and July of 2002, Harris plant managers were forced to manually shut down the reactors four times. Problems at Shearon Harris continue with chilling regularity. Yet the NRC ignores the potential risks. A recent study by Brookhaven Labs estimates that a pool fire could cause 140,000 cancers, contaminate thousands of square miles of land, and cause over $500 billion in off-site property damage. The plant is a nuclear time bomb, and millions in the region are at risk.

Source: CounterPunch, August 9, 2008, “Pools of Fire,” by Jeffrey St. Clair.

5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products (For full story, click here)

Unlike in America, European countries are moving toward a model of insisting on environmental and consumer safety that requires assessing thousands of chemicals for their potential toxic effects. New regulations will mandate that companies seeking market access eliminate toxic substances and produce safer electronics, automobiles, toys and cosmetics. Without compliance henceforth, the products of hundreds of US companies may be excluded from European markets, and according to Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, "only five percent of all chemicals in the US have undergone even minimal testing." Further, new EPA requirements consider the "costs to industry" in assessing threats to public health as a reason to side with industry and keep regulations minimal. The divergence between US and European regulation has made America the dumping ground for toxic toys, electronics and cosmetics. The US produces and consumes the toxic materials from which other countries around the world are protected.

Sources: Scientific American, Sep. 30, 2008, “European Chemical Clampdown Reaches Across Atlantic,” by David Biello. Environmental Defense Fund, Sep. 30, 2008, “How Europe’s New Chemical Rules Affect US.”

6. Lobbyists Buy Congress (For full story, click here)

In 2008, The Center for Responsive Politics reported that "special interests paid Washington lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008," higher than any year on record and 13.7% more than 2007. That amounts to $17.4 million for each day Congress was in session, or $32,523 per legislator per day. Health interests spent the most for the third consecutive year, $478.5 million, followed by the FIRE sector (finance, insurance and real estate) at $453.5 million. It's a small investment yielding big returns for these and other industries, competing at the public trough for as much as they can get. The payoff is in the billions for some corporations, and for Wall Street trillions have been pledged, as well as interest free money from the banker-owned Federal Reserve.

Source: OpenSecrets.org, “Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy,” by Center for Responsive Politics.

7. Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupted Pasts (For full story, click here)

After promising not to politicize intelligence and to keep lobbyists out of top government posts, Obama appointed many former lobbyists and board members of companies doing business directly with the Pentagon. He retained Robert Gates as Defense Secretary despite his history at CIA of having cooked the books for political reasons. According to Agency insiders who knew him, he "corrupted the intelligence product" to suit the White House and further his own self-interest. When Bush nominated him for CIA Director in 1991, a virtual insurrection among CIA analysts erupted over his penchant for having politicized intelligence. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh states that, despite Gates' touted memory, he "denied recollection of facts thirty-three times." Obama's Deputy Defense Secretary, William Lynn, is just as tainted. The former Raytheon vice president and company lobbyist caused Republican Senator Charles Grassley to object to his "very questionable accounting practices" as Pentagon comptroller during the Clinton years. He and Obama's Undersecretary of Defense, Robert Hale, who served as Assistant Air Force Secretary Financial Comptroller under Clinton, are claimed to have lost enough taxpayer money to pay for Obama's stimulus plan four times over. They now again oversee DOD spending. The list goes on. Most of Obama's national security team is composed of recycled appointees committed to continued imperial wars and outlandish amounts of military spending for them.

Sources: The Hill, November 24, 2008, “Ties to Chevron, Boeing Raise Concern on Possible NSA Pick,” by Roxana Tiron. Truthout.org/Consortium News, November 13, 2008, “The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates,” by Robert Parry. Global Research, February 13, 2009, “Obama’s Defense Department Appointees - The 3.4 Trillion Dollar Question,” by Andrew Hughes.

8. Bailed Out Banks Cheat IRS Out of Billions (For full story, click here)

It's an old story. "Only the little people pay taxes," according to former tax cheat Leona Hemsley (1920 - 2007), and rarely does anyone like her get caught. In 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that 83 of the top publicly held US companies have operations in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands. 14 of these companies, including AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup, received money from the government bailout. In addition, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) helped wealthy clients cheat the IRS out of over $20 billion in recent years, according to the Department of Justice. Other notorious tax havens include Austria, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong, Monaco, Gibraltar, and the Bahamas. In 2008, havens like these saved Goldman Sachs billions of dollars through "changes in (its) geographic earnings mix." For many other companies, it's much the same through legal provisions in the tax code. According to some estimates, trillions of dollars in both corporate profits and personal wealth have migrated offshore, and the offshore banking world now harbors $11.5 trillion in individual wealth alone.

Sources: Bloomberg, December 16, 2008, “Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1% or $14 Million,” by Christine Harper. The Huffington Post, February 23, 2009, “Gimme Shelter: Tax Evasion and the Obama Administration,” by Thomas B. Edsall.

9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza (For full story, click here)

For decades, America has supplied Israel, population 7.5 million, with tens of billions in aid, interest-free loans, and the latest in new weapons and technology, including illegal white phosphorous shells used against Gazan civilians during Operation Cast Lead. In addition, Washington has supplied F-16 fighters, attack helicopters, tactical missiles, bunker-buster bombs, a wide variety of other munitions, and undisclosed new weapons for testing in real time combat situations against Palestinian or other Arab civilians. In Gaza, shell fragments revealed names of US defense contractors, including Raytheon. Another was marked the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. In shocking support for Israel's questionable attacks, and in violation of international and US law, both Houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed the continued aggression. Obama stayed silent on the subject in the run-up to his January 20 inauguration.

Sources: Human Rights Watch, Mar. 25, 2009, “White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes Report,” Fred Abrahams. Guardian, Feb. 23, 2009, “Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama,” Rory McCarthy. Inter Press Service, Jan. 8, 2009, “US Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza,” Thalif Deen. Consortium News, Jan. 18, 2009, “Is Israel’s Gaza War a New War Crime?” by Dennis Bernstein. Foreign Policy Journal, Jan. 09, 2009, “US Senate Endorses Israel’s War on Gaza,” by Jeremy R. Hammond.

10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate (Full story here)

In November 2008, Ecuador became the first country to undertake an examination of the legitimacy and structure of its foreign debt. In violation of Ecuadorian law, predatory international lenders were involved in hundreds of illegitimate irregularities. Billions in foreign debt at exorbitant interest rates resulted in debt service far exceeding the principal borrowed, and at a staggering human cost. In December, President Rafael Correa announced his country would default. In April 2009, he was re-elected overwhelmingly. Ecuador exposed the corrupted international finance system in a way that could set a precedent for the poorest of indebted countries. Correa asked other Latin American nations "to forge a united response, (and for) the United Nations to help develop international norms to regulate the foreign debt market." The April 2008 House passed Jubilee Act was a positive step forward. However, the Senate failed to pass its S. 2166 version, then cleared the legislation from its books. In June 2009, Ecuador agreed with 91% of its creditors to pay 35 cents on the dollar for its debt. Other countries may now follow suit, especially those most impacted by the global economic crisis.

Sources: Alternet, Nov. 26, 2008, “Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate and Illegal,” by Daniel Denvir. Utube, Fall 2008, “Invalid Loans to Ecuador: Who Owes Who,” by Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit. Institute for Policy Studies, Dec. 15, 2008, “Ecuador’s Debt Default,” by Neil Watkins, Sarah Anders.

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11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine (For full story, click here)

US, Israeli, and other international corporations profit from the occupation of Palestine. They lead real estate deals, develop Israeli settlements and infrastructure, and help solidify the continued land theft, economic exploitation, and apartheid separation of Muslims and Jews, in violation of international law.

12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell - Karl Rove's Election Thief (For full story, click here)

As Karl Rove's chief IT consultant, Connell was a key figure in 2004 election manipulations for George Bush. Under subpoena to testify on his role in Ohio, he died mysteriously in a Dec. 19, 2008 plane crash. IT expert Stephen Spoonamore, a conservative Republican, explained how Connell's vote tabulation system worked. "It allowed (for) the introduction of an additional single computer between computer A and computer B." The centralized collection of all incoming statewide results made it easy for a single operator, or a preprogrammed computer to change the results in any way desired by the team controlling the inserted computer.

13. Katrina's Hidden Race War (For full story, click here)

After Hurricane Katrina, a Nation magazine report explained that "white vigilante groups patrolled the streets of New Orleans ... shooting at least eleven African American men." Falsely portrayed as looters and thugs, they were gunned down in cold blood by "gun-toting white males," yet city police didn't intervene or investigate. In addition, Blackwater mercenaries were deployed in New Orleans right after the storm. In full battle gear, they terrorized black residents, removed them from choice areas for development, and assured they didn't return.

14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts (For full story, click here)

According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, over 151 congressional members have invested up to $195 million in major defense contractors, thus profiting from America's imperial wars. Major investors include: Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) - $49.1 million; Senator John Kerry (D-MA) - $38.2 million; Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) - $37.1 million; Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) - $8.4 million; Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) - $7.6 million; Rep. Jane Harmon (D-CA) - $6.3 million; and Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) - $5.8 million.

15. World Bank's Carbon Trade Fiasco (For full story, click here)

On the pretext of environmental protection, the World Bank is brokering carbon emission trading arrangements that destroy indigenous farmlands around the world and do little to cut pollution or reduce the threat of climate change. The scheme is similar to Obama's cap and trade bill (HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act) that lets corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel.

16. US Repression of Haiti Continues (For full story, click here)

The US government plans to demolish the homes of hundreds of Haitians to expand an occupying UN force’s military base. The New York Times has also published a revealing article titled "Rights Groups Assail US for Withholding Aid to Haiti, Citing Political Motives." The Bush administration may have caused the deaths of thousands of Haitians by blocking aid for cynical and self-interested political purposes.

17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan (For full story, click here)

Huge potential oil reserves explain the significance of Darfur. Washington's genocide claim is exaggerated for political purposes. It's part of America's chess game with China for control of the region's resources. Beijing already gets up to 30% of its oil from Africa. Under cover from International Criminal Court's fraudulent indictment of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and other contrived reasons, America has exploited the region militarily for geopolitical advantage.

18. Ecuador's Constitutional Rights of Nature (For full story, click here)

In September 2008, Ecuador became the first country ever to declare constitutional rights to nature, thus codifying a new system of environmental protection. Its Constitution declares nature "has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution." Ecuador's Rights of Nature hold hope that other nations may adopt them and start to more fully protect the environment.

19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor (For full story, click here)

After receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America organized opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) - legislation to guarantee workers the right to bargain more fairly and collectively with management. Business is firmly opposed. On March 10, S. 560: Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 was introduced in the Senate. It was referred to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where it's pending. Given the Obama administration's opposition, its passage looks doubtful.

20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates (For full story, click here)

Since 1987, the Republican and Democrat-controlled Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has run the process, dictates terms, and excludes unwanted participants. During the 2008 presidential cycle, the Obama and McCain teams secretly cut a deal on who could participate, permissible topics, and the debate format structure. Before he died, Walter Cronkite called the CPD an "unconscionable fraud."

21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare (For full story, click here)

Faced with huge budget shortfalls and little help from Washington, states have been forced to make major expenditure cuts, many affecting vital social services, including health care, education, and welfare. Yet cutting Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) began prior to the present crisis so funds could be redirected to other priorities. Nationally, welfare rolls dropped over 40% between 2001 and June 2008, and in some states, like Georgia, up to 90%. America's social safety net is fast disappearing.

22. Obama's Trilateral Commission Team (For full story, click here)

Obama appointed 11 members of the Trilateral Commission (TC) to top positions in his administration in his first ten days in office. He was groomed for the presidency by key TC members. Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the TC with David Rockefeller in 1973, has been Obama’s principal foreign policy advisor. Since the Carter administration, Trilateralists have held the following very influential positions: six of the last eight World Bank presidents; all presidents and vice-presidents of the US (except Obama and Biden); over half of all US secretaries of state; and three quarters of the secretaries of defense. The original stated purpose of the TC was to create a "new international economic order." For more on powerful secret societies, click here.

23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud (For full story, click here)

Organized every three years since 1997, activists have blasted the World Water Forum as a corporate trade show promoting privatization of water. The Forum's main organizer, the World Water Council (WWC), is dominated by two of the world's largest water companies, Suez and Veolia. WWC promotes expensive and destructive dam and water diversion projects, as well as putting water services in private hands through the establishment of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The result has been huge price hikes, water pollution, depletion, and cut-offs that deny people the right to water if they can't pay the exorbitant cost.

24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion (For full story, click here)

Economist Michael Hudson first addressed this topic in his 1972 book, "Super Imperialism," updated in a 2003 edition. He revisited it in an award-winning article which explained the inter-related dynamics of: surplus US dollars pouring into the rest of the world for financial speculation and corporate takeovers; global central banks recycling these dollar inflows into US Treasury bonds to finance the federal budget deficit; and most important (but suppressed in the US media), the military character of the US payments deficit.

25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon (For full story, click here)

Home to the world's most biodiverse and intact rainforest, the Western Amazon may soon be covered with oil rigs and pipelines. Vast parts of of this region will be opened for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet's most pristine and biodiverse forests at risk.

It is really amazing that we are busy cutting our own oxygen and the very air that we breathe for some oil and gas. GOD help us.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 31, 2009

He that is of GOD hears his words!
He who hears them not is not of GOD!

GOD gave me two gifts today.

I found a long "lost" friend.

And GOD also gave me a Bible quote that pertains to all the self appointed "Christians" out there, who are lying, waging war on weaker and peaceful real Christians who turn the other cheek. And then I read in a forwarded email, that a "liberal" newspaper "surprisingly" printed the statement of a person saying that they have a deep belief in GOD. To the right wing fascist so-called Christians the liberals are obviously Godless. Another proof of the right wing's amazing ignorance. Jesus was a liberal by every word of their description. The problem is that they don't listen to GOD's word or follow Jesus Christ and his message. And here is the Bible quote GOD gave me today and that might just help them to see the Truth:

John 8:42-51: Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Doesn't that sound familiar? Just listen to the right wing treating the ones who speak the truth as liars.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 15, 2009

Read, so you know better!

The so called Health Care reform is still on the table in the Senate and the House. A question that comes to mind is: How can representatives that were voted in office by the people deny these voters a life-saving service and potentially condemn thousands to death? The public option, single payer especially, would save Billions and Trillions of Dollars and it would save hundreds of Thousands of lives in the long run. It is amazing that in a “civilized” country like ours a few rich Health care corporations can buy the Senate against the interests of the people.

The so called Bluedog Democrats are simply bought and bribed representatives. Strange, that they even form a group to advertise this fact. The people can easily see who cares about if their voters live or die. Let us hope that the coming elections will reflect this knowledge.

It becomes abundantly clear who actually is a Christian and who is not. To call yourself a Christian you claim Jesus Christ’s ideas and ideals as your own. Jesus came to HEAL the people, not to let them die. All the right wing fascist Christians of our time are acting against everything that Jesus Christ ever taught and still do their evil deeds in his name. And all this for MONEY. Here is one of my favorite Bible passages:

Matthew 19:16-23 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

This is a passage you hardly ever hear from a Priest or Pastor: Give everything to the poor and come and follow Jesus. And keeping these uncomfortable commandments: Do not kill. – Too late, these fake Christians are FOR the war. Then, do not commit adultery. If you follow the news, all these Republican and Democratic “Christians” cheat on their wives. Some with women, some of the fiercest adulterers also prefer gay prostitutes. What a wonderful hypocrisy. But nothing that would remotely resemble to be following Jesus Christ. And if they would love their neighbor (you, who voted them into office or fill their wallet), they would give you single payer healthcare.

Please think about these facts and begin to read the bible and compare your Priests, Pastors and Politicians to the actual word of the Bible. They only get away with lying to you as long as you don’t read the Bible yourself and let them lie to you.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 13, 2009

Truth and Revolution

Hypocrisy – one of the very things Jesus Christ fought against – is the mainstay of the right wing Christian fascists and their Republican representatives. The ones that fight against gays turn out to be gay, the ones that condemn adultery are caught one by one being adulterers themselves, as the recent case of Nevada Republican Senator Ensign proved again. Another interesting development is IRAN, where we can see how the change of the political climate changes the inner politics of a country. Since W. and his boss Dick Cheney are gone and the US are not trying to start another unnecessary war in the Middle East, the enemy that the Iranian regime could use as a unifying factor for their people to distract from reality is gone. Now the Iranians have time to think about their situation and they decided that it is bad.

With President Obama not getting involved and declaring so, the Iranians are taking matters in their own hands. It looks like we will see the next Revolution, much like we did 1979. And the US is not involved this time, so Iran might become the country their people want and not another dictatorship created by the US, like Saddam Hussein was, whose power was solely by grace of the CIA and the US.

Jesus Christ is under attack. Open minded Christians see the facts that many of Jesus Christ’s attributes were merely copied from the Egyptian God Horus and many others whose mystical status much depends on virgin birth, violent death and resurrection. Some people come to the conclusion that is why Jesus Christ has never lived, which is being concluded in the Zeitgeist movie that I have recommended and still recommend, because their facts are correct, just their conclusions are subject to serious doubt. So please watch the Zeitgeist Movie and the Addendum – both available for free download at www.zeitgeistmovie.com and with your own thoughts and my help, you will reach the right conclusion yourself.

I know GOD is. I believe Jesus Christ lived. He is GOD’s son and he has a special place in the history of Faith. We are all GOD’s children and created in his image. Jesus Christ’s message created the basis for our Christian belief. He died on the cross for our sins, so we are not born in sin. He is the messenger and the message for us Christians. Jesus Christ stands for the new, changed message from GOD: No more hate, now the message is LOVE. And that is what Jesus Christ is about. Jesus sent the apostles only to the Jews. With little success. Only the Catholic Church was “founded on Peter”, who was actually the messenger to the Jews, and hence the pope is basically the leader of a Jewish Church.

So Jesus Christ recruited Paul as his messenger to the Gentiles. They actually embraced and listened to the message, but many obviously misunderstood what it was about. Martin Luther criticized the Catholic Church for their hypocrisy and started the Christian revolution that led to the founding of the Protestant church and subsequently to the founding of many so called ‘Christian’ churches.

Being Christian means actually following Jesus Christ’s words and message. Whoever does not do this, has not right to call him or herself Christian. The worst example of such churches are many so called Christian Churches in the US. They preach violence and war, and their sole goal is to extort money from their congregation. And they do this with surprisingly great success. As surprisingly as this fact is the fact that their victims – or congregation, as they call them - obviously never read the bible. All you have to do is PICK UP A BIBLE AND READ it. If you do, you see the context of the quotes your pastors present to you and you will see that almost everything they tell you is a lie. So please read.

Let me make this clear: Jesus Christ came to change the message. So the Old Testament is out. Interesting as the history of the Jews, but that's pretty much it, if you don't want to end up with the Law of Leviticus which includes such wonderful suggestions like that the eating of seafood is an abomination, here a beautiful passage for Republican Senators who subscribe to the usual right wing fascist Churches (the adultery part):

Lev 20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Lev 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

So if your teenager calls you names, you have to kill him or her. And if someone commits adultery they shall be put to death? Those are some of the messages that Jesus Christ has changed. And if you read the context of Leviticus you will find out that these rules - like the rest of the Old Testament - only applies to the Jews.

So forget the Old Testament. Read the New Testament to have the background to understand Paul. The writings of Paul are for us. Nothing else from the Bible, because even the Jesus in the Bible is only speaking to the Jews. Another reading suggestion is the Gospel of Thomas, older than any of the other Gospels, and it has the advantage that it has not been edited through the ages. It contains only quotes from Jesus himself and you will find many of them in the known Gospels, so you know where Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John got them from. We know that the Bible has been compiled and edited to the taste of the Dictators through the centuries, so the Gospel of Thomas is one of the few scriptures that are actually pure and the untainted word of GOD because they were found in the Middle of the last century. So go and find the truth!

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, June 18, 2009

Here a P.S. for those who would like to keep updated about events that are more ore less secret, because the Mainstream Media refuses to report the truth - most of their owners and handlers seem to be in on the attacks on our democracy. But please judge for yourself:

Our man at Bilderberg: Let's salt the slug in 2010
May 19, 2009, The Guardian (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/may/19/bilderberg-skelton-greece

Ten years ago, when Jon Ronson dared to report on Bilderberg, he found himself "chased by mysterious men in dark glasses through Portugal". He was scared for his safety. "When I phoned the British embassy and asked them to explain to the powerful secret society that had set their goons on me that I was essentially a humorous journalist out of my depth, I wasn't being funny. I was being genuinely desperate," he wrote. I know exactly how he feels. Only out of sheer desperation did I try to arrest one of the goons following me and then follow my flimsy leads up the Greek police ladder, finally catching one of the goons wet-handed in the lavatory of the department of government security. And only then did I know the extent of Bilderberg's paranoia: they had set the state police on me. So who is the paranoid one? Me, hiding in stairwells, watching the pavement behind me in shop windows, staying in the open for safety? Or Bilderberg, with its two F-16s, circling helicopters, machine guns, navy commandos and policy of repeatedly detaining and harassing a handful of journalists? Who's the nutter? Me or Baron Mandelson? Me or Paul Volker, the head of Obama's economic advisory board? Me or the president of Coca-Cola? Publicity is pure salt to the giant slug of Bilderberg. If the mainstream press refuses to give proper coverage to this massive annual event, then interested citizens will have to: a people's media. Find the biggest lens you can and join us for Bilderberg 2010. No idea where it's going to be, but there's usually a few days' notice. Email me at bilderberg2010@yahoo.co.uk and we'll start prepping. Meanwhile, petition newspapers to send a correspondent.

Note: For the entire revealing series by Guardian reporter Charlie Skelton, who was sent to report on the ultra-secretive Bilderberg meeting, click here. And for more on the machinations of the Bilderberg Group and other secret societies which wield powerful, unseen influence on global politics, click here and here.

Architects and Engineers Seek 9/11 Truth
June 3, 2009, KGO Radio (San Francisco's top talk-radio station)
http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?id=1353865&spid=20399

"Architects know that you can't have 400 structural steel connections failing per second in a fire-induced gravitational collapse," says architect Richard Gage about the collapse of World Trade Center 7, a building not struck by a plane, on September 11, 2001. Richard is with Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a group of professionals who have factual reservations about conclusions reached in the 9/11 Report.

Note: To listen to this path-breaking 7-minute broadcast, click on the link above. For lots more reliable information showing the official story of 9/11 cannot be true, see our 9/11 Information Center.

Historic Broadcast of "9/11 Press For Truth"
June 6, 2009, KBDI-TV (Colorado Public Television station)
http://www.kbdi.org/tv_schedule/program_details.cfm?id=120090606210000

Following the attacks of September 11th, a small group of grieving families waged a tenacious battle against those who sought to bury the truth about the event. In this documentary, six of them – including three of the famous 9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls" – tell the powerful story of how they took on the greatest powers in Washington, compelling lawmakers to launch an investigation that ultimately failed to answer most of their questions. The filmmakers collaborated with the media group Globalvision to stitch together overlooked news clips, buried stories, and government press conferences, revealing a pattern of official lies, deception, and spin. As a result, a very different picture of 9/11 emerges – one that raises new, and more pressing, questions. To mark the film's U.S. broadcast premiere, Executive Producer Kyle Hence, Director Ray Nowosielski, and family member Bob McIlvaine – who lost his son Bobby in the attacks on New York – will be in the KBDI studios to discuss the film throughout the evening. Additionally, volunteers from Colorado 911 Visibility will be on hand to answer phones.

Note: To watch this important, landmark 9/11 documentary, click here. This highly engaging, well researched film may be the best way yet to open the eyes of those who don't know about the major 9/11 cover-up.

Murder, Lies and CIA - Zeitgeist Addendum reports the truth

Yesterday I had a chance to watch the movie “Zeitgeist Addendum”. Looking at the evidence I can absolutely live with the fact that Jesus shared the same fate with Horus, an Egyptian God who also rose from the dead and also shared several similarities in other aspects of his life. This is something I could even agree with. I know there is GOD, I believe in Jesus. I speak directly with GOD, not with Jesus. Like one of my friends stated recently: “Why should I talk to the son if I want to reach the father? I talk directly to the Boss.” And yes, there is a God! A GOD of love, peace and understanding. Jesus Christ changed the message from the violence of the Old Testament to love, peace and understanding.

But apart from the religious statements made in the movie, everything else is also well thought out and well researched. The way the richest and wealthiest deal with the poorest in their country, as well as the assassinations of heads of state, have never been a secret to me and the western world. And the events stated in the movie have not been secret either - at least to the Western world outside the United States.

Such as addendum shows the truth how nations are being mistreated and handled in the name of big capital, how people are being killed for money, how heads of state who are trying to do the right thing for their countries are being blackmailed first and then if this doesn't help being assassinated by the US is not new, but a necessary reminder of what has been going on in our country. One of the few who resisted and survived was Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who not surprisingly asked the Russians for military support against the people who are trying to kill him, the United States.

And once again we prove that big politics are free from ethics and free from moral restraints. And those are the people who call the Moslems murderers. They go to church. They claim Jesus Christ as their savior and appear to the public to abide in the moral rules of the church. If you claim to follow Jesus Christ, you HAVE to follow his commandments and rules:

1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

3. Honor your father and your mother.

4. You shall not kill.

5. You shall not commit adultery.

6. You shall not steal.

7. You shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

8. You shall not covet anything that is thy neighbor's.

9. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Jesus said:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' (Matthew 22:36-40)

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:43)

[Romans 13:8-11] Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Click here to download a pdf file with the commandments.

As it seems, there are no moral rules that apply to heads of state. All they adhere to is the orders of the richest people and the call of money. It is beyond me how anybody could claim to be Christian and at the same time kill people, rob their own people of their money and declare a whole religion to be enemies or terrorists or whatever we are calling the Muslim world. Not to say that that some Muslims don't do the same thing. The radical leaders in the Middle East do exactly the same thing that the radical “fascist right wing Christians” are doing here, they are just heading in the opposite direction.

Zeitgeist Addendum points out which other options we would have. Instead of supporting big oil and the war machines we could actually produce clean energy from wind, solar, or geothermal processes and everybody could live happily without starving. And this would not apply only to the richest and wealthiest in industrialized countries, it would apply to everybody. The so-called Venus project is showing ways to realize these dreams and it is at least worth watching what the suggestions are.

If you should get a chance to see Zeitgeist Addendum - before that you should actually watch Zeitgeist - you should definitely do it. You can get the movies and watch the movies on www.Zeitgeistmovie.com.

I also had time to watch some 9/11 movies and I am still deeply concerned how it is possible that the marketing of B.S. can be so successful in suppressing and altering the truth. All the American government did was market a lie. All the efforts to show the truth, including film footage and unaltered photos make it so clear even to the dumbest person that the story the government has been selling to us cannot possibly be true.

But the government is able to present their very own, well paid, government contractors lying on television. People like Bill O'Reilly, Beck, Sean Hannity, and others are only too willing to keep their careers by the grace of the right wing fascist and treat people who tell the truth like dirt. One highly embarrassing example is the initial mistranslation of a remark the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made and the following interview, held by – seemingly a CIA interrogator – who falsely accused the President of telling lies. The – democratically elected (other than W. Bush who was appointed by his brother’s superior court protégée and who also fixed the election the second time around) President of a sovereign country patiently insisted that he was telling the truth, but the US interviewer insisted that it was a lie. A few days later, the whole world knew that the President of Iran had spoken the truth and the ignorant American had been lying. That is the picture the Cheney administration showed to the world over and over again. It is sad and embarrassing to see people act this way. And yes, he calls himself a Christian.

Especially with my journalistic background it is hard to understand how anybody who remotely claims to be something like a journalist can act this way. Those so-called journalists are government puppets and have sold out. They sold their soul to the devil and traded the truth for money. Yes and they all do it in the name of Christ.

But the systematic mistreatment and elimination of people who tell the truth has a long tradition in the world. The latest one that has been prosecuted, also by the US, was the Nazi regime in Germany and there, besides Marketing genius Joseph Goebbels, the President of the highest German Court, Roland Freisler, who made sure no one could answer a question he posed in cutting the victim off and yelling at them without even giving them a chance to say the truth.

Today’s Show trials are being held by ignorant right wing (which already implies ignorant) servants of the likes of Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and others who try to discredit their interview partners in the worst way imaginable. These are Freisler-like show trials, not interviews. If you doubt this statement, feel free to listen to Roland Freisler, there is plenty of footage available, and then to one of the aforementioned Clowns. And please keep in mind that Freisler’s verdict meant death. The best place to hold these modern trials against the truth is the Fox television network. FOX News is the only “News-station”, and I use the word VERY loosely, in the world that has a court ruling in their favor, that their news do not have to contain any truth. And as you can tell, they don’t.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, March 2, 2009

Suppressed Truth in the US - Here are the 25 Top Articles

If you read my commentaries regularly, you know that I am criticizing the suppression of the truth or the telling of lies. To give you a heads up what is going on in the Media department, here another article from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info, who keep track of the Truth.

Top 25 Stories of 2008 Subjected to Press Censorship

1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation? (For full story, click here)

Nobody knows exactly how many lives the Iraq War has claimed. But even more astounding is that so few journalists have mentioned the issue or cited the top estimate: 1.2 million. During August and September 2007, a British polling group surveyed 2,414 adults in 15 of 18 Iraqi provinces and found that more than 20 percent had experienced at least one war-related death since March 2003. Using common statistical study methods, it determined that as many as 1.2 million people had been killed since the war began. Estimates range wildly and are based on a variety of sources. In October 2006, the British medical journal Lancet published a Johns Hopkins University study vetted by four independent sources that counted 655,000 dead. In January 2008, the World Health Organization and the Iraqi government did door-to-door surveys of nearly 10,000 households and put the number of dead at 151,000. The 1.2 million figure is out there, too, which is higher than the Rwandan genocide death toll and closing in on the 1.7 million who perished in Cambodia's killing fields. It raises questions about the real number of deaths from US aerial bombings and house raids, and challenges the common assumption that this is a war in which Iraqis are killing Iraqis. The Brookings Institute has reported that US troops have, over the past four years, conducted about 100 house raids a day. Brutality during these house searches has been documented (See #9 below). The aggressive "element of surprise" tactics employed by soldiers is likely resulting in several thousands of deaths a day that either go unreported or are categorized as insurgent casualties.

Sources: "Is the United States killing 10,000 Iraqis every month? Or is it more?" Michael Schwartz, After DowningStreet.org, July 6, 2007; "Iraq death toll rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian killing fields," Joshua Holland, AlterNet, Sept. 17, 2007; "Iraq conflict has killed a million: survey," Luke Baker, Reuters, Jan. 30, 2008; "Iraq: Not our country to return to," Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service, March 3, 2008.

2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA (For full story, click here)

Coupling the perennial issue of security with Wall Street's measures of prosperity, the leaders of the three North American nations convened the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The White House-led initiative — launched at a March 23, 2005, meeting of President Bush, Mexico's then-president Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin — joins beefed-up commerce with coordinated military operations to promote what it calls "borderless unity." Critics call it "NAFTA on steroids." However, unlike NAFTA, the SPP was formed in secret, without public input. "The SPP is not a law, or a treaty, or even a signed agreement," Laura Carlsen wrote in a report for the Center for International Policy. "All these would require public debate and participation of Congress, both of which the SPP has scrupulously avoided." Instead the SPP has a special workgroup: the North American Competitiveness Council [NACC]. It's a coalition of private companies that are, according to the SPP website, "adding high-level business input [that] will assist governments in enhancing North America's competitive position and engage the private sector as partners in finding solutions." The NACC includes the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Merck, Procter & Gamble Co., and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. A look at NAFTA's unpopularity among citizens in all three nations is evidence of why its expansion would need to be disguised. "It's a scheme to create a borderless North American Union under US control without barriers to trade and capital flows for corporate giants, mainly US ones," wrote Steven Lendman in Global Research.

Sources: "Deep Integration," Laura Carlsen, Center for International Policy, May 30, 2007; "The Militarization and Annexation of North America," Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 19, 2007; "The North American Union," Constance Fogal, Global Research, Aug. 2, 2007.

3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business (For full story, click here)

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have effectively deputized 23,000 members of the business community, asking them to tip off the feds in exchange for preferential treatment in the event of a crisis. "The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does — and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials," Matthew Rothschild wrote in the March 2008 issue of The Progressive. InfraGard was created in 1996. Membership now includes 350 of the nation's Fortune 500 companies. The group's 86 chapters coordinate with 56 FBI field offices nationwide. While FBI Director Robert Mueller has said he considers this segment of the private sector "the first line of defense," the American Civil Liberties Union issued a grave warning about the potential for abuse. "There is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate TIPS program, turning private-sector corporations ... into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI. The FBI should not be creating a privileged class of Americans who get special treatment," stated Jay Stanley, public education director of the ACLU's technology and liberty program. And they are privileged: a DHS spokesperson told Rothschild that InfraGard members receive special training and readiness exercises. They're also privy to protected information that is usually shielded from disclosure under the trade secrets provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The information they have may be of critical importance to the general public, but first it goes to the privileged membership

Source: "The FBI deputizes business," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Feb. 7, 2008.

4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? (For full story, click here)

The School of the Americas [SOA] earned an unsavory reputation in Latin America after many graduates of the Fort Benning, Ga., facility turned into counterinsurgency death squad leaders. The International Law Enforcement Academy recently installed by the Unites States in El Salvador — which looks, acts, and smells like the SOA — is also drawing scorn. The school is funded with $3.6 million from the US Treasury and staffed with instructors from the DEA, ICE, and FBI. It's tasked with training 1,500 police officers, judges, prosecutors, and other law enforcement agents in counterterrorism techniques per year. It's stated purpose is to make Latin America "safe for foreign investment" by "providing regional security and economic stability and combating crime." ILEAs aren't new, but past schools located in Hungary, Thailand, Botswana, and Roswell, N.M., haven't been terribly controversial. Salvadoran human rights organizers take issue with the fact that, in true SOA fashion, the ILEA releases neither information about its curriculum nor a list of students and graduates. Additionally, the way the school slipped into existence without public oversight has raised ire. As Wes Enzinna noted in a North American Congress on Latin America report, "Members of the US Congress were not briefed about the academy, nor was the main opposition party in El Salvador." Now, after more than three years in operation, critics point out that Salvadoran police, who account for 25 percent of the graduates, have become more violent. A May 2007 report by Tutela Legal implicated Salvadoran National Police (PNC) officers in eight death squad–style assassinations in 2006.

Sources: "Exporting US 'Criminal Justice' to Latin America," "Community in Solidarity with the people of El Salvador,"Upside Down World, June 14, 2007; "Another SOA?" Wes Enzinna, NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April 2008; "ILEA funding approved by Salvadoran right wing legislators,"CISPES, March 15, 2007; "Is George Bush restarting Latin America's 'dirty wars?'" Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet, Aug. 31, 2007.

5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets (For full story, click here)

Protesting war could get you into big trouble, according to a critical read of two executive orders recently signed by President Bush. The first, issued July 17, 2007, and titled, "Blocking property of certain persons who threaten stabilization efforts in Iraq," allows the feds to seize assets from anyone who "directly or indirectly" poses a risk to the US war in Iraq. And, citing the modern technological ease of transferring funds and assets, the order states that no prior notice is necessary before the raid. On Aug. 1, Bush signed another order, similar but directed toward anyone undermining the "sovereignty of Lebanon or its democratic processes and institutions." In this case, the Secretary of the Treasury can seize the assets of anyone perceived as posing a risk of violence, as well as the assets of their spouses and dependents, and bans them from receiving any humanitarian aid. Critics say the orders bypass the right to due process and the vague language makes manipulation and abuse possible. Protesting the war could be perceived as undermining or threatening US efforts in Iraq. "This is so sweeping, it's staggering," said Bruce Fein, a former Reagan administration official in the Justice Department who editorialized against it in the Washington Times. "It expands beyond terrorism, beyond seeking to use violence or the threat of violence to cower or intimidate a population."

Sources: "Bush executive order: Criminalizing the antiwar movement," Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 2007; "Bush's executive order even worse than the one on Iraq," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, August 2007.

6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (For full story, click here)

On Oct. 23, 2007, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed — by a vote of 404-6 — the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," designed to root out the causes of radicalization in Americans. With an estimated four-year cost of $22 million, the act establishes a 10-member National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism. The bill's author, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Los Angeles) said, "Free speech, espousing even very radical beliefs, is protected by our Constitution. But violent behavior is not." In a later press release Harman stated: "the National Commission [will] propose to both Congress and [DHS Secretary Michael] Chertoff initiatives to intercede before radicalized individuals turn violent." Which could be when they're speaking, writing, and organizing in ways that are protected by the First Amendment. This redefines civil disobedience as terrorism, say civil rights experts, and the wording is too vague. "What is an extremist belief system? Who defines this? These are broad definitions that encompass so much. It is criminalizing thought and ideology," said Alejandro Queral, executive director of the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center in Portland, Ore. The story didn't make it onto the CNN ticker, but enough independent sources reported on it that the equivalent Senate Bill 1959 has since stalled. After introducing the bill, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.), later joined forces with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a report criticizing the Internet as a tool for violent Islamic extremism.

Sources: "Bringing the war on terrorism home," Jessica Lee, Indypendent, Nov. 16, 2007; "Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," Lindsay Beyerstein, In These Times, Nov. 2007; "The Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007," Matt Renner, Truthout, Nov. 20, 2007.

7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking (For full story, click here)

Every year, about 121,000 people legally enter the United States to work with H-2 visas, a program legislators are touting as part of future immigration reform. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) called this guest worker program "the closest thing I've ever seen to slavery." The Southern Poverty Law Center likened it to "modern day indentured servitude." They interviewed thousands of guest workers and reviewed legal cases for a report released in March 2007, which concluded "Unlike US citizens, guest workers do not enjoy the most fundamental protection of a competitive labor market — the ability to change jobs if they are mistreated. If guest workers complain about abuses, they face deportation, blacklisting, or other retaliation." When visas expire, workers must leave the country, hardly making this the path to permanent citizenship legislators are looking for. Still, Mexicans are literally lining up for H-2B status, the stark details of which were reported by Felicia Mello in The Nation. Furthermore, thousands of illegal immigrants are employed throughout the country, providing cheap, unprotected labor and further undermining the scant provisions of the laws. Labor contractors who connect immigrants with employers are stuffing their pockets with cash, while the workers return home with very little money. The Southern Poverty Law Center outlined a list of comprehensive changes needed in the program, concluding, "For too long, our country has benefited from the labor provided by guest workers but has failed to provide a fair system that respects their human rights and upholds the most basic values of our democracy. The time has come for Congress to overhaul our shamefully abusive guest worker system."

Sources: "Close to Slavery," Mary Bauer and Sarah Reynolds, Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2007; "Coming to America," Felicia Mello, The Nation, June 25, 2007; "Trafficking racket," Chidanand Rajghatta, Times of India, March 10, 2008.

8. Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly (For full story, click here)

The Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice has been issuing classified legal opinions about surveillance for years. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) had access to the DOJ opinions on presidential power and had three declassified to show how the judicial branch has, in a bizarre and chilling way, assisted President Bush in circumventing its own power. According to the three memos: "There is no constitutional requirement for a President to issue a new executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous executive order"; "The President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the President's authority under Article II"; and "The Department of Justice is bound by the President's legal determinations." As Whitehouse rephrased in a Dec. 7, 2007, Senate speech: "I don't have to follow my own rules, and I don't have to tell you when I'm breaking them. I get to determine what my own powers are. The Department of Justice doesn't tell me what the law is. I tell the Department of Justice what the law is." The issue arose within the context of the Protect America Act, which expands government surveillance powers and gives telecom companies legal immunity for helping. Whitehouse, a former US Attorney, legal counsel to Rhode Island's governor, and Rhode Island Attorney General who took office in 2006, went on to point out that Marbury vs. Madison, written by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803, established that it is "emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."

Sources: "In FISA Speech, Whitehouse sharply criticizes Bush Administration's assertion of executive power," Sheldon Whitehouse, Dec. 7, 2007; "Down the Rabbit Hole," Marcy Wheeler, The Guardian (UK), Dec. 26, 2007.

9. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify (For full story, click here)

Hearing soldiers recount their war experiences is the closest many people come to understanding the real horror, pain, and confusion of combat. One would think that might make compelling copy or powerful footage for a news outlet. But in March, when more than 300 veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convened for four days of public testimony on the war, they were largely ignored by the media. Winter Soldier was designed to give soldiers a public forum to air some of the atrocities they witnessed. Winter Soldier was originally convened by Vietnam Vets Against the War in January 1971 when more than 100 Vietnam veterans described their war experiences, including rapes, torture, brutalities, and killing of non-combatants. The testimony was entered into the Congressional Record and shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Iraq Veterans Against the War hosted the 2008 reprise of the 1971 hearings. Former Marine Cpl. Jason Washburn said, "his commanders encouraged lawless behavior. 'We were encouraged to bring 'drop weapons.' In case we accidentally shot a civilian, we could drop the weapon on the body and pretend they were an insurgent.'" Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans also revealed a general disregard for the traditional rules of war. Though most major news outlets sent staff to cover New York's Fashion Week, few made it to the Winter Soldier hearings. Fortunately, KPFA and Pacifica Radio broadcast the testimonies live. They were "deluged with phone calls, e-mails, and blog posts from service members, veterans, and military families thanking us for breaking a cultural norm of silence about the reality of war." Testimonies can be heard at www.ivaw.org.

Sources: "Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan eyewitness accounts of the occupation,"Iraq Veterans Against the War, March 13-16, 2008; "War comes home," Aaron Glantz, Aimee Allison, and Esther Manilla, Pacifica Radio, March 14-16, 2008; "US Soldiers testify about war crimes," Aaron Glantz, One World, March 19, 2008; "The Other War," Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian, The Nation, July 30, 2007.

10. American Psychological Association Complicit in CIA Torture (Full story here)

Psychologists have been assisting the CIA and US military with interrogation and torture of Guantánamo detainees — which the American Psychological Association [APA] has said is fine, despite objections from many of its 148,000 members. A 10-member APA task force was convened on the divisive issue in July 2005 and found that assistance from psychologists was making the interrogations safe. The task force was criticized by APA members for deliberating in secret, and later it was revealed that six of the 10 participants had ties to the armed services. Not only that, but as Katherine Eban reported in Vanity Fair, "Psychologists, working in secrecy, had actually designed the tactics and trained interrogators in them while on contract to the CIA." In particular, psychologists honed a classified military training program known as SERE [Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape] that teaches soldiers how to tough out torture if captured by enemies. Eban's story outlined how SERE tactics were spun as "science" despite a lack of data and the critique that building rapport works better than blows to the head. It's been misreported that CIA torture techniques got Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah to talk, when it was actually FBI rapport-building. In spite of this, SERE techniques became standards in interrogation manuals that eventually made their way to US officers guarding Abu Ghraib. Ongoing uproar within the APA resulted in a petition to make an official policy limiting psychologists' involvement in interrogations.

Sources: "The CIA's torture teachers," Mark Benjamin, Salon, June 21, 2007; "Rorschach and awe," Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, July 17, 2007. [Note that a highly revealing essay by a leading psychiatrist details how many psychiatrists and even the former president of the APA were involved in government mind control programs.]

Other Stories in the Top 25

11. El Salvador's Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)

El Salvador's new Anti-terrorism Law – based on the USA PATRIOT Act – criminalizes political expression and social protest. Close range shooting of rubber bullets and tear gas was used against community members for protesting the rising cost, and diminishing access and quality, of local water under privatization. Fourteen were arrested and charged with terrorism, a charge that can hold a 60-year prison sentence under the new Anti-Terrorism Law.

12. Bush Profiteers Collect Billions from No Child Left Behind (For full story, click here)

No Child Left Behind has consistently proven disastrous in the realm of education. Yet the architect, President Bush's first senior education advisor Sandy Kress, has turned the program into a huge success in the realm of corporate profiteering.

13. Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq (For full story, click here)

Starting one month after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and continuing for over a year, the United States Federal Reserve shipped a total of $12 billion in U.S. currency to Iraq. The U.S. military delivered the bank notes to the Coalition Provisional Authority to be dispensed for Iraqi reconstruction. At least $9 billion of that amount is unaccounted for due to a complete lack of oversight.

14. Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste (For full story, click here)

Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons production sites are being dumped into regular public landfills and being used as recycled metals. The Nuclear Information and Resource Service has tracked the Department of Energy's (DOE) release of radioactive scrap to unaware and unprepared recipients such as landfills, businesses and recreation areas. Under the current system, the DOE releases contaminated materials directly, sells them at auctions or sends the materials to processors who can release them from radioactive controls.

15. Worldwide Slavery (For full story, click here)

Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than at any time in human history. Globalization, poverty, violence and greed facilitate the growth of slavery, not only in the Third World, but in the most developed countries as well. Behind the façade in any major town or city in the world today, one is likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.

16. Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights (For full story, click here)

The first Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights to be published by the year-old International Trade Union Confederation documents enormous challenges to workers' rights around the world. The 2007 edition of the survey, covering 138 countries, shows an alarming rise in the number of people killed as a result of their trade union activities, from 115 in 2005 to 144 in 2006. Many more trade unionists around the world were abducted or "disappeared."

17. UN's Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights (For full story, click here)

In September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The resolution called for recognition of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and control over their lands and resources. Three months following the passage of the Universal Declaration, a delegation of indigenous peoples were forcibly barred from entering the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali, despite the fact that the delegation was invited to attend.

18. Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers (For full story, click here)

In states across the U.S., child advocates have harshly condemned conditions under which young offenders are housed — conditions that involve sexual abuse, physical abuse and even death. The U.S. Justice Department has filed lawsuits against facilities in 11 states for supervision that is either abusive or harmfully negligent.

19. Indigenous Herders & Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction (For full story, click here)

The industrial model of livestock production is causing the worldwide destruction of animal diversity. At least one indigenous livestock breed becomes extinct each month as a result of overreliance on select breeds imported from the United States and Europe.

20. Marijuana Arrests Set New Record (For full story, click here)

For the fourth year in a row, U.S. marijuana arrests set an all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from 786,545 in 2005.

21. NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option (For full story, click here)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials are considering a first strike nuclear option to be used anywhere in the world a threat may arise. The authors of the plan insist "the first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction."

22. CARE Rejects US Food Aid (For full story, click here)

In August 2007, one of the biggest and best-known American charity organizations, CARE, announced it was turning down $45 million a year in food aid from the United States government. CARE claims the way U.S. aid is structured causes rather than reduces hunger in the countries where it is received.

23. FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs (For full story, click here)

While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) turns a blind eye, drug companies are making false, unsubstantiated and misleading claims in their advertising, often withholding mandated disclosure of dangerous side effects. Though companies are required to submit their advertisements to the FDA, the agency does not review them before they are released to the public. [For a powerful two-page essay by a top U.S. physician on this key topic, click here]

24. Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)

Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity of the Global War on Terror. Parliament member Yukihisa Fujita insisted that an investigation be conducted into the war's origin: the events of 9/11. [Watch a video with English subtitles of Fujita speaking to parliament available here]

25. Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer (For full story, click here)

The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer's tryst with a luxury call girl may have been the result of a planned event. Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a White House and Wall Street operation to silence one of its most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis. [See the Washington Post article Spitzer wrote just weeks before the accusations against him emerged]

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Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, January 15, 2009

Goodbye and Good Riddance

If Bush was not so dangerously stupid, he would be the laughing stock of the world. All of a sudden many people realize or maybe the just started to voice their opinions and concerns about the warmonger President of the last eight years. Pastor Fred sent me an email today with a text from Paul Waldman, someone who has been criticizing the Dark Lord in the White House for a while. I am adding this text to this website, because it sums up many of the important failures and betrayals of the Bush crime family. Here a link to one of Paul Waldman's books. And here the email Pastor Fred sent me:

Goodbye and Good Riddance

After eight years of President Bush, we almost don't know how to function without him -- almost. But before we move on, we should pause to remember just what we're leaving behind.

by Paul Waldman

Just over two years into George W. Bush’s presidency, The American Prospect featured Bush on its cover under the headline, "The Most Dangerous President Ever." At the time, some probably thought it a bit over the top. But nearly six years later, it's worth taking a moment to reflect on the multifaceted burden that will soon be lifted from our collective shoulders.

Since last week, I have stopped short and shaken my head in amazement every time I have heard the words "President-elect Obama." But it is equally extraordinary to consider that in just a few weeks, George W. Bush will no longer be our president. Let me repeat that: In just a few weeks, George W. Bush will no longer be our president. So though our long national ordeal isn't quite over, it's never too early to say goodbye.

Goodbye, we can say at last, to the most powerful man in the world being such a ridiculous buffoon, incapable of stringing together two coherent sentences. Goodbye to cringing with dread every time our president steps onto the world stage, sure he'll say or do something to embarrass us all. Goodbye to being represented by a man who embodies everything our enemies want the people of the world to believe about America -- that we are ignorant, cruel, and only care about foreign countries when we decide to stomp on them. Goodbye to his giggle, and his shoulder shake, and his nicknames. Goodbye to a president who talks to us like we're a nation of fourth-graders.

And goodbye, of course, to Dick Cheney. Goodbye to the man whose naked contempt for democracy contorted his face to a permanent sneer, who spent his days in his undisclosed location with his man-sized safe.
And while we're at it, goodbye to Cheney's consigliore David Addington, as malevolent a force as has ever left his trail of slime across our federal institutions.

Goodbye, indeed, to the entire band of liars and crooks and thieves who have so sullied the federal government that belongs to us all. We can even say goodbye to those who have already gone, to Rummy and Scooter, to Fred o and Rove, tornados of misery left in their wake.

Goodbye to the rotating cast of butchers manning the White House's legal abattoir, where the Constitution has been sliced and bled and gutted since September 11.

Goodbye to the "unitary executive" theory and its claims that the president can do whatever he wants -- even snatch an American citizen off the street and lock him up for life without charge, without legal representation, and without trial. Goodbye to the promiscuous use of "signing statements" (1,100 at last count) to declare that the law is whatever the president says it is, and that he'll enforce only those laws he likes. Goodbye to an executive branch that treats lawfully issued subpoenas like suggestions that can be ignored.

Goodbye to thinking of John Ashcroft as the liberal attorney general.

Goodbye to the culture of incompetence, where rebuilding a country we destroyed could be turned over to a bunch of clueless 20-somethings with no qualifications save an internship at the Heritage Foundation and an opposition to abortion.

Goodbye to the "Brownie, you're doin' a heckuva job" philosophy, where vital agencies are turned over to incompetent boobs to rot and decay.

Goodbye to handing out the Medal of Freedom as an award for engineering one of the greatest screw-ups of our time. Goodbye to an administration that welcomed gluttonous war profiteering, that was only too happy to outsource every government function it could to well-connected contractors who would do a worse job for more money.

Goodbye to the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war.
Goodbye to the lust for sending off other people's sons and daughters to fight
and kill and die just to show your daddy you're a real man.

Goodbye to playing dress-up in flight suits, goodbye to strutting and posing and desperate sexual insecurity as a driver of American foreign policy.

Goodbye to the neocons, so sinister and deluded they beg us all to become fevered conspiracy theorists.
Goodbye to Guantanamo and its kangaroo courts.

Goodbye to the use of torture as official U.S. government policy, and goodbye to the immoral ghouls who think you can rename it "enhanced interrogation techniques" and render it any less
monstrous.

Goodbye to the accusation that if you disagree with what the president wants to do, you don't "support the troops."
Goodbye to stocking government agencies with people who are opposed to the very missions those agencies are charged with carrying out.

Goodbye to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the agencies that are supposed to regulate those very industries.

Goodbye to madly giving away public lands to private interests.

Goodbye to a Food and Drug Administration that acts like a wholly owned subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry, except when it acts like a wholly owned subsidiary of the fundamentalist puritans who believe that sex is dirty and birth control will turn girls into sluts.

Goodbye to the "global gag rule," which prohibits any entity receiving American funds from even telling women where they can get an abortion if they need it.
Goodbye to vetoing health insurance for poor children but rushing back to Washington to sign a bill to keep alive a woman whose cerebral cortex had liquefied.

Goodbye to the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.

Goodbye to the philosophy that says that if we give tax cuts to the rich and keep the government from any oversight of the economy, prosperity will eventually trickle down. Goodbye to the thirst for privatizing Social Security and to the belief that the success of a social safety-net program is what makes it a threat and should mark it for destruction.
Goodbye to the war on unions and to a National Labor Relations Board devoted to crushing them. Goodbye to the principle of loyalty above all else, that nominates Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and puts Alberto Gonzales in charge of the Justice Department. And goodbye to that Justice Department, the one where U.S. attorneys keep their jobs only if they are willing to undertake bogus investigations of Democrats timed to hit the papers just before Election Day.
Goodbye to a Justice Department where graduates of Pat Robertson's law school roam the halls by the dozens, where "justice" is a joke.

Goodbye to James Dobson and a host of radical clerics picking up the phone and hearing someone in the White House on the other end.

Goodbye to the most consequential decisions being made on the basis of one man's "gut," a gut that proved so wrong so often.

Goodbye to the contempt for evidence, to the scorn for intellect and book learnin', to the relentless war on science itself as a means of understanding the world.

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to it all.

Though President Obama will be spending most of his time cleaning up the mess George Bush made, we probably won't have Dubya to kick around anymore. It's hard to imagine Bush undertaking some grand philanthropic effort on the scale of the Clinton Global Initiative, or hopping around to international trouble spots like Jimmy Carter. Republicans won't be asking him to speak on their behalf, and publishers are reportedly uninterested in the prospect of a Bush memoir. His reign of destruction complete, Bush will return to Texas and fill his days with the mundane activities of a retiree -- puttering around the yard, reading some magazines, maybe enjoying that new Xbox Jenna gave him for Christmas ("I'm the Decider, and I decide to spend this afternoon playing Call of Duty 4").

This presidency is finally over. We can say goodbye to an administration whose misdeeds have piled so high that the size of the mountain no longer shocks us. In our lifetimes, we will see administrations of varying degrees of competence and integrity, some we'll agree with and some we won't. But we will probably never see another quite like the one now finally reaching its end, so mind-boggling a parade of incompetence and malice, dishonesty, and immorality. So at last -- at long, long last -- we can say goodbye.

And good riddance.

And I could not agree more.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 6, 2008

Bush administration crushed economy

Today Bush took the cake. After blaming the illegal attack on Iraq on bad intelligence yesterday (to me this sounds like Hitler saying: "But Poland shot first and the Jews destroyed the Reichstag"... both statements have been proven false for a long time), he admitted that he destroyed more than half a million (533,000) jobs - the population of a city or the entire State of Wyoming - only in the month of November. He also admitted that we are in a Recession. Oh, my. Who told him? By the way the recession has been declared to exist for more than one year already. Why did I know and they didn't?

That the people around Bush who are slavishly devoted to serve the wealthiest and most abominable people in the world are actively destroying our country is not a secret anymore. It is embarrassing that no action is taken against these acts of treason against our USA. Selling the people out to the banks is treason against our country. The President's oath has been broken over and over again and the members of this administration - as well as the ones standing idly by and watching this happen - can not be ashamed enough of themselves.

While Bush is engaging in acts of comedy with his devoted servant Charles Gibson on ABC and claims that the intelligence that he had previously fixed by his own people - namely Cheney - would have been different, and there would have been weapons of mass destruction, things could have been different... the economy is falling in shambles.

Other countries, so Bush's claim had the same intelligence. Yes, they had the previously fixed US intelligence which was given to them by the US. The countries which had the information that had not been tampered with by the CIA refused to go to war under these false pretenses. France and Germany were ousted and insulted by Rumsfeld and Bush for making this correct decision and as we found out later everything France and Germany had claimed was true. I have not heard an apology so far, just the outrage of the criminals in the Bush crime family who were furious that some countries were smart enough not to participate in their crime and the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Now the Bush crime family makes the last push: Citibank and City Group which are owned by Saudi Arabia get bail outs thrown at them, Billions and Billions of Dollars while the only US car manufacturers have to beg on their knees to get $34 Billion Dollars to save three Million jobs. Are we really going nuts here? The fascist Republican right is blaming the Democrats for this crisis? More information here from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info:

US diluted loan rules before crash
December 1, 2008, ABC News/Associated Press
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/business&id=6532267

The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents. "Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job. Bowing to aggressive lobbying - along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK - regulators delayed action for nearly one year. By the time new rules were released late in 2006, the toughest of the proposed provisions were gone and the meltdown was under way. The administration's blind eye to the impending crisis is emblematic of its governing philosophy, which trusted market forces and discounted the value of government intervention in the economy. Its belief ironically has ushered in the most massive government intervention since the 1930s. Many of the banks that fought to undermine the proposals by some regulators are now either out of business or accepting billions in federal aid to recover from a mortgage crisis they insisted would never come. In 2005, faced with ominous signs the housing market was in jeopardy, bank regulators proposed new guidelines for banks writing risky loans. Those proposals all were stripped from the final rules.

Note: For many revealing reports on the Wall Street bailout from reliable sources, click here.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 5, 2008

The correct answer to Prop. 8 in California

Having been a fan of Jack Black for a long time, his participation in this video is a special treat for me. But not only that, it also gives me the opportunity to continue my Love against hate sermon that outrages so many American Christians who are fighting for their hateful and vengeful GOD. If they would ever bother to actually read the Bible - a task that "W." avoided as well - they would be amazed and surprised what the "good Book" really says. Yes, the Bible allows you to stone your wife and sell your daughters into slavery. And according to Leviticus eating Shellfish (Shrimp among others) is equal to or worse than being gay. [[Lev 11:10 - 11:12] And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.]]

I am fortunately not in a dilemma, because I rightly divide the Bible into the proper parts: The Old Testament is the history and the law of the Jews. The New Testament is also for the Jews and the Apostles were sent explicitly to the Jews and NOT to us Gentiles: [[Mat 10:5 - 10:6] These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.] And our Apostle is Paul and we follow Jesus Christ's example of Love, the commandments that were given by Jesus Christ and verified by Paul. There is no hate in Jesus Christ. He threw the traders out of the temple. Something we should also do here in America. [Mat 21:12 - 21:13] And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.]

So all the Hagees, Hinns and the other misguided liars and all their likes should be cast out. Because they are thieves and they do not preach GOD's word. They want money and they don't care where they steal it, how many souls are being lost along the way and how many people despair about their lies. GOD is Love, Jesus Christ is Love. And the religious thieves who preach anything else but love are the incarnation of hate, which is the opposite of Love. Which is ... but this is easy to figure out. The opposite of GOD is...? But now enjoy the video.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, December 4, 2008

Bush's final revenge on the world

Bush has raided this our country together with many people who have no soul and no conscience. The final act of the current "lame duck" is unfolding right before our very eyes. To make sure that the new President Barack Obama definitely does not have a dime left to do anything to save our country and also to give the ones who did not profit enough from the illegal occupation of Iraq some undeserved Billions of dollars as well.

And we should be well aware of why CityGroup and CityBank are being "bailed out": Major shareholder is one of Bush's best friends, a Saudi Prince. Saudi Arabia, remember, the country where almost all alleged 9-11 Terrorists came from. And the other two alleged Terrorists came from the United Arab Emirates, remember, where Vice President Cheney's Company Halliburton moved their headquarters to avoid paying taxes to the US on the taxpayer money they had stolen from US taxpayers. The United Arab Emirates, the country Bush tried to put in control of six of the most important ports in our US of A.

And today Bush's financial zombies not only rape and raid our country financially with the 700 Billion Dollar so called bailout that is going the same way that the money for the IRAQ war went - into the pockets of Bush's friends, they also try to punish the people who co-financed the Loose Change documentary. The reason is to get revenge on the people who are smarter than the average American and who told the truth about our Government Terrorists. You can find more about this revenge actions by clicking here. And please be aware that I don't say that there was no wrong doing, I am just surprised that the financial forces go after the little people while the Government under Bush's fellow criminals is taking the last pennies from the American taxpayer without any interference from anyone to line the pockets of the same people who caused the worldwide financial crisis.

The filmmakers and scientists who worked on and wrote the documentary Loose Change 911 are some of the smartest and internationally recognized scientists and thinkers our country has. Other than our never elected so called President Bush. To quote the great George Carlin: "I call him Governor, because that was the last office that he was elected to." And now Bush's own financial GESTAPO is trying to hunt down the people who have been telling the truth about 9-11 for years. The whole world is aware that 9-11 was an inside job because there was no other way to pull it off. The only ones naive enough to believe what Bush's servants tell us about this attack are we, the Americans. The rest of the world knows there was Evolution, that there is the law of Gravity and other scientific facts. We are the only nation naive enough to take what the right wing fascist churches and the people behind Bush have been dishing out to us. Here another article from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info to show you how our money will disappear before the new President takes office.

Warning: King Henry's bailout like Rummy's Iraq
November 10, 2008, MarketWatch (A Wall Street Journal Digital Network Website)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/reagonomics...

So you thought Barack Obama's victory signaled the death of Reaganomics? Wrong, wrong: Reaganomics is very much alive. In a subtle, bloodless coup, the Reaganomics ideology magically pulled victory out of the jaws of defeat in the meltdown. The magic happened fast and quietly, in the shadows, while you were in a trance, distracted by the election drama. Recently Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, framed the issue perfectly: "Has the Treasury partially nationalized the private banks, as we have been told? Or is it the other way around?" The question was rhetorical, the answer painfully clear. In a few weeks Wall Street did the old bait and switch, emerging from an economic and market disaster with new powers, in total control of America. And thanks to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's brilliant bailout coup, Reaganomics is now the new "sleeper cell" quietly hidden inside the Obama White House and America's Treasury, where it will be for a long time to come. Listen closely folks: You and your government are and will continue being conned out of trillions. Klein further exposed this insanity in a recent Rolling Stone article, "The New Trough: The Wall Street bailout looks a lot like Iraq, a 'free-fraud zone' where private contractors cash in on the mess they helped create." Paulson's privatization, outsourcing and management of the $700 billion bailout has the exact same Reaganomics ideological, strategic and deceptive footprints that President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to privatize, outsource and mismanage the costly Iraq War blunder.

Note: For the powerfully revealing article by Naomi Klein mentioned in the article above, click here. For many key articles revealing the hidden realities of the bailout, click here.

And to find out about the man the Republicans called "a Muslim", here a link and a short article about our President elect Barack Obama:

Obama: I have a deep faith
April 5, 2004, Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article

Barack Obama is alone on this Saturday afternoon in the city, his press secretary nowhere in sight. He's not carrying anything with him. Not even notes. Yet he appears confident as he answers questions about his spiritual life, a subject that would make many politicians -- on or off the campaign trail -- more skittish than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. If an hourlong conversation about his faith unnerves him, Obama's not letting on. The first question he fields without hesitation: What does he believe? "I am a Christian," the 42-year-old ... says. "So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues. "I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived." It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God. That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me," is heard. "Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion," he says. "I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. I am a big believer in our constitutional structure."

Note: For those who want to understand the spiritual beliefs of Barack Obama, the full article at the link above is highly recommended. Even better, for the powerful transcript of this interview between the religion columnist of the Sun-Times and Obama, click here.

And again, I am very thankful to our friends at www.WantToKnow.info to give us PROVEN facts about the things happening behind the scenes and the smokescreens of the Bush administration.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, November 23, 2008

The battle is won - but the war?

I am happy that my fellow Americans began to favor a President with an IQ higher than a Lab rat and voted for the eloquent, honest and intelligent candidate. This battle was won by brains. Still the IQ of the Republican base (the people who listen to Rush Limbaugh and watch Fox News) is in single digits.

I don't have a problem with Republicans, I have a problem with the people who call themselves Republicans and under that banner spread hate, stupidity and celebrate their ignorance. Unfortunately these are the people who have the media outlets under their control. It is amazing how Republicans - who just used Hitler's and Goebbels' blue print of how to control Germany and build it into a NAZI nation - to shred the constitution, commit voter fraud twice and tried to build up a new GESTAPO with warrentless wiretaps and the absence of Habeas Corpus, which puts us in a line with most other Dictatorships and communist countries that our "Leaders" so loudly criticize for their human rights violations. After fixing the US elections twice, the administration - which denied UN observers the right to monitor the US elections - still sent observers to other countries and commented about their handling of the elections. The whole world was standing by in disbelief and inner laughter about the serious belief of the US Government that no one knew that they themselves were never elected. The world knew it and the US did not care. Starting wars, ruining our country is all this administration has done for us. Nothing for America, everything to rape and ruin our USA for the bank accounts of a few. Now they have our money, still taking more right now (we "bail" them out), and we are idly standing by.

Let's hope there is something to salvage after the Bushes and the Cheneys are done. Everything was supported by FOX and their affiliates. Some people are still dumb enough to believe that the News in our country are neutral. Below some information for them from our friends at www.wanttoknow.info.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, November 18, 2008

Jane Akre—Fox News. After our struggle to air an honest report [on hormones in milk], Fox fired the general manager [of our station]. The new GM said that if we didn’t agree to changes that the lawyers were insisting upon, we’d be fired for insubordination in 48 hours. We pleaded with [him] to look at the facts we’d uncovered. His reply: “We paid $3 billion dollars for these stations. We’ll tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it is!” [After we refused] Fox’s GM presented us an agreement that would give us a full year of salary, and benefits worth close to $200,000, but with strings attached: no mention of how Fox covered up the story and no opportunity to ever expose the facts. [After declining] we were fired. (click for more)

Dan Rather—CBS, Multiple Emmy Awards. What's going on is a belief that you can manipulate communicable trust between the leadership and the led. The way you do that is you don't let the press in anywhere. Access to war is extremely limited. The fiercer the combat, the more the access is limited, [including] access to information. This is a direct contradiction of the stated policy of maximum access to information consistent with national security. There was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways the fear [now in the U.S.] is that you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. That fear keeps journalists from asking the tough questions. I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism. (click for more)

Monika Jensen-Stevenson—Emmy-winning producer for 60 minutes. Robert R. Garwood—14 years a prisoner of the Vietnamese—was found guilty in the longest court-martial in US history. At the end of the court-martial, there seemed no question that Garwood was a monstrous traitor. Several years later in 1985, Garwood was speaking publicly about something that had never made the news during his court-martial. He knew of other American prisoners in Vietnam long after the war was over. He was supported by Vietnam veterans whose war records were impeccable….My sources included outstanding experts like former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency General Tighe and returned POWs like Captain McDaniel, who held the Navy’s top award for bravery. With such advocates, it was hard not to consider the possibility that prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact been kept by the Vietnamese as hostages to make sure the US would pay the more than $3 billion in war reparations. [After the war] American POWs had become worthless pawns. The US had not paid the promised monies and had no intention of paying in the future. (click for more)

Kristina Borjesson—CBS, Emmy award winner. Pierre Salinger announced to the world on Nov. 8, 1996, that he’d received documents proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed [TWA flight 800]. That same day, FBI’s Jim Kallstrom called a press conference. A man raised his hand and asked why the Navy was involved in the recovery and investigation while a possible suspect. “Remove him!” [Kallstrom] yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy had been dragged out of the room. Kallstrom and entourage acted as if nothing had happened. [Kallstrom was later hired by CBS.] (click for more)

Greg Palast—BBC. In the months leading up to the November [2000] balloting, Gov. Jeb Bush ordered elections supervisors to purge 58,000 voters on the grounds they were felons not entitled to vote. As it turns out, only a handful of these voters were felons. This extraordinary news ran on page one of the country’s leading paper. Unfortunately, it was the wrong country: Britain. In the USA, it was not covered. The office of the governor [also] illegally ordered the removal of felons from voter rolls—real felons—but with the right to vote under law. As a result, 50,000 of these voters could not vote. The fact that 90% of these were Democrats should have made it news as this alone more than accounted for Bush’s victory. (click for more)

Michael Levine—25-year veteran of DEA, writer for New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today. The Chang Mai “factory” that the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs killed in Vietnam. Case after case was killed by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn’t a thing we could do about it….In 1980, CIA-recruited mercenaries and drug traffickers unseated Bolivia’s democratically elected president. Immediately after the coup, cocaine production increased massively. Bolivia [became] the source of virtually 100% of the cocaine entering the US. This was the beginning of the crack “plague.”…The CIA along with State and Justice Departments had to protect their drug-dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigation. How do I know? I was the inside source….I sat down at my desk in the American embassy and wrote evidence of my charges. I addressed it to Newsweek. Three weeks later DEA’s internal security [called] to notify me that I was under investigation….The highlight of the 60 Minutes piece is when the administrator of the DEA, Federal Judge Robert Bonner, tells Mike Wallace, “There is no other way to put it, Mike, [what the CIA did] is drug smuggling. It’s illegal.” (click for more)

Gary Webb—San Jose Mercury News, Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1996, I wrote a series of stories that began this way: For the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug profits to a guerilla army run by the CIA. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America….The story was developing a momentum all of its own, despite a virtual news blackout from the major media. Ultimately, it was public pressure that forced the national newspapers into the fray. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times published stories, but spent little time exploring the CIA’s activities. Instead, my reporting and I became the focus of their scrutiny. It was remarkable [Mercury News editor] Ceppos wrote, that the four Washington Post reporters assigned to debunk the series “could not find a single significant factual error.” A few months later, the Mercury News [due to intense CIA pressure] backed away from the story, publishing a long column by Ceppos apologizing for “shortcomings.” The New York Times hailed Ceppos for “setting a brave new standard,” and splashed his apology on their front page, the first time the series had ever been mentioned there. I quit the Mercury News not long after that….Do we have a free press today? Sure. It’s free to report all the sex scandals, all the stock market news, [and] every new health fad that comes down the pike. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—such stories are not even open for discussion. (click for more)

John Kelly—Author, ABC producer. ABC hired me to help produce a story about an investment firm that was heavily involved with the CIA. Part of the ABC report charged that the CIA had plotted to assassinate an American, Ron Rewald, the president of [the investment firm]. Scott Barnes said on camera that the CIA had asked him to kill Rewald. After the show aired, CIA officials met with ABC executive David Burke, [who] was sufficiently impressed “by the vigor with which they made their case” to order an on-air “clarification.” But that was not enough. [CIA Director] Casey called ABC Chairman Goldenson. [Thus] despite all the documented evidence presented in the program, despite ABC standing by the program in a second broadcast, Peter Jennings reported that ABC could no longer substantiate the charges. That same day, the CIA filed a formal complaint with the FCC charging that ABC had “deliberately distorted” the news. In the complaint, Casey asked that ABC be stripped of its TV and radio licenses….During this time, Capital Cities Communications was maneuvering to buy ABC. [CIA Director] Casey was one of the founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities bought ABC. Within months, the entire investigative unit was dispersed. (click for more)

Robert McChesney—500 radio & TV appearances. [There has been a] striking consolidation of the media from hundreds of firms to an industry dominated by less than ten enormous transnational conglomerates. The largest ten media firms own all US TV networks, most TV stations, all major film studios, all major music companies, nearly all cable TV channels, much of the book and magazine publishing [industry], and much, much more. Expensive investigative journalism—especially that which goes after national security or powerful corporate interests—is discouraged. Largely irrelevant human interest/tragedy stories get extensive coverage….A few weeks after the war began in Afghanistan, CNN president Isaacson authorized CNN to provide two different versions of the war: a more critical one for the global audience and a sugarcoated one for Americans….It is nearly impossible to conceive of a better world without some changes in the media status quo. We have no time to waste. (click for more)

Obama tells the truth!

Another, more positive message came in today. Unfortunately without the name of the sender, but nonetheless, thanks for your support:

God Bless you folks for being true Christians and not condemning Barack Obama. What I don't understand is how Sarah Palin or John McCain can even say they believe in GOD after what I have heard them say in politics.

Again, may GOD bless your church and teachings.

Thank you my brother or sister in Christ. How could anyone condemn Barack Obama or most other Democrats? Republicans violate all the commandments. McCain and Palin have not said a true word or stated an actual fact in their entire Campaign. This is called lying and violates the commandments. They also support the unethical occupation and the violent killing in the Middle East, which the Bush-supporters made possible. Killing is as well against the commandments. And they steal all of our money, which is also against the commandments. How could the Republicans possibly claim GOD for themselves if they violate all his commandments?

Barack Obama tells the truth, wants to stop the theft by the wealthiest Americans who are actually ruining our country and he also wants to stop the war and the killing.

Whose side do you think GOD is on???

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, October 30, 2008

Still: GOD is LOVE - not wrath.

Daniel, the friendly warrior of the unforgiving, vain and violent GOD wrote an email to save my soul and the souls of the readers of my website. I appreciate it and I might answer different parts of his - or, looking at the hate and frustration in there, probably more likely his pastor's - message one by one over the coming days. I am currently very busy, but it is too important to let this stand on its own too long. Hateful Christians are too interesting to pass up as a subject for my sermons - and also the component of raking in money in GOD's name and in the Church's account.

His church wants your money, so tithing is a major subject for them. And they love to keep you in fear and terror of GOD, to get to your money. To check out that my claim is true, have a look at the website he gave me. On the site, don't be surprised, first they establish that you are a bad person and you will certainly go to hell - which by the way does not exist (click here to see why) - and you really need their products.

First they will scare you here (Please click here to see the site) and then you should click on the link below the scare tactics site, which then brings you here, to a site which then will sell all their products you think you need for your scared and fearful soul.

Scaring people, spreading fear and terror without a reason... Don't we call that terrorism here in America? What would Jesus do with those people? Would he kick them out of the temple? Well, for now, here is Daniel's e-mail, unedited with some brief comments of mine in red.

Hi Alexander,

May I plea with you...

The same God that formed you in your mother's womb formed me. There is only one God. God created all things from the word of His power. He formed the earth out of nothing and created all things that exist. This God is the same God who came down to see the evils of Sodom and Gomorrah, and proceeded to judge them with fire. This same God gave Abraham a promise of a nation who would outnumber the sands on the sea shore.

This same God freed a people out of the bonds of slavery and called them Israel. This God punished the people in the wilderness for casting a false god and worshiping it. This same God gave His law to Moses and set up the sacrifices and the priesthood of the Jewish people as a sign of Him.

This same God destroyed his people, Israel through the nation of Babylon for claiming to know God, but secretly worshiped the false Gods of their neighboring countries.

You make me think that it is obviously also possible to worship a false GOD here, in our own country.

This same God knowing that the heart of man is evil from youth, became a man in Jesus of Nazareth. This Jesus being equal with God, humbled himself and became a servant to all. He was blameless before both God and man, and this Jesus went to the cross to spill His blood for you. God so loved the world that He gave His only son that who ever believes in Him should not Perish, but have eternal life. There are two choices. Believe and be given the gift of eternal life, or not believe and perish.

I am trembling with fear. GOD loved me so much, that he gave his own son for my sins, and I shall fear him? GOD LOVES ME. If you refuse to be loved by GOD, I can't help you.

Sin is so horrible that the wages for sin is death. The soul that sins shall perish says the Lord. Sin is so horrible that no person deserves to approach God while stained with sin. Yet Jesus made a single way to approach God, through his death on the cross, burial and resurrection. Every other spiritual leader has a grave. You too will have a grave. Jesus said that he lays down his life that he may take it again.

Jesus did not come to judge 2000 years ago, but to lay his life down for the sheep. But He is coming again with a sword in His mouth to judge and rule and reign as king.

My soul mourns for you, that you claim to know the scriptures, but you don't see.

Good that your position in GOD's court is so high that you think you can lecture and look down on someone who lives in GOD's eternal grace. Could you really be blaspheming? Could you really be that vain and proud? Let's see.

Jesus offers you forgiveness today, but you must take a leap of faith and trust in his work on the cross to save you. You must humble yourself and abandon your pride in your own knowledge, and you must come to the cross as each child of God has, in humility.

...and give you all my money. Would you go as far as to claim that my soul is in your hands and that my blood could be on your hands?

Paul said that those who are teachers will receive a harsher judgment. Again, when we are there in heaven and I see you again, your blood will not be on my hands. I have offered you the truth of the Gospel, the same Gospel that Paul treasured. Paul said if you preach any other Gospel, even if it is delivered to you by angels, let that man be accursed.

Any more empty threats for the faint of heart? Well, you are definitely not attempting to speak about the true content of the Bible or any Gospel that GOD or Jesus Christ would condone. Here is some Paul for you:

[Rom 5:8-5:11] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

God will get Glory in the end.
dw

Dear Daniel, I think GOD already has the Glory. Not through your praise though, I understand. I already acknowledge GOD in all HIS glory now. But I doubt that HE needs your or my approval. I refuse to think of HIM as a flawed character. GOD is perfect and does not need your fear to feel powerful.

The GOD of wrath is the GOD of the Jews in the Old Testament. HE changed HIS message in sending Jesus Christ to the Jews. His message then was LOVE. And when the Jews refused Jesus Christ's message, it was given to the Gentiles by Paul. If you would rightly divide the Bible, you would understand what I am talking about.

But I admit: People who fear GOD tithe (give 10% of their income) a lot better. And that was the first thing the website you gave me asked me for: My money. By the way: tithing is not in the Bible either. So you should keep your money and not be afraid of a loving GOD. And yes, there is only one GOD, and HE is above jealousy and HE does not need your fear or money to feel powerful. HE just is.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, October 30, 2008

GOD is LOVE, not Fear!

Last night, right after Choir rehearsal, someone gave my wife and me a piece of paper. A $1,000,000 note with the question on it: "Will you go to heaven when you die?" Daniel was the person speaking to me, another holy worker began talking to my wife. Daniel insisted that GOD was to fear. The judgment would be terrible, we were all sinners and not worthy. I answered that I could not worship a GOD that I had to fear. Because my GOD was full of love and very forgiving. GOD leads my life everyday and HE does not let me fall in sin just to boost HIS ego (what a thought...). Daniel told me that his GOD was a GOD of wrath and jealousy. I answered that I had a problem to imagine any superior being, especially GOD, to have all these character flaws that he was describing after Jesus died for our sins and brought the message of love.

I told him that I communicate with GOD, try my best to keep HIS commandments and live in the light that GOD shines on me, my life and my mission. And I said that I would not trade GOD for his version of a being with the flawed character who demands to be feared. GOD send Jesus to show HIS love for us. All we have to do is try to live according to HIS rules of love and forgiveness, try to walk in Jesus shoes as far as we can - which means to live our life in love and understanding for our fellow man:

[Romans 13:8 -11] Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

So, dear Daniel, Love is the fulfilling of the law. Not fear. And about your Bible quotes, please start with this one: [2Ti 2:15] Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And to learn how to rightly divide the word of truth, please click here. Again, I thank you for our conversation in the name of GOD last night and I know that GOD has blessed you.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, October 29, 2008

America is smarter than that!!!

I am happy to see that America sees through the BS screen Senator McCain and Sarah Palin are trying to put up to defraud the American people one more time. Twice it was Republican voter fraud and this time it seem the Republicans are preparing their third election fraud in accusing the Democrats of voter registration fraud. Which is ridiculous because ACORN, the organization that is accused of it handed the suspicious registrations in after they were lawfully and rightfully clearly marked as suspicious. So, let's hope that our votes will count.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, October 22, 2008

McCain in the Glass house!

Senator McCain who has problems to decide if he wants a cleaner campaign or keep slinging mud at America's only hope, Barack Obama, has problems of his own. While the accusations against Barack Obama have so far turned out to be totally unsubstantiated, the truth has caught up with McCain, as our friends from www.WantToKnow.info report:

Keating 5 ring a bell?
September 25, 2008, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-brooks25-2008sep25,0,1039504.column

Once upon a time, a politician took campaign contributions and favors from a friendly constituent who happened to run a savings and loan association. The contributions were generous: They came to about $200,000 in today's dollars, and on top of that there were several free vacations for the politician and his family, along with private jet trips and other perks. The politician voted repeatedly against congressional efforts to tighten regulation of S&Ls, and in 1987, when he learned that his constituent's S&L was the target of a federal investigation, he met with regulators in an effort to get them to back off. That politician was John McCain, and his generous friend was Charles Keating, head of Lincoln Savings & Loan. While he was courting McCain and other senators and urging them to oppose tougher regulation of S&Ls, Keating was also investing his depositors' federally insured savings in risky ventures. In 1989, [Lincoln] went belly up -- and more than 20,000 Lincoln customers saw their savings vanish. Keating went to prison, and McCain's Senate career almost ended. Together with the rest of the so-called Keating Five ... McCain was investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee and ultimately reprimanded for "poor judgment." But the savings and loan crisis mushroomed. Eventually, the government spent about $125 billion in taxpayer dollars to bail out hundreds of failed S&Ls. The $125 billion seems like small change compared to the $700-billion price tag for the Bush administration's proposed Wall Street bailout. But the root causes of both crises are the same: a lethal mix of deregulation and greed.

Note: For key reports on government corruption from reliable sources, click here.

Special note: A fascinating one-minute CNN news video clip shows a human-powered car which can actually reach 60 mph. Click here to watch.

I still have a hard time understanding why Palin and McCain are allowed by the media to lie openly without asking them any questions about it.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, October 17, 2008

Will we have to suffer another fake terrorist attack?

I think I have established that I know for a fact (who could take out NORAD? - and the plans were in place from our Government for a "new Pearl Harbor") that the 9-11 attacks were home made to keep "W" in power and start a war against an innocent country to control their oil resources. Now some people are afraid that a similar scam shall be played out for John McCain.

Some people think that Bush will declare martial law - the military is already back from IRAQ and according to their orders - which are by the way unconstitutional - ready to attack US citizens in their home country. So you and I might be killed by our own troops because we were voting for the wrong guy?

Are we still the land of the free? The land of the brave? My Lord. What an amazing thing Christianity seems to be. According to the right wing Christian fascists you shall kill, lie and steal. Those are the new commandments? Something has gone very wrong in our US of A in recent years.

Others assume that there will be another homemade attack, a new 9-11, from Bush's friends to get McCain elected. More - once again - from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info who know many things we should seriously think about to see how we are being manipulated, lied to, raped and ravaged.

McCain's 'big advantage'
2008-06-25, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/24/EDPC11EHS4.DTL

Charlie Black, senior adviser to John McCain, caused a fluff by saying that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be a "big advantage" to his candidate. No one mentioned that eight years ago, the Project for a New American Century called for "a new Pearl Harbor" that could move the American people to accept the neoconservative vision of militarized global domination. Then 9/11 happened, lifting George W. Bush from the shadows of a disputed election to the heights of a "war presidency." Bush has taken on unprecedented powers since the events of 9/11. On that day, the president issued his "Declaration of Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks" under the authority of the National Emergencies Act. This declaration, which can be rescinded by joint resolution of Congress, has instead been extended six times. In 2007, the declaration was quietly strengthened with the issuance of National Security Presidential Directive 51, which gave the president the authority to do whatever he deems necessary in a vaguely defined "catastrophic emergency," including everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack. Not a single congressional hearing was held on this directive.

Please understand that this is not about Republicans or Democrats. There are people destroying our country and our lives! I know that many Republicans are not aware of what the leaders do and if they were, they would have a hard time to believe it. Please take a minute to think and get the facts. I know Americans do not condone what is happening right now. Stand up and tell the politicians that we are fed up. This is not cheering for football teams. This is about your and our lives.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, October 15, 2008

Should Lies Get Them the Job?

If someone applies for a job and lies in the interview, would you hire him or her? Probably not. So this is your situation with John McCain and Sarah Palin. All they tell is lies. Because the truth would catapult them out of the race immediately. McCain lied so obviously to America when he told Talk show legend David Letterman that he had to “hurry back to Washington to solve the economic crisis” and sat calmly in Katie Couric’s CBS studio for an interview instead of appearing on David’s show and David Letterman projected the live feed from CBS on the Studio screen. Sitting in for McCain was legendary MSNBC host Keith Olbermann who helped David poke fun at the ignorant Wannabe President.

McCain has graduated among the last of his class. And the pattern did not change. His supporters think Barack Obama is a Muslim, an elitist and an Arab. Sarah Palin (who does not read a single newspaper) declares that he has pals who are terrorists and she keeps telling many more lies to a Lynch mob of Republican idiots and racists who are yelling for Obama's death, happily supported by a brain free Hockey mom who was even booed a hockey game. Another set of lying morons in the White House? Another babbling idiot as our President? Didn’t we have enough of this?

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, October 12, 2008

With "The Bailout" they are just stealing more money from us

The "PEN" sends me a lot of useful and truthful information and it really seems like they are as upset about our Government stealing from us and selling out America to the richest of the rich as I am. Anyway, McCain and Palin are only puppets of the masters behind the scenes. Like Bush who had one of the puppeteers as his VP. The Republicans are now selling two brain free candidates to the US and seem to do well with it. Sometimes I ask myself why the level of stupidity is so high. No thinking child left behind? Is our system really only breeding a bunch of morons who can't tell an innovator who is working with facts and telling the truth like Barack Obama from a babbling puppet who is only telling lies - not only to David Letterman - and is more experienced but not smarter than Sarah Palin, who herself is dumb as a stick?

Tina Fey does her impression of Sarah Palin on SNL (Saturday Night Live) with actual quotes from real Palin interviews and the audience cracks up. So did I when I heard the original interviews. Most of my friends are more qualified to lead this country than Sarah Palin is. But back to the so called Bailout that is supposed to collect the rest of our money that the weapons industry and the Iraq contractors did not get their hands on and put it in the pockets of the rest of our big Corporations that are behind the Bush administration. The people behind Bush raped, raided and looted our country with the help of the Republicans. And now they take whatever is left, to make sure that the next administration has nothing to work with. If they should succeed in fixing the elections a third time and McCain/Palin make it into the White House, some money might magically reappear to give the impression that the administration knows their job. And after a brief recovery the looting will begin again. And there is only one group of losers: America and 95 percent of Americans. How any American who makes less than $250,000 can even think of electing their own demise with the Republican ticket is beyond me. So Obama should have 95% of America behind him. Why is that not the case? Here the PEN article I have received today:

Urgent Action Alert: No More Bailout Votes Till Congress Hears From Some REAL Economists

Why Is Congress Even Listening To Those Who Caused The Wreck On How To Fix It?

Isn't it a miracle what can happen when the people actually speak out. Votes change in Congress. And please take careful note of this fact -- the stock market was down 600 points BEFORE Congress even voted, and reason is that investors KNOW that Paulson's plunder plan does not address any of the real problems, and were as afraid it might pass as not. It was a non-starter, it needs to be torn up and we need to draft a new plan from scratch.

Now it is up to us, we the people, to provide the real leadership that is so lacking in Congress, to push for real and substantial progressive policy change, and the underlying principle must be this, and this is what we need to tell them, with our newfound vocal power.

No More Bailout Votes Until Congress Hears From Some Real Economists.

Action Page: http://www.usalone.net/cindy/real_economists.php

And here are the toll free numbers for Congress again, 800 828-0498, 800-473-6711, now that we know that they WILL actually listen, at least enough of them, when we DO actually speak out in greater and greater numbers and loudly enough. They need to hear from us again now, more that EVER, to tell them what they need to do instead. Please make your calls and send your emails. And if your representatives voted for the bailout the first time, lambaste them, and if they voted "No", thank them profusely. And we again thank Cindy Sheehan, who is so seriously challenging Nancy Pelosi for the congressional seat in San Francisco right now, for her own leadership in making this action page happen. Before Congress does anything else they MUST take the time to hear from some real economists, like Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz, who offers real wisdom in this article from his article last week in the Nation magazine. Here are some excerpts:

With lack of oversight and transparency the cause of the current problem, how could they make a proposal so short in both? If a quick consensus is required, why not include provisions to stop the source of bleeding, to aid the millions of Americans that are losing their homes? Why not spend as much on them as on Wall Street? Do they still believe in trickle-down economics, when for the past eight years money has been trickling up to the wizards of Wall Street? Why not enact bankruptcy reform, to help Americans write down the value of the mortgage on their overvalued home? No one benefits from these costly foreclosures.

The Scandinavian countries showed the way, almost two decades ago. By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public's downside risk and insures that they participate in some of the upside potential. This approach is not only proven, it provides both incentives and wherewithal to resume lending. It furthermore avoids the hopeless task of trying to value millions of complex mortgages and even more complex products in which they are embedded, and it deals with the "lemons" problem - the government getting stuck with the worst or most overpriced assets.

Finally, we need to impose a special financial sector tax to pay for the bailouts conducted so far. We also need to create a reserve fund so that poor taxpayers won't have to be called upon again to finance Wall Street's foolishness. -- End Stiglitz Excepts --

We need open, public and TRANSPARENT hearings so the American people can hear from REAL experts like Joseph E. Stiglitz, and decide in the clear light of day what is to be done with OUR economic destiny, and not in secret back rooms like it's been done so far, where they confiscate all the Blackberrys to keep us all in the dark.

And THEN they write the legislation. And they don't leave town until they do it, because we're not going to reelect any of them anyway unless they do.

Here is a donations page for also for Cindy Sheehan. Many of you have donated very generously, but many of you have NOT. And time is so short. Cindy Sheehan Donations: http://www.usalone.net/cindy/donations.php

And what if you don't have any money? No excuses. Do you have a telephone? Does it allow you to place outgoing toll free calls? So after you call Congress, Cindy needs phone bankers, lots of phone bankers, now. NOW, now. Use the link on the page above to volunteer. What Congress is being stampeded into doing, again, is EXACTLY backwards. Would you buy a "hen protection plan" from one of the foxes? There is a real simple solution to this whole mess. These institutions are in trouble mostly because they were looted by their own corporate executives. We march an army of forensic accountants in there, and tell those Wall Street pigs that if they don't find the money fast they are all going to jail. And then we file negligence and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits against them all, to recoup every dime that disappeared. Our dear Secretary of the Treasury Paulson pulled down hundreds of millions all by himself. And now he wants the American people to make up the difference out of OUR pockets? He can practically finance the bailout PERSONALLY. And if there were any justice in the world he would. And let them all know, that their job description is NOT ignoring the will of the American people.

So far the PEN endorsement of Cindy Sheehan who has been opposed to the first looting of our country by this administration - the Iraq occupation - for a long time now. Nancy Pelosi and many other Bush-Democrats need to change their positions or go. Habeas Corpus, the shredding of our Constitution, the Concentration Camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the warrantless wiretapping and spying on innocent citizens with the patriot act and continuous funding for the occupation of Iraq, and many more things, were only possible with their help. And they are shielding the criminals Bush and Cheney from impeachment. Don't you think it is time to show them what we think of them?

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, September 30, 2008

Contractors trade slaves in IRAQ

Here a brief substantiation of my warning to be cautious to the young person interested to study in an Arab country (God is everywhere you are, below). Thanks to WantToKnow.info we can see that the US - so called - Christians are in some cases far more dangerous than the Arab Muslims:

KBR, Partner in Iraq Contract Sued in Human Trafficking Case
August 28, 2008, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703237.html

A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers. Agnieszka Fryszman, a partner at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, said 13 Nepali men, between the ages of 18 and 27, were recruited in Nepal to work as kitchen staff in hotels and restaurants in Amman, Jordan. But once the men arrived in Jordan, their passports were seized and they were told they were being sent to a military facility in Iraq, Fryszman said. As the men were driven in cars to Iraq, they were stopped by insurgents. Twelve were kidnapped and later executed, Fryszman said. The thirteenth man survived and worked in a warehouse in Iraq for 15 months before returning to Nepal. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California on behalf of the workers' families and the survivor, claims that the trafficking scheme was engineered by KBR and its Jordanian subcontractor, Daoud & Partners, according to Fryszman. This spring, an administrative law judge at the Department of Labor, which has jurisdiction over cases that involve on the job injuries at overseas military bases, ordered Daoud to pay $1 million to the families of 11 of the victims.

Note: For many more reports on corporate corruption from major media sources, click here.

And don't forget: this is being done in OUR name! GOD bless America!

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, September 23, 2008

Black "Strategists" against Obama

It is amazing how easily the Republicans are getting away with playing the race card in their favor. Judge for yourself: The Republican so called "Strategists" on the slightly more Democratic oriented TV stations are mostly African-American and spewing hate against Barack Obama, the man who is trying to help the middle class, the poorer Americans and minorities. It is amazing how some African-Americans can support the party that thinks and loudly says they are "uppity". Here a short explanation for those who do not know the meaning of the word that southern Congressman Lynn Westmoreland called Obama and the people of his complexion:

"Uppity ******* got lynched", and anyone from the south who does not know this word must be quite young. "Uppity" were black people who got out of line, they looked at white women, tried to vote, protected their women from rape by white men and thought they had rights. They thought they had the rights you give to human beings. Uppity is a disgusting racial term, it is one of those code words that many voting Americans understand whether they admit it or not. And the Republicans currently use it in the south instead of the "N"-word.

So the so called "Strategists" the Republicans send to discussions on TV programs leaning toward the Democratic Party are black to make the false point that African-Americans would not support Obama. Looking at the Republican Stations where most Blacks might not even be allowed to enter through the back door, all you see on those Shows and Programs are white "Strategists". Some dressed up with Lipstick and heavy make up to look a little bit like Sarah Palin (ridiculous as seen on Larry King tonight - why not choose them either good looking or smart - most of them are neither) to make sure not one of the right wing nuts gets the idea that the Republicans talk to black people during the election phase. Next time you get a chance to watch one the political shows and magazines, have a conscious look at the people sent out by the Republican Party.

Another term that is being used against Barack Obama is "elitist". Barack Obama was raised on food stamps by a single mother. John McCain is member of a Military Dynasty, his wife was outfitted for $300,000 when she appeared with Laura Bush at the RNC and the McCains have seven houses (some reports speak of nine (9))and they own about 100 Million Dollars. And they - of all people - call Barack Obama an elitist. How would anyone even remotely believe anything that comes our of John McBush's mouth anymore, anyway. The Republicans who are trying to sell Sarah Palin on talk shows lie through their teeth, destroy their own reputations, because a child can see that these claims have no merit. To be able to see Russia from Alaska does not make anyone an expert on foreign policy. Paris Hilton has extremely more "foreign experience" than Palin. Maybe McCain should have picked her as his VP. It would not have made a big difference. Paris Hilton might even have been a better choice.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, September 18, 2008

The Media covers up and punishes

Being a journalist myself, I have been observing this trend for a while. The channel FOX even won a lawsuit that their news do not have to contain truth. So here from one of my favorite sources www.WantToKnow.info - favorite, because they are reliable - some pointers why our country is in such a mess.

Leading Journalists Expose Manipulations in the Media

The riveting excerpts below are from the revealing accounts of 20 award-winning journalists in the highly acclaimed book Into the Buzzsaw. These courageous writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major news stories. Some were even fired or laid off. They have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. Join in building a better world by helping to spread this news across the land.

For a powerful 10-page summary of this material: www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia
For other reliable resources on the media cover-up: Media Information Center

Let us change this situation: Go to their site and spread the truth. May GOD be with you always!

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, September 16, 2008

GOD is everywhere you are!

Last night I received an Email from a young man who is worried about his future. I took all the information out of the letter that could reveal his identity and left the important parts, so he remains anonymous. GOD is giving him an opportunity to evaluate another culture and to learn about new things. And GOD will always be by his side. Here the letter:

I am a university student. I had applied for a study program scholarship at a University in an Arab Country. Their facilities and the quality of the education sounds very good and promising for my career. However, the most difficult thread for me is that it is in a Muslim country. I'm a true believer of Christ. Here I am active in Church youth ministry, enjoy my time in worshiping God, have a special time for Him, the main thing is that my relationship with God is alive. I have a freedom of developing my spiritual needs in my country.

However, suppose if later I'll be going to that Arab Country, I'm afraid if I cannot get a Church there, and I'm a afraid if my freedom of developing my spiritual needs (time for praying, worshiping God, etc) will be taken off. Please help me and share your ideas with me. This is a very difficult task for me to take a step on it.

I really wonder whether or not I should take that scholarship. More over, I have heard many news about the religion and culture there. Thanks...

Dear Student,

Our churches are not GOD. GOD is everywhere and he sends you and will keep on sending you to many places that will surprise you throughout your life. If you read one of my favorite quotes from the Gospel of Thomas: (77) Jesus said: I am the light that is over them all. I am the All; the All has come forth from me, and the All has attained unto me. Cleave a (piece of) wood: I am there. Raise up the stone, an ye shall find me there then you know that you do not need a church to be close to GOD. GOD and Jesus will be with you always, no matter where you are or what you do, and no church is necessary to communicate with GOD. I am sure GOD has special plans for you. You do not need a church to worship GOD, you do it in doing his will. Learning, teaching, helping people in following the example of Jesus Christ is not an easy road, but it is a very giving way to live your life and it is worship in itself.

I am sure that if this Arab country offers you a scholarship, they will also take care of your security there and your spiritual needs. Also: The Qur'an itself is religion of peace, just as the Bible (Muhammad based the Qur'an on the bible) and I am sure you will find many fruitful conversations and learn many new things about religion there (where the Christians also call GOD "Allah").

Careful: Be aware that some US companies try to lure people to the middle east under false pretenses to use them as slave labor (as KBR did with young people from Nepal, who ended up as slaves without money or the promised jobs. The "American Christians" from KBR took away their passports and used them as slaves). Those are so called "Christians" who are led to believe by US preachers that Jesus Christ does not care about people, wants America to start wars in spite of Jesus Christ's teachings and all of the commandments. They teach that all you have to do is to make money and give this money to them. Jesus Christ is love and understanding and he came to change the violent teachings of the Old Testament to the new teachings of Love (That is why the New Testament is NEW and the Old Testament is OLD - actually it is the history of the Jews and does not apply to us). Be aware of the "Christians" from the USA and be sure to remember Jesus Christ's message of love. Be sure to check the offer out thoroughly.

Please keep me posted about your path.

May GOD be with you always!

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, September 12, 2008

9/11 was an inside Job!

The myth of September 11 is entering the race for the Presidency. For the Republicans, who protected all of the crimes that were committed on 9/11 from detection should be very careful with this issue. Whoever supported this crime or it's cover up shares the guilt with the attackers. And the Republicans have so far done everything to hide the truth and avoid any kind of impartial investigation.

Hitler called his 9/11 "Kristallnacht" and blamed the Jews. Bush blamed Bin Laden, to start a war with Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush was tired of Saddam Hussein, whom his father had put into power decades ago, and Bush had to deliver a war to his supporters to be able to make insane amounts of money on weapons and Oil for them and himself. Osama Bin Laden is from Saudi Arabia and the Bin Ladens are the only friends the Bush family ever had. The other two remaining alleged terrorists were from the United Arab Emirates, whom Bush wanted to give authority over six major US ports. Why? As a reward?

Osama denied an involvement in the attacks. In a first statement he welcomed them and regretted that he was not involved in them. Then the Bush crime family produced a video with an actor who looked remotely like Osama in which he confessed to the attacks. Obviously after having a talk with his family, Bush's best and only friends, he finally said that he was responsible for the attack on 9/11. A cover up for the attack of our Government on our own country. Bush made sure that the US military forces who had cornered Osama Bin Laden several times let him go or escape every single time. Why? Get the idea?

And the Republican Party supported this policy. Otherwise Bush could not have acted this way. So John McCain is without a doubt part of this attack on the US and the cover up that followed. The Republicans still support their concentration camps (Guantanamo Bay) and put up and use additional concentration camps in Eastern Europe. They still keep Hitlers "Ermächtigungsgesetz"

Everyone who is willing to use their brain should know by now that September 11 was an inside job. It could not have been anything else. Here are some more of my personal smoking guns:
Whoever was able to take out NORAD for that day HAS to be at least involved. Who can do that? ONLY the Government!
Who profited from 9/11? ONLY Bush and the companies related to him or Cheney: Halliburton, Carlisle Group, Weapons manufacturers, and the Oil industry. Which means: almost the entire Government of the US.

The guys at www.WantToKnow.info have done an amazing job in gathering verifiable evidence of the true events on 9/11. Here is some of their recent information:

9/11 Cover-up Two-Page Summary
Verifiable Media Reports on 9/11

To verify statements, click on links to articles on major media websites. Join in powerfully building a brighter future for all by spreading the word

America’s top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false pretext for war. [ABC News, 5/1/01, Pentagon Documents]

1996–2001: Federal authorities are aware for years before 9/11 that suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden are receiving flight training at schools in the US and abroad. One convicted terrorist confesses that his planned role in a terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [Washington Post, 9/23/01, CBS, 5/30/02, more]

1996–2001: On multiple occasions spies give detailed reports on bin Laden's location. Each time, the CIA director or top White House officials prevent bin Laden's elimination. [Los Angeles Times, 12/5/04, New York Times, 12/30/01, more]

2000–2001: 15 of the 19 hijackers fail to fill in visa documents properly in Saudi Arabia. Only six are interviewed. All 15 should have been denied entry to the US. [Washington Post, 10/22/02, ABC, 10/23/02] Two top Republican senators say if State Department personnel had merely followed the law, 9/11 would not have happened. [AP, 12/18/02, more]

2000–2001: The military conducts exercises simulating hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets causing mass casualties. One target is the World Trade Center (WTC), another the Pentagon. Yet after 9/11, over and over the White House and security officials say they’re shocked that terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into landmark buildings. [USA Today, 4/19/04, Military District of Washington, 11/3/00, New York Times, 10/3/01, more]

Jan 2001: After the Nov 2000 elections, US intelligence agencies are told to “back off” investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. There have always been constraints on investigating Saudi Arabians. [BBC, 11/6/01, more]

Spring 2001: A series of military and governmental policy documents is released that seek to legitimize the use of US military force in the pursuit of oil and gas. One advocates presidential subterfuge and hiding the reasons for warfare “as a necessity for mobilizing public support.” [Sydney Morning Herald, 12/26/02, more]

May 2001: For the third time, US security chiefs reject Sudan’s offer of thick files on bin Laden and al-Qaeda. A senior CIA source calls it “the worst single intelligence failure in the business.” [Guardian, 9/30/01, more]

June-Aug 2001: German intelligence warns the CIA that Middle Eastern terrorists are training for hijackings and targeting American interests. Russian President Vladimir Putin alerts the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets. In late July, a Taliban emissary warns the US that bin Laden is planning a huge attack on American soil. In August, Israel warns of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. [Fox News, 5/17/02, Independent, 9/7/02, CNN, 9/12/02, more]

July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney treatment from Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai. Dr. Callaway declines to comment. During his stay, bin Laden is allegedly visited by one or two CIA agents. [Guardian, 11/1/01, Sydney Morning Herald, 10/31/01, London Times 11/1/01, UPI, 11/1/01, more]

July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying commercial airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS, 7/26/01] In May 2002, Ashcroft walks out of his office rather than answer questions about it. [Fox News/AP, 5/16/02, more]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush receives an intelligence briefing warning that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. Titled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,” the briefing specifically mentions the WTC. Yet Bush later claims it “said nothing about an attack on America.” [Washington Post, 4/12/04, Briefing, 8/6/01, more]

Aug 27, 2001: An FBI supervisor tries to ensure that a hijacker doesn't "take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." [Senate Report, 10/17/02] Headquarters chastises him for notifying the CIA. [Time, 5/21/02, more]

Sept 10, 2001: A number of top Pentagon brass suddenly cancel travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns. Why isn't this news spread widely? [Newsweek, 9/13/01, Newsweek, 9/24/01, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Data recovery experts extract data from 32 damaged WTC computer drives. The data reveals a surge in financial transactions shortly before the attacks. Illegal transfers of over $100 million may have been made through WTC computer systems immediately before and during the 9/11 disaster. [Reuters, 12/18/01, CNN, 12/20/01, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Described as a bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency was set for an exercise on Sept 11 at 9 AM in which an aircraft would crash into one of its buildings near Washington, DC. [USA Today/AP, 8/22/02, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow government" is formed. Key congressional leaders say they didn’t know this government-in-waiting had been established. [CBS, 3/2/02, Washington Post, 3/2/02, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners make a tape recording describing the events within hours of the attacks. The tape is never turned over to the FBI. It is later illegally destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it. [Washington Post, 5/6/04, New York Times, 5/6/04]

Sept 13-19, 2001: Bin Laden's family is taken under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point. They leave the country by private plane when airports reopen days after the attacks. [New York Times, 9/30/01, Boston Globe, 9/20/01, more]

Sept 15-16, 2001: Several of the 9/11 hijackers, including lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, may have had training at secure US military installations. [Newsweek, 9/15/01, Washington Post, 9/16/01, New York Times, 9/15/01, more]

Sept 20, 2001: Several 9/11 hijackers later mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report turn up alive. "Five of the alleged hijackers have emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to see their names and photographs appearing on satellite television...The hijackers were using stolen identities." [quote in London Times, 9/20/01, see also BBC, 9/23/01, more]

Dec 2001-Feb 2002: The US engineers the rise to power of two former Unocal Oil employees: Hamid Karzai, the interim president of Afghanistan, and Zalmay Khalizad, the US envoy. The big American bases created in the Afghan war are identical to the route of the projected oil pipeline. [Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02, more]

May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other journalists haven't been properly investigating since 9/11. He graphically describes the pressures to conform that built up after the attacks. [Guardian, 5/17/02, more]

May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to establishing an independent commission to probe 9/11. [CBS, 5/23/02] Vice President Cheney earlier opposed any public hearings on 9/11. [Newsweek, 2/4/02, more]

May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Wright formally accuses the FBI of deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented 9/11. He is threatened with retribution if he talks to Congress about this. [Fox News, 5/30/02, more]

July 22, 2004: The 9/11 Commission Report is published. It fails to mention that a year before the attacks a secret Pentagon project had identified four 9/11 hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta. The Commission spokesperson initially states members were not informed of this, but later acknowledges they were. [New York Times, 8/11/05, more]

2004 - 2005: A growing number of top government officials and public leaders express disbelief in the official story of 9/11. 100 prominent leaders and 40 9/11 family members sign a statement calling for an unbiased inquiry into evidence suggesting high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the attacks to occur. [Various Publications]

Aug 9, 2006: A book by 9/11 Commission chairmen Kean and Hamilton outlines repeated deceptions by the Pentagon and FAA, including the timelines of Flights 77 and 93. CNN News: "The fact that the government would ... perpetuate the lie suggests that we need a full investigation of what is going on." [CNN, 8/9/06 , MSNBC/AP, 8/4/06, more]

2006-2007: Over 50 former senior government officials and more than 100 highly respected professors publicly criticize The 9/11 Commission Report as highly flawed, and call for a new, independent investigation. [Professors, Officials]

For a 10-page summary of the 9/11 cover-up, www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg
For a powerful, engaging video revealing lots more on 9/11: www.WantToKnow.info/911video
For reliable resources on the 9/11 cover-up and what you can do: 9/11 information center

Please support their efforts.

The Republican Party is trying to sell their candidates the same way they sold you 9/11. With lies and deception. Let's tell everyone the facts (facts are the true events, as they REALLY happened, NOT made up or tampered with. Those are FACTS!) so everyone understands the truth, what is really happening to our country and our constitution and so freedom stands a chance against lies, oppression and betrayal.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, September 10, 2008

Democrats attack traitors in their own party

Many Democrats see what I have been preaching for a while now. The Democratic Party has been betraying their voters and supporters. I have received this email from the Democratic Party, asking to clean up the ranks of the not so secret Bush supporters. Here is the email:

No More Betrayals: Let's Replace the Bush Democrats

On Thursday and Friday, the American people were betrayed twice by House "Democratic" Leader Steny Hoyer (right) and his Bush Democrats.

On Thursday, 80 Bush Democrats voted to give George Bush another $163 billion to occupy Iraq and plunder its oil for another year, even though 68% of Americans want to bring our troops safely home this year.

And on Friday, 105 Bush Democrats voted to give immunity to George Bush and the telecoms for illegally wiretapping American citizens even before 9/11, and to allow Bush and the telecoms to keep doing it - thereby shredding the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

We're mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it any more. So let's take the Democratic Party back from Steny Hoyer and the Bush Democrats.

With your support, we will replace each one with an "Aggressive Progressive" Democrat who will bring our troops home from Iraq and fulfill their solemn oaths to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

And we're starting today with John Barrow (GA12), who betrayed us on both votes. Watch Barrow pledge his complete devotion to George Bush during Friday's warrantless wiretapping debate.

Georgia's primaries are on July 15 - just 3 weeks away. And Barrow is facing a dramatic primary challenge from State Senator Regina Thomas.

Thomas doesn't just look different, she thinks different. She wants to bring our troops safely home from Iraq immediately. And here's what she told me on Friday:

"I was really appalled at the actions of Congress and especially my Congressman from the 12th District in Georgia, John Barrow, for voting in favor of the Bush-Republican surveillance bill that would make it very easy, without a warrant, to wiretap any American citizen."

On Friday, Regina Thomas became our first endorsed candidate of 2008. And that was not just because she's an "Aggressive Progressive," but also because she can win.

In Georgia's Democratic Presidential primary on February 5, 70% of the voters in GA12 were African-American. Thomas isn't running on her race, though, but rather her record of accomplishment over 12 years in the state legislature. This has Barrow running for his political life by avoiding every chance to debate Thomas because he simply cannot compete with a real Democrat.

Please support their efforts, so freedom stands a chance against lies, oppression and betrayal.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, June 22, 2008

This is how far we have come

Our Government delays UPS packages (with a Music speaker in it) after they are already out for delivery... Wow. Our Government delays UPS packages (with a Music speaker in it) after they are already out for delivery... Wow. I would have needed it tomorrow, now I will receive it next week. Next time it's USPS or nothing.

Location	Date	Local Time	Description
xxxxxx, CA, US	06/13/2008	12:08 P.M.	PKG DELAY-ADD'L SECURITY CHECK BY GOV'T OR OTHER AGENCY- BEYOND UPS CONTROL
	06/13/2008	4:00 A.M.	OUT FOR DELIVERY
	06/13/2008	2:59 A.M.	ARRIVAL SCAN
xxxxxxx, CA, US	06/13/2008	2:33 A.M.	DEPARTURE SCAN
xxxxxxx, CA, US	06/12/2008	2:10 P.M.	ARRIVAL SCAN

Barack Obama is not a Muslim!

It is astounding how dumb and ignorant the hardcore followers of the Republican Party are. Even though they see that their personal President, who fixed the elections twice to gain and stay in office, devastated this US of A in a manner that our country is beyond recognition - hopefully not beyond repair, they never doubted that they have to support the successor as the leading puppet of the filthy rich, John McBush also known as John McCain. It is tragic to see their inability to learn, to think or to attempt to be decent human beings. Their latest invention is the rumor that Barack Obama supposedly is a Moslem. First they got upset that Obama was a member of Rev. Wright's Church - who basically told the truth in too harsh words, but still, it is a Christian Church. And looking at the history of Black America, it is not surprising that the Reverend has problems to believe that GOD would bless our Country for torturing and oppressing our own people. I sincerely share his doubts that GOD condones what the religious or fiscal right is doing in and with our country. If you take the time to compare the commandments with their actions, you will understand why.

The truth and the fact is that Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim, he was not raised a Muslim either, he was NOT trained to be a terrorist at the tender age of two and he loves our United States of America. The puppeteers behind Bush and McCain only love the Big Money they can make from our blood. With all the lies and scares they threw and keep throwing at us, they believe they can still milk their home made 9-11. I don't think so. My America is made of sympathy and understanding - and an IQ that is significantly higher than the one of a lab rat.

GOD bless America and the people who defend her against the people who are trying to destroy her.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, June 12, 2008

Obama leads - let's hope he lives

Every time a candidate or civil rights leader who is not in the good graces of the republican party is in the lead in a political race or has a chance to change the status quo, a "crazy single individual" kills him. The crazy individual is a story which is presented to the US public. Who believes it? What ever happens in the US is being controlled by at least one of the more or less secret agencies that are spying on us and at the same time setting up accidents, incidents and assassinations, bombings and attacks on ourselves to blame others and fulfill the political goals of their commanders in chief - or in the Kennedy's - and other significant cases - of the silent power behind the throne. More about that from www.wanttoknow.info

40 years after RFK's death, questions linger
June 3, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/03/MNN110S5KH.DTL

Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy 40 years ago this week in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, is living out his days in the California state prison at Corcoran. He is 64 and has never fully explained what happened that night other than to say he can't remember it. "The interesting thing is how under-examined the Robert Kennedy assassination is, compared to President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.," said David Talbot of San Francisco, author of Brothers, a book that looks into Robert Kennedy's own investigation into his brother's death and his conviction that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy. "Bobby remains the unknown territory," Talbot said. "But even if you look at it minimally, there are questions that come to mind." Over the years, Sirhan has told investigators who interviewed him in prison that he was in a hypnotic trance during the shooting and can't remember it at all. William Turner, a retired FBI agent who wrote a book about the case, ... thinks Sirhan was "hypno-programmed to shoot" and that he was a real-life Manchurian Candidate - [a] brainwashed dupe whose controllers want to assassinate a presidential candidate. Turner suspects the same villains as do the JFK conspiracy theorists - "organized crime and, predominantly, people from the CIA." [Philip Van Praag, a retired electrical engineer and audio expert,] and a fellow investigator, former American Academy of Forensic Scientists president Robert Joling, ... have written a book about the killing, whose title, An Open and Shut Case, is a dig at the police investigation. Joling says an "independent panel of forensic scientists" should be created to "reinvestigate this matter on all the evidence."

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, June 4, 2008

Bush in the Glasshouse in Israel!

George W. Bush spoke in front of the Israeli parliament yesterday, lashing out at Barack Obama, mentioning Hitler and other Dictators that would be and should not have been supported. What Bush forgot to mention is that his Grandfather Prescott Bush financed Hitler and the Nazis and with these funds made the Holocaust possible and actively supported the murder of Millions of Jews. What am I missing? Does no one - except me - call our President on this?

Oh, and here some news that did not really make it into the mainstream Government controlled media, sent to me by www.wanttoknow.info :

Ex-Officials:
Bush Admin. ignored Iraq Corruption

The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees. Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and James Mattil, who worked as the chief of staff, told Senate Democrats ... that their office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored. Brennan also alleges the State Department prevented a congressional aide visiting Baghdad from talking with staffers by insisting they were too busy. In reality, Brennan said, office members were watching movies at the embassy and on their computers. The staffers' workload had been cut dramatically because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "evisceration" of Iraq's top anti-corruption office, he said. The State Department's policies "not only contradicted the anti-corruption mission but indirectly contributed to and has allowed corruption to fester at the highest levels of the Iraqi government," Brennan told the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. The U.S. embassy "effort against corruption — including its new centerpiece, the now-defunct Office of Accountability and Transparency — was little more than 'window dressing,'" he added. Mattil, who worked with Brennan, made similar allegations. Specifically, he said the U.S. "remained silent in the face of an unrelenting campaign" by senior Iraqi officials to subvert Baghdad's Commission on Public Integrity. Note: For many powerful exposures of government corruption from reliable, verifiable sources, click here.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, May 15, 2008

Hate? Facts are not hate!

“There is too much hate on this site”, I have heard criticism from US citizens who chose to not live here in the US anymore but to move to a different country (in this case Mexico). Please understand there is no hate in my articles, neither against people nor against countries. And absolutely no hate against our USA. I am giving you and everyone who cares the facts. And I do it because I love my country, the US, and also my fellow Americans.

Just answer a question: What has the Bush administration done FOR America since they have been in power? Please name ONE single thing they did for America, not for private Corporations that give them kickbacks or that they own entirely or in part. And please send me the information, I am willing to revise my views. Just tell me one single good thing Bush's crime family did for the USA. Name just one.

Crude Oil was $20 a barrel when Bush was appointed to office, Gas was less than $1.50 a Gallon. Now we have passed the $4 mark. Because half of the administration is in the Oil business. Cheney took Billons of Dollars and gave them to his company Halliburton that moved to the United Arab Emirates (Where two of the alleged 9-11 terrorists came from, the others came from the country of Bush’s only friends, Saudi Arabia) to evade the taxes which would have had them give a part of the prey back to the US. Something that would defy the plan in the first place. Your social security is being held in Dubai now.

G.W. Bush and his fellow criminals also have destroyed our image in the world. America is not being associated with either compassion or brains anymore. The world knows that the Republicans fixed both elections, I have received emails on election day – when the court, which was appointed by W.’s brother Jeb, ruled that G. W. Bush shall be President, not matter who voted for him - from Europe which stated that I “now officially live in a Banana Republic (3^rd world country)”. Knowing what had happened I could not argue with this statement.

Also, I knew that IRAQ had nothing to do with 9-11, and that they did not have weapons of mass destruction (Every child in Europe knew that too, but our so called US-journalists are nothing more than spokes puppets, so they communicated Bush’s talking points instead of real news).

It was clear from the beginning that this war was about channeling public US funds to a few companies and contractors. And after the few days of war an occupation followed with the same goal. Most of your 3 trillion Dollars Social Security money was funneled to Bush’s friends and partners in crime. And still no outcry in America. The government lied, stole and killed without any benefit for America. And the US preachers hailed the chief and said that Jesus Christ wants this.

Please be aware that GOD and Jesus Christ are opposed to war, murder, theft and lies. So they do NOT support the Bush crime family or your churches that spread an amazing array of stupidity and false information. I am very aware that the Pope made a deal with Hitler in the 30’s and 40’s of the last century. It did not do much good for either of them. You will share the same fate. And I wish the people who follow you so blindly would read and understand the Bible, so they would see that you take everything our of context just to make the point of GOD being a war monger or the Christian faith being only about saving Israel. If you would read the Bible, you would know that the Jews and Israel are already saved.

No, I love America; I just oppose all the bad things that are being done to this wonderful country and many of the too trusting people who live here. I am sad to see this happen and surprised that no one takes action against these so obvious crimes. I don’t hate, I love. But I also have compassion and hope for justice.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, May 9, 2008

Cheney wants to nuke Iran

The German news agency dpa reported a few days ago that Saudi Arabia is preparing for nuclear fallout after an attack of the US on Iran - and after a visit of their close friend Richard Cheney who obviously let them in on a Government secret. After it is established that Iran has no nuclear program and is not expected to have one anytime soon, Bush and Cheney are killing an unarmed man. Ethically it is just a continuation of what they have been doing all the years since they were appointed to their positions by Bush's personal judge and court, for our standing in the World it would be terrible. Our allies will stop laughing at our stupidity and start wondering if there are any moral values left in our country. Our President - unelected or not - is doing this. We will be held responsible by the World. What is going on in our wonderful country that such atrocities and ethical horrors are possible? Is there anyone still following anything this government does? Does anyone care?

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, March 27, 2008

Food for Thought: Zeitgeist Movie

A close friend asked me to check out an interesting source of information: www.ZeitgeistMovie.com where you can watch a movie for free that is obviously close enough to the truth that it has been deleted from Youtube and Google Video several times already. A measure that our US Government only takes when they are really serious about something. And if you watch Zeitgeist Movie, you will receive a wealth of information to form your own opinion. On the website they offer links to all their sources. The only conclusion I have problems with is that they say that Jesus Christ did not exist. There is enough proof for his existence, as well as there is abundant proof for the fact that GOD created the world through evolution. Everything else in the movie, which also deals with 9-11, how the Federal Reserve - which is not federal, but a privately owned banking conglomerate - rules not only the US, how ID and tracking chips are supposed to control us in the future and much more. So the movie is worth watching - especially in view of the US Government not wanting you to. They (our US Government) also made sure that Yahoo deleted and blocked a mail from the organization www.WantToKnow.info to their subscribers which contained updated material about 9-11 and the involvement of the US Government in the sceam. Together with the illegal wiretapping of citizens, Bush kissing the Saudis, other fabricated intelligence to enter the war and occupation of Iraq and almost a thousand lies, you should be at least worried and have a look at Zeitgeist Movie to see what they have to contribute to the truth. Check it out. It is worth your while.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, February 23, 2008

Almost 1000 lies from Bush & Co.

Surprise, surprise. CNN reports that President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.

In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003," reads an overview of the examination, conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

According to the study, Bush and seven top officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice -- made 935 false statements about Iraq during those two years. The study was based on a searchable database compiled of primary sources, such as official government transcripts and speeches, and secondary sources -- mainly quotes from major media organizations. The study says Bush made 232 false statements about Iraq and former leader Saddam Hussein's possessing weapons of mass destruction, and 28 false statements about Iraq's links to al Qaeda.

Bush has consistently asserted that at the time he and other officials made the statements, the intelligence community of the U.S. and several other nations, including Britain, believed Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He has repeatedly said that despite the intelligence flaws, removing Hussein from power was the right thing to do.

The study says Powell had the second-highest number of false statements, with 244 about weapons and 10 about Iraq and al Qaeda.Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Press Secretary Ari Fleischer each made 109 false statements, it says. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made 85, Rice made 56, Cheney made 48 and Scott McLellan, also a press secretary, made 14, the study says. "It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al Qaeda," the report reads, citing multiple government reports, including those by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the 9/11 Commission and the multinational Iraq Survey Group, which reported that Hussein had suspended Iraq's nuclear program in 1991 and made little effort to revive it. The overview of the study also calls the media to task, saying most media outlets didn't do enough to investigate the claims. "Some journalists -indeed, even some entire news organizations -have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical," the report reads. "These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq."

And looking at the beautiful pictures of the US President kissing, hugging and holding hands with the Saudi Dictators, we are reminded that 16 of the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, another two came from the United Arab Emirates, the country Bush tried to put in charge of six major US ports.

And more lies from the Bush crime family: In another CNN report, former White House spokesman Scott McClellan says top administration officials - including President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney - were involved in his "unknowingly" passing along false information about the leak of a CIA operative's identity. In October 2003, as controversy grew about the leak of Valerie Plame's name, McClellan stood at the White House podium and said that Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, had not been involved. "There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes in his new book, "What Happened," which is to be released in April.

The excerpt -- three paragraphs from a 400-page book -- reads in full: "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. "There was one problem. It was not true. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself."

In March, Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to investigators and a federal grand jury about his contacts with reporters concerning Plame. Just before Libby was to report to a federal prison in July to serve 30 months behind bars, Bush commuted his sentence, although the president stopped short of a full pardon and Libby still had to pay a $250,000 fine. Rove, who left the White House staff at the end of August, was not charged in the case. His attorney has acknowledged he was one of two sources cited by syndicated columnist Bob Novak, who first disclosed in July 2003 that Plame worked for the CIA shortly after Wilson wrote a critical piece for The New York Times.

Kisses seal Bush’s sellout of the US

Dear Readers, fellow Christians and Americans. I hope you are having a Happy New Year 2008. I know the Lord is with you and guides you to your destination.

The politics go on and our Government is still trying to start a war with Iran. Now there are a few small boats driving around the big US Warships in the Persian Gulf (Persia is the former name of Iran, which implies who is there as a guest) which surprisingly threaten the courageous US Navy. While the US soldiers – who might have felt threatened by rowboats also – are trembling with fear in the Persian Gulf, the President of our country which is plagued by high gas prices is – literally - kissing and holding hands with Royalty in Saudi Arabia. When the Barrel Oil was at $20 Bush vowed to convince the OPEC to lower the prices. With his illegal wars and occupation of Iraq he and his good fellows hiked the price up to $100 a barrel in just seven years.

With hot kisses the Saudi Royal Family welcomed the man whose family has supported their politics for decades, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America and vassal of the Royal Saudis. The history of this very profitable love affair between the Bushes and the Saudis can be found here.

Why should we keep GOD out of schools and the public?

I am very much for an obvious presence of GOD everywhere. My problem is – as many of you know already – that I am talking about the GOD in the Scriptures, with Jesus’ message of Love and the teachings of the Apostle Paul.

But I am also very much against teaching our children or displaying any evidence of the Americanized, perverted GOD who loves violence, wars, killing, lies and deception. This GOD was made by the US rightwing extremists and silently crept into the minds of Americans who start to believe that this is really GOD, like the Muslim extremists believe in the GOD their leaders made for them, ignoring the Qur’an and all of Muhammad’s teaching, like many US Christians ignore Jesus’ teachings and the Bible for the same reasons. Ignorance is not always bliss. Don’t forget whom you are hurting with your self made Religion and false idols. Read the New Testament, read Acts, Romans, Corinthians, and the other epistles of Apostle Paul. Read the Gospel of Thomas in addition to clarify what Jesus really said. Large parts of the Bible have been edited and the usable traces of the sayings of Jesus that are not only for the Jews can be used to understand what Jesus really wanted and can help to read the Bible more informed. Jesus came for the Jews, but we are baptized by accepting Jesus Christ in our heart as our savior. No water, no fire. Which also means to understand His message and His will for us, so we can actually do his will and live according to the teachings that apply to us here and today?

The most important ones being: Love your neighbor as thyself, don’t kill, don’t lie, and don’t steal. Looking at all these requirements, you can tell that the current US administration does the exact opposite. So they are definitely not on the side of GOD.

Please also look at what the other politicians are doing in His name. The Democrats promised to end the war. They still vote for funding it. Some Politicians like Dianne Feinstein make a lot of money from this illegal occupation and refuse to end it.

GOD will take care of all these people in his own time. Violence is not in His plans. Violence is a sign of the Godless. On either side. Christian and Muslim.

Amen
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, January 18, 2007

Suppressed truth - available here

Project Censored specializes in covering the top stories which were subjected to media censorship either by being ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. Project Censored is a research team composed of more than 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who review about 1,000 news story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources, and national significance. A brief summary of last year's top 25 censored news stories provided below proves quite revealing and most informative. After the headline of each news story is a link for those who want to read the entire article. These links contain the sources for the censored news. For whatever reason the major media won't report these major stories. Below are a few examples for this excellent work. Click here to see all the articles and sources.

No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person” - With the approval of Congress and no outcry from corporate media, the Military Commissions Act (MCA) signed by Bush on October 17, 2006, ushered in military commission law for US citizens and non-citizens alike. While media, including a lead editorial in the New York Times October 19, have given false comfort that we, as American citizens, will not be the victims of the draconian measures legalized by this Act—such as military roundups and life-long detention with no rights or constitutional protections

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law - The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, which was quietly signed by Bush on October 17, 2006, the very same day that he signed the Military Commissions Act, allows the president to station military troops anywhere in the United States and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.”

No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11 - Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster. When questioned about this shocking omission, Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI, responded, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

Media Misquotes Threat From Iran’s President - Across the world a media story has spread that Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has threatened to destroy Israel, by saying that, “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Contrary to general belief, this statement was actually a misinterpretation.

Dianne Feinstein - the ninth wealthiest member of congress—has been beset by monumental ethical conflicts of interest. As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 to the end of 2005, Senator Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions of dollars to her husband’s firms. From 1997 through the end of 2005, Feinstein’s husband Richard C. Blum was a majority shareholder in both URS Corp. and Perini Corp. She lobbied Pentagon officials in public hearings to support defense projects that she favored, some of which already were, or subsequently became, URS or Perini contracts.

Infamous Bill HR1955 threatens America!<