Covert History: September 2009

Gadhafi points finger at Israel over JFK assassination

Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi insinuated that Israel was behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Speaking Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly, Gadhafi implied that Israel may have plotted to kill Kennedy in 1963 because he allegedly wanted to launch a probe into its clandestine nuclear program.

New York Times: Thomas Friedman on the political climate

I have no problem with any of the substantive criticism of President Obama from the right or left. But something very dangerous is happening. Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination

Times: Gore Vidal predicts military dictatorship and assassination of Obama

Vidal raises his fingers to signify a gun and mutters: “Bang bang.” He is referring to the possibility of Obama being assassinated. “Just a mysterious lone gunman lurking in the shadows of the capital,” he says in a wry, dreamy way.

America has “no intellectual class” and is “rotting away at a funereal pace. We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together.

NewsMax: There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.”

NewsMax pulled the column. Here's the google cache: Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’.

Facebook Poll Asks "Should Obama Be Killed?"

I vote no. I wonder what the Secret Service thinks?

The American Conservative interviews Sibel Edmonds

She's not expecting change from the Obama administration.

I'm back

I wasn't blogging for a while because of the dreaded "unmountable boot volume." Now that I have resolved that problem I am now back to not blogging because I don't have anything to say.

I had to restore my system file which meant losing all the "files" on my hard drive but I can always find new porn.

Iran downs strange bright craft over Persian Gulf

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted and downed an unidentified shining object after sighting it over Persian Gulf waters.

"Glowing objects were sighted over the Persian Gulf. IRGC air defense targeted one of the objects successfully, forcing it to plummet and sink in the seas off Boushehr (Province)," said top regional commander, Brigadier Ali Razmjou.

At least one nation is committed to protecting us from the UFO threat.

Unmountable Boot Volume

I haven't been posting because my Compaq laptop won't start up Windows because of "Unmountable Boot Volume." All the geek sites tell me to start up from the boot disk I don't have. Does anyone have a Windows XP boot disk?

Salon has a good piece on the intellectual connections between Glenn Beck and Cleon Skousen, a nutjob rightwing yahoo of the early 1960's. Read it here. William F. Buckley once said that he had spent half of his career trying to keep the nuts out of the conservative movement and now that he is dead they have taken it over.

Rush Limbaugh shows that he's a racist and that he is willing to incite racial conflict for political gain.

"In Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on."

Daily Mail: Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years

The theory first received an airing in the American Spectator magazine earlier this year when former U.S. foreign intelligence officer and senior editor Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor of international relations at Boston University, stated bluntly: 'All the evidence suggests Elvis Presley is more alive today than Osama Bin Laden.

CIA veteran Ray McGovern suggests that Barack Obama may be afraid of the CIA and references the Kennedy assassination. He also recommends JFK and the Unspeakable.

The Silicon Valley's free weekly newpaper Metro covers 9/11: Explosive Theory: Eight years after 9/11, a growing organization of building trades professionals suspect that there was more to the event than the government will admit

The story does a fairly good job of covering Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and the controlled demolition hypothesis. I'll believe it when they prove it.

Those Arrigo sisters again

OK, via Professor Hex we have this wild story about time travel, teleportation, secret US bases on Mars and clandestine government meetings with Martians. Too wild to possibly be true and yet they have two sources. One of them "lawyer Andrew D. Basiago, is a former child participant in a secret time travel project launched by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)."

Again, I do not believe this story for a minute. But this caught my eye:

Mr. Basiago’s involvement in US time-space research as a child, as well as Courtney M. Hunt’s identity as a CIA officer, have been confirmed by Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo, an ethicist who works closely with US military and intelligence agencies ...

Jean Marie Arrigo has indeed worked with US military and intelligence agencies. She was a civilian member of the APA Interrogation Task Force which concluded psychologists were playing a “valuable and ethical role” in assisting the military in interrogations of prisoners. However, Arrigo may have dissented and turned over her notes to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

She is also the sister of Sue Arrigo, a medical doctor who has been featured in this blog before. See here. Sue Arrigo has also made claims that are too wild to be true. Another sister of hers, Linda Gail Arrigo has called Sue a paranoid schizophrenic.

Thoughts on the eight anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001

It is hard to believe that it has been eight years since the 9/11 attacks. September 11, 2001 was a day of horror and sadness but also a day of unity in this country. Unfortunately, the Bush administration quickly squandered that unity in favor of short-term political gain. But today is not the day to examine that fact.

I am not one of those who think that 9/11 was inside job. Maybe Bush should have known but I do not think he did. Peter Dales Scott, for whom I have a great deal of respect, has described Dick Cheney as a "suspect" but I read his book and was not convinced. It may be that Professor Scott is simply smarter than I am (actually that's a given) but that does not make him right. I am even more skeptical of claims of controlled demolition.

Still, there are many unanswered and officially unexamined questions and allegations regarding the 9/11 attacks; about the possible role of Pakistan's ISI; about reported warnings from foreign intelligence services; about the activies of Mohamed Atta in Venice, Florida; and many more. It is time for a new investigation into 9/11.

As there is no doubt that there are unanswered questions, as there is no doubt that there are conspirators still at large, and as there is no statute of limitations on murder, one would hope that the Obama administration is continuing to investigate what happened on that day. But one might be wrong. There is not likely to be a new investigation without political pressure for it. That will have to come from average citizens because it will not come from the politicians, with a few honorable exceptions.

We should learn from our past experience of the Kennedy assassination. The Kennedy administration was followed by an administration that had no interest in learning the truth about the assassination of the President; indeed Lyndon Johnson had an interest in covering up the truth. This is not the case with the administration of Barack Obama.

The last thing Obama needs right now is to be labeled a "truther". The 9/11 truth movement is widely ridiculed as being a motley collection of cranks and crackpots, and with considerable justification. But President Obama can quietly pressure the FBI to continue an active and renewed investigation. We have to see to that he does.

Beyond that there are the possibilites of a new Congressional Investigation or a Special Prosecutor. Congress can and should investigate but they will not solve the crime. A Special Prosecutor might be the best approach but will not happen without political pressure.

Truth be told, I am doubtful that there will be a new investigation. Neither political party is calling for it. Independent researchers can and will play a part, as they have in the Kennedy homicide, but I would simply point out that almost 50 years after the JFK assassination it is still being debated on the internet. That is probably what will happen with 9/11 but it does not have to. INVESTIGATE THE 9/11 ATTACKS!

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘I’ve Come to the Conclusion That Cheney is Just Crazy’

I think the principal figure in this — Vice President Cheney — would say, in response to what you’ve just said, “So what?” I mean, I really do. I wouldn’t have said that a couple of years ago, but now I’ve come to the conclusion that the man truly is — whether he was that way when I knew him before, when he was Secretary of Defense, I don’t know, that’s not at issue with me any more — the man now is just crazy.

Military documents on Operation Garden Plot

Page 2 of this document contains links to other documents. I will try to update this later.

Obama Assassination Predicted By Colombian Nostradamus Child

It is supposed to happen in October. I will counter with my standard nonpsychic prediction that his prediction will not happen but we'll see.

WorldNetDaily: Judge orders trial on Obama eligibility

A California judge today tentatively scheduled a trial for Jan. 26, 2010, for a case that challenges Barack Obama's eligibility to be president based on questions over his qualifications under the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.

However, the judge also ordered a hearing for October 5 on arguments to dismiss, according to this article by the notoriously unreliable Jerome Corsi.

Daniel Hopsicker has a new piece on connections between the Venice Airport, the Kennedy assassination and something called Operation Big Safari . He references a document from the Mary Ferrell website that concerns an individual named Stephen Ruth who says that he was sent into Cuba in 1969, presumably by the CIA, "to do away with an individual who was incarcerated in a Cuban prison." According to Ruth, this individual was one of five persons involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."

Lucas Smith swears under oath that his phony Obama Kenyan birth certificate is real

In his filing, Smith declares that he traveled to Kenya in February and paid off a military officer in order to obtain a copy of the birth certificate from Coast General Hospital in Mombasa. The declaration also states that the hospital administrator signed and sealed the copy, which indicates Obama's birth in Africa on Aug. 4, 1961, at 7:24 p.m.

President Obama to kids in school: pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.

This is what all the fuss was about?

Wingnut Watch

So just how nutty is Sarah Palin? Take a look Inside Sarah Palin's church. Witches and the Serpent Seed.

Wingnut Watch

The crazy keeps on growing. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) warns that Obama is turning the country into a totalitarian state. Because he's a Marxist.

“He has the three things that are necessary to establish an authoritarian government,” Broun told a meeting of local Georgia Republicans on Wednesday, citing the creation of a private army, a ban on gun ownership, and complete control of the press.

Now, a skeptic might point out that Obama hasn't created a private army, banned guns, or achieved complete control of the press, but what of it so long as Rep. Broun is having fun?

But there's crazy and there's craazzzy. Michele Bachman thinks she might become President.

Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.

Which adds up to 45 million abortions since 1973. So much for "safe, legal and rare" although I guess we're two-thirds there. The pro-life position is that every one of these women should be chained to a bed, if necessary, and forced to give birth to these babies. Oddly though most pro-lifers also seem to be against contraception and the teaching of contraception in the public schools.