TERRORSTORM/ 9-11 and the NEO-CON Agenda conference

Alex Jones held his HUGE 9-11 conference in downtown Los Angeles this past weekend and attendees are calling it the most successful 9-11 conference to date! Guests included, prof. Steven Jones,Jimmie Walters,Ray McGovern,Jack Blood,Charlie Sheen and lots more. Alex debuted his new film TERRORSTORM at the show, and also sold conference edtion copies,as well as posting on www.prisonplanet.tv where it spread like wild fire on file sharing systems across the net.

This film is beyond first class. Unlike his past films, Terrorstorm spends less time trying to convince you of things you've never heard about(or at least the average person hasn't heard about)and devotes the majority of it's roughly 2 hours running time to giving examples of documented government sponsored terror to manufacture the public's consent to carry out their evil acts. Alex also proves beyond a shadow of a doubt,that the 7/7 bombings in London was in an inside job, and provides exclusive interviews with British intelligence whistleblowers. Terrorstorm is without a doubt the most powerful truth movement documentary produced to date. Alex Jones sets the bar by which all other truth documentaries will be judged for many years to come!

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Terrorstorm Raises The Bar In Truth Film Making
Slick graphics, presentation, hardcore information make for professional expose

Steve Watson / Prisonplanet June 28 2006

Alex Jones' latest documentary Terrorstorm is another forceful piece of filmmaking that again breaks new boundaries and will pave the way for more of the same from other independent directors.

Terrorstorm exposes how Governments have long staged false-flag terror events in order to achieve political and sociological ends.

The film takes us on a journey through the depths of history from the Gulf of Tonkin, the USS Liberty and operation Gladio through to the Madrid bombings and 9/11 and robustly catalogues the real story behind the government induced fable.

Terrorstorm features exclusive interviews with prominent names such as former MI5 officer David Shayler, Ex CIA analyst Ray McGovern, Activist Cindy Sheehan, Michael Meacher MP, Former Bush administration economist Morgan Reynolds to name but a few.



The film is the first of its kind to look in depth at last years bombings in London on 7/7 and raises multiple vital questions that will no doubt become just as prevalent as the inconsistencies of 9/11 have done over the past five years, due in part to Jones' previous two documentaries Martial Law and Road To Tyranny.

Unlike those two films however, which were necessarily lengthy given the overwhelming amount of smoking guns surrounding 9/11, Terrorstorm is under two hours in length and is arguably more accessible to an audience uninitiated on the facts surrounding false flag terror and its use past and present.

The raw footage taken during Jones' fact finding mission in London just days after the bombings took place is compelling. Witness the broken windows at Tavistock square, the still relatively deserted tube stations and the armed police on patrol everywhere. This part of the film excellently documents the initial state of fear that gripped London in the aftermath.

There is also more of a focus on the big brother surveillance culture that has finally been allowed to invade our society relatively unopposed since 9/11. The film not only unravels historical events but also takes its place as a zeitgeist document of our culture at this very moment.



Jones' presentation also represents a certain coming of age. Still ever present is the bullhorning brash in your face Texan activist, but he competes with a more assured, more measured and calculated Jones at times. This Alex Jones has perhaps realized he has now crossed more into a mainstream limelight, is reaching more and more people and that the "in your face" approach may not win everyone over.

Michael McWhirter's slick visual effects complement the material expertly and professionally, emphasizing that the dystopian futuristic political climate is not a distant possibility, but has already arrived on our doorsteps in the form of governments that use fear to manipulate their populations.

Jones this time opts for a more contemporary soundtrack which again places the film within its bang up to date context and will ensure an appeal among a new younger audience as well as those already familiar with his work.

The film concludes strongly and positively by offering viable solutions on how we can reclaim human dignity and freedom and prevent the global population from becoming the slaves of a prison planet.

Alex Jones has once again raised the bar as far as the subject matter in hand goes. Terrorstorm will appeal to everyone who has an interest in modern day politics and the war on terror, but chooses to search for the truth and not just a one sided explanation of major events.





Charlie Sheen Says 9/11 Movement "Juggernaut Of Truth"
Sends mainstream media a warning during speech at L.A. American Scholars Symposium

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com June 28 2006

Charlie Sheen said the 9/11 truth movement was a juggernaut of truth after he sent a warning to the mainstream media that they should fulfil their roles as the watchdogs of government during a speech this past weekend in L.A. at the American Scholars Symposium.

Introducing Alex Jones at the Sheraton Hotel event, Sheen sidestepped remarks about his remarkable courage in putting his reputation and career on the line in the name of truth by focusing attention on what the conference was intended to achieve.

"We are here today to ask those still sleeping to wake up and join us," said Sheen.

"We are here today to fire a warning show across the bow of mainstream media - to remind them of their original responsibility as civil and political watchdogs," said Sheen, himself the victim of salacious attack dogs of the press since his public stance on 9/11 back in March.

Sheen dedicated the L.A. truth convergence to the victims of 9/11, their families, our children and their children - saying that one of the primary objectives was the "deconstruction of the official myth" behind 9/11 and to drain the "cesspool of lies and distortion we refuse to drown in any longer."
Watch the video to see Sheen's comments in full.

"We are here today to unleash a juggernaut of truth," said Sheen as he urged the 1200 plus attendees to "hold our course, to bang our drums, to sharpen our focus."

The conference was Sheen's idea in the first place and he willingly handed over the organizational reigns to Alex Jones in light of the time consuming hit pieces and false allegations that were thrown his way after he courageously stepped up to the plate three months ago to voice his doubts about the official story of 9/11.

People from as far away as Japan and Australia made the long-haul trip to L.A. to view slick presentations from numerous high profile speakers. Media organizations from Great Britain and Australia were also represented as well as over 100 alternative press outlets.

BYU physics professor Steven Jones' authoritative lecture on the use of incendiary devices in the demolition of the trade towers and building 7 went further than ever before in its conclusive tone on the issue. Jones has now tested steel samples from two different sites that both clearly show the use of thermate as a tool of implosion and the analysis has been verified by two other universities.

Lt. Col. Robert M. Bowman, the former head of the Star Wars weapons defense system and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Cal Tech, also gave a powerful presentation on the NORAD 9/11 stand down which was extremely well received.

Reuters carried an article about the conference which was syndicated in numerous worldwide media outlets and the Washington Post put out a report yesterday.

The overall sentiment after the conclusion of the conference was that it was the most powerful, informative and progressive 9/11 symposium to date.

The conference was a declaration of independence and a warning to the watching media that major western governments are planning more acts of false flag terrorism in order to justify new wars and geopolitical domination of the globe as well as a domestic police state.

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PATSY ALERT!!! FEDS BUST SUSPECTED TERROR PLOT ON SEARS TOWER,KEY INDICATORS GOVERNMENT BLACK OP TERROR ATTACK IS IN THE WORKS

Well, it's getting serious now. All the indicators that another government sponsored terror event,may be occurring VERY soon. With the feds stopping a suspected plot to bring down the Sears Tower in Chicago, and the continuity of government drills going on this week as well.It appears that we may be in the middle of the 3 week pre-event black operation psy-op that has occurred before every single event ever carried out.
What I'm talking about here folks, is a catalyzing event to manufacture consent from the American people to convince them to invade Iran. Today's suspected plot bust is a decoy shill story to divert attention and allow THE ACTUAL PLOTTERS to continue on with the plan,BUSINESS AS USUAL and to create a back story for the press that ALCIAEDA was planning an attack on the sears tower,so when the inside job occurs
people will have their bogeyman firmly in place, and the patsies firmly in jail. WE KNOW THAT THE FOURTH OF JULY IS A POSSIBLILITY, THEY HAVE STATED THAT THE NEXT ATTACK WOULD HAPPEN WHEN WE LEAST EXPECT IT. WE KNOW DRILLS OCCUR ON THE SAME DAY AS AN ATTACK,WE KNOW LARRY SIVERSTIEN OWNS THE SEARS TOWERS AS WELL AS THE WORLD TRADE CENTERS. WE KNOW HE "PULLED" BUILDING 7 THE DAY OF 9-11 AND A DEMOLITION LIKE THAT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN SET UP THAT QUICKLY. WE KNOW IT'S COMING, WAKE EVERYONE UP!!! We KNOW WAL-MART HAS AN OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY IN WAL-MARTS HOME OFFICE IN BENTONVILLE ARKANSAS, WE HAVE HEARD REPORTS FROM WAL-MART EMPLOYEES THAT FEMA SHIPMENTS HAVE BEEN COMING INTO WAL-MART STORES NATIONWIDE TO BE KEPT ON THE HUSH-HUSH BY THE MANAGEMENT AND THESE SHIPMENTS CONSIST OF NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS CONSIDERING WAL-MART IS THE GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED PROVIDER OF RATIONS DURING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY OR THE DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW. I WANT YOU ALL TO LISTEN,RESEARCH AND GET READY,WE'VE GOTTA GET THE WORD OUT AND LET EVERYBODY KNOW WE KNOW WHO WILL BE BEHIND ANY UPCOMING TERRORIST ATTACKS.



Also the report says the suspects seemed brainwashed. Why don't you look up MK ULTRA.



Seven held over 'Sears Tower plot'
Informant infiltrated terror group; Al Qaeda link probed

Friday, June 23, 2006; Posted: 4:17 a.m. EDT (08:17 GMT)

FBI agents and police conduct operations in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida.



MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Seven people were in custody Friday after FBI agents and police carried out raids against an alleged terrorist plot that may have included the Sears Tower in Chicago and Miami's FBI offices as possible targets, law enforcement sources said.

Sources also told CNN that the suspects believed they were dealing with an al Qaeda operative who was actually a government informant. Other law enforcement sources said the seven suspects were radical Muslims, and at least one of them had taken an oath to serve al Qaeda.

However, senior federal sources told CNN, "These people were not related to al Qaeda." When asked whether they were al Qaeda wannabes, he replied, "possibly."

Some sources also reported that some of the men had surveyed the buildings they allegedly were targeting and taken photos.

"We'll have more about that when the operation is completed, probably tomorrow morning," FBI Director Robert Mueller said in a taped statement for CNN's "Larry King Live."

One suspect was arrested before Thursday, officials said, and one of Thursday's arrests took place in Atlanta. (Watch details of the raids -- 2:53)

Federal sources said five of the seven men were Americans, one was an illegal alien from Haiti whose visa had expired and the last was a resident alien.

The 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago is the world's third-tallest building and the tallest in North America. Investigators said other structures also may have been targets.

No weapons or bomb-making materials had been found so far in the raids, conducted in the Miami area, including a warehouse in a Liberty City housing project, law enforcement officials said.

No one was inside the warehouse, and it wasn't known exactly where police took the suspects into custody.

The neighborhood was cordoned off around the windowless warehouse about 2 p.m., and neighbors were told to stay inside. Police then showed neighbors photos of the suspects, who had been living in the building since March.

Neighbors said the men, who wore turbans, caused no problems but seemed odd.

"All you could do was just see their eyes. They had their whole head wrapped up. Just the eyes showing. And they were standing guard -- one here, one there -- like soldiers. Very quiet," one woman said.

A man said the men never spoke to neighbors and would just nod their heads if spoken to.

"They was acting like they was in military training," he said.

A spokeswoman for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said the mayor was notified of the raid earlier in the day, and a spokesman for Gov. Jeb Bush said the governor had been notified Thursday morning. Both Alvarez and Bush said they had no plans to tighten security.

"If anything, this is a plot foiled," said Alvarez spokeswoman Vicki Mallette. Plans for a massive rally Friday for NBA champions the Miami Heat are unchanged, she said, adding that 200,000 people were expected to attend.

FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said there was at least one search warrant executed in the investigation.

"There have been several arrests. The documents in this case are currently sealed. There is no threat to Miami or any other area at this time. There will be more information tomorrow," Kolko said.

A law enforcement official told CNN the probe had been ongoing for at least four months.

Another statement was issued by the U.S. Attorney for Miami, Alex Acosta.

"Earlier today, the FBI, in conjunction with federal, state and local authorities, executed arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into a terrorist-related matter.

"The individuals arrested posed no immediate threat to our community. A press conference will be held in Washington, D.C., and in Miami on Friday to provide additional details," Acosta said.

A man who identified himself as "Brother Corey" said five of the men arrested in Miami were his "brothers," members of the group he identified as "Seas of David."

Brother Corey said the group has "soldiers in Chicago," but was peaceful and not associated with any terrorist organizations.

"This is a place where we worship and also have businesses, as a work site as a construction company we are trying to build up," he said, referring to the Liberty City warehouse where the raids took place.

He said the Seas of David is a religious group that blends the teachings of Christianity and Islam.

CNN's Susan Candiotti, John Zarrella, Jeanne Meserve, Mike Brooks and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report.



Cooked Terror Plot Recycles Politics Of Fear
'Al-Qaeda' plan to fly planes into London skyscrapers concocted by government lobbyists

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 22 2006

In another bizarre example of Tony Blair's government playing with the politics of fear, a discredited terror plot concerning Al-Qaeda plans to fly planes into London skyscrapers, an admitted fairy tale manufactured by government lobbyists, resurfaced today as a new story.

The BBC reports that a Department of Homeland Security dossier verifies a previous 'Al-Qaeda' plan to hijack planes from Heathrow airport and fly them into nearby Canary Wharf buildings.

The fact that this story was thoroughly discredited back in November 2004 as a collusion of imaginative government lobbyists and lapdog media collaborators is completely omitted.

Immediately before the Queen's speech Blair's government needed to inject a dose of fear into the political landscape in order to enable their ID card and anti-terror legislation to hit the ground running.

So it was that two Daily Mail and ITN news journalists, renowned for fraternizing socially with Blair's hierarchy, met with government lobbyists to cook up the terror plot and it was reported a week later as bona fide news.

At the time police and intelligence officials were baffled as to where the information had come from and totally distanced themselves from it.



"To say we were surprised at the report is an understatement - this is the first we have heard of a plot like this." Another said: "No one has been charged for this so- called plot which suggests it never happened," said one.

Even Labour's own Peter Hain, the Leader of the Commons, declared the so-called attack plot to be bogus.

"Despite having the information for several days, and possibly longer than a week, the newspaper and television program held the stories until just before the Queen's Speech, which contained Bills to introduce an ID card, an FBI-style organised crime agency and other anti-terrorist measures," said the London Independent, noting the suspicious timing of the leak.

In another bizarre parallel, an earlier May 2004 BBC Panorama documentary simulated a terror attack on Canary Wharf, causing many shocked viewers to believe the event was real, provoking hundreds of subsequent complaints.

The fabled Canary Wharf plot is just one in a never ending deluge of phony terror alerts pumped out at politically expedient times in an attempt to quell dissent against a Blair government that can now only claim the support of 15% or less of the entire population.

An alleged Al-Qaeda cell was arrested on suspicion of preparing to poison the London Underground with Ricin in January 2003. The government used the incident as a scare tactic to rally Britons behind the imminent war on Iraq. It was eventually disclosed that no Ricin was ever found and all the members of the supposed plot were released with no evidence or charges against them.



In April 2004 police in Manchester arrested a group of Kurds and subsequent newspaper headlines claimed that they were an Al-Qaeda cell planning to bomb Old Trafford football stadium (pictured above). Their evidence for such a claim was based on police interviews with one of the individuals who had attended a Manchester United game two years previously. Simply because he had attended a football game because he supported the team, the tabloid newspapers invented the story that he was planning on bombing the stadium. All of the suspects, who ironically had come to Britain to escape the regime of Saddam Hussein, were released without charge and with no evidence against them.

The London Guardian reported,

"Of the 701 people arrested under the Terrorism Act since the September 11 attacks, half have been released without charge and only 17 convicted under the act. Only three of those cases relate to allegations of Islamist extremism."

Despite this fact we are regularly bombarded with screaming headlines about mass terror sweeps, and it goes unmentioned that in nearly every case every so-called 'terrorist' is released with no evidence against them. The arrests are at the top of the evening news for days but there is no clarification or retraction when the suspects are set free. This leaves the viewer with the impression that terrorists are everywhere and that only a draconian police state can protect them against the threat.

London Metropolitan police had to apologize for a bungled raid three weeks ago in which an innocent man was shot and no evidence of terrorism preparation was found at a Forest Gate home. The raid, which involved nearly 300 armed police, was based on the testimony of a retarded government informant.

MORE SIGNS OF GOVERNMENT SPONSORED TERROR AS A PRETEXT TO INVADE IRAN

The signs are all around us now folks, the possibility of another false flag terror operation on American soil in order to manufacture consent of the American people to invade Iran is very evident. Two foiled terror attacks and the rolling out of the already dead CIA asset Zarqawi in one week is a good sign of the the attention now being taken away from the Iraqi bogeymen and being moved towards
new and as yet unheard of Iranian characters to prepare the public for their new "bad guys" as the United States prepares to invade Iran. Oh and don't worry they'll be giving you the already dead Bin Laden soon as well. Remember, they always have drills right before such an event just as they did on September 11th. The newest of which will take place June 19th, to prepare for "continuity of government" including FEMA when the next staged terror event occurs. Please read the documents below so you can be informed when it goes down.




Bush's Armageddon Wish

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS | June 13 2006

John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be confirmed as America's ambassador to the UN by even the compliant and corrupt US Senate, got the job as a recess appointment. He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran.

Bolton told the Financial Times (June 9) that the Bush Regime has no intention of reaching an agreement with Iran. Time is running out for diplomacy, Bolton told the Financial Times. Iran has a short time remaining in which it can give up its right under the non-proliferation treaty to enrich uranium for nuclear energy or be attacked. Bolton said that US security guarantees for Iran "were not on the table."

There is no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Every physicist knows that the enrichment requirement for weapons is many times greater than for nuclear energy and that Iran can barely achieve the latter. Despite the facts, Bolton told the Financial Times: "They've [Iran] got both feet on the accelerator, which is why we have a sense of urgency. Each day that goes by gives Iran more time to continue to perfect its efforts for mass production."

Bolton is lying through his teeth. Bush Regime lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and propagandistic references to mushroom clouds convinced the befuddled American public to accept an illegal invasion of Iraq. The same collection of neocon war criminals is again deceiving the American public about Iran.

In his remarks to the Financial Times, Bolton shows himself to be extremely disturbed by the prospect that the diplomatic efforts of Europe, Russia, and China could undermine the Bush Regime's plan to attack Iran. Bolton is doing everything possible to make certain that there is no diplomatic solution.

To help undermine any prospect for peace in the Middle East, Israeli gunboats shelled a public beach and killed or wounded 50 Palestinians. This was done in order to provoke Hamas into abandoning the long-established cease-fire that Hamas had imposed in the interest of negotiating a Palestinian settlement.

The Israeli government succeeded, and now there will a resurgence of "Hamas terrorism" that Bolton and his neocon compatriots can use to build a frightening spectacle of Muslim terrorism.

The Bush/Olmert axis-of-evil have made it clear that "we don't want no stinking peace."

Writing in Antiwar.com (June 10), University of California Professor Jorge Hirsch explains the tripwire that the Bush Regime has laid for Iran in order to have an excuse to launch an attack on that country.

Just as the Bush Regime planned to attack Iraq and then orchestrated a case based on lies, the Bush Regime has already planned to attack Iran. Only this time nuclear weapons will be used.

Nuking Iran is an essential part of the attack plan. The US lacks the necessary conventional military force to invade and occupy Iran, but the use of nuclear weapons against Iran has a wider purpose. The neocons are determined not to have any more embarrassments, such as the Iraqi insurgency. By nuking Iran they intend to send a wider message that the US will use every means at its disposal to ensure its hegemony. The neocons believe that the use of nukes will convince Arabs and the wider world that there is no recourse to accepting America's will.

The neoconservatives could not care less about public opinion. Neocons are contemptuous of the American people. Leo Strauss taught neocons that it was their duty to deceive the clueless American people in order to implement their agenda of global domination. The neocons believe that they have a perfect right, even the obligation, to manipulate the public through propaganda and black ops in order to create acceptance and support for their wars of aggression.

The neocons are the epitome of evil, and they have succumbed to hubris. Like Hitler when he attacked the Soviet Union, neocons believe that their manipulative skills and use of military power will carry the day for their agenda. Hitler's hubris doomed Germany to destruction. What price will America pay for neocon hubris?

When the neocon nazis nuke Iran it will revive memories in Japan and break the US-Japanese alliance. Japan owns enough US Treasury bonds to be able to destroy both the US dollar and the market for Washington's endless red ink. Russia, China, India, and even our European lackeys will have it forcefully brought home to them that the US is an out-of-control rogue nation. They will unify against us. Most likely our bought and paid for puppets in the MIddle East will fall, and Islamic leaders will gain Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Al Qaeda will gain tens of millions of recruits.

Francis Fukuyama's phrase, "the end of history" takes on new meaning.




Back to the Bunker

William M. Arkin – Washington Post.com June 4, 2006

On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The exercise is the latest manifestation of an obsession with government survival that has been a hallmark of the Bush administration since 9/11, a focus of enormous and often absurd time, money and effort that has come to echo the worst follies of the Cold War. The vast secret operation has updated the duck-and-cover scenarios of the 1950s with state-of-the-art technology -- alerts and updates delivered by pager and PDA, wireless priority service, video teleconferencing, remote backups -- to ensure that "essential" government functions continue undisrupted should a terrorist's nuclear bomb go off in downtown Washington.

But for all the BlackBerry culture, the outcome is still old-fashioned black and white: We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on alternate facilities, data warehouses and communications, yet no one can really foretell what would happen to the leadership and functioning of the federal government in a catastrophe.

After 9/11, The Washington Post reported that President Bush had set up a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work outside Washington on a rotating basis to ensure the continuity of national security. Since then, a program once focused on presidential succession and civilian control of U.S. nuclear weapons has been expanded to encompass the entire government. From the Department of Education to the Small Business Administration to the National Archives, every department and agency is now required to plan for continuity outside Washington.

Yet according to scores of documents I've obtained and interviews with half a dozen sources, there's no greater confidence today that essential services would be maintained in a disaster. And no one really knows how an evacuation would even be physically possible.

Moreover, since 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, the definition of what constitutes an "essential" government function has been expanded so ridiculously beyond core national security functions -- do we really need patent and trademark processing in the middle of a nuclear holocaust? -- that the term has become meaningless. The intent of the government effort may be laudable, even necessary, but a hyper-centralized approach based on the Cold War model of evacuations and bunkering makes it practically worthless.

That the continuity program is so poorly conceived, and poorly run, should come as no surprise. That's because the same Federal Emergency Management Agency that failed New Orleans after Katrina, an agency that a Senate investigating committee has pronounced "in shambles and beyond repair," is in charge of this enormous effort to plan for the U.S. government's survival.

Continuity programs began in the early 1950s, when the threat of nuclear war moved the administration of President Harry S. Truman to begin planning for emergency government functions and civil defense. Evacuation bunkers were built, and an incredibly complex and secretive shadow government program was created.

At its height, the grand era of continuity boasted the fully operational Mount Weather, a civilian bunker built along the crest of Virginia's Blue Ridge, to which most agency heads would evacuate; the Greenbrier hotel complex and bunker in West Virginia, where Congress would shelter; and Raven Rock, or Site R, a national security bunker bored into granite along the Pennsylvania-Maryland border near Camp David, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff would command a protracted nuclear war. Special communications networks were built, and evacuation and succession procedures were practiced continually.

When the Soviet Union crumbled, the program became a Cold War curiosity: Then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ordered Raven Rock into caretaker status in 1991. The Greenbrier bunker was shuttered and a 30-year-old special access program was declassified three years later.

Then came the terrorist attacks of the mid-1990s and the looming Y2K rollover, and suddenly continuity wasn't only for nuclear war anymore. On Oct. 21, 1998, President Bill Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive 67, "Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government Operations." No longer would only the very few elite leaders responsible for national security be covered. Instead, every single government department and agency was directed to see to it that they could resume critical functions within 12 hours of a warning, and keep their operations running at emergency facilities for up to 30 days. FEMA was put in charge of this broad new program.

On 9/11, the program was put to the test -- and failed. Not on the national security side: Vice President Cheney and others in the national security leadership were smoothly whisked away from the capital following procedures overseen by the Pentagon and the White House Military Office. But like the mass of Washingtonians, officials from other agencies found themselves virtually on their own, unsure of where to go or what to do, or whom to contact for the answers.

In the aftermath, the federal government was told to reinvigorate its continuity efforts. Bush approved lines of succession for civil agencies. Cabinet departments and agencies were assigned specific emergency responsibilities. FEMA issued new preparedness guidelines and oversaw training. A National Capital Region continuity working group established in 1999, comprising six White House groups, 15 departments and 61 agencies, met to coordinate.

But all the frenetic activity did not produce a government prepared for the worst. A year after 9/11, and almost three years after the deadline set in Clinton's 1998 directive, the Government Accounting Office evaluated 38 agencies and found that not one had addressed all the issues it had been ordered to. A 2004 GAO audit of 34 government continuity-of-operations plans found total confusion on the question of essential functions. One unnamed organization listed 399 such functions. A department included providing "speeches and articles for the Secretary and Deputy Secretary" among its essential duties, while neglecting many of its central programs.

The confusion and absurdity have continued, according to documents I've collected over the past few years. In June 2004, FEMA told federal agencies that essential services in a catastrophe would include not only such obvious ones as electric power generation and disaster relief but also patent and trademark processing, student aid and passport processing. A month earlier, FEMA had told states and local communities that library services should be counted as essential along with fire protection and law enforcement.

None of this can be heartening to Americans who want to believe that in a crisis, their government can distinguish between what is truly essential and what isn't -- and provide it.

Just two years ago, an exercise called Forward Challenge '04 pointed up the danger of making everyone and everything essential: Barely an hour after agencies were due to arrive at their relocation sites, the Office of Management and Budget asked the reconstituted government to identify emergency funding requirements.

As one after-action report for the exercise later put it in a classic case of understatement: "It was not clear . . . whether this would be a realistic request at that stage of an emergency."

This year's exercise, Forward Challenge '06, will be the third major interagency continuity exercise since 9/11. Larger than Forward Challenge '04 and the Pinnacle exercise held last year, it requires 31 departments and agencies (including FEMA) to relocate. Fifty to 60 are expected to take part.

According to government sources, the exercise will test the newly created continuity of government alert conditions -- called COGCONs -- that emulate the DEFCONs of the national security community. Forward Challenge will begin with a series of alerts via BlackBerry and pager to key officials. It will test COGCON 1, the highest level of preparedness, in which each department and agency is required to have at least one person in its chain of command and sufficient staffing at alternate operating facilities to perform essential functions.

Though key White House officials and military leadership would be relocated via the Pentagon's Joint Emergency Evacuation Program (JEEP), the civilians are on their own to make it to their designated evacuation points.

But fear not: Each organization's COOP, or continuity of operations plan, details the best routes to the emergency locations. The plans even spell out what evacuees should take with them (recommended items: a combination lock, a flashlight, two towels and a small box of washing powder).

Can such an exercise, announced well in advance, hope to re-create any of the tensions and fears of a real crisis? How do you simulate the experience of driving through blazing, radiated, panic-stricken streets to emergency bunker sites miles away?

As the Energy Department stated in its review of Forward Challenge '04, "a method needs to be devised to realistically test the ability of . . . federal offices to relocate to their COOP sites using a scenario that simulates . . . the monumental challenges that would be involved in evacuating the city."

With its new plans and procedures, Washington may think it has thought of everything to save itself. Forward Challenge will no doubt be deemed a success, and officials will pronounce the continuity-of-government project sound. There will be lessons to be learned that will justify more millions of dollars and more work in the infinite effort to guarantee order out of chaos.

But the main defect -- a bunker mentality that considers too many people and too many jobs "essential" -- will remain unchallenged.

BILDERBERG 2006

Well folks the annual Bilderberg conference wrapped up in Ottawa city Canada this weekend and the list of attendees has been released. No big surprises on the list of usual new world order/Illuminati suspects, but reading the list will give you a detailed description of just who is secretly running this planet. Alex Jones was in attendance and he and his 2 crew members were detained and questioned for 15 hours at the hands of new world order Mafia scumbags,before being allowed to enter the country.Simply attempting to cover the media coverage of the conference,Alex was suspected of trying to infiltrate the brookstreet hotel in Ottawa much like he did at the bohemian Grove in Northern California in 2000. After the media caught wind of the story thanks to fellow patriot journalist Jim Tucker of American free press Alex and his crew were released and allowed to enter Canada, but only after apologizing to officials for saying "This isn't Russia,You can't treat us like this!" I think we need to all commend Alex Jones for his great work and for continuing to put his life on the line for ALL OF US even those who don't know or don't care to know the truth.
Alex's bullhorn speech in front of the brookstreet hotel is one of the most compelling speeches ever given by ANYONE in the truth movement. I've also included the video and Jim tucker's report as well.Thanks to all who put it all on the line to cover this event which will have a hand in the fates of every man,woman ,and child on this planet in the days and months to come.


AFP CRACKS SECRET MEETING

Bilderberg worried it can’t control Chavez, Iran, neo-con war machine



By James P. Tucker Jr.

OTTAWA, CANADA—As Bilderberg gathers at the posh Brook Street Resort, there was concern that Latin America will use oil as a weapon to block expansion of NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and whether Bush could be talked out of an all-out invasion of Iran.

Bilderberg is concerned that leftist governments in Latin America, led by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, will use manipulation of oil supplies and prices to form an economic union that would include Brazil, Cuba, Peru and Mexico.

Such a union, by refusing to join NAFTA, would wreck Bilderberg’s long-standing goal of expanding NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and evolving it into an “American Union” patterned after the European Union. The dollar would become the common currency of the American Union.

Reaction to Chavez’s earlier announcement that he would exact new taxes on companies that extract oil from his country was angry This directly affects Bilderberg, which has its own oil bloc, including Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the Rothschild companies of Britain and Europe. Companies affected include Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp, Conoco-Phillips, Total, BP PLC and Norway’s Statoil ASA. Chavez also irritated the striped-britches boys by offering oil at low prices to impoverished locations in the United States and Britain. His domestic oil is subsidized—Venezuelans pay 12 cents a gallon.

There is a feeling expressed among Bilderberg luminaries that Chavez is having fun with them. They are not known for humor.

But Bilderberg says its “policies” are turning the Chavez threat around. Chavez hosted the OPEC meeting in Caracas but his proposal for a cut in oil production to boost prices was rejected. OPEC has maintained its official output ceiling at 28 million barrels a day since July 2005.

It has been reported that Mexico’s Felipe Calderon of the America-friendly National Action Party now leads in the polls over the populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the July 2 presidential election. Although he is from the same party as President Vicente Fox, Calderon has cast himself as a rival who advocates improving Mexico’s economy so there would be no incentive to illegally enter the United States.

In Peru, Ollanta Humala, who is friendly with Chavez, lost to former president Alan Garcia. While Bilderberg has celebrated America’s “little wars,” there has been opposition by the European wing to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan from the outset. With NATO taking on a larger role in Afghanistan, the controversy has calmed a bit.

But European Bilderbergers fear a United States attack on Iran, which would have a tremendous global impact.

The meeting is set to begin on Friday, June 9. AFP will be there covering the event over the course of the weekend. The Bilderberg group takes it name from the hotel in Holland where the group met in 1954, during the earliest period of its inception. Bilderbergers meet regularly, presumably on a once-a-year basis, at various locations around the world, always in extreme secrecy, often at resorts controlled by either the Rockefeller or Rothschild families. The Rothschild family is the leading European force within the Bilderberg group, sharing its power with the American-based Rockefeller empire.

Bilderberg maintains an extremely low profile and seldom, if ever, publishes reports or studies for the public, at least, under its own official aegis. Participants denied the group’s very existence for decades until it was forced into the open by the glare of media publicity, generated largely by the now defunct Spotlight newspaper. It follows so-called “Chatham House rules,” whereby attendees are forbidden to speak on the record about topics of discussion during the gathering.

(Issue #24 & 25, June 12 & 19, 2006)

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