Oh and for those whom don’t know or missed it: Bush wants to be your shrink “This month”, President Bush plans to unveil a broad new mental health plan called the ‘New Freedom Initiative.’ Never mind that it couldn’t have less to do with freedom; if you’re a thinking American, this initiative should scare the hell out of you.”
Oh, and
the APA is proud you don’t Know :
The American Psychiatric Association is bragging in its own membership newsletter that they pleased the Bush Administration by successfully discouraging the mainstream media from looking into the corruption exposed by the British Medical Journal in a recent series of articles.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 11 2004 18:10 utc | 3

Soma, anyone?

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 11 2004 20:38 utc | 5

But if you take the general definition of fascism provided by its founder, Benito Mussolini — “the merger of corporate and state power” — and apply it to the elements that are coalescing in America at this historical moment, you could hardly find a more apt description of the Bush Regime. Couple that with the Bushists’ radical transformation of party politics into a quasi-religious cult of militarism and leader worship, and you have not an equivalence but certainly an ever-deepening resonance with the malevolent spirit that swept Germany and Italy during the first half of the 20th century.

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Sep 11 2004 22:02 utc | 7

Checking all Americans for mental health? Well, wasn’t it the old Stalinists that used to lock people in the asylum when they spoke too loud against the regime?
Anyone wants to take bet as to when Bush will openly round up political opponents and ship them to concentration camps?

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Sep 12 2004 2:56 utc | 9

You will want to hear this: (mp3)
Breaking news from Mike Ruppert on 9/11 Ruppert was in town to talk to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Aug. 31. While in the Bay Area he did an interview for Steppin’ Out of Babylon and KPFA Radio.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 12 2004 4:12 utc | 11

After listening to Uncle $cam’s Link from his September 12, 2004 12:12 AM post, I followed the trail to the transcript of Mike Ruppert’s talk to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on August, 31, 2004 which can be found at:
Link
Mike Rupert (http//www.FromTheWilderness.com} has documented and is presently publishing, not just smoking guns but verifiable facts implicating a number of top level Bush Administration officials, starting with “Mr. Big” himself, Dick Cheney, in direct complicity in the 9-11 attacks.
His book, “Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil” is due for publication in October.
The following are excerpts from his Commonwealth Club’s talk. My Bold highlights.
“The 9/11 attacks were the result of deliberate planning and orchestrated efforts by identifiable leaders within the U.S. Government, and the energy and financial sectors, to see a Pearl harbor-like attack which would provide the American Empire with a pretext for war, invasion and the sequential confiscation of oil and natural gas reserves, or the key transportation routes through which they pass. 9-11 was a premeditated murder and in my book, and here tonight, I will name some of the suspects who committed the crime. In my book I will show you overwhelming evidence of their guilt which I would be proud and confident to place either before a district attorney or a jury.”
“History today provides us with abundant documentation of us government complicity in varying degrees in similar attacks. Crossing the rubicon is a detective story that gets to the Innermost core of the 9/11 attacks. It places 9/11 at the Center of a desperate new America, created by specific, named individuals in preparation for peak oil: an economic crisis like nothing the world has ever seen.”
“It is my belief, as I speak to you tonight that planet earth is – plus or minus one year – at the all time peak of hydrocarbon energy production. Simply put, we have used half of all the
oil god placed on this planet, and every drop, every barrel extracted from the ground from now on will become progressively more expensive, of lesser quality, and much harder to obtain. We have picked the low hanging fruit.”
“The attacks of September 11th, 2001 were the pretext for the American, and to a lesser extent, the British and Israeli Empires to begin seizing, by force, those energy supplies needed to sustain their power, hegemony (whether regional or global) and their teetering economies.”
“I name some of the us government officials who perpetrated those attacks, I can also identify the prime suspect – or Mr. Big – who played the command role in executing them.”
“Every commission member has deep conflicts of interest with Respect to 9/11 and its investigation of the government Agencies charged with protecting the American people that day. To the 9/11 research Community, the mysterious and inexplicable failure of the nation’s air defenses that day remains the most glaring and gaping hole in the Kean commission’s account and in the Government’s version of events. Scrambling fighter aircraft was a routine occurrence for years before 9/11.”
“For me, the pivotal evidence absolutely demonstrating direct government complicity in, and management of, the attacks was found in a number of undisputed, yet virtually unaddressed war games that I will show were being conducted, coordinated and/or controlled by vice president Dick Cheney or his immediate staff on the morning of September 11th.”
“Blips were deliberately inserted onto FAA and military radar….
This effectively paralyzed fighter response because, with only eight fighters available in the region, There were as many as 22 possible highjackings taking place. Other exercises, specifically Northern Vigilance had pulled significant fighter resources away from the northeast U.S. – just before 9/11 – into northern Canada and Alaska.”
“I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate command, control and communications system which was superceding any orders being issued by the NMCC, or the white house Situation Room.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, were aware that flight 175 was en route to lower manhattan for 20 minutes and did nothing – absolutely nothing – to order the evacuation of or warn the occupants of the world trade center. One military officer was forced to leave his post in the middle of the attacks and place a private call to his brother – who worked at the WTC –
warning him to get out.”
“I will also show that the Israeli and British governments acted as partners with the highest levels of the American government to help in the preparation and, very possibly, the actual execution of the attacks.
Only three countries, the U,S., Britain and Israel that have never wavered in their support of everything that has happened since 9/11.”
Ruppert then connects the dots to bring to focus the connection of Peak Oil and the American Epmire’s critical need to gain and maintain control of the worlds major oil resources. Read his Commenwealth Club talk to get filled in.
I think the tinfoil hats can now be removed.

Posted by: Juannie | Sep 12 2004 16:04 utc | 13

We have been waiting for this for some time, now it appears that the prop-agenda is starting. Even though the shrub is in the lead now the Rovians will not leave anything to chance. This certainly looks like a run up to the October surprise

Posted by: Dan of Steele | Sep 12 2004 17:08 utc | 15

Do We Have to ‘Liberate’ Iraqi Towns Again and Again? by Robert Fisk – The Independent, Arab News

Three-years ago, it was all about Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda; then, at about the time of the Enron scandal — and I have a New York professor to thank for spotting the switching point — it was Saddam and weapons of mass destruction and 45 minutes and human rights abuses in Iraq and well, the rest is history.

More on Iraq and 9/11 in there, but the Enron point is crucial.

Posted by: b | Sep 12 2004 20:02 utc | 17

Are the dominos finally going to fall???
Bush team ‘knew of abuse’ at Guantánamo

Posted by: Fran | Sep 13 2004 5:47 utc | 19

Quite a picture:
• 09/13 05:35 am U.N. Nuclear Agency Meets to Discuss Resolution on Iran’s Nuclear Program
• 09/13 04:55 am Putin Announces Measures to Increase Kremlin Control Over Politics
• 09/13 04:53 am Italy’s Foreign Minister Leaves for Mideast in Hostage Crisis
• 09/13 04:47 am Russian President Meets With Cabinet, Regional Governors to Discuss Response to Terror
• 09/13 04:31 am Saddam’s Hometown Falls Under Peaceful Spell
• 09/13 04:23 am U.S. Forces Kill 22 Insurgents in Clash in Southern Afghanistan
• 09/13 03:41 am Police Uncover Key Evidence in Bombing of Australian Embassy in Indonesia
• 09/13 03:16 am U.S. Warplanes Bomb Insurgent Stronghold of Fallujah; at Least 9 Killed
• 09/13 03:03 am Aid Workers Evacuate Western Afghan City After Rioting Over Governor’s Ouster
• 09/13 02:43 am Sudan Condemns Powell Comment That Humanitarian Crisis Amounts to Genocide
• 09/13 02:15 am U.S., South Korean Officials Say Mushroom Cloud in North Not From Nuclear Blast

Posted by: Pat | Sep 13 2004 10:39 utc | 21

If this article is true, concentration camps for US citizens aka. democrats can’t be to far away.
Did the RNC lease Pier 57? – Did the NYPD use a facility leased by the RNC to hold protesters?

Posted by: Fran | Sep 13 2004 15:56 utc | 23

@b
You’re welcome, and I agree. That’s the best analysis I’ve read on the Atlantic Alliance in awhile – and gives much food for thought on the subject of formal, Great Power alliances in general. (Look at the damage caused by the US-Israel alliance, for instance.)
GWB is speeding up the inevitable – unwittingly returning the post-1948 world to a more natural, and in the end more sane, order. Regarding this, at least, we can be hopeful.

Posted by: Pat | Sep 13 2004 17:56 utc | 25

Hmmm, Kolko is partly right imho, as long as the end of the Atlantic alliance is a good thing because it weakens the US. But I’m also of the opinion that a US superpower without any opposing alliance is still a major trouble-maker, and in this regard, saying that all alliances should end is just a way of ensuring the continuing US supremacy. Of course, a new alliance openly against the US may well become a superpower of its own, which would bring us back into the usual problems.
Still, I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s what will happen, perhaps not as openly as NATO and Warsaw Pact, but tacitly, secretly. History, notably history of European powers in the last 500 years, showed that when one major power became too powerful, others allied to limit it, as a counterweight, and this process has been systematic during the last centuries. Alliances to stop the Habsburg to take over the world when they got both Spanish and Austrian empires, leagues against Louis XIV when France appeared to be able to take over Europe, with the near-union of France and Spain, coalitions against Napoleonic France, and then, ultimately, when German 2nd Empire became too powerful on the continent, France and England allied, and even Russia joined the fun, with the US coming late but on the allied side when WWI raged; similar configuration, more or less, for WWII. And then, parallel building up of NATO and Warsaw Pact (well, first the former, if I’m not mistaken). You hardly build new alliances from scratches in 10 years, but you may in 20, so this new configuration of powers may soon produce a new “interesting” alliance(s?).
All in all, Kolko is interesting and has good ideas, but first I wouldn’t use the WWI example – Germany would’ve utterly crushed France without the English-Russian alliance, and one can fairly easily assume that it’s better that France survived, even if one would wish they and the English hadn’t been so petty and vicious in the peace treaty. Second, even if Kolko is right that alliances are inherently bad – I don’t think so, or if he’s right, then the US should dissolve into 50 independant nations -, being right won’t be enough, and I’d bet that some new patterns of alliances will emerge during this decade (and they won’t necessarily be a good thing, of course; there are some alliances I really prefer not to see)

Posted by: Clueless Joe | Sep 13 2004 20:47 utc | 27

apologise if my pposting a little erratic of late – have just learnt that i have diabetes type 1 & have begun the process of injecting insulin
feel at onece humiliated & a little weary darker than my usual self(s)
feel as dum as diogenes about the malady but at least through our meditations on the slaughterhouse we are living – the metaphorical base is very clear
still steel

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Sep 13 2004 23:38 utc | 29

merci b for those words – happened so quicly & have had thougts that i was invulnerable – that it has hit me harder than i would have imagined
still steel

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Sep 14 2004 17:27 utc | 31

mike rupert from another point of view…:
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293297747

Posted by: greg | Mar 5 2005 20:14 utc | 33