A seemingly insignificant detail about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s service in the Austrian army, the fact that his father (ostensibly nothing but a small town police chief) was able to pull strings in a number of ways is noteworthy. Anyone even remotely familiar with military protocol would understand that Schwarzenegger’s father under normal circumstances would never have been able to prevail on the Austrian army to change its regulations in such dramatic fashion just for his son. “Besides, according to Arnold, Gustav had smoothed the path for his younger son by using his influence to have him stationed at a camp near Graz. He had also pulled strings so that Arnold, characteristically impressed by the size and power of tanks, could be a tank driver. Arnold claims that, thanks to Gustav’s influence, the Austrian Army made an exception to the required tank driver’s minimum age, lowering it from twenty-one to eighteen, thus enabling him to fulfill his ambition.” (Arnold: The Unauthorized Biography; p. 34.)
Perhaps even more striking is Schwarzenegger’s contention that he forgot to engage the brake after parking a tank, that it rolled into the river as a result, and that he was not disciplined for his negligence! Talk to a military veteran about this. Ask their opinion. . . . "Once he ‘parked’ a tank but forgot to put the brake on. The tank rolled into the river. According to Arnold, there were no consequences.” (Idem.)
Reminiscent of George W. Bush’s AWOL stint from the Texas Air National Guard (performed with impunity due to his father’s status), Schwarzenegger, too, was able to skip out from the Austrian army in order to compete in a contest. “He knew exactly what he wanted. And he had taken great risks to obtain it. For despite being the product of Gustav’s school of obedience and discipline, Arnold, as he would many times in his career, had gambled. To compete in Stuttgart he had gone AWOL.” (Ibid.; p. 35.)
TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS asks how powerful was this Nazi stormtrooper father of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Would Schwarzenegger be where he is today without a Nazi using state power to smooth his way? Also of note - A short video clip of Schwarzenegger taking a hit off a cannabis cigarette has surfacd on the Internet. The clip was evidently filmed at the same time a photo was snapped of Arnold for the 1976 Rolling Stone feature article unearthed by this website. That article, you may recall, featured many quotes of Schwarzenegger's megalomanical ramblings and dictatorial dreams. Schwarzenegger has not called for drug legalization.
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - A woman walking along a beach about a mile from former President Bush's summer home Sunday found what appeared to be body parts on the shore, police said.
The state medical examiner will inspect the items, which include at least one bone and what appeared to be internal organs, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state Public Safety Department. He said it wasn't immediately known if they were human.
Kennebunkport police contacted the state medical examiner's office after the discovery.
The area where the parts were found - a rocky stretch of shore known as Colony Beach - is about a mile from the Bush compound, said Sgt. Chris Simeoni of the Kennebunkport police.
TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: The author of the piece on PropagandaMatrix.com refers to this plane as "Flight 11." But considering that the plane looks nothing like a Boeing airliner and cintemporary eyewitness accounts mentioned a "commuter jet," it is not at all clear the first tower strike was United Flight 11. See Operation Pearl by Dr. Dewdney at physics911.org for more on this scenario.
MEMORANDUM FOR ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
SUBJECT: Classified Information Concerning the Air Force's Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada
I find that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to exempt the United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, the subject of litigation in Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP) and Frost v. Perry (D. Nev. CV-S-94-714-PMP), from any applicable requirement for the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location. Therefore, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 6961(a), I hereby exempt the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, from any Federal, State, interstate or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require the disclosure of classified information concerning the operating location to any unauthorized person. This exemption shall be effective for the full one-year statutory period. [. . .]
GEORGE W. BUSH
TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: The Air Force facility at Groom Lake, of course, is more commonly known as Area 51. Clinton first issued this exemption when widows of Air Force men killed by some kind of materiel at Groom Lake filed suit. It has been renewed every year since, by both Presidents.
"They were Chinook military helicopters--huge things with round noses. There were three of them, and they were moving in tight formation, lollygagging over the woods, zigzagging near [the town of] Sisters and out toward Black Butte," some 25 miles to the northwest.
The copters were in Central Oregon, officials from the U.S. Forest Service would later note, to do reconnaissance in advance of an August 21 visit to the dry, wooded region by President George W. Bush. "They were doing routine surveillance," according to Ron Pugh, a Forest Service special agent. . . .
as the choppers flew near Sisters that day, he gazed skyward for much of their 90-minute flight. "They came right over the top of us," he remembers, "and we watched them land, and then I looked up at the mountains, where they'd flown."
"Chuck," Berry said at that point, "I hope what I'm seeing out there is a cloud."
It was not a cloud. That afternoon, Forest Service lookouts detected high columns of smoke rising from what would soon be called the Bear Butte and Booth Fires. . . .
Portland's daily newspaper, the Oregonian, and Oregon Public Broadcasting have given serious coverage to the argument that Bush allies may have set the fire. But larger environmental groups such as the Oregon Natural Resources Council have shied away from it . . .
Venezuela’s vice president has accused the United States of participating in a 2002 coup that briefly toppled President Hugo Chavez.
Jose Vicente Rangel made his comments while comparing the April 11, 2002 coup in Venezuela to the September 11, 1973 uprising that deposed Chilean president Salvador Allende.
He said both coups were acts of “terrorism” comparable to the September 11, 2001, attacks against America.
September 11 “is a date that represents terrorism for both the American and Chilean people”, Rangel said.
The Venezuelan coup “was in the same mould with the same characteristics as the one that happened in Chile. The same format, the same social sectors, the same group of treacherous generals and also the participation of the United States,” he added.
TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: It will be interesting to see if he starts naming names.
The e-mail from Conservative headquarters broke some news. It read: "Dalton McGuinty. He's an evil reptilian kitten eater from another planet." Then, in brackets, "sorry."
The news release, sent yesterday to reporters all over the province, was a new high — or low — in an already nasty Ontario election campaign . . .
On the campaign trail in Cornwall, McGuinty declared his affection for furry baby animals — puppies and kittens — and refused to really engage in any further discussion of the matter.
"I'm not going to get sidetracked by that stuff," McGuinty said. . . .
But he added with a laugh, "I love kittens, and I like puppies, too. I have eaten calf, I'll admit to that."
Warren Buffett. A major stockholder in Walt Disney. He also owns 40% of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. which also owns lots of shares of Disney stock. According to S.F. Examiner, Buffett himself owns 24 million shares of Disney. Warren Buffett is part of the Ak-Sar-Ben fraternity and Monarch slave abusers who were exposed in the Nebraska Saving & Loan scandal. He is perhaps the second richest man in the nation, and too powerful for anyone to touch. In the kingpin vs. kingpin battles, some people close to the inside see Buffett as a good guy. Readers need to study the Lincoln Savings & Loan scandal and the scandals connection to programmed child slaves at Boy’s Town to get more information on this Disney stockholder. Robert G. Hagstrom, Jr., who is the portfolio manager of the mutual fund Focus Trust, which has shares in Walt Disney, wrote the book The Warren Buffett Way. Hagstrom has a chapter on Disney in his The Warren Buffett Way. He quotes Buffett as extremely enthusiastic about Disney’s merger with Capital Cities/ABC. Because of his enthusiasm Buffett says, "The odds are extremely high that we will have a very large amount of Disney stock."
The feds repeatedly framed Springmeyer until they could lock him up in federal prison. Obviously his work has them worried.
Israeli investigative reporter Barry Chamish writes:
UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIMON
Even Shimon Peres wife, Sonia, refused to attend the monstrosity. Shimon Peres is having a birthday party and all of Israel will foot the bill, as if anyone asked us if we wanted to. So while 20% of Israel's children are malnourished, the country still found the time and money to feed Shimon's guests, who will include:
Guest list:
Bill Clinton Polish PM Alexander Kosniski Michael Gorbachev Helmut Kohl Steven Spielberg Barbara Streisand Naomi Campbell
And if you don't think the public is paying for this atrocity, this party has been in the works for six months; and look at the list of organizers, all Likud, and ask who pays for their time?
Organizing committee: Pres. Moshe Katsav PM Ariel Sharon Ehud Olmert - Invitations Organizer Former Chief Rabbi Israel Lau
Location - Mann Auditorium, space donated by Tel Aviv mayor, followed by a cocktail party at the Cultural Ministry office. . .
Speakers - Peres, Sharon, Katzav, Clinton
No Shows: Hosni Mubarak All Arab "peace" partners Sonia Peres
Also on the no show list is Yitzhak Rabin, missing because Peres had him murdered. One may assume Sonia knows this and much more, which is why she is staying away or being kept away.
Contact Chamish to get the rest of his information, including protest plans.
MATTHEWS: They’ve become a force to be reckoned with on Capitol Hill, at the Justice Department, and at the White House. . . .
Kristen Brietweiser lost her husband, Ron, who worked in the south tower. And Patty Casazza lost her husband, who was in the north tower.
Kristen, when you think back on that horrible day, in your mind’s eye, what do you think could have been done to prevent it?
KRISTEN BRIETWEISER, WIFE OF 9/11 VICTIM: Certainly, I think that the government could have acted more swiftly, acted more decisively.
When you have a president of the United States remaining seated, listening to second graders read to him for 25 minutes after the second tower was hit, certainly that could have been run more smoothly.
When you have a secretary of defense remaining at his desk at the Pentagon, and unknown to him was the plane that hit the Pentagon until the plane hit the building, you know, that’s a problem.
The plane that hit the Pentagon hit an hour after the attacks in New York. What exactly was the secretary of defense doing at his desk? He should have been in the war room. He should have been making decisions. He should have been protecting me and the 3,000 others who were in the towers.
I was under the understanding that when you took an oath of office, you swore to protect, lead and serve. On the morning of September 11, I question how many of our leaders actually were doing that.
MATTHEWS: Patty, do you share that criticism, that they just lacked the basic human instinct to go on the defensive and move?
PATTY CASAZZA, WIFE OF 9/11 VICTIM: I don’t know if it was a lack of human instinct or perhaps even something more sinister.
MATTHEWS: What do you think it was? When you think it hard.
CASAZZA: Well, when we looked at, when we investigated standard protocols and procedures of, let’s say, NORAD, who was supposed to scramble jets to accompany planes that were off course or whose transponders were turned off, those policies and procedures happen on a daily basis.
And on 9/11, no jets were scrambled until after the Pentagon was hit. That was at 9:38. The first plane was declared hijacked between 8:13 and 8:20. That’s an hour and a half time which NORAD had to scramble the jets.
In the case of Payne Stewart, they scrambled jets within six minutes.
And that was a well-documented rescue attempt. . . .
MATTHEWS: Let me ask Kristen, what do you think of President Bush in term of his handling of 9/11? Just as a person, from that first second when he got the word that the planes, a plane had hit one of the towers.
BREITWEISER: You know, I think that there seems to be no sense of urgency since 9/11 on behalf of the administration the president, certain members of Congress . . .
MATTHEWS: If you were sitting with vice president Dick Cheney now, who’s the real powerhouse in this administration, and could you grill him and he was under sodium pentathol, what would you want to know from him?
BREITWEISER: I would want to know exactly where he was on the morning of 9/11, at exactly what time the jets were scrambled, why was there a failure of the city of New York to effectively evacuate those buildings?
I would want to know why certain members of the bin Laden family and certain Saudi individuals were flown out of the country a few days after the attacks, prior to them being asked questions by the FBI.
I would want to know whether the FBI was, in fact, investigating any of the 19 terrorists.
I would want to know why 28 pages of the joint inquiries report are not being released to the American public.
I would want to know why the American public is not being fully informed as to what went wrong on the morning of September 11 and why there seems to be no sense of concern on behalf of the administration to assure the American public that things have been fixed and that they are safe living in this country. . .
MATTHEWS:Bill Clinton, do you blame him at all?
BREITWEISER: Listen, I think there were certainly some failures. When you look into the 9/11 hijackers, this goes back years. I mean, you look at the meetings in Malaysia. We’ve read GAO reports. We’ve read congressional testimony on behalf of FBI supervisors and, you know, the CIA directors.
This is not just about the Bush administration. This is about the Clinton administration. This is about the Reagan administration, the first Bush administration. I mean, this goes back. This is not just focused on, you know, Bush W.’s administration. There were clearly failures.
And you know what? We need to fix these problems. We need to look at our foreign policy. We need to really start informing the American people so that we can make decisions, both at the polls and at the pumps, because.
MATTHEWS: Who is winning, Kristen? You people, trying to open the files or the people like Cheney you say are trying to keep them closed?
BREITWEISER: All I can say, Chris, is that we’re not going away.
