Archive for the Conspiracy Theories category
April 7th, 2006
Is there anyone left in this country who really truly believes that Bush hasn’t already authorized the NSA to spy on Americans using wiretaps on purely domestic calls?
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales left open the possibility yesterday that President Bush could order warrantless wiretaps on telephone calls occurring solely within the United States — a move that would dramatically expand the reach of a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program.
In response to a question from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) during an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Gonzales suggested that the administration could decide it was legal to listen in
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Tags: Alberto Gonzales, George W. Bush, Senate, warrantless wiretapping, spying on Americans, Adam Schiff, House Judiciary Committee, NSA
April 5th, 2006
He is a former Lieutenant Colonel for the United States Air Force who flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He has received the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President’s Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Society of Military Engineers Gold Medal (twice), six Air Medals, and dozens of other awards and honors. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. He chaired 8 major international conferences, and is one of the country’s foremost experts on National Security. Dr. Robert Bowman was the former head of the Star Wars program under Presidents Ford
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Tags: Conspiracy Theories, 9/11, Dick Cheney, Dr. Robert Bowman, Osama bin Laden
April 4th, 2006
Well, the bridesmaid’s dress is ordered and I sent an email off to PW to assure her it is so. Perhaps now she can relax. I did ask her if I need flats or heels. I’m hoping flats as she’s told me that the day’s activities will last 13 hours.
Now I have to find a suitable magic bra to hold everything in place for 13 hours — yeah right! At her last wedding, between dances, I kept having to run to the bathroom to pull up my strapless
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Tags: wedding, Alfred Angelo, strapless bra
March 28th, 2006
Yesterday, lots of leftist blogs were talking about The New York Times reporting on the “latest” memo revealing President Bush and Tony Blair’s nefairious plans to go to war in Iraq no matter what, even if it meant *gasp* tricking the world somehow.
Stamped “extremely sensitive,” the five-page memorandum, which was circulated among a handful of Mr. Blair’s most senior aides, had not been made public. Several highlights were first published in January in the book “Lawless World,” which was written by a British lawyer and international law professor, Philippe Sands. In early February, Channel 4 in London first broadcast several
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Tags: Iraq, Downing Street Memo, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, New York Times, Judy Miller, politics, WMD, Saddam Hussein, Conspiracy Theories
March 24th, 2006
“At first, we widows didn’t want to be seen with conspiracy people. But they kept showing up. They cared more than those supposedly doing the investigating. If you ask me, they’re just Americans, looking for the truth, which is supposed to be our right.”[“The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll” (New York Magazine)]
September 11, 2001. I don’t think any of us can forget where we were or what we were doing that day when we heard the news.
I still see it in flashes. Flashes of the people who were with me that day, of the things that happened around me that day, of the things on the television that day.
Mind you, I’m the “conspiracy theorist” of the circle of friends, but really that just means, I’m the conspiracy collector. There were folks far more paranoid and with far more interesting theories than mine in that group. 
I like to think I collect and analyze and only believe the ones that actually have facts to back them up. Even then, they’re just theories.
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Tags: blogs, Conspiracy Theories, George W. Bush, 9/11
March 14th, 2006
More Spying on Americans just for exercising their American rights…
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) -FBI anti-terrorism agents spied on a peace group simply because it opposed the
Iraq war, part of an “unprecedented campaign” to spy on innocent citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Tuesday.
FBI documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act and provided to reporters show the FBI conducted surveillance of the Pittsburgh-based Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice at anti-war demonstrations and leaflet distributions in 2002 and 2003.
One of the FBI documents, unveiled at a news conference by the two groups, carried the headline “International Terrorism Matters” and
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Tags: FBI, politics, anti-war, protest, spying on Americans, Freedom of Information Act, Thomas Merton Center
March 10th, 2006
The Department of Defense admitted in a letter obtained by NBC News on Thursday that it had wrongly added peaceful demonstrators to a database of possible domestic terrorist threats. The letter followed an NBC report focusing on the Defense Department’s Threat and Local Observation Notice, or TALON, report.
Acting Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Roger W. Rogalski’s letter came in reply to a memo from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who had demanded answers about the process of identifying domestic protesters as suspicious and removing their names when they are wrongly listed.
“The recent review of the TALON Reporting System … identified a small
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Tags: politics, Conspiracy Theories, Pentagon, spying on Americans, protestors, TALON, NBC News, Defense Department
March 8th, 2006
Well, apparently there isn’t going to be an investigation into Bush’s post-9-11 warrantless wiretapping. It pisses me off becauce I know that if the roles of the parties were reversed Rush and O’Reilly and the Republicans would be calling for an investigation and an impeachment and saying it was the American public’s right to know.
It’s even more suspicious after all the threatening and posturing Frist did last week when it looked like the committee in question might indeed vote to investigate.
Instead, as a compromise, a new seven-member subcommittee is being formed to scrutinize the eavesdropping under a plan approved
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Tags: politics, warrantless wiretapping, George W. Bush, Republicans, hypocrisy, Terrorist Surveillance Act
March 3rd, 2006
Well, it’s long been joked that credit card debt is the real American Dream just like Mom and Apple Pie. The government must think there’s some truth to it because apparently if you pay off or even just down your credit card debt, it sets off alarms in Homeland Security. Yup. You don’t have to even try to carry a lighter on the airplane or use your cel phone to call the “wrong” person overseas. All you have to do is try to be a responsible adult and Homeland Security could be investigating you, holding
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Tags: Terrorists, Homeland Security, stupidity
February 27th, 2006
Remember all those complaints about voting irregularities in Florida? Seems like there might have been something to it. Of course, no one in the government is doing anything about it still. I suspect neither party wants to clear up all the voting irregularities and calling attention to it will only call attention to their own participation here and there.
The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.
Black Box Voting successfully sued former Palm Beach
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Tags: Black Box Voting, Voting Irregularities, Florida, 2004 election, politics
February 27th, 2006
Holy crap.
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers
By Rachel L. Swarns
New York Times
February 4, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.
KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said.
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Tags: politics, Halliburton, Conspiracy Theories, Homeland Security, immigration, FEMA
February 10th, 2006
Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so. –President Bush, April 20, 2004
Our position is, is that the authorization to use force, which was passed by the Congress in the days following September 11th, constitutes that other authorization, that other statute by Congress, to engage in this kind of signals intelligence. — Attorney General
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Tags: warrantless wiretapping, George W. Bush, lie, Alberto Gonzales
January 13th, 2006
One of the theories as to where the superstition of Friday the 13th being an unlucky day came from goes back to Friday, October 13, 1307.
But actually, the story started before that…
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Tags: Conspiracy Theories, Templars
December 31st, 2005
Duffy stressed that “the leaking of classified information is a serious issue.” And he defended the use of wiretaps, warning that “Al-Qaeda’s playbook is not printed on page one, and when America’s is, it has serious ramifications.”[“White House says Justice opted to probe wiretap leak independently” (Yahoo!News)]
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Tags: warrantless wiretapping, al-Qaeda, spying on Americans, terrorism, Wag the Dog
December 20th, 2005
“The president does not get to pick and choose which laws he wants to follow.”
– Senator Russell Feingold, Democrat [“Bush stands by right to order spying inside US (FT.com)]
Traditionally, US law forbids the NSA and the CIA from spying inside the US. That sort of thing usually falls into the FBI’s realm of operations and then only with a court order for setting up wire taps and the like.
Yet shortly after 9/11, President Bush ordered the NSA to tap telephone conversations inside the US, supposedly targeting persons (yes, including American citizens — especially American citizens) suspected of
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Tags: politics, George W. Bush, warrantless wiretapping, NSA, spying on Americans, FBI, Russ Feingold, FISA, ACLU, CIA, Conspiracy Theories
November 9th, 2005
Wasn’t there a book about a world where the government controls everything including the information and the history, where history is officially changed in the archives to agree with what the government wants people to believe, and where people are told what to believe and remember?
People — o.k. Left-wingers — have been making a lot of references to 1984, comparing many of the things the current administration has done to the Orwellian world. Let’s face it, there’ve been a number of revelations of press releases and press ops that appear to have been completely staged or have been suggested
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Tags: 1984, paranoia, lie, propaganda, Scott McClellan
November 3rd, 2005
I haven’t been writing about world events or politics the last week or so. I’m sure you noticed the absence of ranting and raving particularly about the Bush administration around here.
Of course, there are a couple reasons for that.
I’m sure you’ve noticed my current focus on NaNoWriMo. That’s going to take quite a bit of time and energy this month. If you think it’s easy, sign up and write a 50K novel too.
But on a more serious note, I’ve been watching the news and the headlines and skimming my usual blog haunts (though a little
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Tags: politics, Scooter Libby, Conspiracy Theories
October 27th, 2005
So, one of my co-workers is currently theorizing that Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court was a ruse all along. He thinks that Bush nominated a moderate who he knew would be questioned so that he could nominate a real conservative when her nomination caused enough rucus to force her to withdraw. The idea then is that we’ll be so happy to have anyone other than Miers that Congress will just rush the new person right on through the obstacle course with little whining.
Another co-worker thinks that the first co-worker is assuming Bush is smart enough to
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Tags: Harriet Miers, politics, George W. Bush, Supreme Court, Karl Rove, Patrick Fitzgerald, PlameGate, Conspiracy Theories
October 26th, 2005
One of the things I find fascinating as I watch the whole PlameGate story unfold is the focus of Main Stream Media and most blogs on the lies told to cover up that the CIA leak actually came from the White House, from near the top. No one in MSM and very few bloggers are publically questioning why Valerie Plame’s identity was leaked.
Oh, yes, I know they’re reporting that her identity was leaked in retaliation for her husband’s, Joe Wilson’s, public statements refuting their so-called evidence that Iraq had bought uranium from Nigeria.
The question people should be asking is
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Tags: politics, PlameGate, CIA, Joe Wilson, Iraq
October 25th, 2005
This morning, listening to an NPR story about Chenney’s denial that he even knew who Joseph Wilson was before the newspaper article revealing Wilson’s wife’s identity was published and I suddenly flashed back to the Vice Presidential debate last fall:
I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.
– Vice President Dick Chenney to then-Senator Edwards, September 30, 2004 [“2004 Vice Presidential Debate”]
Of course, they’d met before…
Addressing the National Prayer Breakast, Cheney said: “Thank you. Thank you very much. Congressman Watts, Senator Edwards,
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Tags: Dick Cheney, Joe Wilson, lie
