Just as Nicholas Rockefeller told Aaron Russo September 4, 2007
Lots of videos and articles today.
The following video is an interview Alex Jones did with Aaron Russo in which he describes his once friendship with Nicholas Rockefeller and the prediction he (NR) made 11 months before 9/11.
“He’s the one that told me 11 months before 9/11 ever happened that there was going to be an event, never told me what the event was going to be, and out of that event we were going to invade Afganistan to run pipelines from the Caspian Sea, were were going to invade Iraq to take over the oil fields and establish a base in the middle east and make it all part of the new world order and we’d go after Chavez in Venezuela.”
Ok, he doesn’t mention Iran. I think that doesn’t matter. Bush made it very clear that Iran is part of the “Axis of Evil” and now it seems clear that Iran will be attacked. The point is that there is a very well-planned goal here, in existence for longer than we can imagine, and once again this administration is managing to reach it without much challenge. A question was asked to Scott Ritter the other day as to how and when Iran would be attacked. He said it would have to happen before the Spring because at that point, full attention will be on the next presidential election. He said that the American people (and the world) would not hear about it until after it had happened. Here is another video in which Scott Ritter talks about the plan to attack Iran:
The following is from an article written by Chris Hedges and posted on Alternet.org. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, who was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. He spent seven years in the Middle East and reported frequently from Iran. His latest book is American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.
The Pentagon has reportedly drawn up plans for a series of airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. The air attacks are designed to cripple the Iranians’ military capability in three days.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant, along with targets in Saghand and Yazd, the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, a heavy-water plant and radioisotope facility in Arak, the Ardekan Nuclear Fuel Unit, and the uranium conversion facility and nuclear technology center in Isfahan, will all probably be struck by the United States and perhaps even Israeli warplanes. The Tehran Nuclear Research Center, the Tehran molybdenum, iodine and xenon radioisotope production facility, the Tehran Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories, and the Kalaye Electric Co. in the Tehran suburbs will also most likely come under attack.
But then what? We don’t have the troops to invade. And we don’t have anyone minding the helm who knows the slightest thing about Persian culture or the Middle East. There is no one in power in Washington with the empathy to get it. We will lurch blindly into a catastrophe of our own creation.
It is not hard to imagine what will happen. Iranian Shabab-3 and Shabab-4 missiles, which cannot reach the United States, will be launched at Israel, as well as American military bases and the Green Zone in Baghdad. Expect massive American casualties, especially in Iraq, where Iranian agents and their Iraqi allies will be able to call in precise coordinates. The Strait of Hormuz, which is the corridor for 20 percent of the world’s oil supply, will be shut down. Chinese-supplied C-801 and C-802 anti-shipping missiles, mines and coastal artillery will target U.S. shipping, along with Saudi oil production and oil export centers. Oil prices will skyrocket to well over $4 a gallon. The dollar will tumble against the euro. Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon, interpreting the war as an attack on all Shiites, will fire rockets into northern Israel. Israel, already struck by missiles from Tehran, will begin retaliatory raids on Lebanon and Iran. Pakistan, with a huge Shiite minority, will reach greater levels of instability. The unrest could result in the overthrow of the weakened American ally President Pervez Musharraf and usher into power Islamic radicals. Pakistan could become the first radical Islamic state to possess a nuclear weapon. The neat little war with Iran, which few Democrats oppose, has the potential to ignite a regional inferno.
We have rendered the nation deaf and dumb. We no longer have the capacity for empathy. We prefer to amuse ourselves with trivia and gossip that pass for news rather than understand. We are blinded by our military prowess. We believe that huge explosions and death are an effective form of communication. And the rest of the world is learning to speak our language.
Aaron Russo Dies of Cancer in Germany August 25, 2007
February 14th, 1943 – August 24th, 2007
Wow! I was just recently introduced to his work and his video “America: Freedom to Fascism” and started getting interested in what he had to say. I was looking forward to seeing what else he would come out with. What other documentaries he’d make.
Well, this will no longer be. What a loss.
He was only 64 years old.
There’s not yet too much on the internet about his death (he was, after all, a pretty big film producer), which I find to be strange. But maybe I need to give it a few days. Not sure. This guy was a serious truth seeker and now he is silenced. Hopefully his videos and messages will still be passed around the world.
Click on my “Aaron Russo” category for more information on him.
Does it really matter? August 16, 2007
Why does all this matter? DOES it really matter? I’ve been reading up on things a bit more lately. Maybe I just have more time on my hands and that is the direction my brain wants to go these days. I know I will never be a great thinker, a passionate and committed fighter for the rights of people. I will always have my little toe in the huge pool of water that is the world of politics, social rights, justice. It interests me to a certain extent. Unfortunately I also get distracted by other interests and then I forget about it. I feel weird about that sometimes. Even guilty. But then, at other times, I think that I am a fool to think that this is something I can really ever grasp, let alone do something about.
The other day I was talking with Catherine about the fact that I cannot retain information very well. I HATE that about me! I know there are lots of people like that out there (Catherine being one of them), but somehow it doesn’t make me feel better. I can read a book, an article, listen to someone speak and I will be fascinated, I will understand it all AT THAT MOMENT. I swear, if you then turned to me and asked me to repeat what I heard / read / saw, I would probably turn to you, give you that “I can’t believe you are asking me to do this” look and not be able to. I don’t know! But I know that it was good. I know it was important. I know how it made me feel inside and I know that I found it compelling. But I can’t tell you exactly why.
I will never be a debater. I will never be able to back up my feelings and thoughts about something with facts. I can talk for days about people, psychology, philosophy, even politics…but I can’t back it up with facts, cause I just can’t remember them, or I only remember parts of them.
You know those people who can. I hate and admire them. I hate them because I am so damn jealous of the fact that they have that ability to retain facts and detailed information. Or maybe it’s not jealousy. It’s complete and utmost envy and admiration. I watch them like my niece watches a person do tricks right in front of her. I can’t compete, I can’t argue, I can’t make my points. But I know the information is out there to back me up. I just have to “get back to you” on that one.
Lately, what I have been doing is writing things down in a notebook that sits on my desk. Whenever I read a few lines from an article that I find really strong, I copy it. If I am watching an interview or a film and there are some lines, a point being made that I need to remember, I write it down. Yes, I sit there pressing pause, play, backup, pause, write, play, backup…until I’ve got it. I figure I might want to reread it one day, or post it on my blog. In my conversation with Catherine, she said that maybe what we should do is just write down the important facts that would back up a point we want to make and read them over and over again until we remember them. Hey, that’s what I had to do in high school when I had to learn all these French 16th Century poems by heart. I never managed to, because I always gave up.
So, my initial question was: does it really matter? Does it matter that I can’t tell you exactly why the pancake theory (about the way the World Trade Center buildings collapsed) makes no sense to me? Someone can. There are scientists and theorists that have told us why it’s not possible and I agree with them. I’ve watched the videos and I have read a book about it. I just can’t tell you exactly what they say. I can only ask you to watch the video or read the article.
But the question is something else too. Does it really matter that the Government may have been behind 9/11 (for instance)? Does it really matter that the Bush Administration is taking away our rights? Does the Patriot Act really matter? Does it matter that there may be bigger, more secretive plans going on that are not good for us? Does the RFID Chip matter? Does the North American Union plan matter? Does it matter that big bankers of the world might be ruling us and our governments?
I feel that before being able to answer that question, we should find out if it is true and if it is really dangerous to us and the average person of this country and world. And that is where it stops for most people. Most people don’t care. Most people don’t take the time to do the research, to find out the truths. They are too busy, they are too distracted by work, family, friends, consumerism…the distractions are convenient to the powers. When WILL people care. Do I even care? Yes, to a certain extent, I do. I don’t have that many distractions. Not by chance, but by choice. So I take the time and I read, I listen, I watch.
Then I ask the question: Does it really matter if I know this? Will my knowledge change anything?
At this point, all I can do is share the little bit I know with those who wish to listen and read. That is why I have a blog. That is why I post videos and quotes, and articles and thoughts. That is, for now, all the contribution I can do to share the information. Here, I CAN back it up with facts. Just go back to previous blog entries and watch some of the films. Watch Aaron Russo’s documentary film, for instance and make your own judgment. You might disagree. And if you do, take the time to really think about why you disagree and let us know.
…now, I am tired…
I know, to some of you I sound naïve. I know. I somehow, even though I am 41 and have strong ideas about the world and what I see around me, seem to act like I don’t know much. I guess my motto is “tout ce que je sais, c’est que je ne sais rien” (all I know is that I know nothing). That seems to work for me. It allows me to always be the learner, the observer, to see things with fresh new eyes, over and over again. I fear having to take responsibility for my beliefs because I fear not being able to say exactly why ( and I think people deserve to hear reasons why one feels a certain way about something). My curiosity has always lead me in the direction of research, learning, listening, watching and finally sharing. I am not the teacher. I am the observer and I still have many questions. The only good thing I think is that I really truly try to answer them.
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“Divide and conquer” is the motto – and as long as people see themselves as separate from everything else, they lend themselves to being completely enslaved. The men behind the curtain know this, and they also know that if people ever realized the truth of their relationship to nature and the truth of their personal power, the entire manufactured Zeitgeist they prey upon will collapse like a house of cards.
From the documentary film “Zeitgeist”
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Times Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government, the supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller ~ Council on Foreign Relations ~ Bilderberg Meeting – June 1991 – Baden, Germany
Aaron Russo, Ron Paul, the problems of the Federal Reserve… August 10, 2007
In the past week I have been watching more videos on google video and youtube.
It started when I went to a screening of a film called “9/11 Mysteries” at the public library in Chinatown. There were very few people there, but the information I received after the screening was pretty powerful. I have taken an almost full year break from my obsession with the 9/11 questions. There are people out there though who are tirelessly trying to get the word out. Still. They will not give up until the government begins to give answers. Clear answers. The person who presented the screening was this really young man (he could’ve not been older than 24) filled with information and knowledge. A low-key kid called Aaron. He handed out sheets with information as well as dvds. I received a few copies of “Loose Change 2nd Edition” as well as a few copies of a documentary film I had never heard of called “America: Freedom to Fascism”. Whoa, I thought, when I saw the title. I watched it the next morning (I love to get up at the crack of dawn, make coffee, plop myself on our very uncomfortable couch — we have GOT to get a new one!! — and watch a movie or documentary that challenges my morning brain, which is always rearing to go…yes, I am a morning person!)
“America: Freedom to Fascism” is a documentary film made by producer Aaron Russo (Trading Places, the Rose…). In this documentary, he takes on the Federal Reserve and the IRS. Here is a description from the website:
Russo’s first and most cogent point is simple: Americans are not required to pay a federal income tax. That’s a bold statement to make, as few people believe that such a fraud could be perpetrated for so long. My father, himself an accountant, insists that the income tax is a very real thing. Russo takes that same belief to IRS employees and simply asks them to cite where it says an unapportioned income tax is required of us all. Guess what? They can’t. In a telling segment Sheldon Cohen, former commissioner of the IRS, goes so far as to reject Supreme Court rulings and the Constitution as benchmarks over what is legal with regards to taxation. Russo also interviews members of the tax honesty movement as well as disenfranchised IRS agents who agree that no law on the books conjures up a requirement to send the government part of one’s hard-earned paycheck. Russo then showcases court cases where those accused of tax evasion have won precisely because the prosecution cannot provide evidence of a legal federal income tax law.
He gets to the point. He gives a very clear picture and educates us on a reality most of us are not aware of. After watching the film, I searched google video for more information and found this compelling interview made by Regina Meredith from Conscious Media Network. In this Interview, Russo not only speaks specifically about the topics addressed in his documentary film, he also gives a bigger picture of a bigger problem in this country and this world. Here is a quote from that interview:
The New World Order: all the banks work together. They control the governments and they control the laws of the world and we’re going to have to be forced to listen to these laws…and the laws are about controlling us, not giving us freedom…and unless we get back to our idea of individual rights and individual freedoms and allow to express yourself in the way you want, we’re gonna lose this game. Unless people get active and say “I’m gonna shut down the federal reserve system”, “I’m gonna shut down the powers that be, we’re doomed otherwise.”
(see the full inverview below — and if you want a copy DVD of the documentary film, let me know)
So then I got to hear about Republican Congressman called Ron Paul. He is a physician and interestingly, he is beginning to create a huge buzz in, ready? the progressive, liberal population. Bill Maher says he is currently his favorite candidate. Yes, he is trying to run for president. This guys is pretty interesting. He seems to be saying things that nobody is daring to say.
…20 minutes or so later…
I just spent another 20 minutes (or more) trying to find a video to put up here and it is amazing how many there are about him! He is another one who is being revolutionized on the Internet. Here is something he responds to Carlson Tucker:
“There is nothing radical about it (abolishing the IRS). To me the radical idea is overspending, overborrowing and then resorting to printing money when you run out of it and then you wonder why you have financial problems — or borrowing ot from the Chinese to finance our military operation. I mean, most Americans are waking up to this”
I finally had to choose one…
Ron Paul: Stop Dreaming
Interview with Aaron Russo:
