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14 points of fascism
 
Sept. 11: They Let it happen 
 
A brief history of the PNAC: a refresher 
 
Bush Cronyism
 
Catapulting the propaganda: The Rendon group
The office of special plans
The Whitehouse Iraq Group
 
 

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National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive makes Bush dictator in event of a terrorist attack or disaster
 
Former Reagan official says "something's in the works" to trigger a police state (Held over)
 
False flag reminders from the POAC forum
 
Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us: Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war, Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years, threat to the world is greater than terrorism
 
Must see: What happens at Facebook.com does not stay at Facebook.com
 
Dateline 2002: "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq..."
 
 
 
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Reports: White House Engaged in Systematic Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science
Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation This report was prepared by the Rand Corporation and cost the American taxpayer $400,000 dollars and explains that the problem with the invasion of Iraq is it isn't being "branded well".
Fact Sheet: The Vice Presidents Efforts to Avoid Oversight and Accountability
The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It: Center for American Progress and Free Press statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. 
Naval war college paper examining the concept of resurrecting a modified version of the Phoenix Program for possible use in counterinsurgency (COIN) efforts in Iraq.
GAO report describing how scientists at NASA, NOAA, and NIST have all had their work censored under the Bush administration
CRS report: All you ever wanted to know about Presidential Advisors testifying before Congress
Translated Iraqi Oil Law (January 2007) Credit for translation: Raed Jarrar
A recent report in the January newsletter of The Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned found that Marines deployed in Afghanistan are not getting adequate nutrition. As a result, "many Marines and soldiers lost 20 to 40 pounds of bodyweight during their deployment,". It adds that at least one solider was evacuated because of malnutrition and a 60-pound weight loss.
Text of H.R. 6166 - Military Commission Act of 2006 (Torture Bill)
13 most corrupt members of Congress, September 2006 Compliments of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
August 2002 Justice Department memo to then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales approving of forcing detainees to ingest mind altering drugs
The Nation's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: September 2006 Update, GAO-06-1077R, September 15, 2006 Report from the General Accountability Office: Under any reasonable set of expectations about future spending and revenues, the risks posed to the Nation's future financial condition are too high to be acceptable. 
Internal memo from the EPA’s Chief Financial Officer, Lyons Gray, where he calls for plans to shut down at least 20 percent of the EPA’s 16 research laboratories by 2011. Gray calls for closing a minimum of 10 percent of labs by 2009 and for plans to oust top scientists, work with state and tribal groups to reduce regulatory oversight. The EPA budget has been steadily cut by the Bush Administration over the past couple of years and the President’s 2007 budget provides a billion dollars less then it did in 2003. Now they want to reduce regulatory oversight.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Assessments on Iraq This report is intended to provide the Senate and the American public with a substantial record of the facts underlying the conclusions of the Committee regarding the intelligence community's prewar assessments of Iraq's programs for weapons of mass destruction and its ties to terrorism. (.zip file containing .pdf files)
Project on Defense Alternatives: Losing Hearts and Minds: World Public Opinion and post-9/11 US Security Policy This memo reviews the change in global public opinion regarding US security policy since 9/11. It finds that opinion has turned strongly against US leadership, to the benfit of both China and Russia. In the Muslim world: fear and anger are bolstering fundamentalist parties. Worldwide, the Iraq war is viewed as a stimulus to terrorism.
Project on Defense Alternatives: To sustain today's wars, the Bush administration has adopted a policy of "risk displacement". High optempo is maintained in Iraq and Afghanistan at the expense of readiness elsewhere and for other missions. The policy also saps future readiness. It may take the US armed forces half a decade to recover -- once today's war conclude.
Project on Defense Alternatives: How much has terrorism increased since the "war on terrorism" began?
Emails from Michael Brown during Katrina crisis
Email exhibits from the Abramoff case:Page 119 details how the GOP regards the religious right as their useful idiots. Pages 171,190,191 worth looking at as well (large file: 26 mb) 
The Record of Samuel Alito: A Preliminary Review: This preliminary report provides a summary of Judge Samuel Alito’s professional record focusing primarily on those opinions, concurrences and dissents which were authored by Judge Alito himself and provide important insight about his record concerning important issues of fundamental rights and liberties. compliments of People for the American Way
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), has released a letter signed by 88 fellow Representatives. The letter demands an investigation into the revelation that the American and British governments colluded secretly to manipulate intelligence as a means of justifying a decision to invade Iraq that had already been made. The Conyers letter and names of the House signatories can be read here.

GAO report: Elections: Federal efforts to improve security and reliability of electronic voting systems are under way, but key activities need to be completed The General Accounting Office report confirming the possibility of the 2004 Presidential election being stolen

The Conyers report Representative John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Democratic staff to conduct an investigation into irregularities reported in the Ohio presidential election and to prepare a Status Report concerning the same prior to the Joint Meeting of Congress scheduled for January 6, 2005, to receive and consider the votes of the electoral college for president. The following Report includes a brief chronology of the events; summarizes the relevant background law; provides detailed findings (including factual findings and legal analysis); and describes various recommendations for acting on this Report going forward.

Sworn affidavit by NASA programmer saying he developed vote-rigging prototype for Florida congressman

 Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005 [PDF]
Leadership Failure: Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division From Human Rights Watch

Libertarian Party puts forward an exit strategy for Iraq "We are not hunting down the terrorists. We are enabling them and providing Iraqi insurgents with a common enemy. Instead of freedom, we are advancing chaos in the Middle East" 

The Actual FBI Memo Referring to the Exec. Order Authorizing Use of Torture

 American Grand Strategy After 9/11: An Assessment The US Army War College stating that the “Bush administration has no clear strategy in its war on terrorism, the U.S. fails to understand that terrorism isn't an enemy but a tactic, and the costs of waging an ambiguous war are mounting”

Northwoods, Gladio, Man Made Mega Death Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century

United States Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency organization and function report.

Demos press kit: (.pdf) Households at Risk: The Bankruptcy “Reform” Bill and Its Impact on American Families 
US SMALL ARMS SHIPMENTS DATABASE A database of small arms and light weapons transferred by the United States to countries around the world between 1990 and 2000 is now available online. The U.S. Small Arms Shipments Database, based on documentation obtained from the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act and compiled by Matthew Schroeder of the Federation of American Scientists, may be found here

DECEPTION 101―PRIMER ON DECEPTION   Joseph W. Caddell This monograph reviews the basic concepts related to “deception.” The author, Dr. Joseph Caddell, defines terms, provides historical examples, and discusses problems associated with deception. His monograph provides a general overview, a “primer,” and is not directed at those who already possess a working knowledge of deception operations. Nevertheless, given the complex and ever changing nature of deception in the political-military environment, it may serve as a useful reminder of the basic assumptions and methods concerning the subject. The Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to publish this work as part of our External Research Associates Program.

Truth and Science Betrayed: The Case Against the Information Quality Act  This report takes a critical look at the Data Quality Act . or, as it has been renamed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Information Quality Act (IQA) . a twoparagraph appropriations rider passed in 2000 that was ostensibly designed to ensure the quality of information disseminated by federal agencies. Disgruntled industries have used the Act as an end run around well-established procedures for promulgating rules to improve air quality, clean up toxic waste sites, and protect children and wildlife from pesticide residues. Indeed, unless these abuses are checked, the IQA may well prove the most destructive half-page of law that most people do not know is on the books.

Contractors Overseeing Contractors: Conflicts of Interest This joint report was prepared by the House Committee on Government Reform Minority Staff, Special Investigations Division and the Democratic Policy Committee for Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Senator Ron Wyden, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, and Rep. John D. Dingell. 

Strategic Master Plan FY06 and Beyond AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND  This is the Air Force "strategic master plan fy06 for the militarization and weaponization of space.

Grassroots Tool Kit: A Manual on Event Planning, Coalition Building, and Grassroots Advocacy All content related to encouragement of and training for grassroots advocacy is provided by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Information regarding building coalitions and conducting voter education is provided by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.

Restoring Our Rights: A Handbook for Civil Rights Activists Civil rights laws enacted over the last 40 years have strengthened our nation and brought us closer to the fundamental ideal of equal opportunity for all. However, recent federal court decisions have weakened these basic protections in ways that were never intended by Congress.

The Defense Policy Board, the advisory board for the Sec. of Defense ( Rummy) has stated in no uncertain of terms the U.S. military is totally unprepared to bring stability and reconstruction to Iraq, or anywhere else for that matter as we are "totally unequipped." 

H. Con. Res. 398 permitting a pre-emptive attack on Iran 
"Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator Budget Request and Plan, FY2005-FY2009," updated December 2, 2004

The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent:  A National Lawyers Guild Report on Government Violations of First Amendment Rights in the United States

Report--pdf, 581 pages Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights

Ten Point Plan by the Apollo Alliance for Good Jobs and Energy Independence  The Alliance is a leader in the fight for protecting and promoting good jobs and reliable energy that is sustainable as well as environmentally friendly.

Attack on the 507th Maintence Company  (Jessica Lynch)

The National Archives and Records Administration PROBES CIA LOSS OF HISTORICAL BUDGET RECORDS

Excellent report on the consequences of the "Bush War Policy" Increasing numbers of soldiers, veterans and retired officers are voicing doubts. The ranks of the military, usually one of the most loyal constituencies a president has, now include vocal critics of Bush and his civilian advisers. Americanfamilyvoices.org  sat down with several members of the military, both enlisted and retired, and have documented their comments.

August 6 2001 PDB given to GWB while on Vacation stating Bin Laden would attack America

Windfalls of war. Here is the list of all the U.S. multinationals in Iraq and the $ value compiled by the Center for Public Integrity

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