“I woke up this morning / the sun was on the rise / all the school and stores were closed as bombs fell from the sky / on a lone sidewalk stood a Gypsy in disguise / holding out her calloused hands and waiting for spare change / but through the season’s slow procession all remains the same / all remains the same / all remains the same.”
I can recall my heart sinking last November as a guest on Dan Carlin’s “CrossTalk” when he said, in reference to the U.S.-led war on Iraq, “We should have bombed the heck out of them.”
The number of civilian deaths since U.S. military intervention in the country is somewhere between 9,061 and 10,918, according to http://www.iraqbodycount.org. It goes without saying this number will continue to rise.
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, in one stirring string of words, said, “I think that I can be of help to this administration in its efforts to find weapons of mass destruction because Mr. President, they’re here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction, and homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. And joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. And poor health care is a weapon of destruction. And when a government lies to its people, that is a weapon of mass destruction.” The blood of the nameless will spill and spill and spill for a war started over a perverse fallacy.
“A young boy walks through the town / his eyes are blue as rain / his pockets full of tears and dreams / he’s tangled up in pain / his body’s died a thousand times / he’s searching for his name / but through the season’s slow procession / all remains the same / all remains the same.”
“On no less than seven different occasions in today’s long-awaited testimony before the 9-11 Commission, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice insisted that there was no specific advance knowledge as to the time, place and method of the attacks,” writes Michael C. Ruppert, editor of From The Wilderness Publications. “Ladies and gentlemen, what you witnessed today, on every major network, was perjury — a felony.”
There are numerous pieces of evidence that show that Rice is, without a doubt, a straight-out liar.
For example, what about the well-documented insider stock trading throughout seven countries only days prior to the attacks? This might be excusable, but considering the trading involved only corporations — including United Airlines, American Airlines, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup — that were severely financially affected by the stocks, the traders may not have known the specifics, but they knew something.
“This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific, most evil use you’ve ever seen in your entire life, business journalist Dylan Ratigan said on Good Morning Texas on Sept. 20. “This would be one of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of mankind if it was a coincidence.”
The same day, ABC News reported, “Jonathan Winer, an ABC News consultant said, ‘It’s absolutely unprecedented to see cases of insider trading covering the entire world from Japan, to the United States, to North America, to Europe.”
Ruppert concludes, “In order to argue that massive and well-documented insider trading … did not serve as a warning to intelligence agencies, it is necessary to argue that no one was aware of the trades as they were occurring, and that intelligence and law enforcement agencies of most industrialized nations do not monitor stock trades in real time to warn of impending attacks. Both assertions are false.”
“A Buddhist monk in black puts his hands upon his beads / a soldier holds his gun and goes to war on foreign seas / as cities are erected on the graves of fallen trees / a battle’s waged on the Bible page / they’re fighting in our name / but through the seasons slow procession / all remains the same / all remains the same.”