tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68626727662637412662011-11-27T16:32:10.089-08:00Today's Investigative JournalismMark Pedersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13199836013128346929noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6862672766263741266.post-79975576076105046642008-02-01T18:58:00.001-08:002008-02-02T12:44:31.548-08:00

When people think of a police state they usually think of East Germany's Stasi, Stalin's KGB or the Saudi Monarchy. A police state in America would look much different.As the Bush administration calls for increased surveillance of the American public while defending the new tactics of torture and pre-emptive wars, many people jump to the conclusion that the American government is trying to impose

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I sometimes wonder, if Hillary Clinton wasn't in the presidential race, if she was just an ordinary person like you and me trying to decide who to vote for, whether she'd be a supporter of Barack Obama or candidate B.It would be hard to ignore Obama's charisma, his sense of humor and his soaring oratorical skills. On the other hand, candidate B is a better debater and has more experience,

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Urgent: Please pass this on to Barack Obama and the other presidential candidates, local law enforcement, government officials, and everyone else you know.John Lennon was assassinated 27 years ago, one month before Ronald Reagan assumed office. That was a long time ago, but it should be a reminder to all people who work for change and promote peace that there are people out there who are willing

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On April 19th, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated 5000 pounds of explosives in front of the Murrah building killing 168 people. He was captured wearing a t-shirt celebrating John Wilkes Booth and he had a copy of The Turner Diaries beside him. McVeigh was a neo-Nazi racist and a follower of William Pierce. He was executed exactly three months before 9/11 for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Sirhan Sirhan, or S.S. as I like to call him, grew up in Pasadena. He went to John Muir High School where he was part of the California Cadet Corps. Contrary to popular belief, S.S. wasn't a crazy Islamic extremist. Although he was the son of a Palestinian immigrant, his family was Christian and he attended a Lutheran church in Pasadena.Warning: Do not read this paragraph if you're upset by

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Lee Oswald had a father and brother who were both named Robert Lee Oswald. All three had been named after their idol, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who fought to uphold slavery. It appears the Oswald family fought over the name Lee, each wanted the honor of being addressed as their childhood hero.Lee Oswald grew up in the Deep South, in Southern cities like New Orleans and Dallas. These

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Many are surprised to learn that at least 35 of the 42 American presidents have their roots in Ulster Ireland. That's over 80%. After the Civil War, there was an uninterrupted period of Scots-Irish presidents for 63 years straight! Since World War II, 56 of the 63 years have seen the White House controlled by a Scots-Irish man. I'm sure you've heard it before, the American presidency is the

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Most people know Herbert Hoover as one of the worst presidents in the nation's history, a conservative Republican who led the country into the Great Depression. If they only knew the real impact Hoover had, they would be shocked.Up until Herbert Hoover, a majority of African-Americans had supported the Republican Party, the Party of Lincoln. Hoover changed all that with his Lily White Policy, a

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If you have the HBO/Cinemax package, you've no doubt noticed the Oliver Stone marathon going on. Seems like they're showing JFK, Alexander, and Natural Born Killers on an endless loop. Stone announced last week that his next project would be a bio of the current president. Why the remake? I mean, I saw the original. It was called Alexander. It starred a bunch of Celtic actors portraying Greek

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The storyline goes that the man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr., was just a loser who tried to kill the President in order to impress a movie star. In fact, Hickley is a far different man than the rest of the country has come to know.Hinckley grew up just a few miles from Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was his hero. He was a very good athlete and

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John Lennon was assassinated 27 years ago, one month before Ronald Reagan assumed office. That was a long time ago, but it should be a reminder to all people who work for change and promote peace that there are people out there who are willing to do anything to extinguish the flame of hope and turn this country in the direction of division and violence.John Lennon was gunned down by a klansmen

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Here is a better image of one of USC's swastika lampposts. I find it interesting that these were the same lampposts, or the same style lampposts, that surrounded the Ambassador Hotel , the hotel where Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. The Ambassador Hotel was about two miles away from the USC campus, it was demolished about a year ago. I do not know when the USC swastika lampposts were

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A while back, I was on my way to a University of Southern California basketball game at the General William Lyon University Center when I spotted a Victorian-style lamppost. Taking a closer look at its olive-green base, I was shocked at what I saw. The decorative trimming that encircled the base of the lamppost was so politically unfathomable that I had to catch my breath. In clear sight of the

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We all know that South Carolina has a dismal history when it comes to how it's treated African-Americans, but few are aware just how racist South Carolina's history really is.There are few places in America that have treated Native Americans as brutally. South Carolinians were the largest slave traders of Native Americans in the Americas. The peaceful Cherokee were either enslaved, driven out of

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I'm new to this blogger thing so forgive me if I haven't quite caught up with the rules. In the last few weeks I've attempted to comment on other people's blogs four different times. Only two have seen the light of day.The first time was when I replied to someone's article at the Huffington Post. My comment appeared, finally-- 3 days later! By the time it showed up, I had lost total interest in

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In 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was murdered right after giving his California presidential primary victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Orange County's Richard Nixon would become president instead of the surging Kennedy.Daryl Gates, an Orange County resident and chief of the LAPD, was in charge of security. He removed all police from the scene claiming someone told him that

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James Earl Ray was a Southern boy who idolized Adolph Hitler. He carried his picture with him and was a passionate believer in Nazi ideology. He was an overt Nazi when he was in the Army and wanted to be stationed in Germany because he genuinely believed he could revive the Nazi Party there. He loved Germany and German culture.Ray was convicted of armed robbery on his first visit to California,

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If you were around in the 1990's you watched Bill Clinton marginalize the Democratic Party. Everything and everyone he touched seemed to go down in flames, yet he is still standing. The Clinton years are best remembered for the rise of Newt Gingrich and the worst Democratic defeats in the Twentieth century. His successes, like welfare reform and NAFTA, would have made a Republican proud. His

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What do almost all the Presidents of the United States have in common? Almost all of them have their roots in one tiny portion of the earth, Ulster, Ireland. According to my calculations, at least thirty-five of the forty-two presidents are of Scots-Irish descent, that's over eighty percent. (Scots-Irish are Scottish immigrants who settled in Northern Ireland).The first five presidents of the

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Tonight was the first time I've paid attention to Marcos Moulitsas' popular liberal blog, the Daily Kos. I was reading an article someone posted about Hillary Clinton's recent remarks where she praised Lyndon Johnson for passing the 1964 Civil Right's Bill. The article pointed out the contradiction that Hillary was actually a supporter of Barry Goldwater, an ardent opponent of the landmark

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Seeing Mitt Romney campaigning in Michigan today reminded me of his strange decision to announce his candidacy at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.To be fair, people of Romney's age were brought up believing that Henry Ford was one of America's greatest citizens. Since then however, the real truth of Henry Ford has been revealed. Henry-Ford.org is a good place to start to find out who

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In the book, Chief: My Life in the L.A.P.D., Daryl Gates writes that the Los Angeles Police Department had a special intelligence unit that ran a program which sent American spies to Russia, totally clandestine and under deep cover. This was during the during the same period when Lee Harvey Oswald made his strange trip to the Soviet Union. A natural question arises; was the accused assassin part

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Pretty crazy right? But I do.I believe that 19 hijackers conspired to hijack four planes and fly them into four different buildings.Oh wait, is that a conspiracy theory? Sounds like a conspiracy theory. Am I crazy for believing in conspiracies then?Of course not. Every thinking adult knows that conspiracies are a routine part of life. It's how cliques are formed and business is run. Every

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Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the man who organized 9/11, joined the Muslim Brotherhood at age 16. Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian who headed the Hamburg Cell, was part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian who leads Bin Laden around by the nose, is Muslim Brotherhood. 9/11 was a Muslim Brotherhood plot through and through.The men behind the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, Ramzi

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The Mormon religion has their own 9/11 story. On September 11th, 1857, a man named John D. Lee led a massacre of Arkansas settlers. It was an act of religious vengeance and 120 people were murdered in cold blood. Lee, who was very close to Brigham Young, an adopted son in fact, became known as the Terror of the West. Extremism has been a part of the church since the beginning.In the 1800's,

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On November 11th, 2007 Benazir Bhutto said that Osama bin Laden has been murdered by Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh. That was two months ago. Since then Bhutto has been assassinated, shot to death by unknown extremists, sending Pakistan into chaos. This story has been getting a lot of attention around the world, but has been ignored in the United States. Since then, the BBC has redacted the portion of

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One clue might be Bill Clinton's relationship with Pamela Harriman, the wealthy Democratic activist who helped make Clinton president. Harriman died in 1997. "She was a longtime patron of Clinton's going back to his days as Arkansas governor, and has raised millions of dollars for the Democratic Party. "It is probable that Clinton met Harriman early in his career as they were moving among the

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Iowa citizens made their choice clear last night, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee won going away giving the Democrats a unique double victory. The Republican Party is still in shock after a Democrat won their first contest of the 2008 presidential year.I'm joking, of course, but only a little. Huckabee is a Republican, but he won by appealing to the Democratic side of the Iowa Republican voter.He

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Oil's at $100 a barrel today, and what is George W. Bush doing about it? Nothing of course. I predicted in September that by January oil would be at $100 a barrel. Why was I so prescient? It really wasn't that hard. I knew that $100 oil was one of Bush's priorities before he left office.You see, George Bush doesn't care about the effects that high oil prices are having on the average man, he

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Benazir Bhutto's assassination last week had the distinct feel of Ahmad Massoud's assassination in 2001. You'll remember how Massoud, the guerilla leader in Afghanistan who opposed the Taliban, was killed two days before 9/11. Within months we went to war in Afghanistan where we remain today.George W. Bush has been itching to go to war with Iran until U.S. intelligence estimates exposed his

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In 1976, Iowans selected Jimmy Carter to be the Democratic nominee for president. Carter remains extremely popular among Democrats. Carter is an outspoken advocate for peace and human rights, his attempts a solution in the Middle East won him the Nobel Prize, and he is a tireless worker for justice and Democratic values.Yet, the Clintons seem to snub Carter at every opportunity while saddling up

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Watching George Stephanopoulos go after Hillary Clinton this morning, was a little off-putting. Afterall, it wasn't that long ago that the two were working hand in hand together to get Bill Clinton elected. Did Stephanopoulos' politics change? Doubtful. What it does show is how a key political operative was bought off and made ineffective by the media.Stephanopoulos is not alone. Chris Mathews

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We go back to September 9th, 2001. Ahmed Massoud, the military leader of the Taliban-fighting Northern Alliance, was killed by a camera bomb. Other Northern Alliance leaders were hurt or killed in the attack, seemingly designed to cripple the guerrilla movement. The two assassins were Arabs and it is suspected that Abdul Sayyaf was involved. Some speculate that Pakistan was behind it, but

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When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the United States and Saudi Arabia mounted a huge effort to expel the communist forces. They funneled billions of dollars into the hands of Afghan guerrillas known as the Mujahadeen. These were Islamic revolutionaries and the consequence of this reverberates to this day.Abdul Rasul Sayyaf is one of Afghanistan's most powerful warlords and

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Since starting Rakemucker a few weeks ago, strange things have been happening that have never happened before. Two laptops have been disabled, their hard drives erased, my internet hosting service has been hacked into and my passwords stolen, my internet/cable started acting strangely emitting a steady stream of clicks, and on Christmas eve, after business hours, my cable company shut off my

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Anybody who's turned on their television set over the last thirteen years knows that the place to find Hitler programming has been on the History Channel. Sometimes it seems that half of their programming is devoted to the anti-Semitic Nazi leader. Under the banner of exploring history, Nazi propaganda has been given a new forum on the History Channel. Is it fair that the History Channel has

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Just one month after President Kennedy was assassinated, one of the founders of the John Birch Society came out with an article entitled, "Marksmanship in Dallas". Revilo Pendleton Oliver, the man whom JBS figurehead Robert Welch described as, "quite possibly the world's greatest living scholar,” outlines some of the great conspiracy theories that would dominate the JFK assassination debate over

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One has to wonder how a brutish and uneducated neanderthal like Joseph Stalin rose to become the Supreme leader of the Soviet Union. There is a compellingargument that he had the support of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.By the turn of the Twentieth century, Rockefeller's Standard Oil, had become a global behemoth. It was a company built through corporate spying and sabotage, a secretive

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"It's still three hours until first light, and all systems are 'go.' I'll use the time to write a few pages- my last diary entry. Then it's a one-way trip to the Pentagon for me. The warhead is strapped into the front seat of the old Stearman and rigged to detonate either on impact or when I flip a switch in the back seat."With this, William Luther Pierce ends the book “The Turner Diaries,” with

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is considered the mastermind of 9/11. Most are unaware that he was born in Kuwait and went to college in the United States where he earned an engineering degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1986.North Carolina is home to William Pelley’s pro-Hitler, Silver Legion and once had the highest Klan membership in

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Armed Blackwater soldiers patrolling the streets of New OrleansBlackwater USA is the private security firm, some would say mercenary army, making billions of dollars off government contracts and the Iraq War.I've never seen any African-Americans in any of the Blackwater footage I've seen, so I'm curious as to whether Blackwater USA employs any African-Americans, and if so, how many and in what

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If you've never heard of Cofer Black, consider yourself normal. However, if you've never heard of Cofer Black consider yourself disturbingly uninformed. It's a significant fact that Cofer Black has remained as anonymous as he has, afterall, he was head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Division and the man in charge of tracking Osama bin Laden before 9/11. Cofer Black was, in fact, the man most

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Everyone remembers the picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Department. That single gunshot silenced the suspected terrorist and eliminated any chance that he would have his day in court. Oswald's story would never be fully told.It is inconceivable that the same thing is happening today right before our eyes. Like sleepwalkers, the public and the

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Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have become even more of a joke with their "War on Christmas" campaign. In order to divide religious people along crass political lines, they pose as defenders of Christianity intent on fighting off imaginary enemies who want to tear down all religious expression. In doing so, they are destroying the holy values of Christmas and replacing them with superficial economic

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May 2006 Los Angeles Times PhotoAccording to the The Orange County Register, "UCI has earned a national reputation, spread largely by bloggers and pro-Zionist organizations, of being, in one organization words, the most notoriously anti-Semitic campus in America." Some examples;2001-2007 annual "Zionist Awareness Week" brought anti-Semitic speakers, articles, symbols and marches to the

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Just before Thanksgiving, Bob Novak reported that "a Clinton agent was spreading the word that the Clinton campaign had scandalous information about Obama," in an article entitled, Hillary's Nixonian Tactics Against Obama." At the beginning of December on Face the Nation, "Howard Wolfson, Sen. Hillary Clinton's spokesman, accused Obama of running a 'slush fund';" see Hillary's Slush-Fund Attack.

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"Mitt Romney is seen as someone who looks presidential, " Tim Russert gushes. "You can't get more presidential-looking than Mitt Romney," an overheated Bill O'Reilly exclaims. He finishes with the observation, “I think that means a lot in America.”What does it mean to look presidential? Maybe it's best to see who doesn't fill the part. Hillary Clinton is an easy one, who's ever heard of a woman

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There was a time when I'd hear celebrities complain about how they had no privacy because the paparazzi hounded them wherever they went, and I'd say to myself, "what are they complaining about? That's the price of celebrity, a small price for the privilege of being one of the glamorous people. Celebrities shouldn't complain, they should be thankful for having fame and fortune, and stop being

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I just finished watching Brian Ross interview an "ex-CIA agent" named John Kiriakou on Disney's entertainment program Nightline; Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture.There were many incredulous things in this report which gave the whole segment the taint of political propaganda. First off, Kiriakou claimed that Zubayda cracked after a mere 35 seconds of

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We know the answer for the most part thanks to a great article by Al Kahen in the Washington Post, Miami 'Riot' Squad: Where Are They Now?1. Tom Pyle, worked for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and then went to Koch Industries.2. Garry Malphrus became deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.3. Rory Cooper went to the White House Homeland Security Council.4. Kevin Smith worked as a GOP

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Who cares about Iowa? Apparently, the media does. 24 hour cable news and the national print media can't get enough of the Hawkeye State. They will devote over half of their 2008 presidential election coverage to the two tiny states of Iowa and New Hampshire.Three million people, 97% Caucasian, call Iowa home. This is the state where arch-conservatives like John Wayne and Herbert Hoover were born.

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In 1958, twelve"patriotic and public-spirited" men got together in Indianapolis and put together the ultra-conservative John Birch Society. Are these the twelve?Fred Koch- developed the most profitable private company in the world.Revilo Pendleton Oliver- academic who helped develop the American Nazi Party. Herbert Walker- wealthy Missourian and namesake of two U.S. Presidents.William F.

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It looks like Al Gore won't be running for president; Gore joins Valley's Kleiner Perkins to push green business. Does this mean that he doesn't see global warming as a problem? Afterall, is there a more important job regarding global warming than being President of the United States? His behaviors seems to betray his words. He seems more interested in being a celebrity and in making money than

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This is an image grab from the official 1932 Los Angeles Olympic movie reel archived at the LA84 Foundation Sports Library. On three separate occasions the cameraman leaves the athletic field and lingers on these two men in the crowd. The camera stays on these men and ignores the action on the field.The man in the Scottish cap does not appear to be an ordinary spectator as he turns and stares

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