Of course the article suggests that that's essentially the whole purpose of the library: to defend his actions. And another reason is that Jeb might be running for president in 2016 and a lot of PR work needs to be done between now and then. And considering the hubris of the Bushes I think it's a virtual certainty that he'll run. Therefore there's a need to defend Bush's record after all. Even he admits the need to himself, just not to the general public, not to the citizens he betrayed.
So it's not for national security reasons or diplomatic reasons that he resists admitting his mistakes and his deceit. All the fiends and enemies of the U.S. are already well aware of the consequences to the U.S. and to the world of Bush's lies and bungling. He's just hiding behind the excuse of national security and diplomacy like a kid behind his mother's skirt. He's the embodiment of the tale of the emperor who wore no clothes.
Could New York Run On Renewable Energy Alone? MARK FISCHETTI – Salon/Scientific American
An important interview with Mark Jacobson, one of the most original thinkers in energy transition. It is well worth your time.
I consider what is being described here as extremely good news. Finally a discussion is emerging about what would really be involved in giving up carbon energy. And, it turns out, its not so scary to accomplish as one might think. You pull back the curtain, and it is the Wizard of Oz. All that is keeping us from making this transition is carbon energy's control of the American government.
Click through to see the important graphics.
Three times now, Mark Jacobson has gone out on the same limb. In 2009 he and co-author Mark Delucchi published a cover story in Scientific American that showed how the entire world could get all of its energy – fuel as well as electricity – from wind, water and solar sources by 2030. No coal or oil, no nuclear or natural gas. The tale sounded infeasible – except that Jacobson, from Stanford University, and Delucchi, from the University of California, Davis, calculated just how many hydroelectric dams, wave-energy systems, wind turbines, solar power plants and rooftop photovoltaic installations the world would need to run itself completely on renewable energy.
Just finished reading the front page stories in today's Washington Post on Boston bombings. One of the stories mentions the role of crowd sourcing and social media, referring to what they call “vigilante detectives” who propound wildly “irresponsible” theories of what happened. I think it well represents what the Post thinks of web sites such as Phi Beta Iota. Especially interesting is they quote the mother of the Chechen alleged bombers regarding the FBI knowing about them for years. However, they say nothing, zero, zilch, not a word anywhere in the paper about her or father saying the FBI framed them. Very selective quoting.
Also, while the article rants about innumerable vigilante detectives with their cell phone cameras getting in the way of professional investigators, analyzing the photos for clues, they omit any mention whatsoever of vigilante detectives noticing the Craft operatives with their backpacks, and have many pictures to prove it.Whatever one thinks of the significance of those pictures, it is utterly irresponsible journalism to omit any attention to them. Very, very selective reporting, and clearly shows the most powerful propaganda works especially by omissions of facts, of avoiding notice or mention of what is right in front of one's eyes or ears..
But for 102 hours last week, nothing seemed certain in the manhunt that paralyzed a major metropolis, captivated the nation and confronted counterterrorism operatives with the troubling and unforgiving world of social media and vigilante detective work.”
Before long, they had set up a makeshift triage center in the lobby of the ER and began to treat the incoming — sewing up victims’ wounds and sending those with more-serious injuries through to be admitted. “We were prepared for waves of victims,” Feins told TIME, still wearing his scrubs outside his apartment near the hospital. “In the end, we worked on six people. Four had small lacerations, and we sewed them up.” Two other patients who had been in close proximity to the explosions complained of abdominal pain — a warning sign to Feins, who had been trained during his residency that explosive shock waves can cause internal trauma even if no shrapnel is present.
Phi Beta Iota: We count exactly four apparently wounded in these photos. FOUR.
“In the end, we only saw a few minor injuries,” Feins says, “But I have a feeling that some patients were taken straight from the ambulances to the operating theater. I was told we had four, very busy operating theaters today.”
Tell others please — Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The Nation — now is the time for the public to come together.
Update 1.4 There is a very good chance no one was actually injured and this was a “no real blood” false flag. Tell others. The second post below is the new master post with links to all other posts.
Update 1.3 to add focus on collapse of corrupt media, bloggers rule plus prediction: USA will lose freedom of speech and freedom of assembly next, town by town. Oathkeepers and bloggers are all that stand between American the Beautiful and practical tyranny.
In the compelling video below, direct manipuatlion of NBC footage is shown, and one of the alleged wounded is identified as a known double amputee being used as an actor to fake a new double amputation.
Phi Beta Iota: It is now known that bomb-sniffing dogs were all over the event and should have, would have, “alerted” on a couple of homemade bombs. The government stories being replayed by the media are simply not credible. There has been no grid plot, no showing of where every victim was, nor have the actual victims, their limbs, and the scrap metal produced. It is now highly likely that this was a staged event in two phases: explosions, prepared staged wounded, perhaps a few innocent by-standers also killed or wounded; and then a second stage, at an Israeli-controlled hospital, of fabricating the alleged treatment of actors as if it were real. All signs point to this being a totally controlled, totally manufactured event. The extraordinary number of amputees claimed, in contrast to the very limited number of those killed and wounded (none amputated) by past pressure cooker bombs, appears to result directly from one bright idea (use real amputees to fake new amputees) carried to excess. The below YouTube has not been validated — it merely provides addition grounds for public concern about the lack of a coherent credible narrative for the Boston event. As of today we have not found photographs of more than 10 alleged victims, and there are no photographs of victims at the hospital or interviews with victims after the fact.
False flags are an American tradition. They go way back. The Boston bombings appear the latest. More on that below.
Notable earlier false flags or incidents approximating them include:
In 1845, America lawlessly annexed Texas. It was Mexican territory. President James Polk deployed US troops. A future president led them. General Zachary Taylor paraded them along the disputed border.
In May 1846, Polk told cabinet officials that if Mexican forces retaliated, he'd ask Congress to declare war. He wanted it whether or not Mexico attacked. After an incident occurred, Polk told Congress:
“Mexico has passed the boundary of the US and shed American blood on American soil.” The Mexican War followed.
In my view history is going to condemn the Obama Administration as one of the most destructive in the country's history for three reasons: Its disregard for personal privacy, with the resultant surveillance state we now have; its absolute attempt to stop whistle blowers from revealing the corruption and incompetence that is so rife in our government; and its complete unwillingness to hold villains accountable if they are big and rich. ! The combination of these three things is destroying people's faith in the American system, as poll after poll makes clear.
When Thomas Drake, then an official at the National Security Agency, realized that the agency’s decision to shut down an internal data analysis program and instead outsource the project to a private contractor provided the government with less effective analysis at much higher cost, he tried to do something about it. Drake’s decision to join three other whistleblowers in asking the agency’s inspector general to investigate ultimately made him the target of a leak investigation that tore his life apart.
In 2005, the inspector general of the Department of Defense, of which NSA is a part, confirmed the whistleblowers’ accusations of waste, fraud and security risk.
Earlier this year, former NSA Director Michael Hayden even conceded that TrailBlazer, the program for which the NSA paid over $1 billion to the Science Applications International Corporation, had failed. The agency, after killing its own program (called ThinThread) ‘outsourced how we gathered other people’s communications,” he said in response to a question from investigative journalist Tim Shorrock. ‘And that was a bridge too far for industry. We tried a moonshot, and it failed.”
Nevertheless, Drake’s efforts to expose that waste and abuse would ultimately lead to his being charged under the 1917 Espionage Act – a law intended for the prosecution of spies, not whistleblowers.
Drake, a subject of a new documentary, War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State, could have been put away for the rest of his life. ‘Speaking truth to power is now a criminal act,” Drake told filmmaker Robert Greenwald.
