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 WHO RULES AMERICA?
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Amazon's
Book
Description.
7-16-09.

Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, this classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society. [Author G. William] Domhoff argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington and their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments. By providing empirical evidence for his argument, Domhoff encourages students to think critically about the power structure in American society and its implications for our democracy.

Read a few pages of the book.

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     THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY REPORT

Excerpts.
Edition 
of
2-25-11.

(Dates in
this
column
are 
generally
copyright
dates.)

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was created to "examine the causes of the current [c. 2008 on] financial and economic crisis in the United States."
More than two years after the worst of the financial crisis, our economy, as well as communities and families across the country, continues to experience the aftershocks.
This report should not be viewed as the end of the nation's examination of this crisis. There is still much to learn, much to investigate, and much to fix.

Click here to read Preface and Conclusions sections online.

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The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions

           THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT:
          OMISSIONS AND DISTORTIONS
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Excerpt.
2005.

One criticism of the official account has been that if the attacks on the WTC had been the work of terrorists wanting to inflict severe damage on the United States, we must wonder why they did not strike the nuclear plant they passed on their way to New York City. An attack on a nuclear plant might have killed tens of thousands of Americans immediately, poisoned many more, and made a large area of the northeastern United States uninhabitable far into the future. Compared with this prospect, the death, destruction, and economic slowdown caused by the attacks on the World Trade Center were quite minimal.
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WAR IS A RACKET
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Back
Cover
Info.
Originally
written in
1935.

Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) ... was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
He became widely-known for his outspoken lectures against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States. 
In 1935 he wrote the expose' War is a Racket, a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare.

Read a few pages of the book.

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     CORPORATISM: THE SECRET GOVERNMENT
     OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Amazon's
Book
Description.
1-8-09.

Corporations control all basic resources of the world, all the governments and institutions, and prevent us from solving humanity's problems. Their New World Order plan is the global 'prison planet' that Hitler was aiming for.

Read a few pages of the book.

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     THE CULT OF THE MOON GOD

Amazon's
Book
Description.
10-14-211.

Islam poses a greater threat to the freedom and stability of modern society than any force in the world today. It is not a religion in the traditional sense. Islam is a system of Satanic, cultural imperialism melded into a seventh-century warrior code bent on subjugating the world-by force if necessary. The Cult of the Moon God exposes the myths of Islam and clearly shows how they run counter to the truths of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, including: • the great Islamic conspiracy • the cultural war raging today • the strange origins and customs of Islam • how Allah and the God of the Bible differ, and • what the concept of love and peace mean in Islam The Cult of the Moon God sounds a warning bell for the free world, showing what must be done to prevent the cancer of Islam from having a terminal effect on the world as we know it.

Read a few pages of the book.

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An 
aside ...

    
   
Questions Muslims are requested
    to ask themselves:

    
* Did Muhammad preach that it is
     acceptable for Muslims to lie about
     Islam when interacting with
     non-Muslims? 


     * Does Islam expect ~ even demand 
     under threat of eternal damnation ~
     that you emulate the values and
     actions of the Prophet Muhammad?

     * Was Muhammad a mass murderer?

     * Did Muhammad marry and have
     intimate physical relations with Aisha,
     a girl of 9 years?

          
Click here for more questions.
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     PROPAGANDA

From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
Publication
date: 2005.

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, [author] Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint by which marketing strategies for future wars would be based.

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     CENSORED 2012: THE TOP CENSORED STORIES   
     AND MEDIA ANALYSIS OF 2010-2011

 From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
10-4-11.

Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship.
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STATE OF EMERGENCY: THE DEPRESSION 
AND 
THE PLOTS TO CREATE AN 
AMERICAN DICTATORSHIP
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Excerpts.
Copyright
2010.

The day before the inauguration [of Franklin Delano Roosevelt], the Bowery Bank in New York - the largest private savings bank in the world - and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago both shut their doors because they were out of money.
The unthinkable had happened.
Trust in the country's financial system had completely evaporated.
With each cold, hungry winter that passed, political discussions grew more radical and less tolerant. Talk of revolution was more openly voiced.

     THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE

From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
3-1-2007.

Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy industrialists—in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League—planned to overthrow the U.S. government in a fascist coup. Their plan was to turn discontented veterans into American “brown shirts,” depose F.D.R., and stop the New Deal. They clandestinely asked Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to become the first American Caesar. 
He, though, was a true patriot and revealed the plot to journalists and to Congress. In a time [today] when a sitting President [Bush 43] has invoked national security to circumvent constitutional checks and balances, this episode puts the spotlight on attacks upon our democracy and the individual courage needed to repel them.
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     WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME 

Excerpts.
11-11-2011.

The issue isn't just that those with political influence and financial power have some advantages in our judicial system. It is much worse than that. Those with political and financial clout are routinely allowed to break the law with no legal repercussions whatsoever.
The criminal justice system is now almost exclusively reserved for ordinary Americans who are routinely subjected to harsh punishments even for the pettiest offenses.
The wiretapping scandal of 2005 provides a perfect illustration. In December of that year, the New York Times revealed that officials in George W. Bush's administration were eavesdropping on Americans' telephone calls and emails without warrants or judicial oversight: a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a ten-thousand-dollar fine for each offense. The lawbreaking could not have been clearer, yet virtually nobody in the political and media class was willing to call those acts "criminal," much less to demand legal investigations or prosecutions.

Bill Moyers' quote: "... a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America."

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     DON'T SHOOT THE BASTARDS (YET)

Excerpts.
1999.

What if, when addressing [a] judge, you carefully omitted the words, "Your Honor"?
Your Honor? Good grief! A judge is nothing but a combination of a lawyer and a politician. What on earth is likely to be honorable about that?
The moment we opted out of "the system" we became guerillas. This doesn't mean we picked up our guns and hit the jungles. It means we became partisans for freedom who have chosen to stand for freedom outside the institutions the tyrants control.
 
     THE TRIPLE AGENT

A Novel.
From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
2011.

In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades.
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     THE MYSTERIOUS COLLAPSE OF
      WORLD TRADE CENTER 7

Excerpt.
11-08-2009.

Although it was widely called an "independent" commission, the 9/11 Commission was, in reality, not at all independent from the Bush-Cheney White House.
This commission was run by its executive director, Phillip Zelikow (not by its co-chairmen, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, and the other eight Commissioners we saw on television). The Commission's work was done by Zelikow and the 85 members of his staff, all of whom worked directly under him. This meant that, as New York Times reporter Phillip Shenon wrote, none of the commissioners had "a staff member of their own, typical on these sorts of independent commissions." Zelikow thereby prevented "any of the commissioners from striking out on their own in the investigation."
Besides directing the staff's work, telling them what to investigate (and hence what not to investigate), Zelikow was largely responsible for the Commission's final product, The 9/11 Commission Report. Moreover, Shenon reported, Zelikow had secretly outlined this book, and hence had determined its conclusions, in advance - before the Commission's staff had even begun its work.
Why is this important? Because Zelikow was essentially a member of the Bush White House.
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Please visit: www.9-11Review.Net
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An 
aside ...

"Conspiracy theorist" is a bogeyman term too often employed by devious persons to confuse and belittle the truth that facts and theories are two different things. A theory, in simple terms, is an idea that can not be proved. When a set of known facts support the authenticity of an idea, that idea can only be painted as a theory by idiots or by charlatans who want to make the idea go away. Often because the idea works against the interests of the charlatans. ~ Guy

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     BODY OF SECRETS: ANATOMY OF THE 
     ULTRA-SECRET NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

Comment
by Guy.
12-2011.

This very disturbing book invites triggering the human capacity for not believing what we do not want to believe. 
One disturbing topic in James Bamford's book is Operation Northwoods. In small part, here is what Wikipedia has to say about that proposed, false-flag, atrocity scheme: 
"... proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets.
The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. Although part of the U.S. government's Cuban Project anti-communist initiative, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted; it was authored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but then rejected by President John F. Kennedy." This invites the question whether JFK's thumbs down on Northwoods had anything to do with his assassination.
Amazon's book description states: "A no-holds-barred examination of the National Security Agency packed with startling secrets about its past, newsbreaking revelations about its present-day activities, and chilling predictions about its future powers and reach."
Northwoods can be viewed as an advance warning of the 9/11 attacks which were planned ~ or at least permitted to happen ~ by Bush 43 and Cheney. 

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A short YouTube segment here features author James Bamford.
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     SUPERCLASS

From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
3-3-09.

Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? They control globalization more than anyone else. But has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? What happens behind closed-door meetings in Davos or aboard corporate jets at 41,000 feet? Conspiracy or collaboration? Deal-making or idle self-indulgence? What does the rise of Asia and Latin America mean for the conventional wisdom that shapes our destinies? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws?
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     THE BILDERBERG GROUP

From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
2-14-08.

Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oosterbeek, the Bilderberg Group has been comprised of European prime ministers, American presidents, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all coming together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity. The working press has never been allowed to attend, nor have statements ever been released on the attendees' conclusions or discussions, which have ramifications on the citizens of the world. 
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     A GOD WHO HATES

From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
 4-26-2011.

On Feb. 21, 2006, the Syrian-born and raised Wafa Sultan gave one of the most provocative interviews ever given by a Muslim woman on the Al Jazeera network.  In the middle of the interview she told her male Muslim interviewer that it was her turn to speak.  And, she did.  She told him to “shut up”. This simple, yet radical, act of a Muslim woman asserting herself in the face of a Muslim man, catapulted her to fame. Now, for the first time, Wafa Sultan tells her story and airs her provocative views in a book that pulls no punches in looking clearly at Islam and the threat it poses for the rest of the world.  Her viewpoint and opinions were hard won: As an intelligent young girl who would someday become a psychiatrist, she grew up in Syria under the thumb of a culture ruled by a god who hates women and all they represent.  It is from this kernel of female hatred at the heart of Islam that Wafa Sultan builds her case against the mullahs and their followers bent on destroying the West. A God Who Hates is a fiery book that will remind readers why, even at a time when we are reaching out to others, we must be ever-vigilant about the threat Islam poses towards the West.

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     BOHEMIAN GROVE: CULT OF CONSPIRACY

From
Amazon's
Book
Description.
9-27-2004.
 

They secretly meet for seventeen days each July at a place called the Bohemian Grove, a remote forest of ancient redwood trees in the deep Northern California woods. Some 1,500 in number, their membership rolls include current and former U.S. Presidents, heavy-hitting corporate chieftains, and high government officials. Mingling among them are a number of Hollywood movie stars, Broadway producers, famous musicians, authors, painters and poets. These are America's most powerful men.
The celebrity names you'd easily recognize, but chances are you've never heard of the Bohemian Club.
For most of the club's long history, the public could only speculate as to what these men were doing behind closed doors. Now the truth can finally be revealed.
Mike Hanson is a first-hand eyewitness who has been inside the Bohemian Grove, and successfully emerged with the first video evidence ever brought out of the power elite's exclusive compound. He peers behind the deep, green foliage and twisted vines, and the moss-covered brown limbs and trunks of ancient, gnarled trees to discover what really goes on inside.
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     AMERICA'S 60 FAMILIES

Excerpt.
1937.

The United States is owned and dominated today [1937] by a hierarchy of its sixty richest families, buttressed by no more than ninety families of lesser wealth. Outside this plutocratic circle there are perhaps three hundred and fifty other families, less defined in development and wealth, but accounting for most of the incomes of $100,000 or more that do not accrue to members of the inner circle.
These families are the living center of the modern industrial oligarchy which dominates the United States, functioning discretely under a de jure democratic form of government behind which a de facto government, absolutist and plutocratic in its lineaments, has taken form since the Civil War. This de facto government is actually the government of the United States--informal, invisible, shadowy. It is the government of money in a dollar democracy.
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     END THE FED

Excerpts.
9-16-2009.

To understand money, one absolutely must understand what a central bank is all about. In the United States, the central bank is the Federal Reserve, the instrument by which our money and credit are constantly manipulated for the benefit of a privileged class. 
Today there is a growing social movement, even a political movement, dedicated to ending the Fed. 
All around the country, people are gathering outside the Federal Reserve buildings to protest against the power, secrecy, and operations of the Fed, and chanting this great slogan ["End the Fed!"].
Their goal is not reform but revolution: an end to the Fed.
I'm thrilled. You should be, too, since ending the Fed would be the single greatest step we could take to restoring American prosperity and freedom and guaranteeing that they both have a future.
Ending the Fed is the one sure way to restore sanity to economic and political life in this country.
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An 
aside ...

Thomas Jefferson once said: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)

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     CONGRESS AND ITS MEMBERS

Textbook,
now in
12th edition.
Amazon's
Book
Description.
7-22-2009.

Davidson, Oleszek, and Lee's focus on Congress as both a legislative institution and as a group of reelection-minded politicians has proven to be an extraordinarily effective and accessible way for thousands of students to understand the institution and the law-making process. A proven classic, the twelfth edition of Congress and Its Members features careful revising, new scholarship, and crucial updating.
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    THE TYRANNY OF GOOD INTENTIONS

Excerpts.
Edition of 
2008.

 ... criminologist Richard Moran reported his research findings in the New York Times on August 2, 2007: "My recently completed study of the 124 exonerations of death row inmates in America from 1973 to 2007 indicated that 80, or about two-thirds, of their so-called wrongful convictions resulted not from good-faith mistakes or errors but from intentional, willful, malicious prosecutions by criminal justice personnel. Yet too often this behavior is not singled out and identified for what it is."
Americans are losing the law that protects them from tyranny, and are losing the accountability of law, which ensures that government is the servant rather than the master of the people. 
One could even say that the U.S. criminal justice system is no longer concerned with innocence or guilt, only with ruining as many people as quickly as possible in order to justify budgets and political ambitions with high conviction rates. Defense attorney Steve Sadow said that it is an outrage that "a dysfunctional criminal justice system is permitted to steal years from people's lives" by "falsifying evidence and framing innocent people." Sadow asked, "Where are the checks and balances in the system?"
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     CORRUPT JUDGES

Excerpts.
2-25-2011.

In Federal courts most Judges are former attorneys who couldn't make a good living in the legal profession, or are lazy or both, so they find a way of getting appointed by the President of the United States. Politics is destroying America's justice system just like it is in everything else in our country.
Most people believe that judges are on a higher quality in life, but believe me; they are just like all other segments of people, some are good and some are bad, some are honest and some are corrupt.
Integrity is a lost art in America's Courts. Most judges didn't have integrity as attorneys, so why would we expect them to have it [as judges]?
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     CLASS AND POWER IN THE NEW DEAL

Review.
6-29-11.

Drawing on newly available archival evidence, [authors G. William Domhoff and Michael J. Webber] investigate the origins and trajectories of three main policy pillars of the New Deal -- the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. Their account challenges existing approaches and proves that their class-domination theory is a bruising contender in explanations of American policy.
~ Review by Jeff Manza, New York University
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     THE GRAND CHESSBOARD

Excerpts.
9-18-1998.
 

Hegemony is as old as mankind. But America's current global supremacy is distinctive in the rapidity of its emergence, in its global scope, and in the manner of its exercise. In the course of a single century, it has transformed itself ~ and has also been transformed by international dynamics ~ from a country relatively isolated in the Western Hemisphere into a power of unprecedented worldwide reach and grasp.
The Spanish-American War in 1898 was America's first overseas war of conquest. It thrust American power into the Pacific, beyond Hawaii to the Philippines.
The basis for America's expanding geopolitical ambitions was provided by the rapid industrialization of the country's economy.


                                           
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hegemony = The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others. (www.thefreedictionary.com)

ethnocentrism = Belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group. (www.thefreedictionary.com)

  

 
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