OMG--I really wish this wasn't so because it gonna send us waaaaay back down the rabbit hole!SDS is even implicated!!! Promoted to Headline (H3) on 12/22/09: Obama worked for the CIA For OpEdNews: Josh Mitteldorf - Writer from an article at Online Journal
Wayne Madsen Reports has obtained additional details on Business International Corporation (BIC), the CIA front company where President Obama spent a year working after graduating from Columbia University in 1983.
BIC used journalists as non-official cover (NOC) agents around the world. The firm published weekly and fortnightly newsletters for business executives, including Business International, Business Europe, Business Latin America, and Business Asia.
On February 24, 2009, WMR reported: "For one year, Obama worked as a researcher in BIC's financial services division where he wrote for two BIC publications,Financing Foreign Operations and Business International Money Report, a weekly newsletter.
"An informed source has told WMR that Obama's tuition debt at Columbia was paid off by BIC. In addition, WMR has learned that when Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother and his adoptive father Lolo Soetoro, the 20-year-old Obama, who was known as "Barry Soetoro,' traveled to Pakistan in 1981 and was hosted by the family of Muhammadmian Soomro, a Pakistani Sindhi who became acting president of Pakistan after the resignation of General Pervez Musharraf on August 18, 2008."[...] http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-worked-for-the-CIA-by-Josh-Mitteldorf-091222-13.html
Here's a bit more on BIC from Wikpedia:
Founded in 1953 by Eldridge Haynes and his son, Elliott Haynes, BIC initially focused on American companies and started out with a weekly newsletter (called Business International) and a group of key corporate clients. Offices were established overseas, including major regional operations based out of Vienna (East Europe and the USSR) and Hong Kong (Asia-Pacific), and single-country offices (e.g., Rome, Tokyo).
BI eventually became the premier information source on global business with research, advisory functions, conferences and government roundtables in addition to its publications. It was headquartered in New York City, with major offices in Geneva, London, Vienna, Hong Kong and Tokyo, and a network of correspondents across the globe.
In his book The Strawberry Statement, former student protester James Kunen reports a description of Business International by an unnamed Students for a Democratic Society conference attendee in 1968. The attendee, referred to by Kunen as 'the kid', claimed the company offered to finance SDS demonstrations in Chicago. Business International is described as 'the left wing of the ruling class' and as desiring a Gene McCarthy presidency.[1]
Calling all New York City residents and supporters of truth and justice!
Updated 9/9/08
Thanks to all the hard-working petitioners who have spent months on this historice effort, we have now gathered over 30,000 signatures of NYCregistered voters!
This is the minimum requirement to submit a ballot initiative to NY City Council. Now the foundation has been established. From here we will build and create a winning campaign that will result in placing the Initiative for a new, independent, comprehensive 9/11 investigation on the ballot in 2009. Read on...
Press Conference on
7th Anniversary of 9/11 for
NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative St. Marks Church
2nd Avenue & 10th Street, Manhattan Thurs. Sept. 11th, 2:00pm
Speakers: William Pepper, Cynthia McKinney, William Rodriguez
(New York, NY, Sept. 8, 2008) --- On the 7th Anniversary of 9/11, the NYC 911 Ballot Initiative Campaign will announce it's historic achievement of having secured 30,000 signatures towards the creation of a new investigation of the crimes of 9/11/01! Members of the Campaign will be joined by speakers Dr. William Pepper, international human rights attorney, William Rodriguez, who saved many lives that day and was last man out of the World Trade Center, Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, along with other surprise guests. Campaign representatives will inform the public of its achievement and lay out the path ahead towards a new investigation of 9/11. The gathering of 30,000 petition signatures of NYC voters is the minimum amount required for placement on the ballot. [my bold] “Large parts of the official U.S. Government story of what happened on September 11, 2001 are almost certainly lies. Tragically, the entire course of U.S. foreign and domestic policies since that date has grown out of these falsehoods. These are my personal judgments, but they are the very questions on which members of the investigating commission now being organized by the New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative must make their own judgments.”
William Christison, retired National Intelligence Officer, former Director of the Office of Political and Regional Affairs, Central IntelligenceAgency.
Though the need for a new investigation is paramount, it is unlikely (nor desirable for that matter) that Congress nor any other government body are likely to take action. But through the current NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign the voters of New York City can create the conditions that would lead to an authentic, comprehensive investigation, which according to CBS/NY Times polls indicate as many as 84 million Americans would support! [my bold] It is important to recognize that this effort is supported by many of the families of victims of 9/11. Many prominent Americans have also voiced their support. These include former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Tony award winning actress Christine Ebersole, Dallas Cowboy football player Mark Stepnowski, AZ state senator Karen Johnson, former FBI field agent Colleen Rowley, retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, retired NSA analyst Wayne Madsen, former senators Mike Gravel and Lincoln Chafee, Grammy award-winning hip hop artists Arrested Development, and more.
Unlike the woefully inadequate Kean/Hamilton Commission created by the Bush Administration, the citizen-based NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign will facilitate a genuine and impartial investigation, carried out by a lawfully recognized body, with subpoena authority, who will follow the evidence wherever it may lead. The Commission also intends to pursue remedies towards the alleviation of the hardships faced by many of those 9/11 first responders who have suffered terrible health effects and financial loss as a consequence of their heroic actions during that time.
In order to achieve the goal of placing the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative on the ballot This may be the only opportunity to obtain truth and justice for the victims of 9/11. People of conscience around the world are awaiting the outcome. Come hear why the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative is the campaign whose time has come.
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The NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign is a citizen-based effort to call attention to the fact that the U.S. government did not conduct a thorough investigation of 9/11. Through the creation of a public referendum, the most basic of democratic processes, the voters of NYC can now use their power of the petition to place a ballot initiative on the general election of 2009. This Initiative is designed to enable voters to create a new, independent, impartial Commission to conduct a thorough, fact-driven investigation of the most momentous event of our time.
Visit www.nyc911initiative.orgfor further details.
RALLY FOR THE NYC 9/11 BALLOT INITIATIVE When: Wednesday May 28th, 7:30 pm Where: St. Mark's Church, 2nd Avenue @ 10th Street, New York
The New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign, a non-profit, citizens based organization, whose goal is the creation of an independent commission to lead a new investigation into the tragedy of 9/11, will be holding a rally on Wednesday, May 28th at 7:30 PM at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. The campaign hopes to put the issue of a new investigation of 9/11 on the November 2008 NYC ballot as a public referendum. Come and learn about this historic effort! Visit http://www.nyc911initiative.org/ for full campaign details. Featured speakers include: Wayne Madsen, investigative reporter, retired NSA analyst John Feal, 9/11 first responder, Director of the Feal Good Foundation William Rodriguez, 9/11 hero and last survivor of WTC1 Sander Hicks, 9/11 author/researcher, founder of Voxpop.net Jesse Richard, founder of TVNewsLies.org Karen Johnson, state senator from Arizona (by phone) The event will be moderated by the Reverend Frank Morales. The rally will be an opportunity for the press and public to learn about the 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign and to fill out petitions. Upon reaching 30,000 valid signatures which are lawfully required to put the Initiative on the ballot, NYC voters will be enabled to create a fact-driven investigation of 9/11, which will be distinct from the former Kean-Hamilton Commission because this will go beyond political agendas by exploring all possible scenarios, following the evidence wherever it may lead. We have the potential to redirect the course of related political events which have had and will continue to have global repercussions just through exercising our constitutional right to create this public referendum calling for truth, accountability and justice. This is now the time of reckoning. In just the past year Japanese and Italian political officials have challenged the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. Jesse Ventura was recently on Howard Stern explaining that the towers had to be the result of controlled demolition. Karen Johnson, state senator from Arizona, has gone public supporting the work of Richard Gage and Steven Jones. Also, Steven Jones just had a second paper peer-reviewed. Now imagine the impact there will be if the voters of NYC show that we cannot accept the seriously flawed 9/11 Commission Report and are calling for a impartial, through investigation. This is totally possible! A current count will be done over the next few days. We estimate having approximately 7,500 signatures. With just 300 people willing to spend 25-30 hours spare time with petitioning teams throughout NYC over the next 4-5 weeks, we can reach another 50-60,000 signatures!
If you're in or near NYC, please sign the Guest Book at http://www.nyc911initiative.org/ to get started. If you are outside of the area, we still need your support. Please direct anyone you know to our site and urge them to download the petition and mail it in today. Also, we are asking for your financial support. We ask everyone throughout the country to donate at least $25, the cost of an average meal for two. This will enable us to pay for advertising, materials, and staff. Obviously, the need is urgent. Just go to the Donate section on our site.
Now is the time to support this campaign for a new, honest and authentic investigation of 9/11! This is a culmination of all the work done by researchers and activists to expose the discrepancies in the official account and the nature of 9/11 as what PNAC described as a "New Pearl Harbor".
Get a couple of friends together, pick a public spot and have a street party by asking folks to sign onto the 9/11 Ballot initiative! Hello to all supporters of the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative, First, welcome to 38 new members on this list. Now here is some news. We did pretty well last night at the SEIU/Local 1199 event although it wasn't that well attended. It seems that the anti-war movement has diminished here in NYC due to the inability to stop the war so far. One of the organizers, Jim McCabe, signed our petition without hesitation. We handed out a lot of literature as well. Although it rained on Sun. we still had a presence at a street fair in Park Slope, Brooklyn and met some great people. Separately, I'll be sending out info about our next Rally on Wed. 5/28 at St. Marks Church. Featured speaker will be Wayne Madsen. Also, a new 9/11 related feature film called Able Danger will open up the Brooklyn Film Festival next week! Sander Hicks and I are touch with Paul Krik, the filmmaker. We will partner up to promote both the film and the Ballot Initiative! Next, I just had to order more petition forms! I can't remember what I originally ordered but I think it was 15,000! There are now 522 names on this list of people who are in or near NYC! Now it's just a matter of getting even 250 to spend 25-30 hours of spare time over the next 6 weeks (deadline is June 30) and collect 200 signatures which would total 50,000!!! You can collect signatures in your daily life as well as join our teams at locations listed below. This may be the ONLY way to give a wake up call to the forces of empire, the corporate/military controlled media, and the naysayers. Unless a major whistleblower comes out, which is unlikely to even get decent coverage or unless a miracle happens and Congress or some other political body decides to get a backbone, IT'S UP TO US. But it has to start with people on this list who have mostly been MIA to look at the next 6 weeks and decide that you've had enough of shock & awe, you've had enough of the neocon agenda for global domination and police state measures at home. You can now build on the efforts of 6 1/2 years of alternative researchers and activists to create a whirlwind which reveals the truth of 9/11 to the world. As our banner says -- we owe it to the victims, the 1st responders, ourselves, and future generations. Here's our schedule through next Monday (contact me with any questions at jazzyday@earthlink.net): Tues & Wed - Staten Island Ferry, 4-9pm, contact Noz at 646-610-3100 to coordinate. Tuesday - in case of rain, in the subway station at 14th St./Union Sq, 5pm. We'll meet by the elevators near the entrance to the R/N/W trains. Tuesday - if it's clear, Stuyvesant Town at 14th St. & 1st Ave. Wed. - We'd like everybody to help out at Staten Island Ferry. As many as 20,000 people cross a day. We have a permit for the terminal as well as crossing on the boat. Contact Noz. Thurs - 14th St./Union Sq. and Stuyvesant Town at 14th St. & 1st Ave. In case of rain, we'll be inside the station at the same location as above. Fri. - Harlem, 125th Street & Malcolm X Blvd (by southeast corner of 2/3 train entrance) Memorial Day Weekend Saturday May 24th Lower Third Avenue Spring Festival (on 3rd Avenue from 6th - 14th Street) - 1PM Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn at 11:30. Contact Jack Gordon at 917-767-8999. Sunday May 25th 21st Annual Livable West Side Festival Broadway, 72-86 Sts. - 1PM If anyone is free during the day, call Carol Holland at 212-353-5084 to petition with her at 6th Ave. & 10th St. If anyone wants to do the upper west side over the weekend, contact Florindo at 646-508-9647 Towards truth, Les Jamieson NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative Steering Committee
Wow! Is Barbara Starr related to Brenda Starr? Brenda (not Barbara), was my hero! If heroes never lie, then it must be true that a few stupid, clumsy pilots mistakenly flew nukes from North Dakota to Louisiana without clearance or ANY procedures, on a lark.
Air Force officers relieved of duty over loose nukes updated 7:37 p.m. EDT, Fri October 19, 2007 From Barbara Starr, (CNN) A six-week probe into the mistaken flight of nuclear warheads across the country uncovered a "lackadaisical" attention to detail in day-to-day operations at the air bases involved in the incident, an Air Force official said Friday. … Wynne has convened a blue-ribbon panel to review all of the Air Force's security procedures and adherence to them. That panel is to report back on January 15. What a relief they are "reviewing" this incident. We do have lots of time, citizens, not to worry. Just set those pies on the window sill, get a tall glass of lemonaide and wait until ...? http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/19/loose.nukes/index.html
Previous posts on this story: The Loose Nukes Story Has a New Wrinkle October 14, Nuke transportation story has explosive implications By ROBERT STORMER and Four Minutes to Midnight? September 14, 2007, Nuclear Bombs Mistakenly Flown Over US By PAULINE JELINEK
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