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[CoalTrain]

My, My, how convenient for Bush and possibly Kerry as well. If it happens Bush gets to stay in the White House for quite some time. Gee... I wonder if Ridge gets to keep his job under those circumstances? If all that happens is that it scares the hell ( assuming of course that they notice ) out of people and they think the patriot act might really be enforced as written, every weak kneed liberal and his dog will vote for Kerry even if Kerry takes a stances on the middle east that makes Bush look like an Arab lover. More and more I suspect that the war party will get their way either with Bush moving right along or with Kerry dismantling the Patriot act ( or at least pretending to ) while expanding the war on terror in some form or another.

Bussiness as usual. Your tax dollars at work.

[Amaunet]

Comments on U.S. Mulling How to Delay Elections in Case of Attack

WASHINGTON (July 11) - U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the November presidential election in case of an attack by al-Qaida, Newsweek reported Sunday.
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This I would couple with:

July 8 (Bloomberg) -- The risk of terrorist attacks within the U.S. is increased as the nation moves toward the Nov. 2 presidential elections, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said.

``Credible reporting now indicates that al-Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process,' Ridge said.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a6G_9rlLZTw8&refer=us
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Here is your commandment, people.

America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. BUSH HAS TO STEP ON OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS IN ORDER TO PURSUE HIS AGENDA. Putin has already stated he puts the strength of the state above even democracy, same thing for same reasons.
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Our democratic process can be interrupted. This administration has already set up another means by which to stop elections and thus the democratic process.

Not only can they ‘manufacture’ a terrorist attack Bush can declare a national emergency from the very act he manufactured and interrupt the 'democratic process'. Thus he can get out of having to go through the election process or postponing it.
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"any major terrorist attack on US soil this year will boost Bush’s popularity and guarantee his re-election."
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Terrorists attacks are a gift to our government.

Time and again, 11 September is described as an "opportunity". In last April's New Yorker, the investigative reporter Nicholas Lemann wrote that Bush's most senior adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told him she had called together senior members of the National Security Council and asked them "to think about 'how do you capitalise on these opportunities'", which she compared with those of "1945 to 1947": the start of the cold war.
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We are now in another Cold War.

Just as Bush needs a terrorist attack preferably on U.S. soil to be reelected so does Russia require a terrorist act involving civilian casualties.

Some of the parallels between the United States and Russia are listed at the end of this post.

Does this sound familiar, Russia needs an ‘opportunity’.

Lately, instead of commonplace reports, Russian secret services have been throwing in some information through the media, claiming that a large-scale terrorist act is about to happen in Russia. In this kind of a situation the group that seized the power in Russia just needs a terrorist act involving civilian casualties badly. Everything else, including 'groups of junkies' is a propagandistic backdrop. There are all reasons to believe that a terrorist act will take place. For thinking Russian citizens it will be yet another opportunity to find out how their country’s authorities value their lives. And for everybody else it will be a new pretext to unite against the common enemy, whom Russians will be searching anywhere but inside the Kremlin, where it actually abides.

Sirajin Sattayev,

for Kavkaz-Center

2004-07-11 15:43:20

http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/article.php?id=2982

"This is more than a war against terrorism. This is a war against the citizens of all countries. The current elites are creating so much fear that people don't know how to respond. But they must remember. This is a move to implement a world dictatorship within the next five years. There may not be another chance."

-Am

The parallels between Russia and the U.S have become frighteningly evident. I have listed some of them below. It is the United States who is in many cases the follower.

I would add to this list Bush’s photo op on the carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln, --cool military hardware, guys in uniforms, the Big Man, and a touch of can-anything-go-wrong drama--which was very similar to Putin’s previous photo op on the sub.



RUSSIA

After several explosions in Moscow and the other Russian cities, anti-Chechen feelings began to formulate because the explosions were believed to be caused by members of Chechen gangs. (Moscow news sources reprinted in the Economist in October 1999, revealed that undercover Russian security agents had been caught red-handed planting explosives in an apartment building. The explosions provided Russians a pre-text to invade Chechnya.) Putin used hard tactics to deal with the Chechen rebels to win Russian affections. - History of the Chechen War by Ferdous Shabaz Adel

"It was not unexpected, because after Chechnya's war actions began, his positions grew stronger since he was a representative of tough measures. The population liked it, and literally, in the course of several days, he became the most popular political figure of Russia," Sturua said. April 12, 2000 - Russian author clarifies Putin's KGB background
Ada Simanduyeva - Staff Reporter

The Russian public is visibly joyful, uplifted by its military's performance which is portrayed by the government or the flag-waving Russian media. The Russian steely leaders had the chance to blow in the empty pride of the Russians. " We will show the West that we are still a superpower" say the Russian commercials regarding the Chechen War, which is a revenge of the NATO performance in Kosovo in ousting Russia and its Orthodox Christian allies.

Israel who is on the edge of a twisting peace in the Middle East is intending to get rid of any strong Muslim opposition to annexing East Jerusalem and the Muslim shrines to Israel. Chechens along other Muslims around the world would reject this annexation. Based on that, Barak; the prime minister of Israel, visited Moscow in August 2nd and discussed openly with Boris Yeltsin of Russia the issues of Iran, Iraq, Chechnya...and any other spot might Russia influence. Followed that, Russian officials who were bribed by Israel, fired the Irani students from Russian colleges, forced the Russian professors to leave the Irani colleges, Moscow started to use the language of threat against Chechnya, the first bombing of the Daghestani two villages on the borders of Chechnya was on August 7th, and the first explosion of an apartment building was on August 31st.

In late July 1999, the Israeli foreign minister met with the Russian ambassador and told him publicly that Chechnya is not only a dangerous state for Russia but also its dangerous for the existence of Israel because it has Islamists. Chechnya should be eliminated! (unquote) Israel signed an agreement to update the Russian military and defense for this reason. - History of the Chechen War
by Ferdous Shabaz Adel
November 24, 1999

Sturua said there are several apprehensions when discussing Putin.

First, many of his statements are laced with ambiguity.

"His every statement carries a double meaning, and he probably does it purposely, so that everybody would be off balance, while at the same time, they all would be pleased," Sturua said.

Sturua said a perfect example is Putin's relations with the U.S. government. He said he agrees with negotiations about arms control and drastically reducing nuclear forces.

At the same time, Putin is increasing the budget of armed forces and makes nationalistic statements.

Putin merges all of the state security agencies into one monster police state operation, the Federal Security Service or FSB – successor to the old KGB, which was broken up by former President Boris Yeltsin – making it as powerful as the KGB of Soviet times when its very name struck terror in the hearts of Russians.

The group of "almighty ghosts" (to use the term in Nezavisimaya gazeta) closely surrounding Putin — the very group that is now effectively running Russia are KGB/FSB.


Back in the saddle is the FSB, Russia's domestic intelligence-gathering agency--80,000 members strong--charged with guarding the internal security of the nation.

The Russian Media Ministry ended broadcasts of financially troubled TVS, the country’s last independent national television station, and replaced it with a new state-run sports channel. June 23, 2003

The FSB has launched a spate of initiatives aimed at improving its ability to detect threats. It has ordered all Internet service providers to hand over a list of their e-mail subscribers and install computer links to regional offices to permit agency officials to monitor e-mail traffic of crime suspects. - Russia: President Putin Cracks Down (int'l edition)


UNITED STATES

The explosions of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America at the World
Trade Center Towers in New York City and The Pentagon in Washington provided Bush a pre-text to invade Afghanistan and Iraq although no link between bin Laden and Iraq has ever been established. The U.N. terrorism committee has found no evidence to support Bush claims of a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, and the United States has provided the committee with no proof, officials said. Bush used hard tactics to deal with the Iraqis to win American affections.

Bush like Putin knew of the pending attacks.


President Bush's daily intelligence briefings in the weeks leading up to the September 11 terror attacks included a warning of the possibility that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network would attempt to hijack a U.S.-based airliner, senior administration officials said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/

FBI Warned D.C. It Was A Target
September 25, 2002
"A Minnesota FBI agent investigating Zacarias Moussaoui testified yesterday that he notified the Secret Service weeks before Sept. 11 that a terror team might hijack a plane and 'hit the nation's capital.'"
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/57848.htm
http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/911bush.html

After the war with Iraq began Bush’s positions grew stronger since he was a representative of tough measures. The population liked it, and literally, in the course of several days, he became the most popular political figure of the U.S.

The American public is visibly joyful, uplifted by its military's performance which is portrayed by the government or the flag-waving American media. The American steely leaders had the chance to blow in the empty pride of the Americans. They would show the world that we are still a superpower after losing face in Viet Nam.

The hate campaign against Iraq spells out a new Israeli foreign policy from July, 1996 long before 9/11.

On July 8, 1996, Richard Perle, now the Chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an advisory group that reports to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, presented a written document to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spelling out a new Israeli foreign policy, calling for a repudiation of the Oslo Accords and the underlying concept of "land for peace"; for the permanent annexation of the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip; and for the elimination of the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad, as a first step towards overthrowing or destabilizing the governments of Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The document was prepared for the Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), a think tank financed by Richard Mellon-Scaife. The report, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," was co-authored by Perle; Douglas Feith, currently the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy; David Wurmser, currently special assistant to State Department chief arms control negotiator John Bolton; and Meyrav Wurmser, now director of Mideast Policy at the Hudson Institute.

Bush establishes the Department of Homeland Security. The former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), General Yevgeni Primakov friend of Saddam Hussein, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security. Primakov feels that the White House will have more control over the American people than the Kremlin had over the Russian people when Stalin was alive. He said that and then he laughed. - Get Ready for the USSA


Many of Bush’s statements are laced with ambiguity and he is well known for his hypocrisy. The U.S. government carries on negotiations about arms control and drastically reducing nuclear forces.

At the same time, Bush increased the budget of armed forces, is studying the feasibility of new nuclear weapons and makes nationalistic statements.

Big Media is about to get a lot bigger in the U.S., thanks to yesterday's 3-2 vote by the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission.

The FCC decision will allow one company to own the local newspaper, several TV and radio stations, and the cable TV system in the same community. It will also raise the cap on TV concentration so a company can own stations reaching 45 per cent of households instead of the current 35 per cent.

"Limiting the size of the soapbox that media owners hope to build to speak to the American people is offensive to the free speech rights we hold sacred in this country,' said the right-wing Cato Institute yesterday. "Talk of mythical media monopolies and an end to `diversity' and `localism' in broadcasting represents scare tactics with no basis in reality.' (This has been subsequently voted down)
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The FTC has proposed a draft that would give them the power to serve secret requests to Internet service providers for subscriber information, peruse FBI criminal databases and swap sensitive information with foreign law enforcement agencies.

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