Update on cut cables

So – now we’re up to 9 cables cut. Instead of boring you with the details, I’ll link you to the full rundown over at Signs of the Times.

Numerous undersea communications being cut – deliberate sabotage, or Godzilla?

(image from Benjamin Dewhurst)

Recently a series of major transoceanic communications cables were found severed. This caused a major disruption of communications in Iran and Qatar. So far there are 5 cables reported to have been cut. Some researchers are saying as many as 8 have been severed. The cables carry data all throughout the Middle-East, Northern Africa, and Southern Asia. TeleGeography – a subsidiary of PriMetrica – a communications firm that provides communications analysis and statistics – seems to be very eager to write these events off as an accident.

But it seems that the causation of the interruption has still not been figured out. There are many theories going around, from anchor-dragging ships to sea monsters. However, ships have been ruled out and sea monsters…well – that would make a great movie, so we should keep that theory in the mix. A lot of conspiracies have cropped up, but not all of them can go away. One tactic that an invading force takes is to cut off communications to the country so that no one really knows what’s going on. But apparently there are still some communications going on as around 55% of operations have been rerouted.

And yet they still don’t know what’s happening. More cables keeping cropping up cut, and outages are moving around. Every time they start fixing everything…there’s loss again.

Well – I guess we’ll see. I try to keep this post updated with information as it comes out.

Bush Ignores Congressional Restrictions…Again

Just recently H.R. 4986 The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 was signed into law. This is basically a big bill designating funds for specific functions of the military, defense, and intelligence sections of the government. However, it seems that President Bush is ignoring the parts that he wants to – telling congress to basically shove it.

Provisions of the Act, including sections 841, 846, 1079, and 1222, purport to impose requirements that could inhibit the President’s ability to carry out his constitutional obligations to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, to protect national security, to supervise the executive branch, and to execute his authority as Commander in Chief. The executive branch shall construe such provisions in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President.

Now, the best section out of that bill is 1222 – The Limitation on Availability of Funds for Certain Purposes Relating to Iraq – which states:

No funds appropriated pursuant to an authorization of appropriations in this Act may be obligated or expended for a purpose as follows:(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq.

(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq

So, basically, Bush is saying that he can’t even abide by the simple rules of “No Permanant Iraq Bases” and “No Controlling the Oil”. Hmmmm…I wonder why that is? It seems that by simply looking at what he won’t listen to, we can see the plans for the future. This is a very dangerous situation – the fact that he can just openly and publicly give the metaphorical finger to the American people. Why doesn’t this news bother more people? I’ve only been able to find a few different articles about it around the net, and no mention in mainstream sources.

I’m bothed even more by the other sections. The first two (841, 846) seem to deal with contractors abroad. The first, deals with recieving permission from Senate committees for actions pertaining to government contractors (a la Blackwater), and the second with protecting employees from those companies (or Department of Defense employees) from prosecution if they come forward with “information that the employee reasonably believes is evidence of gross mismanagement of a Department of Defense contract or grant, a gross waste of Department of Defense funds, a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety, or a violation of law related to a Department of Defense contract (including the competition for or negotiation of a contract) or grant”.

So, Bush doesn’t want anyone to be able to tattle on the disgusting things going on up top, and he wants to continue to station mercenaries anywhere he chooses on the taxpayer’s dime. What a waste, what a waste. Hopefully Kucinich changes his mind again about impeachment hearings.

(via SOTT)

Update: GNN just covered this subject.

Neo-Nazi Radio Host Outed as FBI Provocateur?

A New Jersey radio host, Hal Turner, is also an agent provocateur working for the FBI according to emails that were taken from his hacked server early this month. This Neo-nazi talk-show host is well known for his controversial tactics and personal attacks on politicians.

Railing against President Bush, he told his audience last June that “a well-placed bullet can solve a lot of problems.” He has written that “we need to start SHOOTING AND KILLING Mexicans as they cross the border” and argued that killing certain federal judges “may be illegal, but it wouldn’t be wrong.” In 2006, after he published an attack on New Jersey Supreme Court justices that also included several of their home addresses, state police massively beefed up security for the members of the court, checking on one justice’s house more than 200 times.

Hal Turner is one serious extremist. He may also be on the FBI payroll.

On Jan. 1, unidentified hackers electronically confronted Turner in the forum of his website for “The Hal Turner Show.” After a heated exchange, they told Turner that they had successfully hacked into his server and found correspondence with an FBI agent who is apparently Turner’s handler. Then they posted an alleged July 7 E-mail to the agent in which Turner hands over a message from someone who sent in a death threat against Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.). “Once again,” Turner writes to his handler, “my fierce rhetoric has served to flush out a possible crazy.” In what is allegedly a portion of another E-mail, Turner discusses the money he is paid.

After being outed, he promptly quit his show and his political work saying, “I hereby separate from the ‘pro-White’ movement.”

Of course, the FBI has declined comment except for a mysterious “Longstanding FBI policy prohibits disclosing who may or may not provide information.” This isn’t surprising considering this is far from the first time that they have used to neo-nazi movement as a front for their disruptive actions. Back in January of 2006, an FBI informant named David Gletty helped to organize a National Socialist Movement march in Orlando, Florida.

What is most disturbing about this is the lack of public media attention to either case. Several blogs have been covering the news and have also noticed the complete lack of media coverage. Hopefully someone takes notice to the subversion that continues against the population by the higher powers.

Full story (via SOTT)