MI12yes asked:

Congressman Sander Levin (MI-12) speaking in support of H.R. 7321 – The Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act.

Harvey

jbi9490 asked:

CBS Exposes The Obama Campaign’s Financing

Michael

acrobat741 asked:

Summary of 9/11 scepticism:
http://outsidethebluepillcave.blogspot.com/2007/05/summary-of-911-scepticism.html

#1

For a full list of doubters:
http://patriotsquestion911.com/

Military leaders questioning the OCT:
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/04/military-leaders-question-911.html

CIA veterans doubting:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_alan_mil_070922_seven_cia_veterans_c.htm

Engineers architects doubting:
http://www.ae911truth.org/

Physicists doubting:
http://physics911.net/

Pilots doubting:
http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/

High-level officials doubting:
http://911proof.com/7.html

In a recent Zogby International poll (September 06, 2007):
51% of Americans want Congress to probe Bush/Cheney regarding 9/11 attacks;
over 30% seek immediate impeachment;
67% fault 9/11 Commission for not investigating anomalous collapse of World Trade Center 7
http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20070906103632686

Protest in Brussels for 911 Truth (09 Sep 2007):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyuwQYkBlrk

#2

But surely this could not have happened, I mean, governments would not actually resort to terror attacks to advance their interests. Would they?

Unfortunately, yes they would.
Actually, they have a history of doing so.

Operation Ajax:
From the archives of the New York Times, the British and US involvement in overthrowing Mossadegh in Iran:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html

Operation Northwoods:
Operation Northwoods was a 1962 plan by the US Department of Defense to enact acts of terrorism and violence on US soil or against US interests, blamed on Cuba, in order to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Operation Gladio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

Other false flag operations:
http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/10-false-flags-that-changed-the-world/

US Marines Major General Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in US history, figured out what war is all about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

#3

Right, I see. What are some good links for further research?

http://911research.wtc7.net/index.html

http://911truth.org/index.php

The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001.
http://journalof911studies.com/

Of particular interest is a paper by physicist Dr. Steven Jones (link opens .pdf document):
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200609/Why_Indeed_Did_the_WTC_Buildings_Completely_Collapse_Jones_Thermite_World_Trade_Center.pdf

Scholars for 9/11 Truth Justice:
http://stj911.org/

Dr. David Ray Griffin’s books:
- The new Pearl Harbour (recommended by Gore Vidal)
- Debunking 9/11 debunking

#4

The bigger picture:

Historian and professor Dr. Antony Sutton’s book on ‘Skull and Bones’ (link opens .pdf document):
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119639.pdf
or
http://www.4shared.com/account/file.jsp?id=20002195sId=hleIWcToACTIrhDt
Of particular interest is the chapter: ‘How the Order creates war and revolution’

Bilderberg 2007 (Istanbul Turkey) – attendees list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWLIso7Waw

Guardian article about America on its way to fascism:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story
/0,,2064157,00.html

Guardian article about the connection of Bush’s grandfather to Hitler’s finances:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany
/article/0,,1312542,00.html

Related video with researcher / journalist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAUQeHykXY

Money
What it is, how it is created how its supply is regulated and controlled.

Recommended viewing: Money as debt
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USE5gv4Rew8

Zeitgeist (documentary):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUGJMvnuKNw
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331

Action:

First of all, your actions are important and can make a difference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqK3KCULWEI

What you can do:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11

Please feel free to spread this material to your friends and acquaintances.

Russell

ForaTv asked:

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/28/Jim_Hightower_Swim_Against_the_Current

Populist author and activist Jim Hightower argues in favor of public financing for election campaigns.

—–

Jim Hightower talks about Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.

America’s most irascible curmudgeon turns a benevolent eye toward the hardworking souls who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles and redefine success in business, politics, and life in general. Hightower is a national radio commentator and the author of Thieves in High Places – Book Passage

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator and the author of Thieves in High Places. He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces Radio, and on Radio for Peace International.

Kelly

Bloomberg asked:

*FULL SPEECH* Live! Federal Reserve President Ben Bernanke Addresses UC Berkeley Conference, Via Satellite (Twenty Two and a Half Minutes)

Carolyn

cohenfinancial asked:

Jack M. Cohen, CEO of Cohen Financial, gives his commentary on the state of the economy and what it means for the coming months for the Commercial Real Estate Industry. Part 2.

Brent

EngineeredWarsSuck asked:

The only important question is; how long will we be fooled into thinking those who engineer these kinds of wars are simpletons who have our best interests at heart? They tricked us into Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin scam and they did it again in Iraq with the WMD scam.

Step 1; Plant the seeds for the creation and development of a puppet global enemy. The Bush Sr. team financed and supplied both bin Laden and Saddam in the 1980s. The House of Saud helped with step 1.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/jan/17/yemen.islam

Step 2; make the puppet enemies angry.The Bush Sr. team set up military bases on Saudi holy land after giving Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait. The House of Saud helped with step 2.

Step 3; allow the puppet enemy to attack. 9/11 was allowed to happen.The House of Saud helped with step 3.

Step 4; make sure the puppet enemy has enough resources to keep up a good fight.That’s where the billions of dollars flowing from Afghan opium comes into the game. Afghan opium pays for the IED’S that kill and wound our marines and soldiers yet USAGOV does not aerial spray (for eradication) the wide open Afghan opium fields like we do the Columbian coca fields.

Step 5; profiteer off the resulting conflict financially (high oil prices and corrupt defence contracts)and use the war to meet neo-con expansionist goals (permanent military bases throughout the middle east). The House of Saud is participating in step 5.

CIA says Afghan Opium Trafficking pays for al-Queda’s world-wide terror attacks and also pays for the IED’s that kill and cripple our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan:

http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2000/000203gt.pdf
Page #7 last paragraph in “Narcotics” section
Former CIA Director George Tenat;
“there is ample evidence that Islamic extremists such as Usama bin Ladin use profits from the drug trade to support their terror campaign.”

__________________________

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040121-101225-6688r.htm
back-up link
http://opioids.com/afghanistan/osama.html

“It seems clear to me heroin is the No. 1 financial asset of Osama bin Laden,” Representative Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois
Republican, told The Washington Times almost 3 years ago when he came back from a fact-finding mission in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Bin Laden is reaping $24 million alone from one narcotics network in Kandahar, Afghanistan, according to Mr. Kirk’s investigation. “The most important thing here is to change the language to not describe Osama bin Laden anymore as a terrorist, but to more accurately describe him as a narco-terrorist,” said Representative Kirk.

__________________________________

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/02/world/main1962818.shtml

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-10-26-opium-afghanistan_x.htm

Doug Wankel, a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who is point man for the U.S. counternarcotics initiative at the American Embassy in Kabul, says the opium industry is “financing terrorism. It’s financing subversive activities. It’s financing warlordism .” Wankel described the drug trade as a “national security threat to Afghanistan, the region and the world.”
____________________

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/12/30daac23-6363-4dbd-aa74-b3938edd6ebd.html

U.S. Marine General James Jones, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO; “without funds from the opium trade, the Taliban wouldn’t be able to afford to continue its insurgency.”

Video sources;

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/execsummaryafg.pdf

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/terrorism/t_0019.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-10-26-opium-afghanistan_x.htm

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_158250.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/02/world/main1962818.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/28/95240.shtml

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/1

Miguel

pacificnewscenter asked:

Guam-Governor Felix Camacho continues to blame the legislature for the delay in the financing of the Dandan landfill. However, lawmakers are saying they won’t be signing off on anything that exacerbates Guam’s financial obligations and their responsibility to the island people .

So far, a measure that proposes the 160 million dollars in revenue bonds hasn’t been re-introduced in this legislative term by the executive branch. in the meantime, Speaker Judi Won Pat is off-island and no session has been called yet.

Wendy

FlintPublic asked:

In 2003, U.K.-based HSBC Holdings (the largest public company on Earth) bought the U.S.-based Household Finance Corporation (HFC) for $15.5 billion. At the time, HFC was known as Household International, and had been lending directly to U.S. customers with ’subprime credit.’

According to http://www.OligopolyWatch.com :

“The Household Finance acquisition was quite significant. HFC is the second largest consumer lender (homes, mortgages) in the U.S., after Citigroup. It is also a major issuer of credit cards. While the company is still digesting the HFC move, it is considered to be in the market for a regional US bank, trying to expand beyond its New York state base. As the U.S. industry consolidates, there will be few such opportunities left in a few years. HSBC is poised to grow. It has a strong expertise and growing presence in mainland China, the fastest growing economy in the world, and the world presence to handle international trade agreements with that country and others. It has a big presence in international banking havens (Switzerland, the Channel Islands, Panama, and, recently, Bermuda) for its numerous private banking clients. Like several of its main competitors, it has far more influence about where money circulates and ends up than any national government.”

According to MSNBC.com, when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the $88 billion recapitalization/partial nationalization plan for the country’s largest banks in October 2008, HSBC:

“endorsed the recapitalization plan but said it intended to rely on its own resources and not take on the government as a shareholder.”

For more on HSBC, visit:
http://www.citywire.co.uk/professional/-/news/fund-news/content.aspx?ID=317948

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/08/hsbcholdings.banking

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1670081732/bctid1858922516

http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=/DJ/200810080452DOWJONESDJONLINE000268_univ.xml

To download a Quicktime movie file of ‘Financing the American Family,’ visit:

http://www.archive.org/details/Financin1935

Lillian