Ray McGovern beat up by Hillary’s thugs during her speech about free expression.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday, condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.

Blind-sided by security officers who pounced upon him, Mr. McGovern remarked, as he was hauled out the door, “So this is America?”

Good for Ray. I hope he’s OK.

I just watched the video. Disgusting. And it was very clear that all he did was stand silently until they dragged him away.

democracynow: O commissioned a report about democracy movements in ME before the protests, suggesting they were more prepared for what happened in Egypt than they let on.

Geez, they sure fooled me.

Six weeks after his disappearance, the Newark Police finally receive a search warrant to inspect John Wheeler’s home.

They are also offering a $25,000 reward for imformation.

The U.S. shadow government is going to turn itself in for the $25,000 reward.

John Wheeler was a consultant for Mitre Corporation.

More about Mitre.

Because the (9/11) attacks involved systems used by the FAA, NORAD, and the U.S. Air Force, the conspirators would have needed “super user” access to the command and control centers of these three separate organizations.

Super user means the most privileged user on a computerized data system. The super user has complete access to all files on the system. For the previously mentioned agencies, and virtually all other U.S. defense and intelligence organizations, there is one such possible super user: a little-known private not-for-profit organization, based in Bedford, Mass., known as MITRE Corp. MITRE also has a headquarters in McLean, Va., on a campus it shares with Northrop Grumman.

What is publicly known about John Wheeler’s disappearance.

I’ll look at that later. I’ve got democracynow going on another window.

Agree that the whole Wheeler matter stinks. Prolly will find he suicided via gunshot to the back of the head.

Hard to work a rifle in a dumpster. More like he swallowed a liter bottle of tylenol, a la Bruce Ivins.

democracynow talking about the ‘report’ that O had prepped in advance of protests in ME. Samantha Power was involved.

Sounds like W. Gangs that couldn’t shoot straight.

Prolly will find he suicided via gunshot to the back of the head.

“John Wheeler committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head 28 times, stopping only once to reload…”

Note from a friend in South Dakota about the latest outrage there.

Oh, it is hard to live in a red state. As the article indicates, the far-right legislators are trying to make an end run around the will of the voters (South Dakota has voted down outright bans on abortion several times). Despite the fact that we have to cut EVERYTHING in the state budget by 10% this year because of debt, these guys STILL want to pay state lawyers so that we can be the first state to take an anti-abortion case to the Supreme Court.

This particular law is a bad one, but it probably will get defeated in the legislature. If it does pass, the reasonable people of the state will once again get a petition signed and get it overturned by the people (who, on the whole, are good-hearted, compassionate souls). It’s hard to believe that this IS the state of George McGovern and Tom Daschle, but it is!

Ooops. Forgot about that. I’m not on your wavelength right now. Sorry.

LOL. Shhhhhhh now! It’s far easier to think of them all as inept lucky bastards.

I tried reading while listeng to an audio last night — no can do. I’m jealous of the people who can partition their brain that way.

I can’t read books when I’m listening to music with lyrics. I can blog while the tv is on, however. But, if I happen to be typing, I usually miss what’s being said. I guess my brain does random tasking. Or something.

Noam Chomsky is guest for rest of dn. Points out that freezing USG workers’ pay is fiscally identical to raising their fed govt taxes. So at the same time O cuts the taxes for the wealthy, he raises the taxes for USG workers.

I can read with my usual classical music playing, but it’s difficult otherwise I suspect that is more “normal” than being able to concentrate with distraction.

I never pay much attention to lyrics, so I’m okay with all music while reading. About the dual processing brain, maybe someone who has that gift can shed some light on that.

Fascinating to read the comments in Greenwald’s own blog from people slamming him for being such as stubborn 9/11 denier in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, while simultaneously providing so much insight into the anthrax hoax.

I can listen to music while reading whether it has lyrics or not but I can only take in one or the other at one time. I don’t process both but tune one or the other out.

Chomsky: Jobs is a funny word in English. It’s the way you pronounce p-r-o-f-i-t-s.

That’s because the facts support the anthrax hoax but they don’t support ridiculous implosion theories.

Yo Pups: Matt Taibbi’s latest is now up on the Interweb Machine.

One of the things that first made me realize that my son was “different” was his ability to seem completely absorbed in some exploratory project but could also repeat almost verbatim conversations that were taking place elsewhere in the room. Different brain wiring. Also, if he hears a song or some dialogue once, it’s in his brain forever. It’s amazing. Oh, and guess what? He “tests” very well.

Morning pups,

Scott Walker disappointed with teachers for opposing him through demonstrating. Talk about separating UW Madison campus from the rest of the UW system. This would potentially allow greater right-wing support and control of the Campus and of course substantially weaken Madison from being the Democratic stronghold in the state.

CapTimes reports that the $140M budget deficit Walker is using as the pretense for union busting is simply the unfunded spending pushed through his January special session last month and otherwise the budget was in fairly good shape.

My reply.

ae911truth.org–1,440 verified architectural and engineering professionals have signed the petition demanding of Congress a truly independent investigation.

A peer-reviewed paper published in the *Open Chemical Physics Journal* on April 3, 2009 reported that a little known high-tech explosive called nano-thermite was found throughout the World Trade Center dust.

According to a June 2009 statement by Britain’s prestigious Institute of Nanotechnology,the Harrit study “provides indisputable evidence that a highly engineered explosive called nano-thermite was found in the dust of all three buildings that came down on 9/11 2001 in New York city. This advanced explosive incorporating nanotechnology is only available to sophisticated military labs.”

Four pro Democracy protesters dead in Bahrain but fourteen dead in Libya. How is the Obama administration going to support the government’s action in Bahrain but condemn he Libyans?

Just because they knew about it doesn’t mean they had a clue about what to do.

Maybe you should have been more critical eight years ago Colin:

Colin Powell, the US secretary of state at the time of the Iraq invasion, has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to alert him to the unreliability of a key source behind claims of Saddam Hussein’s bio-weapons capability.

A little bit of that kind of doubt may have saved a whole lot of lives. At least you would have gone down in history as a hero instead of as the biggest patsy in the world.
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“It has been known for several years that the source called Curveball was totally unreliable,” he told the Guardian . “The question should be put to the CIA and the DIA as to why this wasn’t known before the false information was put into the NIE sent to Congress, the president’s state of the union address and my 5 February presentation to the UN.”

Lots of people said that. You and the rest of the Bushies dismissed them as dirty fucking hippies.

Put Gaddhafi on the terrorist list (if he isn’t already) but keep the king of Bahrain off of it.

The deniers will deny despite all evidence to the contrary, remember facts have never stood in the way of ideology.

You watching that too? What is amazing, is the simple fact that as popular as Chomsky is, when was the last time you saw him on the big networks?

Yep. Follow-up in 9.

Here are four of my favorite 9/11 Truther-debunking sites

http://www.911myths.com/
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/home
http://www.jod911.com/
James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) Forum

Sorta like Iraq and Iran? Sunni demonstrators in Iran = heroes while Sunni demonstrators in Iraq = terrorists. Of course.

I’m about halfway through it — I have Taibbi in my RSS feed — and it is his usual stellar reporting.

New post up top…

Your Early Morning Swim helps me to keep up with the top stories of the day. Thanks!

That is a poorly written smear of Clinton – the assumption is that she saw something other than a disrupter being removed by police – if she saw that (was in possible view does not mean she “viewed”) and is somehow complicit in what happened to him.

Indeed just what is that authority of the Secretary of State over US police actions?

As a person convinced of “let it happen” – facilitated 9/11 is not too far a stretch.

Indeed the Airforce planes that chased the terrorists into NYC had a 1400 m/hr speed, and almost a half hour (you do the math for 180 miles) of fly time and the pilots said they asked for permission to shoot down but were refuse (they said this to the ground crew on return) but everyone at Otis Airbase was told to not talk the next day – and the Pentagon gave a story to Congress of the “chase” jets running at under 500 m/hr and only had under 20 minutes – and Congress did not challenge. Basically Cheney was contacted and told the planes to back off.

But hard to see how the CIA controlled media – “for patriotic reasons MSM agrees to do as requested” – will ever run with this story.